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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

21st Century Information Professional

http://www.aukml.org.uk/conf2006.htm

The 2006 AUKML Conference, Point Hotel, Edinburgh, 22nd-24th September 2006.

Academic Podcasts

http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/pri/podcasts

A list from Duke University Libraries.

Found via E3 Information Overload.

Adelphi Charter

http://www.adelphicharter.org/

The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property responds to one of the most profound challenges of the 21st century:

How to ensure that everyone has access to ideas and knowledge, and that intellectual property laws do not become too restrictive.

The Charter sets out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to apply a new public interest test.

Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization

http://www.heatsoft.com/ADCSindex.html

ADCS is an intuitive directories comparison and synchronization utility from Heatsoft Corporation. It is potentially useful for anyone who shares documents/programs with friends and colleagues.

AskNumbers

http://www.asknumbers.com/

The website provides online conversions for different kind of metrics such as length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, frequency, light, cooking, currency and many more with pictures to allow easy access the menu items and some explanations.

Awareness Watch Newsletter: March

http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N3.pdf

The March 2006 V4N3 Awareness Watch Newsletter is available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Internet Alerts on the Internet including related resources and sites.

Blackwell Publishing

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/

Blackwell Publishing UK has redesigned its web site.

BlogMarks

http://www.blogmarks.net/

Social bookmarking service.

ChemRefer

http://www.chemrefer.com/

ChemRefer is a search engine that is designed to allow students, academics, chemical and pharmaceutical companies quick access to chemistry literature which is available on the internet. There is plenty of such literature around, but it is all located on different websites. Most such websites contain a mixture of accessible and restricted literature and it is frustrating to locate an article, only to find it restricted to subscribers. ChemRefer only finds literature that is full text and freely available (from many different sources).

You can also sign up for ChemRefer's free, monthly Newsletter and receive sources of quality, open access chemistry literature in your inbox every month.

Found via Neat New Stuff on the Net.

Community halls for rural people

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/communities/halls/default.htm

Village halls and other community buildings, such as rural community centres, Women’s Institutes, British Legion halls, memorial halls, halls belonging to churches and chapels, etc, are the focus for people who live in rural communities. In the past few years, many are no longer just a place to meet for social occasions such as parties, wedding receptions, guides and scouts clubs but have blossomed into providing a venue for an impressive range of other activities such as local health facilities, farmers' markets, lunch club for older people and IT facilities. These are the village halls of the future.

COMPASS

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~oaces/compass.html

COMPASS is the online review from Oxford Austrian and Central European Studies, covering academic journalism.

CompWisdom

http://www.compwisdom.com/

A new way to search the web.

"Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.

CompWisdom offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic.”

Congoo

http://www.congoo.com/

Congoo’s mission is to provide information seekers with free access to the Web’s most valuable and credible information. Congoo is not for everyone, however.

Congoo’s technology creates a free bridge that spans the divide between expensive information services available to large corporations and the mass of information available on the free Web.

craftscotland

http://www.craftscotland.org/

The Scottish Arts Council has developed this website for the crafts in Scotland. The project initially comprised a pilot phase, primarily covering the Highlands & Islands, and in June 2004 the full craftscotland website was extended to cover Scotland as a whole.

Craigslist Edinburgh

http://edinburgh.craigslist.org/

Classified ads for Edinburgh.

Current Educational Research in the UK

http://www.ceruk.ac.uk/ceruk/

CERUK is a database of current or on-going research in education and related disciplines. It covers a wide range of studies including commissioned research and PhD theses, across all phases of education from early years to adults.

Dagstuhl-Seminars

http://www.dagstuhl.de/Seminars/index.en.html

The International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science in Schloss Dagstuhl regularly organizes scientific workshops, so-called Dagstuhl-Seminars.

A Dagstuhl-Seminar serves to gather a group of scientists in Dagstuhl who wish to jointly delve into and work on a computer science topic for a week. This topic is generally an established computer science field, and more frequently it is an area which overlaps with various computer science disciplines or other scientific fields. The participants are established researchers or promising young scientists.

diggdot.us

http://diggdot.us/

Slashdot, dig and del.icio.us combined into a unified format.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/03contents.html

The March issue is available, and is a special issue on digital library evolution.

Ebook Explorer

http://www.ebookexplorer.com/

Offers a summarized directory of niche ebooks and how-to guides on hundreds of specialty topics.

