Professional Reading Shelf
Online Books
Source: Safari Tech Books
Safari Launches “Rough Cuts” Service
Safari, a service that provides searchable full text access to thousands of technology books, launched their “Rough Cuts” (beta) service today. This new feature allows the reader to take a sneak peak at manuscripts yet to be published. Material can be read online or downloaded as a PDF file. From the news release, “Readers who buy a Rough Cuts title get immediate access to an evolving manuscript…The initial version of a Rough Cuts book will not be fully edited, subjected to final technical review, or completely formatted. Similar to the nightly build in a software project, the Rough Cuts PDF is updated every time the author and editor make changes as they progress toward the finished book. Using the Rough Cuts service’s built-in Notes feature, readers can send feedback, suggestions, bug fixes, and comments directly to the author and editor.” More on Safari here. They offer services for individuals as well as libraries.
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Information Industry–Elsevier
Citation Analysis
Source: Info Today
Elsevier’s Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI’s Web of Science?
A new article by Barbara Quint. “Long seen as the purview of Thomson ISI, citation tracking in scholarly journal literature is becoming an expected feature in digital collections of scholarly literature. Even Google Scholar offers a version. Elsevier’s Scopus service has long provided a ‘cited by’ feature on its search results page, but the new Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality greatly. At full power that is, under the broadest licensed subscriptions–Scopus covers 14,200 journals (including 531 open access journals) from more than 4,000 publishers supplying 27-plus million abstracted citations. Its citation analysis features reach back to 1966 for the life sciences and 1996 for all other fields.”
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Access to Information–United States
Source: U.S News and World Report (via SECRECY NEWS)
CIA Limits Web Publication of Critical Reports
The Central Intelligence Agency has selectively declined to publish on its web site at least three unclassified reports produced by the Center for the Study of Intelligence that present an unflattering picture of the Agency, US News reported this week. See “A Tangled Web Woven,” by David E. Kaplan, US News and World Report, January 30, 2006
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Data Preservation–Conferences
Source: Digital Curation Center
Final papers, posters, and presentations from Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data (PV 2005) Now Online
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Intranets–Ranking
Source: Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
Ten Best Intranets of 2006
“This year, we saw increased use of multimedia, e-learning, internal blogs, and mobile access. Winning companies also encouraged consistent design by emphasizing training for content contributors.”
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E-Mail Archives–Enterprise
Source: Intelligent Enterprise
Survey: Companies Court Document and E-Mail Risks
“More than half of executives say their firm’s storage strategies won’t stand up in court, and nearly three-quarters either view e-mail archiving as simply the creation of backups or they don’t archive e-mail at all. These are two of the most startling conclusions of a survey released today by AIIM International.”
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Library Publications
Source: LJ
Ron Shank Named LJ/SLJ Publisher

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