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Library News & Notes -- Archive
December 5, 2003
Notes
The library weblog is now located at
. Harvard Law offers Harvard users
free access to Manila blogging software, hosts the blogs on their
server, and offers a variety of templates and tools (including comments
(talk to us), categories, trackback (you can find out which other blogs
reference items similar to yours) and an XML feed (just click on the
orange button and paste the URL into your news aggregator).
Internet Sites of the Week
Alternative Copyright Assignments
DEAS computer science professor Stuart Scheiber, a strong proponent of
open access publishing, offers two examples of author-favoring copyright
agreements. Amusing and instructive.
Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called 'Oops'
A New York Times article explores the hidden charges that phone
companies, airlines, hotels and others may try to cram onto your
invoice. Buyer beware.
Grants.gov
The federal government now offers “one-stop shopping” for grant and
funding opportunities. You can search by agency, or choose from a number
of subject categories.
(Source: NSF Sci-Tech Library Newsletter)
Past Physics Theses
The Harvard Physics Department has a chronological listing of all of its
doctoral theses. Current theses will be archived on the site, and the
department will embark on a retrospective digitization project to make
the earlier theses available.
(Source: Michael Leach)
NEW BOOKS
Received Nov. 22-28, 2003
Title
Author/Editor
(Publisher, Year)
To be Shelved at:
Requested by
Advances in Chemical Physics, v.128
Stuart A. Rice, editor
(Wiley, 2003)
QD 453 .A27 v.128 2003
Standing order requested by Joel Parks
Brownian Drift Ratchets Based on Microporous Silicon
Gosele, Ulrich
Rowland Institute Seminar October 14, 2003
Video Gosele Brownian
Recorded by Jason Figueiredo
Computational Discrete Mathematics
Pemmaraju, Siriam and Steven Skiena
(Cambridge, 2003)
QA 164 .P45 2003
Requested by Mike Burns
Experience-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Barrel Cortex in vivo
Chen, Brian
Rowland Institute Seminar October 17, 2003
Video Chen Plasticity
Recorded by Jason Figueiredo
Liquid Solids: a New Look at Polymer Gels
Rabin, Yitzhak
Rowland Institute Seminar October 7, 2003
Video Rabin Gels
Recorded by Jason Figueiredo
Pattern Selections and Boundary Conditions at Infinity
Feigenbaum, Mitchell
Rowland Institute Seminar October 21, 2003
Video Feigenbaum Infinity
Recorded by Jason Figueiredo
The Rowland Institute Library catalog can be searched via the Internet at
These books will be displayed on the new books cart (near the newspaper and journals tables)
for approximately one week. The person who requested the book has priority for checking it out during the first week.
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