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Heriot-Watt University - Internet Resource Centre

Internet Resources Newsletter

Issue 69 - June 2000

Edited by:

Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk)

Table of Contents:

• Comment
• Whither reference material?
• New / Recent Internet Resources
  • A - Z New Web Sites
  • New Lists
• Nice Web Site
• The Internet in Print
  • Safety and Health Practitioner
  • Crazynet
  • Internet Investor
  • Online Information Review
  • IEEE Circuits & Devices
• Network News
  • BIDS, NISS, BUBL, EEVL, SOSIG, EDINA, CHEST, MIMAS, RUDI, OMNI, ELDIS, Netskills, Biz/ed, AHDS, Mailbase, Data Archive, TASI.
• Press Releases
  • Closure of the ISI Service at BIDS
  • British Library to offer free access to article database
• Recent Internet Books in the Library
  • Review: Finding a job on the Internet: Amazing new possibilities for jobseekers everywhere, By Brendan Murphy
• Get a life ! Leisure Time
• STOP PRESS! How to Find Out in Building Engineering & Surveying guide now available

With this issue I am very pleased to introduce two new contributors to the Internet Resources Newsletter, Catherine Ure and Catherine Ferguson. Catherine and Cath are both Assistant Librarians who work evenings and weekends at Heriot-Watt University Library. They will be helping in a number of ways, with the design and content of the Newsletter. Welcome to the Internet Resources Newsletter!

This month's random quotes:

34% of the European population of 15 years and older has access to the internet - Managing Information, May 2000

China has over 8.9 million registered internet users - Managing Information, May 2000

The world wide web's usage doubles every 60 days - The Guardian, 29 April

e-commerce was worth £40bn last year and is tipped to grow at least 14-fold by 2003 - The Guardian, 29 April

The NPD Group, in a recent study, noted that 82% of visitors find the information they are looking for with search engines most or all of the time

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Faculty Librarian
(R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk)

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Other sites offer subscription-based access to vast collections of reference data. An example is ENGnetBASE, from Chapman & Hall/CRC, through which it is possible to access the equivalent of about twenty engineering handbooks.

A very recent addition is the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. This service offers the complete contents of the Encyclopedia's 24-print volumes online via Wiley InterScience.

A question which needs answering is how will users access the growing number of reference sources? Will they be forced to visit different Web sites, and enter different user names and passwords? Or will the various services become aggregated in some way?

There is already one site, called xrefer, which brings together via the Web reference material from a number of publishers.

There are many other examples of reference-type Web sites, and I am sure that the number of reference books becoming available electronically will continue to grow. How best to facilitate access to such material will be a question that libraries will want to consider. Also looming on the horizon will be the question of how to deal with one million e-texts.

NEW WEB SITES: A - Z

@ease

http://www.at-ease.nsf.org.uk/

@ease is part of NSF - a national charity which exists to improve the lives of everyone affected by severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, depression and manic depression.

_All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources_

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm

In addition to separate listings or access for abbreviated journal title, selective OPACs that offer abbreviated title searching are also included. Some sites also provide access to the full title of other types of abbreviated publications (e.g., conference proceedings).

ABC of the European Union

http://europa.eu.int/abc-en.htm

This page provides basic information about the European Union and contains links to more detailed information.

Academic Open Internet Journal (e-journal)

http://www.acadjournal.com/

An on-line Bulgarian Science Journal.

"The Academic Open Internet Journal aims to promote the use of the Internet and development of network resources to enable scientists to better communicate. This journal will provide a mechanism for academic researchers to publish their research in developing new techniques, new resources, new databases, etc. on the Internet for use by all scientists. Further, the journal will publish research that includes materials that are difficult if not impossible to include in a traditional journal, especially those articles where the non- traditional representation is essential in understanding the work. The journal is aimed for all areas of technical science, since the Internet media provides unique opportunities for all disciplines."

ACHEMA 2000

http://www.achema.de/

International Meeting on Chemical Engineering, Environmental Protection and Biotechnology Frankfurt am Main, Germany 22. - 27. May 2000.

