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Heriot-Watt University Library

Issue 119 - August 2004

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

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Random Quotes

"Less than 1% of research papers published worldwide are OA [Open Access]. But, from this small base, the number is growing by about 300% a year." The Bookseller, 25 June, p.25

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There's a lot of interest just now in the Report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm which recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. This is much to be welcomed, though its one thing to have the results of research available within institutional repositories, and quite another thing to be able to find such material. Links to items on the Report appear in various parts of this month's Newsletter.

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

Open access jeopardises academic publishers, Reed chief warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1250415,00.html
The Guardian

JISC Welcomes House of Commons Select Committee Report
JISC has welcomed the Report of the Science and Technology Committee
Report and indicated its support for its recommendations.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2912

British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040726-1.shtml
Article by Richard Poynder from InformationToday

UK govt IT an 'appalling waste' of public money
An all-party committee of MPs yesterday attacked the government's record on public sector IT projects, and said Whitehall was hiding "an appalling waste" of public money behind a "cloak of commercial confidentiality".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/gov_it_waste/
From The Register

New Report On Future Of Libraries In 21st Century
Libraries will find it difficult to meet the Government's vision for involving the communities they serve unless they adopt innovative ways for rallying public involvement, according to a new independent report.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2867
From Managing Information

ScienceDirect Collection Reaches 6 Million Full-Text Articles
Elsevier have announced that six million articles are now available on its electronic platform, ScienceDirect.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2849
From Managing Information

Springer announce “Open Choice” open access model
The newly merged Springer/Kluwer group have announced “Open Choice” allowing authors to publish their works as open access. Rather than launch separate open access journals, Springer’s system will mix open access material and non open access in the same printed journal. Subscriptions for the print will reflect the proportion of each type of article within a title. Open Choice articles will be available free of charge electronically.
http://www.biblio-tech.com/uksg/SI_PD.cfm?AC=3277&PID=10&ZID=1349
From UKSG Serials e-News

Elsevier set to launch Scopus
Elsevier will launch Scopus, an Abstract and Indexing (A&I) database in Q4 2004. It will cover 14,000 titles from 4,000 STM publishers and offer cross-discipline access to 27 million abstracts and citations.
http://www.biblio-tech.com/uksg/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&ArticleID=1314&issueno=71&XSection=Business
From UKSG Serials e-News

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

abook4all

http://www.abook4all.com

A quality independent UK out of print online-bookstore.

All Engineering Schools

http://www.allengineeringschools.com/

A directory of schools in the USA.

ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine

http://www.alvis.info/

The project will conduct research in the design, use and interoperability of topic-specific search engines with the goal of developing an open source prototype of a distributed, semantic-based search engine.

An Engineer in Court

http://www.imeche.org.uk/conferencesandevents/court

Legal scenarios often prove very costly and can absorb inordinate amounts of time. How would your records face up to scrutiny by the legal people and indeed yourself should you be faced with a court appearance? Do you find the prospect more than a little daunting?

This one day seminar, being held at the IMechE, 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster, 12th October 2004, will provide information that will help you conduct your business and be prepared for any eventuality.

Architecture Centre Network

http://www.architecturecentre.net/

An independent organisation representing centres of architecture and the built environment in the UK.

Artificial Intelligence Resources

http://www.airesources.info/

Artificial 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 on Artificial Intelligence on the Internet.

Arup Fire Engineering

http://www.arup.com/fire/

Designing for fire safety is a rapidly developing field in which Arup has established a reputation for introducing new ideas and approaches.

ASEE Conference Proceedings Search

http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm

Searchable database of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conferences. (1996-2003).

ASEE ELD Annual Conference Program Salt Lake City 2004

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/eld/conf/conf04.html

Some papers from the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education are available.

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V2N7.pdf

The July 2004 issue (V2N7 July 2004) of Awareness Watch Newsletter is available. It is a .pdf document (547KB) of 32 pages and the featured report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of deep web and invisible web resources. Included sections: a) Articles, Papers, Forums, Audios and Videos; b) Cross Database Articles; c) Cross Database Search Services; d) Cross Database Search Tools; e) Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines; f) Presentations; g) Resources - Deep Web Research; and h) Resources - Semantic Web Research.

