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July news from ICSTI
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- Subject: July news from ICSTI
- From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:58:44 +0100 (BST)
Dear members Please find attached the latest news from Executive Director Barry Mahon. Kind regards Sarah Byrne, Administrator ICSTI 51, boulevard de Montmorency 75016 Paris, FRANCE Tel: 33 1 45 25 65 92 Fax: 33 1 42 15 12 62 ******************************************** News for ICSTI Members July 15 2001 1. MCB University Press has changed its name to Emerald and is aiming to lead the field in the supply of online full text articles. At the same time the company has announced a new version of the Library Link site which aims to "facilitate the global dissemination of information for librarians". Subject categories covered include: library collection development and management; library management and information services, library technology. The site features a news section, virtual workshops and links to the Emerald library journals, paid-for journals which support the site. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/librarylink/ 2. The Library and Information Research Group invites applications for the 2001 Elsevier/LIRG Research Award. The purpose of the Award is to encourage research and innovation in library and information science. It is intended that particular attention will be paid to proposals intended to improve the accessibility, retrievability and usefulness of information. The maximum value of the Award is £1000 Further information from Email: noeleencookman@compuserve.com Two initiatives for bridging the digital divide: 3. eIFL Direct (Electronic Information for Libraries Direct) was launched on September 1, 1999 by the Open Society Institute (OSI), a part of the Soros Foundations Network. The mission of the project is to bridge the digital divide in the countries of the Soros Foundations Network. eIFL Direct currently offers more than 5,000 full-text journals both online and in CD/DVD format. Access is available to over 2,000 libraries and research institutions in 39 countries. The project will expand to approximately 60 countries in 2002, with the addition of a significant number of Western African countries as well as Indonesia. eIFL is now in the process of expanding its content offerings through two new projects: eIFL Health and eIFL Science and Technology. The latter will be will be launched in July 2001 at two public meetings of Science and Technology This will be launched in July 2001 at two public meetings in New York on the 17th and Amsterdam on the 24th of Science and Technology publishers. These will provide a public forum in which the project will be described, along with the criteria for evaluation of bids. STM is co-ordinating the bids of their Members. 4. Six major publishers are giving third-world universities and laboratories free access to over 1,000 electronic medical journals. The gift was coordinated by the World Health Organization. The participating publishers are Blackwell, Elsevier, Harcourt General, Springer-Verlag, Wiley & Sons, and Wolters Kluwer. The program is the latest phase of the larger UN effort, Health InterNetwork, which makes all kinds of electronic information, from journals to software, freely available to underdeveloped countries. The UN is working with private sector partners including WebMD Foundation and the Gates Foundation, although these organizations are not paying the publishers to provide access. -- Howard Flack http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/Howard.Flack.html Laboratoire de Cristallographie Phone: +41 22 702 62 49 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet mailto:Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Fax: +41 22 702 61 08
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