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ISSN (print) 0165-0262 E-ISSN (electronic) 1471-5473.
Editors: Paul Cunningham, PREST, Manchester University, UK,
and Paul Dufour, Industry Canada, Ottawa,
assisted by a growing network of correspondents.
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Some news items from 2001 issues:
Alternative to journal impact factor, November, 120
Banff gets North American maths think tank, November, 112
Biotech delivers the goods — OECD, December, 127
Budget boost for NSF, and NASA does OK, December, 126
Canada responds to bio-terrorism threat, December, 123
Canada’s CFI: what if you fund only 40%?, November, 116
Chinese science spending up — see scidev.net, November, 119
Conferences as an STI strategic tool, November, 115
Does EU teamwork help? Finland’s evidence, November, 110
Electronic European library, December, 131
Electronic window on North Korean science, November, 115
Europe sets sights on Mars, November, 118
Europe’s R&D shows north/south divide, December, 121
Framework funding avoids ethical hot-spots, December, 130
From 3,100 DNA segments to 106,595 to …?, December, 123
Get France’s next generation into new areas, December, 125
Japan wants 30 Nobels by 2050, November, 111
Korean S&T budget up 13.7%, December, 130
Madam, vous êtes a Belgian engineer?, December, 129
Major nanotechnology facility for Canada, November, 118
Melbourne gets IP research centre, November, 112
Mexico’s S&T programme 2001-2006, November, 110
More money needed for defence S&T, December, 124
More NSF-EC scientific collaboration, November, 116
Multi-disciplinary wood science, December, 124
New Zealand RST budget backs innovators, December, 128
OECD’s “knowledge-based” indicators, November, 113
Pity the Australian universities, November, 114
Psychologist becomes CEO of AAAS, November, 118
September 11 bad news for US S&T?, December, 122
The role of S&T in foreign policy, November, 109
US gears up research against terrorism, December, 122
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