A compendium of links mostly relating to science and science library issues.
Friday, December 05, 2003
Posted
9:49 AM
by Garrett
The Rowland Institute Library Weblog has a new URL. Here is the XML feed. Previous posts will continue to be archived at this site.
Posted
2:37 PM
by Garrett
United States Patent: 6,643,686 a patent granted to A T &T for a way of sending e-mail that foils anti-spam measures (Source: Lockergnome Bytes) Does it mean we will be at the mercy of ma bell?
Posted
2:23 PM
by Garrett
Weblogs: simplifying web publishing An article in IEEE Computer discusses weblogs' usefulness for content management, the different applications involved, and future apps such as cell phone blogging...
Posted
4:40 PM
by Garrett
Turning up the heat on preprint servers
This week's Nature features two news articles on troubles with the arXiv.org (or xxx) preprint server; according to one piece, 22 papers were withdrawn amidst allegations of plagiarism; another story,
Critical comments threaten to open libel floodgate for physics archive, reports on one physicist attacking another's work in a paper posted to the archive, and the implications of such uncensored comments. Paul Ginsparg remarked "We don't want these food fights conducted on a regular basis." An editorial (gleefully?) admonishing preprint server and scientific website administrators about libel law kicks off the issue.
AIP has a service with links to science news stories of general interest. One of the latest is a statement by Steven Weinberg to the Texas Board of Education supporting the teaching of evolutionary theory - in fact, he advocates that no alternative theories (such as creation science) be taught alongside it.
an article about the Sanger centre in London, which evidently has a database of more than two billion letters of DNA; geneticists can search the database freely ...