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Random quotes
"The boundaries between books and journals are fading. In the past, journal subscriptions followed a renewal cycle, while books were one-off purchases. With electronic products both books and journals can be subscription products and customers no longer make a hard distinction between them."
Arie Jongejan, "Chasing the long tail" Research Information, Issue 37, August/September 2008.
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=187
"The future is not about e-books or e-journals, it's about e-content. Increasingly, users are not differentiating betwen chapters and journal articles." Hannah Perrett, quoted in IWR, October 2008, p.25
News items of interest.
Supporting teaching and research with free access to online journal archives
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events/jaa
Over 800,000 journal articles made freely available to universities, research councils and colleges in the UK.
Following an open procurement process JISC Collections is making four journal archives freely available, to all colleges, universities and research councils in the UK. These archives from the American Chemical Society, Brill Academic Publishers, ProQuest, and Taylor & Francis include 230 peer reviewed journals with some of the most important articles in the arts, built environment, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences and the social sciences.
Opening soon: a digital library for Europe
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1255&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Europe's cultural diversity in books, music, paintings, photographs, and films open to all citizens at the click of a mouse via one portal – this dream of a European Digital Library could become reality this autumn. However, further efforts by the EU Member States are needed.
University of Glasgow announces new Publications Policy
The University of Glasgow is proud to announce a new Publications Policy which will require authors to deposit the full text of peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings in the University's institutional repository Enlighten (http://www.gla.ac.uk/enlighten) where publisher agreements permit this.
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/enlighten/publicationspolicy/index.html
Internet Searching May Boost Brain
For middle-aged and older adults, searching the Internet could be a boost to the brain, a new study suggests.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081014/sc_livescience/internetsearchingmayboostbrain;_ylt=Ah1RRd1NgjRx2m1nTbf1owsEtbAF
Emerald speeds up publication with EarlyCite
Emerald Group Publishing Limited have launched Emerald EarlyCite, a new online pre-ublication service allowing quicker access to research. EarlyCite articles are fully peer-reviewed and made available online before they undergo the full sub-editing and page-proofing stages.
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/about/news/story.htm?PHPSESSID=gbbm5c0m3odan7nfc4m9bvk345&id=795
Zimbabwe: Universities Unable to Re-Open As Economic Woes Worsen
http://allafrica.com/stories/200810101101.html
African Prisons Project
http://www.africanprisons.org/
African Prisons Project (APP) is a young charity founded to improve the welfare, health and education of detainees in Africa.
ArtPromote – art and culture online
http://www.artpromote.com/
A searchable directory with thousands of annotated listings in over 200 categories of visual art, music, and literature.
Awareness Watch Newsletter October issue
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/09/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n10.html
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features eReference Library Link Toolkit.
Bank Data & Statistics
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/
From the Federal Deposit Insurance Company. Use searchable databases to find information on specific banks, their branches, and the industry.
Big Science Read
http://www.bigscienceread.org/
“The Big Science Read campaign invites you to explore, re-discover and get excited about science-themed books and hopes to stimulate public debate of current issues relating to scientific and technological advances. We’ve put together a suggested reading list of contemporary popular science and fiction titles to get you started and there are plenty more recommendations of seminal science reads and other resources to be found here.“
British Services website
http://www.britishservices.co.uk/
Provides an easy-to-use lists of UK’s governing bodies, government departments, associations and resources of over 100 industries along with the non-profit organizations, charities, clubs and businesses in each sector.
Building Design
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/
BD, the Architect’s Website, includes the BD Magazine, news, forums, services, etc. A very informative website.
Campaign for Better Transport
http://www.transport2000.org.uk/
Helping to create transport policies and programmes that give people better lives. Working nationally and locally, collectively and as individuals, through high-level lobbying and strong public campaigning, they make good transport ideas a reality and stop bad ones from happening.
ChemSynthesis
http://www.chemsynthesis.com/
ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. This website contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density. There are currently more than 40,000 compounds and more than 45,000 synthesis references in the database.
ChemXSeer
http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/
ChemXSeer is an integrated digital library and database allowing for intelligent search of documents in the chemistry domain and data obtained from chemical kinetics. A discussion of this website is available from Research Information
CISnet
http://cisnet.mit.edu/
MIT Press CISnet brings together many of the MIT Press’s recent and classic titles in computer and information science in a fully searchable online library.
