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Customized Online Journal Subscriptions
HighWire Press from Stanford University announced that a group of HighWire-affiliated
publishers have agreed to conform to a common pricing model and a standard
set of guidelines for online access to journals for their institutional subscribers.
HighWire's Shop for Journals program allows institutions to create a customized
price chart based on institution type (academic, medical, public/nonprofit,
government, or corporate). The multiple-journal quote can be submitted as a
subscription request at the end of the process, with the option of early access
for users. Information on the program and the guidelines is on the HighWire
Web site.
Source: HighWire Press, Palo Alto, CA, Fax: 650/725-9335; http://highwire.stanford.edu/tfocis. CSA Abstracts Now Link to ProQuest's Full Text
ProQuest Information and Learning announced an agreement with Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts (CSA) that allows customers of both services to link from CSA research
abstracts to the full text of scholarly journals in ProQuest online databases.
Among the key titles included in the new agreement are CSA Sociological Abstracts,
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Database, CSA Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management Database, CSA Worldwide Political Science
Abstracts, and ARTbibliographies Modern. The titles will link to the full text
of the journal articles in ProQuest databases, including the ABI/INFORM business
database suite, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Nursing Journals, ProQuest
Science Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and more.
Source: ProQuest Information and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, 800/521-0600; http://www.il.proquest.com.
BOOKS
Hello Linux! Book Is a Hands-On Course
The new book Hello Linux! (Clyde Boom, ISBN: 1-896814-22-0, $99.95)
is designed as a step-by-step introductory companion and reference for the
Linux operating system. It starts at a basic level and then progresses, and
can be used as a self-guided course or as a class textbook. Its 1,020 pages
include explanations, hands-on lab exercises, and hundreds of study review
questions. Icons help you navigate the text.
Hello Linux! includes 2 CDs with Red Hat Linux (v. 8.0) and one CD
with lab data files. Figures and lists simplify the text. To get more information,
a table of contents, or sample chapters, go to http://www.lancom-tech.com.
Source: Lancom Technologies, Lewiston, NY, 800/718-7318; http://www.lancom-tech.com.
Omnigraphics Publishes Web Site Directory
Omnigraphics has shipped its Web Site Source Book, a 2,024-page print
directory enabling access to URLs, mailing addresses, and phone and fax numbers
for more than 84,000 U.S. businesses, organizations, institutions, agencies,
etc. Organized by subject and indexed alphabetically, the directory is meant
to alleviate problems associated with hard-to-find or omitted contact information
on some organizations' Web sites. In addition to major U.S. corporations, the
reference guide includes entities such as government offices, chambers of commerce,
elected officials, embassies, U.N. missions, online-only services, print and
broadcast media, academic institutions, research bodies, and travel services.
The softcover directory (ninth edition) lists for $150.
Source: Omingraphics, Inc., Detroit, 313/961-1340; Fax: 313/961-1383;
http://www.omnigraphics.com.
COMPANY NEWS
New Name: Swets Information Services
Swets Blackwell announced that it has officially changed its name to Swets
Information Services. The new name is related to Swets' acquisition of the
remaining Blackwell shares after the initial Swets Blackwell joint venture
in 2000. Swets ended use of the Blackwell name, effective December 2003.
Source: Swets Information Services, Lisse, Netherlands, 011-31-252-435-584;
http://www.swets.com.
Sister Firms Merge to Offer Single Point of Service
Associated library technology providers MARC Link and Access Imagery have
joined under a single name—Backstage Library Works—
to offer one-stop access to a range of information services options.
Company founder John Merrill explained, "We started out in business providing
only retrospective conversion services. The name MARC Link Retrospective Conversion
accurately described us. Then as Access Imagery, we began helping librarians
digitize materials. Over the years our capabilities have grown and now we provide
all sorts of additional services, like cataloging, creating and reformatting
records in MARC and non-MARC formats and in 100 languages, digitizing all types
of library materials, and text conversion and mark-up into TEI and other XML-based
formats. Our old names just didn't fit anymore."
Dubbed "Backstage" to reflect its goal of supporting librarians with behind-the-scenes
technical services, the revamped firm will retain its present workforce of
70 staffers at its Orem, Utah, headquarters.
Source: Backstage Library Works, Orem, UT, 800/288-1265; Fax: 800/356-8220;
http://www.bslw.com.
