In The News
Monday 21 March 2026
- Creative Commons Expands, Advertises for Science Commons Executive Director - :: The Creative Commons, the group working to reform copyright, announced in November 2004 the creation of the Science Commons:The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use... (13:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 3 March 2026
- Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library Announced in Alberta - :: Yesterday, in the Speech From the Throne, which opened the First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Legislature of the Province of Alberta, preliminary details of Bill 1, the Access to the Future Act, were read by His Honour The Honourable... (22:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 2 February 2026
- Chemical Industry Responds to Authors of "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution" - :: Legal action has been launched by twenty US chemical companies to discredit the authors of the book, "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution":Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have launched a campaign... (10:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 1 February 2026
- Inside Higher Ed - :: Bob Michaelson, writing on CHMINF-L, reports the following:There is a new free online journal (though part blog), called Inside Higher Ed Currently in beta, with some content but anticipated to grow significantly, this is something like Chronicle of Higher... (10:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 30 December 2025
- TRN's Technology Research Advances of 2004 - :: TRN Technology Research News has released its list of Top Picks for Technology Research Advances of 2004. Areas covered include biotechnology, communications, computing, engineering, energy, security, nanotechnology, applied physics, and the Internet.... (18:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 8 December 2025
- Why We Deserve A Hug - :: William R Brody, President of Johns Hopkins University, reminds us, those of us who work as librarians, why we rock:...You see, our library has the most effective search engines yet invented — librarians who are highly skilled at ferreting... (13:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 17 November 2025
- Science In For A Rough Ride in USA? - :: As suggested in a post to CHMINF-L, "It might be a good idea to circulate this to other librarians with interests in the sciences." An article in Wired News suggests that the scientific community is expecting four more years... (08:55 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 November 2025
- University of Alberta Names Mechanical/Metallurgical Engineer as New President - :: The University of Alberta has named a mechanical/metallurgical engineer as its new president for a five year term, beginning in June 2005. Dr. Indira Samarasekera is VP Research at the University of British Columbia, where she is the former... (13:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 November 2025
- U Hawaii Manoa Hamilton Library Flood Damage Update - :: Librarians at U Hawaii Manoa Hamilton Library have been posting flood updates to various discussion groups. The following was posted on ELDNET-L, by Bob Schwarzwalder of the U Hawaii Manoa Library:The situation here is very bad. This last Saturday... (10:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 2 November 2025
- U Hawaii Manoa, Hamilton Library, Hit Hard by Flood - :: The University of Hawaii at Manoa, and its Hamilton Library (site down at the moment, duh!), suffered severe damage during a flash flood on October 31st. The basement of the Hamilton Library turned into a river as 90,000 maps... (09:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 6 October 2025
- Google Begins Book Search Service - :: From NewsScan Daily for Oct 6, 2004:Google is launching a new service designed to help publishers sell books online. Called Google Print, it will allow users to see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page search results, and will... (10:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 18 May 2025
- Sci-Tech Library Newsletter - New! - New edition of Sci-Tech Library Newsletter (05/17/04):This newsletter is available to the public at the following locations: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/ http://www.eevl.ac.uk/scitechnews/ http//avel.edu.au/scitech.html ------------------------------------ 1. "CrossRef Search" PILOT Free federated search engine! 2. SCIENCE POLICY 3. AROUND DC AND ON THE NET 4.... (14:55 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 April 2025
- Gravity Probe B - Was Einstein Right? - :: Interesting article from e4engineering.com on the Gravity Probe B, launched on April 20th. The probe will use four gyroscopes to attempt to detect if spacetime is bending around the Earth:Gravity Probe B is the relativity gyroscope experiment being developed... (12:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 25 March 2026
- PLoS Wins a 2004 Wired Rave Award - :: The Public Library of Science has won a 2004 Wired Rave Award, "For cracking the spine of the science cartel." PLoS "is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a... (11:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 March 2026
- Incident in the Library - :: Today in our library, a student was attacked and stabbed in the arm and shoulder by three other individuals, while studying on the second floor. Most of us working in the building weren't aware anything had happened until afterwards.... (15:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 20 February 2026
- Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling - The following is from Nature, v429, n6976, p663.Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling [WASHINGTON] Iranians struggling to secure free speech at home are facing a fresh set of restrictions from the US government. The US Department of... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 10 February 2026
- MIT Libraries Declines Three-Year Elsevier and Wiley Renewals - :: Another major library system has joined Cornell University Library in not renewing their subscriptions to Elsevier journals. MIT Libraries has announced it will not renew three-year online and print subscription packages from Wiley InterScience and Elsevier Science. Last year,... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 January 2026
- The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives - Cartographers and historians alike will be interested in The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives: Evidenceincamera has been created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA) at Keele University. Our aim is to make the aerial reconnaissance photographs, deposited by the UK Ministry of... (14:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 15 January 2026
- Libraries in Iraq - As posted to Jerome-L... Some of you may recall that in early December I had posted the first release of The Library of Congress and the Cultural Property Office of the US Department of State Mission To Baghdad Report on... (16:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
- World's Largest Book Unveiled - :: Weighing in at 59 kg/113 pounds, and measuring 5 feet high and almost 7 feet long, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom, a 114-page picture book about the country of Bhutan, won't be fitting on any standard... (14:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 November 2025
