Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:45:17 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
Here is some good news for scientometricists and others interested in
tracing the evolution of knowledge and ideas. Thomson-ISI will use the
CiteSeer software developed by Steve Lawrence and colleagues at NEC
Research, Princeton, to create citation-based services that would cover not
only print journals but also the papers in the 'open access' web domain.
Read on:
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer
By Barbara Quint
With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased
prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to
identify scholarship face new challenges. Thomson ISI, a longtime leader in
netting scholarship, primarily through citation patterns, has launched a new
initiative to handle this problem. It will collaborate with NEC Laboratories
America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for
Web-based scholarly resources. Due out in early 2005, the new Web Citation
Index will tap a number of technologies developed by NEC, primarily the
"autonomous citation indexing" tools of NEC's CiteSeer software. CiteSeer
has been highly praised for its strength at monitoring and connecting
research for computer literature.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040301-1.shtml .
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
