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February 2005

Monday 28 February 2026

  • Cites & Incites - :: The March 2005 Cites & Incites from Walt Crawford is available for your perusal.... (13:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • ACM Launches New Journal - :: As reported by George Porter on PAMNET and elsewhere: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) has debuted in the ACM Digital Library. TOMCCAP is one of eight titles originally announced by the ACM for introduction in... (12:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 27 February 2026

  • ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman Slams "The Blog People" - :: Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, President-Elect of the American Library Association, and considered by many to be a leader in our profession, is taking a beating online for his... (22:11 | 3 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)

Thursday 24 February 2026

  • National Digital Science Library - Invitation to Help Build - From a post by John M Saylor on STS-L:Colleagues- The National Science Digital Library(NSDL) Program was launched by the National Science Foundation in 2000 to establish an online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and... (15:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 22 February 2026

  • SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - from Taylor & Francis - :: Taylor & Francis has revised its alert service, SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting:Taylor & Francis currently publishes over 950 academic peer-reviewed journals across a variety of disciplines. In response to the changing needs of the academic community, we... (10:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Friday 18 February 2026

  • The RSS Challenge - :: With the announcement of Engineering Village 2's new RSS feature, the responsibility for getting the word out falls to the practitioners, namely us - the librarians in the trenches. Having confirmed that the EV2 RSS feature is working in... (15:48 | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
  • Firefox Plugin for RedLightGreen - :: RedLightGreen is offering Firefox plugin. The "plugin adds RedLightGreen as a choice in the Firefox toolbar search box"... (15:28 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Free Patents Online Database - :: From a post on CHMINF-L this morning, Dana Roth reports the following:http://www.freepatentsonline.com This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US Patent Office). On the initial text display page, click... (11:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • University of Alberta Libraries Adds 285 RSS Feeds - :: The University of Alberta Libraries, my home base, has added approximately 285 RSS feeds to include both New Books by Library and New Books by Call Number. For example, the list of RSS feeds for the T Classification. The... (09:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Thursday 17 February 2026

  • Subscribing to an Email List (Listserv) Using Bloglines - Randy has asked that I copy this post from BDW into STLQ. I'm glad I wasn't the only one in the dark. I feel like I just invented water, but a number of people I know as well as myself... (14:42 | 0 Comments)
  • Google Scholar "Preferences" - Is Our World About to Get Rocked? - :: This is flying around listservs and discussion groups. From a post by Andrew Pace on WEB4LIB this morning:Anyone seen Google Scholar today? There's a new "Preferences" section. Now if you are lucky enough to have your institution listed, you... (11:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • What's Up? - :: The February 2005 issue of Walt Crawford's always entertaining Cites & Incites Insights is now available. :: In the v6 n3 January 2005 issue of The Charleston Advisor, Louise F Deis (Princeton) and David Goodman (Long Island U) review... (09:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Wednesday 16 February 2026

  • EV2 Rolls out RSS - :: Engineering Village 2 is now including RSS feeds with every search query. It's a brilliant move, and sets a new standard for "current awareness" regarding database searching. From the Ei site:Engineering Village 2 provides RSS feeds of your search... (16:08 | 1 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
  • Free Resources Containing Searchable Abstracts in Science, Technology and Engineering - :: Earlier this month on ELDNET-L, Sarah A.V. Kirby advised that she was "compiling a list of free resources that contain searchable abstracts for multiple science/technology/engineering journals, magazines, and government publications. The abstracts have to be free, but the articles... (14:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 14 February 2026

  • ASEE - ELD Hosting a Duplicates Exchange - :: The Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education hosts a Duplicates Exchange on the Internet. It is not a listserv; lists are sent to the coordinator and are distributed to the current members of the exchange.... (10:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Proceedings of Science - New Open Access Initiative to Publish Conference Proceedings - :: I read this on PAMNET-L, and think it's a brilliant idea:Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about a new, online service provided by SISSA - the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste - to the scientific... (09:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Announces Three New Book Series - :: From a post on CHMINF-L:2005 sees exciting times for RSC book publishing, with the launch of three new series. Firstly, Biomolecular Sciences is a new series of research level books, covering the areas of structural biology, chemical biology, informatics,... (09:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 9 February 2026

  • Dana Roth on "Using the Mathematics Literature", edited by Kristine K Fowler - :: Dana Roth sent the following comments about the new book, Using the Mathematics Literature, edited by Kristine K. Fowler:As a 'chemistry' librarian, I am obviously not qualified to give a complete review of 'Using the Mathematics Literature', edited by... (10:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
  • Google Launches a Map Service - :: From CNET News, word that Google has "quietly" launched a beta map service:In its latest play in the ongoing search wars, Google on Tuesday quietly launched a beta site for a new map service. Google Maps offers maps, driving... (08:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 8 February 2026

  • Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics - :: Catherine Lavallée-Welch posted information on the new reference book by Martha Tucker and Nancy Anderson. The book is called Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics:This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college... (15:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Online Access to Complete Archive of AIP Journals - :: The American Institute of Physics is offering online access to the entire backfile of AIP journals. From the AIP site:All subscriptions to AIP journals at the institutional rate include access to a five-year online backfile. In 2005, we’re offering... (14:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 7 February 2026

  • Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News - :: Today's ITI NewsBreaks has a few items of interest:Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News - "Dialog and DataStar will shift to Thomson Scientific & HealthCare. Its general manager will be David Brown, who will report to president and... (10:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 4 February 2026

  • Engineering Village 2 - Minor Anomalies With Truncation - :: In a previous post, I waxed eloquent about the new changes to EV2, unveiled last month by Engineering Information Inc. One of the (very welcome) upgrades I noted was the ability to truncate to a single character, using the... (14:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
  • Combined Chemical Dictionary Expands Its Content - :: The Combined Chemical Dictionary, available via CHEMnetBASE, expanded its content today. From an e-mail from Dr Fiona Macdonald, Publisher, Chemistry, Taylor and Francis Books:Changes include:Addition of 5,900 new compounds Now contains 188,000 natural products, 46,000 drugs, 276,000 organic compounds... (13:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 2 February 2026

Tuesday 1 February 2026

  • RealClimate - Climate Scientists Use The Blog - :: RealClimate is new blog, launched in December 2004 by a group of concerned climate scientists, which describes it as a commentary site:RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.... (15:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Inside Higher Ed - :: Bob Michaelson, writing on CHMINF-L, reports the following:There is a new free online journal (though part blog), called Inside Higher Ed Currently in beta, with some content but anticipated to grow significantly, this is something like Chronicle of Higher... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)