AISTI 2000 At a Glance

2000

Johann van Reenen, University of New Mexico, serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. Sally Landenberger, Sandia National Laboratories, serves as Chair Elect. David Myers, New Mexico State University continues as Secretary-Treasurer.

Santa Fe Institute moves from associate member to full member status while New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology moves from full member to associate member.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, discontinues its associate membership.

Bylaws are updated to reflect the new Alliance name (Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information) and other changes and a conformed copy is sent to the IRS. Revised bylaws become effective June 1, 2000.

David Meyers resigns as Alliance Treasurer and as New Mexico State University representative to the Alliance in May 2000. Sally Landenberger assumes Treasurer duties for the remainder of 2000.

Elizabeth Titus, Dean of the Library, becomes New Mexico State University representative on August 1, 2000.

NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office asks to change its membership status and is approved as a full member at the August meeting. George Roncaglia will be the NASA representative to the Board of Directors.

Professional services contract with Karen Stoll is continued for an additional year.

Hilda Herrera, Guadalupe & Associates, was hired to provide bookkeeping services for the Alliance March – December 2000.  Thereafter the bookkeeping duties were transferred to the new Executive Director.

Alliance investigates the purchase of Officer and Director liability insurance, but comes to no decision. Directors are asked to check with their home institutions to see if they are covered by liability insurance while doing work for the Alliance.

Alliance business plan is completed and published on the Alliance web site.

Alliance registers as a contractor in the Department of Defense Central Contractor Registration database.

Corinne Machado is hired in October as the new Alliance Executive Director.

1999 annual report is published electronically, on the Alliance web site. No paper copy is produced.

Alliance website is updated by adding a password protected partition with information accessible only to members.

Alliance Board of Directors completes its business plan and publishes it on the Alliance website

Alliance publishes a one-page Alliance Fact Sheet as an information and marketing tool and distributes it at the August mini-conference.

Alliance sponsors a one-day mini-conference at the University of New Mexico on August 18, 2000. Speakers are from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Adobe Systems, HighTech Gurus, as well as Alliance members Johann van Reenen, Rick Luce, Holly Buchanan and Marsha Dreier. 

Version 4.0 of SciSearch® at LANL is released with extensive revisions to the cited search feature.

Sandia National Laboratories, AFRL Laboratory Libraries, the Santa Fe Institute and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology sign contracts with INSPEC.

AFRL signs a contract to access Engineering Index® at LANL and Sandia National Laboratories converts from Ei Village/Compendex, a database available on a vendor server to Engineering Index® at LANL. Engineering Index covers the literature from 1969 to the present.

Bruce Neville, UNM, coordinates an Alliance effort to present a list of titles and a model contract to HighWire Press. HighWire says that they are no longer pursuing consortia agreements.

The Alliance begins negotiations with the American Chemical Society to load databases on the LANL server. 

Donnie Curtis completes negotiations and the Alliance signs a contract with Kluwer providing electronic access to 425 titles. Content of the Kluwer journals is loaded on the LANL server and linked to citation databases.

The Alliance renegotiates the Academic Press IDEAL license for a 3-year period, beginning with January 2001. Access to electronic journals is expanded, and the Alliance receives access to all 175 AP titles at no additional cost.

Jonathan Eldridge and Chris Sugnet coordinate negotiations with Blackwell for access to electronic journals. The contract includes eight libraries and allows access from the Blackwell server.

Contract is signed with the IOPP to allow loading the database on the LANL server, linking from citation databases to the IOPP content, and linking from NRL to IOPP content.

LANL develops a new product called FlashPoint that allows users to do an author, keyword or source information search across multiple databases, such as SciSearch, INSPEC, Engineering Index, and receive a results list showing the number of hits and in which databases they were found.