Research Infrastructure

Library and Information Center

Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
October 22, 2004

Internet Sites of the Week

“Learned Enough to Be Ignorant”
A New York Times article reports that Nobel laureate physicist David Gross recently gave a lecture “The Future of Physics” ( http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/kitp25/gross/) in which he outlined 25 areas of interest, where evidently physicists have learned enough to know what they do not know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/science/19phys.html?oref=login&oref=login

Nanotechnology in Context
EurekAlert, a science news service of the AAAS, offers this resource that highlights current news releases, papers, essays and web sites relating to nanotechnology. (Source: NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering and Technology) http://www.eurekalert.org/context.php?context=nano

PloS Medicine
The Public Library of Science released its second journal, PLoS Medicine. The journal is open to all via the website. Authors and/or their institutions pay the publication fees. The PLoS also has foundation support. The first issues of PLoS Biology garnered considerable attention for their original research and it will be interesting to see if the new journal has a similar impact, particularly as competition for Lancet and NEJM.
(Source: Open Access News) http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676

World Series
Go Red Sox! Major League Baseball's 2004 World Series site can be found at:
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/ps/y2004/index.jsp. Articles on the series can be read at sites such as SI/CNN:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/.
The Red Sox site is
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=bos.
You can also read what some of the baseball bloggers have to say:
http://sportsblogs.org/entries.php?team_id=2&date=2004-10-22&start=0

NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received October 16 - 22, 2004