A scientist explains the processes he uses to draft and redraft articles for scientific journals. (RL)

A group has been formed to encourage and make use of the work of retired scholars, scientists, and thinkers. It is the Academy of Independent Scholars. (BB)

Discusses whether or not science is a search for truth, and the relationship of science to knowledge throughout history. (MLH)

Presents results from in-depth interviews in which respondents at a range of U.S. universities provided detailed accounts of their experience in, and identification with, academe. Studies satisfaction from the angle of the self-doubts scientists have about their work and careers, and investigates how self-doubts may systematically differ across…

Reviews several research studies conducted by one research group that used mixed research methods to explore the ways expert and novice scientists use material features of multiple representations to support their shared understanding and laboratory practices. Draws implications for the design and use of technology based systems that provide…

Describes the demands being made on industrial information professionals and explores the roles that such professionals will be expected to fill in the future. The qualifications and skills needed to fulfill these roles are identified and discussed. (four references) (CLB)

This interview with Joshua Lederberg, who won the 1958 Nobel prize in physiology and medicine, covers his research interests, the role of mentors, his childhood and school years as a highly gifted child, the nature of good teaching, child prodigies, and the scientific endeavor. (DB)

Suggests a prospective area of study for future information scientists involving the separate causes of alimentary and informational action in order to bring the separate study of information science to a more central role within the sciences. Highlights include thermodynamics and open systems, and living organisms and other open systems.…

Provides a rationale for the information science community to consider the needs and challenges of spatial information issues as well as overviews of the seven articles on spatial information contained in this special topic issue. Brief biographies of the 16 authors are included. (six references) (KRN)

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child grants a full range of human rights to children and promotes a nonpaternalistic attitude toward them. Social scientists will be able to contribute to its implementation by interpreting issues of psychological and physical development. (DM)

Notes Allan Bloom's attack on anthropologists and the concept of cultural relativism. Rejects the idea that the study of other cultures leads to giving up one's own culture. Suggests that Bloom represents a nativistic revitalization movement which has found that anthropologists make excellent scapegoats. (EVL)

Discusses the concept of information literacy and its target audience of library users. Topics discussed include the relationship of information literacy to bibliographic instruction (BI) and other library instruction; the role of librarians; terminology problems in librarianship; and the effects of information literacy on the value of information…

Nursing information specialists perform such roles as user liaison, information systems installer, systems analyst, coordinator of patient care systems, and knowledge engineer. A survey of 97 informatics specialists shows that the majority work in hospitals, 67% have training in information systems, and 63% have master's degrees. (SK)

Discussion of the maintenance of digital data focuses on research conducted at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) to investigate the potential of the metadata concept as the key to universal data management. Topics include attitudes of information professionals in the United Kingdom, reasons for preserving digital data, and the role of…

Lists the women Nobel Prize laureates and questions why, with the exception of Marie Curie, all these women scientists are not well known by the public. Explains why so few women have won the Nobel Prize in science and medicine as compared to other fields. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)