April 2005
Monday 25 April 2025
- Social Bookmarking Reviews - :: The v11 n4, April 2005 issue of D-Lib® Magazine features two interesting articles about social bookmarking. The first, Social Bookmarking Tools (I) - A General Review, provides a detailed review of current SB tools:This paper reviews some current initiatives,... (14:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Comment Problems - :: I've learned today that the comment function on my blogs isn't working. Comments can be submitted successfully, but never reach the site for approval. I'm working to repair the problem asap. My apologies to those who have posted messages... (14:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Knovel Announces K-Essentials - :: From a 25 April 2025 press release from the Knovel site:Innovative Knovel Program Helps Businesses, Academic Institutions, and Government Agencies Make the Transition to a Virtual Library K-Essentials offers free and unlimited access to interactive engineering and science references... (13:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 22 April 2025
- Bonehead Move of the Year: Chemical Market Reporter Stops Including Chemical Prices In Its Issues - :: As reported in CHMINF-L by David Flaxbart:Has anyone noticed the significant changes in Chemical Market Reporter? As of the March 28 issue, CMR has gone to a slick-magazine format. More importantly, the Chemical Prices section no longer appears. The... (18:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- CSA Launches "Sustainability" Open Access E-Journal - :: From an e-mail received today from Cambridge:Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, has launched publication. Accessible at http://ejournal.nbii.org/, the e-journal provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out... (18:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- UK Engineer Find Original Issue of Electronics Magazine With "Moore's Law" Article, Collects 10 Large From Intel - :: From the BBC News site:A copy of the original Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has turned up under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer. David Clark had kept copies of the magazine for years, despite... (10:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Jybe - :: Geoff and I were testing the new version of Jybe this morning. Jybe is a program that allows you to connect with another computer so that you and the other user are looking at the same screen. Some of... (10:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 20 April 2025
- Headless, Remote Controlled Flies - :: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Via: Clive Thompson.... (14:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- E-STREAMS - :: The latest issue of E-STREAMS, Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science, v8 n3 March 2005, is available in HTML and PDF formats.... (12:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 19 April 2025
- Village Voice on Academia and Blogging - :: Interesting article in the April 12th Village Voice, called PH.Dotcom: What if professors could lecture 24-7? Blog culture invades academia:Imagine if the great thinkers of the past could have blogged, bouncing ideas off each other in real time, engaging... (13:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 14 April 2025
- JSTOR Collection Announcement: Biological Sciences Collection - :: As announced by JSTOR on 13 April 2005:JSTOR is very pleased to introduce the Biological Sciences Collection. The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least 100 titles when it is completed by the end of 2007. This collection will... (16:16 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Digital Rights Management and Referex - :: We have been interested for some time in subscribing to Referex Engineering, the online full-text reference collection from Engineering Information:Referex Engineering comprises three carefully crafted collections combining key sources of reference material. Content ranges from broad based engineering titles... (08:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 12 April 2025
- Cindi Trainor on The Changing Balance - :: My good friend Cindi Trainor, techie-librarian at Claremont Colleges in CA and #1 U2 fan in America, has written a timely post on what she describes as "the changing balance". She ever so cogently describes what so many of... (15:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 8 April 2025
- Taking RSS and Faceted Searching Into The Engineering Classroom - :: With the advent of faceted searching and RSS feeds in Engineering Village 2, the onus to spread the word falls upon, among others, liaison librarians working in engineering and its sub-disciplines. My subject and liaison responsibilities are chemical and... (11:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Thursday 7 April 2025
- Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries - Article Available - :: I have uploaded the article co-authored with Geoff Harder, "Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries". The pdf version is here. The article has also been added to the category, "Articles and Presentations", in the right... (12:25 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Elsevier Newsletter Adds RSS Feed - :: Well, duh. Finally, another publisher has added an RSS feed to its newsletter. Elsevier's SD Connect is now available in RSS. We continue to wonder: what is taking publishers so long to offer RSS feeds for their various press... (11:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 6 April 2025
- Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries - :: I am pleased to report the publication of an article1 co-authored by your humble correspondent and the amazing Geoff Harder, my friend and colleague (on the other side of the wall). The article, "Weblogs: Their Use and Application in... (16:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
- April 2005 LiveWire - :: Issue 6.4 April 2005 of LiveWire, from ACS, is available.... (15:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- April 2005 Cites & Insights - :: I finally spelled it correctly from the outset! The v5 n6 April 2005 issue of Cites & Insights is available.... (08:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 5 April 2025
- SLA-ENG Division Election Results - :: Congratulations are in order for Don Welch, Senior Librarian for the Bell Helicopter Textron - Research and Engineering Library in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Suzanne Christina, Staff Analyst in the Engineering & Technology group at Hamilton Sundstrand, United Technologies,... (10:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Revisiting The Blog People - :: Jessamyn West links to the editorial and letters in the latest Library Journal, written in response to the Michael Gorman's vicious attack on weblogs in the previous issue, "hopefully putting it to bed once and for all". I don't... (09:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Patents Missing In Action? - :: Dana Roth posted the following to CHMINF-L, something of concern to all patent searchers, and to those of us who advise our users of the importance of searching patents while doing research:This from the New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7213 It might... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 4 April 2025
- Blackwell Offers Free Backfiles to Selected Titles - :: George Porter forwarded a message written by Chuck Hamaker and posted to the SPARC Open Access Forum by Peter Suber, regarding Blackwell now offering free access to archives of some of their journals:These journals on the Blackwell (s)ite all... (12:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- David Stern on Open Access - :: David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Kline Science Library, Yale University, has written a timely piece on open access. He argues that the open access publishing model isn't necessary or wanted, and represents a danger to... (09:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)