B-Feeds(sm):

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds1.htm

A registry devoted to Web Feeds for Books and Monographs.

biohealthmatics.com

http://www.biohealthmatics.com/

A biomedical informatics career website.

BizEd

http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/bized/

A magazine for management education/business school leaders and stakeholders. BizEd is AACSB’s International’s print magazine, and covers trends, practices, ideas, issues, and hard facts related to management education.

BrainBoost

http://www.brainboost.com/

“BrainBoost is a revolutionary new search engine. BrainBoost uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques to go the extra mile, by actually answering questions, in plain English.”

Cement och Betong Institutet

http://www.cbi.se/e-omcbi.htm

The Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute is an independent and impartial industrial research institute that was founded in 1942. Industry and society are represented in equal parts on the board of directors. The activities of the institute are long-term development of knowledge through research, industrial consultancy work, and continued education. The institute has a staff of about 30 employees.

ComEETA

http://www.comeeta.org/

A web community for sharing and discussing information on environmental engineering, enviromental science and ecology in Australia.

CompreHensive collaborativE Framework: CHEF

http://chefproject.org/portal

The CompreHensive collaborativE Framework (CHEF) project is developing a flexible environment for supporting distributed learning and collaborative work, and doing research on distributed learning and collaborative work.

Connect

http://www.connect.ac.uk/

Connect services provide quick and easy access to information and resources specifically tailored to the needs of the learning and teaching communities...

Copy Box

http://www.thecopybox.co.uk/

A copywriting website. “The Copy Box is a cost-effective way to improve the writing on all business websites”

Deep Web

http://www.gcn.com/23_15/news/26274-1.html

An article by Joab Jackson: “The 2-year-old Science.gov portal now can reach 47 million agency pages as well as databases, drilling down into what researchers call “the deep Web.””

Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development

http://www.liv.ac.uk/sustain/

Conference at Loughborough University on 1st and 2nd September.

Digital Curation Centre

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

The JISC and the eScience Core Programme have entrusted the task of establishing the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) to a consortium comprising four partner institutions: the University of Edinburgh (lead partner) and the University of Glasgow, which together host the NeSC; UKOLN, at the University of Bath; the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (which operate the Rutherford and Daresbury Laboratories).

Digital Document Quarterly

http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_2.htm

Vol 3, No 2 is available.

Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science: DoITPoMS

http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/

Aims to build on recognised expertise in the use of information technology (IT) in enhancing the student learning experience and to disseminate these techniques within the Materials Education community in the UK.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/07contents.html

July/August 2004 issue.

e-business promotion

http://www.e-businesspromotion.co.uk/

e-business promotion are a professional website promotion company based in Edinburgh. We provide specialist consultancy services to businesses in Scotland and the UK.

Edinburgh International Book Festival

http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/

14-30 August 2004.

Electronic Definitions

http://www.electronicdefinitions.com/

“What do you think what is electronicdefinitions.com web site about? You are right it is website about electronic definitions, some call it electronic dictionary. We have over 2000 electronic definitions for electronic devices, abbreviation definitions and acronyms.”

Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards

http://caliban.emeraldinsight.com/vl=13726588/cl=74/nw=1/rpsv/awards/

“To celebrate the unveiling of Emerald Management Xtra, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, publisher of the largest collection of international business and management journals, seeks to celebrate excellence in research by establishing the Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.”

ENDAT Standard Indexes

http://www.endat.com/

ENDAT has been producing directories for the construction and engineering market for 15 years.

Entrez

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/

A Life Sciences search engine.

Equator

http://machen.mrl.nott.ac.uk/home.html

Equator is a six-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) supported by EPSRC that focuses on the integration of physical and digital interaction.

Ethnomathematics Digital Library: EDL

http://www.ethnomath.org/

The EDL is a resource network with links to relevant websites worldwide. There are over 500 items in the collection.

European Academy of the Urban Environment

http://www.eaue.de/

The European Academy of the Urban Environment is aiming to encourage exchange of experience amongst local government decision makers in all spheres of sustainable urban development.

European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering: ESCMSE

http://www.uop.gr/escmse/

The aims and scopes of ESCMSE is the construction, the development and the analysis of computational, numerical and mathematical methods and the application of the developed methods in sciences and engineering.

