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Reports on efforts by scan-commerce entrepreneurs to develop tools and formats that use the camera phone or camera-equipped laptop to bridge the gap between paper and online technologies. Development by an Intel-financed laboratory at Cambridge University in England of a way called SpotCode to turn the camera phone into a mouse, remote control and keyboard; Use of clickable symbols on maps and other documents; Applications in shopping; Installation of scanning capabilities in phones.

Reports on the plans of the Earl of Macclesfield to sell its family's collection of Isaac Newton writings to the University of Cambridge in England. Concern of academics in the sale of the writings; Benefit of the acquisition for the university; Content of the Macclesfield papers.

Highlights the fund raising efforts of Cambridge University in England to purchase the Macclesfield Newton Collection, a collection of works of physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Selling price of the collection; Significance of the collection; Why the Macclesfield family is selling the collection.

More than 5,700 researchers have joined a boycott of Elsevier, a leading publisher of science journals, in a growing furor over open access to the fruits of scientific research. The protest grew out of a provocative blog post by the mathematician Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University, who announced on Jan. 21 that he would no longer publish papers in any of Elsevier's journals or serve as a referee or editor for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]