These paragraphs are quoted from ABC News Person of the Week: Nicholas Negroponte has created a $100 laptop, the cheapest in the world. Within a year, tens of millions them will be given free of charge to children in developing countries throughout the world, giving them access to the Internet. “We see education as key …
Chmoogle, a free search engine for open access chemistry information, was just launched. Thanks to Open Access News, SciTech Library Question, and CHMINF-L. Anyone care to comment? How useful is Chmoogle? 犀利士
Here’s something novel…
Bego says that Lawyers Without Borders has found a law firm to represent Chemists Without Borders on a pro bono basis! More on this soon! ELMO UPDATE: see the law firm’s website here.
We have received our articles of incorporation from the CA Secretary of State. Now on to tax-exempt status!
Here is the latest news on PubChem, from the ATA Newsletter: For months, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has been on a determined campaign to restrain NIH from developing PubChem, a freely accessible database of small organic molecules, claiming that its existence threatens the financial viability of ACS’s Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) database. In the …
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Here’s an interesting Q&A with the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer regarding the conversion of coal to liquid HCs: Comments anyone?? ELMO
Two separate open access-related topics: The local factor: the ideal is for every community everywhere to have the means and the expertise to lead any CWB initiatives in their own area, even if occasional assistance from outside is needed. There is a long way to go to get from here to there. To develop the …
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I got this email this morning (posted in its entirety- I will clean up the links when I can) -ELMO: (UPDATE- I tried to put the links in as best I could (typos in the original URLs). You may need to hit the refresh button after you click the link once) ELMO. Dear Colleagues, I …
Hi all, Just wanted to let everyone know that we now have an article on Wikipedia. Jen