The ever-EEVL Roddy MacLeod has informed me that EEVL has put up an RSS Primer for Publishers and Content Providers. A quick glance is quite impressive -- something I wish I had a few months ago when I was trying to figure out what the fuss was all about.

Two recent announcements from the SLAPAM-L listserv:

• "World's Particle Physics Laboratories Join To Create New Communication Resource" at www.interations.org. This is a news and resourses site for particle physics. (Rob Atkinson at FNAL)
  
• Also a new free Superconductivity Papers Database"database includes 68000+ articles, primarily from almost 60 chemistry, physics, and engineering journals. Coverage is mostly 1987+" (George S. Porter)

I'm back...Sorry about the extra long absence from this forum, but I promise to try and catch up. And boy has the stuff been pilling up on my desk. BTW, the only scientifically oriented thing I did on my vacation was to visit the Montreal Insectarium. It was great fun, much better than the last time I was there about 5 years ago. There were lots of displays with living insects to look at.