Rowland Institute Library Blog

Accounts of Chemical Research has a special issue on single molecule
spectroscopy this month.  Papers include applications in
biophysics and chemistry, among others. 

Theo Greene, librarian emerita of the Rowland Institute, passed away on
July 14.  She set up the Rowland Institute library in the early
1980s.  She was a chemist and wrote the text Protective Groups in
Organic Synthesis (2 editions, Wiley).  I remember Theo coming to
the library many times after she retired to look up citations in
Chemical Abstracts, particularly while she was revising her book.

Reference Book of the Day offers reviews of various reference titles,
from new to early in the last century.  Topics include language,
philosophy, education, national parks, crime and others.  (source:
Library Juice)

A Boston Globe article reports on the apparent success of PLOS Biology,
an open access journal which had the highest impact factor among
general biology journals.  (source; Open Access News)

A listing of things people could not find searching on Google. 
Wonder if the people at Google Answers are reading this.  (Source:
LISNews)

PhysicsWeb reports on Harvard’s Whitesides group’s observations of
bacteria and how they swim counter-clockwise next to a solid
surface.  The article mentions Rowland’s Howard Berg and his
experiments observing counter-clockwise motion of bacteria in the
1970s.