Euroscience

http://www.euroscience.org/index.html

Euroscience is a pan-european association of individuals interested in constructing scientific Europe "from the bottom-up ". It represents European scientists of all disciplines (including social sciences and the humanities), in the public sector, universities, research institutes as well as business and industry.

Expat Engineering Job Network

http://www.expatengineer.net/

This web site offers information on jobs for people involved in the Engineering, Oil & Gas, Exploration, Mining, IT, Petrochemical, Building and Construction, Civil Engineering, Transport and Logistics, Telecommunications sectors.

Feed Forward Publications

http://www.feedforward.com.au/

E-Book Publishers of Industrial Engineering.

Find.com

http://find.com/

“Find.com is the best place for business people to start their search for the valuable information that will improve the quality of their work. Find.com’s results are more targeted to business needs, and are presented in a manner that speeds navigation.

Find.com utilizes the most advanced Search technology on the Web to retrieve documents from all major consumer Search Engines, and combines them with access to Premium Research content from leading Business Information sources.”

Floris Books

http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/

Floris Books publishes books for children and adults.

Free Computer and Scientific books Online

http://hogan-productions.com/books/

Searchable database of links to over 400 computer related, and scientific books which are freely available online.

FreePint Index

http://www.freepint.com/issues/04indexa.htm

Here is the complete index to all articles appearing in the FreePint Newsletter since 1997.

GIS Enabling the Internet"

http://www.freepint.com/issues/010704.htm#feature

An article by Chris Kutler in FreePint Newsletter.

GPO Access Search Across Multiple Databases

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html

A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, which allows searching across budgets, Bills, documents, reports, etc.

Grading and Excavation Contractor magazine

http://www.forester.net/gec.html

The trade journal especially written for the grading and excavation professional. Specializes in addressing the most up-to-date information concerning the industry made up of project managers, contractors, heavy equipment operators and all involved in the ever changing arena of Grading and Excavation.

Groundwork

http://www.groundwork.org.uk/

Groundwork is a leading environmental regeneration charity making sustainable development a reality in communities in the UK which are in need of investment and support.

Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics: HELM

http://helm.lboro.ac.uk/

Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics - is a major 3-year curriculum development project to support the mathematical education of engineering students.

House of Commons Tenth Report Scientific Publications: Free for all?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee.

HURISEARCH

http://www.hurisearch.org/

HURISEARCH is a HUman RIghts SEARCH engine.

Industria

http://www.industria.co.nz/

Global technology news, daily and weekly, for the South Pacific.

Industrial Designers Society of America: IDSA

http://www.idsa.org/

IDSA is the voice of the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design.

Information Retrieval Software - Information Retrieval Links

http://www.ir-ware.biz/

Your Guide to Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval Software, Search Engines and Search Engine Optimization.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/

The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences is the chief research and engineering arm of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). ITS supports such NTIA telecommunications objectives as promotion of advanced telecommunications and information infrastructure development in the United States, enhancement of domestic competitiveness, improvement of foreign trade opportunities for U.S. telecommunications firms, and facilitation of more efficient and effective use of the radio spectrum.

Institute of Physics Electronic Journals

http://journals.iop.org/

A new homepage for the IoP Electronic Journals service.

Internet Submissions Directory

http://www.internetsubmissions.com/

“A list of companies that understand web site submission to both directories and search engines, and a list of both of these, for those who wish to submit their URL themselves.”

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

http://www.iop.org/EJ/conf

New in 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of Journal of Physics: Conference Series. The new journal will offer cost-effective and timely publication for international conferences of the highest quality.

LastMile Communications

http://www.lastmilecoms.com/

“Last Mile has a different view of communications in the future. We believe in a future where the user decides on the information that they wish to receive and that they should be able to do this anywhere on the planet – without wires and without delay.”

Lead Generation

http://www.pro-talk.com/lead-generation/issue-1-2004-07.pdf

This is an interesting document from Pro-Talk, which includes items on the following, all written with UK industrial and scientific companies in mind.:
Ten ways to improve search engine response
Our thoughts on preparing and writing news releases
Making your web site earn its keep
A case study on internet promotion from one small manufacturer.

