Random Quotes
"New 'research' shows that someone proudly sporting a 'sculpted goatee' is likely to be a Linux enthusiast, while wearers of the 'chin-strap' beard are probably database experts. For CIOs, the choice is a simple moustache." Information Age, Dec 2004.
"...looking at what is important to people accessing websites, reliability of content is seen as a highly important factor for 92%, including 63% saying very important. Similarly, the quality of content, and how up-to-date it is, are cited as important by the vast majority of internet users within the population. Links to other sites, and the availability of downloadable materials, are relatively 'unimportant', however." Understanding the Audience for the Common Information Environment (CIE) group.
http://www.common-info.org.uk/docs/mori-report.pdf
"...our library has the most effective search engines yet invented — librarians who are highly skilled at ferreting out the uniquely useful references that you need." William R. Brody, Johns Hopkins Gazette.
http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2004/06dec04/06brody.html
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
CIE publishes MORI research on Internet behaviour in the UK
http://www.common-info.org.uk/thoughts/archives/2005/02/cie_publishes_m.html
USPTO opens trade mark files to all
The US Patent and Trademark Office announced that its trade mark application files will now be accessible on-line, free of charge. The files include the decisions, and the reasons behind those decisions, made by trade mark examining attorneys.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=usptoopenstradema1107169201&area=news
[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page]
11th Conference on Professional Information Resources
http://www.inforum.cz/inforum2005/english/
May 24th - 26th, 2005. Prague, Czech Republic.
3 Rivers 2nd Nature
http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu/
A five-year project that addresses the meaning, form and function of the three rivers and 53 streams of Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. “The project addresses aquatic, terrestrial, and social issues of our rivers and streams, conducting an analysis of the green infrastructure (structural elements of a naturally functioning river ecosystem) that provides social, aesthetic, ecological and economic benefit to the Three Rivers Region.”
4th ASEE / AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education
http://www.gcee2005.com/
To be held from the 26th - 30th of September 2005, at Star City, Sydney, Australia.
Accoona
http://www.accoona.com/
“Accoona provides a great interactive search experience to its users. The user is more involved in determining his/her search results by being able to highlight and emphasize selected key words.”
Acre Resources
http://www.acre-resources.co.uk/
Acre Resources is a leading recruitment agency specialising in the environmental sector.
ALT-C 2005: exploring the frontiers of e-learning - borders, outposts and migration
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2005/
The web site for ALT-C 2005, the 12th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology which will be held at the University of Manchester, England between 6 and 8 September 2005.
ARCLIB
http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/lea/misc/arcweb.htm
ARCLIB is an independent co-operative group which aims to promote the sharing of good practice and co-operation amongst architecture librarians.
Are you e-volving? e-learning, e-resources, e-valuate
http://www.bbslg.org/conference.htm
British Business Schools Librarians’ Group Conference 2005, University of Hertfordshire, Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Hatfield, 6-8 April 2005.
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education: ASCILITE
http://www.ascilite.org.au/
The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) is a society for those involved in tertiary computer-based education and training, including educational interactive multimedia. It provides a forum to stimulate discussion of relevant issues in the educational use of technology, as well as promoting research and evaluation.
BridgEneering
http://www.bridgeneering.com/bestanden/bridgeneering/homebridge.html
Exhibition, 15-16 November 2005 Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Buildings of Ireland
http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/welcome.jsp
The website of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH). The NIAH is a section within the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Centre for Sciences at Extreme Conditions: CSEC
http://www.csec.ed.ac.uk/
CSEC is a multi-disciplinary Centre at The University of Edinburgh designed to promote the study of materials at extremes of pressure and temperature, and in electromagnetic fields, using both in-house and synchrotron and neutron techniques.
Child Rights: Is Information really free for all?
http://www.freepint.com/issues/100205.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Veronica Yates
Cites & Insights
http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i3.pdf
February 2005 issue.
Comms4Business
http://comms4business.com/
Comms4Business is a free online service established to offer independent and impartial telecoms advice to small and medium sized businesses in a user-friendly, jargon free format.
Competia
http://www.competia.net
Competia, a resource for competitive intelligence and strategic planning has moved to a new home on the web
Coollist
http://www.coollist.com/
Coollist is a web-based system for anyone to easily create free mailing lists.
