ACQNET v9n012 (July 11, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v9n012.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 9, No. 12, July 11, 1999 ========================================== (1) FROM: G. Mckiernan for S. Lawrence SUBJECT: ResearchIndex (136 lines) (2) FROM: G. Mckiernan SUBJECT: Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia (59 lines) (3) FROM: J. Bixby SUBJECT: Outsourcing with Baker & Taylor (27 lines) (4) FROM: H. Mack SUBJECT: Map vendors (29 lines) (5) FROM: G. Mckiernan SUBJECT: M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals (53 lines) (6) FROM: S. Kolloge SUBJECT: Ancestry.com (11 lines) (7) FROM: E. Tuttle SUBJECT: Spanish language materials (12 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:57:53 -0400 From: Gerry Mckiernan (Iowa State U.) Subject: ResearchIndex Posted on behalf of Steve Lawrence. Apologies for cross-posting >>> Steve Lawrence 06/13 9:49 PM >>> ResearchIndex (formerly CiteSeer), a digital library of scientific literature that automatically performs citation indexing is available at: http://researchindex.com/ ResearchIndex aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. The ResearchIndex software is available without cost for non-commercial use. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles (containing over 2 million citations). Many digital libraries of scientific literature are available (e.g. LANL e-Print archive, ACM DL, IEEE DL, UCSTRI, CORR, ML Papers, NCSTRL, LTRS, HP Bib, CS Bibliographies, NZDL etc.). These services offer varying degrees of functionality, comprehensiveness, and freshness. Rather than creating just another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles and provides: - Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI). ResearchIndex uses ACI to autonomously create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. Compared to traditional citation indices, ACI provides improvements in cost, availability, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. - Information on all cited documents, not just indexed documents. ResearchIndex computes citation statistics and related documents for all articles cited in the database, not just the indexed articles. - Reference linking. As with many online publishers, ResearchIndex allows browsing the database using citation links. - Citation context - ResearchIndex can show the context of citations to a given paper, allowing a researcher to quickly and easily see what other researchers have to say about an article of interest (useful for literature search and evaluation). - Awareness and tracking - ResearchIndex provides automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile. Machine learning is used to automatically learn user profiles. - Related documents - ResearchIndex locates related documents using citation and word frequency measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document. - Similar documents - ResearchIndex computes the percentage of matching sentences between documents, allowing, for example, the detection of minor revisions to a paper. - Full-text indexing - ResearchIndex indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full Boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported. - Query-sensitive summaries - ResearchIndex provides the context of how query terms are used in articles, instead of a generic summary, improving the efficiency of search. - Citation graph analysis - ResearchIndex analyzes the graph of citations, e.g. to identify authoritative and review style articles. - Page images - ResearchIndex allows quick and easy viewing of page images. - Up-to-date - ResearchIndex is continuously updated 24 hours a day. - Powerful search - e.g. ResearchIndex allows using author initials to narrow a citation search. - Autonomous location of articles - ResearchIndex uses search engines, crawling, and mailing list monitoring to efficiently locate papers on the Web. ResearchIndex can also be used on existing digital libraries. - Source code available - The full source code of ResearchIndex is available without cost for non-commercial use. A demonstration service is at: http://researchindex.com/ For more details or to obtain the software see http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/researchindex.html http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/aci.html The following papers contain details of the system: "Digital libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing", Volume 32, Number 6, 67-71, 1999. "CiteSeer: An automatic citation indexing system", Digital Libraries, June 1998 [shortlisted for best paper]. "CiteSeer: An autonomous Web agent for automatic retrieval and identification of interesting publications", Autonomous Agents, May 1998. "CiteSeer: Autonomous Citation Indexing and Literature Browsing Using Citation Context", Technical Report, NEC Research, 1997. We currently only have a small capacity machine on our external network for demonstration. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles. Credits: We would like to thank Joshua Alspector, Jose Nelson Amaral, Anders Ardo, Shumeet Baluja, Arunava Banerjee, Eric Baum, Robert Cameron, Rich Caruana, Ingemar Cox, Scott Fahlman, Gary Flake, Bill Gear, Paul Ginsparg, Eric Glover, Alan Gottlieb, Steve Hanson, Haym Hirsh, Steve Hitchcock, Paul Kantor, Jon Kleinberg, Bob Krovetz, Andrea LaPaugh, Michael Lesk, Andrew McCallum, Steve Minton, Tom Mitchell, Michael Nelson, Craig Nevill-Manning, Andrew Ng, Max Ott, Brian Pinkerton, Alexandrin Popescul, Ben Schafer, Bruce Schatz, Terrence Sejnowski, Warren Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Amanda Spink, Harold Stone, Valerie Tucci, Lyle Ungar, David Waltz, Ian Witten, and Peter Yianilos for useful comments and suggestions. -- Steve Lawrence - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/ (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:10:00 -0400 From: Gerry Mckiernan (Iowa State U.) Subject: Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia _Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia_ For a newsletter article I will be submitting early next week, I am greatly interested in listing additional e-journals that have integrated multimedia with their e-articles. Among the types of embedded multimedia