LibPortal: Library Portal Survey and Review

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

The final report from this study is now available.

LIScareer.com

http://www.liscareer.com/

The Library & Information Science Professional's Career Development Center

MBA programs

http://www.mbaprograms.org/

A guide and directory to MBA programs.

Museum of Software

http://mos.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/

A project to establish the museum is taking shape.

New & Emerging Science & Technology: NEST

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/nest/

NEST provides a means to anticipate scientific and technological opportunities and needs in new and emerging areas. Part of Research Councils UK (RCUK).

Oxygen Recruitment

http://www.oxygenrecruitment.org.uk/

Oxygen Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency specialising in the environmental sector.

Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association: PTDLA

http://www.ptdla.org

The objectives of the PTDLA are to discover the interests, needs, opinions, and goals of the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs), and to advise the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in these matters for the benefit of PTDLs and their users, and to assist the PTO in planning and implementing appropriate services.

Patents oncloud8

http://patents.oncloud8.com/

Produced by Tim Uy, a graduate student at Stanford. Allows batch lookup of patent abstracts and provides patent copies in PDF format for $0.49 each. US and international patents are supported.

Protocol Online

http://www.protocol-online.org/

Protocol Online is a database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields. It contains protocols contributed by worldwide researchers as well as links to web protocols hosted by worldwide research labs, biotech companies, personal web sites.

Recent Advances in Soft Computing

http://www.rasc2004.info/

The 5th International Conference on: Recent Advances in Soft Computing will be held in: Nottingham, United Kingdom 16 -18 December 2004

Regional Support Centres’ Newsletters

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

Links to all RSC newsletters are available from this page. RSCs promote and advise on the use of network learning technologies and resources in the UK tertiary education sector.

Research Councils UK: RCUK

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/

Research Councils UK (RCUK) is a strategic partnership set up to champion science, engineering and technology supported by the seven UK Research Councils. Through RCUK, the Research Councils are working together to create a common framework for research, training and knowledge transfer. In doing this RCUK will work alongside OST to further support for the UK’s best academic researchers and deliver the best investment for society.

Researcher's Companion

http://www.federalsurrey.ac.uk/researcherscompanion/

An online tutorial in information retrieval skills aimed at postgraduate students. It has been developed jointly by staff at the University Library, University of Surrey and Information Services at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

RSSJobs

http://www.rssjobs.com/

RSSJobs allows you to create and save searches for Monster, Dice, HotJobs, CareerBuilder and more in one location, then delivers the results to your favorite RSS Reader.

Science of Football

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/football/index.shtml

From the BBC Science & Nature section.

Scientific Publications: Free for all?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399.pdf

Report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

Sci-Tech Library Newsletter

http://www.eevl.ac.uk/scitechnews/15jul04.htm

15 July 04 issue, European Mirror.

Serving Construction & Architecture in Local Authorities: SCALA

http://www.scala.org.uk/

"SCALA is a collaborative organisation of public sector architects and related professionals committed to assisting its members in achieving the highest possible standards in the development, design, construction and management of the public sector estate for the mutual benefit of their employers"

Social Enterprise Action: SEA

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

Social Enterprise Action (SEA) is a directory, showcase and inter-trading application for social enterprises. The website focuses solely on providing social enterprises with a new 'route to market'.

Special Cuts

http://specialcuts.co.uk/

A specialist media monitoring and press cuttings service for the academic, e- learning, government and library sectors.

Strategos

http://www.strategosinc.com/

“Lean Manufacturing and Strategy is the primary focus of this website. Most of the content is educational, unique, wide-ranging and, above all, useful.”

Students choose logging on in lieu of library research

http://www.pntonline.com/engine.pl?station=portales&template=storyfull.html&id=2586

An article by Mike Linn in Portales News-Tribune.

Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute: CBI

http://www.sea-online.net

The Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute is an independent and impartial industrial research institute that was founded in 1942.

The Open Source Paradigm Shift

http://tim.oreilly.com/opensource/paradigmshift_0504.html

An article by Tim O'Reilly.

TrooBloo

http://www.troobloo.com/

TrooBloo is a database of technology tutorials, code examples and articles. More than 5,000 Technology Related Tutorials, Code Examples & Articles.

