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Heriot-Watt University Library

Issue 113 - February 2004

Edited by: Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk), Catherine Ure and Catherine Ferguson.

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Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS

Over 20,000 people now subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter. Very many thanks go to Willco who distribute the email version. To subscribe, at no cost, go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

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Willco have a new initiative called VIP http://www.vivavip.com/ VIP is a monthly publication focussing on business information products and information people. Well worth investigation.

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Text version

A text only version of the Internet Resources Newsletter is available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl/0304/www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

Robot can browse for books in library via Internet
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=280463
From Japan Today

W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee to be Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
Web Inventor recognized for contributions to Internet development
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/timbl_knighted
From W3C

House of Commons to investigate scientific publications
The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons is to conduct an enquiry into STM. It will look at access to journals for researchers and the impact of the e-publishing trend. The committee is inviting written comments on key points by the 12th February.
http://www.biblio-tech.com/uksg/SI_PD.cfm?AC=9264&PID=10&ZID=1024
From UKSG Serials-eNews

IEEE Releases One Millionth Online Technology Document
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) released its one-millionth online technical document to researchers this week.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2327
From Managing Information

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts via CSA
Researchers investigating earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation will soon be able to access Earthquake Engineering Abstracts through the Internet Database Service (IDS) from CSA.
http://www.biblio-tech.com/uksg/SI_PD.cfm?AC=0463&PID=10&ZID=1044
From UKSG Serials-eNews

GeoScienceWorld - a new world of Earth science publishing opens up
Six leading Earth science societies and one institute have agreed to develop cooperatively an electronic research resource unprecedented in the Earth sciences
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=GSW93845738495

Libraries embrace digital age
The internet has transformed what libraries have to offer. SA Mathieson finds out how they plan to go virtual
The Guardian. Wednesday January 28, 2004
http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,13927,1132475,00.html

Ingenta Launches Unified Alerting Service
Ingenta has launched a unified alerting service which searches and delivers alerts across all of the content available, including 6,100 electronic full-text and 20,000 fax and Ariel formatted titles.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2294
From Managing Information

Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals
by Barbara Quint
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031229-1.shtml
From Information Today

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

2RSS.com

http://www.2rss.com/

RSS feeds, RSS directory, RSS software, RSS scripts, RSS articles, RSS syndication, XML, RDF, news and more.

4th European Conference on e-Government: ECEG 2004

http://www.academic-conferences.org/eceg2004/eceg2004-call-papers.htm

Trinity College Dublin on June 17-18, 2004. Call for papers.

A Promotion Guide

http://www.apromotionguide.com/

Includes a website promotion tutorial.

Actium Consult

http://www.actiumconsult.co.uk/

"Actium Consult is an independent property consulting practice, which works with organisations to find innovative property, workplace and people solutions. We address the total picture of both property and people. We have expertise in hard factors such as cost, location and layout and also soft factors such as culture, coaching and change."

Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture: ACDM 2004

http://www.ad-comtech.co.uk/ACDM2004.htm

April 20th - 22nd, 2004 at Engineers House, Clifton, Bristol, UK.

Adiuri Systems Ltd

http://www.adiuri.com/

Adiuri Systems Ltd was formed in 2002 to commercially develop the research work carried out by the Universities of Bath and Bristol as part of the IDEA (Information for Design Engineering in Aerospace) project.

AllDiscountBooks.net

http://www.alldiscountbooks.net/home.jsp

"Our book price search covers 51 bookstores / book marketplaces worldwide, compare book prices for both new and used books, and find the lowest book price for you."

Alternative Technology Centre

http://www.alternativetechnology.org.uk/

The ATC is based at Hebden Bridge.

American Dialect Society

http://www.americandialect.org/

Founded more than a century ago, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it.

Applied Mathematics E-Notes

http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/EMIS/journals/AMEN/index.html

An International Electronic Journal of Mathematics.

ARKive

http://www.arkive.org/

"ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust.

It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - the world's centralised digital library of films, photographs and associated recordings of species, accessible to all via the world wide web."

Arnold Journals

http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/journals/

Arnold publishes journals in the following subject areas: Engineering; Geography/Environmental Science; History; Interdisciplinary; Linguistics; Psychology; Medicine; Nursing; Statistics.

artessimo.com

http://www.artessimo.com/

artessimo.com is the Internet portal for people with book rights on offer and those interested in them to get in direct contact with each other.

