Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS

Over 40,000 people now subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter. Very many thanks go to Willco http://www.willco.com/ who distribute the email version. To subscribe, at no cost, go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/

The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j

A pdf of a foldable A4 leaflet about this newsletter is available. This may be useful for libraries or others who want to spread the word about the newsletter. If you do - many thanks.

-----

Random quotes

I usually quote from others in this slot. However, if you happen to be interested in what I think about various library issues and other matters, there's a recent 'Guru Interview' in Emerald LibraryLink, The Information Professional's Knowledge Network. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/librarians/info/guru_macleod.jsp
You may need to register to get access.

Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Academia - Tutor

https://www.en-power.co.uk/academia/

The Academia - Tutor portal provides academic staff and students with access to specially prepared television programmes and resources. The programmes are used as a tutorial tool, a stimulating interactive on-line library resource or as a knowledge-broadening topical aid for students preparing for interviews for the job market.

The content is prepared and supplied by Einstein Network who have more than ten years' experience providing CPD solutions for professionals and learning resources for the academic community.

Adversarial Information Retrieval: The Manipulation of Web Content

http://www.reviews.com/hottopic/hottopic_essay_06.cfm

A new Hot Topic, from Computing Reviews.

AthenaWeb

http://www.athenaweb.org/

AthenaWeb has a new site design.

Launched in the spring of 2005, AthenaWeb is a video portal and workspace for European audiovisual communication professionals in the areas of science and scientific information.

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/07/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n8-august.html

The August 2007 V5N8 issue is available from this page.

The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Online Research Resources. Online research tools resources continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the need for identifying and collaborating research from throughout the world! These resources will allow you to keep up to date and to monitor the latest happenings in all fields associated with research and the opportunities associated with discovering new research and related knowledgebases throughout the global Internet.

BlogScholar

http://www.blogscholar.com/

Academic blogging portal.

BRAW

http://www.braw.org.uk/

A site completely devoted to Scottish children's books.

Careerjet

http://www.careerjet.co.uk/

Careerjet is an employment search engine for the UK.

Computer Magazines and E-Zines

http://www.hitmill.com/internet/magazines.html

A directory of computer and network magazines include topics such as computer technology, networking, processors and hardware, programming languages, robotics, visual basic, .NET technology, c++ programming, c# programming, xml magazines and more…

cRANKy

http://www.cranky.com/

Age-relevant search engine.

Creation Design Consultancy

http://www.creationdesign.co.uk/

Creation is a Bristol based agency specialising in graphic design, advertising and websites. As well as these three core services we can also provide marketing, photography, print management, media buying and copywriting.

Edina Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline.html

The June issue of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is available.

Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges: EAUC

http://www.eauc.org.uk/home

A new design for this website.

The EAUC is the sustainability champion for universities and colleges in the UK.

FaceReviews

http://www.facereviews.com/

“We created this facebook application reviews and news blogsite to help share information with people that are passionate about facebook. We think that the facebook f8 platform is the future and that it’s API will become the standard for many developers to add really exciting and cool applications that facebook users will find useful and engaging.”

Foundations of Digital Libraries

http://www.delos.info/DLFoundations2007

Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries, In conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), Budapest, Hungary, September 20, 2007.

Golden Books Group

http://www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk/

A small UK independent bookseller. Student discounts codes will be available two months before Christmas.

Professional buyers and sellers of fine quality books worldwide for beautiful homes, castles, palaces and prestige offices.

Highlights from Inderscience

http://www.inderscience.com/highlights

The summer 2007 issue of Highlights is now available. Featured in this issue: Newly published titles, Short overview of the fight against cybercrime, Latest Calls for Papers, Librarians’ Corner, etc.

ICIS Chemical Business

http://www.icis.com/v2/magazine/home.aspx

A new global weekly magazine for the chemical industry.

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies: IEET

http://www.ieet.org/

“By promoting and publicizing the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological progress, we seek to contribute to the understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on individuals and societies. We also want to help shape public policies that distribute the benefits and reduce the risks of technological advancement.”

Interxion

http://www.interxion.com/

“Interxion owns and operates 32,000m2 of colocation space within 22 data centers in 11 countries across Europe.

As the pan-European leader in co-location and associated managed services, Interxion delivers a full set of services that allow more than 1,000 companies to securely house, connect, monitor and maintain mission-critical IT equipment.”

