Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, November 28, 2003

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Latest Maps of the Internet: ""Yesterday morning Opte.org announced that they have successfully mapped the entire internet." [Slashdot]


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National LambdaRail launches: "On the launch of the first leg of the National LambdaRail, an optical, ultrafast network dedicated to scientific research. [...] Given the size of modern research projects, from the human genome to 3D maps of universe, much larger pipes are needed to connect research centers if distributed researchers are to share data and tools." [Open Access News]


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Open access to books: "The California Digital Library has added XML tags to the electronic editions of books published by the University of California Press, and is now offering 1,400 of the resulting ebooks free of charge to UC users. It offers 400+ free online to the general public [...] Some of the books are fiction, and the rest monographs in all disciplines from the sciences to the humanities." [Open Access News]