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Library News & Notes —
September 29, 2006

Internet Sites of the Week

Chemical blogs
A review of blogging in general and highlights of blogs in chemistry.
http://www.cefic-rns-progress-news.org/artDetail.asp?ID=315&preview=true
(Source: Useful Chemistry)

Connectivity Map
“The Connectivity Map (also known as cmap) is a collection of genome-wide transcriptional expression data from cultured human cells treated with bioactive small molecules and simple pattern-matching algorithms that together enable the discovery of decisive functional connections between drugs, genes and diseases through the transitory feature of common gene expression changes.” From the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute.
http://www.broad.mit.edu/cmap/
Further reading:
http://www.sciencemag.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/
content/full/313/5795/1929
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/
09/29/new_web_tool_may_speed_drug_discovery/

Copyright Jungle
“We are losing much of the history of the twentieth century because the copyright industries are more litigious than ever.”
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/5/Vaidhyanathan.asp
(Source: PAMNET-L)

Most reliable search tool could be your librarian
http://news.com.com/Most%20reliable%20search%20tool%20could
%20be%20your%20librarian/2100-1032_3-6120778.html
(Source: Library Stuff)

Other People's Books
An essay by Jay Parini opines “[a] personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul.”
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=BbnjmnBwjkWnBrTGX9TwykrSVrmtqr9Q
(Source: Arts and Letters Daily)

PC World's 100 Fearless Forecasts
On future technologies.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127152-page,1-c,futuretechnology/article.html
(Source: Google News)

Rethinking Peer Review: How the Internet is Changing Science Journals
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/soa/peerreviewprint.htm
(Source: PAMNET-L)

Scientists and Engineers for America
“dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making public policy.” Features link to a “Bill of Rights for Scientists and Engineers.”
http://www.sefora.org/
(Source: Boing Boing)

Ten Reasons Librarians Should Use Ask.com Instead of Google
A listing compiled by the Librarian in Black touts the benefits of the Ask.com search engine.
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/09/ten_reasons_lib.html
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

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Received September 23 - 29, 2006