Commission for Integrated Transport: CfIT
http://www.cfit.gov.uk/
The Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) is an independent body advising the Government on integrated transport policy. CfIT takes a broad view of integrated transport policy and its interface with wider Government objectives for economic prosperity, environmental protection, health and social inclusion. Physical integration - the principle of ensuring transport modes operate in conjunction with one another, is just one vital element of the bigger transport picture. The Commission provides expert advice supported by independent research.
Confederation of Passenger Transport UK
http://www.cpt-uk.org/
The Confederation of Passenger Transport UK (CPT) is recognised by Government as the voice of the coach, bus and light rail industries and is the focus for consultation and negotiation on national and international legislation, local regulations, operational practices and engineering standards.
Copyright Toolkit
http://www.copyrighttoolkit.com/
From eduserv. There are many legal textbooks on the subject of intellectual property, or, more specifically, copyright. Briefing documents have also been produced which aim to make senior university managers and others in the field of education aware of the need to manage copyright so as to reduce institutional liability. This toolkit is not aimed specifically at these audiences. Instead, it provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal.
Current
http://current.com/
Includes current tv schedules and shows.
Data Visualisation Tools: Part 2 – Spatial Data in a Web 2.0 Environment and Beyond
http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/spatial_data_mashup.pdf
From the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project.
Dialnet
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/
Dialnet es un portal de difusión de la producción científica hispana.
Digital.CSIC
http://digital.csic.es/
The Institutional Repository of the Spanish National Research Council
Dot What!?
http://dotwhat.net/
A file extension resource website for the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
Dryad
http://datadryad.org/
Dryad is a repository of data underlying scientific publications, with an initial focus on evolutionary biology and related fields.
EDINA Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?filename=newsline20080924.txt
The September 2008 edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is available.
EDItEUR
http://www.editeur.org/
Co-ordinating the development, promotion and implementation of Electronic Commerce in the book and serials sectors.
eLearning Papers
http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=home
eLearning Papers adds a new dimension to the exchange of information on e-learning in Europe and stimulates research. As such, the articles provide views regarding the current situation and e-learning trends in different communities: schools, universities, companies, civil society and institutions. eLearning Papers provides all those interested with an opportunity to have their texts published throughout Europe. Through these articles, the journal promotes the use of ICT for lifelong learning in Europe.
Entomology Australia
http://www.entomology.edu.au/
Entomology Australia is devoted to raising the profile of entomological education in Australia. It has been initiated to complement the development of entomological courses for higher education. Entomology Australia acts as a portal to obtaining information about insects in education at all levels, from primary school to university postgraduate level. Our aim is to act as a centre-point for discussion of educational topics, and news about insects. We provide links to professional societies, the corporate sector, and educational institutions.
FierceContentManagement
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/ficm/
A number of people take advantage of the free technical magazine subscriptions available through TechXtra. Here’s a further one available to qualifying individuals. FierceContentManagement is a free, weekly content management briefing for IT managers and executives. This valuable briefing covers best practices for creating, storing and managing documents and information. Get key updates on policy changes, new products and other news developments within the growing discipline of content management. Join thousands of industry insiders who depend on FierceContentManagement for their weekly executive briefing. Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada, Mexico, UK
International Committee on EDI for Serials: ICEDIS
http://www.editeur.org/
“The Committee brings together business and technical representatives from the world's leading journal publishers and subscription agents. Together these trading partners are developing and defining industry standards for EDI and other e-commerce applications in facilitating journal subscription processing.” Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) allows the exchange of commercial information between computers irrespective of processing system.
International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing
http://www.inderscience.com/ijshc
A new journal from Inderscience. IJSHC aims at leading multidisciplinary research and practice on the critical themes of the human and society. With the main emphasis placed on the demonstration of innovations and new approaches to the deployment of information and communication for human-centric and society-sensitive systems, IJSHC actively promotes a dialogue for developing a better world.
ISIG Video Archive
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/videoArchive.htm
LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group has relaunched its video library of visiting speakers, talks by about 50 leading academics in the social sciences and management. There is also an attached blog to discuss the content of the videos.
