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Library News & Notes —
October 20, 2006
Internet Sites of the Week
Bookmooch
A site for exchanging books. You submit a list of books, and mail them when you get requests for them,
for which you receive points to be used in acquiring books from others.
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
Contains the Origin of Species and some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 pages of images.
(Source: Boing Boing)
Head of the Charles Regatta
All about the races taking place on the Charles this weekend.
Minding the Brain
A book review. “After having been neglected for most of the twentieth century, the subject of
consciousness has become fashionable. Amazon lists 3,865 books under "consciousness," a number
of them new releases of the last year or two. What exactly is the problem of consciousness,
and why exactly is it so difficult, if not impossible, for us to agree on a solution to it?”
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Polaroid preserved
On the Harvard Business School’s acquisition of some 4,000 linear feet of documents and other
media from Polaroid.
Riding the Waves of Web 2,0
The Pew Internet and American Life Project examines the concept Web 2.0, used to describe a
number of online applications and activities.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Trust, But Verify
This blog posting on network security considers the prospect of Craigslist.
(Source: Boing Boing)
Two on online scientific publishing
On Oct. 6 we posted a link to a Crimson article bemoaning web journals that bypass peer review.
Subsequently, two pieces have appeared in the newspaper responding to that editorial, namely: The
Fall of the Scientific Wall,
and Online Peer Review Must Be Given A Chance, by Public Library of Science’s Michael Eisen,
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