Count On
http://www.counton.org/
A Maths resource. The Count On website is managed by the University of York for the Department for Education and Skills.
Culture-lab UK
http://culturelab-uk.com/
From the British Council a site about the latest style, culture and technology in the UK.
Directory of Open Access Repositories: DOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world.
Distance Calculator Between Cities
http://www.mapcrow.info/
Does what its title says.
Dr Jack Cross’s Electronic Archive
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/
Of interest to those researching history. “This collection of electronic documents has been kindly deposited with the Bodleian Library by Dr Jack Cross. It comprises Dr Cross's writings and historical works that have been converted by him into electronic format. In addition, Dr Cross has assembled a useful collection of archival and bibliographic finding aids and source material.”
Dragoman Chronicles
http://www.dragomanchronicles.com/
The Dragoman Chronicles is a once a week opt-in email list of information about cultures from around the world.
Effective IT Summit
http://www.effectiveit2005.com/
The Effective IT Summit is the main, annual conference of Information Age, the UK’s leading magazine for all those investing in IT for competitive advantage and improved business effectiveness.
Effective use of VLEs
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/InfoKits/effective-use-of-VLEs/index_html
From JISC infoNet, about Virtual Learning Environments.
EM Collection
http://www.emteachline.com/links/
This is a collection of links to the Internet resources related to mathematics and teaching in mathematics. The purpose of Collection is to facilitate searching the Internet for math-related sites.
English for Everyone: E4E
http://www.e4e.co.za/
e4e® is an interactive web of information and support, which learners and teachers can engage with to solve problems at their own pace, to find answers to questions, or to browse through for interest. It is designed for both first and second language users of English in high schools and universities and work situations.
English Maze
http://www.englishmaze.com/
The English Maze is a British-Australian web-based learning system for ESL students, teachers and schools worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning English. With the English Maze, students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. The site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free. Comprehensive free lesson plans are also provided for ESL teachers.
Enhancing the Student Experience
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/conference.htm
29 June - 1 July 2005, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Environment and Heritage Service: EHS
http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/
From Northern Irelenad, the Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is the largest Agency within the Department of the Environment with approximately 600 staff.
EServer TC Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
“The EServer TC Library is an experiment in nonprofit community libraries for professional, scientific and technical communicators (such as technical writers). Our goal is to provide tech comm practitioners, students, teachers and managers a comprehensive single location from which to access the best resources online.”
EuroInfoPool
http://www.euroinfopool.com/
“You can use EuroInfoPool to search for and download official registered company data from more than 18 million European companies. EuroInfoPool is a reliable resource for checking the legal and financial status of potential customers, suppliers or partners and thus helps business information professionals to save both time and money.”
Eye of Science
http://www.eyeofscience.de/eos2/index2.html
Incredible photographs.
Food Science Central
http://www.foodsciencecentral.com/
Food Science Central is a gateway to free and subscription based information relating to the world of food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition
FreeCulture.org
http://www.freeculture.org/
An international student movement for free culture.
globalscot
http://www.globalscot.com/public/index.aspx
The international business network for making Scottish connections globally.
Government News Network: GNN
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/
The Government News Network is the regional arm of Government communications and serves the English Regions, Scotland and Wales.
Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research: HCTAR
http://www.hctar.org/
The Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research is focused on the the competitive dynamics of the retail-apparel-textile channel -- in particular, how technological innovations are transforming the way retailers plan and order merchandise, and in turn, the way manufacturers forecast demand, plan production, and manufacture and distribute apparel products.
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains – Model: h2cm
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
“h2cm can help map health, social care and other issues, problems and solutions, taking a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains: Interpersonal; Sociological; Empirical; Political (Autonomy).
HyperPhysics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
HyperPhysics is an exploration environment for concepts in physics which employs concept maps and other linking strategies to facilitate smooth navigation.
Incredible Internet Guy
http://www.incredibleinternetguy.com/
Useful links on topics of interest.
Inside Einstein’s Universe
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/
“Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of Einstein’s “miracle year,” the NASA-Smithsonian UniverseForum is creating a portfolio of highly visual, dramatic interactive learning resources especially for use by museums, science centers, planetariums and other science education organizations.”
