June 2004
Wednesday 30 June 2025
- SLA Nashville Presentations Now Online - :: Via EngLib: Selected powerpoint presentations from the Nashville SLA Conference are now available for viewing. In addition, Contributed Papers from the conference are also online.... (23:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Entomological Routes to Open Access - :: From an e-mail on STS-L:Dr. Thomas J. Walker, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, gave an excellent presentation on open access at the STS Publisher/Vendor Relations Discussion Group Session on Saturday, June 26, during the American Library Association 2004... (15:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Experimental Mechanics Added to Highwire Press - Experimental Mechanics (EM), the outstanding flagship research journal of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, has just been added to the HighWire Press publishing service. Although EM is available on Ingenta , it is a very limited backfile. Backfile digitization and... (14:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IoP Announces New Conference Journal - :: Institute of Physics Publishing has launched a new journal to cover timely publication of high quality, international conferences. No word on when the first issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series, will appear later this year.... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 29 June 2025
- National Air Photo Library (Canada) Announces NAPL Online - :: From an e-mail: The National Air Photo Library (NAPL) of the Mapping Services Branch, Natural Resources Canada, is pleased to announce the launch of NAPL On-Line, an innovative web-based tool facilitating the search and retrieval of metadata for over... (11:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 28 June 2025
- ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science upgrades - :: From the Thomson site: "Thomson ISI is pleased to announce that the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM upgrade and simultaneous upgrades of Web of Science® and Journal Citation Reports® on the Web are now available for librarians and administrators to... (15:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Nucleic Acids Research Moves to Open Access Model - :: Oxford U Press has announced that Nucleic Acids Research will move to an open-access model:Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 25 June 2025
- Applied Mechanics Reviews Online Database - Buh-Bye - :: According to information sent to our library from Philip DiVietro, Director, ASME Technical Publishing, the Applied Mechanics Reviews AMR Abstracts database is to cease on July 1, 2004. We have access to it, but when I checked it just... (13:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 24 June 2025
- Standards Sessions at SLA, Nashville, June 2004 - :: At the 2004 SLA Conference in Nashville, I found most of my conference time taken up with Engineering Division board meetings, vendor lunch and breakfast meetings. As the Standards Chair of the Engineering Division and Aerospace Section, I was... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 23 June 2025
- Engineering Position at Florida International University - Deadline Extended - :: The deadline date to apply for the engineering librarian position at Florida State University has been extended to September 1, 2004.... (15:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Thoughts on Mastering the Chemical Literature - Dana Roth posted the following on CHMINF-L yesterday, an excerpt from an interview with photochemisty Nick Turro, in which Turro talks about mastering the chemical literature. Turro's comments are timely and encouraging, and speak directly to the importance of information... (12:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 June 2025
- IEEE Support Site for Libraries - :: While at SLA in Nashville earlier this month, I learned of IEEE's great library support page. Divided into two sections, the page offers information about training for libraries, and tools for libraries. Selected items include an IEEE Xplore tutorial,... (11:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 21 June 2025
- Engineering Information Releases Enhanced ChemVillageTM - :: HOBOKEN, N.J. 18 June 2025 - Elsevier Engineering Information (www.ei.org) announces the latest release of the ChemVillage™ discovery platform, enhancing the way users access chemistry content. With focus on applied chemistry research, ChemVillage™ offers access to high quality text-based... (11:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 18 June 2025
- IEEE News from SLA - :: I attended the annual IEEE Breakfast at SLA last week in Nashville. Despite being semi-conscious from lack of sleep, I was able to scribble a few notes, and hope that I can translate them into something coherent for STLQ!... (14:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 17 June 2025
- Web-Based Subscription Services for Standards - Review - :: Susan Bertoni recently asked a question on SLA-ENG: "has anyone have any experience with using the web based subscription services for standards such as ASME, ASTM, ISO, DIN?" Susan was asked to look into Techstreet. She inquired further: "Anybody... (10:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 16 June 2025
