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Electronic Delivery of Articles from the Library Storage Facility

Use the InterLibrary Services (ILS) Article Request Form to request individual journal articles from the Library Storage Facility (LSF) located at the Pickle Research Campus (PRC).

Staff will scan articles and deliver them electronically. Electronic delivery of storage articles through ILS is available to borrowers affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin.

For more information go to http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/ils/electronic.html

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) values its recognition by the technical information community, libraries, and participating Federal Government agencies as the leader in providing must-have U.S. Government technical content.  To this end, NTIS will always strive to acquire, index, abstract, and archive the largest collection of Government-sponsored technical reports in existence.

NTIS is committed to increasing electronic access and electronic delivery of this content to its customers:

• In 2007, NTIS increased access to Federal technical reports by extending the search function at www.ntis.gov to include its entire bibliographic file, which dates back to 1964.
• In addition, NTIS improved the precision of search results by reengineering the advanced search function on the Web site to allow customers to more narrowly define the information they are seeking by year, author, etc.
• Beginning May 2008, NTIS began a program to increase electronic output options.

Now, NTIS wishes to further serve our customers with a free NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter (go to http://www.ntis.gov/pdf/ntrnews-vol1.pdf).  The Newsletter, which will be sent electronically each month, highlights and alerts you to recently indexed and abstracted titles in particular categories – this first issue is about Going Green. Future editions will feature various NTIS content categories as well as showcase the relevancy of past U.S. Government technical reports to the current issues of our times.

To subscribe is easy. Just send us an email with your name and email address to ntrnews@ntis.gov.

LibraryThing will be added to the Library Catalog

On Monday, June 23, LibraryThing for Libraries will be added into the Library Catalog.

LibraryThing (www.librarything.com) is a way for any individual to catalog their books.  You just add your book, tag it with whatever keywords come to mind, and add any ratings or reviews.  You are automatically connected with every other LibraryThing user who has that book and can see other reviews, other books they are reading, etc.

For more information see LibraryThing for Libraries.

Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study

Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study – New York Times

By STEVE LOHR

Published: November 2, 2006

The Web has become such a force in commerce and culture that a group of leading university researchers now deems it worthy of its own field of study.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research program in Web science.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web’s basic software, is leading the program. An Oxford-educated Englishman, Mr. Berners-Lee is a senior researcher at M.I.T., a professor at the University of Southampton and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, an Internet standards-setting organization.

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