There won't be an issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter next month, as I'm on holiday for a few weeks. Next issue will be #174, August.

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Random quotes

"Web 2.0, the Social Web, has had a profound effect on behaviours, particularly those of young people whose medium and metier it is. They inhabit it with ease and it has led them to a strong sense of communities of interest linked in their own web spaces, and to a disposition to share and participate. It has also led them to impatience – a preference for quick answers – and to a casual approach to evaluating information and attributing it and also to copyright and legal constraints." From: Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/heweb2.aspx

"And the jury is still out on whether such a highly decentralised system of creating databases of articles, which are not the official 'article of record' or 'minutes of', can be searched effectively through a single point of access, GoogleScholar notwithstanding." From: Does open access really pay? David Brown, Library & Information Update, May 2009, p.26.

If web 2.0 flattens everything to the level of whim and self-actualisation, then it will have done more harm than good." From: Break free of this world wide delusion, by Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times, 17th May.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6301123.ece

News items of interest.

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

AccessArt

http://www.accessart.org.uk/

AccessArt has been redesigned. AccessArt creates free to access online teaching and learning resources which focus around the visual arts.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Librarian Portal

http://www.aappublications.org/librarian/

Subscription information and management, guides, etc.

Archive Awareness Campaign

http://www.archiveawareness.com/

”The national theme for Archive Awareness Campaign 2009 is “Take Flight!”. This theme is open to interpretation and lends itself to a wide variety of areas of archival work, whether in economic and industrial history; the impact of movement of peoples; innovation and ideas; engineering and science. The theme is designed to be as inclusive as possible, to bring in archives from across all sectors and so enable more engagement with a wider variety of user groups. We want this theme to inspire and provide opportunities for fresh thinking in approaching how archive services work with AAC.”

Barbour Product Search

http://www.barbourproductsearch.info/

Barbour Product Search is a product-led image rich online directory from the people who bring you the Barbour Compendium. Offering a specifier-friendly and accessible platform for architects, contractors and other specifiers within the construction community, this new service features a fully searchable database of products and suppliers, including images, case studies, technical data, catalogues, news and project data.

Beyond Books and Journals

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/

The third Bloomsbury Conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications, 25 & 26 June, The Archaeology Lecture Theatre at University College London.

BoB National

http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/services/bob.html

BoB National is a shared off-air recording and media archive service which is available to BUFVC members holding an ERA+ license. This tv scheduling service allows your institution's staff and students to record programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days of recorded channels. Users may also search thousands of programmes stored in the growing archive.

Bookboon

http://bookboon.com/uk/student

Students can download free textbooks without registration from this site. Books are relevant for Engineering, Business and IT students and written in five different languages. The books are financed through a low number of in-book advertisements.

Brainify

http://www.brainify.com/

Academic social bookmarking. Find the best academic websites, ask questions & connect with other students. Allows searches to be saved as RSS.

Building Sustainable Design

http://www.bsdlive.co.uk/

Building Sustainable Design (UBM Built Environment’s latest brand) is a new monthly magazine for building services engineers, architects, clients and all construction professionals who care about sustainable, low energy design in the built environment.

CIBSE Journal

http://www.cibsejournal.com/

The official journal of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers

http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/awards.htm

Emerald Group Publishing Limited is delighted to announce the winners of its 2008 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their thirteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognize the 50 outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world.

Code4Lib

http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue6

Issue 6 is available. The Code4Lib Journal exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

College Scholarships, Colleges, and Online Degrees

http://www.college-scholarships.com/

Produced by the American Educational Guidance Center.

Information on traditional colleges, scholarships, college admission, college contact information, colleges for women, Christian colleges, colleges with programs for students with learning disabilities, career schools, vocational schools, a quick and easy GPA calculator, and more.

Common Chemistry

http://www.commonchemistry.org/

Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry Number of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information.

Data repositories

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories

This is a list of repositories and databases for open data.

Data.gov

http://www.data.gov/

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

Dissertation CIS

http://disseng.com/

Catalogue of more than 125000 Russian dissertations.

EBooks and Traditional Texts: Complementary or Mutually Exclusive?

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3790

An article in FUMSI by Kate Worlock.

Edelweiss-BP

http://edel.bol.bg/

Edelweiss-BP sells Bulgarian books and periodicals

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science: EPTCS

http://eptcs.org/

A new OA repository of refereed conference proceedings in Computer Science.

EngineeringDaily.net

http://www.engineeringdaily.net/

EngineeringDaily.net is a news/articles/discussions magazine by and for in-the-trenches practitioners.

