May 2004
Monday 31 May 2025
- ISI Adding Open Access Journals to Web of Science - :: Thomson ISI issued a press release in April, noting that of the 8,700 journals covered in Web of Science, 191 of them are open access titles.Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK April 15, 2004—Today, Thomson ISI, a business of The Thomson... (09:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 May 2025
- Electrochemical Journals, AIP's Scitation, Cost-Effectiveness - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: Nearly 40 years ago, in my first library job, I overheard The Electrochemical Society (ECS) disparaged as a 'Neanderthal' society, which might explain the initial popularity of the commercially published Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (JEC), Electrochimica Acta (ECA) and... (16:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- SLA Website Down - Bad Timing - :: With one week until the annual SLA conference in Nashville, SLA's website is essentially non-functional for the next one-two days. The SLA Conference page is down, although registration is still functional. But all you can do is register for... (09:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 May 2025
- When A Journal Ceases Publication - Commentary by George Porter - What happens when a journal ceases to produce new issues? In the print environment, at least from the librarian/academician standpoint, the answer was perfectly clear -- no new issues arrived, but all received issues remain available until a collection management/space... (11:20 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 May 2025
- Science.gov 2.0 Launches with New Relevance Ranking Technology - :: From Information Today, 25 May 2004:Science.gov has served as the gateway to reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations since its launch in December 2002. Now, the interagency alliance has launched Science.gov 2.0, hailing it... (15:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option - May 24, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Bridget Coughlin, Managing Editor 202-334-1370, e-mail BCoughlin AT nas.edu The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) now offers an open access publishing option. PNAS authors may opt to pay a... (13:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 24 May 2025
- Rush Hour on the Information Superhighway - :: To feed my personal NYC obsession, I subscribe to Time Out New York. Although it arrives in my mailbox anywhere from 3-5 weeks after publication, I look forward to each issue. While its content keeps me up-to-date on All... (21:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 21 May 2025
- Educating Patrons Re: Access Violations - :: Alice Trussel, Director of the Fielder Engineering Library at Kansas State U, posted a fascinating e-mail on ELDNET-L today, regarding the fallout from a patron committing an access violation (aka systematic downloading) on an ASCE journal last week.We had... (15:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 May 2025
- Engineering Librarians Collaborate on Three Mile Island Book - :: Word just came by that TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and its Impact, by Bonnie Anne Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, & Thomas W. Conkling, has been published by Penn State University Press.... (13:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Cites & Incites and The Open Access Debate - :: The v4 n7 June 2004 issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Incites: Crawford at Large, is worth a look (for that matter, so is every issue, but I digress...) Walt provides coverage and analysis of the continuing debate on... (10:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- What's New @ IEEE in Computing, May 2004 - WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE IN COMPUTING, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5, MAY 2004CONTENTS: 1. Aiding Seniors: From Mainframe Healthcare to Personal Wellness (and More) 2. Try the New Full-Text Search Prototype in Latest IEEE Xplore Release 3. DNA Computers Work as... (09:21 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 18 May 2025
- Sci-Tech Library Newsletter - New! - New edition of Sci-Tech Library Newsletter (05/17/04):This newsletter is available to the public at the following locations: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/ http://www.eevl.ac.uk/scitechnews/ http//avel.edu.au/scitech.html ------------------------------------ 1. "CrossRef Search" PILOT Free federated search engine! 2. SCIENCE POLICY 3. AROUND DC AND ON THE NET 4.... (14:55 | 0 Comments)
Monday 17 May 2025
- Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Report of a Symposium - :: The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications was held on 19-20 May 2003, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. The conference papers, Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and... (10:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 May 2025
- Commentary: The Crisis In Scholary Communication, by George Porter - The crisis in scholarly communications is now well into its third decade by many accounts. I was discussing journal cancellations with a faculty member when we touched on Henry Barschal's seminal analysis of commercially and society published journal prices. ">Stanford... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 13 May 2025
- Information Literacy in the Sciences Task Force - :: Virginia Baldwin is circulating the following e-mail on a number of listservs. It concerns scitech information literacy, and is worth a look:The proposed Standards for Information Literacy for Science and Technology, developed by the STS Task Force on Information... (12:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Charleston Advisor Reviews - :: The Charleston Advisor publishes reviews of web-based electronic resources. Recent reviews of interest include:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Annals Online) Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology Dekker Encyclopedias TreeCD BioMed Central Science.gov Dekker eBooks Tree of... (11:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 12 May 2025
- BioGeosciences - :: The European Geosciences Union publishes Biogeosciences (BG), and the related discussion forum, Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD), on a non-profit basis. Internet access is free to the general public:Biogeosciences (BG) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion... (09:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 May 2025
- Electromagnetic Field Theory - Another Online Textbook - :: Thanks to Tom Grydeland, Dept of Physics at the University of Tromsø, for sending an e-mail about another online textbook. Electromagnetic Theory, written by Bo Thidé, is available for downloading and use, free of charge:Intended for the advanced undergraduate... (08:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 7 May 2025
- A Heat Transfer Textbook: A Free Electronic Textbook - :: The third edition of A Heat Transfer Textbook, written by John H Lienhard V (MIT) and John H Lienhard IV (U Houston), has been made available on the web. The book is an introduction to heat transfer, geared towards... (15:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)
Thursday 6 May 2025
- Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 - :: Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 has been released:The Science and Engineering Indicators, a biennial report series published by the National Science Board, is designed to provide a broad base of quantitative information about U.S. science, engineering, and technology... (11:45 | 0 Comments)
- Annals of Botany Backfiles Now Available - :: George advises that the Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity established to promote plant science worldwide, has opened their fulltext for free access, following a... (08:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 5 May 2025
- PSIGate Offers RSS Feeds - :: Teri Vogel notes the following in an e-mail:PSIGate has recently added RSS feeds for the new records they add to their collection. There are feeds for each subject (astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, policy and materials), plus a feed... (16:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 4 May 2025
- American Physical Society Announces a Price Decrease for 2005! - :: Proving that the unthinkable is still possible, the American Physical Society (APS), in a letter to "The Library Community", has announced it will decrease prices for all tiers of its journals:The Council of the APS has established journal prices... (12:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- IBM Journals Available Online - :: In the long tradition of major corporate research operations publishing journals of their own results (think Bell Labs Technical Journal), IBM has been publishing peer reviewed in-house research for almost 50 years. For the last seven years or so,... (12:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Geochemical Transactions - :: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released Geochemical Transactions (2000-2003) for free fulltext access [via George Porter, STS-L].... (09:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 3 May 2025
- Open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing - New report reveals open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing by up to 30 per centThe Wellcome Trust report shows for the first time that the open access model of scientific publishing - where the author of a research... (15:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)