EVENTS FOR INFO PROS
ALA Lawyers for Libraries Institute to Be in May
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom announced that the Lawyers for Libraries
Northeast Regional Training Institute is scheduled for May 67, 2004,
in Boston at the Boston Park Plaza. Topics to be covered include filtering
and the repercussions of the Supreme Court's CIPA decision; privacy, law enforcement
requests, and the USA PATRIOT Act; library liability for exposing patrons and
staff to unprotected speech; and updates in the laws and the implications for
libraries of "harmful to minors" statutes. Attorneys and library trustees are
the target audience. Librarians may attend if accompanied by an attorney. The
cost is $500 per person.
Source: ALA, Chicago, 800/545-2433; http://www.ala.org.
UKOLUG Releases Spring Meeting Schedule
UKOLUG (UK Online Users Group), the professional organization for users and
developers of electronic information resources, has announced its spring meeting
and event schedule. Web Development Day, with two half-day seminars on Usability
Testing/Blogs and Wikis, will be held Feb. 12 in London. A seminar on Information
Architecture is slated for March 3 in London. Also on the calendar: a Content
Management System Selection and Implementation course (March 18 in Edinburgh,
Scotland) and a day on Current Legal Issues in Information Work (April 6 in
Belfast, Northern Ireland). A Reference Management Day in June and other events
are being planned.
Source: UKOLUG, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, U.K., 011-44-01969-663749; http://www.ukolug.org.uk or http://www.bolton.gov.uk.
DESKTOP DELIVERY SERVICES
British Library Debuts New Document Delivery Service
The British Library announced the launch of its new Secure Electronic Delivery
Service. Built on the backbone of The British Library's collections, the service
gives customers access to more than 100 million items. It enables delivery
of almost anything from the library's collections—whether born digital,
in print, or in microform—to a desktop within 2 hours; transmission of
born-digital material is almost instantaneous. The Secure Electronic Delivery
Service is based on Adobe Reader 6.0 software and Relais International scanning
and delivery technology. Since The British Library launched its fully copyright-compliant,
secure electronic delivery service for digital documents in 2002, it has succeeded
in obtaining extensive agreements for secure electronic delivery with many
of the world's leading scientific publishers. More than 3,800 journal titles
are online for instant electronic delivery.
Source: The British Library, London, 011-44-1937-546-825; http://www.bl.uk.
CISTI Launches Secure Desktop Delivery
The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) announced
the launch of Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD) as a new document delivery method.
The SDD delivers copyright-cleared documents to CISTI customers in an electronic
format that allows viewing and one-time printing of documents via a Web interface. The system prevents redistribution, copying,
and storage of documents. SDD can deliver more than half of CISTI's collection.
CISTI charges copyright fees set by rightsholders for all documents sent by
SDD. Documents not covered by SDD agreements are deliverable via an alternate
method selected by the end user.
Source: CISTI, Ottawa, 800/668-1222; http://cisti.nrc.gc.ca.
ADDED CONTENT
ProQuest Expands Agreement with News International, Adds Two Newspapers
ProQuest Information and Learning announced an expanded agreement with News
International. The agreement brings two new newspaper titles, The Sun and News
of the World, to ProQuest products and continues coverage of The Times and The
Sunday Times in ProQuest online databases. The content from News International,
the major U.K. subsidiary of News Corp., Ltd., will appear in ProQuest Newsstand
products, eLibrary products for K-12 libraries and schools, and several products
targeted at international ProQuest customers, including ProQuest Learning:
News. The agreement includes backfile rights for The Times dating to
1990. All four newspapers—The Times, The Sunday Times, The
Sun, and News of the World—are already in ProQuest databases.
Free trials are available.
Source: ProQuest Information and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, 800/521-0600; http://www.il.proquest.com.
Additions to Wilson's Index to Legal Periodicals
H.W. Wilson announced the expansion of the WilsonWeb database Index to Legal
Periodicals Full Text with the addition of 21 core sources, including Law
Library Journal. The additions bring the full-text total to 208 core sources.
The database also indexes the cover-to-cover content of 1,000 journals and
1,400 monographs per year. The company is now in negotiations for full-text
rights for additional sources. A built-in WilsonLink SFX feature allows users
to click to additional full text from any library OpenURL-compliant database
at no additional charge.
