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Heriot Watt University

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Issue 110 - November 2003

Edited by:

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

Catherine Ure and Catherine Ferguson.

COMMENT

IRN gets its own RSS feed

In the last issue of this newsletter I wrote about the My Blogs feature of Bloglines, and how it was possible to use it to scan news feeds and weblogs. RSS feeds can also be viewed through Bloglines, as well as via desk-top feedreaders. RSS is a format for easily sharing content on the web. If you would like to know more about RSS, look in the RSS Primer at: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/

The Internet Resources Newsletter now has an RSS feed. This means that you can read its 'headlines' (essentially the Table of Contents) through My Blogs, and then link through to the sections of interest. The RSS feed is available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss This is a .rss file and therefore it must be processed (or 'parsed') before it can be displayed. The easiest way to do this is via My Blogs, or via a feedreader, such as those listed in the RSS Primer.

So, now there are four ways to get information about this Internet Resources Newsletter:
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

The Importance of Patents
The Patent Office has issued a statement illustrating the importance of Patents through the game of golf.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1956
From: Managing Information News

Update on Implementation of the Copyright Directive
The UK Patent Office has issued a statement to coincide with the laying before Parliament of the Statutary Instrument to implement the EU Copyright Directive.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1997
From: Managing Information News

Massive Online Database May Boost Semi Research
Purdue scientists spent 20 years developing an exhaustive materials-properties database with Semiconductor Research Corp., which has spent more than $460 million seeking semiconductor innovations.
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22474.html
From NewsFactor Network

Web guru fights info pollution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3171376.stm
From BBC News

National Library of Scotland's Annual Report 2002-2003
Outstanding acquisitions to the collections and developments to services are highlighted in the National Library of Scotland's annual report for the year 2002-2003.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2013
From: Managing Information News

Over 40 New Companies Exhibiting At Online Information 2003
Visitors to the 2003 Online Information exhibition will have the opportunity to meet over 40 new companies exhibiting at the world's largest event for information content and information management solutions.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2011

Thomson ISI Announces Research Superstars
In its latest issue of Science Watch, Thomson ISI has announced its list of the 50 most-cited researchers of the last two decades. Bert Vogelstein of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore tops the list of research elite with more than 100,000 citations to his published research.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2037

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

African Legacy

http://apollo5.bournemouth.ac.uk/consci/africanlegacy/

Recording West Africa's Visible Archaeology

Article 12 in Scotland

http://www.article12.org/

Article 12 in Scotland is an independent youth led network that works across Scotland, Europe and the Euromed Region to promote youth rights as laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the European White Paper on Youth

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

"We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify the nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of quality assurance."

BlogRunner

http://blogrunner.com/

BLOGRUNNER is a portal for blog content. The site features an index of weblog entries from across the web. These entries are grouped together according to interest topics and news stories. BLOGRUNNER makes it easier to track stories and conversation threads that develop across blogspace. BLOGRUNNER also highlights the interdependency of mainstream media with the blogosphere by closely integrating weblog entries with the stories they track from traditional media.

BlogsCanada: Canada's Blog Site

http://www.blogscanada.ca/

Blogging has taken the web by storm and Canadians are among the most prolific bloggers in the world.

Bloogz

http://www.bloogz.com/

A Blog search engine.

BookMark

http://www.bookaid.org/resources/downloads/Bookmark_2.pdf

"The latest edition of Book Aid International's supporter newsletter is out now. It includes reports on World Book Day, our 50th birthday plans and the latest information about our work around the world."

Brook

http://www.brook.org.uk/content/

Brook Advisory Centres - commonly known just as Brook - is the only national voluntary sector provider of free and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically for young people under 25.

Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment

http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/

From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Building Design Partnership

http://www.bdp.co.uk/

"BDP are architects, designers and engineers. We provide a single source consultancy service for most types of work within the built environment."