ECS Digital Library

http://ecsdl.org/

The Digital Library provides searchable online access to the various journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society.

EEDAL'06: International Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances & Lighting Conference '06

http://livegroup.co.uk/EEDAL

21 - 23 June 2006, Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre, London, UK.

Jointly organised by the UK’s Market Transformation Programme and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, EEDAL '06 is a major international conference bringing together world experts to present the latest policy and technical advances influencing the energy and environmental performance of domestic appliances and lighting.

ELPUB 2006

http://www.elpub.net/

The 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, focusing on challenges for the digital spectrum, 14-16 June 2006 Bansko, Bulgaria.

EPrints community wiki

http://wiki.eprints.org/

This is the documentation wiki for EPrints.

The content of this site is technical only. For more information on the EPrints project, visit http://eprints.org/.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.

Exact Editions

http://www.exacteditions.com/

“The home of digital magazines! From here you can gain access to your favourite publications, anywhere, anytime. All you need is access to the internet. Once you subscribe to a magazine you will have the ability to search seamlessly across archived back issues as well as the current issue.”

Titles currently available include: The Spectator, The Scientist, London Review of Books, and Literary Review.

fealth

http://www.fealth.com/

“We have now one of the biggest reliable health indices with unique technical features.”

Federation of International Trade Associations: FITA

http://www.fita.org/

The Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA), founded in 1984, fosters international trade by strengthening the role of local, regional, and national associations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada that have an international mission.

Fifth Street Review

http://www.fifthstreetreview.com/

The Fifth Street Review is an online-only journal of international literature and culture.

Finding information on the World Wide Web: A specialty meta-search engine for the academic community

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/

An article in First Monday, December 2005, by Yaffa Aharoni, Ariel J. Frank, and Snunith.

Focus on MIMAS

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/06mar/

Issue 27 of Focus on MIMAS, with items on Jorum, Web of Knowledge, OpenURL Framework Standard and CoinS, etc.

Fold

http://www.fold.com/

“Fold is a portal or start page. The aim of Fold is to consolidate most of the tools and information you need every day into a single web page. No matter where you are in the world, each time you log in you'll feel right at home.”

For Diversity Against Discrimination

http://www.stop-discrimination.info/

The European Commission's website on anti-discrimination! This website serves as a source of information on the EU-wide campaign "For Diversity. Against Discrimination." At the same time you will find background information about the measures that have been initiated by the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities to combat discrimination. Finally, the website provides an update on current anti-discrimination issues and activities in all of the 25 EU Member States.

Freeform Construction

http://www.freeformconstruction.co.uk/

“Freeform Construction is a truly adventurous and far-reaching new construction method which will change the very future of building and construction as we know it. It will revolutionise the way we build, it will enhance existing construction processes and bring about new capabilities for the construction process, and it will allow us to build in ways which simply weren’t possible before. Freeform Construction is about ‘printing’ buildings, as if you were printing this page.”

Fresh Direction

http://www.freshdirection.co.uk/

A site with information for students.

Friend of a Friend: FOAF

http://www.foaf-project.org/

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

Funnelback

http://funnelback.com/

Funnelback is an enterprise search engine for corporate and government websites, intranets and portals, but can be used in almost any web or data search application.

Generic Rationale for University Open Access Self-Archiving Policy

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12078/

By Stevan Harnad.

How To Evaluate a Web Source

http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/a/evaluatesource.htm

By Wendy Boswell, from About.com

HSE – Workers

http://www.hse.gov.uk/workers/

These web pages are about helping workers become more aware of the health and safety issues that affect them and their responsibilities, so they can play their part in improving health and safety in the workplace.

ILA Scotland

http://www.ilascotland.org.uk/

If you are over 18 and living in Scotland, you could get up to £200 towards the cost of learning new skills with an individual learning account from ILA Scotland.

ILA Scotland is a Scottish Executive scheme which helps you pay for learning that you can do at a time, place, pace and in a way to suit you.

IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996

http://archive.pepublishing.com/

“The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996 gives you direct access to over 200,000 pages of unique material, including technical papers, obituaries, meeting reports, technical drawings, and editorial comment, all covering some of the most influential and innovative years of engineering development.”

Implementation Science

http://www.implementationscience.com/

An online journal published by BioMed Central.

