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Library News & Notes —
August 15, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

For-Profit Scientific Publishers and the Culture of Entitlement.
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2008/08/forprofit_scientific_publisher.php
(Source: Open Access News)

Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.(Shortened url)
(Source: Slashdot)

Fostering Learning in the Networked World
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/nsf08204.pdf
(Source: Open Access News)

Fuelly
"Fuelly is a site that lets you track, share, and compare your gas mileage. "
http://www.fuelly.com
(Source: beSpacific)

Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html
(Source: beSpacific)

Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=523947

How to buy a new car and not get screwed
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/how-to-buy-a-new-car.html


How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/(Shortened url)


HP, Intel, Yahoo partner in cloud computing
http://www.eetimes.com/news/(Shortened url)
(Source: IEEE)

I.D. Theft: Digital Defense is Required in Disaster
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0811/p16s01-wmgn.html


Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=minding-mistakes
(Source: Science in the News)

Polymeme: A Polymath's Guide to News
http://polymeme.com
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Publication of NIH-Funded Research in PubMedCentral
http://www.ascb.org/files/July08P10.pdf
(Source: SPARC E-News)

A Publishing Primer
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008(Shortened url)


Techniques to Find Less Expensive Computers
http://compreviews.about.com/od/buyers/tp/BuyaPCForLess.htm


TextMeTV Is Either Future of Television or Beginning of Its End
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3240(Shortened url)


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

 

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