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Random quotes

"Sites like Twitter and alternative social sites where users can submit and recommend content, like Digg,  Reddit, StumbleUpon and Delicious, are increasingly replacing traditional ways of finding information on the Internet."
From: Find and Share Information on the Internet: Part 2, Malcolm Coles, FUMSI.
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3907

"One of the most annoying habits of self-appointed technology gurus, sheikhs, czars or experts is that they take their own behaviour as the basis for extrapolation to predict how the rest of the world will/could/should use tools."
From: Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS? by Lee Bryant.
http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/05/going-with-the-flow-whither-en.php

"Students at all universities expressed dissatisfaction with their library holdings and level of service" and "The overall figures also suggest that the traditional ways in which tutors have attempted to manage students’ encounters with research are no longer, or rarely, working as signposts to research content in the first instance." and "...many said that they were frustrated when links led to content that their library does not subscribe to."
Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning: A report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC), 2009
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/studentsuseresearchcontent.pdf

News items of interest.

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy

http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480

Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy.

A1 Web Directory

http://www.a1webdirectory.org/

A1webdirectory.org is a general web directory that lists various quality sites under popular categories and relevant sub categories.

Academic Referencing Styles: Time to Move from Chaos to Order

http://academicreflexions.blogspot.com/2009/06/20th-april-2009-academic-referencing.html

The full-length version of an article that was be published in the 'Times Higher Education' on 25th June 2009, by Alec Gill MBE

AccessEngineering

http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/

“AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere online engineering resource, formerly known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library. The new-user focused design enhances this dynamic online resource of world-renowned engineering content, and will support all levels of scientific and technical research in the corporate, industrial, government and academic sectors.”

African Union

http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm

”On 9.9.1999, the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued a Declaration (the Sirte Declaration) calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a view, inter alia, to accelerating the process of integration in the continent to enable it play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalization.”

Alliance for Permanent Access

http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/

The Alliance aims to develop a shared vision and framework for a sustainable organisational infrastructure for permanent access to scientific information

Apsira

http://apsira.com/

Apsira is an Education portal which aims to cover the Indian Education System in minute details.

Ariadne

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/

Issue 59 is available, with articles on remote workers, EthOS, online publishing, etc.

Ask Scotland

http://scone.strath.ac.uk/ask/index.cfm

Ask Scotland brings together a network of professional librarian expertise from all over Scotland. The service will enable greater use of public libraries and their unique collections and resources to answer all Scottish related queries.

This new online library reference service is developed and maintained by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), in collaboration with OCLC, and local authority partners in Scotland.

Awareness Watch Newslette July 2009r

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/06/awareness-watch-newsletter-v7n7-july.html

July 2009 V7N7 Awareness Watch Newsletter is available. This month's featured and special report will be highlighting the publication Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet.

Awareness Watch Newsletter June 2009

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/05/awareness-watch-newsletter-v7n6-june.html

The June 2009 V7N6 Awareness Watch Newsletter is a freely available 57 page .pdf document (2.51MB). This month’s featured and special report will be highlighting my publication Searching the Internet - A Primer.

Become.co.uk

http://www.become.co.uk/

A comparison shopping search engine.

Best of history websites

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Best of History Web Sites was created in 2001 by Tom Daccord, 15-year history teacher and co-director of EdTechTeacher, Inc.

bing

http://www.bing.com/

The new search engine from Microsoft. For reviews, see Phil Bradley’s Blog and Karen Blakeman’s Blog

buildingconstructiondesign

http://www.buildingconstructiondesign.eu/

A new digital magazine buildingconstructiondesign, produced bi-monthly in digital format by netMAGmedia.

Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics: CAPWIP

http://www.capwip.org/

The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) is a non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental regional organization (NGO) dedicated to promoting equal participation of women in politics and decision-making.

