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October 2004

BioMed Central Provides MARC Records - :: George Porter sent an e-mail about the following:BioMed Central provides MARC records to facilitate the cataloging of their large collection of Open Access journals. A delimited spreadsheet containing titles, URLs, ISSNs, journal abbreviation and date of initial publication is... (10:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Platinum Metals Review Available Free Online - :: Following up the previous post on the PMG Database, Dr Keith White, Editorial/Information Scientist, Platinum Metals Review, sent the following note regarding the journal:Platinum Metals Review is free. As from the July 2004 issue, Johnson Matthey's science journal Platinum... (09:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

PGM (Platinum Group Metals) Database Now Available - :: As posted by Keith White on CHMINF-L:The PGM Database is now live. This database comprises the most comprehensive collection of physical, mechanical and chemical data for the platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium) and their... (10:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Blogs In Design Engineering Classes - :: We haven't posted for a few days. Geoff and I attended Netspeed 2004, where Geoff and James Rout of The Banff Centre presented an excellent session on RSS. Geoff also took "rough notes" from some of the sessions he... (09:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

1-2-3 RedLightGreen - :: Dana sent the following note about RedLightGreen:RLG's RedLightGreen service has been out of pilot testing since August. It's available to the general public at no cost 24/7 and also produces Google search results for each title viewed out of... (14:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
STS/ASEE ELD/SLA Sci-Tech Hot Topics Survey 2004 - :: As posted this morning to STS-L:STS/ ASEE ELD/SLA Sci-Tech Hot Topics Survey 2004 Want to learn more about the latest topics in the sci/tech library world? Here's your chance to tell us what you want to learn. ALA's ACRL... (08:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

NRC (Canada) Research Press Drops 2005 Journal Prices by 2.5% - :: The NRC Research Press, publishers of 15 of Canada's most prestigious scholarly titles, has announced a reduction of 2.5% in its site licence prices for 2005. The price reduction affects these titles:Biochemistry and Cell Biology Canadian Geotechnical Journal Canadian... (09:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science - :: On PAMNET, A Ben Wagner asks the following regarding the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series:Here at the University at Buffalo, we are considering investing in electronic access to entire Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science that includes... (15:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web - :: Some months ago, I wrote about Yahoo! and Google's inclusion of OCLC WorldCat records. In 2003, Barbara Quint wrote of the OCLC test project, where approximately 2 million of the 53 million+ records on OCLC WorldCat were made available... (14:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Google Begins Book Search Service - :: From NewsScan Daily for Oct 6, 2004:Google is launching a new service designed to help publishers sell books online. Called Google Print, it will allow users to see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page search results, and will... (10:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing - How It Compares to Kirk-Othmer and Ullmann's - :: In mid-2005, Dekker will publish, in print and online, the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing, a five volume set. Like many others, I have been curious to know the differences and overlap between this encyclopedia and the two related major... (09:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Energy Information Administration - Example of a Great Web Site - :: I've been meaning for some time to sing the praises of the web site of the Energy Information Administration: Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government. When I work with chemical engineering design students, inevitably some of them will... (10:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
E-STREAMS - :: The v7 n9, September 2004 issue of E-STREAMS is available, in HTML and PDF formats.... (10:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

IN-VSEE - Interactive Nano-Visualization in Science & Engineering Education - :: Interesting post from the latest issue of the The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences about a consortium called IN-VSEE:"IN-VSEE is a consortium of university and industry scientists and engineers, community college and high school science faculty and... (09:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)