In “the long road to longhorn.” Salon’s Scott Rosenberg details the thinking behind Microsoft’s projected new operating system, not due for a couple of years, how the “bloggers in Redmond” will provide updates, and what the prospects are for this system and “the evil empire.” (Free after you watch a commercial.)
I’d heard of this being advocated some while back, a kind of “C-SPAN for science.” (In fact, the Cable Science Network website has links to several articles about it.) It’s come back into “view”shot with an engaging commentary in Wired News. (Source: Slashdot)
Discover lists its choice of top science news stories for 2003, including Columbia, SARS, age of the cosmos and others. A subscription is required to read the full articles. (Source: Moreover)
the International Union of Crystallography, publishers of the Acta Crystallographa Series, also offer RSS feeds for their journals, which feature title and abstract for the most recently published articles. (Source: List of Chemistry Journals and Magazines, an extensive hyperlinked list from Dr. Lonquin Hu of Rutgers. I learned about it from PSIGate.
We’re going to be seeing more and more journal content delivery via RSS. For those of us who use our newsreader to filter through all kinds of content, it’s a boon. If the full text of the journal is behind a proxy, firewall, or limited access via subscription, that complicates the picture. Just wait until BioMedCentral releases RSS feeds for its open-access journals. It will be seamless. It will be live.
Often times it seems a publisher doesn’t do much to advertise new features. I stumble upon archives or a new feature such as RSS. Was an annoucement posted to listservs or mailing lists? Am I reading the wrong stuff?
This matters. The Institute of Physics (IoP) has made RSS feeds available for its news service and several journals including Journal of Physics Condensed Matter and New Journal of Physics. The journal feeds provide listings and links for the latest papers.
Many have looked for publishers to deliver journal content via RSS and now IoP is taking a huge leap forward. Congratulations.
“Offloading your memories,” a New York Times magazine article, documents several ongoing research projects (such as MyLifeBits) aimed at creating a digital system for every bit of data in your life. (source: SciTechDaily Review)
More university libraries attempt to get out from under Elsevier’s big deal (requires subscription.) (Source: Open Access News)
Steve Cohen reported in Library Stuff that Consumers’ Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, now have a feed for their news updates.