Chandos Publishing

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/ChandosHome.aspx

The new Chandos Publishing website is now live. Chandos Publishing is a leading international publisher specialising in the following fields: Library, Information and Knowledge management; Management issues and personal development; Technology, professional skills and resources; Internet and Web; Asian studies.

CHORUS Audia-Visual Search

http://www.ist-chorus.org/homepage.asp

CHORUS is a Coordination Action which aims at creating the conditions of mutual information and cross fertilisation between the projects that will run under Strategic objective 2.6.3 (Advanced search technologies for digital audio-visual content) and beyond the IST initiative.

Co-Action Publishing

http://www.co-action.net/

Co-Action Publishing, a limited liability company registered in Sweden, was founded in January 2007. From virtual and real offices in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, we work to develop an international list of scholarly Open Access journals and books for a global audience.

CopyTaste

http://www.copytaste.com/

“CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues.

You can paste codes, tips or stories into the text editor, upload an image or a video file, or share a video link from any video streaming site.

And the best part is that you can do all of these at once without any registration required!”

CORAAL

http://coraal.deri.ie:8080/coraal/

The CORAAL tool allows to search and browse knowledge (concepts and their relations extracted and/or inferred from free text), publication meta-data (titles, authors, references, etc.) and the publication text itself. The current installation exposes more than 11000 of Elsevier life science articles related to the cancer research domain.

Culture24

http://www.culture24.org.uk/home

Thousands of UK museums, galleries, archives and libraries, all in one place.

DeepDyve

http://www.deepdyve.com/

"DeepDyve delivers fast, easy access to the vast amounts of expert information hidden in the Deep Web. Today we're focusing in just a few subject areas including Medical and Life Sciences but we are rapidly expanding into additional markets. Try DeepDyve and search for research.”

Disability Statistics: Challenges and Sources

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3933

An article in FUMSI by Kim Dority.

DuckDuckGo

http://duckduckgo.com/

A new search engine. Reviewed here by Phil Bradley.

E4libraries

http://www.bic.org.uk/e4libraries/

E4libraries is a BIC project to improve the efficiency of the library supply chain through the application of technology and commitment to standards. Its remit covers both public and academic libraries and its focus is on printed books and reading resources delivered digitally.

Eccellio Science

http://science.eccellio.com/

“Eccellio Science is fully dedicated to students and researchers that want to obtain fresh results and very focused on Science Matters, not just Wikipedia as it often happen, but accredited and specialized sites.“

EDINA Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline14-2/index.html

The June 2009 edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is now available, with news about SUNCAT, SALSER, UKBORDERS, etc.

Effective Practice in a Digital Age

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

Effective Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching updates the 2004 JISC guide to the pedagogy of e-learning, Effective Practice with e-Learning1, by drawing on outcomes from the Design for Learning2 and Technology Enhanced Learning Environments3 themes of the JISC e-Learning Programme. The publication was launched at the 2009 Higher Education Academy Annual conference in Manchester.

e-science 2009

http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee

The fifth IEEE e-Science conference will be held in Oxford, UK from Dec 9-11.

Building on the successes of previous meetings, the conference organisers would like to develop some key themes at the conference. These include:

1. Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science
2. Bioinformatics and Health
3. Physical Sciences and Engineering
4. Climate & Earth Sciences
5. Research Tools, Workflow and systems
6. Digital Repositories and Data Management
7. eScience Practice and Education

EUROCONSTRUCT

http://www.euroconstruct.org/

EUROCONSTRUCT is the main network for construction, finance and business forecasting in Europe.

EUROCONSTRUCT was established in 1975 by a number of specialised research institutes and consulting organisations as a study group for construction analysis and forecasting. It has since expanded from the core group to include almost all Western European countries (the European Union and EFTA) and a number of Eastern European states (EU-Accession countries). At present, EUROCONSTRUCT has member institutes in 19 European countries.