Asbestos Information Centre

http://www.aic.org.uk/

The Asbestos Information Centre (AIC) is an independent organisation that provides advice to the general public and others on managing asbestos containing products in buildings to keep the fibre release to the minimum.

Association of Management Consulting Firms

http://www.amcf.org/

"The mission of AMCF is to be the collective voice and promote knowledge exchange and professional standards for the community of management consulting firms from around the world with a focus on North American markets."

Awareness Watch

http://www.awarenesswatch.com/

Produced by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Awareness Watch Newsletter is a brand new monthly publication (inauguration issue December 2003) that will highlight the latest resources and sites on the Internet that pertain to current awareness happenings and alerts.

Ay-Up

http://www.ay-up.com/

"We are a new search engine based in Vancouver, we are working on Geo Sync Search and Search Personalization Technology."

Balsa

http://edina.ac.uk/balsa/

Balsa is the user interface developed as part of the (significantly less pronounceable) ZBLSA project, to develop an OpenURL resolver for the UK Higher and Further Education and research communities.

Bentham Science Publishers

http://www.bentham.org/

Publishers of biomedical and pharmaceutical titles.

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing: BOINC

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources.

Big List of Blog Search Engines

http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html

A useful list.

Blizg

http://blizg.com/

"Blizg is a blog index that focuses on metadata. We want to promote the use of metadata in the blogging community. We're also excited about finding new ways to use metadata that will create useful connections between and among blogs. "

BlogPulse

http://www.blogpulse.com/

Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs.

Brick Development Association: BDA

http://www.brick.org.uk/

The Brick Development Association (BDA) represents the interests of UK and Irish manufacturers of clay bricks and pavers. It is the voice of the industry with a membership which makes up well over 80% of the UK and Ireland's total brick making capacity.

British Universities Film & Video Council News Online

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

The latest news from BUFVC.

Broadband for Scotland

http://www.broadbandforscotland.co.uk/

Broadband for Scotland, a joint initiative by the Scottish Executive, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, aims to provide independent and impartial advice to allow the people of Scotland to make an informed choice and benefit from broadband.

Career Craft

http://www.careercraft.co.uk/

Free sources and discussion for job seekers.

Carillion

http://www.carillionplc.com/

A leading provider of integrated business and construction services.

Chartered Institution of Wastes Management: CIWM

http://www.ciwm.co.uk/

"The leading professional body for waste management with over 5,500 professional members"

CLAUD: librarians in HE networking to improve access for disabled users

http://www.bris.ac.uk/claud/welcome.html

"Librarians in higher education working to improve library access for disabled users in the south and south-west of England."

Combechem

http://www.combechem.org/

The Combechem project is one of the UK's national e-science projects. The project is working on Grid-enabled combinatorial chemistry, concentrating on crystallography and laser and surface chemistry. Another major component of the project is the development of an e-Lab, using pervasive computing technology to record detailed information on all aspects of laboratory work.

Copyright Directive - implementation in the UK

http://www.cilip.org.uk/committees/laca/directive.html

"In order to assist staff in museums and galleries, libraries, archives and information services concerning the changes to UK copyright law which took effect on 31st October 2003, LACA: the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance and The Museums Copyright Group (MCG) have, with financial assistance from Resource: the Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives, jointly commissioned a briefing note from Graham Cornish."

Deep Content: Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet

http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontent/tutorials/search/index.asp

Described by the Internet Scout Project: "This outstanding website is, without question, one of the most comprehensive online resources for learning efficient Internet search techniques."

Dekker Foundation

http://www.dekkerfoundation.org/

"The Dekker Foundation is committed to creating a more cooperative society through education. Since 1997, we have provided grants to promote educational programs, raise awareness of social issues, and foster a larger sense of community among people of different backgrounds and beliefs."

Dermatology Online

http://www.dermtext.com/

"In addition to encyclopedic information on every area of the field, you'll find ongoing content updates, a complete library of easily downloadable electronic images, specialty news, links to key society web sites, systemic drug questionnaires, self-assessment tests, and much more."

Design Science

http://www.dessci.com/en/

Design Science has tailored software solutions to the needs of authors, publishers, educators, engineers, and scientists. Products include MathType and MathPlayer.

Dictionary.co.uk

http://www.dictionary.co.uk/

Dictionary.co.uk is a free online english dictionary which offers a search which returns word, and phrase definitions from a variety of dictionary tables.

