Scholarly Publishing : Free online journal seeks revolution in science publishing. USA Today Oct 16 2003 9:26PM ET [Moreover - Online content news]  1:47:18 PM   [Feedback ]  

Scholarly Publishing : Featured Commoner PLoS Biology. madtom writes "Staff members of the Creative Commons, an organization seeking alternatives to copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules, recently interviewed Michael Eisen, biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley and co-founder of the Public Library of Science, about the launch of PLoS Biology, its publication under a Creative Commons license, and its promise to transform open access models, the scientific community, and the world. This week, PLoS moved closer to realizing this dream with the release of its first open access publication: PLoS Biology, a world-class, peer-reviewed scientific journal. Creative Commons Featured Commoner, October 2003." [LISNews.com]  1:46:17 PM   [Feedback ]  

Libraries : Search Engines : Google to contain holdings records. abigail writes "Hee yaw! Apparently, Google will (at some point) be participating in a partnership by which it will contain "a subset of" WorldCat holdings records." It says Google, OCLC, and Gale have announced new partnerships that will help highlight the resources of libraries for Internet searchers: The Google/OCLC partnership will involve OCLC making a subset of OCLC WorldCat records available for indexing by Google as part of a pilot project. Holding information attached to the WorldCat records will be retrievable, so Google searchers will be able see which libraries in their area own copies of the particular title. Directors of MINITEX/OCLC libraries will soon receive a letter providing more information about this pilot project. [LISNews.com]  1:43:29 PM   [Feedback ]