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Library News & Notes —
July 14, 2006

Internet Sites of the Week

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/e/emerson/
(Source: The Scout Report)

How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?
A report by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's economics department examines through citations the spread of scientific ideas.
http://www.economics.rpi.edu/workingpapers/rpi0612.pdf
(Source: Docuticker)

IEEE Electronic Library
The most comprehensive access to IEEE journals and proceedings is now available to Harvard affiliates, courtesy of the Gordon McKay Library of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/Xplore/dynhome.jsp
(Source: Frans Spaepen)

Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher: Classical Music Databases and Web Resources
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul06/Mattison.shtml

PS I Want All the Rights
A Nature news piece examines growing initiatives on the part of authors and universities to retain certain publication rights.
http://www.nature.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/nature/
journal/v442/n7099/full/442118a.html
(Source: Peter Suber)

Top 10 Web Search Tricks
A variety of tips from About.com.
http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/toptentp.htm

Top 50 Science Blogs
http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=46
(Source: Open Access News)

When to Wiki, When to Blog
Bob Doyle discusses the comparative uses of wikis and blogs.
http://www.econtentmag.com/?ArticleID=16900

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Received July 1 - 14, 2006