Digital Document Quarterly: Perspectives on Trustworthy Information

http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_2_4.htm

Volume 2, Number 4, 4Q2003 is now available.

Disability Rights Commission: DRC

http://www.drc-gb.org/

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body, established by Act of Parliament to eliminate discrimination against disabled people and promote equality of opportunity.

DiscountTextbooks.com

http://www.discounttextbooks.net/home.jsp

"We search major half price, deep discount bookstores / book marketplaces worldwide, compare book prices for both new and used books, and find the lowest book price for you! We also do coupon searching, auto calculating tax and shipping cost. "

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december03/12contents.html

The December 2003 issue is available.

eBank UK

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/

This new initiative is set in the context of the JISC Information Environment, JISC funded development supporting end-users to discover, access, use and publish resources as part of their teaching, learning and research activities. The eBank UK pilot service will demonstrate linking of research data with other derived information.

ECOLEX

http://www.ecolex.org/index.php

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.

e-ENGDET 2004 4th international conference on e-engineering & digital enterprise technology

http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/ies/e-ENGDET2004

01 - 03 September 2004 Leeds Metropolitan University Yorkshire, UK.

The conference aims to provide a forum for engineers from industry and academia to meet and exchange information on all aspects of engineering and management.

Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide

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

"This Resource guide is an introduction to the rapidly growing field of electronic journals....Likely readers of this guide will include library staff who are involved in the selection, management, and distribution of electronic journals; systems staff who are involved in providing access to them; managers who are making electronic journals available in their libraries; and publishers, vendors and distributors of electronic journals."

English Partnerships

http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/

English Partnerships is the national regeneration agency, supporting high quality sustainable growth across the country. We are a key delivery agency for the urban renaissance and the government's new Sustainable Communities agenda. This means working in partnership to help make England a better place to live.

Environmental Transport Association: ETA

http://www.eta.co.uk/

We are trying to address what can be done to reverse the congestion and pollution trends and we campaign and lobby government directly on these issues.

ePrints UK Workshops

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

The ePrints UK project is running 5 free workshops around the country. These workshops are aimed at HE/FE librarians and information systems staff and will be a very general introduction to the issues involved in setting up institutional repositories.

eurekster

http://www.eurekster.com/

eurekster is a search engine with personalized results.

European Federation of Quality Management: EFQM

http://www.efqm.org/

Based in Brussels, with members and valued National Partner Organisations (NPOs) in every important European region, EFQM helps European businesses make better products and deliver improved services through the effective use of leading edge management practices.

ExpoWorld Tradeshows Worldwide Directory 2004

http://www.expoworld.net/tradeshowdirectory.asp

ExpoWorld.net announces the annual publication of the ExpoWorld Tradeshows Worldwide Directory in its 20th annual edition for 2004. The directory is the most complete international tradeshow directory worldwide with over 1700 content rich pages full of tradeshow listings and pure functional data.

FaberMaunsell

http://www.fabermaunsell.com/

"FaberMaunsell is an international, award-winning multi-disciplinary consultancy with a reputation for quality, innovation and value. We deliver a comprehensive range of building engineering, transportation and environmental services, through a network of 27 office locations across the UK and Europe. We have turnover in excess of £104m and employ nearly 1900 people."

FARNE

http://www.folknortheast.com

Home of Northumbrian music online.

File Recovery Guide

http://www.filerecovery.org/

Discusses file recovery and information on breakdowns, head crashes, data back ups, and formatting.

Forum for the Future

http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/

"At Forum for the Future, sustainable development is what we do.

In fact, everything we do is done to accelerate the building of a more sustainable way of life."

Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry

http://www.chemistry.bsu.by/abc/current/fulltext.htm

Lists of permanently and temporarily available free full-text journals in chemistry, biochemistry and related subjects. Updates and additions twice a month.

Free Pint VIP

http://www.vivavip.com/

"VIP is a monthly publication focussing on information products and information people.

VIP will be available by paid subscription and include product reviews and comparisons, interviews with senior information industry figures and monitoring of research to identify future trends."

Girvan Online

http://www.girvan-online.net/

This website was put in place to help promote Girvan and the surrounding areas that lie within the KA26 postal region of South Carrick.

Glasgow Science Centre

http://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/

Glasgow Science Centre is concerned with the resurrection of Scotland's proud spirit of innovation and creativity through the establishment of a scientifically aware and technologically capable society as the foundation for renewed and sustainable social, economic and cultural prosperity.