Implementation Science is ready to receive manuscripts that research methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare.

Implementation Science

http://www.implementationscience.com/

An online journal published by BioMed Central.

Implementation Science is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that aims to publish research relevant to the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in both clinical and policy contexts.

Info@UK February 2006 issue

http://www.britishcouncil.org/info59.pdf

Info@UK is a monthly guide to major UK Information Society developments and news.

Institute for System Level Integration: ISLI

http://www.sli-institute.ac.uk/

The Institute for System Level Integration provides postgraduate education, professional training and research in system level integration and system-on-chip technologies.

Its aim is to support the development of electronics systems design worldwide and to encourage the exploration of new technologies through research.

Institutional Repositories & Research Assessment: IRRA

http://irra.eprints.org/

A JISC project, and a part of the JISC Digital Repositories' Programme, which is investigating and developing Institutional Repository infrastructure for EPrints and DSpace to enable Research Assessment, specifically for the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008.

Institutional Repositories, and a little experiment

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-little.html

An article by Richard Poynder, with an option to download a full article giving an historical overview of institutional repositories.

Integration & Steering of Multi-site Experiments to Assemble Engineering Body Scans

http://pw63.mt.umist.ac.uk/isme/sites/index.htm

A project to construct, refine and deploy a prototype Virtual Research Environment (VRE) to enable teams of material scientists, academic and industrial engineers and instrument scientists to work together in undertaking, compiling, analysing, interrogating and visualising multiple experiments on components of high complexity at different sites.

International Direct Marketing Fair

http://www.idmf.co.uk/page.cfm

9-11 May, Earls Court, London.

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management: IJASM

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijasm

A new journal. The IJASM proposes and fosters discussion on business agility, responsiveness and competitiveness. The emphasis is on methodology, framework, tools and techniques as well as operational performance, linkage between technology choice and product needs in the marketplace, extended enterprise, new forms of organisations, and contemporary management insights into better coordination of the organisation's internal and external supply chains.

International Journal of Electronic Finance: IJEF

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijef

A new journal. IJEF publishes articles that present current practice and research in the area of e-Finance. It is dedicated to design, development, management, implementation, technology, and application issues in e-Finance.

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering: IJISE

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijise

The main objective of IJISE is to provide a platform for interaction between researchers and practitioners who are dealing with ISE theory and applications. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the field of ISE.

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies: IJMSO

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmso

IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. It also intends covering Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl.org/06-winter/index.html

The Winter 2006 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available.

J-Gate

http://j-gate.informindia.co.in/

J-Gate is an e-gateway to global e-journal literature and provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online by linking to full text at publisher sites.

J-Gate is offered in 7 different subject groups.

Journal Cost-Effectiveness

http://www.journalprices.com/

Use this search engine to find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation.

”This website represents our best attempt to compute the price per article and price per citation.”

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

http://cit.srce.hr/

The aim of the international Journal of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) is to present original scientific and professional papers, as well as review articles and surveys, covering the theory, practice and methodology of computer science and engineering, modelling and simulation, and information systems.

Journal title: Información Tecnológica

http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&lng=en&pid=0718-0764&nrm=iso

Publication of the Centro de Información Tecnológica

Mission: The journal Información Tecnológica is dedicated to the transmission of scientific and technological information in Iberoamerica. In its broad coverage, the journal publishes original articles in all areas of applied sciences, technology and engineering, with the condition of being the product of scientific research work and that the work has relevant impact on the development of our Iberoamerican countries.

JOVIS

http://www.jovis.de/

Publisher focusing on architecture, new buildings, restoration and extension of existing buildings, history of architecture and town planning.

lib.rario.us

http://lib.rario.us/

A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs...

London Cross: A straight line walk across London

http://www.londoncross.co.uk/

By Paul K Lyons.

The basic concept of this book, London Cross, is simple - to describe a walk across London along a route that sticks as closely as possible (without trespassing) to a straight line.

Read the full text, at this site.

'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content.

http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm

This document, written by Malcolm Moffat, PerX Project Officer, introduces the means by which content providers can share, or embed, their descriptive data (metadata), with other websites, in standard and reusable ways.

MP3s, Podcasts and all that

http://www.freepint.com/issues/020306.htm#feature

An article by Nick Luft, in the FreePint Newsletter.

