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Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes —
July 8th, 2005

NOTES

Garrett's Rowland Institute Library Blog (among many others) is profiled in Business Blogs: A Practical Guide by Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington ( http://www.businessblogguide.com/). The section of the book is attached to this e-mail, or you can read it on the bulletin board.

Internet Sites of the Week

In Depth: London Explosions
Information on the London subway attacks from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/
2005/london_explosions/default.stm
(Source: Librarian's Index to the Internet)
Also see NewsNow which aggregates thousands of UK, US and European news sources:
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=London+Explosions
(Source: ResourceShelf)

DEAS Newsletter
The Spring 2005 newsletter of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences features Winfield Hill and Paul Horowitz and discusses their seminal Art of Electronics textbook (see p.7).
http://www.deas.harvard.edu/newsandevents
/pdf/Newsletter_Sp2005.pdf
(Source: Angela Healy)

Key Open Access Concepts
This site summarizes essentials about open access publishing, including a definition of open access and overview of various open access journals and publishers.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/keyoaconcepts.htm
(Sources: Charles Bailey; ResourceShelf)

NASA — Deep Impact
NASA's site includes images and information on its mission to collide a spacecraft with a comet.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

One Hundred Twenty-Five Questions: What Don't We Know
Science magazine celebrates its 125th anniversary with a section of unanswered scientific questions.
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Quantum Diaries
This site features blogs from 33 particle physicists in celebration of the World Year of Physics 2005.
http://interactions.org/quantumdiaries/
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

RSS Feeds for Medical Journals
A quick step-by-step on how to use PubMed to keep up with journals via RSS.
http://www.medpda.net/archives/005657
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus
Greg Notes writes about the two search services advantages and drawbacks.
http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml


Swimming Around In Circles
A PhysicsWeb article reports on Harvard researchers' observations of swimming behavior of bacteria near a solid surface. Howard Berg is mentioned.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/7/2/1

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Received July 2 - 8, 2005