The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
has joined several hundred other non-governmental organizations and individuals
in signing the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property
Organization issued September 29, 2004.
To read more: http://www.futureofwipo.org/ http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/CLM-GenevaDeclaration2004.html
Google proposes the new Google Scholar search engine,
http://scholar.google.com,
that includes peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical
reports from all broad areas of research.
This tool is now proposed to CDS (CERN Document Server) users: when
searching
CDS content, users have now the possibility to extend
their search on Google Scholar. (http://cdsweb.cern.ch/)
The Springer publishing company this year presented "Springer
Open Choice"
as an alternative to the traditionnal publishing model. It allows authors of
journal
articles
to pay a basic fee ($3000) to have their
journal
article made freely
available to the public.
To read more: Springer
Open choice WebPage
On the occasion of the CERN's 50th birthday in 2004, CERN and Suzanne
Hurter Editions
published a beautiful book, Infinitely
CERN. This book relates the story of CERN through the voices of
those
who have
lived it. In
about
250 pages, this luxurious work is published in the two official languages
of
CERN,
French
and English, and illustrated with many photographs
from CERN's archives.
More information: Infinitely
CERN WebPage
The CERN periodicals catalogue is now integrated into the Swiss
periodicals portal.
The Swiss Periodicals portal is a service of the Swiss Federal State
library
(SLB) in co-operation with the regional groups. The portal allows a
Metasearch
across periodical titles in the larger Swiss library catalogues.
To see more: http://www.swiss-serials.ch/
The CERN Yellow Reports retrospective collection (from 1955 to 1990) is
now
available on line in PDF at
http://preprints.cern.ch/cernrep/Welcome.html.
The project has been instigated by Jens Vigen, responsible for CERN
Library's User Service. Since 1955, the
Yellow Reports collect a rich part
of documentation produced at
CERN, they have been thought for a large range of users.
In the last months, for Reports collecting different essays, the PDF files
have been split up in single articles in order to make the reading and the
downloading easier and to permit in the future the automatic retrieval
with a metadata set. The project is almost completed (98% coverage).
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