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July 2004

U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications Releases Final Report - :: Richard Poynder reports in Information Today NewsBreaks that the U.K. House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has completed its work, and published its final report, Scientific Publications: Free for all? (see 20 July 2025). Poynder notes:Following 7 months... (11:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

NIH Research to be Open Access - :: I guess you could call this breaking news! Paula Park reported today, in The Scientist, that Elias Zerhouni, director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), "indicated at a gathering of 43 scientific journal publishers and editors Wednesday... (13:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Journal of STEM Education - :: The Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, is now available online:The Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research is a half yearly, peer-reviewed publication for educators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. The journal emphasizes real-world... (13:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Engineering Web Offers Specialized Information -- ResearchBuzz, July 28, 2025 - ResearchBuzz posted the following resource today: Engineering Web Offers Specialized Information Engineering Web Offers Specialized Information Catalogs, application notes, patents, product announcements, and a whole bunch of other stuff is available for search at GlobalSpec's Engineering Web ( http://www.globalspec.com ),... (10:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
IoP Responds to Concerns Over Four IOP Journals Moving to Taylor & Francis - :: On PAMNET, Steve Moss, VP of IoP Publishing, responds to David Stern's comments regarding the sale of four IoP journals to Taylor and Francis:Dear David, Please be assured that IOP will never become a "breeding ground for eventual commercial... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Four IOP Journals move to Taylor & Francis - Commentary from David Stern - :: The Institute of Physics Publishing announced on July 19, 2004, the sale of four of their journals: Waves in Random Media, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Combustion Theory and Modelling, and Journal of Turbulence. David Stern, of the Yale... (10:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Classic Chemistry Book - Free Online Via U Cal Press - George Porter notes the following on CHMINF-L:University of California Press, following the pioneering lead of the National Academy Press, has released 400+ books for public consumption. I've mentioned both of these excellent resources in the past. What sparked my interest... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Statistical Analysis of RTECS® Database - :: From a recent posting on CHMINF-L:I recently prepared a detailed statistical analysis of the RTECS(®) database -- Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances. The analysis includes detailed statistics about coverage of the 158,000+ chemicals included in the database... (10:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Major Biochemistry/Biophysics Journals Coming to PubMed Central - :: George Porter reports the following in an e-mail sent to a number of listservs this morning:PubMed Central has some major treats in store for science libraries and the users of scientific literature in the coming months. Biochemical Journal is... (08:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and - :: Gerry McKiernan has made available for viewing his recent article, "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and Technology", which appeared in Library Hi Tech News, v21, n5, (June 2004): 22-30.... (10:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project - :: Interesting article from Information Today, by Barbara Quint, on OCLC expanding its library locator service for books, to include Yahoo!:OCLC (http://www.oclc.org) has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. Last October, I reported on a... (09:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Love in the (SciTech) Library? - :: While somewhat outside the scope of STLQ, please permit me this small indulgence on behalf of an old friend. Madeleine Lefebvre is the University Librarian at St Mary's University in Halifax NS. She is also Past President of the... (09:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Full Text of Proceedings - Summary of Responses - :: Thank you to the many colleagues who responded with information on what society, institution and association conference proceedings are available online. In addition to IEEE, SPIE and MRS (mentioned below), the following are also available online:ACM - offers conference... (10:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
IEEE Presentation from Nashville SLA Conference Now Available - :: The slide presentation from the annual IEEE Customer Breakfast session on Jun8, 2004, at the Nashville SLA conference is now available for viewing. From the IEEE site:IEEE Announces New Initiatives at Special Libraries Association Conference – Presentation Now Available... (10:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Full-Text of Proceedings - What's Available? - :: At SLA in Nashville in June, I learned that Materials Research Society has made their proceedings available online, from their 2000 MRS Spring Meeting. SPIE offers the SPIE Digital Library, which includes all proceedings from 1998, #3245 to the... (15:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
The Future of Chemistry - :: Dana Roth wrote the following in a recent post to CHMINF-L (with a slight editorial change):Peter Golitz' editorial in the latest web issue of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. mentions George Whitesides' seminal essay on the future of chemistry. This... (09:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)

Yahoo! and Google's Inclusion of WorldCat records - :: Hello again. I'm back from a two-week break. Geoff is still away, and will return on July 26. He was married on July 9th in St John's, Newfoundland. I attended the wedding, and played guitar during the ceremony. ::... (10:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Relative Value of an Open Access Article - Commentary by George Porter - :: Once upon a time, folk wisdom held that "a man's word is his bond." This evolved(?) into, "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." The recent Parliamentary inquiry into Open Access and STM publishing had proponents... (09:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
PTDLA Presentations From ALA - :: From an e-mail from Virginia Baldwin regarding the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association :If you were unable to attend the ALA onference that started just as ASEE ended, please look at the PTDLA website to see the excellent... (09:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Exchange rate profiteering and cost-effectiveness of physics journals - 2004 Update - :: Dana Roth presented the following to the PAM Physics Roundtable at SLA in Nashville in June, 2004: Exchange rate profiteering and cost-effectiveness of physics journals US$ subscribers are paying significant 'surcharges' for European journals, when US$ prices are compared... (09:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

SLA Chemistry Division Presents First Web Conference - :: Dana Roth sent the following information about a fascinating new development from the Chemistry Division of SLA: the first annual Web Conference.In keeping with its goal of bringing the SLA Annual Conference experience to its members who are not... (08:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)