Rowland Institute Library Blog

A Harvard Crimson sums up recent experiments in slowing, stopping and manipulating light. Recently published results by the Lukin group are discussed, with earlier work by Hau and Walsworth mentioned.

A Washington post article casts a skpetical eye on dubious patents … It’s been mentioned elsewhere that along with genes people are patenting what might otherwise be considered techniques or business practices, on the level of going out on the street to sell newspapers … and not nescessarily inventing a new technology. (Source: Slashdot

Eight drawings show Amazonation of the library; a good response to many articles that suggest libraries become more like the online bookstore. Of course, Amazon has a lot to teach us, especially now with its entry into full-text searching. One of my best memories of the public library in my hometown, however, was no one coming to bother you. (Source: The Shifted Librarian)

The federal government now offers” one-stop shopping” for grant and funding opportunities. You can search by agency, or choose from a number of subject categories. (Source: NSF Sci-Tech Library Newsletter

An article from BioMedCentral discusses Harvard’s plans for a “science hub,” one of the prongs for its Allston strategy. Dean Venky of DEAS comments on new linkages between engineering and the life sciences resulting from this proposed new geography and infrastructure. Some faculty objections are chronicled, even more in-depth in Monday’s Crimson.

an interview with the director of the e-biosci project on how to make life sciences literature accessible, stable and searchable… (Source: Open Access News)