Global Resources for Forest Information

http://www.freepint.com/issues/220104.htm#feature

An article in Free Pint by Roger Mills.

Goldmine Design and Optimisation

http://www.goldminedesign.co.uk/

Goldmine Design are a UK based web design and search engine optimisation company. Services include submissions, link building, internet marketing and pay-per-click campaigns. Services offered free to charities.

Green Building Press

http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/

"The Green Building Press publishes information that will help you make your buildings kinder to the environment, more sustainable, more aesthetically pleasing and more healthy than ever before and what's more you'll have great fun doing it."

Green Building Store

http://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/

The Green Building Store is wholly owned and run by Environmental Construction Products Ltd, a company which has specialised in environmentally sensitive building products since 1995. The company is committed to products which promote energy efficient, sustainable and healthy buildings.

Halcrow

http://www.halcrow.com/

"Halcrow is an independent provider of infrastructure-based business solutions. Specialising in the transport, water and property sectors, we offer professional consultancy resources for the planning, design and supervision of development on a global basis"

Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection

http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm

Oak Ridge Associated Universities' Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection contains more than 1,000 objects.

HiddenGlasgow

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/

The concept: to expose the secret and hidden side of Glasgow through photographs, maps and images.

HotScripts.com

http://www.hotscripts.com/

"The net's largest PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript and ASP script collection and resource web portal."

Housing Potential UK

http://www.housingpotential.com/

"Housing Potential was established in 1999 as Key Potential UK (the National Training Organisation for the Housing Sector in statutory, voluntary and private sectors). The founding sponsoring members were National Housing Federation, Chartered Institute of Housing, Local Government Association, and Scottish Confederation of Local Authorities."

i-documentsystems

http://www.i-documentsystems.com/iii/index.htm

The Planning Exchange is now part of i-documentsystems.

i-documentsystems group plc is an innovative e- government solutions provider selling software, information and managed services to local government, central government and associated public and private organisations.

i-expo

http://www.spat.fr/i-expo/anglais/angaccueil.html

i-expo, the trade fair for digital IT professionals will be held on June 17th and 19th 2003 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.

Information as a Strategic Resource

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=events_info_strat

JISC Consultation Workshop. Thursday 22 April 2004 - Belfast Castle, Belfast; Wednesday 28 April 2004 - Royal Horticultural Hall, London.

Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Bath

http://www.bath.ac.uk/imrc/

The main objective of the Bath IMRC is to conduct high quality research into the design, manufacture and management of processes, machines and systems with a particular emphasis on responsiveness and agility.

Institute of Field Archaeologists

http://www.archaeologists.net/

The Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA) is the professional organisation for archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It promotes professional standards and ethics for conserving, managing, understanding and promoting enjoyment of the heritage.

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/

The eighth Institutional Web Management Workshop will be held at the University of Birmingham on 27-29 July 2004.

Interbuild

http://www.interbuild.com/

25-29 April, 2004. NEC, Birmingham. "Interbuild is the construction industry's biggest event."

International Institute for Sustainable Development: IISD

http://www.iisd.org/

The International Institute for Sustainable Development advances policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable.

JISC Conference 2004

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

23 March 2004, International Convention Centre, Birmingham.

JISC/CNI 2004 - Conference

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2004/

The Fifth JISC/CNI Meeting to be held at the De Vere Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK on 8-9 July 2004.

knowledge-finder.com

http://www.knowledge-finder.com/

"We search the internet for knowledge and add all interesting knowledge that we can find, of course always with the permission of the owners of the articles. Besides searching for it our selves we invite you to submit knowledge to us. This can be in the form of an article, but if you have some more sophisticated presentation of your knowledge, email us and we will add your document." The goal is to have over 1,000 articles online by the end of this year.

Library + information Show 2004

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

Resources Exhibitions and Imark Communications have created one definitive exhibition for the UK library and information market, 'The Library + information Show incorporating Total Library Solutions'

Local Identity - Global Awareness: Engineering Education Today

http://www.eif.ch/symposium04/

IGIP/IEEE/ASEE International symposium. 27th September - 1st October 2004 Fribourg, Switzerland

Macmillan Cancer Directory

http://www.hfht.org/macmillan/

Directory of information materials for people with cancer 2002/2003.

MIT Technology Insider

http://www.technologyinsider.com/

A free sample issue is available.

Moving Here

http://www.movinghere.org.uk/

Moving Here is the biggest database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.

