November 2004
Tuesday 30 November 2025
- Of Google Scholar, Firefox, and OpenURLs - :: The following is from an e-mail sent to WEB4LIB, about a new Firefox extension that adds OpenURL links to search results from Google Scholar. The extension was written by my colleague, Peter Binkley, working three floors above me.As a... (15:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- IoP's Librarian Insider #2 Now Available - :: The latest issue of Institute of Physics Publishing's Librarian Insider is now available. A link to the issue is also available on the IoP Librarians page.... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Knovel Updates Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds - :: Knovel has updated Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds. Sixteen new interactive tables (57,000 records) on thermodynamic, physical, and transport properties of organic chemical compounds have been added. Nine of these have Equation Plotter and... (09:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship - Fall 2004 Issue Available - :: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship #41, Fall 2004, is available for viewing. Loading seems to be very slow. The theme of the issue is Nontraditional Reference Services, and features these articles:The Arizona Instructional Atlas: A New Reference and... (09:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 29 November 2025
- SLA Chem Div - ACS CINF Web Conference - Chemical Information Instruction - :: On CHMINF-L, William Armstrong posted the following about a forthcoming web conference on chemical information instruction:The SLA Chemistry Division and the ACS CINF Division will be co-sponsoring a web conference to be held during the first full week of... (14:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 26 November 2025
- API and the Technical Data Book - Petroleum Refining - A Standards Rant - These days, among other things, I am writing the book chapter on petroleum engineering and refining, for the forthcoming title, Using the Engineering Literature, to be published by Dekker sometime in 2004. One of the titles I want to include... (14:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 25 November 2025
- Google Scholar - Commentary by Jay Bhatt - :: Jay Bhatt, writing on ELDNET-L, offers the following detailed analysis of Google Scholar. His comments are posted here with his permission, and are well worth the read:There are (at least eight) areas that the present version of Google Scholar... (12:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
- STS Signal Fall 2004 Issue Now Available - :: The Fall 2004 issue, v19 n2, of STS Signal, from the Science & Technology Section of ACRL, is available for viewing in PDF. Took a long time to load on my computer, but that could have been a local... (10:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 November 2025
- EnCompassWEB™ Now Available - :: EnCompassWEB, the new platform from Engineering Information, is now available. Included are the databases, EnCompassLIT and EnCompassPAT, once known as ApiLIT and ApiPAT, when they were maintained by the American Petroleum Institute. From Ei Update:This month, Engineering Information will... (09:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 19 November 2025
- EEVL Announces New Subject Specific Ejournal Search Engines - :: Four new search engines, indexing freely available e-journals published in computing science, engineering, mathematics, and all three subjects together, are now available from EEVL, the "Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing." The four engines are:Computing: searches the content... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 18 November 2025
- Nanotechnology Meets Knitting Yarn? - :: Scientists from U. T. Dallas and Australia Achieve Breakthrough by ‘Downsizing’ Ancient Technology - Scientists from U. T. Dallas and Australia Achieve Breakthrough by ‘Downsizing’ Ancient Technology: RICHARDSON, Texas (Nov. 19, 2004) – Scientists at The University of Texas... (15:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Google Scholar (Beta) - :: In case you haven't heard, Google has released its latest product, Google Scholar:Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use... (11:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 17 November 2025
- BioMed Central Creates a Search Plugin for Firefox - :: Firefox 1.0, from Mozilla, has passed 4,093,000 downloads and counting, since November 9, 2004. Firefox offers a large number of extensions, or plug-ins, which you can add for enhanced functionality. George Porter sent a note this morning, advising that... (09:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Science In For A Rough Ride in USA? - :: As suggested in a post to CHMINF-L, "It might be a good idea to circulate this to other librarians with interests in the sciences." An article in Wired News suggests that the scientific community is expecting four more years... (08:55 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 November 2025
