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Wednesday 31 March 2025

  • Helvetica Chimica Acta - Commentary - :: In a recent advertising insert promoting the journal, Chemistry & Biodiversity, an apparent twig of Helvetica Chimica Acta, the claim was made that HCA was "one of the best ... full-paper primary-literature chemistry journals in the world." This claim... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 30 March 2025

  • It Had to Happen: AIM has a Blog - :: The Annals of Improbable Research has joined the blogosphere with the blog, Improbable Research -- What's New. Nothing like a little scientific humour to lighten up a bad day on the reference desk. BTW, if you are a scientist... (12:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 29 March 2025

  • GlobalSpec Introduces “The Engineering Web” - :: From Information Today:March 29, 2004 — GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and has introduced a specialized search engine it is calling “The Engineering Web,” which it says... (10:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 26 March 2026

  • Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data - Access via NIST - :: NIST is offering access to selected articles from the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, via its Data Gateway:Another feature of the Gateway is a search for articles published in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data... (14:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Chemical Prices - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - :: Here at the U of Alberta, we have a number of chemical engineering design classes, in which students work in groups for the duration of the course, designing chemical plants and products. Most often, they require chemical prices, among... (13:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Thursday 25 March 2026

  • Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access - :: Barbara Quint reports in Information Today that 48 top STM societies and not--for-profit publishers have inked the "Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science", which proclaims their collective commitment to providing free access and dissemination of published research... (14:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • PLoS Wins a 2004 Wired Rave Award - :: The Public Library of Science has won a 2004 Wired Rave Award, "For cracking the spine of the science cartel." PLoS "is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a... (11:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 24 March 2026

  • Convex Optimization - :: Electrical Engineering professors Steven Boyd (Stanford) and Lieven Vandenberghe (UCLA) are publishing a new book on Convex Optimization. Issued in print by Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 0521833787), the authors retained online rights to distribute it themselves. http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook.html. (Via George... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 23 March 2026

  • Open GIS - Open GIS Group Kicks Off Web Services Initiative The Open GIS Consortium Inc., kicked off a new interoperability initiative to develop and enhance OGS Web Services (OWS) standards designed to enable easy discovery, access and use of geographic data and... (12:22 | 0 Comments)
  • (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths - BioMed Central Responds - :: As previously reported, the Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament is conducting an inquiry into scientific publications. BioMed Central is providing coverage of the inquiry on their new Open Access now website. The site includes BioMed Central's... (12:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 22 March 2026

  • Nature's "Access to the Literature" Web Focus - :: Nature has begun a new Web Focus discussion, called "access to the literature: the debate continues":The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. New business models are being tested by publishers, including open access, in which the... (10:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 19 March 2026

  • ASCE Enhances Civil Engineering Database - :: This message appeared on the SLA-ENG listserv today:The ASCE Publication Department is always looking for ways to enhance researching capabilities of the Civil Engineering Database. Here are the latest enhancements:All abstracted CE Database records are searchable in Google.We have... (16:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 18 March 2026

  • STM Publishing Giants Rally Behind EBL - :: This is flying around the Internet: Top STM Publishers Join eBooks Corporation’s New Library Offering. PERTH, Australia Friday, 12 March 2026 Six of the world's principle Science, Technology & Medical publishers announced today that they are participating in the... (12:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 15 March 2026

  • Elsevier Announces Scopus - :: Elsevier announced today that Scopus, its "full text-linking abstract and indexing (A&I;) database", is in its final testing and user trials phase. Further details are available in a report from Paula J Hane, Information Today.... (11:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 11 March 2026

  • Googling IEEE Xplore - Interesting blurb from "Whats New @ IEEE For Students" about people finding their way to technical papers through Google... 8. GOOGLE USERS FLOCK TO IEEE XPLORE IEEE recently announced that researchers worldwide can now locate technical papers published by IEEE... (13:52 | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 10 March 2026

  • Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship - n39 - :: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, n39, Fall 2003, is now available. It is a theme issue, featuring two sets of articles, some with abstracts only, from Agricultural Information for the New Millennium: New Crops, Biotechnology, and Saving the... (22:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • PLoS: Public Library of Science - :: The v65 n3 March 2003 issue of College and Research Library News has an interesting article by Helen J Doyle, entitled The Public Library of Science: Open access from the ground up.Despite the recent spike in press coverage, conference... (15:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition - :: Bob Michaelson notes the following in an e-mail to selected listservs today. I have added a few additional links.From February 2004 E-News for ARL Directors: (these briefings also are posted on the ARL web site at http://www.arl.org/enews/index.html, although the... (13:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 9 March 2026

  • Incident in the Library - :: Today in our library, a student was attacked and stabbed in the arm and shoulder by three other individuals, while studying on the second floor. Most of us working in the building weren't aware anything had happened until afterwards.... (15:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • New Information Literacy SIG for Engineering - :: A new information literacy discussion group has emerged: ELD-ILit is an electronic discussion list addressing issues related to information literacy and library instruction within engineering libraries or engineering disciplines. ELD-ILit is sponsored by the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of... (11:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • BioMed Central goes RSS friendly - Today's BioMed Central update mentions their new move to RSS! RSS headline feeds You may have noticed that the home pages and most-viewed articles pages of all BioMed Central journals now include a small XML button. This indicates that there... (08:55 | 0 Comments)

Monday 8 March 2026

  • European Cells & Materials now available open access - :: George Porter reports the following on STS-L:European Cells & Materials (ECM) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal jointly produced by the Swiss Society for Biomaterials and the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society. ECM is indexed in BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts,... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 7 March 2026

  • Making the Case for Patent Searchers? - :: Howard S Homan, PhD, Information Research & Analysis Section, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, has written a timely and informative article about why good technical searching takes time, and costs money. Most of his work involves patent infringment searching... (18:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 2 March 2026

  • Librarians' Involvements With Vendors - A Commentary - :: Brian Simboli, Science Librarian at E.W. Fairchild Martindale Library at Lehigh University, offers the following commentary on the subject of vendors soliciting input from and working with librarians to improve their products:I was rather surprised this week to come... (11:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 1 March 2026