Europeana

http://www.europeana.eu

All Europeana’s features are fully functioning now. Search through the cultural collections of Europe, connect to other user pathways and share your discoveries.

Exemplar

http://www.springerexemplar.com/index.aspx

Exemplar allows you to see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed, published literature.

From UKSG Serials e-News

“Springer has partnered with the Centre for Biomedical and Health Linguistics to develop this online service. The user searches for a specific term, which retrieves a list of results of where and how the keyword is used in published Springer content. The left column displays lists of different categories: the year the article was published, the top subject areas in which the term is used, the highest concentration of articles by country, and the name of the journal where the keyword is used most. By clicking on the keyword itself, the user is linked directly to the journal article where the word is located.”

Foreign Language Jobs in London and UK

http://www.uklanguagejobs.com/

Information and links to job sites.

Great War Archive

http://www.thegreatwararchive.org

The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home. Contributions were received via a special website and also through a series of open days at libraries and museums throughout the country.

GreyNet Newsletter

http://www.greynet.org/images/GreyNet_Newsletter_V1N2,_2009.pdf

Volume 1, Issue 2 (March/April) of this newsletter about grey literature is available.

groupthing

http://www.groupthing.org/

groupthing is an online community around words and creativity. You can set up groups, meet new friends and post your own creative work.

Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/heweb2.aspx

A report which looks at the projected future trends in the use of technology in higher education.

If You Teach Them, They Will Come: Using Information Literacy Instruction as Outreach

http://www.informedlibrarian.com/guestForum.cfm?FILE=gf0905.html

An article in Informed Librarian Online, by Maryann Mori.

IllumiRate

http://www.illumirate.com/

“IllumiRate is an International editing community staffed by a great group of enthusiastic volunteers.

Our primary focus is to build a spam-free directory with the input of editors from many different backgrounds, nationalities, and walks of life. You are welcome whether you are new to directory editing or are a seasoned veteran!”

Islands Book Trust Website

http://www.theislandsbooktrust.com/

Based in the Hebridean island of Lewis, we aim to further understanding of the history of Scottish islands in their wider Celtic and Nordic contexts through: Events including talks, visits, and conferences; Publications; Research and education

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl.org/09-spring/index.html

The Spring 2009 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available.

JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

The JISC website was recently redesigned and updated.

JISC's activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services.

Joost

http://www.joost.com/

“What's Joost? It's a way to watch videos – music, TV, movies and more – over the Internet.”

Journal of Cheminformatics

http://www.jcheminf.com/

Journal of Cheminformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling.

Krunchd

http://krunchd.com/krunch

Via Phil Bradley. This site is all about sharing multiple URLs

Langley James IT Recruitment

http://www.langleyjames.net/

With offices in London and Manchester, Langley James are now providing their ‘boutique-style’ IT Recruitment services throughout the UK.

MacRAE’S Blue Book

http://www.macraesbluebook.com/

MacRae’s Blue Book is one of the world’s key sourcing tools for North American industrial products and performs almost 5 million industrial searches monthly for nearly 2 million unique users.

MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) Project

http://miracle.si.umich.edu/index.html

The main goal of the project is to identify specific factors contributing to the success of institutional repositories and effective ways of accessing and using repositories.

MisterWhat

http://misterwhat.co.uk/

MisterWhat provides one of the most comprehensive business listings of UK businesses. Our local business listings are free to consult, and allow you to find the firm, company, shop and product you are looking for quickly and easily.

Musopen

http://www.musopen.com/

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.

NexPlan Recycling & Renewable Energy

http://www.nexplanrecycling.com/

NexPlan Recycling & Renewable Energy's goal is to educate people in regards to climate change and renewable energy sources and to assist and promote practical ways to implement and live a life that is environmentally friendly.

Obituaries Help

http://www.obituarieshelp.org/

Obituaries Help is a free resource (maintained by volunteers) for information on where to obtain vital records, birth certificates, death records, marriage records and other genealogy/family related records across the United States.

Online degrees, financial aid, and scholarships

http://www.online-degrees-and-scholarships.com/

US site. Lists and describes more than 135 fully accredited colleges and universities, and offers links to more than 50 no-cost online scholarship matching services.

Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide

http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/guide.pdf

Intended to be used as a decision-making and planning tool for institutions with digital repositories in existence or in development that are considering adding research data to their digital collections.

Research4Life

http://www.research4life.org/

“These pages will be built up as a central resource for journalists, researchers, students and the general public who are interested in the three Research4Life programs (HINARI, AGORA and OARE) that are a key source of scientific information in the areas of health, agriculture and the environment for developing countries. “

The Research4Life programs are unique, cooperative public-private partnerships (PPPs) between UN agencies, STM publishers, universities and university libraries, philanthropic foundations and technology partners.

