Monday, November 28, 2005
Oxford Journals to publish two 'Briefing' titles from 2006
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has announced the purchase of two titles from Henry Stewart Publications, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics. The Briefings titles join Oxford's leading collection of Life Science titles from 2006
Library Books Shipping Tool
Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Library Association (CLA), with the assistance of the Association pour la science et les techniques de la documentation (ASTED), have introduced the Library Books Shipping Tool, an online application designed specifically with libraries in mind. For eligible libraries, it is a fast and convenient way to prepare and pay for your library book shipments in Canada
Lincoln Book Festival
The Lincoln Book Festival has been awarded 60,000 pounds over the next three years by the Arts Council. Organisers said the funding will be used to develop the audience with events targeted at youth groups, sport and cultural diversity
Web Citation Index
Thomson Scientific has announced the launch of Web Citation Index: the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories. Web Citation Index transcends the capabilities of traditional Web search engines, providing users with a robust citation-based discovery vehicle for preprints, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, and other gray literature. It is the result of a collaborative program between Thomson Scientific, NEC Laboratories America (NEC), and seven major institutions: Australian National University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, the Max Planck Society, Monash University, University of Rochester, and NASA Langley
Research Information Network
The Research Information Network (RIN) is a new organization, established for an initial three-year period, with 3 million pounds of funding, by a consortium of UK sponsors: the four Higher Education funding bodies, the three National Libraries, and the eight Research Councils. Its mission is to lead and co-ordinate new developments in the collaborative provision of research information for the benefit of researchers in the UK
Information Today is blogging Online Information 2005
Information Today is blogging the Online Information 2005 conference, being held in London, UK November 29-December 1
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Saturday, November 26, 2005
British Library Direct hits 5000 registered user mark
The British Library's recently-launched online document supply service, British Library Direct, has just signed up its 5000th registered user, just five months after going live in June. The service, which provides complete resource-discovery-to-delivery access to millions of research articles in the Library's collections, now serves customers in some 138 countries ranging from Korea (North and South) to Christmas Island
Swets and SUSHI
Swets has announced that, working as part of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), it is the first subscription agent to have successfully completed integration tests of their Electronic Resource Management statistics with two ILS vendors, Innovative Interfaces and Ex Libris. The Statistics transferred in these tests were all compliant with the internationally recognized COUNTER format
Exact Editions
Exact Editions is a web-based distribution and marketing company working for the world's best consumer magazines. Exact Editions has built a scaleable technology platform which replicates and aggregates exact copies of printed magazines and periodicals for web distribution and reliable searching
What's New at OECD - Librarian's Edition
What's New at OECD - Librarian's Edition - November 2005 is now avialable
Open Canada Digitization Initiative
Open Canada Digitization Initiative - Leaders of Canada's major research libraries held a national summit at Emerald Lake, BC, November 1-3, 2005. The summit outlined plans for online access to Canada's recorded heritage. At the conclusion the participants declared their commitment to a coordinated and sustained program to digitize Canada's information and knowledge resources, with 2006 as the catalyst year
Friday, November 25, 2005
The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer
The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: General Knowledge. Answers here
1. Who played "Mr Bean" on television and in a film?
2. Was the Berlin Wall built in 1948, 1953 or 1961?
3. On which African river is the Kariba Dam: is it the Nile, the Zambezi or the Congo?
4. Which 1976 film, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, was based on the Watergate scandal?
5. Mary O'Brien is the real name of which British singer who died in Los Angeles in 1999?
6. Which British author wrote the novels "A Town Like Alice" and "On the Beach," both set in Australia?
7. Which country used to be called East Pakistan?
8. The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) marked the end of a war between Russia and which country?
9. Which player led the 1984 and 1992 U. S. Olympic basketball teams to gold medals?
10. What is the meaning of the word "defenestration?"
1. Who played "Mr Bean" on television and in a film?
2. Was the Berlin Wall built in 1948, 1953 or 1961?
3. On which African river is the Kariba Dam: is it the Nile, the Zambezi or the Congo?
4. Which 1976 film, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, was based on the Watergate scandal?
5. Mary O'Brien is the real name of which British singer who died in Los Angeles in 1999?
6. Which British author wrote the novels "A Town Like Alice" and "On the Beach," both set in Australia?
7. Which country used to be called East Pakistan?
8. The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) marked the end of a war between Russia and which country?
9. Which player led the 1984 and 1992 U. S. Olympic basketball teams to gold medals?
10. What is the meaning of the word "defenestration?"
Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 135
Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 135 - December 2005 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available
Thursday, November 24, 2005
8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006
8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006: Academic Library and Information Services: New Paradigms for the Digital Age - 7-9 February 2006 - Bielefeld, Germany - Full programme now available
Elsevier and Science Press launch joint translation center in China
Elsevier and Science Press have launched a joint translation center to reciprocally promote books and journals in the Chinese and international markets. The joint translation center's first selection will include key Elsevier book and major reference work titles to be released in the Chinese market, and Science Press English language book titles to be introduced internationally by January 2006. On the journal side, a selection of STM journals, which are currently produced by Science Press as printed editions, will be jointly published and distributed in both print and ScienceDirect versions
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid will be the ultimate destination for searching through family histories, political papers, and historical records held in archives around the world. Hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Scholars searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Harper Collins goes green
Harper Collins has adopted a new paper purchasing policy which commits the company towards phasing out paper from ancient and endangered forests and towards ancient forest friendly solutions like recycled and FSC certified paper for all of its books. HarperCollins has worked with the Greenpeace Book Campaign to develop this policy
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