Preprints on the web (a potential alternative to journals?)
Online preprint network with full linking between articles?
E-journal linking
Alerting services
Américo Paredes papers
Some well-known preprint initiatives
ITKnowledge ebooks
Overlay journals
New databases
PREPRINTS ON THE WEB(a potential alternative to journals?):
Recently, the
growing popularity of scholarly preprint web sites has been given added impetus
by activities within the federal government and scholarly community. The
commonly given reasons for the growing popularity of web preprints are:
1. The slow-turnaround of the traditional publishing model is increasingly an
impediment to the collegial sharing of scholarly information.
2. The
current implementation of peer review is considered by some to favor articles
from prestigious institutions, cause publication delays, and suppress new ideas.
3. The transfer of intellectual property rights from author to publisher in
the traditional publishing model can be viewed as a potential impediment to the
wide distribution of a scholarly author's ideas.
4. The increasing cost of
supporting journals combined with inadequate library budgets is creating
problems for the traditional scholarly communication model.
5. The Internet
gives scholars access to a medium that facilitates the more immediate sharing of
scholarly information. *(see:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-oai/02vandesompel-oai.html
On
UT Library Online preprints can be accessed via the electronic journals page
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ejour/ or directly at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/preprints.html
*Some of the more well-known preprint sites may be found towards the end of this
newsletter.
ONLINE PREPRINT NETWORK WITH FULL LINKING BETWEEN ARTICLES?
In
October, members of the Open Archives initiative http://www.openarchives.org/ met in
Santa Fe to discuss methods by which scholarly preprint archives could join
together in order to provide a hypertext network of scholarly articles so that a
scholar would be able to simply click on a preprint citation, in order to access
the full text of the cited article. Meanwhile the U. S. Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (working within the open archives initiative) is beginning
to bring together the hundreds of these scholarly pre-print sites into a
preprint network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
E-JOURNAL LINKING:
The library has been working with a number of
scholarly publishers to create hypertext links from the citations in library
databases directly to the web version of the cited journal article. The
underlying business and technology models required to make linking between
licensed web resources a reality are in their early stages. Recently, a number
of scholarly publishers formed the non-profit Crossref Consortium http://www.crossref.org/ to implement a
new set of technological and business underpinnings which will make the linking
between any type of digital objects much easier. Once this is in place, direct
links between articles appearing in web-based journals is expected to become
more common, allowing the library to steadily increase the links between
e-journal articles, online databases, and ebooks, thereby creating an online
scholar's web.
ALERTING SERVICES:
The library subscribes to a number of databases
which will send you e-mail whenever an item of interest is published. For a
listing of library funded alerting services go to: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/alert.html
Examples:
* Uncover Reveal Electronic Mail Alert Service
(covering over 18,000 scholarly journals) /http://www.lib.utexas.edu/reveal/
* Science Direct (covering well over a thousand journals published
by the international Reed/Elsevier conglomerate and its many subsidiaries.)
Personal login at http://www.sciencedirect.com/ then
create a profile for your alerts
AMÉRICO PAREDES PAPERS:
The papers of internationally known
scholar and humanist Américo Paredes (1915-1999) are now part of the Nettie Lee
Benson Latin American Collection of the General Libraries. His most enduring
works stem from his work as a folklorist. His collections of tales and
corridos - the folk songs and ballads of the Texas-Mexican border -
allowed him to challenge the anthropological literature that until then examined
Mexican culture in Texas from an outsider's view. His best known work, "With
His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958), was the basis
for the 1982 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. These, other books, and
scores of articles firmly established Paredes as a scholar of the first rank.
SOME WELL-KNOWN PREPRINT INITIATIVES:
CogPrints, http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/ is an
electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and
Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science.
Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library, http://www.ncstrl.org/ is an international collection of computer science research reports from 160 participating institutions.
The recently announced Netprints in Clinical Medicine and Research, http://clinmed.netprints.org/home.dtl is a cooperative venture between Stanford and the BMJ Publishing Group (British Medical Journal).
