HSL-News Information-Archive

April 2001

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HSL-News: 4-24-2001
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1. Electronic Access to Journals - Free or Fee?
2. Journal Citation Reports, New Features
3. Linking to Full Text Articles in PubMed

Electronic Access to Journals - Free or Fee?
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A lively debate between authors, publishers and librarians about the
ramifications of electronic access to journals is currently underway at
www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access
Visit this site and add your insights to it.

Journal Citation Reports [JCR] - annual update, new features
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ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information, will be doing its annual
update of its JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS database on April 25, 2001. The
JCR is a unique resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data
drawn from over 8,400 journals worldwide from virtually all areas of
sciences, technology and the social sciences. The JCR can show the
highest impact journals, most frequently used journals and the largest
journals.
New features will include:
* Trend graphs showing five years of impact factor history in a bar
chart
* Links in the Web of Science to the JCR Web appearing on the full
records from the latest five years of article data in the
Web of Science
* Links between the JCR Web and ulrichsweb.com (the web-based
Ulrich's Periodical Directory published by Bowker) appearing on
the full records of journals that are listed in both products

LinkOut, the way to link to journal articles in PubMed
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Finding complete journal articles within PubMed MEDLINE has become
faster! When you now connect to PubMed from HealthLinks, a UW icon will
appear in the abstract and citation format of a record so you can link
directly to the full text article. These links are only available from
participating publishers.

HealthLinks April Front Page
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The featured topics this month are Electronic Journals; Cancer Control
Month; Libraries - Quotable Quotes.
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