Vol. 5, No. 1 -- September 1998
A newly designed web interface to CISTI's fully-indexed table of contents service, SwetScan, will be launched this fall. This powerful current awareness tool keeps track of new research being published in nearly 14,000 current journals worldwide, and excels at performing literature and author searches, identifying journals published in a specific field, providing detailed bibliographic information, and facilitating easy and economical article ordering.
Search Options
A new Quick Search feature on the homepage can be used to query the entire database, or just its most recent additions, using key words from journal or article titles (separated by a space), or author name.
All three search menus have been shortened to fit a single screen, and simplified so they now contain only one 'Search' button, located at the top of the page beside the 'Clear' button. A 'Help with searching' link has been added to each menu, as have links to the other search screens.
Search-term connectors are now fully active for each search box. They can be changed to read 'and', 'or', or 'contains the phrase' to expand or narrow a search.
Two date limiters have been added to the TOC and article search screens. For recently added records, choose between one week to six months, or leave the setting on 'all updates' to search the entire database. To search publications for a given year, click on one year at a time.
Other New Functions
Networked Subscribers
A library's own journal holdings (identified by ISSNs) may be loaded into the table of contents database so that each article record is identified as being available (or unavailable) locally. Ordering options can be customized for individual users. The homepage can also be customized by adding an organization's name, logo and other information. To discuss this or other aspects of the service, or to request a free one-month trial, call 1-800-668-1222.
The aim of the Association of Research Libraries' (www.arl.org/) newly-established Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is to reduce the rising cost of scholarly information and shorten its time to publication, especially in scholarly journals.
Comprised of 81 member libraries, of which CISTI is one, SPARC (www.arl.org/sparc/) has a purchasing power of nearly $500 million. "One of the key advantages SPARC offers to a publishing partner," said Richard K. Johnson, Enterprise Director for SPARC, "is the commitment of coalition members to subscribe to SPARC products. This reduces the time to market-acceptance and cost-recovery of a new title."
SPARC will soon join with the American Chemical Society to publish letters in organic chemistry in a new scientific journal. The new title will embody enhanced features, including 'Articles ASAP' (As Soon As Publishable), in which journal articles are released on the web as soon as they are ready for publication. CISTI's NRC Research Press publishes 'Rapid Communications' in the same manner, to accelerate the dissemination of new scientific research.
CISTI's Bernard Dumouchel calls SPARC "a good partnership for both CISTI's library component and NRC Research Press' publishing and dissemination activities and alternative modes of publishing."
On CISTI's Homepage (under Information Desk) can be found evaluated, centralized, and organized Hotlinks to Internet resources. Maintained by a team of CISTI experts who regularly check their connectivity, each link contains links to other annotated meta-sites. No commercial or personal web sites are included. A search engine and suggestion box are provided.
Under Hotlinks -- General are 15 categories (business to travel) such as Dictionaries (links to 13 dictionaries), Conferences (links to 26 conference announcement sites) and Search Engines (links to 16 search engines). Under Hotlinks -- Science & Technology are 15 categories (from aeronautics to telecommunications) such as Information Technology (links to 28 sites), Construction (links to 25 sites maintained by the Institute for Research in Construction) and Biotechnology (links to 14 sites, including InfoBiotech Canada).
InfoBiotech Canada (www.ibc.nrc.ca/ibc/) recently received the Hardin MD Clean Bill of Health Award (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa) for "best of the best" sites with connection rates of at least 93 per cent. The site provides enhanced access to information on biotechnology in Canada and the world and includes links to companies, associations, technology transfer information, and research sites. Information can be searched by subject, continent, biotechnology databases, new sites, complete listings, newsgroups, contacts, or by using the custom search utility.
In the last issue (p. 6) it was incorrectly reported that electronic delivery by fax or Ariel was available for Chinese-language articles ordered from CISTI and supplied by the Science and Technology Information Centre (STIC) of Taipei. These are delivered by courier only.
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce debate and propelled biotechnology onto the front pages, accompanied by a host of scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical issues.
CISTI's collection contains many publications addressing ethical issues in medicine, some of them listed below. To discover other titles, search 'medical ethics' or 'bioethics' in the catalogue.
