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  Over 100 years of Scientific American now available online

  7386 readers From the press release: The Scientific American archive brings together over 100 years of content highlighting advancements in science, technology, and medicine. Institutional customers can now access every issue of Scientific American back to January 1910. Scientific American, part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), entrusted the scanning and digitization of most of the paper archives to MPS Limited‘s

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  Scientific American’s archive goes live – all the way back to 1845

  601 readers From the press release: Readers can now revisit original reports of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb. Scientific American’s complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is now available on nature.com. To celebrate the completion of the Scientific American archive on nature.com, the 1845-1909 archive collection

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  National Institute of Standards & Technology launches digital archive

  1281 readersCrowdsourcing Science History: NIST Digital Archives Seeks Help in Identifying Mystery Artifacts (via NIST) A new website, the NIST Digital Archives, is exhibiting images of historically significant scientific instruments used to obtain these measures, in addition to providing access to full-text publications from the agency’s history. NIST is inviting enthusiasts to participate in describing some

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  National Institute of Standards & Technology launches digital archive

  913 readersCrowdsourcing Science History: NIST Digital Archives Seeks Help in Identifying Mystery Artifacts (via NIST) A new website, the NIST Digital Archives, is exhibiting images of historically significant scientific instruments used to obtain these measures, in addition to providing access to full-text publications from the agency’s history. NIST is inviting enthusiasts to participate in describing some

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  The AFRO-American Newspaper online archive has over 1 million free articles

  1564 readersFrom an AFRO-American Newspapers Announcement: The AFRO-American Newspapers, one of the nation’s oldest news organizations dedicated to covering the African American community, has created a comprehensive collection of over a million articles that captures the African American experience in business, civil rights, education, health, law, and sports beginning in the late 19thcentury. Google partnered with the

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  Scientific American Launched with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

  834 readersBy Teresa Demel Tuesday night, I received the news from the Digital Publishing Suite team that Scientific American launched its publication on the iPad. I personally have always enjoyed Scientific American because it builds a bridge between the research community and science & technology enthusiasts such as myself, and provides an easily accessible way to see

• MathML Support in EPUB Reading Systems

  1393 readersIf EPUBs are to serve as textbooks for mathematics and science, or if they are even to convey ideas from these fields, it is important that they can properly display complex mathematic equations and scientific formulas. On Websites and in digital formats, this is best accomplished with the use of MathML. As the W3C page

• The National Archives Hires its First ‘Wikipedian in Residence’

  1202 readersThe National Archives has hired a graduate student to be the first “Wikipedian in Residence” at the National Archives. Dominic McDevitt-Parks, a graduate student in history and archives management at Simmons College in Boston, will be interning at the National Archives this summer. He will be working at the facility in College Park, MD, where

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  Black history catalogued at new Univ. of Chicago website

  1599 readersDirect to Uncovering New Chicago Archives Web Site/Online Searchable Database From a Chicago Sun-Times Article: The unpublished sketches of famed African-American editorial cartoonist Chester Commodore as he struggled to get President Richard Nixon’s nose and President George W. Bush’s ears just right. A letter from President Harry S. Truman thanking Chicago Defender Publisher John Sengstacke for

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  BoxOffice magazine posts extensive back-issue archive online for free

  3297 readersReadWriteWeb reports that Hollywood trade magazine BoxOffice has digitized a large portion of its 91 year back issue archive, and is working on the rest. Now nearly 3000 issues of the publication are available online as free PDFs (or page images for more recent issues). Although they lack metadata or search capabilities, these digital back-issues