January 2005
Monday 31 January 2026
- Firefox Plugin for Searching the CISTI Catalogue - :: From Richard Ackerman's Science Library Typepad comes word of the creation of CISTI catalogue search engine plugins for Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox and Netscape. The plugins are created by Stephen Anthony. I installed the CISTI Catalogue Keyword Search... (17:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Friday 28 January 2026
- The Literature of Chemistry: Recommended Titles for Undergraduate Library Collections - :: On CHMINF-L, Gary Wiggins posted information about a new book by Judith Douville, who is the Science & Technology Editor for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. The book is called The Literature of Chemistry: Recommended Titles for Undergraduate... (08:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 27 January 2026
- New Environmental Health and Toxicology Internet Resource Guides - :: Dana Roth, writing on CHMINF-L, reports the following:NLM's Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has released three new Environmental Health and Toxicology Internet Resource guides on the following topics: Indoor Air Pollution: Links to information resources on the many... (09:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 January 2026
- Connotea - Social Bookmarking for Scientists - :: Connotea is a relatively new service that allows for social bookmarking, but with an emphasis on the scientific community.Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to... (15:16 | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- Eighteen Resources For Techie Librarians (All of Us, Really) - :: Michael Stephens, offers some basic words of advice for all librarians working in the Information Overload Age. First, Michael begins with Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005 (Updated):In lieu of looking back at 2004, I thought I'd look ahead... (11:07 | 2 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- IEEE Xplore 2.0 Forthcoming - :: From the latest What's New @ IEEE For Librarias, January 2005: COMING SOON: IEEE XPLORE 2.0 A major upgrade to the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform will soon offer researchers a more functional design, enhanced searching and usability, and... (09:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 24 January 2026
- WorldCat Speeds Up - :: Via Jenny Levine comes word from Lorcan Dempsey of a massive increase in processing power at OCLC:OCLC Research recently acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey, whose team has... (11:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 20 January 2026
- Engineering Village 2 Upgrade - :: Engineering Information released its latest upgrades to Engineering Village 2 last week, on January 13th, 2005. The major enhancement was the introduction of Easy Search with faceted searching features. Easy Search presents the user with a small, single search... (15:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 January 2026
- Special Libraries Association, Elsevier Announce Education Partnership - :: This news release appeared on the Reed-Elsevier discussion list this morning, as well as the SLA website.Support from World-Leading STM Publisher Will Help Establish SLA Online University Alexandria, VA, USA, December 13, 2025 - The Special Libraries Association (SLA)... (09:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 18 January 2026
- E-Streams - :: Nuts. I've missed mention of the last two or three issues of E-Streams, the YBP-sponsored online review journal of new reference works in engineering, science, agriculture and medicine. My bad. For users of GOBI 2, YBP has added an... (11:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 January 2026
- Searching for US Military Standards - :: I received a request from a graduate student in materials engineering, who is looking for a number of reports and standards, including these two MIL-STD's: MIL-STD 202 Method 208, and MIL-STD 883 Method 2003. I did a Google search,... (14:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 13 January 2026
- Article Duplication in Emerald/MCB Journals - Update from Phil Davis - :: As reported some time ago, Cornell U Life Sciences Librarian Phil Davis, through simple keyword searching, identified 409 articles from 67 journals published by Emerald that had been republished between 1989 and 2003, without notification. Davis' initial study will... (10:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 12 January 2026
- The Future of the Internet - :: From Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Future of the Internet. :: My thanks, again, to Mary-Ann Tyrell at Michigan State U Libraries, for advising me that Bloglet was not sending out updates to the 175+ subscribers to... (10:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- DOE/OSTI's E-Print Network Selected as SPARC Partner - :: SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has announced that the E-Print Network has been choses as a SPARC "Scientific Communities" Partner. From the press release:Washington, D.C.—SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced that the... (09:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 January 2026
- Tsunami Disaster Mapping Portal - :: A new interactive website, Tsunami Disaster Mapping for Indian Ocean Regions, has been created that provides current and historical spatial data for those working on both short- and long-term relief efforts in the tsunami-devestated regions in southeast Asia. From... (09:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 10 January 2026
- Speed Up Adobe Acrobat Files - :: This is too cool, and needs to be mentioned. Via SearchEngineWatch via Anil Dash comes word of a utility created by programmer Joe Cox, called Adobe Reader SpeedUp:Adobe Reader SpeedUp is a simple application that was created to help... (11:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 7 January 2026
- International Libraries and the Internet Archive Collaborate To Build Open-Access Text Archives - :: This is old news from The Internet Archive, on December 15, 2004, but important nonetheless. From the press release:Today, a number of International libraries have committed to putting their digitized books in open-access archives, starting with one at the... (10:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- New Journals from PLoS - Public Library of Science - :: George Porter, writing on various listservs, reports the following:PLoS has posted a press release with additional details about the three new journals to be introduced in 2005. PLoS Computational Biology Fulltext forthcoming June 2005 http://ploscompbiol.org/ Print ISSN: 1553-734X |... (09:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ACS Livewire - :: Issue 6.1, January 2005, of ACS's LiveWire is now available.... (09:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 6 January 2026
- Release Date of EV2 Upgrade: 13 January 2026 - :: Details of the impending upgrade to EV2 are available in an e-mail sent today to Engineering Village 2 customers:As announced in December 2004, a significant new release of Engineering Village 2 is coming. The January 2005 release of Engineering... (15:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Cites & Insights, Ethics & Zines - :: The v5 n1 January 2004 (pdf) issue of Cites & Incites: Crawford At Large, is now available. Walt discusses an interesting thread on ethics and librarians who blog, first raised by Karen Schneider at Free Range Librarian. In her... (13:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Tuesday 4 January 2026
- The ACM Reports on Blogging - :: The December 2004, v47 n12, Communications of the ACM was a special issue devoted to "The Blogosphere." From the introduction by Andrew Rosenbloom:Weblogs are a relatively new form of mainstream personal communication, like instant messaging, email, cell phones, and... (15:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- New Open Access Journal on Probablility - :: Writing on PAMNET (among others), George Porter notes:Probability Surveys is the second new journal to debut on Project Euclid this month. It is also only the second title to be distributed on Project Euclid as an Open Access journal,... (09:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Submitting News Items to Engineering Journals - Writing on ELDNET-L, Barbara Shader of the Robert E Kennedy Library, posted the following query:One of our editors for the College of Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has compiled a list of engineering journals that she alerts whenever... (09:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ACRL STS Research Forum - Call for Proposals - ACRL STS Research Forum -- Chicago 2005 The ACRL Science and Technology Section's (STS) Research Committee invites submission of abstracts of research papers to be given at the STS Forum for Science & Technology Library Research in Chicago on Sunday,... (08:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)