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	Issues in Science and Technology 
Librarianship
	Fall 2000

	DOI:10.5062/F4WM1BCT



                




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From: Adam Chesler

E-mail: adam.chesler@wkap.com

Regarding: Electronic 
Journal Publishers: A Reference Librarian's Guide (Summer 2000)


For future reference, Kluwer does have an electronic alerting service in
place (Kluwer Alert), which can be used to get information about new books
as well as forthcoming tables of contents from all of our journals.
There's a link to further information, and a registration, on our home
page which is located at {http://www.springer.com/}.



Also, effective 2001, there will be full-text available from over 700
journals.


We are looking into personalized services and article-level transactions,
but for the moment, these are, as you correctly note, not available.


I would be happy to provide any further information you require about
Kluwer's publications:  feel free to contact me at any time. 






From: Bridget Pairaudeau

E-mail: 
bridget.pairaudeau@ioppublishing.co.uk

Affiliation: Executive Producer, Electronic Products, IoP 
Publishing 

Regarding: Institute 
of Physics Online (Summer 2000)


Thank you for your review of our electronic journals service. Its great to
get feedback especially when it is largely positive. We have added some
new features since your article: 



	Our archive now stretches back to 1991 giving 10 years of access to 
full text for most journals.

	We are now a member of the CrossRef initiative which has enabled us to 
add even more links to our HyperCite reference lists.

	Our recent implementation of the OpenURL makes our electronic 
journals SFX enabled.  This exciting new technology allows a user to take 
full advantage of their host institution's collection through 
context-sensitive links to a wide variety of electronic resources.  




The service is continually being reviewed and we are keen to improve
existing features and add new ones. As the system develops in the future
I'd like to take on board your valuable comments about the Remote service
and the search. 
     
Please don't hesitate to contact us for further information about EJs or
any of our other electronic products. 



 


Name: Jon Doyle

E-mail: doyle@mit.edu

Affiliation: Principal Research Scientist, Laboratory 
for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Regarding: Free 
Scholarly Electronic Journals: How Good Are They? (Summer 2000)

 
The URL provided for JAIR, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research, was replaced several years ago by the URL http://www.jair.org/.  The older URL given
in the article now serves as a mirror site. 



 


Name: Pamela Blazick

E-mail: pamela.blazick@isinet.com

Affiliation: JCR Editor, ISI - Thomson Scientific

Regarding: Free
Scholarly Electronic Journals: How Good Are They? (Summer 2000)


An error appears within the article listed above written by M. Fosmire and
S. Yu. The authors state, "Since the 1999 version of Journal Citation
Reports was not available for comparison ( and will not be available until
2001), the authors compare the computed 1999 data to the 1998 JCR data."
In fact, the 1999 JCR is available now. The web and CD formats have been
available since mid-July and the microfiche format was released in 
mid-August. 


ISI expects to release the 2000 JCR in the summer of 2001.  








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