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APS announces open access journal for physics education research

Friday, March 25th, 2005

The American Physical Society announced a new journal, Physical Review
Special Topics – Physics Education Research. “The journal will be
distributed without charge, and financed
by publication charges to the authors or to the authors’
institutions.”  Similar journals include the American Journal of
Physics and the Physics Teacher (both AAPT) and Physics Education
(IoP). 

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Recovery of dinosaur tissue may give evolutionary clues

Friday, March 25th, 2005

A New York Times article reports on the recovery of soft tissue from
recently discovered dinosaur remains which may contain proteins which
“might provide clues to the evolutionary relationship of dinosaurs to
other animals and possibly help solve the puzzle of dinosaur
physiology.”  See also a Wired News article.   The research was published in Science.  Follow this link for the research report (restricted to subscribers).  (Harvard users follow this link.)

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Study of how and why physicians fall asleep at lectures

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

“a surreptitious, prospective, cohort study to explore how often physicians nod off during scientific meetings and to examine risk factors for nodding off.” (Source: SOLOLIB-L)

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On using wikipedia as a research starting point

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Mary Ellen Bates gives some tips on how to use Wikipedia as a gateway
to finding authoritative sources.  (Source: The Virtual Chase)

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More on Harvard-Google collaboration

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Evidently there are potential copyright issues to be worked out … (Source: Open Access News)

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Online newspapers soon no longer free?

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

On speculation that the New York Times and other newspapers may start
charging users to read online content.  (Source: beSpacific)

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Amercian Chemical Society expands access options

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

The ACS announced a policy that would allow their authors to deposit
their articles in PubMed Central one year after publication.  This
would enable authors to comply with NIH’s open access policy. 
(Sources: Open Access News, the Sci Tech Library Question)

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Effective e-mail

Monday, March 7th, 2005

An HBS Workling Knowledge column offers several examples of how to make
e-mail more efficient and ensure that people might actually read your
messages.  (Source: beSpacific)

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Yahoo celebrates 10 years on the web …

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

by posting a “Netrospective” gallery of images marking significant moments in internet culture and marketing…(Source; Daypop)

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New York Public Library posts digital collections

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

The NYPL has posted thousands of digital images from their collections,
including photographs, drawings, manuscripts, among other
phenomena.  Categories include Arts & Literature, Cities &
Buildings, Culture & Society, History & Geographyt, Industry
& Technology, Nature & Science, Printing & Graphics. 
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

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