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Issue 111 - December 2003
Edited by:
Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk),
Catherine Ure and Catherine Ferguson.
Table of Contents:
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Internet Resources Newsletter by email News items of interest |
A-Z New & Notable Web SitesInformation and reviews of new and recent Web sites |
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This month: OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs |
New ideas for teaching Internet Information Skills to students - from the RDN Virtual Training Suite |
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News of Weblogs, etc |
Review of: Engineering and IT Graduate: 2004 entry |
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COMMENT
Random Quote
"Online advertising will account for 2% of all UK advertising by the end of 2004...It's deemed to be more effective than traditional advertising media..." The Guardian, 30 Oct, 2003.
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the
opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract
a 2 million record subset from the more than 53 million records in the
WorldCat database. The subset will target the most popular and widely
available books by only selecting records with a minimum of 100 libraries
holding each item.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031027-2.shtml
From Information Today
What Google Teaches Us that Has Nothing to Do with Searching
by Gary Price
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov03/price.shtml
From Searcher Magazine
Free subscriptions available to the Engineering Magazine for qualifying
engineers
http://www.engineeringnet.co.uk/eng.sub2004
Microsoft testing news search service
http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39116942,00.htm
From silicon.com
BIOSIS Sold to Thomson Scientific
October 27, 2003 — Five months after announcing its search for a
partner, Biological Abstracts’ board of trustees announced that it
had entered final negotiations with Thomson Corp.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031027-1.shtml
From Information Today
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Now On EBSCOhost
EBSCO Publishing and the Getty Research Institute have announced the release
of Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, a bibliographical indexing
database available via EBSCOhost.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2054
From Managing Information
Amount of New Information Doubled in Last Three Years, UC Berkeley Study
Finds
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/clipstry?StoryId=Cp5330bKbmZaXyJG1mZu
From NewsALERT
$12 Million for managing Australian University Information
Australia’s research information will become more easily accessible
and better managed thanks to more than $12 million in funding to improve
infrastructure.
http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp
Launch of Sentient DISCOVER & New WebCT PowerLink
Sentient Learning is proud to announce that they will be building a WebCT
PowerLink in time for the release of Sentient DISCOVER V2.0 in January
2004.
http://www.sentientlearning.com/home/dataStore/PressReleases/31st+October+2003.htm
Parliament's history free to all
Historians and researchers will be able to examine 18th Century parliamentary
papers instantly from home, once an ambitious new project is complete.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/dorset/3258579.stm
From BBC News
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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
http://www.aardvarknet.info/user/aardvarkwelcome/
Asian resources for librarians.
http://www.access-funds.co.uk/
Grants information for the British charitable and non-profit sector.
http://www.arm.co.uk/
"Advanced Resource Managers (ARM) was established in 1996 as a recruitment consultancy with a difference.
ARM provide personnel for both contract and permanent positions throughout the UK and Europe."
http://www.ajplus.co.uk/
The Architects' Journal web site. This includes a 'Building Bank' a product directory, and more. Login is required for some information.
http://www.mathgate.bham.ac.uk/mathsportal/aspsurvey/indexv.asp
Altis, the guide to Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism has a questionnaire. Complete it for the chance to win £100.
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
http://www.transportation1.org/aashtonew/
Includes the full text of the AASHTO Journal.
Archiving E-Journals Consultancy - Final Report
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ejournalsfinal.pdf
The report examines the major issue of continuing access to licensed e- journal content and potential solutions.
http://www.biologicalinformatics.info/
BiologicalInformatics.info is a Subject Trace Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library.
http://booksandperiodicals.com/
"BooksandPeriodicals.com is the most comprehensive directory of sources for global news, business, legal, scientific and medical information made available online through hosting services--such as Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Factiva and Westlaw." Free trials are available for this service from the Library Technology Alliance.
http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/
"The British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents."
http://www.brecertification.co.uk/
BRE Certification is a sister company to BRE which, for over eighty years, has carried out research into the safety, regulation and performance of buildings on behalf of the UK Government.
BRE Certification is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Foundation for the Built Environment which is a non-profit distributing organisation. Any profits are invested in research, education and improvements to our service.
http://www.britishprecast.org/
Site includes a buyer's guide, annual review, and newsletter.
Business Intelligence Resources
http://www.biresources.info/
Business Intelligence resources is a Subject Tracer Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet in the field of business intelligence.
http://chcc.essex.ac.uk/chcc-rd/RD
The CHCC Census Resource Discovery Service (CRDS) is a catalogue of census data and associated learning and teaching materials available to the UK higher and further education sector.