MSDSonline

http://www.msdsonline.com/

"MSDSonline is the leading online database Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), which contains more than 1.2 million indexed and searchable MSDS documents. What's more we continuously build new content on our site, adding up to 10,000 new MSDSs each month. While our services are in the for-profit sector, we do allow users unlimited FREE searching of our database and limited access to FREE MSDSs."

Muslim Health Network

http://www.muslimhealthnetwork.org/

The Muslim Health Network has been established to play a principle role in promoting, preserving, and protecting health and health education amongst Muslim Communities in the UK.

myFeedster, a Web-based RSS aggregator.

http://www.feedster.com/register.php

An RSS web based aggregator.

National Library of Scotland: Strategy Consultation

http://www.nls.uk/professional/policy/strategy.html

The National Library of Scotland has published a new draft strategy for public consultation.

Breaking through the walls looks at issues such as how the Library should widen access to the collections, and the challenges posed by developing technology and electronic publications.

Net Semiology

http://www.netsemiology.com/english%20version/Default.htm

A new web site which helps you learn how to communicate through the Internet. It is available in Italian and English versions.

OfficeVenue

http://www.officevenue.com/

OfficeVenue is an innovative business solution which helps organisations operate as 'Virtual Companies' run by a flexible and mobile workforce. Companies can operate with a distributed workforce and, in some cases, without the need for dedicated offices.

OpenURL router

http://openurl.ac.uk/doc

The OpenURL Router is sponsored by the JISC and administered by EDINA in association with UKOLN. The Router is provided to all HE and FE institutions in the UK, with the aim of:

Helping institutions with OpenURL Resolvers to establish OpenURL links from a wider range of services.

Enabling providers of OpenURL aware services to link to the appropriate OpenURL Resolver for each of their end users.

Extending the range of services in which OpenURL links can usefully be deployed.

Optics.net

http://www.optics.net/

Optics.net features 10000 links to technical resources, forums and a buyer's guide. This site will help the R&D community in the fields of optics, photonics, optoelectronics, lighting...

Papers written by Googlers

http://labs.google.com/papers.html

A partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering.

Planning in London

http://www.planninginlondon.com/

Planning in London is the journal of the London Planning & Development Forum.

Planning Service

http://www.planningni.gov.uk/

Planning Service is an Executive Agency within the Department of the Environment. The Agency employs some 630 staff, 380 of which are Professional and Technology Officers and 250 are Administrative Support staff.

portal: Libraries and the Academy

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/

A journal that presents research findings and provides regular coverage of issues in technology, publishing, and periodicals, portal is written by librarians for librarians.

Professional Associations Research Network: PARN

http://www.parn.org.uk/

PARN is a non-political membership organisation set up to undertake research and provide networking opportunities for professional associations and their regulatory bodies. It has over 110 members in Great Britain and Ireland.

Publishing Training Centre

http://www.train4publishing.co.uk/

"For more than twenty years, The Publishing Training Centre at Book House has provided cost-effective and high quality training for publishers in the UK and overseas. Previously known as Book House Training Centre, it is an educational charity dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in publishing. "

Resumes2Work

http://www.resumes2work.com/

"We are a recruiting firm. Delta Management Systems/Systems Support Consultants, Inc. has been in the recruiting business for more than 25 years. Our focus was on Information technology and we have placed candidates all over the country, including Alaska, Hawaii, California and Florida."

Robert Burns Tribute

http://www.rabbie-burns.com/index.cfm

Robert Burns is Scotland's best-loved bard and Burns Suppers have been held in his honour for over 200 years. This site gives you a guide to Robert Burns the man, his poems, his travels, haggis, whisky and much more.

RoutledgeFalmer

http://www.routledgefalmer.com/

Part of the Taylor & Francis Group, and publishers of books and journals on all aspects of education.

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama: Information Services

http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/library/

The Whittaker Library contains comprehensive collections of learning materials for music and drama to support Academy staff and students and is open to the public for reference purposes.

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

http://www.rospa.com/

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is a registered charity which was established over 80 years ago. Providing information, advice, resources and training, RoSPA is actively involved in the promotion of safety in all areas of life - at work, in the home, and on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on or near water.

Safety in Design: SiD

http://www.safetyindesign.org/

A community of designers who have demonstrated their knowledge or competence at industry prescribed and accredited levels.

SAIL-eprints

http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/

SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link) is an electronic open access service provider for finding scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography, Agricolture, and related application activities.

