Editor's Summary
19 October 2006
The origin of websites
This week the complete works of Charles Darwin go live — for free — on http://darwin-online.org.uk. This landmark has been achieved before for other scientific luminaries of the past. We ask how it has influenced their scientific reputations, and whether we will see similar resources devoted to the enormous amounts of material generated by modernday scientists.
News Feature: A life online
Darwin is the latest eminent scientist to get an online archive. How do these undertakings change our understanding of history, asks Henry Nicholls.
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