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive, http://rene.ma.utexas.edu:80/mp_arc/index.html "The University of Texas-Austin's Mathematics Department houses this excellent Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive. With abstracts and papers organized by year (1991-present), this free service lets users deposit papers in an electronic format over the Web or by email." In addition, the service supplies weekly updates.
Social Science Research Network, http://www.ssrn.com/ is both a preprint site, and a site containing abstracts of published research.
ITKNOWLEDGE EBOOKS
This new library licensed web resource provides
access to full-text information technology eBooks (electronic books) from
publishers such as Macmillan Computer Publishing, Que, New Riders, SAMS, and
IDG. It includes technical books, books on source codes, programming and
software guides and other IT topics. The e-book titles on this web site will
change over time, so that readers always have access to the most current ebook
on a particular topic. This resource is updated daily.
OVERLAY JOURNALS:
Overlay journals select their content from articles
already published online, principally from preprint archives. For example:
"Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics" http://www.intlpress.com/ATMP/
requires prior submission to the Los Alamos National Laboratory preprint server
http://xxx.lanl.gov/. What distinguishes the
growing number of overlay journals is that their content is not maintained by
the overlay publisher, but by other online entities such as preprint
archives
NEW DATABASES now available from
the Indexes, Abstracts, and Full Text
menu on UT Library Online http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html
ASTM
Standards
Provides electronic full text of current ASTM (American
Society for Testing and Materials) Standards. Select "Specs & Standards" to
begin the process of searching for the appropriate standards and then accessing
the text.
CIAO - Web Access, 1991 -
present.
Columbia International
Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be a comprehensive source for theory and
research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university
research institutes, occasional papers series from non-governmental
organizations, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from
conferences. Also includes journal abstracts, books, links to related web sites,
maps and country data.
Declassified Documents Reference System
(DDRS)
A full text
collection of declassified U. S. government documents. Includes correspondence
and memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security
policy statements and intelligence reports. Coverage is from the years
immediately following World War II through the 1970s.
ENGnetBASE
A compilation of essential engineering information
covering a broad range of disciplines including electric power and distributed
generation, electric packaging, mechatronics, wireless communication and digital
signal processing. Corresponds in part to the print CRC Handbook of Engineering
series.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
An enhanced electronic version of
the print Grove Dictionary of Art providing the most comprehensive and
up-to-date resource on art. Includes updates to the existing 41,000 articles of
the print edition as well as over 15,000 links to the web sites of museums and
galleries around the world with more than 100,000 color images. Health and
Psychosocial Instruments - 1985 to present. A bibliographic database that
provides descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales and other instruments
used to assess health and behavior.
Index to Christian Art - Web Access, From early apostolic times up to A.D.
1400. (Princeton University)
The largest database of medieval art
in existence with records for over 13,000 works of art. Provides an icongraphic
database that indexes images as well as textual information and bibliographies
about the images.
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language , 1st (1755) and 4th (1773) eds.
This database is available only in UT libraries on UT Library
Online Stations. Contains page images and fully searchable transcription of the
18th-century editions of the dictionary edited by Samuel Johnson.
netLibrary.com
Provides access to full-text scholarly, reference
and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and
professional publishers. Locate eBooks through either Searching or Browsing.
Ebooks may be viewed online or "checked out." To check out a title you must
create an account.
Old English Corpus
Contains more than 3000 texts compiled for
the composition of the Dictionary of Old English. The texts themselves and the
Bibliography are searchable by keyword and word fragment; proximity searching
also available. From the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of
Michigan. Science Next Wave A weekly online publication covering scientific
training, career development, and the science job market. It publishes features
in areas such as job market news, career transitions, women in science and the
"big debates" currently taking place in science fields.
Science Next Wave
A weekly online publication covering
scientific training, career development, and the science job market. It
publishes features in areas such as job market news, career transitions, women
in science and the "big debates" currently taking place in science fields.
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