ChemExper Chemical Directory: CCD

http://search.chemexper.com/

ChemExper Chemical Directory is a database of chemical compounds accessible over Internet. Its powerful search engine allows you to find a chemical by its molecular formula, IUPAC name, common name, CAS number, catalog number, substructure or physical characteristics.

Collect Britain

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/

Collect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. You can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our world-renowned collections without ever needing to visit the prestigious building in London.

Company In-Site

http://www.company-in-site.co.uk/

This is a subscription-based service (free trials currently available) for those interested in the UK's corporate landscape. Company In-Site may dramatically reduce the amount of time you spend on-line when looking for company information. The site provides links to the web-sites of every single listed UK company that has a web presence and as well as providing a link to every home page it provides, in a neat little drop-down menu, links to key areas of that site such as jobs, key personnel and annual reports page. It also provides related links to other key information providers such as the exchange itself, third party databases and news services.

ComputerWire

http://www.computerwire.com/

ComputerWire is the world's leading supplier of integrated News, Opinion, Research and Analysis for the IT industry. Its focus is the 10 million + worldwide IT professionals, working in the $1 trillion IT market.

Connexions Project

http://cnx.rice.edu/

The Connexions Project is a collaborative, community-driven approach to authoring, teaching, and learning that seeks to provide a cohesive body of high-quality educational content to anyone in the world, for free.

Connexions involves two basic, interrelated components:

A Content Commons of collaboratively developed, freely-available material that can be modified for any purpose, and...

Free/Open Source software tools to help students, instructors and authors manage the information assets in the Content Commons.

Construction Safety Partnership Plan 2003 - 2005

http://www.hsa.ie/Partnership_Plan.pdf

From the Health and Safety Authority.

Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003

http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032498.htm

Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2498. Now availabe from this site.

Criminology Web Sites An Annotated "Webliography"

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep03/fink.shtml

From Searcher magazine. By Kenneth Fink, Information Services Librarian, Pepperdine University.

CSR Directory

http://csrwire.com/directory/

Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices

Datumpoint

http://www.datumpoint.co.uk/

A UK based online directory that caters for manufacturing needs.

Deep Web Research

http://www.deepwebresearch.info/

Developed by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., this site is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for deep web research.

Design Museum

http://www.designmuseum.org/

The Museum is located in London.

Detod

http://www.detod.com/

A US legal site.

Dialog Portals

http://www.dialog.com/products/portals/

Dialog Portals is a suite of Web-based content modules that deliver business-critical news and intelligence to your organization's information portals. Content can be tailored for a department, division or the entire enterprise-or personalized to meet the needs of individuals. Deployment of Dialog Portals is quick and easy via portlets that seamlessly integrate into your portal environments and which are hosted by Dialog to reduce your IT support costs.

Digital Preservation - Barbarians at the Gate

http://www.freepint.com/issues/021003.htm#feature

A feature article in Free Pint, by Jonathan Crowhurst.

Directory of search engines

http://www.searchengines.ultimate-resources.com/

A world wide directory listing more than 190 countries.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october03/10contents.html

The October 2003 issue is available.

Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepeas.html

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of an industry that generates some �22 billion annually.

ECRM 2004: 3rd European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies

http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecrm2004/2k-ecrm2004-home.htm

To be held at the University of Reading on 29-30 April 2004.

eIFL.net

http://www.eifl.net/

"eIFL.net is an independent foundation that strives to lead, negotiate, support and advocate for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transition and developing countries."

EngineersWork

http://www.engineerswork.net/index.php

Engineering Jobs in the UK. The Works is independant and is not owned by a recruitment company.

ETNA: The Enhanced Training Needs Analysis, 2003

http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/etna/download.html

The JISC Regional Support Centres ran a Training Needs Survey during the summer of 2003.

Extenza

http://www.extenza-eps.com/

Extenza provides a quick and easy way to access academic and professional publications. Subscription-bases service, though some searching is free.