ActiveWin

http://www.activewin.com/frames/frmhome.shtml

Activating The Ultimate Windows Resources.

Advanced Manufacturing Magazine (e-journal)

http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com/

"Advanced Manufacturing brings the world's best ideas - from the research labs, the boardrooms, and the factory floors - to the global manufacturing professional."

African Business

http://www.woya.com/magazines/links/African_Business/

A magazine available through WoYaa!

AmphibiaWeb

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/

"AmphibiaWeb is an online resource for people concerned with the declining amphibian problem. By providing easy access to data, we hope to accelerate broad-scale understanding of the causes of amphibian declines."

Asian Sources Electronics Engineer(e-journal)

http://www.ee.asiansources.com/

Asian Sources Electronics Engineer Online is Asia's resource for daily news, technical papers and application notes on design, test and production engineering.

automationtechies.com

http://www.automationtechies.com/

US site.

"Our site was developed as an internet-based job search and information site for anyone who designs, installs, or troubleshoots automation equipment."

Bartlebey.com

http://www.bartleby.com/

"With the release of five preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web. Coupled with a completely redesigned web site, Bartleby.com meets the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious and forms the preeminent electronic publishing enterprise of the twenty-first century."

Big Search Engine Index

http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/

Address change from the one reported in issue 35, and also a slight name change.

Blissett Bookbinders

http://www.blissetts.com/

"Blissett Bookbinders is based in Acton, West London UK and have been providing high quality value and service to our customers in Britain and abroad for 80 years."

CamJob

http://www.CamJob.co.uk/

This site aims to the best resource for anyone looking for a programming job in Cambridge.

capinfo

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/

Not new, but not mentioned before, capinfo is Edinburgh's information network.

Carbon Nanotubes

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~scsharip/tubes.htm

Carbon nanotubes are fullerene-related structures which consist of graphene cylinders closed at either end with caps containing pentagonal rings.

Care4free

http://www.care4free.net/

"Care4free is a free Internet Service Provider (ISP) for people who care. Our mission is to provide a wide array of free benefits to charities and organisations in the caring and non-profit making sector. We aim to achieve this by allowing good causes of all sizes to harness the power of the Internet for communications and fundraising."

CareerMosaic International Gateway

http://www.careermosaic.com/gateway/

Jobs worldwide. Includes CareerMosaic UK.

"CareerMosaic UK is a one-stop shop, giving you the opportunity not only to search our own international database of jobs, but also to search the USENET groups and check out hundreds of the world's top employers"

Civil Engineering Articles

http://civil-engineering-articles.com/

Part of a Civil Engineering Electronic Magazine.

Complinet Recruitment (recruitment)

http://recruitment.complinet.com/

Vacancies for "back & middle office professionals".

Connecting Industry

http://www.connectingindustry.com/

This on-line service supports Wilmington Publishing's market leading industrial titles.

"Up-to-date industry specific news, reviews and links combine to make this 'the' site for industrial buyers and specifiers sourcing industry-related products/equipment. "

"In addition to this service, a vast but easy-to-use suppliers directory with details of over 6500 companies and a product database with over 500 searchable categories assists you in sourcing tailored information."

Construction Plus

http://www.constructionplus.net/

From the publishers EMAP, this is an online information source and community web space for the construction industry.

Cool Librarians

http://valinor.purdy.wayne.edu/waycool.html

I couldn't resist this site.

"[Librarians are] the hidden masters of the world - they control information." --Spider Robinson."

Cyber66 (recruitment)

http://cyber66.co.uk/ai/asp/cyber/cyber.htm

"Cyber66 is dedicated to solving the UK's E-Commerce skills crisis by providing open markets for recruitment, training and solutions."

Cybercafes Guide

http://www.netcafeguide.com/

1700 cafes in 95 countries Internet Cafe Guide.

Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop

http://www.angelfire.com/in/virtuallibrarian/

"This site contains helpful tools for the web searcher, research on virtual library collections, web searching methodogies and a collection of resources for keeping current with Web-Based resources."

