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December 2004

TRN's Technology Research Advances of 2004 - :: TRN Technology Research News has released its list of Top Picks for Technology Research Advances of 2004. Areas covered include biotechnology, communications, computing, engineering, energy, security, nanotechnology, applied physics, and the Internet.... (18:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

The Role of RSS in Science Publishing - Syndication and Annotation on the Web - :: The v12 n10, December 2004, issue of D-Lib Magazine features an article by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, and Ben Lund, three members of the Nature Publishing Group. The article, The Role of RSS in Science Publishing, discusses Really Simple... (15:55 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
FreshPatents - Track US Patent Applications Before Final Decision is Made - :: Thanks to Rafael Sidi at Elsevier Engineering Information, who sent a note about this interesting site. FreshPatents.com lists the latest US patent applications each week, in advance of the USPTO decision to grant or deny the patent. Registration is... (15:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Announces CSA Illumina - :: From the CSA Press Release:CSA Illumina Debuts New platform offers state of the art Web-based bibliographic and full-text searching BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (16 December 2025) -- CSA has just released CSA Illumina, its new platform for online bibliographic and... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Engineering Index Backfile Completed - :: From the v2 n6, Dec 2004 Ei Update:After more than 18 months of development, the Engineering Index Backfile, the electronic alternative for accessing hard to find historical information has now been completed. Engineering Index Backfile users will have access... (11:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons - New Report from LISU - :: Joe Kraus, on the ReedElsevier listserv, writes:I read in the SLA rag, Information Outlook, that the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU) of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, UK had written a report -- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and... (16:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Enhancements Coming to EV2 - :: The latest version of Engineering Village 2 is scheduled for release in mid-January 2005. Details of the forthcoming enhancements are available at Librarian's Corner, at Ei Update. The major change is the introduction of Faceted searching - from the... (09:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

ACS Division of Chemical Information - Highlights from 228th Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2004, Of Interest to Librarians - :: The 228th ACS National Meeting was held in Philadelphia in August, 2004. A selection of slide presentations from some of the 98(!) sessions of the Division of Chemical Information are available for viewing on the web site. On the... (13:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Harvard Libraries and Google Announce Pilot Digitization Project - :: The rest of the title reads: "...with Potential Benefits to Scholars Worldwide." I hope the use of "Scholars" doesn't upset ACS. ;-) Harvard is the first in what could become a series of major libraries to collaborate with Google:Harvard... (08:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

American Chemical Society Files Complaint Against Google Re: Use of "Scholar" - :: Chemical & Engineering News reported on Friday that the American Chemical Society has filed a complaint in US District Court in D.C.:The ACS complaint contends that Google's use of the word scholar infringes on ACS’s SciFinder Scholar and Scholar... (23:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Hot Topics Survey 2004 Results - :: The STS Continuing Education Committee has made available the preliminary results of the 2004 Continuing Education Committee. STS collaborated with ASEE's Engineeering Libraries Division and SLA's Sci Tech Division. Results are grouped by which conference respondents are expected to... (13:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

The Camtasia Library Tutorial at UBC Library's Science and Engineering Division - :: Aleteia Greenwood is a librarian at the Science and Engineering Division of the University of British Columbia Library. Earlier this year, with the assistance of the Centre for Instructional Support at UBC'S Faculty of Applied Science, and using Camtasia... (10:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
AZoNano Launch Online Open Access Journal of Nanotechnology - :: A new, open access journal on nanotechnology is forthcoming:AZoM.com Pty. Ltd. Sydney Australia and the UK-based Institute of Nanotechnology are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of the Online Journal of Nanotechnology. The Online Journal of Nanotechnology is based... (10:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT) - :: The ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology has made available the draft of Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology:Based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, five standards and twenty-six performance... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Why We Deserve A Hug - :: William R Brody, President of Johns Hopkins University, reminds us, those of us who work as librarians, why we rock:...You see, our library has the most effective search engines yet invented — librarians who are highly skilled at ferreting... (13:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Péter Jacsó on Google Scholar (Beta) - :: Thanks to George Porter, via Peter Suber's Open Access News, for bringing this following to my attention. Péter Jacsó has written an extensive and detailed review of Google Scholar Beta. Definitely worth a read.... (10:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

The Indexing of SAE Publications in Compendex - The Ongoing Discussion - :: Recently, a thread began on ELDNET-L, regarding the lack of indexing of SAE publications in Compendex. Please note that for all ELDNET-L posts listed below, permission has been obtained from each author to do so. One post, part of... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
"Chemical Information Instruction" web conference now open - The SLA Chemistry Division and the ACS CINF Division cosponsored web conference, "Chemical Information Instruction," is now open for registration and participation. Links to the full text of the presentations are provided on the main conference page and at the... (09:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, First Series - :: Reading through the December issue of Choice, I stumbled upon a rare gem of early American scientific publishing. Using an IMLS grant, the Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences has digitized the entire first series... (16:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)