SalesExecWork

http://salesexecwork.com/

Specialist sales jobs.

Scottish Documents

http://www.scottishdocuments.com/

"We offer free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901."

Scottish Screen

http://www.scottishscreen.com/

Scottish Screen develops, encourages and promotes every aspect of film, television and new media in Scotland. Working with the Scottish Executive, our mission is to establish Scotland as a major screen production centre and project our culture to the world.

Scottish Technologists and Scientists

http://www.iee.org/TheIEE/Locations/SEC/Famous/

Brief details of hundreds of famous Scots.

Scottish Technology & Collaboration: STAC

http://www.thestac.org.uk/

Stac connects companies to new global markets. It encourages innovation through collaboration - building great, cost effective solutions for the market.

screenonline

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/

screenonline brings to life Britain's big and small screen histories from the 1890s to the present.

Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the property services, housing, cleaning and facilities management sectors.

http://www.phfms.org/

This website is about a "...proposal to establish an entirely new, employer-led Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the property services, housing, cleaning and and facilities management sectors. The SSC, with a special government licence and substantial public funding, will take forward a unified skills agenda to address the factor most critical to our collective success - having the right workforce skills, now and in the future."

Securities Institute

http://www.securities-institute.org.uk/

"The Securities Institute is the largest and most widely respected professional body for those who work in the securities and investment industry in the UK."

Social Work in Germany

http://www.socialwork.de/

This page gives you an overview of Social Work in Germany. There are different categories like Universities, Magazines or Web Portals. To each entry you will find a short description, the email address and an URL. With this information you should be able to get the information you are looking for.

Society for Computers and Law

http://www.scl.org/

The Society for Computers and Law is the leading UK organisation for the encouragement and development of law related IT and IT related law.

SourceOECD

http://new.sourceoecd.org/

The OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.

This service has been relaunched. OECD's books from 1998 onwards are available in full text, some 1,500 titles, together with 19 journals and more than 40 interactive statistical databases.

SourceOECD was launched originally in 2000. During 2003, it delivered 90,000 e-books, 40,000 e-articles and more than 100,000 statistical tables to users at subscribing institutions.

South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive

http://www.salidaa.org.uk/salidaa/

The SALIDAA digital archive covers South Asian literature, art, theatre, dance and music in England and features collections of materials by individual artists and organisations.

SpeCC

http://www.specc.co.uk/

Certification Requirements for Specialist Concrete Contractors

"The Registration Scheme was created with a view to providing a mechanism for specialist contractors, whose activities include the construction of concrete frames, to demonstrate a commitment to their clients that concrete structures, constructed by Registered Contractors, will fulfil their requirements and be constructed in an open and co-operative manner."

StudyStay.com

http://www.studystay.com/

A UK Study guide, with information on every aspect of student life in the UK.

Sustainable Energy Ireland: SIE

http://www.sei.ie/

Sustainable Energy Ireland is Ireland's national energy authority. The Authority promotes and assists environmentally and economically sustainable production, supply and use of energy, in support of Government policy, across all sectors of the economy.

Technology Innovation Centre: tic

http://www.tic-online.com/

The tic is a faculty of the University of Central England and a national centre of excellence for learning, innovation and technology transfer.

The Informed Librarian Online: Refer a colleague

http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilorefer.cfm

This month is "refer a colleague" month at The Informed Librarian Online. I have found The Informed Librarian Online to be an extremely useful service.

The Work Foundation

http://www.theworkfoundation.com/

"The Work Foundation (formerly The Industrial Society), is a charity with an 85-year-long history. Our purpose is to work with employers to improve the productivity and quality of working life in the UK. Our research, campaigning activity and consultancy work are all geared towards this aim. "

Today in Literature

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Today in Literature features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history.

Topix.net

http://www.topix.net/

Pick your topic, and get the news.

Transport 2000

http://www.transport2000.org.uk/

Transport 2000 is the independent national body concerned with sustainable transport. It looks for answers to transport problems and aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by encouraging less use of cars and more use of public transport, walking and cycling.

TRIZ Journal

http://www.triz-journal.com/

"TIPS" is the acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving," and "TRIZ" is the acronym for the same phrase in Russian. TRIZ was developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues in the former USSR starting in 1946, and is now being developed and practiced throughout the world.

UCISA Management Conference & Exhibition

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/2004/conference/

G-Mex, Manchester International Convention Centre, Wednesday 17 to Friday 19 March 2004. The Conference is aimed at senior staff with a responsibility for the strategic planning of information and computing services.

