I hope you find some of them valuable:
- Earning of life sciences researchers (Nat. Biotech. 26, 14; 2008)
- Two collection of essays from Nature: Connections and Science and Politics. More info
- Science's take on the NIH Public Access Mandate: Uncle Sam's Biomedical Archive Wants Your Papers
- New in the Nature Suppplements collection: Proteins to proteomes
- Interesting entries on the validity of impact factors: http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/12/21/bad-impact/; http://scilibupdate.blogspot.com/2007/12/validity-of-journal-impact-factors.html. Both of these are responding to an editorial published in the Journal of Cell Biology, Show me the data, by
Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill.
- Our own Barbara Schaal and Peter Raven are both on the authoring committee of the new NAS book Science, Evolution and Creationism [freely available online; sign-in required); PDF Executive Summary
- Nature is now using a creative commons licence for papers that include the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time. This allows more powerful re-use and text-mining that the standard arrangement where the publisher requires an author to sign over all or most of their copyrights at publication. More info.
- Stevens Seventy Greatest Science Books, 1900+ (from Stevens Institute Center for Science Writing) [Thanks to John Dupuis]
- International Field Guides -- a searchable database of field guides in print
