Subject: Re: PubScience

Hello,

This is in continuation of Dr. Ratnakar's message about
PubScience. This is a very interesting development.

Hope page of PubScience:

http://www.osti.gov/osti/pubsci/index.html

Select 'collections' link to take a look at
journals and publishers covered and 'search'
to search the collection.

I hope users of this service will share their
experience with LIS-Forum members.

With best regards

- T.B. Rajashekar
  NCSI, IISc

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Listserv Manager wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:12:00 +0530 (IST)
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> This message may be of interest to Physical Science Librarians.
> Ratnakar
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> DOE Unveils Citations Database
>
>
>
>    For the past few years, biomedical researchers have been the only
>    scientists to enjoy a free, comprehensive papers database courtesy of
>    Uncle Sam. But now there's a sort of PubMed for the physical sciences
>    as well. Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled PubSCIENCE, an
>    online citations database for physical sciences journals announced
>    last summer (Science, 6 August, p. 811).
>
>    With 19 publishers (including AAAS, publisher of Science) and about
>    1000 journals lined up so far, PubSCIENCE already has over a million
>    citations dating as far back as 1974. For example, searching last week
>    for "nanotechnology" brought up 571 references in publications ranging
>    from the Bulletin of the American Physical Society to Technology
>    Review. Over 85% of the citations pull up free abstracts, and recent
>    ones link to the journals' own sites, where you might need a
>    subscription to see full text, says R. L. Scott, associate manager of
>    DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. He says
>    PubSCIENCE expects to build up to as many as 2000 journals of
>    interest to DOE scientists, as well as cut a deal soon with a private
>    firm that would broker full-text articles.
>
>    --JOCELYN KAISER
>      _________________________________________________________________
>
>    © 1999 by the American Association for the Advancement of
>    Science.
>
> A. Ratnakar
> Raman Research Institute Library
> Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560 080,
> India.
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