| December 2005 | Vol. 28 No. 4 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Gultekin Özsoyoglu | 2 |
Special Issue on Searching and Mining Literature Digital Libraries |
| Scaling Information Extraction to Large Document Collections | Eugene Agichtein | 3 |
| Fast and Furious Text Mining | Joel D. Martin | 11 |
| Evaluating Publication Similarity Measures |   |
| Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Ali Cakmak, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, and Abdullah Al-Hamdani | 21 |
| Hard Queries can be Addressed with Query Splitting Plus Stepping Stones and Pathways |   |
| Xiaoyan Yu, Fernando Das-Neves, and Edward A. Fox | 29 |
| Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation |   |
| Impact | Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras | 39 |
| A System of User-Guided Biological Literature Search Engine | Meng Hu and Jiong Yang | 47 |
Announcements and Notices |
| VLDB'06 Conference Call for Papers | 53 |
| ICDE'06 Data Engineering Conference Conference | backcover |