As usual, a bunch of great new articles from the most recent ISTL!
- Five Years Later: Predicting Student Use of Journals in a New Water Resources Graduate Program by Andrea A. Wirth and Margaret Mellinger, Oregon State University
- Seeing the Forest of Information for the Trees of Papers: An Information Literacy Case Study in a Geography/Geology Class by Linda Blake and Tim Warner, West Virginia University
- Local Citation Analysis of Graduate Biology Theses: Collection Development Implications by Laura Newton Miller, Carleton University
- Career Motivations of the Scientist-Turned-Librarian: A Secondary Analysis of WILIS Data by Shannon Walker, University of North Carolina
- Assessing Information-Seeking Behavior of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty by Valerie K. Tucci, The College of New Jersey
- Book Review: 2030: Technology That Will Change the World Reviewed by Kitty Porter, Vanderbilt University
- Book Review: Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know Reviewed by Nestor L. Osorio, Northern Illinois University
- Guide to Nanotechnology Internet Resources by Jill Dixon, Binghamton University Libraries
- Essential Readings in e-Science by ACRL-STS Subject & Bibliographic Access to Science Materials Committee
- Eresource Review: Ergonomics Abstracts by Meredith Ayers, Northern Illinois University
- Tips: Searching Inorganic Substances in SciFinder by A. Ben Wagner, University at Buffalo
- Viewpoint: The American Chemical Society's Undergraduate Chemistry Program Approval: A Conflict of Interest? by Denise Brush, Rowan University
- Letter to the editor by Charles D. James, University of California, Berkeley
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