This spring, Wilson plans to release Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective:
19181981. This database will provide searchable access to the content
of more than 500 law periodicals in electronic form. The data will contain
the indexing from 28 printed cumulations of Index to Legal Periodicals & Books.
Source: H.W. Wilson, New York, 800/367-6770; http://www.hwwilson.com.
CrossRef Drops DOI Retrieval Fees, Adds Content
CrossRef announced that it dropped Digital Object Identifier (DOI) retrieval
fees for all members and affiliates, effective January 2004. In addition, the
CrossRef system has added several hundred thousand book and conference proceeding
DOIs, including 700 books from Oxford University Press. With these additions,
CrossRef now covers more than 8,700 journals and nearly 10 million individual
content items.
Source: CrossRef, Lynnfield, MA, 781/295-0072; http://www.crossref.org.
PARTNERSHIPS
AIP Announces Various Partnerships at the Annual Online Conference in London
Journals published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) will join the Virtual Journals in Science and Technology (VJ) sponsored
by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society
(APS). The three organizations announced in London that articles and abstracts
from the 120 IEEE journals will appear in the VJs in early 2004. The Virtual
Journals (http://www.virtualjournals.org) will now link to the most significant
articles from the latest issues of more than 175 participating science source
journals, including Science and Nature.
AIP and the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Geochemistry announced
that AIP will become the publisher of record for Geochemical Transactions.
The agreement became effective as of Jan. 1, 2004. AIP will honor 2004 subscriptions
and will work with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to transfer all subscription
records. Geochemical Transactions launched in the spring of 2000 as
a publishing partnership between the ACS Division of Geochemistry and the RCS.
AIP Publishing Services re-dubbed its online hosting platform Scitation,
effective last month. Replacing Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), Scitation
includes a simpler user interface and a suite of platform enhancements.
AIP and the IEEE announced a partnership to provide Scitation Alerts powered
by Inspec, beginning in April. With this service, subscribers can receive alerts
from 100 physics-related subject areas, weekly e-mail updates of new research
published in the Inspec database, and custom alerts based on their own search
criteria.
Source: AIP, College Park, MD, 301/209-3100; http://www.aip.org and APS,
College Park, MD, 301/209-3200; http://www.aps.org and IEEE, Piscataway, NJ,
732/981-0060; http://ww.ieee.org.
New BioMed Central Members
BioMed Central announced that two U.S. consortia—the Consortium of Southern
Biomedical Libraries (CONBLS) and the Maine Biomedical Research Infrastructure
Network (BRIN)—have signed institutional membership agreements with BioMed
Central. CONBLS is a consortium of biomedical libraries in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Twelve of
its 17 institutions have signed up for BioMed Central membership. The Maine
BRIN is a seven-institution network that links biomedical research laboratories,
universities, and colleges in the state. BioMed Central also announced that
the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) had purchased membership
for 84 institutions in the state. BioMed Central now has 396 members; 190 are
located in the U.S.
Source: BioMed Central, London, 011-44-20-7631-9926;
http://www.biomedcentral.com.
NEW/ENHANCED DATABASES
EBSCOhost Includes Short Story Index
EBSCO Publishing announced that H.W. Wilson's Short Story Index is available
via EBSCOhost. The index covers more than 76,500 stories from more than
4,025 collections and is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date,
literary technique, and source, alone or in any combination. Subjects include
theme, locale, narrative technique or device, and genre. The database grows
by 4,000 records each year, and coverage dates back to 1984.
EBSCO now provides more than a dozen H.W. Wilson databases on EBSCOhost,
covering a variety of subjects. Other complementary databases currently or
soon to be available include American Humanities Index, Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry, H.W. Wilson's Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities
Abstracts, MagillOnAuthors, MagillOnLiterature, and MLA International Bibliography.
Source: EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, MA, 800/653-2726; http://www.ebsco.com.
WilsonWeb Databases Now Link to Google and Other Search Engines
H.W. Wilson announced that WilsonWeb searches now bring results from three
distinct sources—Google and other Internet search engines, the targeted
search database, and the full-text links to other OpenURL-compliant databases
to which the library subscribes. Article citations on any of the WilsonWeb
periodical databases connect users to WilsonLink, a free, integrated SFX-powered
link-server that provides a search of any of the
library's other OpenURL-compliant databases. From WilsonLink, users can launch
an automatic Internet search for information related to the cited
article via any of 12 search engines, including Google and Yahoo!.
