Rowland Institute Library Blog

This page by Chris Sherman of Search Engine Watch reviews several
services that search RSS feeds.  (Source: The Virtual Chase)

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Library Newsletter quotes some
interesting statistics about how teenagers navigate the online
world. 

Members of Rowland’s Single Molecule Biophysics Group, in collaboration
with other  researchers at Harvard and Urbana-Champaign, report on
the dynamics of single DNA molecules within a narrow protein
pore.  (Harvard users follow this link.)

From Tufts University comes a blog that highlights interesting uses of
RSS in libraries.  For example, some libraries include RSS updates
to their subject guides, canning the RSS feed from PhysicsWeb or BioMed
Central or another source.  A useful blog.  (Source: Neat New
Stuff on the Net)

Jorge Hirsch from UCSD has come up with a factor called the h-index,
which takes into account the number of papers published by a scientist
and the number of citations for each paper.   Thus, a
scientist with an h-index of 10 would have published 10 papers that
have been cited at least ten times.  Hirsch says this is a more
accurate way of considering the output of individual scientists. 

According to the New York Times, Google said it would give publishers
the chance to opt out of having their works scanned in the massive
library project.  Google intends to go ahead with scanning
material in the public domain. 

Rowland’s Complex Fluids group, which uses cells such as viruses and
bacterial flagella to study physics, has published a paper on the
behavior of a rod-like virus, fd, in solution. 

The “College library of tomorrow” talks about digitization efforts at
Stanford and MIT, among other places, including the former’s LOCKSS
project for harvesting journals for perpetual access, and the latter’s
DSpace repository.  (Source: The Virtual Chase)

The Scientist explores how scientists have taken to blogging and
provides an extensive list of links to science blogs.  (Requires
registration)

In the outer solar system, astronomers have detected a planet bigger than Pluto.  See also an article from Sky and Telescope.