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Library News & Notes —
August 08, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

The accelerator of the modern age
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7541123.stm

Alltop Science
http://science.alltop.com/
(Source: Internet Resources Newsletter)

Campus Open Access Policies: The Harvard Experience and How to Get There
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala08/index.shtml
See also: Interview - Stuart Shieber
http://publications.hul.harvard.edu/ln_1344/interview-stuart-shieber.html
(Source: Open Access News)

Connecting researchers boosts collective intelligence
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=179
(Source: Internet Resources Newsletter)

How magicians control your mind
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/article (Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)

How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php
See also: The Innumeracy of Intellectuals(Shortened url)
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/08/04/orzel

How the Olympics Changed the World
http://www.livescience.com/history/080804-hs-olympics.html


The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text (Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

An Internal Wiki That's Not Classified
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

The Internet and Its Discontents
http://epublishersweekly.blogspot.com/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

Labmeeting "Make Science Easier"
http://www.labmeeting.com/signin
See also: Labmeeting: a Social Network for Scientists
http://www.techcrunch.com/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
http://dlmf.nist.gov/
(Source: Open Access News)

Open Access Publishing in Science - Why It Is Highly Appreciated But Rarely Used
http://openaccess-study.com/Mann_et_al_2008_Open_Access_Publishing_in_Science.pdf
(Source: Open Access News)

Options, We've Got Search Engine Options!
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50155


The Overflowing American Dinner Plate
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/business/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

Peer to Patent
"Peer-to-Patent opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time."
http://www.peertopatent.org/


Quintura
http://www.quintura.com/
(Source: SLA DSOL)

Science Dissemination using Open Access
http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html
(Source: Open Access News)

Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm (Shortened url)
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

Squidoo
"Squidoo is the world's most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions."
http://www.squidoo.com/browse/homepage
(Source: daverothman.net)

Start Data Plumbing with Yahoo Pipes
http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Start_Data_Plumbing_With_Yahoo_Pipes
(Source: Wired News)

Study revives six degrees theory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7539329.stm


Summer Vacationing in New England
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Vacationing/
(Source: Librarians' Internet Index)

Time to Replace Your Digital Camera?
http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud071508-goldsborough.shtml


Trading Places
"The demographic inversion of the American city"
http://tnr.com/politics/story.html(Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)

VADLO
http://www.vadlo.com/
(Source: Pharyngula)

Video search engines help sort it all out on the Web
http://stargazette.gns.gannettonline.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)

50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

 

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