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NSF Works Toward A Digital Science Library

Posted by timothy on from the what-the-internet-is-for dept.

An anonymous reader writes "USA Today has an article on the effort of 'More than 100 teams of educators nationwide are working with the National Science Foundation to develop what they hope will be the nation's most comprehensive digital library for the sciences.'" The article describes this library as intended to "support science education at all levels, from pre-kindergarten through postdoctoral research."

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  1. Re:GOOGLE can do this by resiak · · Score: 4, Informative

    The difference, my friend, is that Google does not rate the accuracy of the content it links to. Sure, they work out how frequently it is linked to, and they have those little rating buttons on the browser bar in IE, but ultimately, you have no idea how reliable the information you find with Google is.

  2. On the subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is an open project currently underway to create an open encyclopedia avalible for all that I and several hundred others are currently working on,It's called the wikipedia, It uses the wiki-docuemntation system to create a collabarated pool of knowledge!

    Anyone can help, so if you got a bit of knowlege thats not in there, add it to the book. Its constant proofreading gives the articles a very high and consistent value.

    You can find it here