http://stlq.info/open/ Occasional postings about issues and concerns of interest (but not restricted to) engineering and scitech librarians. en-us Copyright 2005 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:07:47 -0700 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:20:09 -0700 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.14 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss :: In case you haven't heard, Google has released its latest product, Google Scholar:Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/google_scholar.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/google_scholar.html Search Engines Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:07:47 -0700 :: Thomson Scientific has issued a white paper, entitled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns - A citation study from Thomson Scientific. Using the 2003 Journal Citation Reports, ISI re-examined the... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/access_journals.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/access_journals.html Open Access Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:35:14 -0700 :: Scientists from U. T. Dallas and Australia Achieve Breakthrough by ‘Downsizing’ Ancient Technology - Scientists from U. T. Dallas and Australia Achieve Breakthrough by ‘Downsizing’ Ancient Technology: RICHARDSON, Texas (Nov. 19, 2004) – Scientists at The University of Texas... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/_scientists_fro.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/_scientists_fro.html Nanotechnology Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:31:36 -0700 :: Four new search engines, indexing freely available e-journals published in computing science, engineering, mathematics, and all three subjects together, are now available from EEVL, the "Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing." The four engines are:Computing: searches the content... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/eevl_announces.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/eevl_announces.html Search Engines Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:50:16 -0700 In December, 1968, my friend Alan Dyer and I took the bus from St Boniface to St James, west of Winnipeg, to the Kings Theatre, to see 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Fifteen years old at the time, I was... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/2001.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/2001.html Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:07:01 -0700 :: From the Thomson site: "Thomson ISI is pleased to announce that the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM upgrade and simultaneous upgrades of Web of Science® and Journal Citation Reports® on the Web are now available for librarians and administrators to... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/test_entry.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/11/test_entry.html Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:49:22 -0700 :: From the Thomson site: "Thomson ISI is pleased to announce that the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM upgrade and simultaneous upgrades of Web of Science® and Journal Citation Reports® on the Web are now available for librarians and administrators to... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/06/web_of_knowledg.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/06/web_of_knowledg.html Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:51:25 -0700 What happens when a journal ceases to produce new issues? In the print environment, at least from the librarian/academician standpoint, the answer was perfectly clear -- no new issues arrived, but all received issues remain available until a collection management/space... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/05/when_a_journal.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/05/when_a_journal.html Fri, 21 May 2004 21:35:57 -0700 Smith & Wesson. 1979. Test post... http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/05/blogging_101.html http://stlq.info/open/archives/2004/05/blogging_101.html blogging Tue, 11 May 2004 22:39:50 -0700