National House-Building Council: NHBC

http://www.nhbc.co.uk/

NHBC, (the National House-Building Council), is the standard setting body and leading warranty and insurance provider for new and newly converted homes in the UK. Our role is to work with the house-building and wider construction industry to provide risk management services that raise the standards of new homes, and to provide consumer protection to new home buyers.

National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting: NICEIC

http://www.niceic.org.uk/

The National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting is the industry's independent, non profit-making, voluntary regulatory body covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The NICEIC's sole purpose is to protect consumers from unsafe and unsound electrical work. We are not a trade association and do not represent the interests of electrical contractors.

NeoByte Solutions

http://www.neobytesolutions.com/

This company’s PC solutions products include System LifeGuard, Invisible Secrets, AlphaZIP and SafeBit programs.

Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline11-1/index.html

Newsline, March 2006: Volume 11.1 is available. This is the newsletter of EDINA, a JISC-funded National Datacentre.

NPO e Journal

http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/journaltemp.html

A National Preservation Office (NPO) newsletter about preservation and conservation guidelines and programs.

Open J-Gate

http://www.openj-gate.com/

“Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.”

Postgenomic

http://www.postgenomic.com/index.php

“Postgenomic collates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.

For example, it allows you to get an instant picture of which web sites are being heavily linked to by researchers in the medical sciences, or which papers are being cited or reviewed most often by bioinformaticians, or which buzzwords are being used the most frequently by evolutionary biologists.

It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire biomed blogging community. Sort of. “

Preserv

http://preserv.eprints.org/

Preserv is a JISC project investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories.

QUOSA

http://www.quosa.com/

QUOSA boosts the efficiency and power of literature search for both academic and commercial life science researchers.

Qwika

http://www.qwika.com/

“Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims are to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.”

Save yourself! Free resources for organising, maintaining and sharing the fruits of your web searches

http://www.freepint.com/issues/160306.htm#tips

Very helpful article in Free Pint, by Mary Ellen Bates.

SearchEdu

http://www.searchedu.com/

A specialty search engine which searches university and education websites.

Semefab

http://www.semefab.co.uk/

Semefab is a semiconductor manufacturing organization with a long and successful track record of developing and supplying silicon based semiconductor processing technologies and products to the open market.

Silobreaker

http://www.silobreaker.com/corporate/

Subscription based service: “Silobreaker is the current awareness service for people in the know and for those who want to get there. Get online news, content and structured data from thousands of global sources. Catch it in real-time and view it topically or geographically for easier navigation and use. Most of all discover the benefits of putting information in context by using Silobreaker's analytical tools for search, research, monitoring and analysis. All of which are available in this easy-to-use online service that has only one aim - to give you a better idea of what's going on.”

SPIRE project

http://spire.conted.ox.ac.uk/

The SPIRE project will tackle policy, middleware and software issues to facilitate a community of authenticated peer-2-peer early adopters within UK HEIs. The SPIRE project is run by TALL in partnership with Penn State University funded by the JISC.

StAnza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival

http://www.stanzapoetry.org/

The only regular festival dedicated to poetry in Scotland, StAnza is international in outlook. Held in the ancient university town of St Andrews, the festival presents world class poets and writers performing in exciting, atmospheric venues.

StartGuard

http://www.startguard.net/

StartGuard is an anti-spyware tool, able to block all known and unknown spyware, perform a full spyware scan in under 5 seconds, and doesn’t depend on spyware definition updates.

Synergy 07: Saltire Centre Special

http://www.learningservices.gcal.ac.uk/synergy/07/index.html

This is a special issue of Synergy (Glasgow Caledonian University's Learning Services magazine), which celebrates the new Saltire Centre.

Talis Whisper

http://research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

This prototype application shows the discovery of UK based library bibliographic and holdings data.

Teacher Job Online

http://www.teacherjobonline.com/

“Britain's premier jobs website for Teachers. No need to register or even leave your Email address. Browse jobs anonymously and contact the advertiser direct.”

Textbook Revolution,

http://www.textbookrevolution.org/

“The web’s source for free educational materials.”

Worth checking out.

The Canadian

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/index.php

Online newspaper.

The Combined Regions

http://www.thecombinedregions.com/

The Combined Regions is the organisation behind the Unity resource sharing service. The Unity service began over 10 year ago to enable interlending of resources between libraries in the South West, North West, East Midlands, North East and Scotland.