- American Institute of Physics Announces "AIP Author Select" - A New Open Access Initiative for 2005 - :: As posted to PAMNET on 15 November 2004:MELVILLE, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 2025 - The American Institute of Physics announced today that it will offer on a trial basis an open-access publishing option to authors contributing to three AIP... (10:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ASEE Engineering Library Division Call For Award Nominations - :: Looks like it's an All Awards Tuesday in the engineering library world. ASEE Engineering Libraries Division Awards Committee Call for Nominations The ELD Awards Committee is seeking nominations for three annual awards. Nominations are an essential part of the... (09:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- SLA-ENG: 2004/05 Elsevier Engineering Information/SLA Engineering Librarian Award - :: Should you be an award winner? The SLA Engineering Division Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2004/2005 Elsevier Engineering Information/SLA Engineering Librarian Award. This award is offered annually to honor a member of the SLA Engineering Division.... (09:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 15 November 2025
- Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Db - :: Thomson Scientific has issued a white paper, entitled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns - A citation study from Thomson Scientific. Using the 2003 Journal Citation Reports, ISI re-examined the... (12:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 November 2025
- Librarians Vs Technology - :: In the Nov-Dec 2004 issue of Information Highways, from the e-Content institute, is an interesting article on how librarians need to deal with the belief of so many people that if it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist. The... (09:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Springer Survey - :: Springer has a user survey on their site. Send them feedback should you be so moved. (Thanks to Carol Hutchins on PAMNET.)... (08:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 November 2025
- Emerald/MCB University Press Republishes 409 Papers Without Citing Original Source - Phil Davis, Cornell U - :: The XXIV Annual Charleston Conference was held last week in Charleston SC. Phil Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer at Cornell University, presented a talk called The Ethics of Republishing: Should journal articles ever be republished? In the presentation, Davis revealed... (10:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 November 2025
- UK Gov't Passes on Opportunity To Support Open Access - :: As reported last year, the UK Science and Technology Committee has been conducting an inquiry into scientific publications. The Guardian had reported that the inquiry could put Reed Elsevier at risk. The final report of the Committee was released... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 8 November 2025
- Inspec Archive Added to Engineering Village 2 - :: From Information Today Newsbreaks:Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. announced the availability of the IEE’s Inspec Archive to the Engineering Village 2 Web-based discovery platform. The Inspec Archive is the result of the digitization and enhancement of the Science Abstracts Journals,... (11:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 November 2025
- University of Alberta Names Mechanical/Metallurgical Engineer as New President - :: The University of Alberta has named a mechanical/metallurgical engineer as its new president for a five year term, beginning in June 2005. Dr. Indira Samarasekera is VP Research at the University of British Columbia, where she is the former... (13:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 4 November 2025
- Scientific American Science & Technology Web Awards 2004 - :: Scientific American's 2004 SciTech Web Awards were announced some time ago. Subcategories include engineering, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology.... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 November 2025
- Free Access to October 2004 Issue of IoP's Nanotechnology Extended to End of 2004 - The October issue of IoP's Nanotechnology contains selected papers from the inaugural conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (NDSI-2004) held in Miami, Florida, 15-19 February, 2004. Nanotechnology is a truly multidisciplinary endeavor at the frontiers of chemistry, physics, materials... (11:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- U Hawaii Manoa Hamilton Library Flood Damage Update - :: Librarians at U Hawaii Manoa Hamilton Library have been posting flood updates to various discussion groups. The following was posted on ELDNET-L, by Bob Schwarzwalder of the U Hawaii Manoa Library:The situation here is very bad. This last Saturday... (10:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 2 November 2025
- IEEE To Cease Print Versions of Conference Proceedings in 2006 - :: Christina Pikas reports that IEEE will cease publication of the print versions of their conferences, beginning in 2006. Availability will be online only. There is no "official word" about this from IEEE just yet, but expect a press release... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- U Hawaii Manoa, Hamilton Library, Hit Hard by Flood - :: The University of Hawaii at Manoa, and its Hamilton Library (site down at the moment, duh!), suffered severe damage during a flash flood on October 31st. The basement of the Hamilton Library turned into a river as 90,000 maps... (09:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 November 2025
- EBSCO Adding Full-Text Conference Papers, Open WorldCat Pilot User's Perspective - :: From today's NewsLink:EBSCO Publishing has entered into an agreement with All Academic, Inc. that will provide researchers with access to a collection of full-text conference papers from scholarly societies. The partnership with All Academic will bring nearly 25,000 full-text... (13:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- November ASC LiveWire Available - :: The latest issue of ACS's LiveWire, #5.9, November 2005, is available.... (08:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)