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Debra Bailey
debrae@rice.edu

More threads from the past quarter can be found in the PAMnet Discussion Archive at: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html.

AIP's virtual journals
George S. Porter resumed a thread that arose in April 2000 under the subject GENERAL: virtual journals and linking AIP & IoP. Porter cautions that, although the virtual journals contain links to articles from 54 primary publications, see http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/vjs/partpub.jsp, the list does not include IEEE, IEE, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society or Institute of Physics journals or conferences. Tim Ingoldsby, AIP, commented positively on work being done by AIP and reports real progress has been made in discussions with many of the publishers on George's list. Marc H. Brodsky, AIP, comments, "a major purpose of the AIP/APS Virtual Journals series is to help libraries by precluding the need for new niche journals in hot new fields of research. Working towards this end is the reason we try excluding journals whose cover to cover coverage would match a particular VJ's scope of coverage. This is a difficult balancing act, but we are working so that libraries are not bombarded with a bunch of new, costly titles for niche subjects that can better be served by a VJ that gathers info from highly reputable existing titles already in their collection."

Question about number of papers per discipline
Silvio Levy posted a query from the MSRI Director (who is also the president of the American Mathematical Society) who is looking for studies comparing the number of research publications PER RESEARCHER according to discipline. Levy specified, "What would be needed is a study taking not the aggregate data from databases on each discipline (which employ quite different criteria and overlapping boundaries), but, ideally, the number of papers per researcher (perhaps restricted to a certain well-defined universe of researchers -- say all full and associate professors working at a given set of specified universities." Peter B. Boyce recommended the work of Don King and Carol Tenopir. He states, "their book, Towards Electronic Journals published in 2000 by SLA, has a great deal of information about differences in various fields in which math is split out." Douglas LaFrenier directed Levy to Michael Mabe's, The Growth and Number of Journals.. Lafrenier states, "While it doesn't explicitly answer your question about the number of publications per researcher per discipline, it has a lot of useful context." Levy summarized for the list the following websites recommended by PAM members:

Your opinion on an undergraduate series in mathematics
Matthew R. Marsteller posted a query concerning the list's opinion on the Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Molly White responded that at the University of Texas, "we have 35 books from this series, and 19 of them are checked out at the moment. That represents a very good rate of use. I can tell by the due dates that 3 of the charges are to undergrads, and the rest are charged to graduate students (or faculty)." Marsteller summarized for the list, "In general, our colleagues mentioned that the SUMS - Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series - titles circulate very well. In addition to undergraduate use, one might also find heavy usage among graduate students and even faculty. Many of the titles were into double digit circulation numbers (some as many as 20 or 30 times) since receipt (publication dates range from 1998 to 2003)." Other series recommended by PAM members for undergraduate mathematics students were: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Student Mathematical Library (AMS), and London Mathematical Society Student Texts.

News Tidbits:

APS Announces Free Email Alerting Service
Barbara Hicks, APS, posted, "The American Physical Society (APS) announced today (Wed, 17 Dec 2003) that it will offer free table of contents (TOC) notification service for each Journal published by APS."

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AIP announces relaunch of online hosting platform and personalization features
Tim Ingoldsby (AIP), posted "AIP Publishing Services today announced a new name for its online hosting platform. The new name, Scitation[SM], will replace Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), as the service has been known since 1996. Scitation will launch in January 2004."

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Project Euclid News

Terry Ehling announced an updated Access Terms page that includes 2004 prices for the Euclid Prime aggregation and four newly added titles: Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, International Statistical Review, and Bernoulli.

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CORE List of Astronomy Books now updated
The Core List of Astronomy Books, posted Liz Bryson, (Project Coordinator), has been updated and is now online at: http://ads.harvard.edu/books/. The most notable change is the removal of all of the OP titles. Also, the survey that was distributed by Madeleine Needles at last year's astronomy roundtable in New York City is available online.

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FW: Google update

Dana L. Roth forwarded information about Google's new operator, the tilde (~) for searching synonyms. Place the tilde before the term (no space) for best results.

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Blog Alert:
Randy Reichardt and his colleague, Geoff Harder, extend a welcome to read and participate in our humble weblog, The SciTech Library Question: http://stlq.info/. The site features postings of interest to librarians working in libraries covering science, engineering, technology, and agriculture.

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AIP's virtual journals

Question about number of papers per discipline

Your opinion on an undergraduate series in mathematics




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