Rowland Institute at Harvard
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nSeptember 25, 2009<\/p>\n
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A.Word.A.Day<\/a> Academic and Public Library Collaboration<\/a> Access to Government Information In the United States<\/a> The Aggressive Online Search<\/a> American English Dialect Recordings<\/a> Around Academic Libraries, New Cuts and Charges<\/a> The Art of Written Persuasion: Part V – Improve Your Vocabulary, Improve Your Success<\/a> Article-Level Download Metrics\u2014What Are They Good For?<\/a><\/p>\n Asking library users to leave if they have H1N1<\/a><\/p>\n Augmented Reality Goes 3D, Gets Even More Awesome<\/a> The Awesomeness Manifesto<\/a> Because I Am a Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2009<\/a> Before Choosing an E-Book, Pondering the Format<\/a> Best Technology Companies to Work For<\/a><\/p>\n Blogging Continues to Help Business<\/a> Bored? Goby helps you find things to do<\/a><\/p>\n Boston Book Festival<\/a> Buddhist leader calls video games ’emotional therapy’<\/a><\/p>\n Challenges for automatically extracting molecular interactions from full-text articles Chemical Information in Scirus and BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Classic computers on the danger list<\/a><\/p>\n A Clip-and-Save Renaissance as More Consumers Use Coupons<\/a> College Bookstores Hope to Turn Their Web Sites Into E-Book Portals College for $99 a month<\/a> Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice Curiosity, Ingenuity and Styrofoam Science<\/a><\/p>\n Data repositories: the next new wave<\/a> Debate Flaring Over Grants for Research<\/a><\/p>\n Download Free Reference Guides for Popular Apps A Dozen Newspaper Survival Tips for Academic Librarians<\/a> Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals<\/a> Entrepreneurs: Born or made? Ken Morse, Paul Sagan discuss<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook doesn’t kill friendships, people do<\/a><\/p>\n Fantastic Photos of our Solar System<\/a> Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: FY 2007<\/a> Five ways that Apps.gov is a trendsetter A follow-up to the story on the Cushing Academy Library Abandoning Books<\/a> For better social news times, make it the Twitter Times<\/a> Fotopedia – the world’s first collaborative photo encyclopedia<\/a> From Mac Portable to MacBook Pro: 20 years of Apple laptops<\/a><\/p>\n Futures Thinking: The Basics<\/a><\/p>\n Get To Work : Helping librarians find new ways to assist jobseekers<\/a> The GigaOM Guide to the Net Neutrality<\/a> Google lets you custom-print millions of books<\/a> Google This: 5 Reasons to Switch to Bing<\/a> Google Unveils Tool to Annotate Web Sites<\/a> The Grass Is Greener at Harvard<\/a> High costs can make open records seem closed<\/a> How Bad Papers Get Published in Good Journals<\/a> How Doctors Are Using Social Media<\/a> How scientists think: Fostering creativity in problem solving<\/a><\/p>\n How students use Google Books<\/a> How to choose a good scientific problem<\/a> How to Write a Novel Using the Web<\/a> If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less<\/a> Images of women in STEM fields<\/a> In a World of Social Networks, What is the Future of Television?<\/a> In Hard Times, Harvard Takes a Hard Look at 30 Shades of Crimson<\/a> In praise of a new science of learning<\/a> The Kindle Problem<\/a><\/p>\n Lab trips foster collegiality<\/a><\/p>\n Launched in Great Depression, Jackson Labs now thrives<\/a><\/p>\n Libraries of the Future<\/a> Library Cloud Atlas: A Guide to Cloud Computing and Storage<\/a> Linked data as the future of scientific publishing<\/a> Majority of Workers Still Hide Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity at Work<\/a> Making Academic Conferences Short and Sweet Mass Digitization of Books: Open Content Alliance is the right approach<\/a> Mass. ‘average’ in gender-pay disparity<\/a><\/p>\n Mass. ignorant of photonics’ role in state Meeting your users where they are Minority Students Needed in Math and Science to Combat ‘Brain Drain,’ Professors Say More Time Requested in Google Book Scanning Case<\/a> Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M<\/a> Nature Precedings: a Fusion of Science 2.0, Open Science, Research 2.0 and Social Networking<\/a><\/p>\n The Newman Report: a 2020 Vision for Public Libraries<\/a> Not Just \u2018That Blind Person\u2019<\/a> On Being a Scientist Open Access<\/a> Open Letter on Open Access Open PhD – An experiment in higher learning<\/a> Our New Etiquette Column: Internet Protocol<\/a> (New York Times)<\/p>\n Post-Medium Publishing<\/a> Project ‘Gaydar’<\/a> Quantum computers are coming \u2013 just don’t ask when Real Copyright Reform<\/a> The Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind<\/a> Reaxys<\/a> Region a strong player in travel websites<\/a> Researchers unravel brain’s