On blogs and wikis in science

December 1st, 2005

This Nature article explores some of the blogging and wiki efforts in
science and asks why more scientists haven’t adopted these new vehicles
of communication.  (Source: the Sci-tech Library Question)

LANL Library news blog

November 28th, 2005

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library has a blog, Research Library News. 

Article on Google library project at Harvard

November 22nd, 2005

A profile of Harvard University Librarian Sidney Verba discusses the
scope of the university’s collaboration with Google, and also some gray
areas around copyright. 

Seed magazine on physics blogs

November 18th, 2005

A short piece on how discussions of experiments spread through the net.  (Source: Not
Even Wrong)

Harvard’s Ernst Mayr Library has an XML feed for its New Books list

November 15th, 2005

Blog software reviewed

November 15th, 2005

This article considers Movable Type, WordPress, and Text Pattern.  (source: beSpacific)

Update on Zvonimir Dogic’s lab

November 10th, 2005

The PhysicsWeb article “Doing Physics with Bacteria” highlights the
work of Rowland’s Zvonimir Dogic, who studies phase transitions of
bacterial flagellar filaments in their latest paper.

RSS feeds for (some) ACS journals

November 4th, 2005

The American Chemical Society has RSS feeds for the A-pages of
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of
Proteome Research and Chemical & Engineering News. (Source; ACS
Livewire)

the “Google news” of the blog world

October 21st, 2005

Memeorandum includes both blog posts and news stories in its ongoing digest.  (Source: Scripting News; Wired News)

Nature magazine has a podcast

October 13th, 2005

Nature now features a weekly podcast that includes highlights from the magazine.  It also has an RSS feed.