Source: H.W. Wilson, New York, 800/367-6770; http://www.hwwilson.com.
New FIZ Karlsruhe Patent Databases
FIZ Karlsruhe announced the launch of French and British patent databases
on STN International. The new reference database FRANCEPAT contains abstracts
of patent applications and patents published by France's Institut National
de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI) since 1966. To be launched
on STN in 2004, the new databases, FRFULL and GBFULL, will provide full texts
of French and British patent documents.
Source: FIZ Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 011-49-7247-808-555; http://www.stn-international.de or http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de.
Gale Extends Resource Center Database Offerings
Gale has introduced more content and features in its Resource Center databases.
Student Resource Center 3.0 and College Edition, Discovering Collection, and
Junior Reference Collection each provide new reading-level indicators; a drop-down
tool for subject, keyword, and full-text searches; and separate topic search
capabilities for major subjects like geography/cultures, history, literature,
and science/health. Content additions include U•X•L Encyclopedia
of Science, 2nd edition; Presidential Administration Profiles for Students;
Research Guide/Teacher Tips; and (in Student Resource Center editions) American
Journey: The Cold War. Biography Resource Center now affords access to all
biographical data from the eight-volume American Eras set; 200-plus
entries from the Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, and 720
new biographies on high-profile newsmakers. Gale also introduced a Title Change
List feature for its InfoTrac Web and Resource Centers. The link (http://www.gale.com/tlist/ncc/ncc_nov03.pdf) offers updated listings for tracking title modifications, cessations, rights
changes, and new journal additions.
Source: Gale, Farmington Hills, MI, 800/877-GALE; http://www.gale.com.
USEFUL TOOLS
ALA Updates Libraries & the Internet Toolkit
ALA announced the release of a revised and updated version of the Libraries
and the Internet Toolkit. The toolkit is the most-recent addition to the resources
available to assist librarians making decisions about Internet filtering in
response to the requirements of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA).
The kit includes a checklist for creating an Internet-use policy and examples
of various library policies, tips for parents, information about what makes
a great Web site for children, outreach suggestions, fast facts, and a list
of additional resources. The new toolkit is online at http://www.ala.org/oif/iftoolkits/internet and on the CIPA home page at http://www.ala.org/cipa.
Source: ALA, Chicago, 800/545-2433; http://www.ala.org.
Improvements to STN Easy for Intranets
FIZ Karlsruhe announced enhancements to STN Easy for Intranets. The system,
designed to integrate online databases and full-text supply systems into company
or campus intranets, provides new administrative features, as well as the ability
to integrate value-added services. The administration features include individual
administration of access authorizations, access and/or blocks to selected databases
for specific users or user groups, integration of full-text information sources,
and cost-center allocation. Users can perform searches with STN in any of the
more than 220 STN files, and share the results with all end users or specific
work groups on the STN Easy for Intranets site.
Source: FIZ Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 011-49-7247-808-555; http://www.stn-international.de or http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de.
Library Job Gurus Create Career Blog Site
Sarah L. Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon, co-authors of The Information
Professional's Guide to Career Development Online (Information Today,
Inc., 2002) have launched Beyond the Job, a Weblog designed to alert librarians
to professional development opportunities. Building on information from their
book and their respective library employment sites, the blog is updated daily
and offers job search advice, grant and scholarship information, contributor/presenter
postings, and other career resources for information professionals. Beyond
the Job is at http://librarycareers.blogspot.com.
Source: Sarah L. Johnson, Charleston, IL, http://www.libraryjobpostings.org;
Rachel Singer Gordon, Franklin Park, IL, http://www.lisjobs.com.
Chemical Abstracts Service Upgrades Search-and-Retrieval Tool
The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) released Version 7.0 of its STN Express
with Discover! Analysis Edition, extending the functionality of its search-and-retrieval
tool for technical and scientific patents and related documentation. Integrating
STN Express database content with Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet application,
the updated solution adds a 2-Dimensional Analyze Wizard to facilitate data
analysis and tabulation, and to automate graph and chart generation. It also
offers a Variable Group Analysis Table for enhanced chemical structure analysis,
as well as a CA Lexicon interface designed to aid query development through
more efficient use of CA indexing terms.
