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Serials : Table Of Contents 11(1) : March 1998News from Serials, Vol 11, no.1, March 1998 Please send News items to:
UKSG's new Web site address Just in case you missed it! The official address is now http://www.uksg.org/ The old address still works, but you should update your links and bookmarks. Directory of Electronic Journals The recently published 7th edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists is also available in a fully searchable version on the Web. This new edition includes over 3,400 titles, twice as many as the 1996 edition. Details: Dru Mogge, ARL Electronic Services Co-ordinator, E-mail: dru@arl.org Expansion of SwetsNet Swets and Zeitlinger has concluded agreements with MIT Press, NRC Research Press and the Plenum Publishing Corporation to include their electronic titles in SwetsNet. Agreement has also been reached with Springer Verlag allowing Springer's electronic journal service, LINK, to be accessible to authorised users via SwetsNet. Details are available on the SwetsNet Web Site at http://www.swetsnet.nl/ or http://www.swetsnet.com/ Nominations sought for Library History Award The Library History Award is an annual award for the best essay on library history published in the British Isles; its aim is to improve the quality and increase the quantity of writing on library history. Nominations, together with five copies of the essay which should have been published in 1997, should be sent to Dr John C. Crawford, Library Research Officer, Glasgow Calendonian University Library, Cowscadden Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, Tel.: 0141-331-3847; Fax: 0141-331-3005; E-mail: jcr@gcal.ac.uk. The latest date for receipt of nominations is 30 June 1998. ALLIN launched ALLIN (Access to Libraries for Learning in Northamptonshire), launched during National Libraries Week, is a co-operative agreement between Nene College Learning Resources and Northamptonshire Library and Information Service. Designed to foster and support learning and research, ALLIN aims to consolidate and extend a range of existing collaborative activity between the two services. Details: Jane Tasker, Principal Assistant County Librarian, Northamptonshire, Tel.: 01604-20262, or Andrew Martin, Deputy Librarian, Rockingham Library, Nene College, Tel.: 01604-735500. Dutch and German libraries joint negotiating guidelines Dutch scientific libraries, together with a number of German libraries, have come together to draw up an agreed set of 'Licensing Principles' to be used when negotiating electronic licences with publishers. The Principles were previously available on the Web for other interested libraries to study, at http://cwis.kub.nl/~dbi/cwis/licprinc.htm. Further information: J.D. Gilbert, bibliothecaris Universiteit van Maastricht.; Tel.:+31-43-388-3404; J.P.J. Geleijnse, bibliothecaris KU Brabant, Tel.: +31-13-466-2121; Dr A.C. Klugkist, bibliothecaris RU Groningen, Tel.: +31-50-363-5005. Electronic claiming from Blackwell's Blackwell's Information Services is offering electronic journal claiming to libraries using version 4.2 of Ameritech's Horizon library system. Claims will be transmitted between computer systems via the Internet File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and will conform to the X12 interface format. Details: Sue Malin, Marketing Manager, Electronic Services, Blackwells Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-792792; Fax: 01865-262503 Additions to EEVL The complete Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) database is now available through EEVL; until now, only a subset of the database had been available. RAM will be updated monthly. RAM is available at http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ram/index.html Details: Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS; Tel.: 0131-451-3576; Fax: 0131-451-3164;E-mail: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk Swets Belgium NV Swets and Zeitlinger is acquiring the subscription service Standaard Tijdschriften from Standaard Boekhandel NV, and will set up a new company to be known as Swets Belgium NV. Introducing the MAU JISC has appointed a team based at the University of Kent and the University of Wales, Cardiff as the MAU (Monitoring and Advisory Unit) for the JISC Information Services. The MAU Liaison Team welcomes all suggestions, comments and opinions. Further information: Jane Bex, Liaison Officer, Monitoring and Advisory Unit (MAU), Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU; Tel.: 01227-827742; Fax: 01227-823984; E-mail: C.J.Bex@ukc.ac.uk Oxford University Press wins 1997 Charlesworth Award The EMBO Journal Online has won the 1997 Charlesworth Group Award for 1997. In 1998 access to the full text is available free of charge to institutions which have a current paid subscription to the print version of the journal; other users can browse the abstracts and the table of contents only. Details: Richard Gedye, Oxford University Press, Tel.: 01865-267785; Fax: 01865-267835; E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk Electronic invoicing from Blackwell's Blackwell's Information Services can now offer electronic invoicing to users of Endeavour Information Systems's Voyager library system. Invoices will conform to the EDIFACT standard, and will be transmitted via FTP across the Internet. Details: Martin Powell, Brand Manager for EDI, Blackwells Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-792792; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: martin.powell@blackwell.co.uk Sage Journals Online Sage Publications is making 46 journals available electronically through OCLC's FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online; access is likely to be extended to other intermediaries in 1998. Details: Jane Makoff, Sage Publications, 6 Bonhill Stteet, London EC2A 4PU; Tel.: 0171-374-0645: Fax: 0171-374-8741; E-mail: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk 100 years of Science Abstracts In January INSPEC celebrated the centenary of the publication of the first issue of Science Abstracts.At the end of the first year of publication about 1,500 abstracts had been published; today the annual total is over 300,000. Arnold launches Web services Arnold is the latest publisher to launch a Web site, which includes information on every Arnold journal and a link to the BIDS JournalsOnline service. The address is http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/ Name change for MEP After 25 years Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd are changing name to Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd, reflecting the increasing complexity of the discipline. It is the publishing house of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the exclusive European agent for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Information Quest continues to expand Information Quest has established strategic alliances with several publishers of scientific, technical, medical and business materials, including the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Kluwer Academic and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Agreement has also been reached with BLDSC to provide Information Quest customers with the facility to order journal articles from the Document Supply Centre via IQ, and to receive them by Fax within 24-48 hours. Electronic journal claims for SIRSI users SIRSI Corporation and EBSCO have developed procedures for electronic claiming of journal issues using the SISAC-approved X12 format interface; the files are sent from the claiming library to EBSCO using the Internet File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Details: Ian Middleton, EBSCO Subscription Services, 1 Mill Street, London SE1 2DF. Tel: 0171 237 0444; Fax: 0171 231 3393; E-mail: imiddet@ebsco.com Blackwell's launch ESP Electronic Subscription Provider (ESP) was recently launched by Blackwells. The service is intended for institutions which lack the hardware and the technical backup to install, update and administer a multi-CD-ROM database service. The link to the remote ESP server allows users to access information from a variety of different publishers, and also to select the delivery mechanism most appropriate to their need. Details: Marianne Jacques, Communications Manager, Blackwells Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-792792; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: marianne.jacques@blackwell.co.uk |