- Google Considering RSS? - :: A report from NewScientist.com suggests that Google is mulling over offering RSS feeds for some of its services. Currently, Google uses Atom as its news feeder, rendering it non-functional for most users unless they are registered Bloggers. With the... (23:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Bill Bryson Wins Aventis Science Book Prize - :: Travel writer Bill Bryson received the General Prize for the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2004 on Monday on London, England, for his work, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He accepted his prize money of £10,000 and then... (23:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 15 June 2025
- A Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge - :: The Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge, edited by Johann Gasteiger, is available as a four-volume set from Wiley. A very detailed review of the book is available, written by M Karthikeyan of the Digital Information Resource Center,... (13:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 14 June 2025
- The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century [and] Communication Patterns of Engineers - :: The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, has been released by The National Academies Press. The book can be purchased, but also read online for free (as can >3,000 other NAS titles). The book is... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Periodicals Price Survey 2004, Johns Hopkins Reviews Elsevier Titles, ASCE Online Research Library, STS Conference Info - :: There is a lot of information moving at lightspeed through various listservs this morning:Library Journal has published its 2004 periodicals price survey. Johns Hopkins has joined in the movement towards downsizing Elsevier collections. The latest edition of its newsletter... (11:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Open Access and Archiving At SLA - :: Obviously I kept missing other bloggers at SLA. Garrett Eastman dropped me a note this morning, with links to his summaries, posted on Open Access News, of two important sessions at SLA, both of which I missed because of... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- The Serials Ecosystem: Perspectives on the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals - :: Interesting note on ELDNET-L from John Teskey, Director of UNB Libraries, about an upcoming conference at the University of New Brunswick in the fall:UNB Libraries is proud to present The Serials Ecosystem: Perspectives on the Transition from Print to... (10:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 13 June 2025
- RSS In Library Applications - :: Gerry McKiernan at Iowa State U has created another useful site, called RSS(sm): Rich Site Services:RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML or Atom feeds. RSS is an... (14:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 12 June 2025
- Report from SLA 2 - :: I am back from SLA in Nashville, which already feels like it was a few weeks ago. Does time seem to move faster when you get older? In the final couple of days, I found myself wrapped up in... (14:33 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Engineering Position at Florida International University - At the request of Sarah Hammill, Distance Learning Librarian at Florida International University, I am posting the job advertisement below, which sounds quite exciting!Engineering Services Librarian Florida International University Libraries invites applications for the position of Engineering Services Librarian. This... (14:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 9 June 2025
- Reed Elsevier gives in on free research - This may be old news already, but I remembered a few interesting pieces that came out fairly recently regarding institutional repositories. The Elsevier decision seems to be promising news that publishing in high profile journals and providing a reasonable degree... (10:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 7 June 2025
- Report from SLA 1 - :: I am in Nashville attending the annual SLA conference. A few items of interest:The MRS Online Proceedings Library is now available from the Materials Research Society. Proceedings published since 2000 are available, cost is $4,200US/12-month access. Knovel: more titles... (14:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 3 June 2025
- Electronic Theses on the Web - :: A number of e-mails are flying around scitech-related listservs today, regarding electronic theses availability on the web. Here is a list of the resources mentioned:Australian Digital Theses Caltech's Electronic Theses db Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)... (10:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 2 June 2025
- World's First Private Spacecraft Launches June 21 - :: The first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere is scheduled to be launched on June 21, 2004, from the Mojave Civilian Aerospace Test Center:A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to... (10:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 1 June 2025
- IoP Joins CrossRef Search - :: The Institute of Physics has joined CrossRef:The Institute of Physics is pleased to be participating in CrossRef Search, a new initiative enabling users to perform cross-publisher, full text searches of the latest scholarly research. CrossRef Search is available free... (13:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- STS Signal, Blogging SLA - :: The v19 n1, Spring 2004, issue of STS Signal, newsletter of the Science & Technology Section of ACRL, is available. :: Editors and writers from Information Today will be blogging SLA beginning this weekend in Nashville.Next week is the... (12:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)