"For ages scientific notebooks have been the mainstay of scientific research and have always had one thing in common: paper. Until now that was mostly due to a lack of options. Today as science and computers have become more and more inseparable the appeal of digital notebooks is quite clear. ''Digital notebooks have one huge advantage over their hand-written brethren - search capabilities.'' The ability to easily search for notes rather than paging through 3-ring binder after 3-ring binder is… Continue

Recently,

discussing with colleagues we have reached the conclusion that the

amount of work that fitted in a decent paper now gives enough for three

or more. While until the early nineties, for example, a paper, in my

domain, would include the synthesis, characterization and applications

of a new material, today, the same work would feed a paper on the

synthesis, another the characterization and another the exploration into

the potential application.… Continue