ITA 09. Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications
http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1xm3x3
8 to 11 September 2009
Wrexham, North Wales, United Kingdom. Call for papers - The third in a series of biennial international
conferences on Internet Technologies and
Applications (ITA 09), will be held in Wrexham,
North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 8th to Friday
11th September 2009.
JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online
http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/
JAIRO is a service providing the capability of cross-searching academic information stored in Japanese Institutional Repositories. Content includes journal articles, theses and dissertations, learning materials, technical reports, departmental research bulletins, research reports, etc. More than 500,000 items are indexed.
KonSULT - the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land use and Transport.
http://www.konsult.leeds.ac.uk/
KonSULT is designed to help policy makers, professionals and interest groups to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in urban transport, and to identify appropriate policies. It has been developed with support from the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund.
MSE360
http://mse360.com/
An impressive new search engine. Described here by Karen Blakeman.
National Centre for Text Mining: Introduction to Tools for Researchers
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/bpnationalcentrefortextminingv1.aspx
A JISC briefing paper on this important subject for the future.
Next Generation Environments: Understanding Needs, Unravelling Complexities and Applying Practice
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/brochnextgenerationconf2008.pdf
Papers from the JISC Users and Innovation Programme Conference, April 2008
nzresearch.org.nz
http://nzresearch.org.nz/
This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand. The goal of nzresearch.org.nz is to connect research users from around the world to research documents produced in New Zealand institutions.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association: OASPA
http://www.oaspa.org/
Our mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation.
Oracle Magazine
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/orm/
A number of people take advantage of the free technical magazine subscriptions available through TechXtra. Here’s a further one available to qualifying individuals. Published bimonthly and distributed to more than 550,000 of the top IT managers, database administrators, and developers. Oracle Magazine contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. Geographic Eligibility: Selected International
ORE Specifications and User Guides - Table of Contents
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
PARSE.Insight
http://www.parse-insight.eu/
PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is accessible, usable and understandable in future. The rapid pace of change in information technology threatens media, file formats and software with obsolescence, and changing concepts and terminology also mean that, even if data can be read, it might not be correctly interpreted by future generations.
Planning jobs
http://jobs.planningresource.co.uk/
Planning jobs is the place to visit if you are looking for a new job in the town planning sector
Recruitment Agency Network: RAN Jobs
http://www.ranjobs.co.uk/
The Recruitment Agency Network is a group of recruitment companies who are now posting their vacancies to this wholly-owned jobs resource. A wide range of part-time and full-time posts in Scotland, and farther afield, are presented through a simple search facility. Job-seekers applications are sent direct to a professional recruiter.
Sandbag
http://sandbag.org.uk/
Real action on climate change.
Scotland’s Information
http://www.scotlandsinformation.com/
Scotland's Information is a service for identifying, locating, and accessing the content of Scotland's archive, library and museum collections. The service is maintained by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). The service was developed by the Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) at the University of Strathclyde.
Scour
http://www.scour.com/
“Scour's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's web searchers.”
Search1.x
http://www.search1x.com/
A website/blog from Felix Liao, ”an information junkie who is obsessed with finding the Ultimate Search”.
SearchMedica
http://www.searchmedica.com/
Medical search engine.
Semantic Enrichment: The Key to Successful Knowledge Extraction from STM Literature
http://www.scopeknowledge.com/downloadsemantic.aspx
A white paper from Scope e-Knowledge Center. Abstract: Scholarly research and the dissemination of research output are increasing at a rapid pace. This offers STM information providers the opportunity to expand their publishing, database development, and knowledge dissemination services. This white paper, published by Scope eKnowledge Center, identifies the key trends that triggered the information explosion and how this resulted in a paradigm shift in the way information is disseminated and used, especially in the STM domain. It also highlights the key problem areas for researchers in discovering knowledge from an avalanche of research output. Further, this white paper elaborates - with a few apt examples - on how STM publishers can use semantic enrichment in different ways to enhance their offerings to researchers.
Student Diversity and Academic Writing Project
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/raw/sdaw/videos.htm
Videos from the joint Lancaster/LSE project on Student Diversity and Adult Writing Project
Sustainable Development Commission
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/
The Sustainable Development Commission is the Government's independent adviser on sustainable development, reporting to the Prime Minister, the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales and the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
TargetCourses
http://www.targetcourses.co.uk/
Postgraduate courses.