Fazzle

http://www.cut.ac.zw/

A new search engine.

Fedora Project

http://www.fedora.info/

An Open-Source Digital Repository Management System

Forth Estuary Forum

http://www.forthestuaryforum.co.uk/

This aims to implement integrated coastal zone management.

Freedom of Information Act Blog

http://foia.blogspot.com/

New, views and web sources on the UK FOIA (2000) and relevant overseas material.

Future Scotland

http://www.futurescotland.org/

For those with an interest in the fine art of planning and architectural design.

Going Google beyond: The world's most popular search engine is not always the best tool for the job

http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=902FA959-ECD3-478C-9C17-A64E18B1EF72

The Virtual Chase alerted me to this interesting article.

Guide to Institutional Repository Software

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

The Open Society Institute intends this document to help organizations with one facet of their repository planning: selecting a software system that best satisfies an institution's needs.

HE Academy

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

This is the interim site for the HE Academy. The HE Academy will incorporate the LTSN and also the ILTHE.

HE/FE Recorsd Management Group

http://internal.bath.ac.uk/records-mgmnt/urmgroup/

The Higher Education/Further Education (HE/FE) Records Management Group was established in 2002 in response to interest generated by and expressed via the HE/FE Records Management Listserv (formerly the University Records Managers Listserv).

Health and Medical RSS feeds

http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/article.htm

"MedicineNet.com Now Offers Free RSS News Syndication Service for Web Sites and Net Users Seeking Reliable Doctor-Produced Health and Medical Information."

HM Customs & Excise

http://www.hmce.gov.uk/

UK Customs & Excise is a Government department with responsibility for collecting billions of pounds in revenue each year in VAT, other taxes and customs duties. We also have a vital front-line role in protecting our society from illegal imports of drugs, alcohol and tobacco smuggling and tax fraud.

How Everyday Things Are Made

http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

AIM has developed an introductory website for kids and adults showing how various items are made

iaslash

http://iaslash.org/

A Blog.

iaslash is a news site for information architects. Regardless of your field, if you are interested in information organization, usability, user testing, user interface design, and other areas related to the access and use of information in information-use environments, you may find some news and resources of interest here.

Industry EU

http://www.industry-eu.com

A European search engine of contacts in engineering, welding, plastics and building. Also available is a Job and technologies exchange.

Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education: EE2004

http://asp2.wlv.ac.uk/celt/ee2004/

June 7-9, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Institute of IT Training: IITT

http://www.iitt.org.uk/

The Institute of IT Training is the world's first professional body for IT training professionals.

Integrating digital libraries with virtual learning environments

http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/linker/

This set of resources was produced by CERLIM and CSALT under the auspices of the LinkER project. It is intended to be of use to people in UK institutions of further and higher education who have responsibility for managing and enabling the integration of digital libraries and virtual learning environments.

International Conference on Recycling Information Exchange and Industrial Practices, RECCON'03

http://www.reccon03.org/english/index.asp

10, 11 and 12 November 2003 BILBAO - SPAIN

International Education Indicators

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/IntlIndicators/

Education Indicators: An International Perspective is a compilation of indicators from a multitude of data sources which provides a rich array of information on the current state of education internationally.

IT Construction Best Practice

http://www.itcbp.org.uk/home/index.asp

A one-stop source of information and guidance on the benefits of effective use of IT in the UK construction industry.

JISC Collections Financial Strategy,

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

This outlines: "How JISC Collections provide value for money to the UK Further and Higher Education community . Why the acquisition of innovative content often requires financial support from JISC to ensure adoption and embedding in learning, teaching and research. Special Cases, and why JISC continue to fund some essential niche electronic resources."

juiced.co.uk

http://www.juiced.co.uk/

Student web site of The Daily Telegraph

Learn English Online

http://www.1-language.com/

Free comprehensive ESL site with a host of resources for students and teachers of English.

