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PAMWide Roundtable

Sunday, June 9, 2002, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

Moderator: Sue Vazakas (Johns Hopkins University)
Sponsor: INSPEC

Sue Vazakas introduced the International Member Award winner, Sunita Barve (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India).

Physics Translation Project
Bob Michaelson (Northwestern University)

  • Origins in PAMnet discussion based on the book Resources for the history of Physics by Stephen G. Brush.
  • Dana Roth (California Institute of Technology) and Bob Michaelson looked into updating.
  • Kris Fowler (University of Minnesota) worked with the publisher to get clearance.
  • Tim Cole at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a test database at http://mtmathlib.library.uiuc.edu/translations
  • Currently has five entries.
  • Searchable by title, surname, source title and publication year.
  • Will have an authority file for author.
  • Indicates whether a translation or a translation of a translation.
  • Display in diacritics, but searchable/browsable without diacritics.
  • Will include anything related to physics, i.e. chemical physics, geophysics, etc.
  • No timeframe for completion of the project yet.
  • Email suggestions, questions, etc. to rmichael@northwestern .edu
  • Volunteers needed to help input data. Contact Bob at the email above.

Project Euclid
Zsuzsa Koltay (zk10@cornell.edu, Cornell University)

  • Handout on Project Euclid distributed.
  • Low-cost, independent and scholarly journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
  • Better access to and increased citing of these journals.
  • Funded by the Mellon Foundation until the end of 2002.
  • SPARC partner.
  • Cost-recovery phase of the project will start in January 2003.
  • Economic model still being finalized.
  • Should have decisions on terms by August 2002.
  • Asking for support of the community by talking up the project to mathematicians and editors of journals.
  • Give feedback to the Project.
  • IMS has said that they will not allow institutional access to their journals until 2003.
  • Cornell is main owner of the grant and Duke is a subcontractor on the grant.
  • Duke Mathematical Journal is pulling out of the project due to differences in opinion on the governance model for 2003.
    • Duke wants a 50/50 arrangement in governance and decisionmaking between Duke and Cornell
    • Cornell wants publishers included in a board which would make the decisions
  • Duke will wait and see for a year before deciding what to do.

Memorium for Joyce Watson and Bruce Pelz
Brenda Corbin (U.S. Naval Observatory)

  • Joyce Watson died August 2001
  • Bruce Pelz died suddenly on May 9, 2002 of a pulmonary embolism
    • Several PAM members shared their memories of Bruce.
    • Retired from UCLA in 1993
    • Coined the name PAMnet
    • Held the offices of Division Chair, Bulletin Editor, Treasurer, and Hospitality Chair.

Mentoring Program
Michael Fosmire (Purdue University)

  • Formed three years ago.
  • For those who are new to PAM or new to the profession.
  • Developed from the Professional Development Survey done in 1997.
  • Michael asked for those interested in volunteering as mentors to contact him.

Announcements

  • Kris Fowler announced the Board meeting that day.
  • Jane Holmquist (Princeton University)
    • announced the availability of a list of PAM conference attendees.
    • thanked Marcia Spater for organizing the Newcomers Luncheon sponsored by Turpion
  • Cynthia Holt gave a rundown of vendor receptions and PAM events at the conference as well as tips for getting the most out of the receptions.

Linking
Fritz Whitcomb (University of Chicago)

  • Fritz had written in a question asking what various libraries are doing regarding linking?
  • ACM and MathSciNet are developing their own citation data to add to their own databases; MathSciNet only for 65 journals.
  • MathSciNet will support SFX linking by September 2002.
  • SciFinder Scholar: adding linking into the database with data bought from ISI
  • ADS has recent article citing
  • Research Index (formerly SiteSeer): free online index.
  • Carol Hutchins (New York University) gave an SFX cautionary note: depends on how much context sensitivity you are able to build into it. Problem in the general periodical areas but not in the focused areas.
  • Sue Vazakas mentioned that SFX allows you to list the preferences of where to link out to in order of preference.
  • Bob Michaelson mentioned that many databases don’t use open linking.
  • Steve Gass (MIT) announced that his institution is in the midst of trying to bring in SFX and it has great potential for local control.
  • Pat Sulouff (University of Rochester) announced that they have implemented SFX. They’ve linked actively to three databases. A problem they’ve encountered is that users do not recognize what the SFX button means. Customizing the button is database dependent, i.e. database providers decide whether they will allow customization of the SFX button.
  • Elaine Adams (UCLA) announced that they have CSA up but have had some problems in Ovid with metadata.
  • Fritz commented that SFX allows for the centralization of URLs for updating which allows them to create a university-wide electronic journals list.
Academic Press
Joe Kraus(University of Denver)

  • Joe asked what other schools are doing re: Academic Ideal now that Elsevier has bought them?
  • Kathleen Robertson (University of Hawaii-Institute for Astronomy) responded that you need to pay extra to fold in Academic titles into ScienceDirect.
  • Sue Vazakas referred to a summary email by Dana Roth.
  • Brenda Corbin announced that there is no physical way to turn on Icarus. She will send out a confirmation email to PAMnet.
  • Greg Youngen (University of Illinois) brought up the fact that ScienceDirect has a clause that doesn’t allow fax and Ariel delivery.

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