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August 2003

Soft Walls - Preventing Aircraft From Being Used as Weapons - :: In the wake of Sept 11, 2001, researchers in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley are studying ways to prevent aircraft from being used as weapons, with a project called Soft Walls. (From: The Scout Report)In brief,... (11:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
August issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries - The August issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries has been released and is available to read on the Web at: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib0803.htm Stories in this issue include: 1. Google to Display IEEE Abstracts in Search Results 2. 2004 IEEE... (00:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Issues in SciTech Librarianship, Summer 2003, Issue 38 - :: The Summer 2003, Number 38 edition of Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship has appeared. Articles of interest include Mary DeCarlo's Mathematics Education Resources on the Internet, and Digital Archiving: Journey from Books to Analytical Informatics, by Marie Scandone... (10:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Penn Library: Science and Engineering Libraries, A Thinking Robot, "Smart" Dust - :: Here's a new STLQ feature: web sites from randomly selected scitech libraries. Browse the site, and perhaps you'll find something interesting that you'll want to use in your home library. First up: Science and Engineering Libraries at U Pennsylvania.... (13:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

U Sask Synchrotron, Wiley Interscience, RSS Feeds via EEVL - :: Canadian Light Source Inc, owned by the University of Saskatchewan, is home to the largest synchrotron in Canada, currently under construction on the U Sask campus. The instrument is scheduled to be turned on in January, 2004. Read Quick... (10:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

More Searching Tips and Tricks - :: Lisa Guernsey, writing in today's NYTimes, offers a number of web searching tips and tricks in her article, "Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait".The notion of a user's manual for search engines might seem counterintuitive. Give people an empty... (17:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Stephen Wolfram and A New Kind of Science - :: Science News reports on the latest developments regarding Stephan Wolfram. Wolfram self-published his major treatise, A New Kind Of Science, in May 2002. In the book, Workfram outlines a new way to study science, based on cellular automata, and... (17:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Google Update - :: Many of us use Google in library and research skills instruction. A number of good reviews and writeups have appeared on the web recently.Greg Notess' 18 August 2025 review of Google includes mention of databases covered, strengths and weaknesses,... (15:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

in-Cites, Project Links - :: From in-Cites: The 20 Most-Cited Countries in Geosciences, January 1993-April 2003, and Microbiology journals ranked by impact. :: Project Links: Mathematics and It's Applications in Engineering & Science http://links.math.rpi.edu/ "Integrating the concepts of higher math with their applications in... (13:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Using Newsblogs To Get The Word Out...Now! - SLA Chemistry Division Poster Session, June 2003 - :: Teri Vogel, chemistry librarian at the William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, offered a poster session on blogs in a science setting, at SLA in NYC in June, 2003. Her presentation focused on using blogs to communicate with... (15:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Oxford Journals tries Open Access - EurekAlert! posted the following news release on its site: "Oxford University Press (OUP) is initiating an Open Access experiment with one of its flagship journals, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), recently listed by ISI as one of the top ten 'hottest'... (10:39 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Engineers Without Borders - International - :: "Engineers Without Borders - International constitutes a network of several humanitarian organizations ... that have emerged over the past 20 years or are emerging in several countries around the world. All these organizations share the same mission, which is... (11:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
EEVL News and Enhancements - :: Roddy MacLeod sends word about the latest news from EEVL, available in the current issue of Ariadne. Thanks, Roddy.... (10:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)