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/
“…the online source for news, opinion and career advice and services for all of higher education. Whether you're an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, we've got what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news, provocative daily commentary, blogs, discussion areas, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.”
Institution-wide and Library Portal Case Studies
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_portal_casestudies
Case studies funded by JISC.
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication: ICAAP
http://www.icaap.org/
The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication is a research and development organization devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication. Our mission includes technological support, publication, and enhancement of scholarly journals and educational resources, with the goals of greater accessibility, recognition and communication within the academic community.
International Humanities Conference
http://humanitiesconference.com/
To be held at at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 2-5 August 2005, the conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today.
International Society for Computational Biology: ISCB
http://www.iscb.org/
The ISCB communicates the significance of our science to the larger scientific community, governments, and the public at large. The ISCB serves a global membership by impacting government and scientific policies, providing high quality publications and meetings, and through distribution of valuable information about training, education, employment and relevant news from related fields.
Internet Librarian International
http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml
Internet Librarian International is back in London again this year, on 10 - 11 October, 2005, at the Copthorne Tara Hotel. This is a conference for information professionals who want to update their skills and learn about new strategies, products, and technology for finding, organising, and managing information resources.
Internet Watch Foundation
http://www.iwf.org.uk/
The hotline for reporting illegal content has redesigned its site.
Irish Property and Facility Management Association
http://www.ipfma.com/
The objective of the Irish Property and Facility Managers Association is to develop and maintain the highest levels and professional conduct in all areas of property and facilities management.
Jinfo: Jobs in information
http://www.jinfo.com/newsletter/
The Jinfo Newsletter contains advice from recruitment consultants and a list of the latest vacancies in Jinfo.
JISC Collections: Freely available JISC funded resources
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_subject_f.html
A list of JISC funded resources and services, which support teaching, learning and research, which are freely available to members of UK HE and FE institutions.
Job-Recruit
http://www.job-recruit.co.uk/
Job hunters can Register online and gain access to job vacancies across the UK and worldwide.
LILAC 2005: Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/csg/csg_ilg/lilacprog.html
Imperial College, London 4th -6th April 2005.
Liolia
http://www.liolia.com/
Searching portal from Liolia
Logical Methods in Computer Science
http://lmcs-online.org/
Logical Methods in Computer Science is a fully refereed, open access, free, electronic journal. It welcomes papers on theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods, taken in a broad sense.
London Book Fair
http://www.lbf-virtual.com/
13-15th March 2005.
"Acknowledged as the largest publishing networking forum in Europe in the Spring, LBF provides you with the ideal forum to better your business. Allowing over 24,000 industry professionals and 700 press to get together and 'talk business'; about content, new titles, rights, industry developments etc... under one roof, for three days in March”
London Inspires Women Innovators Connection: LIWIC
http://www.liwic.info/
“The London Inspires Women Innovators Connection (LIWIC) Project is a London based initiative focusing on female innovators from BME communities. This government funded project provides support through eLearning and workshops.”
Maney Publishing
http://www.maney.co.uk/
Maney is one of the few remaining independent publishers of quality. Founded in 1900, the company has offices in the UK in Leeds and London, and in north America, in Boston. Since 1945 we have offered academic societies, their editors, authors, and members outstanding service in the publication of their books and journals.
Mill Hill Essays 2004
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2004/
The Mill Hill Essays are published annually to promote science in society at large. They are written by members of staff of the National Institute for Medical Research, and are designed to be accessible to anyone with an interest in science and the natural world.
Modular and Portable Building Association: MPBA
http://www.mpba.biz/
“The MPBA (The Modular and Portable Building Association) is an association for the promotion of the modular and portable building industry working on behalf of our Members and Associate Members”
MSN Search
http://search.msn.co.uk/
The new search engine from Microsoft. More information here from msnsearch's WebLog.
Music Manifesto
http://www.musicmanifesto.co.uk/
The music manifesto is about creating more music for more people. It offers a strategy and set of priorities for the next three to five years, focusing on children and young people.
NanoVantage
http://www.nanovantage.com/
“How do you stay up-to-date on new developments in nanotechnology in the times when the amount of technical literature increases very rapidly? NanoVantage is the answer. We provide monthly reports on the contents of nanoscience periodic literature and patents, judicially selected and categorized to reflect the most dynamic venues in nanotechnology and nanoengineering.”