TargetJobs
http://targetjobs.co.uk/graduate-jobs/
Jobs for graduates.
Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/tech-tips-for-the-basic-computer-user/?em
Lots of useful tips.
TechOnline India
http://www.techonlineindia.com/
TechOnlineIndia.com, is a new web site from TechInsights, the publishers of EE Times, that targets the education and technical information needs of the rapidly growing electronics engineering design and development community in India.
Ten Science Search Engines
http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/science-search-engines/
There’s actually only nine!
Tutorial Guide
http://www.tutorialguide.net/
Offers a wide variety of links to tutorials on numerous subjects.
Update Digital Edition
http://www.cilip.org.uk/updatedigital
The digital edition of CILIP Library & Information Update. Very attractive presentation.
Visualblog
http://www.visualblog.net/
“Visualblog is easily-managed web presence based on visual communication. It's easy to customize, quick to set-up, and it has an intuitive user interface and multi-author functionality. You can also setup a private blog to keep you and your colleagues up to date through a flow of photos and video.“
XCRI: eXchanging Course-Related Information
http://www.xcri.org/Welcome.html
XCRI is a JISC-funded, UK-oriented project to establish a specification to support the eXchange of Course-Related Information.
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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 often 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.
nzresearch.org.nz
http://nzresearch.org.nz/
This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand.
You can use this website to search for research, look up specific subjects or authors, browse the research in various ways, and keep abreastof emerging research activity. There's also a Recent Records RSS feed: http://nzresearch.org.nz/index.php/browse/browseRecent?format=rss
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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items
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
Bloglines Top 1000 feeds
http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds
Bournemouth University Research Support blog
http://bulib4research.blogspot.com/
Engineering and Mathematics @ City
http://engineeringandmaths.wordpress.com/
The Really Useful Library Blog
http://ihscplibrarian.ning.com/
CrowdSource: The Power Of The People
http://crowdsourcepower.blogspot.com/
CrowdSource is devoted to documenting community-based contributions and potential solutions to any and all economic, scientific, social, and technological issues, problems, and situations, primarily via, but not limited to, a digital environment.
European Commission - Enterprise and Industry http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/rssbytheme.cfm?item_type=251&tpa=124&lang=en
PolyThinkers Pad
http://www.poly.edu/library/blog/
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
The Free Legal Web
http://legalweb.wordpress.com/
Library & Information Update blog
http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/update/rss.aspx
SEO Book
http://www.seobook.com/blog
Everyday Scientist
http://blog.everydayscientist.com/
"Everyday science is the science that doesn't make the headlines—the science in the background—the science that we all do and know and love and hate."
OpenRegulations.org
http://www.openregulations.org/
OpenRegulations.org is an alternative interface to the federal government's Regulations.gov regulatory dockets database.
You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of a particular agency's rulemaking notices.
FeedBees
http://www.feedbees.com/
RSS directory
Virtual World Watch
http://virtualworldwatch.net/
Virtual World Watch will continue the snapshot series and the underlying virtual world research, but taking a wider view of virtual world use in education.
Co-action publishing
http://www.co-action.net/rss/co-action.xml?sessid=02661871&user=346351&env=MSIE
Track Congress
http://www.govtrack.us/
Chemistry World
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/CWLatestNews.xml
CNNMoney
http://money.cnn.com/services/rss/
Computational Biology - Bioinformatics Blogs
http://wiki.nodalpoint.org/blogs
Digitization 101
http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/
About the
creation, management, marketing and preservation of digital assets.
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The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.
Recent Arrivals
006.7 MOR
Podcasting for dummies
2nd ed, by Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi and Evo Terra
Wiley, 2008
371.33 SAL
Poscasting for learning in universities
edited by Gilly Salmon and Palitha Edirsingha
SRHE, 2008
384 LYN
Bandwidth bubble bust: the rise and fall of the global telecom industry
by Grahame Lynch
Authors Choice, 2001
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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Dream Journal
http://www.dreamjournal.net/
Dream Journal is a free service that allows you to create and customize your very own online dream journal.
Deezer
http://www.deezer.com/
Music on demand
Open Source Food
http://www.opensourcefood.com/
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