Library of Congress: African and Middle Eastern Division: AMED

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/

"The African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) was created in 1978 as part of a general Library of Congress reorganization...The division, led by chief, Julian Witherell (1978-91) and by Beverly Gray (1994- ), coordinates and directs the component sections."

Literary Traveler

http://www.literarytraveler.com/

"Literary Traveler is dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination. We hope to bring you inspiring, informative articles about writers, creative artists, and the places that they lived and traveled."

Marketplace for the Mind

http://www.marketplaceforthemind.state.pa.us/m4m/lib/m4m/homepage-flash.asp

Agricultural educational materials.

mghh.co.uk

http://www.mghh.co.uk/

mghh.co.uk provides the quickest and easiest way of searching over 1600 Museums, Galleries & Historic Houses in the UK and Ireland.

National Council for Work Experience

http:// www.work-experience.org

"Promoting, supporting and developing quality work experience for the benefits of students, organisations and the economy."

National Institute of Industrial Engineering and Technology: INETI

http://www.ineti.pt/

The National Institute of Industrial Engineering and Technology (INETI) is a Research, Demonstration and Technological Development organisation, integrated within the Ministry of the Economy, Portugal, whose vocation is to strengthen the potential of Innovation and Quality in the business community and the national technological system, in order to foster Knowledge towards sustainable economic growth.

National Metals Technology Centre: NAMTEC

http://www.namtec.co.uk/

"Established in response to market surveys sponsored by the DTI, NAMTEC is a not for profit organisation funded by the DTI, Yorkshire Forward and Objective 1, which aims to increase the competitiveness of the UK metals industry. Encompassing every metal, every sector and application, NAMTEC is the only one stop advice and support service for the entire UK metals industry."

Networked Learning Conference, 2004

http://www.shef.ac.uk/nlc2004/home.htm

Lancaster University, England, UK Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th April, 2004.

NILTA News

http://www.nilta.org.uk/NILTA/niltanewsletters/NILTANews37.pdf

Nilta News, Autumn 2003 is available. NILTA is the National Information and Learning Technologies Association.

Online Information 2003

http://www.online-information.co.uk/

Online Information 2003 is the event where the world of information content, management and delivery converge attracting an international audience of over 11,000 visitors and over 280 exhibitors.

Out of sight but not out of mind : virtual meetings

http://www.freepint.com/issues/161003.htm#feature

An article in a recent issue of Free Pint by Alison Turner.

Oxford Scholarship Online

http://www.oup.com/online/oso/

"Combining excellence with innovation, Oxford Scholarship Online will be a unique and invaluable tool for both research and teaching..."

Planning Inspectorate

http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk/

The Planning Inspectorate works for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (previously the DTLR) and the National Assembly for Wales on a range of casework under Planning and Environmental legislation.

Proc-HE

http://www.jppsg.ac.uk/

The Procurement Strategy Implementation Group (Proc-HE) is the new group which came into existence on the 1st of August 2003 to replace the JPPSG, charged with developing and implementing the new Procurement Strategy for Higher Education covering the three year period to the end of July 2006.

public secta.com

http://www.publicsecta.com/

A public sector portal.

Radio-Locator

http://www.radio-locator.com/

"The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."

RedLightGreen

http://www.redlightgreen.com

A service from the RLG in the USA. RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library.

Renaissance Library Calendar 2004

http://www.renaissancelibrary.com/

The 2004 edition of the Renaissance Library Calendar contains a new selection of 12 of the most beautiful old libraries in the World, as nominated by librarians and information professionals in over 40 countries. The calendar is published by ISIM.

Resonants

http://www.spectroscopynow.com/Spy/basehtml/SpyH/1,1181,5-5-7-0-0-ezine-0-0,00.html

A new 'e-zine' David Bradley, which has an NMR flavour, although it's not necessarily going to cover purely NMR news.