National Army Museum
http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/
The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century.
National Burns Collection
http://www.burnsscotland.com/
“Discover Burns close-up through our on-line gallery, virtual tours of the homes and haunts of the poet, and a wealth of poetry and songs. You’ll also find resources for the classroom, links to Burns organisations, and information on caring for Burns artefacts.”
National Landslides Information Center
http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/nlicsun.html
The NLIC is responsible for distributing information about landslides to the lay public, researchers, planners, and local, state, and federal agencies.
Natonal Outsourcing Association
http://www.noa.co.uk/
“NOA is Europe's first Association for Effective Business & Process Outsourcing and parent of the €OA. Our Members are companies who have outsourced (or are about to outsource) significant business processes or infrastructure, as well as the suppliers and legal/consultancy/service companies which support the industry.”
Nexidia
http://www.nexidia.com/
“Nexidia is the leading provider of scalable audio mining and speech analytic software.”
Nokodo
http://nokodo.com/
A search engine.
Nota Bene
http://www.notabene.com/
A note and referencing system
Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
http://www.deathindexes.com/
US site. This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records.
Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IRs): Leadership, Direction and Launch
http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/presentations.html
Presentations from the Workshop at University of Southampton. 25th and 26th January, 2005.
Our Current Knowledge
http://bestweknow.icaap.org/
“This project presents a series of essays summarizing our current knowledge about different global issues, written by people with knowledge or experience in the field. These essays are intended for the general audience, so should be useful for anyone; students, researchers, or anyone interested in finding out what we know.”
Pathfinder
http://www.econtentinstitute.org/pathfinder/
Online career site for the econtent industry.
PLoS Computational Biology
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/
PLoS Computational Biology, a monthly, peer-reviewed open-access publication with the inaugural issue scheduled for June 2005.
Policy Institute
http://www.policyinstitute.info/
The Policy Institute is an independent body committed to researching how principles of market economics, property rights, the rule of law and limited government can be applied to modern Scotland. Its focus is on a broad range of current issues including the economy, public services, the environment and the governance of Scotland.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/welcome.html
“Live and breathe our nation's naval heritage through three of the most important warships ever built - Mary Rose, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior 1860.”
RailStaff
http://www.railstaff.co.uk/
“RailStaff is the only independent transport journal which supports and encourages people working in the new rail industry. We give a ready voice to the changing forces at work in railways, charting record investment levels, new technologies and a thrilling rise in passenger and freight volumes.”
RailwayPeople.com
http://www.railwaypeople.com/
“RailwayPeople.com is a UK rail portal. It is the number one online destination for UK rail professionals.”
RedLightGreen
http://www.redlightgreen.com/
“Founded as the Research Libraries Group in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. We collaborate on projects that bring these collections online, help deliver them around the world, and support their preservation in digital form. RedLightGreen is one of our newest projects. It is designed specifically for undergraduates using the Web—and the libraries that support them. RedLightGreen.com delivers information from RLG members about more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select.”
Rethink Initiative
http://pages.ebay.com/rethink/index.html
eBay and fellow members of the Rethink Initiative are applying some fresh thinking to the problem of e-waste
RSS Software
http://www.rss-software.com/
RSS editors, readers, creators, etc.
Science Ireland
http://www.science.ie/home/index.asp
“Science.ie is one of the activities of Discover Science & Engineering, the new National Integrated Awareness Programme and is a member of EUSCEA, the European Science Events Association. This website aims to provide resources for visitors of all ages who are interested in science, engineering and technology.
Science Matters
http://www.dest.gov.au/science/News/
A new online resource for everyone interested in the dynamic field of Australian Government science policy.
Science Portal
http://www.science.gov.au/
This site is one of a series of Australian Government customer focused websites or "portals". These portals and their entry point, australia.gov.au, form the Customer Focussed Portals Framework. The aim of the portals is to provide you with easy online access to government information and services. This allows you to find what you are looking for without having to know the structure of government.
Scottish Research Information System
http://www.scottishresearch.com/
The Scottish Research Information System (SRIS) is a starting point for finding out about Scotland’s vigorous research, development, consultancy and innovation resources, and keeping pace with innovation. SRIS brings together the powerful capabilities of universities and institutes in Scotland, and the vital interests of organizations across the world that can make good use of these resources.