Design Show 2000

http://designshow.bournemouth.ac.uk/

This is the site for Bournemouth University's design show at which the final year students on the courses Interior Design, Technology Management, Product Design and Product Design Visualisation exhibit their work. The show is organised by students and funded through sponsorship from industry.

Discover Engineering Online

http://www.discoverengineering.org

All about engineering.

Dotgain

http://www.dotgain.co.uk/

"We're your online champion - the bookmark for book production. With a mix of news, reviews & topical comment, our magazine will keep you up to speed with everything you need to know. This includes a full directory of just about everyone who supplies anything to the book industry."

Edinburgh's Libraries: a guide to using library and information services

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Edinburghs_Libraries/

This guide lists 140 libraries.

eFinancialNews

http://www.efinancialnews.com/

News for the European Securities, Investment Banking and Fund Management Industries.

ejemoni

http://www.ejemoni.com/

"ejemoni has developed a patent pending information measurement technology. The technology's key attribute is a unique ability to mathematically measure the subject matter content, or 'aboutness', of any text passage, from a single word to an entire book."

" ejemoni is using this ability to create a wide range of enabling applications."

Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide

http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html

From Harrassowitz, Booksellers. This is an overview and summary of resources on issues relating to electronic journals.

Employment.com.au (recruitment)

http://www.employment.com.au/

For jobs 'down under'.

Engineer LIVE

http://www.engineerlive.com/

At this site are the online versions of several engineering publications from Setform, for the design engineer, process engineer, electronics engineer, chemical engineer, oil & gas engineer, and mining engineer.

Engineering Direct

http://www.engineering-direct.com/

An interactive engineering portal website.

Exploring Current Awareness Services

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/documents/workbook/caware/

From Leeds University Library. This workbook contains a number of tasks and activities which will introduce you to a range of current awareness services.

Fentech Co. (publishers)

http://www.civilengineerbooks.com/

Civil Engineering Publications.

ForBusiness2000

http://www.forbusiness2000.com/

"...the world's first e-commerce conference run entirely on the web..."

Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's: UMDNJ

http://www.umdnj.edu/foundweb/

A redesigned Web site. The UMDNJ Foundation works to support programs and promote excellence at the largest health sciences university in the nation, and its site lets visitors keep up to date on the activities of the foundation, recognizes donor contributions, and recommends ways to contribute to the foundation.

Freefund.com

http://www.freefund.com/

"...the website dedicated to getting cash to students by helping them find scholarships. "

Further Education Funding Council

http://www.fefc.ac.uk/

"The purpose of the Further Education Funding Council is to secure further education provision that meets the needs and demands of individuals, employers and the requirements of government in respect of the location, nature and quality of provision. "

GIF Wizard

http://uswest.gifwizard.com/

"GIF Wizard reduces GIFs and JPGs up to 90% without sacrificing quality."

GrantsWeb

http://www.srainternational.org/cws/sra/resource.htm

From the US Society of Research Administrators comes this list of links to government and private grant sources.

Greenwich Electronic Time

http://www.get-time.org/default.asp

The electronic time standard for global e-Business.

A joint initiative of Industry and the UK Government, GeT will provide the standards, tools and infrastructure to facilitate time in the Digital Age. GeT's atomic clocks, based on the Greenwich Meridian, together with a developing world-wide network of 'trusted' time sources will ensure accuracy in the world of e-commerce.

Handspeak

http://www.handspeak.com/

A Practical Sign Language Online Dictionary, previously known as "Sign Language Dictionary Online"

IFRF Combustion Journal (e-journal)

http://www.journal.ifrf.net/

The International Flame Research Foundation has established an electronic Journal on industrial combustion.

Images of England

http://www.rchme.gov.uk/ioe/index.htm

Images of England is building a photographic record of England's 360,000 listed buildings to place on the internet by 2002.