War Times Journal Portal

http://www.wtj.com/portal/

The Portal link list is an on-line military resource for researchers, hobbyists, military professionals and all others with an interest in military history, science and defense.

Waste Online

http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/

The Waste Online website is produced by Waste Watch, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), and the National Waste Awareness Initiative (NWAI) and has been funded by the New Opportunities Fund Digitise project.

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NICE WEB SITE

In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will 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.

Big List of Blog Search Engines
http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html

This isn't the nicest web site in this month's Internet Resources Newsletter, but I am currently interested in RSS and blogs, and I found it to be a very useful list of blog search engines directories, and web-based RSS aggregators

Roddy MacLeod

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PRESS RELEASES

**** New version of KnowUK ****

Cambridge, United Kingdom - January 12, 2004 - Following extensive market research and customer feedback KnowUK has been updated and is re-launched.

KnowUK is a unique online service developed to provide libraries with a complete collection of current, useful and UK specific reference information. KnowUK is the first place to search as it contains over 100 of the UK's most used reference publications. Key publications available include British Archives, The Educational Grants Directory; Good Food Guide; The Good Schools Guide; The Law Society Directory of Solicitors; selected Which? Guides and Whitaker's Almanack.

A refreshed, more dynamic resource provides users with easy retrieval of the information they need. Key features of the new KnowUK include:
· Browsable publications via Table of Contents
· A new Life Events section
· 15 precise categories to enable the user to limit searches by category
· Option to e-mail directly from the site or use a printer friendly option
· Automatic spell checker on search terms

Since its launch in 1998 KnowUK has more than quadrupled its content and continues to grow and develop to suit the needs of its millions of library users throughout the UK.

For further information or a free trial please visit http://www.knowuk.co.uk or e-mail marketing@proquest.co.uk

**** Collins and xrefer form partnership to aid language learning in schools and at home ****

Collins publishers and xrefer are pleased to announce that six Collins bilingual dictionaries - French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin and Portuguese - are now available online in fully searchable format in the xreferplus reference service.

The inclusion of the Collins bilingual dictionaries in xrefer's online reference library means that a large proportion of the UK population - 30% in fact- will now have access to these dictionaries online 24/7 at home as well as in the library. With around a third of all UK public libraries and a growing number of colleges and schools subscribing to xreferplus, this collaboration will ensure that all language students and researchers will be able to get access to the full content of the Collins bilingual dictionaries to help them with their studies whenever and wherever they need to.

xrefer: http://www.xrefer.com/

For further information contact: becky.fishman@xrefer.com

**** Bringing Online Resources to Faculty Finger Tips ****

Sentient Learning and MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching) have formed a partnership to provide educational institutions with the ability to search high quality online learning objects within Sentient DISCOVER v2.0.

Sentient DISCOVER v2.0 will enable faculty members to embed traditional and electronic learning resources within their resource lists, which eases the transition towards e-learning. Through its architecture, the learning resource management system - Sentient DISCOVER allows faculty members to search multiple resource databases and easily embed links to such resources within the lists. In recognising the value of MERLOT resources, Sentient Learning has integrated MERLOT with Sentient DISCOVER v2.0.

MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org) is an international cooperative that collects and makes freely available high-quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education. With a constantly growing collection of over 9,000 online teaching-learning materials and a directory of over 17,000 individual members, faculty can find both curricular and human resources to aid their use of technology in teaching and learning. Sentient DISCOVER 2.0 will enable MERLOT to bring its resources to where many faculty are composing their online courses - in course management systems such as WebCT and Blackboard. Sentient DISCOVER 2.0 will also enable faculty to conduct "one-stop shopping" for library, publisher, and MERLOT materials that students will need for their online education.

For additional information please contact:
Ceri McCall [Marketing Manager] Gerard Hanley [Executive Director]
Sentient Learning MERLOT
ceri.mccall@sentientlearning.com ghanley@merlot.edu
www.sentientlearning.com www.merlot.org

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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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Recent Arrivals

001.645 MAC
What is Web design
by Nico Macdonals
RotoVision, 2003

005.72 SHK
Web application architecture
by Leon Shklar and Richard Rosen
Wiley, 2003

005.276 BAT
Web programming
by Chris Bates
Wiley, 2002

005.726 KNO
Web design with XML
by Manfred Knobloch and Matthias Kopp
Wiley, 2001

025.6 DUP
Developing web-based instruction
edited by Elizabeth A Dupuis
facet, 2003

658.05 STR
Foundations of net-enhanced organizations
by Richard T Watson
Wiley, 2004

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

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BLOGORAMA

News about weblogs, RSS, 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.