Search Engine Optimization FAQ's
http://websearch.about.com/od/faqs/index.htm?nl=1
A list of the most frequently asked questions about Search Engine Optimization.
SearchForClasses
http://www.searchforclasses.com/
US service. “SearchForClasses is the most comprehensive destination on the Web for researching your career and educational opportunities.”
Seventh World Congress on Computational Mechanics
http://www.wccm2006.northwestern.edu/
Century Plaza Hotel & Spa Los Angeles, California, USA July 16-22, 2006
Silversprite
http://www.silversprite.com/
Silversprite is a desk-based research and consultancy unit, specialising in:
the fields of education, ICT, and digital library development; the use of computer and video games in formal education.
Sociopranos
http://www.sociopranos.com/forums/forum-view.asp?forumid=11
An Announcements for Sociology forum at Sociopranos. Anyone can post any annoucement about new conferences, books, research, websites, jobs, funding, reports, data, etc., that may be of interest to sociologists or any other social scientists.
Spanishwordoftheday.com
http://www.spanishwordoftheday.com/
Spanishwordoftheday.com is a daily opt-in list only which presents beginning, intermediate, and advanced vocabulary. Idioms, proverbs, and regionalisms are also presented. Readers may leave the list whenever they like with a link at the bottom of each emaill. The editor is Nicholas Crowder who is a travel writer with Culture Shock! Ecuador
Springer Library Zone
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/pageitems/document/cda_downloaddocument/0,11996,0-0-45-135576-0,00.pdf
Read the inaugral issue of Library Zone, Springer's new library focused newsletter, with librarian interviews, product information, industry updates, and more.
StatCounter
http://www.statcounter.com/
A free invisible web tracker.
Statistics Insight
http://www.statisticsinsight.co.uk/
Statistics Insight is the statistical and market research arm of Business Insight the United Kingdom’s most comprehensive public business information service.
Student Options
http://www.studentoptions.com/
Discounts on Microsoft software for students.
Subject Finder
http://bb.1asphost.com/subjectfinder/default.asp
Subject Finder is developed by Ethiopian Treasures to help students, teachers and lecturers find educational websites easily without being overwhelmed with a large number of search results. It is designed to search only educational websites which contain tutorials, learning and teaching materials such as Accounting, Arts and Design, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computing, Construction, Counselling, Economics, Electronics, Engineering, Geography, Health, History, Law, Languages, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Reference, Science, Social Science, Sociology, Travel, etc.
SUNCAT pilot service
http://edina.ac.uk/suncat/
SUNCAT is the pilot Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK. The pilot service includes records from 22 of the largest UK research libraries and the databases of the CONSER programme and the ISSN International network.
The ENGINEERING job
http://www.theengineeringjob.com/
Recruitment site.
The internet revolution: implications for mental health professionals
http://www.psyplexus.com/mhr/internet_mental_health.html
This article was originally published in the Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry.
The IT Job
http://www.theitjob.com/
Recruitment site.
The Literary Machine
http://www.sommestad.com/lm.htm
The Literary Machine is a dynamic archive and an idea management tool aimed at creative thinking — built especially with the writer in mind.
thecoursesource
http://www.thecoursesource.co.uk/
Produced by Trait Education. Helps you find degree courses and research options, and has a portfolio option.
Tieteen linkkitalo - Science Linkhouse
http://www.linkkitalo.fi/SPT--Home.php
Science Linkhouse is a multi subject gateway covering areas from culture, language and education to natural sciences.
Trailers of Historically Significant Films
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/trailers/trailers.cfm
This database contains trailers of films for educational use. Digital History is an educational and non-commercial site designed specifically for history teachers and their students.
UK Serials Group 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition
http://www.uksg.org/events/annualconf05.asp
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 11 - 13 April 2005
Ulrich’s Resource Linker
http://www.resourcelinker.com/
“Ulrich’s Resource Linker is the brand of hosted OpenURL link resolver that offers powerful yet affordable full-text search and linking capabilities for the libraries’ users without burdening library staff with server installation, URL and link maintenance, or continuous updating.”