IndustryCommunity.com

http://www.industrycommunity.com/

"IndustryCommunity.com is a virtual community coming to the world for you to

search for the solution of a specific technical problem
help others with your technical knowledge and capability
share the industry technology or business information
buy or sell machinery/ equipment/ products/components for business or personal use.

IngegneriaCivile

http://www.ingegneriacivile.it/

IngegneriaCivile.it il sito italiano interamente dedicato all'ingegneria civile.

Italian site on civil engineering. Links, forums, tutorials and much more...

International Journal of Engineering Education

http://www.ijee.dit.ie/

This journal serves as an international interdisciplinary forum of reference for engineering education.

A balance between papers on developments in educational methods technology, case studies, laboratory applications, new theoretical approaches, educational policy and survey papers is aimed for.

Iranian Information and Documentation Center

http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/

IRANDOC as a Research Center engaged in Information Sciences.

IRANDOC main activities include production and dissemination of Iranian scientific information ( Persian ); Research on Information Science; Iranian Dissertation Abstracts ( students graduated in Iran and abroad ); Research Projects Abstracts; Iranian Scientific Meetings And Proceedings; Iranian Government Reports and many other topics which are all online free.

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology

http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/goldbook/index.htm

"This online version of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology corresponds to the second edition, compiled by Alan D. McNaught and Andrew Wilkinson (Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK) and published in print form by Blackwell Science in 1997."

JobServe (recruitment)

http://www.jobserve.co.uk/

This site was mentioned in issue 6 of this newsletter. It has long since changed its address.

"JobServe is the largest source of IT vacancies in the UK. It is now regularly used by over 1,800 IT recruitment agencies to advertise more than 150,000 new contract and permanent vacancies every month"

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/4/5/

Access to the full text of this journal is temporarily free.

Learn the Net

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/main.htm

Learn the Net is a free educational service. "...a website dedicated to helping you save time and money when roaming through cyberspace." Includes a tutorial.

Librarian.net

http://www.librarian.net/

News of interest to librarians, with reference sites, etc.

Library +information Show

http://www.lishow.co.uk/

Be quick! This is being held on the 6th, 7th and 8th of June, in Birmingham.

Links to patent and other intellectual property information resources

http://www.bl.uk/services/stb/etalmenu.html

From the British Library Science Technology and Business (STB), this is an excellent list of sources.

Literature

http://www.literature2000.org/

"Literature" is a joint project of the public libraries of the European Cities of Culture 2000. Participants include libraries in Bologna, Brussels, Helsinki, Cracow, Prague, Reykjavik and Bergen. The project consists of several components through which the Cities of Culture will acquaint each other with their own city or region's authors and their literature.

Magazine Mikroelektronika (e-journal)

http://www.mikroelektronika.co.yu/

European magazine for applied electronics, automation, programming, informing and new technologies.

MarineTalk

http://www.marinetalk.com/

"MarineTalk has been created by a team of marine professionals who have extensive experience in all sectors of the marine industry and actively continue their involvement. Our goal is to provide the best single Internet Gateway for the maritime technical and management community based on a good understanding of the industry's needs."

naturalSCIENCE

http://naturalscience.com/ns/nshome.html

Not mentioned before. This site offers news and book reviews for scientists.

" naturalSCIENCE invites articles by scientists who wish to communicate their work and ideas to a scientifically informed non-specialist audience."

NewsAgent

http://www.newsagent.sbu.ac.uk/

This is up and running again. "NewsAgent for Libraries is a project in the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). The aim is to create a user-configurable electronic news and current awareness service for library and information staff with a mixture of content streams, including metadata (descriptions of documents). Content will include a range of internet-based news and articles and related Web materials from the most highly respected UK journals in the field, to provide a comprehensive high quality alerting service."

NHS Direct Online

http://www.nhs.uk/

A gateway to health information on the Internet.

Oxford University Press Reading Room

http://www.oup.co.uk/readingroom/

"Oxford University Press Reading Room offers scholars and students the opportunity to sample chapters and other extracts from a wide range of its new publications. This is a free service designed to help you choose Oxford books, in a wide range of scholarly disciplines, that you will wish to read and to buy."