- British Library News - :: There is some interesting news from the British Library:The British Library has added details of over 2.55 million unique bibliographic records to the Amazon.co.uk books catalogue, with 1.7 million of these dated before the 1970 introduction of ISBN.In addition,... (09:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 November 2025
- SME SourceTM and NanoGuitars - :: ebrary and SME Launch World’s Largest Full-Text Database of Publications in Manufacturing Engineering. The new database is called SME Source™, and includes: 4,000 books, journals and technical papers in manufacturing engineering, including the nine-volume Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook... (12:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
- 25 Most Provocative Questions Facing Science, Landing on Mars - :: The NYTimes celebrates 25 years of covering science by posing "25 of the most provocative questions facing science." (ID and PW: podbay.) :: "A British-built craft designed to scour the surface of Mars for signs of life is scheduled... (11:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 9 November 2025
- EEVL Announces OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs News - From EEVL, The Internet Guide To Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, comes word of two new services for scanning industry news and jobs announcements.EEVL: the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, is delighted to announce the launch of two new,... (23:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 21 October 2025
- U Alberta Mech Engineers Make Important Energy Breakthrough, More on PLoS Biology - :: University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Dr Daniel Kwok and Dr Larry Kostiuk (additional information here), working with two graduate students, Fuzhi Lu (L) and Jun Wang (R), have discovered a new way to produce electricity, the first such... (05:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 September 2025
- ACS Analyzes WTC Dust; Edward Teller Dies - :: The American Chemical Society is holding its annual meeting in NYC this week, and researchers still do not know if there are any long-term effects to be expected.When the World Trade Center collapsed, more than a million tonnes of... (15:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 September 2025
- Mixed-Bag Special - :: Walt Crawford, in the latest issue of Cites & Incites, v3, n11, Sept 2003, offers commentary and observation on open access, blogging, and provides a summary of his survey of DVD durability. Definitely worth a look. :: Classes began... (15:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 26 August 2025
- 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)
Thursday 21 August 2025
- 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)
Wednesday 20 August 2025
- 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)
Monday 28 July 2025
- iPill - "Diagnosis and Medicine in a Pill" - Researchers at the University of Calgary made the headlines of Wired today for the creation of the iPill - an "intelligent pill" that when ingested, take readings of the host body with the ability to deliver the appropriate dosage of... (23:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Arson at U Georgia's Main Library, ISI Highly Cited.com, World Nano-Economic Congress - :: The second floor of the University of Georgia's Main Library annex was deliberately set on fire last night, causing much damage to the collection. :: From the 28 July 2025 Search Engine Watch:ISIHighlyCited.com calls itself "an expert gateway to... (14:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 24 July 2025
- Weaver's Web, Nano-rotor - :: Recently I learned from a colleague that Belinda Weaver favourably mentioned The (sci-tech) Library Question in Weaver's Web, her July 2003 column for inCite, the news magazine of ALIA. Thanks, Melinda! :: Scientists at UC Berkeley have created the... (17:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 11 July 2025
- What's new - :: Scientific American has an interesting interview with Dr James D Watson, marking the 50th anniversary of the report of Watson's and Francis H C Crick's discovery of DNA. :: Nature reports that bacteria could be enlisted to help construct... (00:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 27 June 2025
- Public Library of Science - :: PLoS is in the news. Geoff reported on their new marketing blitz, a 30-second commercial, called "Wings", "...which humorously portrays the scientific progress that could be made if research and discoveries were openly and freely shared. The spot features... (10:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 4 June 2025
- Too Much Information - :: Mel DeSart sent an e-mail about an article in the June 2003 issue of Mechanical Engineering. The article is called too much information: Organizing information - after gathering it in the first place - is the key to actually... (10:38 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 2 June 2025
- Mixed-Bag Special 03.06.02 - :: Often students visit the campus library and ask for help with a job search. Two useful sites for engineering students are justengineers.net and The Engineer Jobs, from e4engineering.com. :: Nifty idea: MIT Libraries has created a Faculty FAQ. "This... (23:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 May 2025
- Mixed-Bag Special - :: "Scientific papers that are not widely read and that lack any great influence can end up being classed as high-impact, claim researchers in California". Read the story here. :: Karlin Lillington recently attended the ISC Symposium in Switzerland, and... (00:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 23 May 2025
- New Students Turning Away from Computer Science - :: An interesting article in 22 May 2025 NYTimes discusses the declinining enrolments in computer science studies since the dot com bust in 2000. (If ID and PW required, use podbay.)... (17:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 22 May 2025
- Researchers Able to Stop, Then Restart Light - A team of researchers at Harvard has discovered a way to slow the speed of light to a complete stop, and then restart it again. The team is led by Lene Vestergaard Hau. Previously, Lau and her colleagues reduced the... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 13 May 2025
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Making its way around the listservs today:Lund University Libraries today launches the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org), supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition,... (11:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 12 May 2025
- 1) Academic Fraud; 2) New journal from Public Library of Science - :: An interesting article in The Education Guardian weekly discusses about academic fraud, and cites a U Minnesota study of 4,000 researchers in >100 faculties. The study "found that one in three scientists plagiarised, 22% handled data "carelessly" and 15%... (14:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 May 2025
- Tabling of the Bill Creating the Library and Archives of Canada - A new Bill was tabled in the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, to create the new Library and Archives of Canada. The National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada will merge to form the new institution.... (16:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)