Understanding the audience
http://www.common-info.org.uk/docs/mori-report.pdf
A report on Internet behaviour in the UK
W3Education.org
http://www.w3education.org/
“W3Education.org is one of the largest education-related resources on the world wide web. We operate a school directory as well as a program directory where students can find thousands of school campuses and over 100.000 degree programs.”
Webs Biggest
http://www.websbiggest.com/
A new search engine.
WikiBibliography
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm
WikiBibliography is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011.
Wired-gov.net
http://www.wired-gov.net/
The new personalised e-mail alert service in collaboration with the Government News Network (Cabinet Office) and additional HM Government organisations.
Word on the Street
http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/
About 'broadsides' the tabloids of their day, from the National Library of Scotland.
World Technology Evaluation Center: WTEC
http://www.wtec.org/
“WTEC is the nation's leading organization in conducting international technology assessments. During the 1990s, it was called the World Technology (WTEC) Division of Loyola College. In 2001, WTEC was spun off into a separate non-profit corporation.”
[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page]
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.
EServer TC Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
The EServer TC Library seeks to provide access to the best resources for people who produce, manage, archive, and distribute technical information. It is aimed at technical communicators, editors and publishers, researchers, illustrators, animators/multimedia developers, instructional designers/educators, web designers and others who concern themselves with how to improve human communications. It is noncommercial and free of charge.
Resources are listed under headings such as Content Management, Editing, Publications, Software, Usability, Web Design and Writing.
The TC Library is based in the English Department at Iowa State University.
RM
[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page]
**** New agreements give access to thousands of online journals ****
Second successful year for NESLi2 as more online content becomes
available to UK academics.
JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee,
announced that it has secured agreements for 2005 with nine major
international publishers via NESLi2, the national electronic journals
initiative for further and higher education, funded by JISC.
In addition to the renewal of significant agreements with Blackwell
Publishing and Oxford University Press, brand new agreements were
concluded with AAAS for Science Online, The American Chemical Society, The
British Psychological Society, BMJ Publishing Group, Cell Press, The
Institute of Physics and Sage. These agreements will mean considerable
savings for the education and research communities through the lower cost
of journals secured through national negotiations.
In
total, over 4,600 online journals are now available to subscribing
institutions in the UK academic community as a result of NESLi2
agreements, which have been handled by JISC’s appointed negotiation agent,
Content Complete Ltd.
For further information, please contact Paul Harwood (Content Complete) on
+44 (0) 1993 880044 or mailto:pharwood@contentcomplete.com
See also: http://www.nesli2.ac.uk/
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**** Aslib Rises from the ashes ****
Aslib, The Association for Information Management, has been resurrected by its former Chief Executive, Roger Bowes. Bowes has purchased the assets and intellectual property of ASLIB which are owned under a new company, Global Information Management Services.
The organisation will continue to be called ASLIB and Bowes holds the post of Managing Director. Bowes commented, “My intention was always to ensure that ASLIB and its unique contribution to information management is sustained and flourishes and that its staff including myself can continue in employment.”
Cathy Mostyn, Business Development Director at Emerald, stated, “Aslib has the full support of Emerald Group Publishing Limited and as owners and publishers of the Aslib journals, we expect our relationship with them to be a long and happy one. Aslib bulk purchases these journals to service their members. This means that once membership fees are paid, the supply of Aslib/Emerald journals is guaranteed.”
Members will continue to benefit from subscriptions to two of the six Emerald/Aslib journals of their choice and also benefit from a 20% discount on any additional Emerald/Aslib journal(s). Members also benefit from an extensive range of electronic services which support Emerald titles. Emerald has a portfolio of 27 library and information science titles, more than any other publisher in the world.
Emerald Aslib journals are:
Program
Aslib Proceedings
Journal of Documentation
Performance Management and Metrics
Records Management Journals
Library Hi Tech News
Aslib has also moved to new premises. Their new postal address is
Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Telephone number: 0207 613 3031
Aslib http://www.aslib.co.uk
**** New national resource to bring major benefits to researchers ****
The contents of journals and other serials represent an immense and invaluable resource for researchers in all subjects. However, the task of identifying, locating and accessing these serials, held by institutions across the UK, has up to now presented a significant challenge. The national Serials Union Catalogue (SUNCAT) has been launched to help meet this challenge.
