Rowland Institute Library Blog

Supposed to be faster than the old.  So far it is.

Juraj Topolancik and Frank Vollmer published a paper in Applied Physics Letters.

Rowland’s Trapped Ions Group has a new paper on fluorescence
measurements of trapped gas-phase biomolecules.  (Harvard
affilates follow this link)

The latest issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
contains a number of papers on trends in physics and mathematics.

Rowland’s Chiro-optical Spectroscopy and Chiral Discrimination group have published a PRL paper, “Chiral molecules split light.”

Update 11/2/06: Also see the Physical Review Focus article. 

Update 11/9/06: PhysicsWeb has a brief piece on the experiment.

Jimmy Atkinson of OEDb pointed me to his collection of lists that
document more than a hundred sources of information in the “invisible
web.”  Most are freely available sites.

“Can Wikipedia ever make the grade” examines the accuracy of the online
encyclopedia, having several academics evaluate articles in their area
of expertise.  (source; j’s scratchpad)

A Boston Globe article tells of several instances of women getting jobs through their blogs. (Source: Deborah Elizabeth Finn)

The 27th New England Complex Fluids Workshop takes place tomorrow.  Rowland’s Zvonimir Dogic is one of the speakers. 

According to a news story in the Scientist, many editors of BioMed
Central journals are dissatisfied with the publisher, irked
particularly about increasing author page charges.  (source: David
Osterbur)