Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Free UK access to Gale reference works. UK Colleges Receive Free e-Reference Books "In Perpetuity", Managing Information, July 21, 2004. Excerpt: "An agreement signed between JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and the publisher Thomson Gale will mean that every college in the UK will be able to gain access to the free content of twenty-one top electronic reference titles in perpetuity. The titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library - including the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, the six-volume Gale Encyclopedia of Science, and many others – have been specially chosen by representatives of the FE community for their quality and their relevance to the curriculum." [Open Access News] 11:57:44 AM      Google It!.

Journals: how to get Google to index your articles. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has released a most helpful document, Enabling Google to Index your Full Text Content. Unfortunately it's only available to ALPSP members. [Open Access News] 8:22:23 AM      Google It!.