Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is included in PubMed Central Wednesday, 29 March 2006 5:36 pm
Posted by Dongmei in chemistry, e-journals, open access.1 comment so far
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) is now included in PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), the world's largest digital archive of freely available full-text journal literature. PubMed Central hosts over 200 journals, mainly in the life sciences and medicine.
BJOC is one of the first chemistry journals to be accepted for inclusion in the database, which will bring its articles to the attention of an enormous worldwide readership of biomedical scientists (with an interest in organic chemistry and chemical biology). As one of the first open access journals in chemistry, BJOC allows readers free access to all content immediately upon publication. BJOC has no publication charges, is fully refereed and offers rapid publication.
BJOC is published by the Beilstein-Institut, the owner and producer of Beilstein Database, in co-operation with BioMed Central, the leading global publisher of open access journals.
Electrochemical Society (ECS) Launches Digital Library Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:28 am
Posted by Dongmei in Internet Resources, chemistry.add a comment
(from STS-L)
Electrochemical Society announced the opening of the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL), the first step toward making all ECS content available all the time, in one seamless resource.
"While the ECS Digital Library is still in development, users can now search across both peer-reviewed ECS journals, Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) and the rapid-publication Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, as well as Meeting Abstracts. The journals are the leaders in the field (according to the ISI Science Citation Index) and the extended Meeting Abstracts gives scientists a first look into current research.
In addition to robust, cross-publication searching, the ECS Digital Library (http://ecsdl.org/) offers many useful tools for the researcher. These include free cross-journal searching, the ability to view individual articles online before the entire journal is released, extensive links to primary publishers and databases, the ability to download full bibliographic citations, and a suite of personalization tools, such as MyArticles, which allows users to collect important articles, share them with colleagues, and manage multiple collections.
The Society’s newest publication, ECS Transactions (ECST), will be available through the Digital Library at the end of April. Interface magazine is now available through the DL and Interface articles will be integrated in the search function later in 2006. Once the ECS Digital Library is fully operational, the Society’s proceedings volume series (now replaced by ECS Transactions) and older meeting abstracts content will be searchable, as well. ECS has been capturing the legacy content of JES going back to the first volume from 1902. Content will be added to the archives as it becomes available."
For more info about the ECS Digital Library, read the full post on the STS-L.
IM and libraries: ready for a new ride? Tuesday, 28 March 2006 4:51 pm
Posted by Dongmei in CIL2006, IM.1 comment so far
At CIL2006, many libraries reported that they are using IM as another means of ref service, to complement chat ref service and email ref service (and of course, traditional ref services).
- IM Resources: Michael Stephens has a "Tech Tips" piece (about FASTER IM) in the April 2006 issue of Computers in Libraries.
- IM Web links: in this post "Tech Tips for Every Librarian: FASTER IM" on his blog Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology, he posted all the links that he mentioned in the article.
- IM Library Success: on the "Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki", there's a page on "Librarians who IM".
- a survey study: interested in some stats of libraries doing IM? Michael Stephens did a survey study that he presented at Computers in Libraries 2006. I didn't go to that session, but he posted some findings on his blog, "Librarian: How Do you IM? A TTW Survey", check it out.
As we here at CofC Libraries are looking into providing IM as a ref service means, I think that Michael Stephen's suggestions for moving forward with IM in Libraries apply to us well:
- More education
- More case studies/ Let's tell some stories of successful IM interaction A guide to librarian’s IM names on a wiki
- More discussion with key players (IT, etc)
- Examination of security issues
Librarian 1.0 vs Librarian 2.0 Friday, 24 March 2006 2:55 am
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Try to sum up the first day (3/23, Wed.) of the CIL06 Conference. Very exciting, learned many tips and tricks, attended some wonderful programs that are truly inspiring and informative.
“Librarian 1.0″ vs “Librarian 2.0″? This is the focus of the Wednesday evening session (7:30-9pm) “Digi TechForum: Looking at Dead & Emerging Technologies”.
library OPAC (1.0), WPopac at the Plymouth State Univ. Library (so 2.0) (very cool, check it out, a WordPress library OPAC!)
Bloglines to track your Fedex RSS feed (so 1.0), isnoop.net/tracking (2.0)
SPOT watches (1.0), Bluetooth watches (so 2.0)
Skype (so 1.0), Yahoo Messenger (2.0)
… …
static Web pages (so 1.0), dynamic Web pages (2.0)
MS Office (so 1.0), Google Office/Writely (2.0)
HTML (1.0), XML/RSS (2.0)
traditional subject guides (1.0), subject wikis (2.0)
… …
Darlene Fichter summed up “librarian 2.0″ very well:
book stuff + people + radical trust + participation
the afternoon preconference workshop that I attended, “Creating Online Tutorials Wednesday, 22 March 2006 2:29 am
Posted by Dongmei in Library Instruction, free/Open Source Software.2 comments
in Less Than 30 Minutes?” by Greg Notess, the guy of “Search Engine Showdown“.
Is it possible to create well-planned library tutorials (with audios) in 30 minutes? I guess you have to ask Greg yourself. To me, for quick and dirty ones, it’s possible … but well-planned, well-executed library tutorials, I don’t think so 
A new term (at least to me), screencast/screencasting … check out Jon Udell’s Screencasting Bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/judell/Screencasting)
Greg indicated that there are commercial and free software out there for screen capture and voice recording, the best options are still those commercial ones (Camtasia Studio, Macromedia Captivate, etc.). (This kind of echoes with my opinion, in an email sent out to my ref folks at CofC quite a while ago, I stressed that we should invest some money in some tutorial software that’s popular and suit our needs, based on my former experiences with Captivate, Viewlet, and some reviews of this type of software).
He gave quite a few examples of tutorials created using each software that he mentioned in the workshop.
Interestingly enough, he seems to like Camtasia a lot, while I remember in one of the review article that I forwarded to my colleagues in an email quite a while ago, they seem to favor Captivate over Camtasia. (I have to dig that review out).
A free software “Wink” (www.debugmode.com/wink) is worth to check out, even though it currently can record only screen actions, no sound, yet (but savvy tech folks may want to combine with Audacity or other audio recording tool/software).
For more updates and software options, watch this wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast).
He gave a lot screencasting planning tips, recording tips (for audio, video, and error handling).
For usability and planning, he mentioned the TUSCWOG (Tutorial Using Screen Capture Working Group).
Here are a few sites to watch for screencasting news:
- Technorati Tag for Screencasting;
- Delicious Screencasting Bookmarks (del.icio.us/tag/Screencast or del.icio.us/tag/Screencasting);
- Jon Udell’s Screencasting Bookmarks;
- Paul Pival’s Distant Librarian Tutorials section.