JANET Collaborate Pilot Project

http://www.ja.net/development/collaboration/pilot/index.html

A prototype is under development and is due for launch in Autumn 2007.

The aim of the proposed Collaboration Service is to enable those in education to:
find others with shared educational interests, thus leading to educational collaboration;
find or offer opportunities for collaboration, especially live educational content being delivered by videoconference;
find associated educational resources, e.g. best practice, projects, lesson plans.

Japan Company Handbook

http://www.toyokeizai.co.jp/english/jch/

The Japan Company Handbook is a widely-acclaimed quarterly publication on Japan's leading companies. It gives you information on 3,915 Japanese companies in detail: from contacts to the latest financial information.

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. Currently we use the ISI data for citations through 2005 and 2006 prices, which are the most recent data available to us."

Journal Info

http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/

A new tool to support researchers in their choice of journal for publication which obviously has other uses as well. The service gives simple access to journal information which is divided up into general, accessibility, cost and quality and each area is supported by a number of relevant points. You can, for example, find in which databases a journal is indexed, how much it costs to subscribe and which alternative OA journals exists. A total of 18,000 journals are currently supported in the database.

Journal of Physics Students

http://www.jphysstu.org/index.php?journal=jphysstu

A new peer-reviewed open access journal.

JPS is a peer-review journal for BSc, MSc and PhD Physics students. It aims to train students for peer-review publication processes.

Library Related Conferences

http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

This useful list, compiled by Marian Dworaczek, has been updated.

Library Web (UK)

http://www.libraryweb.info/

Library Web is a UK focused rolling Internet news site for public libraries.

Life and work of Sir Basil Spence 1907-76: architecture, tradition and modernity

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/basil_spence/

This project is examining the work of Sir Basil Spence and his offices in Scotland and England, drawing on the extensive archive of drawings, designs, office papers, press-cuttings and photographs which Spence’s family bequeathed to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in Edinburgh in 2003.

Looking East: Chinese Research Sources

http://www.freepint.com/issues/120707.htm#feature

An article in Free Pint, by Tim Houghton, which is full of useful links and advice.

Machines4sale.co.uk

http://www.machines4sale.co.uk/index.php

This site includes topical engineering news and adverts for new and used machine tools.

Marketingservicestalk

http://www.marketingservicestalk.com/

The home of the Marketingservicestalk email newsletter for Marketing Professionals.

Mashable

http://mashable.com/

Social Networking News

Mindquarry

http://www.mindquarry.com/

Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and functionality.

Nereus

http://www.nereus4economics.info/

Nereus is integrating access to the economics resources of key libraries, academic publications and other online resources in Europe and beyond. It is a follow-up to the European Commission projects Decomate I & Decomate II.

Online Educa Berlin 2007

http://www.online-educa.com/

Berlin, November 28 – 30, 2007. Online Educa Berlin brings together the top professionals and experts in technology-supported learning and training of all sectors: corporate training, higher and professional education, compulsory education and lifelong learning.

Open Library

http://demo.openlibrary.org/

This site is an early preview.

“What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.”

This site is an early preview.

Read more about this site at Information Today.

Opodo - Find Cheap Flights'

http://www.opodo.co.uk/

Opodo has been mentioned in the IRN in the past, but “Opodo - Find Cheap Flights” is now the site’s preferred byline for links to their site.

PicFindr

http://www.picfindr.com/

PicFindr searches the web for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially.

Found via the lo-fi librarian blog.

Pictobrowser

http://www.pictobrowser.com/

Pictobrowser is a small HTML code that uses the API developer tools from the Flickr site inside a Flash environment to request and display a user's pictures.

PMA

http://www.pma-online.org/

PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association is a trade association of independent publishers. Founded in 1983, it serves book, audio, and video publishers located in the United States and around the world.

Propylaeum - ViFa Altertumswissenschaften

http://www.propylaeum.de/

A new portal for classics and archaeology.

Das Projekt Propylaeum – Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften ist ein Internetportal, das Fachinformationen für den gesamten Bereich der Altertumswissenschaft anbietet, derzeit für die Fächer Ägyptologie, Alte Geschichte, Klassische Archäologie, Klassische Philologie und Vor- und Frühgeschichte.

Quantcast

http://www.quantcast.com/

“Quantcast is the world's first open internet ratings service. Advertisers can find reports on the audiences of millions of web sites. Publishers can ensure their sites are represented accurately by tagging them for direct measurement. The service is free to everyone.”

