Thursday, July 13, 2006

Journal Backfiles from Wiley Interscience Are Now Available

The library has purchased all of the the journal backfiles from Wiley Interscience. These include journals in the following areas:

Analytical Sciences
Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chemistry
Genetics and Evolution
Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy

Friday, July 07, 2006

Comparison of three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science

There are some very interesting results in this study published in the June 29, 2006 issue of "Biomedical Digital Libraries". The authors suggest that "Our data indicate that the question of which tool provides the most complete set of citing literature may depend on the subject and publication year of a given article".

You can read this article at:
http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/3/1/7