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 […]

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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 […]

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Europeana, a digital archive combining the collections of libraries and museums, officially went online November 20, 2008, then crashed the next day due to its popularity.  It has been back online in beta form for quite some time now, but it is still not in optimal shape to efficiently serve all the people who wish […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The new SciTopics is a free, online expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the research community that offers scientific, technical, and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects. Designed to complement the traditional peer-review process, the site allows invited experts to develop topic pages offering research summaries with the content moderated through 14 subject editors to ensure […]

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Dibner Library is pleased to announce the addition of Safari Books Online to its expanding electronic resource collection.  Safari offers a wide selection of nearly 300 popular computer programing and information management books covering topics such as operating systems, programming, networking, and much more.

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