Quintura

http://www.quintura.com/

A search engine which also provides tag cloud results.

RSS Update: It's RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It

http://www.freepint.com/issues/260707.htm#tips

This is an article I wrote for Free Pint.

Safari Books Online

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/

A new website from one of the leading on-demand reference and learning platforms.

ScienceHack

http://sciencehack.com/

ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos. Every video is screened and approved based on accuracy and quality by our scientists.

ScienceWatch

http://www.sciencewatch.com/

The Web version of Thomson Scientific Science Watch® - a subscription newsletter (plus CD) that uses the unique citation data of Thomson Scientific to provide rankings, interviews, and reports on today's most significant science.

Scirus Topic Pages

http://topics.scirus.com/TestTopicPages/index.jsp

Scirus Topic Pages is a new free online resource for the scientific community. Developed by Scirus and Elsevier journal editors, Scirus Topic Pages focus on a particular scientific topic of interest to researchers and are designed to provide the most comprehensive information available on that particular topic. Each Topic Page provides researchers with a summary of the topic written by an authority in the particular subject area, with direct links to relevant scholarly papers, websites and other online resources.

Scitalks

http://scitalks.com/index.php

A repository of video recordings of science lectures.

Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology

http://www.sistech.co.uk/

SISTech researches, promotes and fosters best practice in sustainable development.

Shelfari

http://www.shelfari.com/

Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recommendations.

SubsTech

http://www.substech.com/

SubsTech is a free and open knowledge source in Materials Engineering. It contains a wide range of illustrated articles on metals, ceramics, polymers, composites and lubricants including their properties, applications and technologies for their manufacture.

The Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/pr/awards/set.sp

“The Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year Awards celebrate their tenth year in 2007. They are established as the UK's most important awards for science and engineering undergraduates and are also open to students studying at universities in the Republic of Ireland.

Designed to raise the profile of science and technology education in Britain, the Awards are sponsored by global companies from the science, engineering and technology world. They are judged by individual experts drawn from the professional bodies and learned societies across SET.”

Top Twenty Essential US Government Web Sites

http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/tp/governmentsites.htm

From Wendy Boswell, at About.com

Tripos

http://www.tripos.com/

“As the pharmaceutical industry changes in response to unprecedented challenges, information technology supporting the drug discovery process must evolve and be redefined in order to improve research productivity and success rates. Improvements to traditional computational chemistry applications will continue to provide incremental benefits, but drug discovery's productivity imperative can only be met from the more widespread use of vital decision support tools and through discovery informatics platforms that foster highly collaborative discovery processes.

Tripos understands the productivity imperative and is leading the charge to re-define the role of Discovery Informatics in drug discovery.”

UME International Architecture Magazine

http://www.umemagazine.com/

UME is an independent international architecture magazine edited, produced, published and wholly owned by Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper.

URateLocal

http://www.uratelocal.com/

Sister site URateStuff was mentioned in IRN 152. URateLocal is a peer review database where people can rate customer and seller reviews on local services while earning money for contributing their own reviews.

Virtual Engineer

http://www.virtual-engineer.net/

"The Best Links on the Web for Engineers and other Professionals working in the Building and Construction Industries"

Looks like a promising site.

Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide

http://www.elsevier.com/framework_editors/pdfs/waystousearticles.pdf

Elsevier believes it is important to communicate clearly about our policies regarding the use of articles we publish. To inform our editors, we have compiled this brief guide to ways in which you, and the authors and readers of your journal can use articles published by Elsevier whether you have access to them in print or via an online service such as ScienceDirect.

Webware

http://www.webware.com/

A cnet site, featuring news about Productivity applications, Data-driven applications, Community services, etc.

West Sussex Past

http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk/

A portal to archive, library and museum online heritage services.

WikiMindMap

http://www.wikimindmap.org/

”WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not always straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.”

WorldWideScience.org

http://www.worldwidescience.org/

A global science gateway, accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.

XCRI

http://www.xcri.org/

XCRI is a JISC-funded, UK-oriented project to establish a specification to support the eXchange of Course-Related Information.

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

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.

Journal Info
http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/

Journal Info has great potential. The FAQ states that its purpose is to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journal for publication, but the site has various other uses as well.

RM

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

BLOGORAMA

News about Blogs, RSS, etc:

You already know what blogs are, but for more information about RSS see the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or Webopedia 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
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j

Chemical Blogspace
http://cb.openmolecules.net/
Chemical blogspace collects data from tens of scientific chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with it.

