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October 23, 2009

Internet Sites of the Week

Academic Libraries, Publishers, and Digital Books

Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon

Is Barnes & Noble's Nook a Kindle killer?
(Source: Erika McNeil)
See also: Barnes and Noble Nook gets a reception fit for a king

Computers and Internet

The Future of Supercomputers is Optical

Merging Video with Maps

(Source: ResourceShelf)

Migrate to Windows 7 - Slowly
See also: Figure Out Which Windows 7 Edition Has the Features You Need
(Source: lifehacker)
See also: The Six "Wow" Features of Windows 7

Researchers Find Way to Reduce Energy Used by Computer Processors

Super-Sized Memory Could Fit Into Tiny Chips

(Source: mullam)

Education

Finances Put HMS Programs On Hold

Harvard Alumni Seek Disclosure of Bonus Retractions
(Source: Harvard in the News)

Harvard president: school adjusting to tight times
See also: Harvard may alter some expansion plans
See also: Harvard's Annual Financial Report Fully Details 2009 Losses

SEAS Dean Charts Course

Scholarly Publishing

Open access: are publishers 'double dipping'?
(Source: dullhunk)

Open Access Week: a researcher's perspective
(Source: BLugger)

Open Access Week event at Harvard Law 10/19/09: Q & A

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents
(Source: libram)

Science and Technology

The Biology of Memory: A Forty-Year Perspective
(Source: brown2020)

Electrons reveal DNA without destroying it

FiO: Notes from the Crucible
"On scientific research and academic conferences"
(Source: lsmarshall)

Four locals among PopSci's 'Ten Young Geniuses'

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

From Web 2.0 to the Global Database
(Source: Timo Hannay)

Going mobile
scientists and mobile technology

GoWeb: a semantic search engine for the life science web

Helping to Unravel the Hidden Web of Neuroscience Information

(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

Intelligence Explained: Tracking & understanding complex connections within the brain
(Source: brown2020)

Medline/PubMed revisited: new, semantic tools to explore the biomedical literature
(Source: Laurel Graham)

Memory and Brain Systems: 1969 - 2009

Milestones in Light Microscopy

NERM 09 session on Chemistry on the Web

New works of science nonfiction

Physicists are discovering ways to build rogue waves out of light
(Source: lsmarshall)

Questions, questions, questions

Safety Song: musical number about lab safety

Science Papers That Interest You
(Source: library_zone)

Scientists announce planet bounty
(Source: sciencegoddess)

Scientists get the measure of how weather shapes our body clocks
(Source: ScienceSoWhat)

Selected Internet Resources in Science and Technology (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)
(Source: Xuemei)

Seeds of collaboration

Ten Technologies You Can't Afford to Ignore
(Source: Library Web)

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension
See also: A head of time
(Source: MITNews)

Windfall warning

(Source: bmahersciwriter)
See also: The Science of Spending Stimulus Money Wisely
(Source: Steve Silberman)
See also: Stimulus funds provide research boost

Work Group Sees Challenges in Electronic Exchange of Lab Data

50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World

Social Networks

Facebook for scientists gets millions in funding

See also: National Network of Scientists to Transform Biomedical Research
(Source: krafft)
See also: Scientists Still Not Joining Social Networks
(Source: modernscientist)

New Network for Chinese Researchers

NEW BOOKS

Received October 17 - 23, 2009

No new books received this week.