European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management

http://www.inderscience.com/ejccm

A new journal, EJCCM is the official scholarly publication of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Management and Competence (IACCM). The journal aims to widen and deepen the discussion about issues regarding the influence of cultural differences and diversity on the management of organisations of all kinds. Of particular relevance is the question of how culture affects both managers and decision-makers in situations involving the cross-cultural transfer of knowledge, values and experiences.

Eurostat

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

Eurostat’s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service.

Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

EvidenceNet

http://www-new1.heacademy.ac.uk/EvidenceNet/home

EvidenceNet is the place to come to find current evidence relating to teaching and learning in Higher Education.

The EvidenceNet repository contains resources, events and networks.

Find and Share information on the Internet: Part 1

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3792

An article in FUMSI, by Malcolm Coles

Find and Share Information on the Internet: Part 2

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3907

Excellent article in FUMSI, by Malcolm Coles.

Finding Videos, Audio and Images on the Web: Search Tools

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3873

An article in FUMSI, by Cindy Shamel.

Findmyshift.com

http://www.findmyshift.com/

Simple Staff Scheduling

Gateway to Scientific Data

http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/cisti/gateway-scientific-data.html

From NRC-CISTI.

Access to data from scientific research is increasingly important to collaborative research. This section aims to improve access to scientific research data for Canadians and support the use and re-use of data sets by providing a central gateway, as well as resources to guide data management activities.

Get Britain Building

http://www.getbritainbuilding.org/

“Get Britain Building is the biggest ever coalition of companies and organisations associated with the built environment.

As a direct result of the current economic downturn our industry is under major threat with factories closing, skilled workers leaving the industry and companies going out of business. We are forecasting a massive 450,000 job losses by the end of this year for our sector, the media and government pay scant regard to this national disgrace. If this situation is not addressed we will loose the capacity and skills we need to meet the needs of our community in the future.

We call upon our government to put building at the very heart of the recovery agenda!”

Glearch

http://www.glearch.com/

Via Marcus P Zillman.

Glearch stands for "Global + Search" and is a search tool for global business professionals, researchers, travelers and any one who would like to perform searches by specific countries and languages. Glearch selects the top results from Google, Yahoo and MSN as well as the most popular search engines for the selected country and returns results.

Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/government/news-events/007001-1000-e.html

Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World is a free newsletter published on a regular basis by Library Archives Canada (LAC) that explores and highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sector.

Higher Education Empirical Research (HEER) database

http://heerd.open.ac.uk

The HEER database is a web-based resource comprising summaries of published empirical research on higher education topics, most of which date from 2000. It is an open resource, free to all users.

Hunting 4 jobs

http://hunting4.co.uk/jobs/

Job searching networ

Impending Demise of the University

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html

By Don Tapscott, in Edge: The Third Culture 288 (4 June 2009)

Inderscience Highlights

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=19

The summer 2009 newsletter from Inderscience is available.

Information Age Autumn Forum

http://www.information-age.com/information-age-events/information-age-autumn-forum-2009/welcome/

The Information Age Autumn Forum 2009, 22nd October - Hilton, Park Lane, London

Taking place on Thursday October 22nd in London, the event comprises two complementary and parallel streams, which are detailed below. The content of both streams is united by a common theme; the impact of cloud computing on the way in which enterprises organise, manage, share and protect their information.

Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2009

http://www.innovationkt.org/

Wednesday 2 December 2009 - Hampton Court Palace, London.

There are remarkable success stories to be told of the benefits of knowledge transfer. This inaugural International Conference on Innovation through Knowledge Transfer will provide an opportunity to disseminate, share and discuss the impact of knowledge transfer.

International Journal of Industrial Electronics

http://www.inderscience.com/ijied

A new journal from Inderscience that presents the state-of-the-art research work in the area of industrial electronics, power converters and drives.

International Network Conference 2010: INC2010

http://www.inc2010.org/

Eighth International Network Conference (INC2010). To be held in Heidelberg, Germany, from 6 - 8 July 2010. This conference, the eighth in the series, will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in networking technologies from research and commercial perspectives.

