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1999 |
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Marsha Dreier, AFRL Phillips Laboratory, serves as Chair of the Directors Group. Kay Krehbiel, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, serves as Vice-Chair. David Myers, New Mexico State University continues as Secretary-Treasurer. |
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New Mexico Highlands University becomes an associate member of the Alliance. |
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Alliance holds strategic planning sessions in September and October and begins to develop a business plan, adopts a new Mission, Vision and Goal statement and changes its name to the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information. |
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Professional services contract with Karen Stoll is continued for an additional year. |
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David Myers files the Alliance federal tax return for the 1998 tax year. |
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Alliance develops a statement of Preferred vendor relations to use when negotiating for Alliance contracts. |
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Alliance Directors Group approves a dues increase for 2000. Dues for full members will be $5,000 and for associate members they will be $2,500. |
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Alliance agrees to employ a professional bookkeeping service to manage the Alliance's finances. |
Publications/Presentations
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1998 annual report is published electronically, on the Alliance web site. No paper copy is produced. |
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Social SciSearch® at LANL
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Social SciSearch® at LANL, a sister database that uses the same interface and search engine as SciSearch® at LANL, is made available to LANL and UNM users. Social SciSearch® at LANL covers 1700 journals in disciplines such as economics, industrial relations, law, political science and other social sciences. |
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Biosis® at LANL
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A new interface using Verity's Topic search engine is made available for BIOSIS® at LANL. The database has 12 million records covering the literature from 1969 to the present. BIOSIS indexes approximately 6500 journals and 2000 meetings/year, as well as books and other materials. |
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INSPEC® at LANL
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INSPEC® at LANL has a new interface and search engine, similar to that used for SciSearch at LANL. The INSPEC database has more than 6 million records covering the literature from 1969 to the present. INSPEC covers approximately 4,200 journals, 1000 conferences, and other publications. |
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Sandia National Laboratories, AFRL Laboratory Libraries and the Santa Fe Institute initiate a trial of the INSPEC® at LANL database and by year end are close to signing a contract with INSPEC. |
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Engineering Index® at LANL
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Engineering Index® at LANL, using the same interface and search engine as the other LANL citation databases is available. Engineering Index contains over 4 million abstracts, covering the literature from 1969 to the present. |
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Full text of electronic journals are linked to citation databases including BIOSIS, INSPEC, Engineering Index, SocialSciSearch and DOE Energy databases. |
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More than 1100 Elsevier titles, back to 1995, are loaded on the LANL server and linked to citation databases. |
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University of Nevada, Reno signs an agreement with Elsevier for access to the electronic titles. |
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Donnie Curtis negotiates on behalf of the Alliance for access to Kluwer electronic journals through the LANL server. During contract negotiations, the libraries have access to the journals on a trial basis. |
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Alliance renews its contract with EiVillage for another three years. UNM, SNL and NMSU are Alliance subscribers. |
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Negotiations continue 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. |
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A new version of Science Server® at LANL is released. Science Server® at LANL is an electronic product that allows searching, manages content and delivers electronic journals to the desktop. The electronic content provided by Science Server® at LANL currently includes more than 1100 Elsevier Science titles. In the future journals from other publishers including Academic Press and Kluwer will be provided. |
Other Cooperative Initiatives
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UNM Health Sciences Center Library begins participation in the Alliance Reciprocal Borrowing program. |