I've identified to date are: - Animation - Datasets - Geospatial plotting - Interactive 3-D displays - Interactive graphs - Interactive spreadsheets, tables - 'Live Math' and numerical code - Music - Sound - Video - Virtual Reality The e-journals have identified to date that include some of these multimedia features are: * Combustion Theory and Modelling (IOP) http://www.iop.org/Journals/ct * Earth Interactions http://earthinteractions.org/ * Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/news/eva97.html * Internet Journal of Chemistry http://www.ijc.com/multimedia.html http://www.ijc.com/ * Nanotechnology (IOP) http://www.iop.org/Journals/na * Videre http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Videre/ As Always, Any and All Contributions are Most Welcome! Regards, Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu (3)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:20:09 -0400 From: Julie Bixby (Huntington Beach PL) Subject: Outsourcing with Baker & Taylor I'm back. This time I need to hear from those of you who have taken the plunge and outsourced cataloging/processing with Baker & Taylor. We have just started to do so with our general fiction, and came upon a quandary. We put color labels on our spines to identify if a book belongs at Center or one of our branches (each branch has its own color). But in order to do this, we had to create 4 new B&T accounts, to have the books processed properly. Trouble is, 4 accounts mean 4x the number of invoices to process! When we think of adding mysteries, and sci-fi, and other items, everything 4x, you can see the nightmare for us in Acquisitions dealing with all those invoices. I want to know if any other library is experiencing the same thing, and what you have done to cope. The simplest answer, adding staff, is out of the question. The other simple answer, processing the books without the color label, was vetoed by our Tech Services dept. So, has anyone come up with a system for dealing with this? Much obliged, -- Julie Bixby, HBPL markb@cccd.edu Home Page: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/julie/ (4)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:14:07 -0400 From: Helen P. Mack (Lehigh U.) Subject: Map vendors We will be needing to acquire maps for a professor in our Dept. of International Relations. He's interested in 2 kinds of maps: (a) large-scale (e.g. 1/20,000) maps of countries such as Yugoslavia, Zaire/Congo, Rwanda & Burundi, Sri Lanka, and Burma/Myanmar. Such maps should show population centers, transportation infrastructure, and geographic features (e.g. mountains & rivers), but need not be absolutely current, and (b) maps showing political subdivisions in a fairly detailed way and reflecting various time frames, depending on the country (e.g. Zaire/Congo: pre-1960, after 1964/65, after 1977/78, and current). I've searched the ACQNET backfile for information on map vendors and found Peter Stevens' response (2.62.3) to Betsy Kruger's original query (2.59.5). I will follow these leads, but this exchange dates back to 1992, and I wonder if there are any additional map vendors who have surfaced since then. -- Helen P. Mack, Acquisitions Librarian Lehigh University Information Resources Linderman Library, 30 Library Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015-3067 USA Phone 610 758-3035 * Fax 610 758-5605 E-mail hpm0@lehigh.edu (5)------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:33:39 -0400 From: Gerry Mckiernan (Iowa State U.) Subject: M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals _M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ I am pleased to announcement the formal establishment of a new registry of electronic journals that incorporate or integrate embedded multimedia within their e-articles. The registry is entitled: _M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ and is accessible from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm Currently the registry is only an alphabetical listing of identified e-journal titles. As time permits, I will be preparing specialized indexes by type of multimedia and plug-in as well. The registry also contains a General Bibliography of key works on the topic of multimedia in e-journals. I have prepared a 2,000 word newsletter article on "Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals" that is scheduled to be published within the newsletter of the Special Interest Group on Visualization, Images, and Sound (VIS) of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in the near future. The address for the ASIS SIG VIS is http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGVIS/news.html I would greatly appreciate learning of additional multimedia e-journals as well as receiving citations/situations to any high-relevant literature not currently listed for expanded article I will be preparing this summer for a Fall deadline. I wish to express my gratitude to all who contributed nominations for this listing as well as relevant citations from my previous queries. Thanks again to all! Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu P.S. Please explore the EmBEDed multimedia in the registry's logo [Forgive for the link from the graphic - my wife's from Michigan and I couldn't resist (Go (Big) Blue {;-)] (6)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:01:49 -1000 (HST) From: Sandra Kolloge (Hawaii State Lib.) Subject: Subscribing to Ancestry.com I would appreciate any responses on providing public access to Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com Thank you. Sandra Kolloge, Librarian, Hawaii State Library, Language, Literature, History Section, 478 South King Street, Honolulu, HI 96813-2901. Ph.808-586-3515 (7)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 21:38:09 -0400 From: Elvia Tuttle Subject: Best tools to select materials in spanish I am interested in acquiring materials in Spanish for a regional branch library that serves an upper middle class community with an influx of Spanish-speaking patrons who can't find anything to read at our library. Which are the best tools? I am also interested in getting in touch with other librarians serving Hispanic patrons. Elvia G. Tuttle ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 9, No. 12 ****** END OF FILE ******