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Throughout 1995/96 the Scholarly Communications Project continued to focus on its mission -- publishing electronic journals and experimenting in electronic scholarly communications. The goal to increase access to scholarly works and those of local and regional interest by electronically developing resources serves the University Libraries and Virginia Tech community well. The Project's endeavors add value to scholarly works that may also be published in paper and expands library services beyond its buildings or the limits of the campus through all day every day Internet access. Below is a summary of the resources that were begun or enhanced this year by the University Libraries' Scholarly Communications Project.
| Electronic Journals | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejpage.html |
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The Project's roster of ejournals/ grew with the addition of significant new titles, three edited by VT faculty, two mirrored in collaboration with MIT Press, and one negotiated by a VT faculty but edited by a University of Delaware colleague. Remarkably, four new titles (*) are published only electronically. Please refer to Appendix 1 for fuller information about ejournals/, including continuing titles and potential new electronic publications of the Scholarly Communications Project.
6 new scholarly electronic journals
 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu | A directory of rated and reviewed Internet sites, awarded 3-stars to the Scholarly
Communications Project and three of its
electronic journals: Journal of
Technology Education, Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, and Journal of Veterinary
Medical Education. Catalyst received 2-stars. (see attached documentation) |
 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte.html | The Journal of Technology Education was recognized in PC Week, Aug. 7, 1995, for its electronic publication. |
 http://borg.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/vetfda.html | FDA Approved Animal Drug Data Base Rated among the top 5% of all Internet sites by Point Survey (notification received October 18, 1995) "Here's help for switched-on veterinarians: a searchable database of FDA-approved animal drugs. If Fido has tapeworms, the user can search either dogs or tapeworm and call up a list of potential medicines, including Yomesan 5/20 and (no kidding) HappyJack Tapeworm Tablets. Or, call up the specific drug and get ingredients, doses, restrictions, and so forth. Simple, sensible site." |
| During 1995/96 this FDA database was migrated from plain ASCII to HTML; updated quarterly; and received improved searching and readability of records. | |
| Virginia News | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ |
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Major improvements in searching, presentation, and content (including the addition of WDBJ-7 news reports to the Roanoke Times and Virginian Pilot news).
| ETDs: Electronic Theses and Dissertations | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ |
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Established new Web site and improved it throughout the year. Content grew from seven to forty ETDs.
| Electronic Reserves and VT Online Class Materials | http://reserve.lib.vt.edu |
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| Virginia Tech Digital Library | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/digilib/ |
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| http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/gailmac/VTDLPlan.html |
| Digital Images | http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/arch/CTHA/CTHA.html |
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| Digital ImageBase | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/imagebase.html |
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In 1996/97: Increase effectiveness of first generation system
Presentations about the Scholarly Communications Project (McMillan)
Virtual Tours of the Scholarly Communications Project
1996/1997 at the Scholarly Communications Project
| (McMillan, Powell, planning team) | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/cnipreconfhp.html |
http://sholar.lib.vt.edu/anrept9596/Scholar.html
rev. 1/8/97
