Aardvark, JCR on the Web, EuroFactor.(peters picks & pans)(Web portal and Journal Citation Reports)

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Publication Date: 01-NOV-05

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My picks include the Aardvark Web portal, focusing on library and information technology in Asia, and the new Web edition of ITI's Journal Citation Reports. The former provides current information about projects, conferences, exhibits and other events, organizations, and developments in the fields of library and information science in Asia (and a nifty version of the ERIC database on the side). The latter is the much enhanced Web version of the classic annual publication of Thomson ISI. The pan is the Euro-Factor database, which presents an impact factor for 512 European journals without revealing (for good reasons) anything about its source data for the cited and citing counts. It profusely proclaims the need for a pan-European measure to prove how influential non-U.S, biomedical and life science journals are, as determined by Europeans for Europeans, using "biometric analysis."

the picks

AARDVARK

In June I sent an e-mail to a colleague and occasional contributor to ONLINE, Ruth Pagell, to congratulate her on her appointment as chief librarian of the Singapore Management University. The announcement was so fresh that she knew I must have learned about it from Aardvark [www.aard varknet.info], the very current and informative Web portal (or rather vortal) for information technology resources with a focus on Asia (but not with chauvinistic exclusivity). It is run by the multinational i-Group, Ltd. headed by Pote N. Lee, which represents many U.S. online information services (H.W. Wilson and CAS), publishers of journals, books, and databases (Emerald, ACM, IEEE, SIAM, CABI, and FSTA) in Southeast Asia. It also provides localization and other support...

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