Center for Advanced Computing Research: CACR
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/
In 1995, the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) was established to ensure that Caltech and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be at the forefront of computational science and engineering (CS&E).
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the benefits of OAI
http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/
LIBER, CERN and the OAI are pleased to announce the dates and agenda for the 3rd workshop in the successful series on the Open Archives Initiative. 12-14th February 2004, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health: CIEH
http://www.cieh.org/
"The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is an independent professional body and registered charity representing those who work in environmental health and related disciplines. Our primary function is the promotion of knowledge and understanding of environmental health issues."
http://www.click2uk.com/click2uk/
A UK search engine.
http://www.conkers.net/
"Conkers.net is the UK's leading vacancy posting system, enabling you to save both time and money when advertising your recruitments online."
Contract Research Online Survey: CROS
http://www.cros.ac.uk/
The Contract Research Online Survey (CROS) system provides a fully integrated Web environment for the design, delivery and administration of online surveys to Contract Research Staff (CRS) in a range of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crime-psych/
Crime-Psych, the Psychology and Crime e-mailing list, is aimed primarily at an academic audience. The purpose of the list is to disseminate information about developments in psychology in a forensic context, and practical forensic developments that may have psychological relevance. This includes notification of new journal articles, Government publications, news reports and press releases, as well as conference reports, job adverts and internet links. All posts are moderated for relevance and content. Subscribers have access to a searchable archive of posts (currently over 1000 postings)..
http://www.dailyrotation.com/
Quick Loading Headlines From 250+ Tech Sites.
http://www.designresearch.co.uk/
A site for researching graphic design and interactive design.
http://www.crmpa.it/diogene/
DIOGENE is an EC funded project under the 5th Framework Programme - Information Society Technologies (contract IST-2001-33358). The main project objective is to design, implement and evaluate with real users an innovative training Web brokering environment for ICT individual training (but based upon a domain-independent platform).
Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering, and Science: DCABES2004
http://www.dcabes.org/
2004 International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering, and Science (DCABES2004) Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Sept 13th - 16th, 2004
http://www.dqi.org.uk/
The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) is an exciting new method for assessing the design quality of buildings.
http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/
A Blog on "Technologies for Learning, Thinking & Collaborating"
http://ejournal.coalliance.org/
'Mines' the titles (not the content) of free and peer reviewed e-journals.
http://authors.elsevier.com/
The Author Gateway provides you with all the information and services you need to submit your papers to an Elsevier journal and track their progress through to the published article.
Employers' Organisation for local government's: EO
http://www.lg-employers.gov.uk/
The Employers' Organisation for local government's (EO) role is to help councils achieve the high standards of people management needed to ensure the continuous improvement of services.
Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme for Water
http://www.eca-water.gov.uk/
This web site has been produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Inland Revenue, to provide information about the Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme for Water Technologies.
http://daedalus.lib.gla.ac.uk/
The ERPAePRINTS Service is an Open Archive set-up for the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) in conjunction with DAEDALUS to provide an ePrints preservation and access facility for the cultural and scientific heritage community.
Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_x4l
This is a snapshot website of X4L work in progress, one year on into the programme.
X4L has been motivated by the imperative to make the most of the considerable investment that has taken place in a range of content which has high potential value for use in learning. X4L is lead by 25 projects from across the UK and involves more than 100 institutions and teams from colleges, universities, libraries, JISC services, local authorities and commercial companies.
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer: FLC
http://www.federallabs.org/
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is the nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking the laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace.
http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/
A way to display RSS feeds on your web site.
http://www.file-reg.com/welcome.htm
"File-Reg is an international registration service for individuals and companies who wish to register and protect intellectual property, made up in any type of computer file. Registrations are made through the use of digital fingerprinting, digital certificates and time stamps."
Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching an Enriched Resource: FILTER
http://www.filter.ac.uk/
The Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching an Enriched Resource (FILTER) project aims to encourage and enable the use of digital images in learning and teaching in UK Further and Higher education.
Foundation for the Built Environment: FBE
http://www.fbe.co.uk/
FBE's mission is to champion excellence and innovation in the built environment. The FBE is a registered charity.
http://www.bre.co.uk/frs/
FRS, the fire division of BRE, is a world class fire research-based consultancy and testing company.
Funds for Historic Buildings: FFHB
http://www.ffhb.org.uk/
This website is a comprehensive guide to funding for anyone seeking to repair, restore or convert for a new use any historic building in England and Wales.
http://www.gemcatcher.com/
GEM is a priced service used to find scientific, technical and medical information.