Tropicultura

http://www.bib.fsagx.ac.be/tropicultura/

Tropicultura publishes original articles, research and synthesis notes, book and thesis summaries as well as reviews of films and videos relative to all aspects of rural development: plant and animal production, veterinary science, forestry science, soil science, rural engineering, environmental sciences, bio-industry, agro-food science, sociology and economy.

trovando

http://www.trovando.it/

“With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare results from 250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images, Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL), by simply clicking on the engine’s name.”

TW Bookjuice

http://www.twbookjuice.co.uk/

TW Bookjuice is produced by Time Warner Book Group UK and features new titles, author events, etc.

UK Active Map of Universities and HE Institutions

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/

Useful map.

Unesco Literacy Portal

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40338&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

The Literacy Portal aims to provide a platform for information-sharing on literacy projects and activities undertaken around the world and enhance UNESCO’s capacity in coordinating the United Nation Literacy Decade (UNLD) in building partnership at all level.

Web Focus

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html

Nature special issue. All the articles are free, thanks to sponsorship from Microsoft.

Xtra for Deans

http://deans.emeraldinsight.com/

Emerald Group Publishing announces the launch of Emerald Management Xtra for Deans and Directors, a suite of online resources designed to support senior managers and administrators in management education. Building on the communities of practice concept of Emerald Management Xtra for librarians, authors, researchers, students, and faculty, this latest addition is focused on leading the future of global business and management education.

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NICE WEB SITE

In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will normally be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After lengthy discussions we have decided, with incredible creativity :-), to call these: Nice Web Sites. Details of previous Nice Web Sites are available in the Nice Web Site Archive.

Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com/

Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

RM

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BLOGORAMA

News about weblogs, RSS, etc:

Webopedia gives a definition of RSS http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html

The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss

RSS goes mainstream.
It was interesting to see an item, in the Sunday Times of March 5th, about using RSS to keep up to date with travel deals - i.e. via http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/rss.html and http://www.lastminute.com/site/rss

The article by Mark Hodson explained numerous benefits of RSS, and included an interesting use of RSS via del.icio.us If you go to http://del.icio.us/markhodson/hotels you will see a list of his personal top hotels - at the bottom is an orange RSS button, through which you can subscribe to the feed for that page. When he adds new hotels, you can be automatically updated. Click on his del.icio.us tags (to the right of http://del.icio.us/markhodson/) for numerous other good travel sites.

Other travel feeds I've noticed include: http://www.justtheflight.co.uk/rss/flights.html and http://rss.travelocity.com/

blogabond.com
http://www.blogabond.com/
Linking travel blogs to maps, etc

FeedDigest
http://www.feeddigest.com/
With FeedDigest, mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML, JavaScript, WAP or PHP, or to a new feed.

Blogs & Social Media Forum
http://www.socialmediaforum.co.uk/
A one-day forum, 17th May, Hilton London Metropole.
This new conference, launched by the organisers of the annual Online Information Exhibition and Conference, brings together a number of leading thinkers in the field of social media technologies.

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

RF Design
http://rfdesign.com/rss/
RF Design magazine provides RF and microwave engineers with design and development information concerning wireline and wireless communication's circuits and products using radio frequency signals going from very low frequency all the way to millimeter waves.

American Chemical Society RSS feeds
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=siteinfo\rss.html

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog
http://chronicle.com/news/

LiveSerials
http://liveserials.blogspot.com/
The official blog of the UKSG annual conference

Timbl's blog
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4

gladwell.com
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/
A writer for the New Yorker magazine, and the author of two books, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference" and "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking."

The Laughing Librarian - The Blogga Song
http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/bd_blogga.htm
Warning: Humour!

Intelligent Agent Blog
http://www.ia-blog.com/

Archives Hub Blog
http://archiveshubblog.blogspot.com/

Easy Librarian
http://www.maojun.com/

Micro Persuasion
http://www.micropersuasion.com/
Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations.

WSFinder
http://wsfinder.typepad.com/
A conversation about Open APIs, Web Services, Mash Ups, and Web 2.0

Recherchen Blog
http://recherchenblog.ch/index.php/weblog/

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PRESS RELEASES

**** New Connotea software supports institutional repositories ****

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has released new software which enables institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us. This latest innovation allows content within institutional repositories to be bookmarked, tagged, and linked to related content.  The work behind this development was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of their PALS Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2 program.

