CiarĂ¡n Quinn, Research Support Librarian & Librarian for the Research Institutes, Maynooth University. ciaran.quinn@mu.ie
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Battle of the knowledge superpowers
Knowledge is power - economic power - and there's a scramble for that power taking place around the globe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14949538
Monday, 26 September 2011
ArXiv Turns 20
Last month, arXiv turned 20 years old. ArXiv is an electronic preprint server widely used by physicists, though it has expanded to include articles in other fields such as mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
http://arxiv.org/
(Source:https://blogs.libraries.iub.edu/libchem/2011/09/06/arxiv-turns-20/)
http://arxiv.org/
(Source:https://blogs.libraries.iub.edu/libchem/2011/09/06/arxiv-turns-20/)
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
SciTopics
Distilled, authoritative and up-to-date
information for researchers on
scientific, technical and medical
topics.http://www.scitopics.com/
information for researchers on
scientific, technical and medical
topics.http://www.scitopics.com/
Friday, 9 September 2011
Friday, 2 September 2011
Space junk at tipping point, says report
Scientists in the US have warned Nasa that the amount of so-called space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point.
A report by the National Research Council says the debris could cause fatal leaks in spaceships or destroy valuable satellites. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14757926
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