Important Dates Paper submission: 31st January 2010; Author notification: 5th March 2010; Final papers: 9th April 2010

International Repositories Infrastructure wiki

http://repinf.pbworks.com/

This wiki is for those interested in:

1. developing coordinated action plans for specific areas of repository development

2. pursuing those plans

3. coordinating that activity internationally.

Library + Informastion Gazette

http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/gazette/default

Now available online.

Lifelong Learning UK conference

http://www.lluk.org/lifelong-learning-uk-conference.htm

Lifelong Learning UK has announced its 2009 conference. Entitled The Power of Lifelong Learning: Innovation During a Recession, the event will explore the idea that now more than ever, learners and workers across the UK need to re-skill to stay ahead. The conference will take place on Tuesday 8 December.

Measurement Conversions

http://convertvalues.com/

A simple to use website that helps people convert different measurement units of length, area, volume, weight, mass, time, temperature, speed, force, power, etc.

Monetos UK

http://www.monetos.co.uk/

This is one of five European Web sites, alongside monetos.fr, monetos.de, monetos.it, monetos.es and monetos.nl, which make up a multilingual information portal.

Monetos is an international finance portal, offering independent instruction and research on Europe's private financial sector. Monetos enables comparisons between social systems, explores the different financial sectors and provides detailed information on a range of financial products.

In an aim to simplify and promote international movement, this site offers a range of multilingual guides to integration in Europe, covering topics such as renting a property, opening a bank account and visiting a doctor.

National Archives' academic research web pages

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/academic/default.htm?source=ddmenu_research0_a

The National Archives holds a vast array of records relevant to academic research across a range of fields. It aims to facilitate research and these pages outline their academic strategy. They introduce resources and events to help you find, access and use the records which you need.

New Media Scotland

http://www.mediascot.org/

New Media Scotland is a national development agency fostering artist and audience engagement with all forms of new media practice. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: OASIS

http://www.openoasis.org/

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative sourcebook on Open Access.

Open Educational Resources: OER

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

Open Educational Resources (OER), funded by HEFCE and run by the Academy and JISC, aims to make a wide range of learning resources created by academics freely available, easily discovered and routinely re-used by both educators and learners.

Open source alternatives: Osalt.com

http://www.osalt.com/

Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software.

PARSE.Insight Newsletter

http://www.parse-insight.eu/downloads/PARSE_Newsletter01.pdf

Nr. 1 (July 2009). This Newsletter summarizes the first year’s goals and achievements of PARSE.Insight, 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.

pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine

http://www.data-sheet.net/

You can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download.

PDFGeni

http://www.pdfgeni.com/

PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.

ReadersPlace

http://www.readersplace.co.uk/

An online book club community launched by Random House.

ResearchGATE

https://www.researchgate.net/

A platform for scientists, offering a community for exchange, literature search, file sharing, etc.

Return to the Ridings

http://www.returntotheridings.co.uk/

The "Return to the Ridings" is a celebration of the riding of the boundaries that has taken place for centuries, in total 11 towns in the Scottish Borders use horses for the traditional ride out and the festivals that surround these ride outs are also steeped in tradition and a celebration of borders history.

RLUK

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/

RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world RLUK's mission is to work with our members and with our partners, nationally and internationally, to shape and to realise the vision of the modern research library.

SciVal

http://scival.com/

“Whether you are looking to create strategic blueprints or improve your chances for receiving research grants, SciVal helps you to use your resources more efficiently and provides an accurate overview of the competitive research landscape.“

SCOAP3

http://scoap3.org/

The SCOAP3 Open Access initiative has a unique potential to transform scholarly communication. It offers an opportunity to U.S. libraries of all sizes to experiment with Open Access in a cost-neutral fashion and make a real difference in Open Access.

Scoopler

http://www.scoopler.com/

“Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time.”

Single Business Discovery Project: SBDS Prototype

http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/

Explore Australian collections and worldwide online sources.

