January 2004
Friday 30 January 2026
- The Year 1000: A Legacy of Science & Technology - :: The Year 1000: A Legacy of Science & Technology, is a new online exhibition from the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology."Sometimes when people think about the year 1000, they think of a time of darkness and... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 January 2026
- Web Sites of Interest - :: A couple of web sites discovered via the EEVL catalogue and the EEVL Current Awareness Service:E-STREAMS publishes "electronic reviews of science & technology references covering engineering, agriculture, medicine and science. Each issue contains 30+ STM reviews, covering new titles... (11:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 January 2026
- The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives - Cartographers and historians alike will be interested in The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives: Evidenceincamera has been created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA) at Keele University. Our aim is to make the aerial reconnaissance photographs, deposited by the UK Ministry of... (14:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Further to my last posting, for a listing of open access journals in biological sciences, or for that matter, other subject areas of interest, be sure to visit the Directory of Open Access Journals (under the direction of a new... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 January 2026
- Quantitative Biology at arXiv.org - The following email re: open access materials was posted to STS-L on Friday. I just noticed a new eprint archive at arXiv (formerly xxx.LANL.gov) -- Quantitative Biology. Subject groupings include: # BM - Biomolecules # CB - Cell Behavior #... (14:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- 2004: The (Internet) Turning Point - :: Stephen Downes has written 2004: The Turning Point, a thoughtful and interesting essay on some of the issues that will change how we use the Internet. Downes maintains Stephen's Web, which he describes as "a digital research laboratory for... (13:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- C.S. Daily: Computer Science Daily News - Somewhere in my travels I came across C.S. Daily: Computer Science Daily News, which looks and sounds like a good idea for a site, assuming it can gather some momentum. Postings look a bit sporadic, although the most recent entry... (12:26 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 21 January 2026
- 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World - :: "Technology Review unveils its annual selection of hot new technologies about to affect our lives in revolutionary ways—and profiles the innovators behind them." The technologies described are:Universal Translation Synthetic Biology Nanowires Bayesian Machine Learning T-Rays Distributed Storage RNA Interference... (22:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 January 2026
- Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers to be in 19th Century Masterfile - :: Catherine has already mentioned this, but it's worth repeating. In 2004, The Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900, Royal Society of London, will be added to the 19th Century Masterfile database. The 19th Century Masterfile is primarily a non-scientific/technical database,... (11:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 January 2026
- New report -- "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services" - As posted to several listservs, including OAI-general..."A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services." By Martha L. Brogan. Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources: Washington DC, December 2003. http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/ [And available in print, 1st quarter 2004] This 100-page... (12:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ISI buys BIOSIS - And the number continues to shrink...Thomson Corp. said yesterday that it had acquired the publishing assets of Philadelphia-based Biological Abstracts Inc. and Biosis, a life-sciences indexing service. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Friday, were not disclosed. The nonprofit... (12:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 15 January 2026
- Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications - :: On May 19-20, 2003, the National Academy of Sciences held the Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications. A number of presentations from that conference are now available for viewing. Geoff reported previously that... (19:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Libraries in Iraq - As posted to Jerome-L... Some of you may recall that in early December I had posted the first release of The Library of Congress and the Cultural Property Office of the US Department of State Mission To Baghdad Report on... (16:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 January 2026
- Get thee to a library school! - There is no question that we need to continue to promote the strengths of our profession if we want to recruit the brightest and the best. ACRL has put together a very useful recruitment page with a number of interesting... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 January 2026
- CSA Releases Version 6.4 of their Internet Database Service - :: From an e-mail received today:The major change featured in this release is the new "Remove Duplicates" feature, allowing users the ability to remove duplicate results when searching multiple databases. A Remove Duplicates button has been added to the search... (14:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ACS President Weighs In On Soaring Journal Prices and Open Access - :: ACS President Charles P Casey is featured in the 5 Jan 2026 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. His column, Challenges for Chemists, Chemistry, and ACS, addresses a number of issues, including rising costs of journals, and the open... (11:22 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 January 2026
- Top Ten Nanotech Products Of 2003 - :: Forbes Magazine has ranked the top ten products developed in 2003 which incorporated nanotechnology. (From: Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends) Also available for those following developments in nano-everything, is the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report, produced by Josh Wolfe and his staff.... (16:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- GeoScienceWorld (GSW) - GeoScienceWorld - a new world of Earth science publishing opens up December 22, 2025 Six leading Earth science societies and one institute have agreed to develop cooperatively an electronic research resource unprecedented in the Earth sciences Called GeoScienceWorld (GSW), it... (15:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 January 2026
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission - :: The latest details and photographs, both raw and processed for press releases, are available on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission website.... (08:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 January 2026
- January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Peter Suber writes, "In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a close look at open access momentum during 2003, the "many-copy problem" and "many-copy solution", and the gap between the literature... (10:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals - :: From Infotoday: "December 29, 2025 — An in-house employees’ newsletter, Elsevier Today, dated Dec. 3, revealed that a company review of portal operations had decided that “the contribution of this form of marketing to S&T;'s [science and technology] current... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- US Navy tries blogging for team communication - Yet another example of blogging making its way into organizational communication strategies... ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team CommunicationsBlogging, or keeping a weblog, is often seen as a solitary effort. An individual can... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)