SalvoMIE

http://www.salvomie.co.uk/

"Salvo Materials Information Exchange - a place to trade large volumes of reusable, reclaimable, recyclable and recoverable materials available free or to buy, and typically modern demolition salvage, recycled aggregates, reclaimed timber, recycled wood, and material left over from manufacturing which could have a second life but which is considered waste unless an appropriate market can be found."

Save British Science

http://www.savebritishscience.org.uk/index.html

Save British Science is a pressure group, with the aim of improving the scientific health of the UK.

Scientific publishing

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html

A position statement by the Wellcome Trust in support of open access publishing.

Second International Conference on the Future of the Book

http://book-conference.com/

To be held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China, from 29-31 August 2004, the conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the future of the book, as well as its past and the state of the book industry, books and reading today.

Small World Project

http://smallworld.columbia.edu/

An experimental idea to test the theory that any two people in the world can be connected via 'six degrees of separation'.

SMARTWaste

http://www.smartwaste.co.uk/

BRE have developed the SMARTWaste (Site Methodology to Audit, Reduce and Target Waste) system for a step-by-step evaluation of waste and its generation.

SMEALSearch

http://smealsearch.psu.edu/

"SMEALSearch is a niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts."

sportscotland

http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/

"sportscotland is the national agency for sport in Scotland. Working with our partners, our core responsibility is to develop sport and physical recreation in Scotland."

Steel in Fire Forum: StiFF

http://www.shef.ac.uk/fire-research/steelinfire/index.html

StiFF is a discussion group for researchers, specialists and design professionals interested in the behaviour of steel and composite framed structures under the influence of fire, and in the development of rational structural fire engineering design methods.

Stilo

http://www.stilo.com/

"Stilo is a global provider of content engineering technologies and expertise, enabling the world's largest organisations to publish and share complex information."

Student and Automotive

http://www.student-automotive.com/

Mission: To inform and motivate pre-university students about an automotive engineering study and career by creating a global on-line community for self-controlled learning processes.

StudentResearch.info

http://www.studentresearch.info/

This site is designed to educate you about the latest happenings in all areas of Student Research resources and sources occurring on the Internet. This is another Subject Tracer(tm) Blog developed by the Virtual Private Library(tm)

Students.net

http://www.students.net/

A portal for college students: web directory, resources and channels.

Telintell

http://www.telintell.com/

Free access to market information on the global telecommunications industry.

The Arabidopsis Information Resource: TAIR

http://www.arabidopsis.org/

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) provides a comprehensive resource for the scientific community working with Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant.

The Lecturer

http://www.natfhe.org.uk/says/lectdoor.html

NATFHE's newspaper, THE LECTURER, is published five times a year in two editions, for members in Further Education and in Higher Education.

The recombinant library: portals and people

http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/recombinant_library/dempsey_recombinant_library.htm

This is a pre-print of an article, by Lorcan Dempsey, which will appear in Journal of Library Administration.

TipTopJob

http://www.tiptopjob.com/

"TipTopJob is a premier international career portal dedicated to providing the best possible service to job hunters and recruiters alike with our 'intelligent recruitment' system."

TravelJungle

http://www.traveljungle.co.uk/

Aggregated air fare site.

TrustNet

http://www.trustnet.com/

This is a free daily updated service providing investment funds information

UK Academic E-Print Repositories

http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/repositories/

A list, from the RDN.

UK Central Government Web Archive

http://www.pro.gov.uk/webarchive/

The UK Central Government Web Archive is a selective collection of UK Government websites, archived from August 2003, which has been developed by the National Archives of the United Kingdom, using the services of the Internet Archive.

UK Survey of Library and Learning Resource Provision in Further Education Colleges, 2003

http://www.cilip.org.uk/practice/fecolleges/fecolleges.pdf

Prepared in collaboration with CILIP by the Information Management Research Institute (IMRI) at Northumbria University, the report turns the spotlight on all aspects of further education library provision, including automation systems, services, study places, computer access and budgets and provides the most comprehensive picture of college library provision for many years.