Scotland-Russia Forum

http://www.scotlandrussiaforum.org/

“The Scotland-Russia Forum was founded in February 2003. Its aim is to promote a clear understanding in Scotland, Russia and its neighbouring countries of each other’s ways of life, history, heritage, cultural and commercial activities and voluntary services and to create contacts of all kinds between the peoples of these countries. We are an independent voluntary organisation with members of all ages, both Russian and non-Russian speaking and including many Russians now living in Scotland.”

Seed Magazine

http://seedmagazine.com/

“Science is changing our world. It is behind the transformations—social, economic, artistic, intellectual, and political—that are defining the 21st century. Through this lens, and with the newest tools of media and journalism, we aim to tell the fundamental story of our world today and to provide information and knowledge to help you prepare for the story tomorrow.”

Sharpened Resources

http://www.sharpened.net/resources/main.php

“Sharpened.net, which has been around since 1999, serves to help people understand the sometimes intimidating world of computers.“

This section links to computer resources

shortText.com

http://www.shorttext.com/

shortText.com is a simple tool to post text online, with minimum fuss. No sign ups, no sign in, just instant web presence for your information.

Smithsonian Institution Digital Repository

http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/

The Repository is collecting content from the Smithsonian research community.

Socialwork & Care Jobs

http://www.socialworkandcarejobs.com/

The online recruitment service for Social Work jobs, Care Jobs and Social Housing Jobs.

Stockopedia

http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/

“Stockopedia is more than just a social community for investors; based on your interests we gather the market intelligence relevant to you and introduce you to related companies. Whether you are looking to research stocks, connect with investors, test market strategies, or build your reputation, Stockopedia is for you.”

Teaching Inclusively Using Technology

http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getTeachingInclusively

In 2008 the JISC / Higher Education Academy Collaboration Initiative provided funding for JISC TechDis to work with partners in the JISC RSCs and Higher Education Academy Subject Centres to develop a suite of learning objects on inclusive use of technology in teaching that were tailored to, and therefore more useful for, a variety of discipline or role areas. These modules are the output from that funding.

Tech Terms Computer Dictionary

http://www.techterms.com/

A free online dictionary of computer and technology terms.

The Truth About Books

http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/

“The Truth About Books aims to provide an honest look at the latest literature available and offer, you, the consumer, independent reviews on which books are good and which are not. We don't just look at mainstream titles - but postively encourage new writers and self-published authors.“

Top 10 Broadband

http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/

A UK broadband comparison site. Compare home and mobile broadband deals.

Two Ravens Press

http://www.tworavenspress.com/

An independent publisher of cutting-edge contemporary literature.

WolframAlpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Yauba

http://www.yauba.com/

Yauba is a new, experimental, Indian search engine that seeks to transform the way people find information online, while providing maximum protection for their safety, security and privacy.

Your Europe - Business

http://ec.europa.eu/youreurope/business

The new ‘Your Europe - Business’ portal gives entrepreneurs easy access to information on doing business in other EU Member States. It has been established in close cooperation with Member States and is part of the implementation of the Small Business Act. Re-launched by European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen at the European Business Summit, the site helps SMEs to take advantage of opportunities to trade and offer their services in the Single Market.

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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 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.

Springer Exemplar
http://www.springerexemplar.com/index.aspx

Exemplar lets you search for and then see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed material published by Springer. A limitation is that this is searching only Springer content, but Springer do publish a large amount of material, and it's quite a nice, simple interface. I like the useful Subject, Country and Journal category filters that appear with search results. There's also a year of publication visualiser. Although it might result in more clutter, I feel that the search keyword should be returned within a bit more context.

RM

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BLOGORAMA AND TWITTERSPHERE

Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items, and Twitter items and feeds

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
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The Librarian is IN
http://blogs.bcr.org/publiclibraries/
A blog for public librarians and includes news, tips, trends, updates from conferences and in-depth discussions about issues from the world of public libraries.

Library of digress
http://www.libraryofdigress.co.uk/
A blog by Christine Rooney-Browne, a PhD student based at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Mashed Library UK 2009
http://mashlib09.wordpress.com/

100 Awesome Blogs By Some of the World's Smartest People
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2009/05/100-awesome-blogs-by-some-of-the-worlds-smartest-people/
From Online Universities.com

EngineeringDaily.net
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/EngineeringDaily?format=xml

RSS: Rather Sexy Stuff
http://glamlife.glam.ac.uk/features/34-rss-rather-sexy-stuff

ADSET's Information Weblog
http://adsetsinformationweblog.blogspot.com/
Hazel Edmunds and Dawn Taylor provide links to information management, information sources and other "useful stuff" with a strong bias towards the management of information in a careers guidance context.