GEM allows you to search scientific, technical and medical databases. These are produced by many different organisations and made available by a range of Service Providers.
http://www.gridforum.org/
"The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of 5000+ individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. GGF's primary objective is to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines."
http://www.globusworld.org/
GlobusWORLD 2004 will take place from January 20 - 23, 2004, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, California.
Government Office for the South East: GOSE
http://www.go-se.gov.uk/
The Government Office for the South East (GOSE) represents central government in the South East, particularly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; the Departments for Education and Skills; Trade and Industry; Transport; Culture, Media and Sport; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; the Home Office.
Grainger Engineering Library at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/
An Experimental OAI Registry.
http://www.grantsonline.org.uk/
"On this site we have the most extensive and up to date information on External Funding Opportunities. The site provides instant access to the latest information on grants from the European Union, UK Government, National Lottery and UK Grant Making Trusts."
Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware)
http://www.gridcomputing.com/
The Grid Computing Information Centre aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources.
http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/
A news site about Grid computing.
http://www.grid.org/home.htm
"Grid.org is a single destination site for large-scale research projects powered by the United Devices grid computing solution, Grid MP Global. With the participation of over 2 million devices worldwide, grid.org projects like Cancer Research, Anthrax Research, and the new Smallpox Research Project have achieved record levels of processing speed and success."
http://www.gridlab.org/
The GridLab project is funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme of the Information Society Technology, contract number IST-2001-32133.
The GridLab project will develop a easy-to-use, flexible, generic and modular Grid Application Toolkit (GAT), enabling todays applications to make innovative use of global computing resources.
Guild of Architectural Ironmongers
http://www.gai.org.uk/
The GAI was founded in 1961. It promotes standards in integrity and excellence in the business of Architectural Ironmongery, etc.
http://www.ifla.org/V/iflaj/ij-3-2003.pdf
The full text of Vol 29, No 3, 2003.
Institute for Traffic Care: ITC
http://itctraffic.com/
The ITC is associated with the United Nations.
Institution of Highways and Transportation
http://www.iht.org/
"a voice for the profession; best practice and technical excellence; bringing people and ideas together; training and professional competence."
Insulating Concrete Formwork Association
http://www.icfinfo.org.uk/
The Insulating Concrete Formwork Association has been formed to promote the use of ICF in the UK and provide a focal point for enquiries.
Integrated Information Solutions
http://www.thomsonwiladerwent.com/products/iis/
Integrated Information Solutions (IIS) is a business-critical service from Thomson Derwent, delivering customised patent and scientific workflow solutions. The tailored solutions we provide enable anyone in your organization to access, share and interpret key commercial and technical information from patents and scientific research literature.
International Learned Journals Seminar - Scholarship-Friendly Publishing
http://www.alpsp.org/events/s260304.htm
26 March 2004, One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ
http://www.intrallect.com/
A site if you are interested in a software system that:
improves the way you manage all your learning assets
improves the way your whole teaching environment works
helps you improve the quality of your teaching and learning.
Irish Nanotechnology Association
http://www.nanotechireland.com/
The Irish Nanotechnology Association was established in 2002 by Enterprise Ireland to encourage the development of nanomaterials and processes by Irish Industry.
http://www.libraryplanet.com/
News with a library focus.
http://www.maggiescentres.org/
Maggie's Centres are for anybody who has, or who has had cancer. They are also for their families, their friends and their carers.
The aim of Maggie's Centres is to help people with cancer to be as healthy in mind and body as possible and enable them to make their own contribution to their medical treatment and recovery.
http://matdata.net/index.jsp
"...the premium source of materials information on the web, from Granta Design Ltd."
http://www.mind-project.org/
"The key objective of the MIND project is to address the problems faced by users in terms of their ability to access and exploit the increasing number of Digital Libraries available internationally through networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). More specifically the objective is to design models and to build sets of tools and associated test-beds to improve the effectiveness of resource selection, multimedia information access, retrieval and fusion of the retrieved data. "
http://www.mooter.com/
A very interesting search engine. Worth looking at.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications: NCSA
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
"The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a leader in defining the future's high-performance computing infrastructure for scientists and for society."
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development: NCO/IT R&D
http://www.itrd.gov/
The purpose of this site is to provide information about the multiagency Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
http://www.nersc.gov/
"NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC provides high-performance computing tools and expertise that enable computational science of scale, in which large, interdisciplinary teams of scientists attack fundamental problems in science and engineering that require massive calculations and have broad scientific and economic impacts."