Once installed in a repository, the software will enable users to bookmark documents in that repository using their Connotea or del.icio.us account, assigning their own tags and without leaving the web page. They can also see what tags have already been assigned to the document they are viewing in the repository and click on links to related content, either within the same repository or elsewhere on the web.

If bookmarked in Connotea, the bibliographic metadata for the institutional repository item can be automatically imported.  Connotea already does this for items bookmarked from several other sources, including Nature, PubMed, Science, Blackwell Synergy, Wiley Interscience and Amazon.

Recognizing the importance of the content within institutional repositories, this new functionality will allow such content to be integrated and linked with the wider scientific literature.

See http://www.connotea.org/taggingtool for more information.

**** SAGE Announces Journal Backfile Digitization ****

SAGE Publications announced that work has commenced on its complete journal backfile digitization project. This major undertaking will ensure that the fullest possible backfile for more than 400 SAGE journals will be available online to users at academic, government and corporate institutions worldwide.

SAGE journals span a wide range of subject areas in the humanities, social sciences and scientific, technical and medical fields. Currently, SAGE offers deep backfile for selected journals through the SAGE Full-Text Collections. Once digitized, the complete SAGE backfile will be available through a range of flexible purchase and subscription options. Further information will be announced at a later date.

For further information, please contact:
Karine Chapuis, Head of Journals Marketing SAGE UK at karine.chapuis@sagepub.co.uk

http://www.sagepublications.com

**** Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(tm) with Full Text Now Available from EBSCO Publishing ****

When EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) released Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(tm) (LISTA), and made it available free to everyone, the response and subsequent use was extraordinary. Now, EBSCO is pleased to introduce LISTA with Full Text. While the index-only version of LISTA will continue to be made available free of charge to all interested users at http://www.libraryresearch.com, LISTA with Full Text is made available for an additional annual subscription cost.

LISTA with Full Text provides users with the same comprehensive indexing found in LISTA including more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. In addition, the full text of more than 100 titles is provided. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Recent Arrivals

006.7019 ZHA
Web communities
by Yanchun Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Jingyu Hou
Springer, 2006

025.04 JON
The institutional repository
by Richard Jones, Theor Andrew and John MacColl
Chandos, 2006

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi

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BOOK REVIEW

The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future
Lankes, R.D, Abels, E.G., Domas White, M. and Haque, S.N. (eds)
Facet Publishing, 2006
ISBN:1-85604-566-8
£49.95

The content of this new book from Facet Publishing is based on peer-reviewed main papers presented at the 6th Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Conference in Ohio in November 2004. The VRD Conference is a leading professional meeting reporting on developments in the rapidly changing and fluid field of provision, evaluation and development of virtual reference services.

The papers chosen for inclusion in this book have been developed and expanded for publication by the contributors [14 from North America, and 3 from Denmark]. They cover chat reference services - concentrating on teenagers’ use of the service and dealing with difficult online interactions; training and staffing; evaluation (and performance measurement); and innovative approaches, including chapters on the use of wi-fi technology and the management of a consortium reference service with a network of public and academic sector information specialists.

The four main sections of the book mirror the themes covered by the conference and reflect key issues impacting on a variety of virtual reference services. The contributors (a mix of educators and reference service providers from various sectors) succeed in providing a balance between progressive ideas and practical advice.

Anyone wishing to introduce or further develop a virtual reference service will undoubtedly want to know –

The Virtual Reference Desk enables a fuller understanding of these issues from leading professionals in the field.

Chapters are concisely summarised in the introduction, and the relationship between the content of the book and the developing Virtual Reference Desk research agenda is addressed in the conclusion.

This is a forward-looking book which should find a receptive audience amongst reference information professionals and reader services managers alike.

For more information, online proceedings from the conference not included in the book can be viewed at: http://www.vrd2004.org/proceedings/index.cfm

MK

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

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Stoats Porridge Bars are located in the Meadows on North Meadow Walk at the George Square entrance to the Meadows.

Stellar Quines Theatre Company
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I-ON Edinburgh Magazine
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Book This Band

Danny Cockroach
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Young Edinburgh-based band, who are 'hot'. They also have a super new CD out.

Send me your band websites, and if they're good, I'll try to mention them in future 'Book This Band' sections.

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