Christina's LIS Rant
Monday, June 06, 2005
Notes from SLA (1)
EI Compendex:
- The new release will offer RSS feeds to everyone (apparently not everyone has them yet)
- They're toying with a "blog this" button (cool -- see how UThink uses SFX to blog citations to journal articles. This would be really good for a PhD student or researcher who needs to keep a research diary with annotated citations. Also really good for a professor to work with a class)
- The MAIK Nauka issue is overblown -- access will not be interrupted and we'll all sing songs and hold hands
- Nobody really knows how to deal with Landolt-Bornstein (it's not just me). They are fixing it so it's easier to deal with -- but not immediately
- New digital library of their journals hosted by Scitation (absolutely no need to buy this if you have IEEE Xplore -- same content. IEE is NOT pulling out from Xplore, this is in addition) I still need to ask what happens if someone googles and finds it in Scitation and doesn't realize we have it in Xplore. hmm.
- Inspec is still cool. Remainder of vendors should be offering the archive soon. Archive might eventually go to 1872.
Comments:
Christina,
Sorry that I didn't run into you at SLA. Glad, though, that our paths do cross online.
BTW there were indeed some interesting vendors this year. Some were very low-key, like Groxis.
Jill
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Sorry that I didn't run into you at SLA. Glad, though, that our paths do cross online.
BTW there were indeed some interesting vendors this year. Some were very low-key, like Groxis.
Jill
