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August 2004

Real-Time Document Request™ (RDR™) Ranking Establishes New Method of Evaluating Scientific Journals - :: Press Release: CAS Science Spotlight Ratings Show Journals' Significance for Scientists Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - Recording how often a journal's contents are cited in scientific literature has long been the conventional way of measuring the importance of specific... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Communication Patterns of Engineers - Review by Christina Pikas - :: Christina Pikas, who maintains On Christina's Radar, has written a concise, informative review of the book, Communication Patterns of Engineers, by Carol Tenopir and Donald W King. The review appeared in the online journal, E-STREAMS Vol. 7, No. 7... (12:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Developments at IEEE Xplore - :: New journal debuts on IEEE Xplore, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. The ACM Digital Library version of this journal is not yet available. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Fulltext v1+ (2004+) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8857 ISSN: 1545-5963 Unfortunately,... (12:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century - :: As posted to CHMINF-L. CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century CA Databases Add More Than 7,000 Publication Records back to 1900 Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - CAS has expanded its "Scientific Century" project by making... (10:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Palm PDA Resources for Engineering - :: Matthew Miller, professional engineer and creator of palmsolo's Life with PDAs , has compiled a list of engineering applications which are compatible with a Palm powered PDA.... (14:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

NanoFocus at Chemical & Engineering News - :: Chemical & Engineering News NanoFocus - http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/"We created Chemical & Engineering News NanoFocus as a single source for all of our nanotechnology news. Chemists and non chemists alike are encouraged to explore the site as we present breaking news... (10:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Cell Press Announces Free Access to Recent Online Archive - :: From the Cell web site:Cell Press is pleased to announce that access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent... (09:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Chemistry Style Manual - :: As noted by Michael Engel on CHMINF-L: The Chemistry Style Manual, 2d ed, revised, 2004, by Professor Kieran F Lim, published by Deakin University, Australia. You may download one copy to your desktop. Copyright notice information is on p.... (09:15 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies: Opportunities and Uncertainties - :: Nano is everywhere. The UK government is one of the interested parties:In June 2003 the UK Government commissioned the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, and the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK national academy of engineering,... (15:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
ISTL - Summer Issue Now Available - :: The latest volume of Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, n40, Summer 2004, is now available for viewing.... (12:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

The Botox of scholarly communications - I just received a notification that the latest issue of Open Access Now is out. As per usual, it has a number of intriguing stories related to OA initiatives--some of which involve gains with rather large publishing houses. A lot... (12:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
tinytechjobs - :: Thanks to Pamela Bailey for letting me know about her website, tinytechjobs:tinytechjobs is a unique career website devoted to jobs at the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology. On the site you will find both academic and industrial... (08:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Four IOP Journals Move to Taylor & Francis - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: There has been ongoing dialog regarding the transfer of four IoP journals to Taylor & Francis. David Stern (Yale) provided comments, and Steve Moss (IoP) responded. Dana Roth (Caltech), continues the discussion, and writes the following on SLA-PAM: I... (14:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Nanotechnology Resources - :: At the U of Alberta, nanoscience and nanotechnology is flourishing. Currently, faculty from at least 19 departments have projects in nano-related areas. NINT, The National Institute for Nanotechnology, is currently being constructed on campus, and will house ~440 people... (09:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)

Open Access Journals: Revenue Beyond Author Charges - :: David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Kline Science Library, Yale, has created a web page that provides an outline of one version of a proposed open access model. The site is called Open Access Journals: revenue... (15:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Use of Blogs in Instruction and Student-Recommended Web Resources Guide(s) - :: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer for Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Library, is looking for instructional activities which make use of blogs, as well as web resource guide featuring student-recommended resources. In a recent cross-posted e-mail,... (09:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
SLA-ENG: ASEE Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) - Call for Abstracts for the Session on Vendor Partnerships - :: Another post from Jay Bhatt, which appeared on a few listservs, may be of interest to some of you. Jay writes:I will be the moderator for the session on 'Vendor Partneships with Engineering Libraries' during the next year's ASEE... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Engineering Information Retrieval Pilot Tutorial - :: In July, Jay Bhatt, Information Services Librarian (Engineering), Hagerty Library, Drexel University, posted a message to SLA-ENG about a tutorial designed to assist undergraduate engineering students at Drexel in the use of Engineering Village 2. From the tutorial introduction:Welcome... (09:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

E-Books in Engineering Reference Work - :: Paul Teague, National Editor of Design News, writes in a 19 July 2025 column of how Knovel is changing the way engineers are using reference books. Teague notes:Knovel's move is an extension of what other engineering websites have done.... (15:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Information Commons in a SciTech Library - :: Writing in STS-L, Janice M. Jaguszewski, U Minnesota, writes:I am looking for examples of library-based information commons, or learning commons, that focus specifically on the physical sciences and/or engineering. If you have anything to share in response to the... (08:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)