BlogScholar
http://www.blogscholar.com/
Academic blogging portal

afeeda
http://www.afeeda.com/
allows you to bring all your favourite RSS sources together into a single feed.

100 blogs we love
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133119-page,10-c,sites/article.html
By the Editors of PC World

Web 2.0 questions I'm most often asked
http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2007/06/web-20-question.html
An entry in Phil Bradley's blog

PRWeb Launches More than 500 Additional News Feeds to Extend the Reach of its Online News Release Distribution
http://www.prweb.com/releases/RSS/Atom/prweb536789.htm

Criteo AutoRoll
http://widget.criteo.com/
I haven't tried this myself. Criteo AutoRoll is a blog widget that displays links to blogs that your readers should like.

Australian library blogs
http://librariesinteract.info/australian-library-blogs/

BlogSieve
http://www.blogsieve.com/
For filtering, sorting and merging feeds.

AideRSS
http://www.aiderss.com/
AideRSS helps to filter out the noise from RSS feeds

RSS Update: It's RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It
http://www.freepint.com/issues/260707.htm#tips
This is an article I wrote for Free Pint.

This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

Active Library
http://activelibrary.blogspot.com/
All about libraries and e-resources, by Mahendra Patel, from Gujarat.

Silliman's Blog
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.

Weibel Lines
http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/
Ruminations on Libraries and Internet standards

News from ticTOCs
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment.

Consumer Reports RSS feeds
http://simplefeed.consumerreports.org/subscription

InfoSciPhi
http://www.infosciphi.info/
InfoSciPhi is for the "philosopher" in every librarian.

New Jack Librarian
http://www.newjackalmanac.ca/newjacklibrarian.html

SCINews
http://scienceteamnews.wordpress.com/
Loughborough University Library Science Team news

Broadcast
http://broadcastengineering.wordpress.com/
News for the Engineering Faculty from Loughborough University Library Engineering team

OptimalScholarship
http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/
Alma Swan's weblog: An occasional commentary on issues that affect the progress of scholarship.

Library Issues - The Technology Faculty Library News Blog
http://libraryissues.blogspot.com/
A Library newsblog for the Technology Faculty at the Open University, UK.

Beth's Blog
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/
"A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nptech, educational technology, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more."

librariesinteract.info
http://librariesinteract.info/
Blog central for Australian Libraries

Bioscience Education
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/rss20toc.aspx
Table of Contents feed from this publication from the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Bioscience

RSS Blogger
http://www.rss-blogger.de/
RSS, RDF, ATOM und alles was Sie über WebFeeds schon immer wissen wollten

Wiley RSS feeds for new book titles
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302565.html

MIT Press New Book Release RSS Feeds
http://mitpress.mit.edu/rss/index/default.asp

Scientific Blogging
http://www.scientificblogging.com/

infodoodads
http://infodoodads.com/
infodoodads is a blog that reviews and discusses existing and new tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet.

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

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

006.74 ZEE
HTML & web artistry 2
by Natalie Zee and Susan Harris
New Riders, 2002

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

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

NEW BOOK

No time for a book review, this month, but we noted the following new book:

Managing stress and conflict in Libraries
by Sheila Pantry OBE BA FCLIP
FAcet Publishing, 2007
ISBN: 978-185604-613-8

Stress and conflict in the workplace undermine performance and can make people mentally and physically ill, and research indicates that ever-increasing numbers of people are experiencing excessive pressure of this kind – including aggression and abuse – in our rapidly changing world of work.

This applies to libraries and information organizations as much as anywhere; indeed they can be particular targets for verbal and non-verbal violent behaviour through their accessibility to the public, and there are also employees of such organizations who are suffering, often in silence, from aggression, bullying and harassment from a work colleague.

Managing Stress and Conflict in Libraries defines clearly what should and should not be tolerated in a healthy and safe working environment, and introduces the reporting procedures and communication skills leading to conflict resolution, enabling both employees and managers to consider situations consistently based on risk assessment previously carried out.

Details from Facet Publishing.

Available from Amazon:

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Mike Seddon's Cartoons
http://www.mikeseddon.com/

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

This page is: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn153/irn153.html

© 2007 Heriot-Watt University

You may pass this newsletter on to others, as long as it is sent in its entirety.

Banner design by Colin Lees, CML Web Design
© 2007 Heriot-Watt University
Privacy Statement