Rowland Institute Library Blog

Rowland Junior Fellows Frank Vollmer, who studies micro-optical
resonances, and Peer Fischer, who studies optics of chiral molecules,
published a paper together in Optics Letters.  (Harvard affiliates
follow this link.)

Mixed States is an aggregation of various blogs about physics and by
physicists.  Group blogs as well as those by individual scientists
abound.  Many are from the Quantum Diaries project that chronicled
the International Year of Physics (2005.)  (Source: Christina
Pikas via Science Library Pad)

The American Museum of Natural History Library announces the
digitization of the museum’s roster of scientific
publications.   They are freely available and searchable
through a DSpace platform.  (Source: American Scientist Forum)

The American Chemical Society now offers RSS feeds for its entire roster of journals. 

This article talks about the problems posed by the movement of print
publications to online, particularly how many publishers are not fully
equpped for this transition and how libraries and publishers can work
together for mutual sustainability. 

The November issue of Photonics Spectra has an article on new DNA
sequencing technologies.  Amit Meller’s group and their work with
nanopores is mentioned.  Unfortunately, only an abstract is
available online, but you can apply for a free subscription to the
print magazine at the website. 

Rowland’s Amit Meller and colleagues have a new paper in Nano Letters
on DNA nanomechanical switches.  (Source: Amit Meller)

MIT and Harvard scientists have collaborated with labs from other
universities on a wiki named OpenWetWare.   It has a listing
of lab pages and a tools section, as well as a FAQ and etiquette
guidelines.  It’s described as a place for scientists to organize
information.  (Source: Nature)

This Nature article explores some of the blogging and wiki efforts in
science and asks why more scientists haven’t adopted these new vehicles
of communication.  (Source: the Sci-tech Library Question)

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library has a blog, Research Library News.