As usual, a wealth of interesting articles in the latest ISTL:
- Faculty of 1000 and VIVO: Invisible Colleges and Team Science by John Carey, City University of New York
- E-book Usage among Chemists, Biochemists and Biologists: Findings of a Survey and Interviews by Yuening Zhang and Roger Beckman, Indiana University, Bloomington
- Look Beyond Textbooks: Information Literacy for First-Year Science Students by Gabrielle K.W. Wong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- The Changing Role of Blogs in Science Information Dissemination by Laksamee Putnam, Towson University
- Life Science Data Repositories in the Publications of Scientists and Librarians by Peter W. Kirlew, University of Minnesota
- The Impact of a Reading Room's Closure on Collection Development by Heather Lewin, Iowa State University
- A Capstone Wiki Knowledge Base: A Case Study of an Online Tool Designed to Promote Life-Long Learning through Engineering Literature Research by James B. Clarke and James R. Coyle, Miami University
- Book Review: The Accidental Health Sciences Librarian by Reviewed by Bette Anton, University of California, Berkeley
- Book Review: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Reviewed by Lia Vella, Colorado School of Mines
- The Geosciences: Selected Web Resources by Linda Zellmer, Western Illinois University
- Viewpoint: Librarian Involvement in Research Ethics: An Entry Point into the World of Sponsored Research by Jessica Adamick, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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