The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT, has launched this "large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing...

A number of online electronic archives have been developed in recent years to allow fellow scholars access to recent works by other colleagues in a wide variety of fields. Cogprints is one such archive, as it functions...

Squeak is a programming system that is offered under an open source license, which makes it free to download. The website describes Squeak as "an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is...

Available for the first time in electronic format, this third edition of Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) is a valuable addition to the...

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has recently placed online the full text of its thorough and authoritative 183-page handbook for those in museums, libraries, and archives preparing to digitize...

Flash, a Web browser plug-in developed by Macromedia, is one of the most common applications for creating animated objects and effects in a Web site. This site has a wealth of tutorials and general information about...

How does one exactly illustrate the principle of chaos? Well, fortunately for budding physicists and other interested parties, a very nice animation demonstrating chaos (and other such processes and phenomena) are made...

The wonder and mystery associated with distant objects in space has fascinated humans for millennia, and young people today remain eager to learn about the world of astronomy. Introducing various concepts and processes...

Educators in the geophysical sciences will find much to work with on this site created by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center. Utilizing data captured over time by their...

Educational technologies continue to press onwards and upwards, and screencasts would seem to be one of the latest trends in this area. Screencasts basically combine narration with on-screen writing in order to...