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ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 |
Letters to the Editor User rights: an additional perspective... Scientific World disputes Jacso's views... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today June 23, 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Changes in Document Delivery at Infotrieve and the British Library Two major document delivery sources announced changes to their delivery systems during the Special Libraries Association annual conference -- Infotrieve and the British Library. Not surprisingly, given the tight-knit world of document delivery, there are similarities in the two. |
Information Today January 16, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Find-for-Free Policy Returns for Infotrieve's ArticleFinder The price for finding content continues to plummet as Infotrieve offers use of ArticleFinder for free. |
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 June 2003 Peter Jacso |
Digital Facilitators Digital facilitators assist publishers in digitizing their publications for the Web. They may offer additional services, such as hosting the publishers' digital journal editions, conference proceedings, and monographs. |
Information Today March 13, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it. |
PC World February 21, 2007 Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
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. |
ONLINE July 2001 Peter Jacso |
Electronic Shoes for the Cobbler's Children Treatment of digital journals in library and information science databases... |
Information Today February 2003 Jim Ashling |
Sci-Tech Publishers Show Resiliency at Online Information 2002 The big sci-tech publishers and secondary services -- in particular, the not-for-profit and society publishers -- have remained remarkably resilient over the event's entire history. |
Information Today January 27, 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Infotrieve Is on the Acquisition Path Infotrieve's dual announcements last week---its acquisition of the assets of TheScientificWorld (TSW) and of Ariel software -- position the company to dominate document delivery. |
D-Lib October 2002 Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
Information Today May 7, 2012 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
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. |
Information Today September 2002 Richard Poynder |
Poynder on Point: Reinventing MCB University Press Can this journal publisher distance itself from its once-controversial reputation? |
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. |
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Information Today August 2003 |
NewsBytes Nstein Partners with BIOSIS, D&B... Plosker Launches Consulting Group... General Science Abstracts Now Available via EBSCOhost... Ingenta Signs Three Association Publishers... OeBF Announces Program... etc. |
Information Today September 19, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association. |
Information Today October 7, 2002 |
News Digest CrossRef Launches Version 2.0, Expands Membership... Infotrieve Signs Two STM Aggregators, 10 Publishers... EBSCO Increases Links to JSTOR, Adds Access to Elsevier Content |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
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 September 2004 |
NewsBytes VNU Exhibitions Europe Acquires Library + information Show... SwetsWise Welcomes BioMed Central's Open-Access Journals...Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor... etc. |
Information Today October 8, 2001 Barbara Quint |
TheScientificWorld TheScientificWorld acquires ScienceWise, adds millions of citations and full-text articles to sciBASE... |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Information Today October 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Infotrieve Releases ArticleFinder 2.0... Ovid Announces Books@Ovid Platform Enhancements... Wiley Launches SpecInfo on Wiley InterScience... ProQuest Adds Selections from EIU ViewsWire to ABI/INFORM... etc. |
D-Lib December 2008 Tenopir & King |
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns Electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. |
Information Today March 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Yahoo! Provides 2004 Election Information... NPG Launches Chinese Edition of Nature... MicroPatent Unveils MPI-INPADOC Plus... etc. |
Information Today October 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Factiva Introduces New Subscription Options... Dialog Announces Content Additions... OUP Updates American National Biography Online... etc. |
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. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today April 4, 2011 |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Get It Now for Academic Institutions The service complements academic institutions' interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
D-Lib May 2003 Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases. |
Information Today May 2008 Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
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 June 9, 2008 Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2012 Sarah L. Elichko |
Triage, Treat, Release: Finding Medical Information Using MedlinePlus and PubMed Emergency rooms have instituted a protocol called Triage, Treat, Release to care for patients presenting with minor injuries. It's also an apt metaphor for librarians helping patrons to find information, whether the reference desk is physical or virtual. |
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. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Alacritude Focuses Its High Beam; Stays in the FAST Lane... Three Science Sites Eliminated... Groxis Announces Grokker 2... etc. |
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 September 2003 |
Product News and Reviews MicroPatent Streamlines Searching, Extends IP Alerts... Reuters Unveils Research On-Demand... ProQuest Offers JHUP Journals... etc. |
Information Today March 11, 2002 |
News Digest MEDLINE to Include TheScientificWorldJOURNAL... ebrary Partners with U.N. Organizations, The World Bank Group... GSA Awards Contract for FirstGov's New Search Engine... Hoover's Adds Advanced People Search |
Information Today August 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Emerald Management Xtra Launches in Beta... PubMed Central to Offer Historical Medical Journals... Thomson Gale Launches Science Resource Center... |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
New Scholarly Journal ticTOCs Service Launches It's free, it's easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of more than 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. |
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. |
Information Today June 7, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Ingenta Beta Tests New Interface The new research interface will provide more reliability and scalability to handle rapid expansion of usage, which runs as high as 8 million user sessions a month on the two existing services. |
D-Lib June 2004 |
The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003) The data obtained at the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) make a highly interesting empirical contribution to a major international discussion on the models for acquisition of scientific journals in the university libraries of the future. |