UKeU

http://www.ukeu.com/

"UKeU offers students the chance to obtain a globally recognised UK academic qualification - while continuing to live and work in their home country."

United Nations Research Guide

http://library.msstate.edu/resources/guides/unitednations.asp

Mentioned recently in Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff

"The Mitchell Memorial Library of Mississippi State University has been a United Nations depository library since July 2001. This is a selective guide designed to assist researchers and students in gaining access to United Nations materials available within the library's collections and databases, and via the Internet."

Universities UK Annual Report

http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/bookshop/downloads/anrev03.pdf

The annual report was recently made available.

unstruct.org

http://www.unstruct.org/

A Blog about unstructured information and data management

Using Primary Sources on the Web

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/

Written by the Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association.

vascoda

http://www.vascoda.de/

vascoda is an internet-portal which offers a central access point to a wide array of scientific and scholarly information in Germany.

Wasted Space

http://www.wastedspace.org.uk/

"Wasted Space is a national campaign to find the worst wasted space in the UK. Launched by CABE Space with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and BBC Radio 4, we are calling on people from all over the country to enter the search and help identify pieces of neglected land near them."

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

http://www.wdcs.org/

"...the global voice for the protection of whales, dolphins and their environment."

World Summit on the Information Society: WSIS

http://www.itu.int/wsis/

The World Summit on the Information Society will be held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS will take place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005.

wwiTV.com (World Wide Internet TV)

http://www.wwitv.com/

wwiTV.com is an index to streaming media available on the web.

NICE WEB SITE

In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will normally be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After lengthy discussions we have decided, with incredible creativity :-), to call these: Nice Web Sites. Details of previous Nice Web Sites are available in the Nice Web Site Archive.

Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepeas.html

Sometimes a Nice Web Site is chosen because the site in question is well-organised and contains a variety of good quality content. Sometimes I select a site because I think the content is particularly important, and I would like to highlight it to IRN readers. The 'Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing' fits in to the latter category.

This is a very interesting and thought-provoking report which was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust.

It looks into important issues facing STM publishing, especially in the UK. It looks into why "...the average journal price increase of UK publications was 29 per cent between 1999 and 2000, compared with an average price rise worldwide of 10 per cent". It comments on the current market for science, technology and medicine journals, the effect of takeovers and mergers, the Open Archives movement, etc.

Random quote: "Many academics are largely unaware of the changes which have taken place in the STM journals market. Their objectives in publishing and reading articles are largely disconnected from the price of journals and from activities taking place in the commercial market." They should read this report, and note its conclusions.

Roddy MacLeod

PRESS RELEASES

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A free 30-day trial to ManagementFirst is available by visiting
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**** MedicineNet.com Announces Free RSS News Syndication Service For Web Sites And Net Users Seeking Reliable Doctor-Produced Health And Medical Information ****

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MedicineNet, Inc. announced that MedicineNet.com (http://www.medicinenet.com), the leading destination for reliable doctor-produced health and medical news, and information, is now offering a free RSS news syndication service for Web sites and Net users seeking reliable health and medical content: http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/article.htm

MedicineNet offers five types of health and medical RSSfeed channels.

1. Daily Health and Medical News Channel
2. Weekly Health and Medical News Digest
3. MedTerms Medical Word of the Day Channel
4. Specialty Channels
5. General Channels

MedicineNet, Inc. is an online healthcare publishing company, creating proprietary consumer information that is 100% produced by a network of 70+ U.S. board-certified physicians. Since 1996, it has been the trusted source for easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information via its robust, user-friendly, interactive

**** Communication Abstracts now available on IDS ****

Communications Abstracts, published by SAGE Publications, is now available to subscribers via the Internet Database Service (IDS) from CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). Criminal Justice Abstracts, also published by SAGE is another title being added.

The addition of these databases makes CSA's Internet Database Service one of the most complete reference resources for social science research.

