Rowland Institute Library Blog

Wednesday, May 21, 2003


Scientific literacy: Clear as mud Explores the question of why many scientific papers are unintelligible and unreadable ...




Wiley InterScience Launches Pay-Per-View Service Access to electronic books might be quite useful ... (Source: eContent)



Tuesday, May 20, 2003


Einstein Archives Online A collaboration between Caltech and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this website contains digitized versions of Einstein's notes, papers and manuscripts and provides access to over 40,000 records of material by or concerning Einstein. (Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Update, May 20, 2003)



Monday, May 19, 2003


NIST Data Gateway Free Databases from NIST (source; Scout Report for Physical Sciences, May 16, 2003)



Waiting Game at the NSF A Chronicle of Higher Education article on the delays scientists have faced getting money from NSF for larger-scale projects (facilities, instruments ...) (Chronicle, Volume 49, Issue 37, Page A20)