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Serials-eNews from UKSG
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Peter Suber
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Jun 21, 2002 06:52 PDT
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Serials-eNews Alert: Issue:17
ISSN = 1476-0576
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========= Main Items ========
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* Innovative announce e-resource module
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Innovative Interfaces have announced an e-resource management module for
their Millennium library system. The University of Washington will be
partnering the development. The system will be available as an
integrated module of Millennium or as a stand alone product. There is no
firm information about availability.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=262>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=262
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* ebrary to license its key content distribution software
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Ebrary, the e-book supplier, is to license its core technology for the
distribution and retrieval of high value documents. Early customers are
Stanford university library who will use the software to distribute
their reserve book collection to students and Octavo, rare book
digitization specialists.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=263>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=263
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* Innovative announce MAP available as stand alone Portal
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MAP - Innovative's portal - has been released as a stand alone product.
MAP can now be implemented as a front end or replacement to a standard
OPAC to provide single search interface, and full text linking
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=267>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=267
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* Surpass releases serials control Module
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Surpass - a supplier of library systems to the corporate and smaller
library market - has released a new serials control module. The system
can integrate with other Surpass modules or link to another system via
MARC record export.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=264>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=264
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* Endeavor announces XML Gateway to LexisNexis
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Users of Endeavor's ENCompass tool will be able to search content from
the main LexisNexis databases through an XML gateway. The system will
provide a single point of access for simultaneous searching across
Academic Universe, Congressional Universe, and Statistical Universe.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=276>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=276
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* FirstSearch to link directly to JSTOR
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OCLC's is working with JSTOR to provide a direct linking service from
its FirstSearch service to JSTOR - the electronic journal archive
service. Users of both services will be able to link directly from a
FirstSearch search to the digital image from the JSTOR collection if
available.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=265>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=265
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* Customised Newspaper Packages from NewsBank
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Newsbank - the US based newspaper archive specialists - are offering
libraries via CHEST, the capability of selecting a customised set of UK
and international titles. The selection (minimum 3) is from 15 UK
nationals, 13 English regionals as well as Welsh, Scottish and
International titles from major world regions.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=270>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=270
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* Endeavor named CrossRref affiliate member
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Endeavor has announced that it will become a CrossRef affiliate. The
association will assist users of Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus system to
resolve the "appropriate copy" problem - finding the most suitable
electronic copy of a full text article from a reference in an abstract
or index.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=275>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=275
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* OCLC and RLG working group release digital metadata report
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This report is designed to guide designers of digital information
products in the incorporation of appropriate metadata so that future
users may be able to retrieve and use the information as intended by the
original authors.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=269>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=269
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* Elsevier Science acquires medical publisher Hanley and Belfus
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Elsevier Science has acquired Hanley and Belfus the Philadelphia based
medical publisher. This acquisition follows that of Harcourt Health
Sciences in July 2001 and makes Elsevier Science the leading health
science publisher.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=277>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=277
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* US DOD sets up Gulf war research site
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The current interest in the Gulf War syndrome will ensure that this site
for medical research in to the health problems encountered by Gulf War
veterans is well used.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=271>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=271
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* >From the lists
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The lists have had some discussion on the prosaic but important topic of
claiming - how often , how best to etc. and the most popular topic - why
the claims arise in the first place. We also had a response from
Elsevier about a complaint concerning changes in back file policy
reported in the last issue.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=274>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=274
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* Wiley add more MobileEdition journal titles
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Wiley have added 15 new journal titles to their MobileEdition service.
This service delivers journal TOC and abstracts direct to wireless PDAs
and WAP phones. Most of the usage and content is in the medical field
where timely delivery of information is often crucial.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=266>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=266
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* Six Science Publishers Create New Web Font Set
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The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) have announced
their project to develop a set of fonts containing special mathematical
and scientific characters. The project will help the correct rendering
of scientific symbols articles - especially on the web.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=272>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&Alert=272
Brief Items .....
* No Escape - World Cup by Vivisimo
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Vivivismo - the clustering engine used, amongst others, by Institute of
Physics Publishing (IOPP), has provided a timely demonstration of its
features by searching the PubMed database for "Soccer". If you want to
know why more players are born in August or how penalty shoot-outs ought
to be organised then have a look ...
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&alert=273>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&alert=273
* People
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Larry Alford , Deputy University Librarian, University of North Carolina
and Ian Mowat , Librarian, Edinburgh University, elected to the OCLC
Board of Trustees ... Richard Gallagher has been appointed editor of
"the Scientist. His most recent role was as the Publisher of Nature...
Anna Southall has been appointed as chief executive of Resource: The
Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. Anna was previously the
director at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales.
<http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&alert=268>http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&alert=268
+++ Events +++
+ Delivering Content to Universities and Colleges
Jun-21 (UK)
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+ The Chinese Market
Jun-26 (UK)
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+ JISC/CNI Conference 2002
Jun-26 to Jun-27 (UK)
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+ Portals 2002
Jul-01 (UK)
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+ DELOS International Summer School
Jul-08 to Jul-12 (Italy)
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+ JIBS UG Workshop: Educating the Users
Jul-26 (UK)
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+ OECD Seminar on Universities and Libraries
Aug-26 (France)
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+ Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative
Oct-17 to Oct-19 (Switzerland)
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+ Workshop on Institutional Repositories
Oct-18 (USA)
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+ Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication
Oct-22 to Oct-24 (Denmark)
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+ Online 2002
Dec-03 to Dec-05 (UK)
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