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Marlene Cummins has rearranged, into alphabetical order by title, the list of catalogs on Selected Astronomical Catalogs Volume 2 on the NSSDC ADC CD-ROM. You may get it at http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/adc.html or from Marlene Cummins
PALOMAR SKY SURVEY II AVAILABLE
University of Toronto Astronomy Library has decided to cancel the Palomar Sky Survey II and is interested in selling the films they have. The buyer could then take over the order with ESO to received the remaining ten shipments at 2,000 DM each. If interested, contact Marlene Cummins at University of Toronto Library.
CHANGES TO PAM WEB SITE
New sections have been added to the PAM home page, including PAM Division information, SLA links, and "Web Workbench".
INSPEC TO COVER E-JOURNALS
STNews for March 1996 (p.9) states that INSPEC will cover electronic journals from 1996 forward. Document Number and URLs will display in the source field.
INTERNET ACCESS TO ZENTRALBLATT/MATH ABSTRACTS
FIZ Karlsruhe Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and Springer Publisher, in cooperation with the European Mathematical Society, has announced worldwide access to Zentralblatt. It is also available online on STN, on CD-ROM, and in pirnt. For more informtion contact the editor.
MATH/PHYSICS SELECTION TOOLS
Contact Carla Shilts at University of North Dakota for a list of responses to a question about selection resources.
INSPEC ACCESS
Contact David Stern at Yale for results of a study of how libraries access INSPEC.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE
A Space for Women booklet is available to provide advice and encouragement for girls intereted in careers in science. It is 20 pages, in color, available in its second printing from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. To obtain copies, send a postcard with your name and address to Space for Women, Publications Department, Harvard-Smithsonian center for Astrophysics, MS-28, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
IN MEMORIUM
Catherine A. Jones passed away on January 27, while attending SLA Winter Meeting in Cleveland. She worked at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, and had held numerous SLA leadership positions. Contributions may be made to the SLA Scholarship Fund, Special Libraries Association, 1700 18th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.
ORGANIZING WEB RESOURCES
Contact Gerry McKiernan for a review of current efforts to organize Web resources, at Iowa State University.
NEWS FROM SIMBAD
VIZIER is a catalogue browser introduced at the AAS meeting in San Antonio, now available on the World Wide Web. This is a product of the cooperation between the CDS and ESA-ESRIN. In addition, the new SIMBAD User's Guide (Jan. 1996) is now available at FTP sites. The Dictionary of Nomenclature of Astronomical Objects is accessible on the web. For more information contact simbad@cfa.harvard.edu or Electronic Journals and Scholarly Communication: a citation and reference study" by Stephen Harter and Hak Joon Kim.
ONE-SHOT PREPRINTS SEARCH
The International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy has put up a "One-Shot World-Wide Preprints Search" home page. It searches LANL, CERN and SPIRES-HEP all at once.
JOB OPENINGS
University of Minnesota Engineering Librarian. Contact: Linda DeBeau-Melting, Libraries Human Resources Officer, University Libraries, 453 Wilson Library, 309 19th Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455; apply by April 25.
Ohio State Univeristy Libraries Physical Sciences Librarian. Contact: Mary Scott, Ohio State University, 175 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43210.
Purdue University Engineering Librarian AND Assistant Engineering Librarian. Contact: Thomas L. Haworth, Personnel Administrator, Purdue University Libraries, 1530 Stewart center, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1530.
University of Arizona Science/Engineering Librarian. Contact: Gloria E. Alvillar, Main Library C327, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) half-time Public Services Librarian. Contact: SLAC Employment Office, ATTN Job Number 21009, P.O. Box 4349, M/S 11, Stanford, CA 94309.
INTERNET SITES NOTED
Spectroscopic data from National Institute of Standrads and Technology (NIST).
Sky and Telescope, including an index by Kevin Krisclunas.
SCIED, developed and maintained by Alan Cairns at University of Washington.
EUVE Electronic Newsletter (Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer) published monthly by the EUVE Science Archive. To subscribe, send an e-mail request.
ARTICLES NOTED
Royal Astronomical Soceity Quarterly Journal, v. 36, no. 4 (Dec. 1995) p. 407-415, about electronic journal publishing.
"Research and the Internet Connection" in Nature, v. 380, no. 6573 (April 4, 1996) p. 377-381.
A Survey of STM Online Journals 1990-95: the calm before the storm