PAMnet News Debra Bailey PAMnet Discussion Archive at http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html MacArthur awarded to arXiv.org creator http://www.macfound.org/programs/fel/2002fellows/ginsparg_paul.htm Nano-collections http://www.nanotechweb.org Randy Reichardt has created a basic nanoguide for his users at the University of Alberta: Indexing of arXiv.org preprints http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0208&L=pamnet#23 Ejournal pricing: CHE discussion and article http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/09/ejournal/ 2003 subscription rates AGU citations controversy http://www.agu.org/pubs/reports/eosPioneer.htm "Pittsburgh Digitizes Decades of Astronomy Data to Aid Researchers" http://chronicle.com/free/2002/09/2002091801t.htm "Professional Astronomy without a Librarian" http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0209&L=pamnet#80 Flooding in Prague libraries http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0208&L=pamnet#63 Digitizing the Mathematical Literature http://www.ams.org/notices/200207/fea-ewing.pdf E.W. Dijkstra 1940-2002 http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0208&L=pamnet#14 Good News: SLA Winners!
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Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics and computing and information science at Cornell University, has been named a 2002 fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He will receive a no-strings-attached grant of $500,000 over the next five years. In 1998, he was awarded the PAM Division Award from SLA.
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The Institute of Physics Publishing announced that the journal Nanotechnology is currently available free online at http://www.iop.org/journals/nano until the end of November. Nanotechnology was launched in 1990 as the first journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscale science and technology. The journal was reintroduced in 2002 under the editorship of Professor Mark Welland (Cambridge University) with a broader scope and a new editorial board. IOP also has a global portal dedicated to the subject at:
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A comment posted by Dana Roth on ELDNET notes that selected preprints from arXiv.org are included in SciFinder Scholar and the DDS Holdings Database (http://www.cas.org/Support/DDS/ddssearch.html), but they are NOT listed in ‘Online-Only Journals’ monitored by CAS. Dana also reports that “CA reports that the preprints are not removed from the system. Thus, when the preprint gets published in a journal there will be two records in the CA file.”
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Rob Atkinson posted a link to the online discussion of bundled e-journals provided by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A transcript of the discussion is available at:
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A news story published in Science (August 2002, p. 1468) led AGU to publish a response on their website to explain the citation policy.
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Molly White posted a story from the Chronicle of Higher Education detailing the new digital archive, called the Parallax Project, which comprises ten volumes of data published by the University of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Observatory—information dating back to 1910 that remains relevant to researchers today.
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Author: Heinz Aldernach (Dept. Astronomy, Guanajuato). Rob Atkinson posted a link to http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209085 which mentions that it is to appear in "Library & Information Services in Astronomy-IV" (LISA IV), eds. B. Corbin, E. Bryson, & M. Wolf: US Naval Observatory. The paper was presented as a poster at LISA-IV, Prague, Czech Republic, 2-5 July 2002.
August brought the worst flooding to Prague in 200 years and had us all holding our breath for the safety of fellow PAM members—see Carol Hutchins announcement above.
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Michael Jost posted a link to the article "Twenty Centuries of Mathematics: Digitizing and Disseminating the Past Mathematical Literature" by John Ewing. This is a good concept paper that describes the steps that will need to be undertaken to digitize the world’s mathematical literature.
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Dr. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and a noted pioneer of the science and industry of computing, died after a long struggle with cancer on Aug. 6 at his home in Nuenen, the Netherlands.
