Physics Libraries

Scientists sign petition to boycott academic publisher Elsevier

3 Feb 2012

Cost of Knowledge petition criticises 'exorbitantly high' price of Elsevier's scientific journals and the publisher's 'huge profits' More than 3,000 academics, including several Fields medal-winning mathematicians, have put their names to a petition declaring their intention to boycott the academic publisher Elsevier . The "Cost of Knowledge" petition claims Elsevier charges "exorbitantly high ...

The top three Flash game engines

3 Feb 2012

Flash game engines are still a great choice for building browser-based 2D games. Freelance game developer Tom Vian takes a look at the three most popular open source frameworks

October 2011: 3-D Imaging Technology Preserves Audio Collections

31 Jan 2012

Libraries, archives and museums across the country have special audio collections contained on antique grooved media that are broken, too fragile or too degraded to play back on traditional systems. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IRENE/3D project uses digital imaging technology to preser [...]