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Information Today October 2000 |
Eugene Garfield Celebrates 75 Years ISI has announced that Eugene Garfield, founder and chairman emeritus of ISI, celebrated his 75th birthday at the company's headquarters in Philadelphia. Over 500 ISI employees and the staff from The Scientist, a news journal for life scientists, where Garfield serves as president and editor in chief, joined him... |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today September 12, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Hoover's Enhances Its Company Coverage... Happy 80th Birthday to Dr. Eugene Garfield... ProQuest to Add Titles from Nature Publishing Group... etc. |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Searcher December 2000 Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today October 29, 2007 Nancy Herther |
Eugene Garfield Launches HistCite HistCite gives users easy methods for identifying core literature from Web of Science, by marking literature in the database and moving it into the software for analysis. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today March 1, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer Thomson ISI will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. |
Information Today June 4, 2001 Barbara Quint |
New ISI Web of Knowledge Integrates Web of Science with Current Contents Connect, Other Research Sources ISI has expanded its offerings to large, well-networked institutions. The new ISI Web of Knowledge integrates ISI Web of Science and ISI Current Contents Connect with additional, sophisticated analytical data covering published scholarship... |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
Information Today August 28, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
ASIS Gets an 'ASIST' Information scientists embrace technology, adding a letter to their acronym... |
Wired May 22, 2009 Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
Information Today April 2004 Paula Hane |
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. |
Information Today May 2001 Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
Information Today August 2002 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
Searcher April 2002 Jill E. Grogg |
Thinking About Reference Linking Information professionals need to be aware of the technical and organizational interests and obstacles associated with reference linking in order to better serve their users... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today April 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation? |
Information Today January 24, 2013 |
Thomson Reuters Expands Book Citation Index The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced the expansion of the Book Citation Index through partnerships with publishers such as Elsevier, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the University of Chicago Press. |
Information Today September 2004 Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
Information Today August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
Information Today September 4, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Thomson Scientific Redesigns ISI Web of Knowledge Interface Ten years after its launch, the ISI Web of Knowledge from Thomson Scientific has a new interface, designed to provide easy navigable discovery for the end user, built around researchers' workflow. |
Searcher May 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard T. Kaser |
Brutal Honesty If Information Wants to Be Free . . . Then Who's Going to Pay for It? |
Information Today December 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Elsevier Announces ScienceDirect News... ProQuest Unveils New Archiving Program, Los Angeles Times Backfile... Ingenta Continues Growth Across Publisher Services... etc. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
D-Lib April 2007 Altman & King |
A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data There is currently no universal standards exist for citing quantitative data. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
Information Today May 20, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest OneSource Expands into Asia-Pacific... ISI, Swets Blackwell Announce Linking Agreement... FIZ Karlsruhe, TIB Hannover Launch GetInfo Service |
Information Today November 24, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Thomson ISI to Expand Web of Science Coverage Back to 1900... Wilson Adds Full Text of Legal Titles... Entopia Knowledge Locator Integrates with Microsoft Office... |
Information Today June 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Eefke Smit |
Abelard and Heloise: Why Data and Publications Belong Together We advocate good collaboration across the whole information chain of authors, research institutes, data centers, libraries and publishers. DataCite is an excellent example of how this might work. |