How many weblogs are there in the UK?
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/12/how_many_weblogs_are_there_in_the_uk.shtml
An article in - plasticbag.org - a weblog by Tom Coates, who works in London on social software, weblogs and personal publishing on the web.

Blizg
http://blizg.com/
A blog index that focuses on metadata.

An introduction to blogs
Compiled by Martin White
http://www.ukolug.org.uk/content/public/factsheets/blogs.html

myFeedster, a Web-based RSS aggregator.
http://www.feedster.com/register.php
"It provides an easy to use online aggregator for reading your feeds. myFeedster provides searching of only your feeds, feed import and export (OPML), support for dynamic feeds based on searches, one click subscribe from the Feedster search page and more. Signing up for myFeedster also gives you access to other great features like Feedster keys which enable full content feeds."

BlogPulse
http://www.blogpulse.com/
Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs

Four new RSS Channels for Learning Material additions to EEVL
for details see: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/pressrelease/pressrellearningrss.htm
These RSS channels will allow those interested in learning materials to monitor the latest resources being added to EEVL's Internet Resource Catalogue.

Newsfeeds made easy by JISC and Publishers. What? How? Where? All revealed here
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=rss_explained_and_delivered_news_281103
An short article about RSS.

Big List of Blog Search Engines
http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html
Ari Paparo has listed a number of blog search engines.

RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory
http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.php

Feedroll
http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/
Select an RSS feed and customize it to match the look and feel of your site...then copy and paste the code.

PR Newswire's RSS (RDF Site Summary) Feed
http://www.prnewswire.com/news/aboutrss/rss.shtml

10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time
http://www.dylangreene.com/blog.asp?blogID=363
An interesting article giving some pitfalls of RSS.

Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds

Consumer updates via RSS, from Consumer Reports
http://www.consumersunion.org/index.xml

Pointblog.com
http://www.pointblog.com/
Toute l'actualite des blogs

Folk Archive Resource North East: FARNE
http://www.farneweblog.com/

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/

Google Weblog
http://google.blogspace.com/

LibrarianInBlack.net
http://www.librarianinblack.net/
Tech Librarian blog

Librarians' Index to the Internet RSS feed:
http://lii.org/ntw.rss

2RSS.com
http://www.2rss.com/
RSS feeds, RSS directory, RSS software, RSS scripts, RSS articles, RSS syndication, XML, RDF, news and more.

 

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BOOK REVIEW

Review of: Digitizing Collections: Strategic issues for the information manager
Lorna M. Hughes
Facet Publishing (digital futures series)
1-85604-466-1
£39.95 (£31.96 to CILIP Members)

The first quotation in this book very adequately sums up digitisation:

"The conversion of all sorts of cultural contents into bits and bytes opens up a completely new dimension of reaching traditional and new audiences by providing access to cultural heritage resources in ways unimaginable a decade ago"

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APPRECIATION

Steve Mwiyeriwa

I was very saddened to hear of the passing, in October, of Steve Mwiyeriwa, the long serving University of Malawi Librarian, with whom I worked for two years in Zomba in the mid 80s. Steve was an inspiring boss, who knew how to get the most out of his staff.

I remember clearly the first time I met him. Soon after arriving in Zomba I was invited to Steve's house for dinner, along with two other senior members of the library staff. I was expecting a formal meal and dressed accordingly, and for some reason I was quite anxious about keeping to the correct protocols. On arrival, Steve bounced into the room dressed in an Arsenal t-shirt and baseball hat, welcomed everyone and offered them a beer, and it immediately became obvious that here was someone who was immensely approachable and unpretentious. It was a priviledge to work with Steve, and all of us in Zomba learned a great deal from him. He will be much missed.

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Haggis Hunt
http://www.haggishunt.com/
It's time to hunt the haggis

Cairngorm Brewery Beers
http://www.cairngormbrewery.com/

Musicplasma
http://www.musicplasma.com/
What a useful site for finding bands and recordings!

Scotland's 100 best rock and pop albums
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1021

Aaron Posters
http://www.aaronposters.com/
This site focuses on learning about the history of posters, viewing selected posters, and directing the reader to sites of interest.

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