This paper describes the structure and consistency of Emilio Artom’s miscellany, which represents a documental patrimony of historical relevance and one of the most interesting collections of ...offprints held in the Special Mathematical Library at the Department of Mathematics ‘G. Peano’ of the University of Turin.
The present article identifies and discusses some of the books and scientific articles that played important roles in the development of the periodic law, before Mendeleev published his Periodic ...System in 1869. For each book, information is given about the edition in which the discovery was made, and for each scientific article, information is given about the form in which it was issued, such as whether offprints were printed in addition to the journal appearance. Some observations of interest to book collectors are included, such as assessments of the availability of these documents on the rare book market. This paper may also be of use to those who wish to learn about (or to teach) the history of the periodic law from the original documents that first announced important advances toward its creation.
Despite major economic and organizational changes in the pharmaceutical industry, the Pharmaceutical Library Task Force (Arbeitskreis Pharma-Bibliotheken) has been going strong in the Medical Library ...Working Party (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für medizinisches Bibliothekswesen – AGMB) for the past 18 years. However, Task Force discussion topics have moved away from questions about spatial or staffing expansion or building up inventory, and toward themes such as outsourcing, training, technology scouting, and building up comprehensive copyright expertise. While actual physical stock is shrinking or has been eliminated entirely from many company libraries, the everyday working lives of company librarians are increasingly taken up with management of electronic media, in-house marketing and the associated user training, evaluation and use of new technologies, and clarification of complex copyright issues. Widespread know-how, in-depth knowledge of specialist areas (such as copyright), communication skills, networking, cost awareness, adaptability, willingness to learn new things, and demonstrating the value they add to the company are the factors that will secure the future of company librarians, whether with – or, in a pinch – without a physical library.
During the eighteenth century, academies and societies developed forms of life and of judgment that were set off from the universal criticism associated with learned journals. Despite the prominence ...of the Philosophical Transactions in historical narratives of modern science, the memoir collections associated with academies were a distinct and more prestigious form of publishing by the late eighteenth century, and the Transactions itself was eventually reshaped on this model. When publishers began to have measured success producing commercial periodicals focused on natural philosophy near century’s end, they hewed to prior models of journals and magazines: they often provided a locus for correspondence networks, and they digested, reprinted and translated content from elsewhere. But if the rise of a literary market was a source of ambivalence for the broader Republic of Letters, it was even more problematic as a model of natural philosophical judgment. Even while writing for periodicals became a means of making a career, scientific journals also became venues for printing (or reprinting) original research memoirs. As a potential alternative institutional locus for communal scientific activity, the periodical press presented a challenge to elite academies’ claims as the principal audience of scientific claims.
The offprint is in decline as a means of scientific communication in the age of the pdf, but signed offprints are important sources of data in curatorial and historical research. In the example of Dr ...Charles Taylor Trechmann (1885-1964), a researcher who published only single author papers, with one exception, signed offprints reinforce our knowledge of his research network and ask questions. Recipients include authorities entrusted with describing certain specimens collected in the Antilles (L.F. Spath, T.S. Westoll, T.H. Withers), fellow conchologists (R.B. Newton) and Caribbean geologists (C.A. Matley), an F.R.S. who may have nominated Trechmann for fellowship and a...
The latency-intensity functions (LIFs) of ABRs elicited by high-frequency (8, 10, 12, and 14 kHz) toneburst stimuli were evaluated in 20 subjects with confirmed 'moderate' high-frequency ...sensorineural hearing loss. Wave V results from clicks and tonebursts revealed all intra- and intersession data to be reliable (p > 0.05). Linear regression curves were highly significant (p 0.0001), indicating linear relationships for all stimuli analyzed. Comparisons between the linear regression curves from a previously reported normal-hearing subject group and this sensorineural hearing-impaired group showed no significant differences. This study demonstrated that tonebursts at 8, 10, and 12 kHz evoked ABRs which decreased in latency as a function of increasing intensity and that these LIFs were consistent and orderly (14 kHz was not determinable). These results will contribute information to facilitate the establishment of change criteria used to predict change in hearing during treatment with ototoxic medications.
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