Royal Academy of Engineering News Releases
http://www.raeng.org.uk/feeds/rssnews.aspx

Reuters News RSS feeds
http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss

Feedmil
http://www.feedmil.com/
Feedmil is a feed search engine.

Musings about librarianship
http://blog.nus.edu.sg/aarontay/

BBC News Magazine Monitor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/rss.xml
The Magazine's recommended daily allowance of news, culture and your letters.

London Review Blog
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/

Twitter

50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/27/50-useful-twitter-tools-for-writers-and-researchers/

Twitter - better than a conference
http://outsidelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/04/twitter-better-than-conference.html
A blog post on Managing information outside libraries. The tweets, from the CILIP 2.0 event, are at http://ow.ly/4v0b

arXiv on Twitter
http://orbitingfrog.com/arxiv/
The online preprint archive for scientific papers, arXiv.org, is often mentioned on Twitter. This project aims to collect this information and use it to highlight the most interesting and talked-about papers.

Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml
by Sarah Milstein, in Computers and Libraries

Twellow
http://www.twellow.com/
Twitter yellow pages

Twitterati in the academy
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406304&c=1
An article in the Times Higher Education

Edinburgh Evening News
http://twitter.com/edinburghpaper

branwenhide
http://twitter.com/branwenhide
Informative tweets on issues and discussions relating to higher education, research and science policy, as well the changing face of scholarly communications.

infobunny
http://twitter.com/infobunny
Bunny deserves a medal for keeping so many of us informed and amused.

ProQuest
http://twitter.com/ProQuest

WalkMagazine
http://twitter.com/WalkMagazine

TravelMagazine
http://twitter.com/TravelMagazine

The Twitter Experiment - "Twistory" in the Classroom http://current.com/items/90024801_the-twitter-experiment-twistory-in-the-classroom.htm

Copac
http://twitter.com/Copac
The Copac library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland

Twitter search has big ambitions
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Twitter-Search-Has-Big-Ambitions-53868.asp
By Avi Rappoport

flicktweets
http://www.mrqe.com/flicktweets
Movie reviews on Twitter

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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

305.235 TAP
Grown up digital: How the net generation is changing your world
by Don Tapscott
McGraw Hill, 2009

371.33 DEV
Going beyond Google: the invisible web in learning and teaching
by Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider
Facet Publishing, 2009

658.3 MAR
Web 2.0 and human resource management: 'Groundswell' or hype
by Graeme Martin, Martin Reddington and Mary Beth Kneafsey
CIPD, 2009

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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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

The History of Edinburgh
http://www.edinburgh-history.co.uk/

Cateran Trail
http://www.caterantrail.org/

Burns Monument Centre
http://www.burnsmonumentcentre.com/
The Burns Monument Centre is a ground-breaking development in Scotland bringing together staff expertise and first class facilities under one roof to create a new destination for family and local history researchers

Knoydart Foundation
http://www.knoydart-foundation.com/
The Knoydart Foundation was established in 1997 to work on behalf of the community in taking ownership of the Knoydart Estate.  The community buyout finally came to fruition in March 1999, and in 2009 we celebrate our 10th anniversary. As a partnership of local residents, the Highland Council, Chris Brasher Trust, Kilchoan estate and the John Muir Trust, our aim is to preserve, enhance & develop Knoydart for the well being of the environment and the people.

Ramblers Countryside Walking Holidays
http://www.ramblerscountrywide.co.uk/

Leith FM Radio
http://twitter.com/LeithFMRadio

OneWorld365
http://www.oneworld365.org/
Helping people to Work, Volunteer, Teach, Study, Travel Worldwide.

Beat-Herder Festival
http://www.beatherder.co.uk/
3-5 July, The Riffle Valley.

Moor Music Festival
http://www.moormusicfestival.co.uk/
6-9 August, Skipton

Shambala Festival
http://www.shambalafestival.org/
27-30 August. somewhere in Northamptonshire

2Way Development
http://www.2waydevelopment.com/
2Way Development is a specialist international volunteer agency

MondoChallenge
http://www.mondochallenge.org/
MondoChallenge sends volunteers to help with development programmes in Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe.

International Student Identity Card
http://www.isiccard.com/

KeepingYouPosted
http://www.keepingyouposted.org/
The interactive online journal with pictures, audio and video to keep you in touch with friends and family wherever you and they are.

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