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Library News & Notes —
November 18, 2005
Notes
Garrett will be out of the office from Wednesday, November 23 through Friday,
November 25. Happy Thanksgiving!
Internet Sites of the Week
Blogs: a New Force in Physics?
A short piece on how discussions of experiments spread through the net.
(Source: Not Even Wrong)
Doing physics with bacteria
Zvonimir Dogic's work with flagellar filaments and their phase transitions is reported in this
PhysicsWeb article.
Find a Human
Paul English compiled a cheat sheet of various companies that provides numbers and instructions
on how to bypass phone trees and get a person on the telephone.
(Source: Boston Globe)
Google Base
Google Base is a database to which users can submit any kind of content so that it can be searched.
A system of tagging called “attributes” enables other users to find the content. Examples of content
posted so far include course descriptions, recipes, cars for sale and others.
(Sources: The Virtual Chase; ResearchBuzz)
Internet Anagram Server
Enter a word and get anagrams for it.
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)
Nature Archive
Now the Harvard Libraries have access to issues of Nature magazine as far back as 1970.
(The archive will eventually include back to 1950.)
(Source: Physics Research Library)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received November 5 - 18, 2005
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Advances in Chemical Physics, v.132: Adventures in Chemical Physics |
Berry, R. Stepyhen and Joshua Jortner, editors |
(Wiley, 2005) |
QD 453 .A27 v.132 2005 |
Standing order requested by J. Parks |
| Physicians’ Desk Reference |
|
(Thomson/PDR, 2005) |
RS 75 .P5 2005 |
Standing order requested by Library Staff |
| Terahertz Optoelectronics |
Sakai, Kiyomi, editor |
(Springer, 2005) |
TA 1750 .T743 2005 |
Requested by A. Speck |
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