Paul Pedley's Homepage

http://website.lineone.net/~p.d.p/index.htm

Lots of interesting links to library-related material here.

Planning and Implementing a Digitisation Project

http://strc.herts.ac.uk/it/heds/conf-details.html

29th June, 2000 The British Library, London 10 am - 3.15pm. A Conference organised by the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS), a JISC-funded Service.

Process Tree Network

http://www.processtree.com/

"The ProcessTree Network was created to bring two groups together: those who have huge computing jobs to do; and millions of folks like you and me whose computers just sit idle much of the time. With the ProcessTree Network those BIG computing jobs can get done faster and cheaper, and people like you and me can turn our computers into little money making machines."

Quality Function Deployment at the University of Sheffield

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ibberson/qfd.html

This website aims to promote the use of QFD techniques by providing a source of appropriate information and advice to potential and existing users.

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a set of powerful product development tools that were developed in Japan to transfer the concepts of quality control from the manufacturing process into the new product development process.

Raging

http://www.raging.com/

Fast search engine

Scholarly Articles Research Alerting: SARA

http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara/

"Taylor & Francis currently publishes over 500 academic peer-reviewed journals across a variety of disciplines. In response to the changing needs of the academic community, we are using the Internet actively to disseminate information about journals in advance of publication.

SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - is a service designed to deliver by email, tables of contents for any issue of Carfax, E & F N Spon, Psychology Press, Routledge or Taylor & Francis journals to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge."

Science Reference Room Index to Physical, Chemical and Other Property Data

http://www.asu.edu/lib/noble/chem/property.htm

This page is an index to selected library and internet resources that contain chemical, physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, toxicological, and safety data.

Scottish Recruitment

http://www.scottish-recruitment.co.uk/

Jobs in Scotland.

SearchPalm.com

http://www.searchpalm.com/

"Looking for Palm hardware, software or the latest news? With SearchPalm.com, you're only a click away from the best on the Web!"

shine!

http://www.shine.com/

"shine! brings you the world of charity every day with news, community and commerce, transforming your concern for causes into charitable action."

Simpli.com

http://www.simpli.com

"Simpli.com, Inc. developed SimpliFind(tm) to dramatically improve searching on the Internet. This new technology utilizes principles of linguistics and cognitive science in its interactions with users to place search terms in context. This yields improved search results for both novice and advanced users."

Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/

The main table is a collection of number sequences arranged in lexicographic order.

Software-Engineering.org

http://www.software-engineer.org/

A Software Engineering Community, offering Software Engineering news, Software Engineering Articles, Software Engineering Links, A Message Board, Job offers, Software Engineering downloads.

Stephen Hawking's Universe: Strange Stuff Explained

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/strange/html/stuff.html

From black holes to E=mc2.

Subject Directory of Search Engines

http://www.searchiq.com/subjects/

Listed by category.

Swotbooks.com

http://www.swotbooks.com/

This is a new online bookseller dedicated to providing students with the cheapest supply for their textbooks.

Tate Modern

http://fm370.facility.pipex.com/modern/

Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art.

Text REtrieval Conference: TREC

http://trec.nist.gov/

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was started in 1992 as part of the TIPSTER Text program. Its purpose was to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies.

The Job Lot (recruitment)

http://www.thejoblot.com/

UK recruitment Web agency.

TMA2000

http://www.tma2000.co.uk/

Large telecoms & IT event, 9-11 October 2000.

Tomorrow's World Live

http://www.twle.co.uk/

The official Tomorrow's World Live 2000 site.

Top Jobs on the Net (recruitment)

http://www.topjobs.net/

Professional, technical and management jobs.

Transforming Traditional Libraries (e-journal)

http://www.lib.usf.edu/~mdibble/ttl/

Transforming Traditional Libraries is a peer-reviewed e-journal covering aspects of the new library, including digital collections, electronic indices, OPACs, Internet research, bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and the task of integrating these and other new resources with the traditional services of the library.

Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association: TEMA

http://www.tema.org/

Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association, or TEMA, is a group of leading manufacturers who have pioneered the research and development of heat exchangers for over fifty-five years.

UKISHELP

http://www.ukishelp.co.uk/

The UK Helpline for the European Union's Information Society Programmes. Read about European support for information society projects.

ukstate.com

http://www.ukstate.com/

"ukstate.com is a new web service from The Stationery Office . The Stationery Office was created when the trading elements of HMSO were privatised in 1996, and has been the official publisher to Parliament for more than 200 years and is now the largest UK publisher by volume.

We aim to be your trusted partner for web access to UK-focused information, people and services connected to government and other official bodies."

Virtual Chase

http://www.virtualchase.com/index.shtml

The Virtual Chase offers guidance to legal professionals and others who conduct research on the Internet. Find a weekday news bulletin that provides research tips, site reviews, and research news. The site also offers articles about Internet research strategies, research guides, and instructional aids including teaching Webs, outlines, and tips. A section on evaluating the quality of Web-based information provides a checklist and examples of bogus information.

The law firm, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, sponsors this free Web site.

WebBarin

http://www.webbrain.com/open_NS.html

Unusually designed search engine and directory.

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/reference.html

"The most comprehensive and up-to-date reference of its kind, the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering targets every critical area of this diverse field with approximately 1,450 articles reflecting contributions from some 3,000 authors. The complete contents of the Encyclopedia's 24-print volumes is now available online via Wiley InterScience."

World's Water

http://www.worldwater.org/

"...a site dedicated to providing up-to-date water information and data and web connections to organizations, institutions, and individuals working on a wide range of global freshwater problems and solutions."

Worldwide Composites Search Engine

http://www.wwcomposites.com/

"The Worldwide Composites Search Engine is devoted to the materials, processes and companies involved in the Composites Industry. Our search engine only contains information on companies and products which we deem are relevant to the composites industry."

xcalcs

http://www.xcalcs.com/

'xcalcs' is a set of tools for engineering calculations in structural analysis, for direct usage onto the web.

xrefer

http://www.Xrefer.com/

"We've brought together and fully integrated a diverse collection of reference works from a range of publishers - placing all the facts and information you could ever need at your fingertips. All cross-referenced, all reliable, and all in one place."

Zeal

http://www.zeal.com/

A community-driven web directory, with ratings, reviews, and detailed information about websites.

New Lists

bizness

http://www.topica.com/lists/bizness/

A weekly Newsletter for the business community - ads, articles, news.

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In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, I sometimes come across Web sites which I feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month I will try to 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 I 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.

xrefer

http://www.Xrefer.com/

I'm not sure whether xrefer warrants being the Nice Web Site at this stage in its development, but I'm featuring it anyway, because it is such a good idea that deserves to succeed.

Calling itself a web reference engine, xrefer brings together and integrates a collection of reference works from various leading publishers. The site's overview states that "xrefer contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and reference works covering a wide range of subjects. And the best thing is that all this content is intelligently linked to allow you to follow a trail of relevant information throughout our extensive library." One way the linking is achieved is through cross-referencing of results to other titles.

At the present time, the participating publishers include Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford University Press and Penguin, and a number of useful reference works are included.

Altogether a promising Web site.

Roddy MacLeod

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The Internet in Print

Safety and Health Practitioner

Publisher: Miller Freeman UK Ltd, 630 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London W4 5BG
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: Membership of IOSH includes magazine subscription and postage (surface): Noncorporate members £43; Members / Fellows £60 - £65. Subscription to magazine only: £59 (UK) incl. postage £107 (Overseas airmail)
Email: comms@iosh.co.uk

This is the official magazine of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and includes reviews of websites relevant to workplace health and safety.

