April 2004
Wednesday 28 April 2025
- WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE FOR LIBRARIES - WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE FOR LIBRARIES, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4, APRIL 2004 Read this issue online: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib/wnlib0404.xml CONTENTS: 1. IEEE Scores Victory for Scholarly Publishing with OFAC Ruling 2. Study Shows IEEE Journals Priced 39% Below Market Average 3. Journal... (17:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations - Overlooked Academic Treasures - Sometimes the obvious eludes us. In the rush toward Open Access journals and databases, it is easy to overlook unique source material to which academic libraries have easy access, namely theses and dissertations. Although NDLTD, Networked Digital Library of Theses... (13:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Gravity Probe B - Was Einstein Right? - :: Interesting article from e4engineering.com on the Gravity Probe B, launched on April 20th. The probe will use four gyroscopes to attempt to detect if spacetime is bending around the Earth:Gravity Probe B is the relativity gyroscope experiment being developed... (12:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 April 2025
- Copernicus Gesellschaft - a Cornucopia of Open Access titles - Copernicus Gesellschaft is an exemplary Open Access publisher, providing free online distribution of a number of journal titles on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. All of the following journals are freely available online, in addition, print volumes can be... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Arabidopsis Book - George posted the following biology resource to STS-L. Note that the Arabidopsis Book is open access.The Arabidopsis Book is an Open Access project bringing together an encyclopedic description of one of the most heavily studied plant species. Quoting from the... (08:57 | 0 Comments)
Friday 23 April 2025
- Publishing Conference Literature: Print, Online, DVD, CD - Considering the Options - :: Aleteia Greenwood at UBC posed an interesting question on ELDNET-L on April 22:A UBC civil engineering faculty member has asked me a few questions that I am hoping I can ask you all and get your opinions. In August... (10:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 22 April 2025
- Google vs Science Direct vs Bibliographic Databases vs Laziness - :: Dana forwarded an interesting e-mail recently that noted the following:Dr. John J. Regazzi, the Managing Director of Market Development at Elsevier gave the keynote address at the NFAIS annual meeting in February. Links to his text and slides are... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 April 2025
- New Products and Services - :: Wiley has released a new database called Organic Reactions:Organic Reactions is a comprehensive database of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Chapters that... (10:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 19 April 2025
- Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice - :: This report comes from The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and CENDI, The US Federal Information Managers Group, from 11 federal agencies. A 92-page pdf version is also available.In 1999, the International Council for Scientific and... (09:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 April 2025
- Compositio Mathematica moves to new publisher; cuts price 1/3 - :: Gerard van der Geer provides wonderful background on the history of Compositio Mathematica (CM) in an Opinion piece in the May 2004 issue of Notices of the AMS.van der Geer, Gerard. We can make a change. Notices of the... (15:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 15 April 2025
- ASM Releases The Micrograph Center - :: ASM International - The Materials Information Society, has released the Micrograph Center, a new addition to their ASM Materials Information collection, which includes the ASM Handbooks Online and the ASM Alloy Center Online:The Micrograph Center is a comprehensive collection... (15:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IEEE Announces Plans for Upcoming IEEE Xplore Release - From an e-mail received this afternoon: In the coming weeks, IEEE will release IEEE Xplore 1.7, which will feature the following enhancements for institutional subscribers and IEEE Members: Reference sections for IEEE Computer Society magazine and journal articles published since... (13:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- How Do You Keep "Up To Date"? - Recently, Michael Leach, librarian at Kummel Library and Physics Research Library, Harvard, posed the following question on PAMnet, the listserv of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics division of SLA:With so much information appearing daily, weekly and monthly, I am curious as to how... (11:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Tuesday 13 April 2025
- Google Teams Up With 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials - :: From The Chronicle of Higher Education:Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according... (09:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 12 April 2025
- IOP RSS Feeds - Institute of Physics has a number of RSS feeds up for grabs, including IOP Electronic Journals News and TOCs from several of their journals. It always makes me happy to see publishers adding the little orange button to their websites.... (15:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 April 2025
- International Alliance for Information Literacy - The newly formed International Alliance for Information Literacy is seeking new member organizations. The founding members are: Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIIL), European Network on Information Literacy (EnIL) (European Union), National Forum on Information Literacy (United... (12:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 8 April 2025
- University of Minnesota Libraries Launches UThink - :: And away they go!! University of Minnesota Libraries has officially launched UThink, the first campus-wide blogging initiative I know of to be undertaken by a library. I've been following their progress for some time and will be very anxious... (10:14 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 April 2025
- U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry - Update - :: The latest SPARC E-News has an update on the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry. The Inquiry has moved into its second stage. The Inquiry was mentioned previously here, here, and here. Hear, hear! (via George... (11:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- More on Chemistry Journals - :: Dana Roth offers this follow-up to his commentary about Helvetica Chimica Acta:It was very refreshing to see the lead editorial, in the January 2004 issuelof the Australian Journal of Chemistry, discuss their view of the future as an Australasian... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 April 2025
- Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists - :: This interesting article by Donald Christiansen, from the Feb 2004 issue of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, discusses Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists. Excerpt:The problem manifests itself in other ways. Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed... (09:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IEEE Scores First Amendment Victory for Scholarly Publishing - :: From the IEEE website:5 April 2004 -- IEEE scored a victory for freedom of the press and the scholarly publishing community with the ruling it received Friday from the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).... (09:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 April 2025
- Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement - :: Interesting piece from the 26 March 2026 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. As reported earlier, the Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science was announced on 16 March 2004. The Chronicle's take is that the DC... (18:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- New ClusterMed Organizes PubMed Results - New ClusterMed Organizes PubMed ResultsVivísimo, Inc. (http://vivisimo.com), a provider of clustering and meta-search software for organizing search results, has announced the release of ClusterMed, a new research tool that allows biomedical and life sciences researchers to search the MEDLINE database... (14:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 April 2025
- Suber's List of Actions - In the latest SPARC OPen Access Newsletter, Peter Suber announces that that he has put together a very valuable list of "actions" dealing with university library subscriptions and public statements against rising journal costs. The list, which begins in Fall... (09:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 1 April 2025
- Current Cites - New - The latest edition of Current Cites is now available.... (14:36 | 0 Comments)
- Cancellation of Elsevier Packages at Cornell, MIT, Harvard, etc. - Commentaries - :: On 23 March 2004, I posted the following e-mail to four listservs (ELDNET-L, SLA-ENG, PAMNET, and STS-L):"Hello everyone, and please excuse the xposting. This is a query about the impact and/or fallout from the cancellations of Elsevier packages and/or... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)