September 2004
Thursday 30 September 2025
- What We Do - :: Downtown there's this guy called a reference librarian.... (11:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 29 September 2025
- Chemistry and Science News Feeds - :: UK science writer David Bradley has created an RSS/XML chemistry and science news feed, linking together various news sites, including Reactive Reports Chemistry Webzine, Spectral Lines, Spotlight, and Sciencebase. Writing on CHMINF-L, Bradley noted:You can preview the content at... (16:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- The Other Side of the "Open Access" Issue - Dana Roth - For some views from the 'other side' ... :: There is note in Nature, v431, n7005, September 9, 2004. p.111, "Experiments in Publishing", which reviews Nature's Web Focus on the topic of Open Access. "One conclusion of the forum, which... (13:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 28 September 2025
- IoP Announces Librarians' Newsletter - :: From an e-mail received today:On behalf of Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), I am pleased to announce the launch of our new librarians' newsletter, Librarian Insider. Librarian Insider will be published on a quarterly basis and will feature updates... (11:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 27 September 2025
- Canada's Innovation Deficit - :: Michael Geist, Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, has written a through-provoking and timely article in the Toronto Star about the innovation deficit in Canada. Next week in Canada, the Governor General will deliver the... (11:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 24 September 2025
- Free and/or OA Journals in Librarianship - George Porter - Yesterday, George Porter, on a number of discussion groups, wrote about free and open access journals dedicated to the profession. Additional titles in the list were e-mailed to me directly.Today's launch of Biomedical Digital Libraries [see note on Open Access... (10:54 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 23 September 2025
- CrossRef Search - Commentary - Bob Michaelson at Northwestern offers the following observations about CrossRef Search, as posted to CHMINF-L:CrossRef Search is a pilot initiative running in 2004 in collaboration with Google, and now includes the content of 29 publishers (out of the 650 CrossRef... (11:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 22 September 2025
- Swets: About To Implode, or Stable? - :: The following article appeared in the Dutch Financial Times (het Financieele Dagblad) on Monday, 20th September, 2004:AMSTERDAM - Swets & Zeitlinger, Dutch distributors of scientific information, are in trouble. The business needs refinancing after it was found that it... (11:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Is Open Access Socialized Science? - :: Rudy Baum is Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News. In v82 n38 p7, 20 Sept 2004, he comments on the open access model, and is not in favour of it:As I've written on this page in the past, one... (10:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 21 September 2025
- Digital Reference Services Bibliography - FYI -- listserv posting from Bernie Sloan:This past weekend I finished a long-overdue update of my Digital Reference Services Bibliography: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html There are now more than 700 items listed in this bibliography, related to the topic of online or virtual... (12:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IEEE Title Change - Again! - :: George Porter notes the following title change (actually a split into two new titles). This is one of those "what the - ??" moments, that makes you wonder if someone at IEEE lost it for a moment when this... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 18 September 2025
- A Weblog for Every Student? - :: Stephen Downes, via David Davies, noted in OLDaily that the University of Warwick in the UK is giving every student the option of creating their own weblog once they register. What we don't know is how or why they... (13:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 17 September 2025
- Paranoid Engineers - :: We received a copy of Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoarda Benvenuto in our library this week. The book is published by Birkhäuser, and edited by Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico... (09:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 16 September 2025
- Agent Cooper Would Approve - :: Because you need to know: Good to the Last Drop: Dimensions and Cultural Implications of Coffee Service in Libraries. Latte, anyone?... (13:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ASCE Online Proceedings - :: As previously mentioned in July, ASCE has announced the release of ASCE Online Proceedings. From an e-mail posted today to SLA-ENG:The American Society of Civil Engineers announces the release of ASCE Online Proceedings – a new online subscription which... (10:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 15 September 2025
- US DoD Needs Scientists and Engineers - :: Interesting article from govexec.com, about how the US Department of Defense is reaching out to students to encourage them to enroll in science and engineering programs, in order to head off an impending shortage in the near future. The... (15:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
Monday 13 September 2025
- Bloglet Problems - :: My thanks to Mary Ann Tyrrell at Michigan State U, for advising me that Bloglet was not sending updates to the 175+ STLQ subscribers. I checked the Bloglet site, and indeed, STLQ had been disabled. My apologies to everyone... (15:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Indexing of ASEE Proceedings in Compendex - :: Much discussion has ensued recently on ELDNET-L, regarding the coverage of the annual proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education. The 1997 and 1998 proceedings are in Compendex, but some editions have not been indexed yet. Rafael Sidi,... (14:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry - :: As posted to CHMINF-L:A new academic year starts and the directory Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry returns to active living. All links and comments had been verified in August 2004. It was a surprise to me that less than... (13:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 10 September 2025
- University Research vs Patents; Commons vs Anti-Commons - :: The following commentary from Bob Buntrock appeared on CHMINF-L on 9 Sept 2004. Many participants in the discussion group have since responded to the posting..I've commented previously on either or both of these lists on the topic of the... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 8 September 2025
- SLA Chemistry Division Summer 2004 Newsletter - :: Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer 2004 issue of the SLA Chemistry Division E-Newsletter is available for viewing.... (16:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 7 September 2025
- Scopus - Review by Peter Jasco - :: Peter Jacso writes a free monthly column, Peter's Digital Ready Reference Shelf, providing in-depth reviews of online databases and information services. This month, Peter tackles Scopus. My copy printed at 10 pages. Quoting from the September column's announcement:SCOPUS, a... (13:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- H.W. Wilson Announces Full-Text Science Database - :: From InfoToday:H.W. Wilson has announced a new 100-percent, full-text science database, available exclusively on WilsonWeb.com. Science Full Text Select combines the full-text content of all the Wilson science databases, delivering articles cover to cover from 320 sources in total.... (11:48 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 1 September 2025
- E-Streams Aug 2004 Issue Now Available - :: E-STREAMS provides "Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science", and is a collaborative venture between H Robert Malinowsky of U Illinois Chicago, and YBP Library Services. The latest issue, v7 n8 August 2004,... (08:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)