Urban Forum

http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/

Urban Forum is an umbrella body for community and voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially regeneration. It was set up in 1994 as the national voluntary organisation through which local and central government could relate to the community and voluntary sectors.

Usability - ignore it at your peril!"

http://www.freepint.com/issues/150704.htm#feature

An article by Sarah Agarwal in Free Pint newsletter.

WebSearch University

http://www.websearchu.com/

Two days of in-depth courses, etc. WebSearch University: Learn How to Turn Your Search into Research! Washington, DC - September 27-28, 2004.

YoungScot.org

http://www.youngscot.org/

Scottish youth information.

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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.

Scientific Publications: Free for all
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399.pdf

This month's choice is made not because its in any way a 'nice' web site, but because of the importance of the document.

RM

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PRESS RELEASES

**** Emerald Launches new Resource Centre: Emerald Management Xtra ****

Building on the success of its well-regarded Emerald Fulltext and Emerald Management Reviews databases, Emerald Group Publishing Limited has launched Emerald Management Xtra for business school and university teachers, students, authors, researchers and librarians. Emerald Management Xtra is the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals and online support for librarians, faculty, researchers, teachers and deans. Going live in December 2004, beta test versions will be available from this summer.

Within Emerald Management Xtra, the core content of Emerald Fulltext and Emerald Management Reviews is surrounded by valuable collections of informational and educational resources developed specifically for the management community: teachers, students, authors, researchers and librarians. These range from ‘Conference Central’ comprising conference listings, previews and reviews to Emerald Management Xtra Collections: libraries of case studies, literature reviews, interviews and book reviews - all selected for their quality and relevance. Accessed online, it offers an integrated search and navigation function across not only Emerald Fulltext and Emerald Management Reviews, but across the added resources available through Emerald Management Xtra, facilitating ‘one stop’ searching.

Developed in consultation with the management community worldwide, Emerald Management Xtra is aimed at making research, teaching and learning in the management field as simple as possible.

To discover the full benefit of Emerald Management Xtra, see the online demo at: www.emeraldinsight.com/emx.

For further information, contact:
Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925, Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com

or

Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing, Tel: 01274 777700, gcrawford@emeraldinsight.com

**** Scientific Publications: Time for change ****

Changes in scientific publishing are "necessary as a matter of urgency" and everyone should have free, open access to UK research findings. So says the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee in their report on scientific publishing.

Vitek Tracz, Chairman of the Open Access publisher BioMed Central said: "We welcome this important and forward-looking report which marks the beginning of a new era. Change is essential for science and will benefit society."

Crucially, the report recommends that UK research funding bodies mandate free access to all their research findings. "This will lead to a profound change in the way that scientific literature is published, and validates the author-pays 'Open Access' publishing model which we at BioMed Central pioneered," Tracz remarked.

The Committee recommends that UK Research Councils follow this lead and make funds available to pay author charges. This would mean that all publicly funded UK researchers
would be able to make their research findings Open Access, at no cost to themselves. "This support will help to ensure the success of the author-pays model of publishing," said
Tracz.

To improve access to research findings in the short term, the Committee have called for all UK higher education institutions to "establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online". In addition, they ask Research Councils to "mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all their articles in their institutional repository [...] as a condition of their grant".

Access to scientific research is an international issue. The Committee's conclusions have been published just as the US House of Representatives has made a similar recommendation that research funded by National Institutes for Health (NIH) should be freely available. Also, the European Commission is currently conducting a study on scientific publications.

The report, entitled "Scientific Publications: Free for all?" is a result of the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee's inquiry into scientific publications that has investigated pricing, access and availability issues. This can be read online at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm

Further information about the inquiry is available on our inquiry web page
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/)

BioMed Central - The Open Access publisher
http://www.biomedcentral.com

Contact: Gemma Bradley
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7631 9931
E-mail: press@biomedcentral.com

**** EI Compendex® Database adds 8 millionth record ****

20 July 2004 – Elsevier Engineering Information (www.ei.org) announces the 8 millionth record has been added to the Compendex® database and loaded on the Engineering Village 2™ discovery platform. Compendex is the definitive bibliographic database covering published engineering literature and is used by professional engineers,
engineering students, researchers and information professionals worldwide.

