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“Offloading your memories,” a New York Times magazine article, documents several ongoing research projects (such as MyLifeBits) aimed at creating a digital system for every bit of data in your life. (source: SciTechDaily Review)
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More university libraries attempt to get out from under Elsevier’s big deal (requires subscription.) (Source: Open Access News)
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Steve Cohen reported in Library Stuff that Consumers’ Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, now have a feed for their news updates.
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A Washington post article casts a skpetical eye on dubious patents … It’s been mentioned elsewhere that along with genes people are patenting what might otherwise be considered techniques or business practices, on the level of going out on the street to sell newspapers … and not nescessarily inventing a new technology. (Source: Slashdot
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Eight drawings show Amazonation of the library; a good response to many articles that suggest libraries become more like the online bookstore. Of course, Amazon has a lot to teach us, especially now with its entry into full-text searching. One of my best memories of the public library in my hometown, however, was no one coming to bother you. (Source: The Shifted Librarian)
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The federal government now offers” one-stop shopping” for grant and funding opportunities. You can search by agency, or choose from a number of subject categories. (Source: NSF Sci-Tech Library Newsletter
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An article from BioMedCentral discusses Harvard’s plans for a “science hub,” one of the prongs for its Allston strategy. Dean Venky of DEAS comments on new linkages between engineering and the life sciences resulting from this proposed new geography and infrastructure. Some faculty objections are chronicled, even more in-depth in Monday’s Crimson.
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an interview with the director of the e-biosci project on how to make life sciences literature accessible, stable and searchable… (Source: Open Access News)