Users who depend on Google and Google Scholar to discover IEEE publications should be aware that due to a change in indexing policy at Google, the majority of IEEE articles have disappeared from Google search results. IEEE has posted the following information regarding the problem:

"Recently we at IEEE discovered something about our IEEE Xplore usage patterns that we want to pass on to you.

We learned that the majority of IEEE Xplore article metadata records had been eliminated from Google search results.  This means that anyone attempting to search for IEEE articles by using Google or Google Scholar would be less likely to find IEEE content...

In investigating the current issue, we learned that Google had changed its indexing policy regarding IEEE Xplore. In April 2010, Google decided to discard their previous IEEE Xplore metadata index and completely rebuild an index of over 2.5 million IEEE Xplore metadata records...

We hope that the entirety of IEEE Xplore metadata will soon be discoverable again via Google. In the meantime, we want to remind you that the best way to search IEEE information is to go directly to the IEEE Xplore digital library at www.ieee.org/ieeexplore.  With a new version of IEEE Xplore now available with an improved search engine and intuitive new discovery tools, this is truer than ever before." - IEEE

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Today's online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about UCs negotiations with Nature Publishing Group -- "University of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs"

Synthesis Update for May 2010

The following new titles were published in May:

• Access Control in Data Management Systems by Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, (Data Management Series)
• Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners by Claudia Leacock, et al. (Human Language Technologies Series)
• Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-Tolerant Asynchronous Distributed Systems by Michel Raynal (University of Rennes, France) (Distributed Computing Theory Series)
• Computer Architecture Performance Evaluation Standards by Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University, Belgium (Computer Architecture Series)
• Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal (Human Language Technologies Series)
• The Landscape of Pervasive Computing Standards by Sumi Helal, University of Florida (Mobile & Pervasive Computing Series)
• Performance Modeling of Communication Networks with Markov Chains by Jeonghoon Mo, Yonsei University, Korea (Communication Networks Series)
• Sparse Adaptive Filters for Echo Cancellation by Constantin Paleologu and Silviu Ciochina, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania and Jacob Benesty, INRS-EMT, University of Quebec (Speech & Audio Processing Series)
• Stream Data Management by Lukasz Golab, AT&T Research and M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo (Data Management Series)
• Transactional Memory, 2nd Edition by Tim Harris and James Larus, Microsoft Research and Ravi Rajwar, Intel (Computer Architecture Series)

The "Journal de Physique Theorique et Appliquee" was created in 1872 by Charles d'Almeida - "to breath new life into physics." The journal's many historical titles reflect current (at the time) research in physics, such as "Journal de Physique et le Radium" 1920-1963, to the present, "European Physical Journal." We now have full text access to Volume 1, Number 1, 1872 to the present. You can search by author, title, affiliation in English and other fields.