Since its creation in 1969, Compendex has offered the broadest coverage of significant engineering literature available. As the volume of published engineering literature has grown steadily over the past 35 years, the Compendex database continues to expand its coverage, providing researchers with a breadth of literature they can rely upon. In 2003 alone, over 500,000 new records were added to the Compendex database. Compendex now covers over 4,000 serial sources each year, originating from more than 80 countries.

Contact:

Ross Graber
Engineering Information
+1 201 356 6831
r.graber@elsevier.com

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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/

Eduserv Chest News

Eduserv Chest negotiates for all forms of commercially available electronic resource (abstracts, full text, journals, software, courseware, etc) for the education and research communities in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and it manages the resultant agreements. The latest news from Eduserv Chest is available at:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/news/

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

004.019 PRE
Online communities
by Jenny Preece
Wiley, 2000

004.67 YOU
Building online communities
by Margaret L Young and John Levine
Top Floor, 2000

004.678 LEV
Web dynamics
edited by Mark Leven and Alexandra Poulovassilis
Springer, 2004

004.678 PAR
Internet governance in transition
by Daniel J Pare
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003

025.6 CHO
Introduction to digital libraries
by G.G. Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury
facet, 2003

025.6 GRI
Managing your internet & intranet services
by Peter Griffiths
2nd ed, facet, 2004

025.6 LEE
Building an electronic resource collection
by Stuart D Lee and Frances Boyle
facet, 2002

338.064 COH
The ICT revolution: productivity differences and the digital divide
Edited by Daniel Cohen, Pietro Garibaldi and Stefano Scarpetta
Oxford University Press, 2004

371.33 BRO
Web-teaching
2nd ed, by David W Brooks, Diane E Nolan and Susan M Gallagher
Kluwer, 2001

371.33 SAL
e-moderating: the key to teaching & learning online
by Gilly Salmon
RoutledgeFalmer, 2004

371.33 SAL
e-tivities: the key to active online learning
by Gilly Salmon
RoutledgeFalmer, 2002

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.

Webopedia gives a definition of RSS http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html

Three Reasons to Publish an E-Newsletter AND a Blog
http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/weil11.asp?f=evrl
An article by Debbie Weil in MarketingProfs.com

http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/netsearch/srchtool.shtml
This page shows how Steve Scott, from Edinburgh University Library, has incorporated the RSS feed of the Internet Resources Newsletter into a web page about 'Finding information on the Internet: Web Search tools'

B-Feeds(sm):
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds1.htm
A registry devoted to Web Feeds for Books and Monographs

RSSJobs
http://www.rssjobs.com/
RSSJobs allows you to create and save searches for Monster, Dice, HotJobs, CareerBuilder and more in one location, then delivers the results to your favorite RSS Reader.

Blog's the word in big business http://news.com.com/Blog%27s+the+word+in+big+business/2100-1038_3-5281894.html

RSS Growing Pains
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/29OPconnection_1.html

Librarian Blogs and Sites Internet Directory
http://librariansindex.blogspot.com

Mathforge
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp

Cheminfostream
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
News and views from the word of chemical information, modeling and informatics.

Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds

Latest News from the PSIgate Physical Sciences gateway
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/rssnews/psigate.xml

The 10 most recently catalogued records in Artifact (the guide to quality Internet resources in the Arts and Creative Industries), displayed with truncated descriptions http://www.artifact.ac.uk/rss/latest.php

K-News
http://knovel.blogs.com/knews/
From Knovel, a publisher which provides subscription-based aggregated engineering and applied science data.

BIOME Headline News
http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/news/BIOMEnews.xml
BIOME is the RDN hub for the health and life sciences.

Microsoft Community Blogs
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/PortalHome.mspx

LibraryTechtonics
http://www.librarytechtonics.info/
A librarian riding the shift

It's all good
http://scanblog.blogspot.com/
A blog from OCLC Online Computer Library Center staff about all things future that impact libraries and library users.

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BOOK REVIEW

Stop Press! Thanks to an arrangement between Pearson Education and EEVL, you can buy this month's reviewed book for only £22.09 (normal price £33.99) including postage (within UK and Europe), from: http://www.pearson-books.com/eevl
That's less than at Amazon! This offer is available for a limited period only.

