Library News
by Jean Phillips
Just Published: Satellite Data Compression
Satellite Data Compression, by Bormin Huang (ed.), has just been published by Springer. A first book on satellite data compression, it presents case studies on recent advances in satellite data compression techniques via various prediction-based, lookup-table-based, transform-based, clustering-based, and projection-based approaches.
The text
is designed for a professional audience comprised of computer scientists working in satellite communications, sensor system design, remote sensing, data receiving, airborne imaging and geographical information systems (GIS). Advanced-level students and academic researchers will also benefit from this book.
The Schwerdtfeger Library has a copy of, Satellite Data Compression -- it is located at: QA 76.9.D33 H8 2011.
Setting up an Alert in Web of Science
Do you find it challenging to keep current with recent publications in your field? One solution is to set up an auto alert in Web of Science which can be customized to your specific interests.
Once you've constructed and saved a search that you like it will run automatically, notifying you when new data meeting your search criteria is added to the database. You can receive alerts on a timeframe specified by you: weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. One nice feature is the abililty to view the full-text of an article within the alert.
Library staff have created a 'how to' for setting up your own alert, or we're happy to help you customize.
Long-term Access to Federally Funded Research
Last November, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released two Requests for Information (RFI), one on open access to scientific publications and the other on the management of digital data. The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 12, 2012, as announced in the Federal Register on Friday, December 30, 2011. Individuals and groups are encouraged to respond.
The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have already released their recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research.
Both ALA and ACRL have endorsed “The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009” (S. 1373) noting, “It reflects ALA policy regarding access to federal government information by providing for the long-term preservation of, and no-fee public access to, government-sponsored, taxpayer funded, published research findings.” Their comments to the RFI reflect and expand on this stance.
Shortly after the RFIs were announced, the House of Representatives introduced Research Works Act (H.R.3699) to "ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector." The Association of American Publishers applauds the bill, saying that it is aimed at "preventing regulatory interference with private-sector research publishers in the production, peer review and publication of scientific, medical, technical, humanities, legal and scholarly journal articles...which, to some degree, has been federally-funded but is produced and published by the private sector."