For more information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel +1 301 961 6761) E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

**** Inaugural Issue of PLoS Biology Provides Free Access to Top-tier Biology Research ****

Washington, DC - A coalition of major library and public interest organizations praised the October 9 premier of the first "open access" journal published by the San Francisco-based Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians. PLoS Biology (http://biology.plosjournals.org/), a monthly peer-reviewed journal available free online, features research of exceptional significance, including several groundbreaking articles that recently have received extensive coverage in the worldwide news media.

The Full press release is at: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f76

**** Google Alert Greatly Improves Web's Leading Automated Search Service ****

Users in over 120 countries can now integrate live Google results into their blogs and web sites

TEL AVIV, Israel (Oct 15, 2003). Google Alert, the world's leading automated search and web intelligence solution, today released a greatly improved free web-based service. Selected as BBC's "Website of the Day" and USA Today's "Hot Site", Google Alert enables people from diverse backgrounds worldwide to stay up to date with their interests on the Web. Users include journalists, marketers, lawyers, IT professionals, doctors, salespeople, educators, researchers, and government employees, among many others.

Google Alert's popular free service tracks anything on the web by automatically running daily Google searches and sending email alerts when new results appear.

The new release adds many possibilities for integrating search results into web pages and desktops. Results can now be delivered as email, HTML, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or TrackBack feeds, with a wide variety of customization options.

Google Alert is a free service, offered for non-commercial use and subject to Google's API terms. Google Alert is not affiliated with Google, but uses the Google Web APIs to perform its automated searches.

For more information, visit http://www.googlealert.com.

Gideon Greenspan
pr@googlealert.com

**** Changes at the AHDS ****

The AHDS is currently undergoing some changes to reflect better the subject communities it serves. This involves a renaming process, a new shared website and the development of a cross-search catalogue to allow users to locate AHDS collections over different subject areas.

The five subject-based Centres of the AHDS are now named

AHDS Archaeology
AHDS History
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
AHDS Performing Arts
AHDS Visual Arts

This has resulted in a new website, reflecting both the general work of the AHDS and the work it does for particular subject communities within the arts and humanities. This new website exists alongside the current subject-based websites, which remain in place for delivering particular item-level collections.

The AHDS have also created a cross-search catalogue, which allows users to search for AHDS collections over different subject-areas. This is a new service under development, and further additions will be made to this catalogue in the coming months.

For more information, please visit http://ahds.ac.uk/changes.htm

NETWORK NEWS

Athens News

Athens is an Access Management System for controlling access to web-based subscription services. The latest Athens news is available at:

http://www.athensams.net/news/

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 news from EEVL, plus the latest additions to EEVL, The Hub for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, is available at:; http://www.eevl.ac.uk/news.htm

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:; 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, 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 additions to PSIgate

PSIgate (Physical Science Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).

http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/whatsnew.html

BIOME News

BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. The latest news from BIOME can be found at:

http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/

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:

http://ahds.ac.uk/newsletters.htm

JISCmail News

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

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm

UK Data Archive news

The UK 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://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/archiveNews.asp

Chemical Data Service (CDS)

CDS provides on-line access to a variety of quality databases in the field of Chemistry, plus support, training and advice. This is available (free of charge) to academics at UK Universities.

http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/

Academic Info

Your gateway to quality educational resources. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory tailored toward a college and university audience and is used by students, librarians, and researchers.

http://www.academicinfo.net/new.html

RDN News

The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is a cooperative network of independent subject-based service providers called hubs, coordinated by the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC). It is a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community.

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

Humbul

The latest additions to Humbul, the humanities hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/new.php?int=30

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

658.84 MOH
Internet marketing
by Rafi A Mohammed and others
McGraw Hill, 2003

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

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

BLOGORAMA

News about weblogs, etc:

A weblog (Blog for short) is an online diary of sorts that usually features daily or regular postings providing commentary, plus links to other sites.