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
http://www.npaci.edu/
"The mission of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) is to advance science by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure: the Grid."
http://www.ichmt.org/upcoming-meetings/NATO-ASI/announce.html
This NATO Advanced Study Institute will be held during July 18-30, 2004, in Cesme, Izmir, Turkiye.
http://www.netnose.com/
"NetNose is the first search engine where people can determine what words should find web sites. People match web sites to search terms for accuracy creating a better search experience. Search results on NetNose are guaranteed to improve as more people like yourself utilize your common sense abilities."
http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html
Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506), the open access international peer-review scholar publication, was launched in April 2002. The journal is published by the editorial group and aims to provide worldwide leadership in advancing the knowledge of the neuroscience of fats and its application to health care.
http://www.nfais.org/
NFAIS represents an international cross-section of technology, publishing and information providers. It is a partnership of government, nonprofit and commercial organizations - all sharing a common mission of improved access to, and use of, information.
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
http://www.objectssearch.com/
"Objects Search aims to provide the users with best search results, free website submission and unbiased website ranking."
Online College Education Network
http://www.ocen.org/
Provides a guide to online college courses and schooling. Also discusses the importance of learning, and advice for pursuing distance education.
http://ontoweb.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/
A European Union founded project about Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce.
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
http://www.open-bio.org/
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
"With publication started in June 1948 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. According to UNESCO, it takes its place among the world top 10."
http://www.projectsigma.com/
Project SIGMA aims to provide clear, practical advice to organisations to help them make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development.
http://radio.userland.com/
"Radio is an easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Radio will automatically build your weblog, organize and archive your posts, and publish it to the Web in minutes."
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science - an electronic forum on science and resource management of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and the upstream watersheds - is a new online journal supported by the Bay-Delta Science Program, the San Francisco Bay-Delta Science Consortium, the University of California, Davis, and the John Muir Institute of the Environment.
http://www.santranslate.com/eng/newsletter/newsletter.htm
A newsletter from the specialist Chinese / English translation service.
Scholar's Portal: An International Perspective
http://staffweb.lib.uiowa.edu/lwoods/presentations/ifla/
Presentations from the IFLA Workshop August 7, 2003, Berlin.
http://www.scottisharchitecture.com/
A Hub relating for information relating to architecture and the built environment in Scotland.
http://www.scan.org.uk/
The Scottish Archive Network is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS). Our key aim is to open up Scotland's rich archival heritage to everyone.
Search the Web More Efficiently: Tips, Techniques and Strategies
http://www.web-design-in-new-york.com/search-the-web.html
A helpful article by Daniel Bazac that investigates some of the basic principles involved in searching the Web.
http://www.rlg.org/shelflife/
ShelfLife, a weekly executive news summary for information professionals worldwide, provides context for RLG's major initiatives. ShelfLife is published by RLG in collaboration with NewsScan, Inc.
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians
http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov03/plosker.shtml
An article by George R. Plosker, in Online.
http://www.ukuug.org/osa/
Applications are invited for the UKUUG Open Source Award 2004
This UK UNIX Users Group prize is awarded annually (if submissions of sufficient merit are received) for a significant contribution to free and open source software; this might be in the form of an article or paper, software product, or other contribution.
http://www.internationaleducationmedia.com/unitedkingdom/index.htm
A Guide to Universities Colleges and Schools in Britain.
Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited: USS
http://www.usshq.co.uk/
A pension scheme for university staff.
VALA2004 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition
http://www.vala.org.au/conf2004.htm
The VALA2004 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition is the Australian forum where the use of technology in libraries is discussed. It will feature invited overseas and Australian keynote speakers, plenary and concurrent sessions and an exhibition highlighting the latest products from leading suppliers.
Water FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.lenntech.com/Water-FAQ.htm
From Lenntech. An overview of frequently asked questions and answers on everything related to water presented in thirteen separate more specific water FAQ pages. Most FAQ pages have a beginners and a more advanced level. All pages have been translated into five languages.
http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Issues/issue4.html
WIDWISAWN provides an open forum for discussions on research and development initiatives relevant to the development of a coherent electronic information environment to support 'Virtual Scotland'.
http://www.wwt.uk.com/
"What is the working well together campaign all about? - Put bluntly, the health and safety record of the construction industry is bad. Every year thousands of construction workers are killed, injured or have their health damaged. The working well together campaign aims to stop the suffering."
http://www.wotbox.com/
"Wotbox is a new and independent Search Engine, and has been in development since October 2002.
Wotbox aims to become a market and technological leader with its new and innovative suite of experimental features that will change the way users search."
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.