Source: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH, 614/447-3600; Fax: 614/447-3713;
http://www.cas.org.
MetaSearch Products from Hyperspheric
Hyperspheric Solutions announced the launch of its new Terminology Server
(InterComTS) and e-GMS compatible Framework (InterCom-FW), developed for dealing
with the complexities of metadata, interoperability and records management,
and the 2005 e-GIF deadline. The InterCom-TS allows organizations to control,
standardize, and share terminologies, and gives clients appropriate control
over their own technologies; it also offers the GCL in RDF/XML and enables
clients to share these standards with their strategic partners. The InterCom-FW
allows for flexible searching of the metadata and caching via secure SOAP-based
Web services. Using the metadata repositories, the system can locate and retrieve
resources that would otherwise have been unintentionally hidden from view,
including gray literature.
Source: Hyperspheric Solutions, Cambridge, U.K., 011-44-01223-507454; http://www.hyperspheric.com.
Gale Unveils English Interface of Consulta
Gale announced the release of Consulta 2.0, an upgrade to its Spanish-language
resource center that adds a new English interface to assist users learning
the Spanish language and culture. Additional key enhancements of the new version
include: help in English, better phrase searching in dictionaries, the capability
of adding images to the basic search, improved thematic/subject searching,
more information on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and a map center
and anatomical atlas. Gale's partner, Barcelona-based Grupo Océano,
has contributed much of Consulta's reference content, some of which has never
before been available in the U.S. Gale's Resource Center concept provides the
framework for the database, which combines periodicals, reference content,
and digitized original documents and images in a single interface.
Source: Gale, Farmington Hills, MI, 800/877-GALE; http://www.gale.com.
YOUR DIGITAL LIBRARY
New Features, Better Searches in ACM Portal
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that the ACM Portal,
the gateway to ACM's Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature, has
new features, including new search capabilities, greater visual clarity, and
additional user hints. The Digital Library, ACM's full-text collection of its
published papers from more than 50 years of computing history, has been rebuilt
to function like a standard Internet search engine. The library now uses a
Boolean OR protocol on the default search, which posts results on a scale of
relevance and displays search terms on a Search Results page.
Source: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 212/626-0500; http://www.acm.org.
Sirsi Certifies E-Book Vendor OverDrive to Work with Unicorn and DRA Classic
Sirsi announced that OverDrive (http://www.overdrive.com) has completed Sirsi's
certification program, proving that its Digital Library Reserve v1.0.3.1103
will integrate with Sirsi's Unicorn Library Management System and DRA Classic.
This means that OverDrive Digital Library Reserve solution can provide a foundation
for secure e-book lending and distribution. OverDrive completed the Sirsi SIP2
Certification Program, an original certification program for the standard interchange
protocol, version 2 (SIP2), that enables third-party vendors to ensure that
their SIP2-compliant products integrate with Sirsi systems.
Source: Sirsi Corp., St. Louis, 314/432-1100; http://www.sirsi.com. NewspaperDirect Debuts Same-Day Global News Service at Midwinter
NewspaperDirect, a provider of same-day electronic editions of domestic and
international newspapers, unveiled a digital newspaper service at the ALA's
Midwinter Meeting. The service optimizes global news publishers' digital files
to enable browser-based viewing and laser printing.
NewspaperDirect offers library customers a catalog encompassing 185-plus
global newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Chicago
Tribune, The Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, La
Stampa, Le Monde, Folha De S. Paulo, and Yomiuri Shimbun.
Source: NewspaperDirect, NewYork, 877/980-4040 (U.S. and Canada), 800/6364-6364
(International); http://www.newspaperdirect.com.
Oxford Scholarship Online Launched
Oxford University Press announced the launch of Oxford Scholarship Online
(http://www.OxfordScholarship.com), a resource containing more than 700 scholarly
texts in the humanities and social sciences—classic works and cutting-edge
scholarship by today's authors—in one cross-indexed, fully searchable
database. Users can access a single chapter, complete book, or dozens of sources
in four subject modules (philosophy, religion, economics, and political science)
simultaneously with one targeted online search.
Source: Oxford University Press, New York, 212/726-6022; http://www.oup.com.
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