Bioethics
Oxford: Blackwell, c1987-
v. 1- 1987-
Journal international de bio-éthique = International journal of bioethics
Lyon: Eds. A. Lacassagne, 1990-
v. 2, no 1- mars 1991-
Journal of medical ethics
London: Society for the Study of Medical Ethics, 1975-
v. 1, no. 1- Apr. 1975-
Journal of medical humanities
New York: Human Sciences Press, c1989-
v. 10, no. 1- spring/summer 1989-
Theoretical medicine and bioethics
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998-
v. 19, no. 1- Jan. 1998-
(Continues Theoretical medicine)
Animal biotechnology and ethics
Edited by Alan Holland and Andrew Johnson.
London; New York: Chapman & Hall, 1998.
The biotech century: harnessing the gene and remaking the world
Jeremy Rifkin.
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, c1998.
Consensus formation in healthcare ethics
Edited by Henk A.M.J. Ten Have and Hans-Martin Sass.
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998.
Ethical dilemmas in assisted reproduction
Edited by F. Shenfield and C. Sureau.
New York: The Parthenon Publishing Group, 1997.
The ethics of biomedical research: an international perspective
Baruch A. Brody.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
The ethics of human gene therapy
LeRoy Walters, Julie Gage Palmer.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Germ-line intervention and our responsibilities to future generations
Edited by Emmanuel Agius.
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998.
John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession
of medicine
Laurence B. McCullough.
London: Kluwer Academic, c1998.
John Gregory's writings on medical ethics and philosophy of medicine
Laurence B. McCullough.
Boston: Academic Publishers, c1998.
Medical, ethical, and legal considerations for fetal tissue transplantation
research
Maureen A. Shannon.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Institute of Legal Medicine, 1997.
The right to die and physician-assisted suicide: medical, legal and ethical
aspects
Cyril H. Wecht.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Institute of Legal Medicine, 1998.
Ethical and legal issues of DNA typing in forensic medicine ñ Proceedings
of the European symposium
Edited by Peter M. Schnieder, Christian Rittner, Peter D. Martin.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997.
Gamete donation: current ethics in the European Union:
A meeting of experts supported by the Directorate General Sciences, Research and
Development (DGXII) and the Biomedical and Health Research Programme (BIOMED) of
the European Commission. Chaired by Christopher Barratt... [et al.]; editor, Yvon
Englert.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Japanese and western bioethics: studies in moral diversity
U.S.-Japan Bioethics Congress (1994: Tokyo, Japan).
Edited by Kazumasa Hoshino.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Philosophy of medicine and bioethics: a twenty-year retrospective and critical
appraisal
Edited by Ronald A. Carson and Chester R. Burns.
Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
If you do not find the journal or book you need in CISTI's catalogue, we welcome suggestions for purchases to improve the collection. Please give your name and a method of contacting you for further details or to give you feedback on your suggestion. Click on Catalogue at www.nrc.ca/cisti to 'Suggest a publication to purchase for the collection' or go directly to www.nrc.ca/cisti/irm/sugest_e.html
If an order cannot be filled by Document Delivery services, three new cancellation messages now inform clients of the reason why in more detail:
The usual cancellation message of Not on Shelf now indicates that the item is in use by an on-site client.
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CISTI's Virtual Library gives 3,000 or so researchers with Canada's National Research
Council desktop access to a full range of information resources. Organized under
five headings (Registration Desk, Catalogues/ Databases, Order Desk, Hotlinks and
Electronic Publications), these electronic resources include the CISTI catalogue,
bibliographic databases, tables of contents and current awareness services, electronic
document ordering, access to full-text electronic journals, electronic reference
tools and selected Internet resources. In May, 1998, 320 randomly-selected NRC research officers and technical officers were asked their opinion about the resources and services offered through the CISTI Virtual Library. Preliminary results indicate that a majority agreed on the importance of access to a wide range of electronic resources, and that CISTI's electronic resources were improving the quality of their work. CISTI's experience in setting up a national electronic library will be presented at Internet Librarian '98, on November 4th in Monterey, California. |
NRC Research Press Catalogue
The 1999 catalogue of NRC Research Press publications is now available. It contains descriptions of all Research Press products, from its 14 journals (available in print and on the web) to monographs and CD-ROM products.
List of Serials Currently Received at CISTI
Recently updated, the full list of serials titles to which CISTI subscribes is now available. CISTI's collection includes about 14,000 currently-received journals from all countries in which sci/tech information is published.
Call 1-800-668-1222 or e-mail cisti.info@nrc.ca
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