SBDS will be a new discovery service focussed on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. It will provide a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.

Small Business News

http://www.reuters.com/finance/smallBusiness

A new small business community site within Reuters.com

spezify

http://www.spezify.com/

Well worth checking out. Spezify gives an overview and also helps you find useful information – all in a visual way.

SpringerImages

http://www.springerimages.com/

SpringerImages provides a new way to access hard-to-find scientific content of the utmost value to researchers: images.

More than 1.5 million images.

Student Statement on The Right toResearch

http://www.righttoresearch.org/

This calls for universities to adopt open access policies

Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/studentsuseresearchcontent.pdf

A report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC) 2009, by Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Claire Mashiter, Jonathan Westaway, Peter Lumsden, Helen Day, Helen Hewertson and Anna Hart.

Teaching with Technology

http://ipt286.pbworks.com/Index

Links to downloadable software, "cloudware", and webservices like hosting, for use in teaching.

The Ledge

http://www.the-ledge.com/

The Ledge is an independent platform for international literature.

The MAPP

http://www.themapp.net/

The MAPP will launch soon as a forum for discussion and a resource of useful marketing information and opinion, dedicated to the world of scholarly publishing and communication. Managed by an expert panel from across the industry, the MAPP is designed to help the marketing profession grow and develop as our publishing landscape continues to evolve and as new tools and techniques become available.

The Policy Press

https://www.policypress.org.uk/

Based at the University of Bristol, The Policy Press are a leading social science publisher.

Top 50 Literary Magazines and Metazines

http://webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm

Compiled by Web del Sol.

Topsy

http://topsy.com/

Search powered by the social web

UK’s share of world research output: an investigation of different data sources and trends

http://www.rin.ac.uk/uk_presence_research

A report by the Research Information Network.

UKSG's Publisher Price List

http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?PID=27

Some 2009 and 2010 prices are now included.

Vision of Britain Through Time

http://vision.port.ac.uk/

Facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed.

Volunteer Centre Edinburgh

http://www.volunteeredinburgh.org.uk/

Choose from hundreds of volunteering opportunities across Edinburgh, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.

Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations)

http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/

I found this short explanation very informative, and the links to various presentations are helpful as well.

Welsh Journals Online

http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/

Welsh Journals Online provides free access to scholarship from Wales.

WorldImages

http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.

woZZon

http://wozzon.com/

Found via Phil Bradley’s weblog, woZZon is “the largest event listings database in the UK. woZZon gives you access to over 66,000 events and 16,000 venue listings in the UK. We cover categories such as film, theatre, gigs, comedy, clubs, dance, restaurants, family events and lots more.” Try searching by postcode.

Your Guide to Alternative Fuels

http://www.discovery-carhire.com.au/ap_altfuels.php

A list of links to sites on alternative fuels.

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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.

spezify
http://www.spezify.com/

spezify needs to improve it's response speed, but it's quite an interesting search service which presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways. You can't really describe it - you have to try it for yourself.

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
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j

Feedscrub
http://feedscrub.com/
Feedscrub filters your feeds based on your preferences.

RSS feeds from the Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/news/fullstory.php?id=262

Comparing Twitter with Feed Readers
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/20/why-would-twitter-kill-rss

JavaScript RSS Viewer
http://p3k.org/rss/
A simple way to embed RSS boxes in any HTML document

Scholarly Communications Toolkit
http://rinsc.wordpress.com/
The website of the RIN Scholarly Communications Toolkit project

Top Science Blogs
http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top/sciences
Most widely referenced blogs

Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/05/going-with-the-flow-whither-en.php
by Lee Bryant.

Dr. Derek Thomson
http://derekthomson.tumblr.com/
... is an academic working in the construction sector mainly by research but also by teaching and consultancy.

InSITE (Cornell Law Library) RSS feed
http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/public/rss.asp

Michael E Casey
http://www.michaelecasey.com/
Michael Casey is the Information Technology Director for the Gwinnett County Public Library in metropolitan Atlanta.