wiring to understand memory<\/a> RIT Trades Invention Rights for Research Dollars and Says You Should, Too Robert Darnton talk at Columbia University \u2013 \u201cGoogle, Libraries, and the Digital Future\u201d<\/a> The ROI Case for Web 2.0<\/a> Rowland Institute at Harvard Junior Fellows Program 2010<\/a><\/p>\n Science and the Internet<\/a> Science, Art, and Technology<\/a> (Art Institute of Chicago) Science 2.0 Review: ePernicus<\/a><\/p>\n Senate Bill Defends Reader Privacy by Regulating Surveillance<\/a> Shopping Week with Students Stylists<\/a><\/p>\n Six Tips for Coping with the Fact that You’ve Forgotten Someone’s Name<\/a><\/p>\n SmallTownGems<\/a> Sponsor a scientist, online<\/a><\/p>\n Social Media make a difference<\/a><\/p>\n Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations<\/a> The Story of Google Maps and Google Wave<\/a> Study: Medical school students post unprofessional content online<\/a><\/p>\n Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software Taming Your Digital Distractions<\/a><\/p>\n Taxachusetts’ ranks 36th in tax-burden study<\/a><\/p>\n Technology shouldn\u2019t change basic communication skills There is no single future for scientific journals<\/a> Through the lens of time<\/a> The Times They Are a Changin’<\/a><\/p>\n Treat Your Meetings to a Little QA<\/a><\/p>\n A turning point in the struggle against cancer<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter After Dark: What should or shouldn’t I Tweet on?<\/a> The Ultimate Gated Communities<\/a><\/p>\n The Ultimate Productivity Blog<\/a> U.N. agencies say AIDS vaccine results promising<\/a><\/p>\n Visions of data<\/a><\/p>\n Wallwisher – Words That Stick<\/a> Washington Post Launches Comedy Web Series Based on Celebrity Tweets<\/a> What Does It Mean to Be a Science Librarian 2.0?
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\nOn job seekers’ knowledge of institutions via the web<\/p>\n
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\nSee also: How We Sabotage Young Girls<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBeena Kalisky, L’Oreal USA Fellow, offers tips for mothers in science<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee also: What Is It About e-Readers?<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\u201cBorn in the Recession\u201d: A look at business survival stories from past recessions<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nCan Amazon Be the Wal-Mart of the Web?<\/a>
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\nSee also: Getting an Education on the Internet<\/a>
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\nDBpedia<\/a>
\n“DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the web.”
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\nSee also: Net neutrality: FCC proposes three new rules
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\nSee also: Google Sidewiki — A First Look<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSee also: Materials for nurturing scientists<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSee also: Harvard Libraries Need to Pull It Together, Says Their President<\/a>
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\nSee also: From Baby Scientists to a Science of Social Learning<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSee also: Academic Digital Libraries of the Future: An Environment Scan<\/a>
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\nSee also: Libraries need librarians<\/a>
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\nSee also: Boston Library Consortium Responds to Google Book Settlement<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
\nSee also: DOJ Filing on Google Book Setttlement<\/a>
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\nSee also: Google Books’ Latest Foe: The Justice Dept.<\/a>
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\nSee also: Google Book settlement: Alternatives and alterations<\/a>
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\nSee also: The Four Horsemen send their regrets
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\nThe CILIP West Midlands journal features a section on professional development using web 2.0 tools
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\n“At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy.”
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\nSee also: Search Wars — With Bing, Twitter and Facebook, There’s More to Searching Google<\/a>
\nSee also: Real time indexing in Google<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSearch Beilstein, Gmelin, and Patents
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\nWhat happened to Polaroid’s collections of photographs?<\/p>\n
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\nWant to read all about it online? It may cost you<\/a>
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