A Gift of Fire (second edition)
by Sara Baase
Pearson Education Inc (2003)
ISBN: 0-13-121988-X

This book discusses social, legal and ethical issues related to the use of computers and the Internet in society. It is aimed both at computing students and at students in other fields such as law or ethics.

The book is well written with clear and well argued points. Possible ways of resolving problems are suggested but Baase takes care not to prescribe particular solutions.

Although it addresses international issues, the book is clearly intended for a US audience, so the specific discussion points refer to US law, not European.

Each chapter ends with exercises and suggestions for assignments and discussion points. A manual for lecturers (with commentary, updates and a Powerpoint slide show) is available online at
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/giftfire/

As Baase points out, the social and ethical problems associated with computers and the Internet did not begin with them. Pornography, fraud, forgery and harrassment have always existed. Computers and the Internet did not create these problems, but they did, in many ways, make them much easier for the perpertrators. Similarly, there has always been a need for societies to make compromises between crime prevention and civil liberties
and all that new technologies have done is to bring the debate more into the public eye.

There are some specific new problems, such as hacking and the copyrighting of software as well as the de-skilling of jobs and society's increased dependence on computers for such basic activities as acquiring food (paying by card, or getting cash from an ATM rather than from a bank counter) and keeping warm (heating systems with computer
control).

Baase takes care to keep the difficulties associated with the use of computers in perspective by comparing failure rates and problems of computer controlled systems to failure rates and problems in traditional systems. The many advantages of the Internet and computers are discussed. She also makes the point that individuals should not use technology as an excuse to avoid their personal ethical and social responsibilities.

Nicola Harrison
Cataloguing Officer, EEVL

You can buy this book from http://www.pearson-books.com/eevl for £22.09
Also available are many other new and recent titles at large discounts.

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

I recently enjoyed a family holiday in Normandy and Brittany, in France. What a lovely part of the world!

As well as touring round various towns in the area, I stayed with some friends in St Malo, a particularly attractive town. Those friends run a French language programme for young people under 18, called CAPLangue. CAPLangue run one- to three-week courses during which the students study and practice French in a relaxed 'holiday' atmosphere and have the opportunity to take part in organised activities, plus excursions to, for example, Mt St Michel, the medieval town of Dinan, Caen, etc. If you are interested in the courses, contact caplangue@aol.com (and say you saw them mentioned in the Internet Resources Newsletter).

I also stayed with some other friends on the way back from France, in Oxford. Another particularly attractive place. Those friends run a fashion boutique business on Blue Boar Street, just off St. Aldates, Oxford. 'Gorgeous things...for gorgeous girls' it says on their brochure. If you're interested in hand crafted jewellery, fashion bags, scarves, belts and wraps, and are in the area, email info@lolapoloza.co.uk (and say you saw them mentioned in the Internet Resources Newsletter).

The following seven sites were mentioned recently in a Prospects Today magazine:

http://www.gapyear.com/
A guide to taking time out

Gap activity projects
http://www.gap.org.uk/

Year Out Group
http://www.yearoutgroup.org/

GapProfile
http://www.gapprofile.co.uk/

Outreach International
http://www.outreachinternational.co.uk

Raleigh International
http://www.raleigh.org.uk/

Teaching Abroad
http://www.teaching-abroad.co.uk

Here are some more leisure sites:

All Destinations Travel
http://www.all-destinations.com/
Find cheap flights, package holidays, hotels, etc.

Guestzilla
http://discount-hotels-reservation-booking.com/
Hotel accommodation needs in over 116 countries, 2300 cities and 11000 hotels

Free games and free game downloads at Shinegame
http://www.shinegame.com/

Rebustours
http://www.rebustours.com/
Rebustours is the official site for the acclaimed walking tours of Edinburgh based on the best-selling Inspector Rebus books by Ian Rankin.

Fruitmarket Gallery
http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/
The Fruitmarket Gallery is committed to exhibiting contemporary art of the highest quality, bringing the work of artists with both established and emerging international reputations to Scotland and presenting the work of Scottish artists in an international context.

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