JISC Netskills animation for RSS
http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/rss-2/

USGS Feeds
http://www.usgs.gov/rss/

Depatrment for Work and Pensions
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/rss/pressrelease.xml

University of Lincoln - the Winch!
http://libraryresearch.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

Twitter

Twitter Compendium
http://twittercompendium.com/
The companion blog: Twitter Compendium Blog, is at http://twittercompendium.blogspot.com/ and the Twitter accoungt is: twitcompendium http://twitter.com/twitcompendium
The above are written by Peter Scott

Twitter Data
http://twitterdata.org/
a simple, open proposal for embedding data in Twitter messages

infobunny
http://twitter.com/infobunny
Bunny deserves more medals.

Mrs SewAndSew
http://twitter.com/mrssewandsew
Mrs SewAndSew, reporting live from the home front during WW2

Stockopedia
http://twitter.com/Stockopedia
Social network for the UK stock market

ux2
http://twitter.com/ux2
A new JISC project, currently being setup to enhance usability and user experience in digital libraries

Newspaper titles on Twitter
http://www.mediauk.com/newspapers/titles/twitter/
From Media UK

Inderscience Publishers
http://twitter.com/Inderscience
Highlighted papers and special issues

PEPublishing
http://twitter.com/PEPublishing

spezify
http://twitter.com/spezify

MicroPlaza
http://microplaza.com/
"We wanted a way to discover relevant and interesting items from the people we follow on Twitter. Most of the time something interesting is a link shared by a friend or colleague. So we built MicroPlaza to deliver us the filtered links from our Twitter timelines."

Cross Ref
http://twitter.com/CrossRefNews
Scholarly publishing collaborative to promote reference linking, technology standards, trustworthy content.

Welshjournals
http://twitter.com/welshjournals

TimesHigherEducation
http://twitter.com/timeshighered

JoVE
http://twitter.com/JoVEJournal
PubMed Indexed Online Video Journal for Methods and Research in Biological Sciences

Chandos Publishing
http://twitter.com/ChandosTweets
Publisher in Management issues and Personal development, Professional skills, Internet and Web, Asian Studies

Jonathan Ross Twitter Book Club
http://wossybookclub.host.brgs.me.uk/

Glassdoordotcom
http://twitter.com/Glassdoordotcom
A workplace community

delicious50
http://twitter.com/delicious50
Most recent Delicious bookmarks with 50 or more bookmarkers

TwitPaint
http://twitpaint.com/
Paint grafitti on Twitter

Library Web
https://twitter.com/libraryweb
Library Culture on the Web - Rolling news site for the UK's public libraries

USAgov
http://twitter.com/USAgov

TheFringeThing
http://twitter.com/TheFringeThing

Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/06/twitter_2.html

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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

025.04 NIC
Digital consumers: reshaping the information profession
edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands
Facet Publishing, 2008

526.9 MIT
Web mapping
by Tyler Mitchell
O'Reilly, 2005

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

Rooms in Edinburgh
http://www.roomsinedinburgh.com/
A variety of accommodation from hotels to hostels available to book online as well as general tourist information on attractions and events in Edinburgh.

Scottish Vibe
http://www.thevibescotland.co.uk/
The Scottish Vibe is a young tour operator specialising in trips to music festivals and other special events.  You will see all the best of Scotland that would expect but also the chance to visit some truly unique events. 

Scottish Bluegrass Association
http://www.scottishbluegrass.com/

Beecraigs Country Park
http://www.beecraigs.com/

Edinburgh Mountain Fild Festival
http://www.edinburghmountainff.com/
16-18 October, 2009. The 7th EMFF features lectures from legendary mountaineers & explorers; and the best new mountain films and exhibitions.

Edinburgh Gig Archive
http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/

Hostels in Scotland
http://www.hostelsinscotland.com/
One of the largest online databases of hostels in Scotland.

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