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Library News & Notes
June 17th, 2005

Internet Sites of the Week

Acronyma
With Acronyma, you can decipher acronyms. You can also find acronyms with certain words. A form for submitting acronyms is available.
http://www.acronyma.com/
(Source: ResearchBuzz)

Botany Photo of the Day
From the University of British Columbia comes this blog featuring photos and descriptions of plants, with a new one added daily.
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/
(Source: The Scout Report)

Everything That Can Go Wrong Listed
A massive scientific cataloging project.
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4124&n=3

Exalead: a Potentially Powerful New Search Engine
Mary Ellen Bates reviews a new search engine with several interesting features, including screen shots of results and the possibility of using truncation.
http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/exalead.html
(Source: The Virtual Chase)

Guidelines for Negotiating Scientific Collaboration
An article in PLOS Biology includes a table guiding one through negotiating scientific collaborations, including questions of publication and data access.
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030217

The Harmful Algae Page
From Woods Hole comes a site devoted to harmful algal blooms and featuring a photo gallery, listing of different species, and information about conferences and links to related websites.
http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

House votes to repeal part of USA Patriot Act
Namely, the section applying to library records.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0616/dailyUpdate.html
(Source: PAMNET-L)

Rowland Institute names two new fellows
Andrew Speck and Ozgur Sahin are the newest to join the Institute.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.16/04-rowland.html

ScienceResearch.com
A portal which enables searching of over 50 databases, including IoP, ACS, Science magazine, Scirus, DOE E-Print Network, among others.
http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Scientific impact quantity and quality: Analysis of two sources of bibliographic data
A comparison between Web of Science and Google Scholar.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0504/0504036.pdf
(Source: Library Juice)

Teaching Information Evaluation Skills
This column discusses how to avoid being phished or hoaxed on the net.
http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/hoax.html
(Source: The Virtual Chase)'

Who Will Google Buy Next
Kuro5hin reviews Google's purchases to date and speculates on what companies might be ripe for acquisition by the search engine giant.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/12/143721/743
(Source: Daypop)

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Received June 4 - 17, 2005