Filed on Feb 26th 2009 in Library News
If you want to keep up to date with the latest in physics research then you need to know about IOP Select. IOP Select is a service provided by the Institute of Physics (IOP) that features articles chosen by editors for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research. Updated weekly, IOP Select gathers all the important articles published in one convenient location. You can...
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Filed on Feb 24th 2009 in Featured Resources
Open Source fans rejoice - Open Source Living is here. It's a huge new directory of open source software and offers a forum for discussions about open source products as well as other OS-related issues.
From the site:
"Through a simple, elegant and efficient presentation of resources and information, OS Living aims to highlight small and large OSS projects, to inform and raise awareness to OS...
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Filed on Feb 19th 2009 in Tips & Tools
While Dibner Library has a wide range of both print and electronic books and journals, we certainly don't have everything. There isn't a library in the world that does; fortunately libraries are great at sharing. If there is a particular item you need for your research and it's not available here, we will be happy to help you get it. There are a few different ways to get materials...
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Filed on Feb 17th 2009 in Engineering
IEEE publishes loads of high quality literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. An easy way to keep up to date with the latest research is to review IEEE"s Top 100 Documents page. You can scan the citations and abstracts of the top 100 documents accessed last month.
Another great way to stay current is to view the most recently added material at the Content...
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Filed on Feb 12th 2009 in Technology, Culture & Society
A recent article about people using online scanned books to trace the historical usage of words made me remember an incident from my undergrad days. (Don't ask me what the article was; I cannot remember any citation details, nor can I locate it online. If I did not remember clearly and distinctly reading the article, I would think I imagined the whole thing). An English...
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