Crazynet

Publisher: Crazynet, Freeway Press Ltd., 50a Roseburry Ave., London EC1R 4RP
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: £14.97 Cover price £2.99
Email: crazynet@freewayuk.com

This is a magazine with a sense of humour. Instead of directories of useful Web sites, reports on useful software utilities, and helpful hints, Crazynet concentrates on silly stories, weird sites, online games, and the obligatory 'babe' stuff. Fair enough, and reading it I certainly raised a smile or two, especially after looking at the feature about error messages. How about the following helpful ones:

Reserved error [-1601]; there is no message for this error.

and:

1. We need your fax number in order to respect your wish not to receive unsolicited faxes.

But perhaps a whole magazine dedicated to the likes of George Liquor, Andre the Giant, Neve Campbell, William Shatner's singalong site, and anime is a bit much.

[RM]

Internet Investor

Publisher:
Frequency:
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Email:

The Internet Investor is a net magazine dedicated to helping you manage your personal finances using the net. Its objective is to be the UK's most informative guide to personal finance and to provide in-depth analysis of companies and services of interest.

A wide range of financial issues is covered in the magazine and it gives plenty of information on how the net can be used to make your money work for you. The magazine includes a news section, and the stocks to watch are identified. It covers financial services, websites and software, and tracks down the best deals. In the issue I have to hand, there is advice on building a share portfolio, trading in US stocks, setting up an investment club and how best to invest a cash windfall. The articles are clearly written with step by step advice. Money matters and using the net to manage your finances are de-mystified. Also included in this issue is a CD giving access to the ISP Totalise and Netscape and free PC software to monitor UK and US stocks.

I am a novice at financial matters however I found this magazine very informative and a easy to understand. I picked up some tips which I might even put into action. The Internet Investor is quite pricy at £ 3.99 but if you subscribe to 6 issues, you will save a pound on each. If you are considering taking a more active role in managing your personal finance then it is a worthwhile investment.

[CU]

Online Information Review

Publisher: MCB University Press, 60/62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD8 9BY
Frequency: 6 times per year
Subscription: Contact publisher
Email: akaminska@mcb.co.uk
Web: http://www.mcb.co.uk/oir.htm

It would not be correct for me to review this journal, which recently changed ownership to MCB University Press, as I wrote one of the articles in the latest issue. Instead, here is a table of contents for the Volume 24, Number 1, 2000 issue.

Editorial p. 6

The subject gateway: experiences and issues based on the emergence of the Resource Discovery Network. Lorcan Dempsey p. 8

Quality-controlled subject gateways: definitions, typologies, empirical overview. Traugott Koch. p. 24

Architecture and software solutions. Tracy Gardner and Renato Iannella p. 35

Information gateways: collaboration on content. Rachel Heery p. 40

DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service - a Dutch national collaborative effort. Marianne Peereboom p. 46

CORC: a system for gateway creation. Thomas B Hickey p. 49

SOSIG: an Internet hub for the social sciences, business and law. Debra Hiom p. 54

Promoting a subject gateway: a case study from EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library). Roddy MacLeod p. 59

SSG-FI - special subject gateways to high quality Internet resources for scientific users. Thomas Fischer and Heike Neuroth p. 64

NOVAGate: a Nordic gateway to electronic resources in the forestry, veterinary and agricultural sciences. Adrian Price p. 69

Australian subject gateways: political and strategic issues. Debbie Campbell p. 73

An EASIER way to search online engineering resource. Geir Granum and Phil Barker p. 78

News p. 83

Brief communication p. 85

Book reviews p. 88

Savvy searching. Peter Jasco p. 90

IEEE Circuits & Devices

Publisher: IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855
Frequency: Bi-monthly
ISSN: ISSN: 8755-3996
Email: r.waynant@ieee.org
Web: http://users.erols.com/circuits/

Each issue includes a Software & the Web column.

If you know of other Internet journals or journals with regular significant sections about the Internet which have not been mentioned in The Internet in Print section, please let me know at: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk

Roddy MacLeod

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Network News

BIDS News Bulletins

http://www.bids.ac.uk/Tfedocs/news.html

BIDS is a UK provider of networked information services for higher education and research.

