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Library News & Notes —
August 12th, 2005

Internet Sites of the Week

Berners-Lee on the Read/Write Web
A BBC interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee features his views on the evolution of the web, including blogging.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4132752.stm
(Source: beSpacific)

Google News Feeds
Google News is now available via RSS or Atom feeds. You can choose from several categories such as Top News, World, Sci-Tech and others.
http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html
(Sources: beSpacific, j's scratchpad)

Knowledgespeak
Knowledgespeak is a news site that focuses on scientific, technical and medical publishing. It features articles, white papers, and press releases, among other material.
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/Index.asp
(Source: Sci-Tech Library Question)

Nanoelectronics and Nanosensors Group
The group's work on Si nanowire field effect transistors was profiled in Nano Today.
http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/rjf/park/index.php
http://www.nanotoday.com/pdfs%20nanotoday%202/nt2p6_11.pdf?
_ob=GatewayURL&origin=MATERIALSTODAY&_urlVersion=4&_return
URL=&_method=citationSearch&_version=1&_piikey=S1369702104006297
&md5=d7e878f8abb921f682c4745224e3ae93
(Source: Jiwoong Park)

Wikis for scientific publishing
“Most scholars today depend on being reviewed following the traditions of academic journals, and they depend on being published by ‘important journals’. The Open Access Movement can be seen as an attempt to put scholars (in their role as readers and as authors) back in control of the publication process. It also can be seen as part of a bigger movement searching and exploring new ways of publication - ways that fit the needs of authors and readers better. Here Wiki comes into play, but its role is ambivalent: On the one hand, wiki-software may serve many needs of the existing institutions and processes, on the other hand the wikipedia-community can be seen as a radical new model of publishing. How could Wikipedia serve as a model for the scientific community, what will the future look like, and what is left to do for wiki-developers and wiki-advocates?”
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Paper-LH1
(Source: Open Access News)

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Received August 6 - 12, 2005