1995 A collaborative project was begun
to provide access to the Science Citation Index database for
all Alliance members. The LANL Research Library staff did
the project management for this project. The SciSearch database
resided on a server at LANL and allowed authorized users access
via the Internet. An innovative application called Explorer
permitted searches of SciSearch and integrated textual and
graphical information with search and retrieval capabilities
. Explorer also provided a toolbar for users, including help
screens with examples.
The Alliance created a website where catalogs
and other databases were accessible on-line.
1996 The Alliance negotiated a contract
with Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) to purchase
the SciSearch database. LANL, Research Library provided access
to members who were able to purchase the database through
ISI. This was one of the first known cases of a research library
doing "local loading".
The Alliance negotiated a contract with Academic
Press for electronic access to the total set of their journals
for all Alliance members. The full-text journal article was
available on the internet and delivered directly to the users
desktop, where complete abstracts or complete articles could
be viewed, printed and downloaded.
1997 The Alliance negotiated an agreement
with the LANL Research Library to provide SciSearch infrastructure
support. This agreement allows LANL to provide additional
services such as alerts and linking local holdings information
to the SciSearch database. Cost savings of using alerts in
place of similar commercial services was substantial for all
member libraries.
1998 The Alliance achieved its goal of
giving all six original members access to SciSearch at LANL.
INSPEC, Academic Press, Elsevier, and IEE/IEEE publications
available via SciSearch were also made available.
1999 The Alliance for Library Services
changes its name to Alliance for Information Science and Technology Information in order to reflect its expanded vision
to be an innovative leader in cyber SCI/TECH information,
producing new models of scholarly information.
The Alliance has successfully negotiated contracts
that allowed members to access citation databases such as
SciSearch® at LANL, Social SciSearch® at LANL, Biosis® at
LANL, INSPEC® at LANL, Engineering Index® at LANL and the
full text of journal articles from publishers such as Elsevier,
Kluwer, and Academic Press linked to these citation databases.
2000 AISTI inaugurates its first annual
mini-conference with which focues on innovation in the science
and technology information field.
2001 AISTI approved EPSCOR Science Information
Group as a special affiliate member to assist their group
with obtaining a license agreement with Kluwer. The goal was
to foster the expansion of science and technology research
in NSF underserved state.
2002 AISTI funded a pilot E-print server
project that provided an electronic repository for e-prints
for all AISTI member institutions participants.
2003 AISTI created the Emerging Research
Summit as a way of furthering is missions and vision. Results
from these efforts included a funded Mellon grant which investigated
the release of open source software to expose grey literature
via Apache servers.
2004 AISTI funded two projects investigating
research questions related to digitization. The projects funded
included funding to support a LANL representative for the
MPEG standards project and funding for the further development
of a Digital Repository of Cave and Karst Scanning Electron
Micrograph project. |
