Astronomy News

Donna Thompson
donnat@head.cfa.harvard.edu

LISA V Meeting Update

The Scientific Organizing Committee for Library and Information Services in Astronomy V (LISA V) to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA June 18-21, 2006 has been announced. Members of the Committee are: Christina Birdie (co-chair), Uta Grothkopf (co-chair), Alberto Accomazzi, Donna Coletti, Tatyana Dorokhova, Eva Isaksson, Charles Lada, Jessica Moy, Francois Ochsenbein, Donata Randazzo, Sandra Ricketts and Sarah Stevens-Rayburn.

Publishing Notes

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society will publish MNRAS Letters as a stand alone online supplement beginning January 2005.

Effective with the first issues of 2005, eight of AIP's journals will transition from traditional page numbers to six-character citation identifiers, or CIDs. More information http://scitation.aip.org/jhtml/scitation/aip_cids.jsp.

Announcements

Google announces Pilot Digitization Project

The project, involves libraries at Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library. The goal of the project is to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable. The project raises some interesting copyright issues which will be discussed as the project goes on.

An online exhibit that is based on Lehigh University's currently running physical exhibition about Planet Lehigh is now available. The physical exhibition is curated by Ilhan Citak, Brian Simboli in association with Prof. Gary DeLeo and Prof. George McCluskey. The online exhibit link can be found Lehigh's at http://dig.lib.lehigh.edu/projects/exhibits.asp (see the link for Planet Lehigh: Early Astronomy).

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