For more information on blogs, the article: Search Engines: Weblog search engines http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/search-engines/ is a good place to start.

Bloglines now has a new recommendations feature that suggests new blogs based on the blogs you're currently subscribed to in the My Blogs service. They do this by comparing your subscriptions with the subscriptions of thousands of other Bloglines users. The recommendations feature is always available from your My Blogs page.

Top 50 Interesting Recent Blogs With Context
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/interestingblogs.html
An experimental service from Technorati

BlogRunner
http://blogrunner.com/
A new portal for blog content.

blogdex
http://www.blogdex.net/
Lists the most contagious information currently spreading in the weblog community.

Weblogs and Journalism: Do they connect?
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/03-3NRfall/61-63V57N3.pdf
Random quote: "Instead of inflating the term 'journalism' to include everyone who writes anything about current events, I prefer the term 'participatory media' for the blogger's practice of actively highlighting and framing the news that is reported by journalists, a practice potentially as important as - but different from - journalism"

The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs,Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned
http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/
An article from Perseus

RSS News Feeds & Blog Search Engines
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156261#rss
From SearchEngineWatch

BlogsCanada: Canada's Blog Site
http://www.blogscanada.ca/
Blogging has taken the web by storm and Canadians are among the most prolific bloggers in the world.

research blogs
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/txt/researchblogs.html
This is an annotated list of weblogs found that are used by researchers and academics as a part of their research practice.

Weblogs as Libraries
http://www.geocities.com/young_librarian/bloglibessay.html
An article by Katie Dunneback from The Young Librarian.

Bloogz
http://www.bloogz.com/
A Blog search engine.

Selected interesting blog's

iaslash
http://iaslash.org/
iaslash is a news site for information architects. Regardless of your field, if you are interested in information organization, usability, user testing, user interface design, and other areas related to the access and use of information in information-use environments, you may find some news and resources of interest here.

unstruct.org
http://www.unstruct.org/
A site about unstructured information and data management

StudentResearch.info
http://www.studentresearch.info/
This site is designed to educate you about the latest happenings in all areas of Student Research resources and sources occurring on the Internet. This is another Subject Tracer™ Blog developed by the Virtual Private Library™

Infoserve
http://www.infoserve.blogspot.com/
Infoserve is the only weblog from South East Asia that tracks the latest information from around the world on the GM Technology.

Freedom of Information Act Blog
http://foia.blogspot.com/

Business Success Resources
http://msgboard.iverify.com/
The Business Success Resources Forum/Blog (moderated by TLC) offers business owners, managers and media a busy place online for communicating about useful
business resorces, discussing emerging trends and solving problems

InternetPolicy.net
http://gipi.typepad.com/internetpolicy/
Weblog of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI)

Deep Web Research
http://www.deepwebresearch.info/
Developed by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Kelkoo
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/
Price comparison site

Narrative Press
http://www.narrativepress.com/
The Narrative Press publishes only true, first-person accounts of historical adventure and exploration.

Edinburgh Leisure
http://www.edinburghleisure.co.uk/
Edinburgh Leisure manages sport and leisure facilities on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council.

IQ TestNow
http://www.iqtestnow.com/

The Climbing Dutchman
http://www.mountain-climb.com/index.html

Travel Africa
http://www.travelafricamag.com/
Travel Africa is an international magazine focusing on African travel destinations, wildlife and culture.

Some of the following sites have been gleaned from the Travel Africa magazine. Well - there's no harm in dreaming :-)

Safarilink
http://www.safarilink.com/

African.com
http://www.african.com/

ITC Classics
http://www.itcclassics.co.uk/

travellight.com
http://www.travellight.com/

African Conservation Experience
http://www.conservationafrica.net/

Malawi Tourism
http://www.malawitourism.com/

Africa Explorer
http://www.africa-explorer.co.uk/

Tourism of Botswana
http://www.botswana-tourism.gov.bw/tourism/index_f.html

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