NISS News

A week-by-week listing of new information resources on the NISS (National Information Services and Systems) Information Gateway selected by experts in the subject area is available at:

http://www.niss.ac.uk/welcome/whatsnew.html

BUBL News

BUBL has retained a strong library element, but now provides a subject-based service to the academic and research community more generally, this via the BUBL LINK Subject Tree. The latest news from BUBL is available at:

http://bubl.ac.uk/news/

The latest updates to the BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources are available at:

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html

EEVL News

The latest Additions and Updates to EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library), The Gateway to UK Engineering Information on the Internet, are available at:

http://www.eevl.ac.uk:4321/whatsnew/

SOSIG News

The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at:

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html

EDINA Newsline

The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at:

EDINA is pleased to announce the addition of the EconLit, MLA, PAIS and Ulrich's databases to its bibliographic collection via the popular Ovid interface. These services are offered to UK and Irish HE and FE institutions, Research Councils and CHEST associate/affiliate institutions for subscription from June 1st 2000 to July 31st 2002 under a special agreement.

For further details and to request a free 30-day institutional trial - available now - of any (or all) of the new services, please refer to http://edina.ac.uk/news.html or email: edina@ed.ac.uk

http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/

CHEST News

CHEST aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the Education and Research Community at low prices and attractive licence terms. The latest news from CHEST is available at:

http://www.chest.ac.uk/news.html

MIMAS News

MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, at the University of Manchester, to provide the following range of services to the academic community:

Flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets.
Access to key bibliographic information.
Access to specialist support and training.
Access to software packages and large-scale computing resources.

The latest news from MIMAS can be found at:

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news.html

New on RUDI

RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information) is a multimedia information resource for research and teaching in the field of urban design in the Western cultural context. The latest news from RUDI can be found at:

http://rudi.herts.ac.uk/new.html

OMNI News

UK's independent gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources. The latest sites added to OMNI can be found at:

http://www.omni.ac.uk/newrecords/

Netskills: News

Netskills aims to help the UK HE community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration. The latest news from Netskills can be found at:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/

What's new on Eldis

Electronic Development and Environment Information System. A gateway to information sources on development or the environment. What's new on Eldis can be found at:

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm

What's New on Biz/ed

Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.

http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm

AHDS Newsletter

The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at the top of the newsletter index page at this site.

http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newslind.html

Mailbase News

Mailbase provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/news/

Data Archive news

The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally.

http://dawww.essex.ac.uk/news/

What's new on the TASI web site

TASI is a service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) set up to advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/new.html

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Press Release

Here are extracts from recent press releases of interest.

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Recent Internet Books in Heriot-Watt University Library

Recent arrivals:

001.6442 NIE 
Designing Web usability
by Jacon Nielsen 
New Riders, 2000

001.649 HEU
Virtual worlds
Edited by Jean-Claude Heudin 
Perseus, 1999

001.66 BER
Weaving the Web
by Tim Berners Lee
Orion, 1999

025.5 HOC 
Web search engines 
by Randolph Hock 
CyberAge, 2000

331.702 MUR
Finding a job on the Internet 
by Brendan Murphy 
Internet Handbooks, 1999

658.05JUD
Hyperwars 
by Bruce Judson 
HarperCollins, 1999

658.84 SPE
amazon.com: get big fast 
by Robert Spector
Random House, 2000

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/news/news.html

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Get a life ! Leisure Time

TheSite

http://www.thesite.org/

Advice on drugs, sex and more

BootsnAll.com

http://216.110.36.72/cgi-bin/gt/index.shtml

For the independent traveller

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STOP PRESS! How to Find Out Building Engineering and Surveying

How to Find Out in Building Engineering and Surveying

This guide is aimed primarily at students and staff of Heriot-Watt University, however it may also be of use to anyone looking for printed or electronic information on Building Engineering and Surveying.

The guide gives hints on how to go about making a literature search, and there are sections on finding books, periodicals and electronic journals, current awareness services, finding articles, Internet resources, technical reports, and so on.

Please note that while all networked resources mentioned are accessible from Heriot-Watt campus, accessibility from off-campus may vary.

End of Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 69 - June 2000

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