OneStep Industry News
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/onestepnews/
OneStep Jobs
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/onestepjobs/
This is not exactly an impartial choice of Nice Web Site this month, as I have been involved in the development of both OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs.
Both of these new services from EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, take advantage of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to aggregate content, in the form of headlines, on a subject and resource-type basis.
If none of that means much to you, don't worry!
Simply stated, OneStep Industry News makes it much easier to scan the latest industry news headlines from a number of top sources such as trade publications and publishers, in engineering, mathematics and computing. Links from the headlines take you to the full story/item at the source web site.
In a similar way, OneStep Jobs makes it much easier to scan the latest job vacancies from a number of top sources, including recruitment agencies, in engineering, mathematics and computing. Links take you to the full job announcements at the source web site.
Both services are free, and both list only the latest news items or job announcements.
The default views intermingle items from the various sources, but subject clusters and individual feeds are also available. A basic search of the latest items is also available.
Roddy MacLeod
PRESS RELEASES
**** New ideas for teaching Internet Information Skills to students - from the RDN Virtual Training Suite ****
It is becoming increasingly hard to keep up with the ever-changing world of Internet information resources, and yet these resources have a vital role to play in higher and further education.
The RDN Virtual Training Suite offers 61 free Web - tutorials designed to help students to become more effective Internet users. A subject-focus enables students to learn Internet skills in a context that has relevance for them.
With support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the service has just released new resources designed to support lecturers, librarians and learning technologists interested in using these tutorials with their students.
More details are available from the full press release at: http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/press/vts/
For additional information please contact: Emma Place
emma.place@bristol.ac.uk
NETWORK NEWS
- Athens News
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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
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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
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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
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The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at:
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html
- The SOSIG Law Gateway has won the 2003 best Website prize awarded by the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL). The award was announced at the IALL 22nd Annual Course on International Law Librarianship in Cape Town this Autumn, where the site was described as: "A model of a subject gateway where the quality of the resources is evaluated and with great reliability and relevance within the legal field. The site is very user-friendly with search and browse facilities for both the professional user and the end-user"
- EDINA Newsline
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The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at:
- http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/
- CHEST News
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at:
http://ahds.ac.uk/newsletters.htm
JSICmail provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm
- UK Data Archive news
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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
658.05 CAW
Internet technology and e-commerce
by Alison Cawsey and Rick Dewar
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.
BlogStreet's Most Influential Blogs
http://www.blogstreet.com/biq100.html
An annotated bibliography on weblogs & blogging
http://blogbib.blogspot.com/
Weblogs Compendium
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/
Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services
by Darlene Fichter
http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml
What Is RSS, and Why Should You Care?
by Amy Gahran
http://www.marketingprofs.com/3/gahran1.asp
Bloglines Search Feeds.
http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#29
You can now subscribe to a search
Selected interesting blog's
blogwithoutalibrary.net
http://www.etches-johnson.com/nolibrary/
What libraries are doing with blogs
Edinburgh Student Newspaper
http://www.studentnewspaper.org/index.php
This RSS feed can be viewed via Bloglines, or other feedreaders.
Business Intelligence Resources
http://www.biresources.info/
LibraryPlanet.com
http://www.libraryplanet.com/
EdTechPost
http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/
A Blog on "Technologies for Learning, Thinking & Collaborating"
BOOK REVIEW
Review of:
Engineering and IT Graduate: 2004 entry
Trait Education, Logan House, 110 Church Road, Tiptree, CO5 0AB
ISBN: 0954132998
Free for distribution to final-year undergraduate students, and
also available at: http://www.thecoursesource.co.uk
price where sold £9.99
This is a nicely sized, handy publication for students in a final year of Engineering and IT courses, or those considering study in the area. It's produced by thecoursesource, (an excellent website if you haven't seen it) which is part of the National Grid for learning. While the web site has details of all institutions and courses across the UK, this printed version restricts itself to the post-graduate Engineering and IT field, making the information easily manageable and digestible.
The book is split into sections. The first part gives information on doing post-graduates including why to do it; costs; and details of funding and support. Then there is a page for each professional body giving details about them. This is followed by the details of course opportunities, announcements and listings.
If you're a final year undergraduate, or considering
going back to do post-graduate study, this book is well worth a look.
For final year students it's free and should be being distributed
around universities about now! It's also available PDF - along with
a few other subject specific guides - through the web site above.
Cath ferguson
GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
Twisted Nerve
http://www.twistednerve.com/
Trash
http://www.trashclub.co.uk/
SkateboardDirectory.com
http://skateboarddirectory.com/
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