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the RSLP (Research Support Libraries Programme) since 2003, and developed by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Ex Libris, the catalogue has achieved a critical mass of some 3.7m records. These are made up of records from national libraries, the largest UK academic library collections and international databases, such as the ISSN World Serials database and CONSER, the database of MARC21 serials records available from the Library of Congress.
To access the pilot SUNCAT service and for further information, please go to: http://www.edina.ac.uk/suncat
For further information, please contact: Catherine Grout (JISC) on 020 7848 1800 or c.grout@jisc.ac.uk or Philip Pothen (JISC) on 07887 564 006 or p.pothen@jisc.ac.uk
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For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/
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Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Pinakes has links to over 50 subject gateways. Direct links to the news pages of some important sites are listed below.
New additions to PSIgate
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/whatsnew.html
BIOME News
http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/
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JISCmail News
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm
UK Data Archive news
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/archiveNews.asp
RDN News
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news
Humbul
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/new.php?int=30
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The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.
Recent Arrivals
004.62 GOS
Internet protocols
by Subrata Goswami
Kluwer, 2003
004.64 MAT
Computer networking: Internet protocols in action
by Keanna Matthews
Wiley, 2005
621.38042 ZHA
Internetworking and computing over satellite networks
edited by Y Zhang
Kluwer, 2003
A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page: http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/news.html
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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
BlogSearchEngine
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
Blogs of War
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/feb05/piper_ramos.shtml
Article by Paul S. Piper in Searcher.
Blogs
http://www.incredibleinternetguy.com/browse_the_archive_link36.html
From The Incredible Internet Guy
The State of Blogging
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp
Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps
http://joy.mollprojects.com/blog/projects/quickrss.html
ModBlog
http://www.modblog.com/
"ModBlog is a revolutionary system for creating the ultimate interactive personal site, without any technical knowledge."
Project Bluebird: RSS
http://www.talis.com/research/research/rss/RSSresearch.shtml
One of the strands of Project Bluebird is investigating the use of RSS and interpreting how this might be of use in libraries.
BlogBib: Articles & Interviews About Blogs
http://blog-bib-articles.blogspot.com/
Staying Ahead of Your Patrons With Weblogs and RSS
http://www.stevenmcohen.info/yale02152005/
This is a very interesting presentation by Steven M Cohen, which is in the form of a blog.
Journalism.co.uk launches RSS jobs feed
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1270.shtml
Warwick Blogs and BlogBuilder
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/elab/services/webtools/blogs/
Its interesting to see what Warwick University are doing in this area.
Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds
Sciencebase
http://www.sciencebase.com/science_news_headlines.asp
Science News Articles
Sciencebase
http://www.sciencebase.com/medical_news_headlines.asp?rss
News-Medical News Feed
Rail News
http://www.railwaypeople.com/rail-news/news.rss
SQA Computing Blog
http://sqacomputing.blogspot.com/
RSS Zeitgeist
http://rockburger.com/feedster/
RSS Zeitgeist charts trends in Feedster search queries.
Ken Leebow
http://kenleebow.blogspot.com/
Peat, pikmin and potatoes
http://an-caladh.blogspot.com/
John Kirriemuir's blog.
Quantum Diaries
http://interactions.org/quantumdiaries/index.html
Celebrating the World Year of Physics
California Library Association
http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/
Science News
http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=56
The library blog for science faculty and students at Georgia State University
Nanotechnology RSS News Feed
http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology_rss_news_feed.asp
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The Content Management Handbook,
by Martin White.
Facet Publishing, 2005
ISBN: 1856045331
Hardback, 176pp
Price: £39.95 and £31.96 to CILIP members.
This new book from Facet Publishing provides a self-help manual which guides the reader through content management (CM) solutions for intranets and websites. The author, Martin White, is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd, a company which consults on the specification, selection and implementation of content management systems across sectors. Writing from experience, the author gives the reader thoughtful and practical advice as well as an insight in to the CM business as only an insider can.
The preface states the book’s aim is to highlight both the benefits and risks of implementing content management software and systems. Based on the benefits outlined in Chapter 2 – there is probably little doubt that, if a fully operational, efficient content management system with fully trained and compliant staff could appear, as if by magic, most organisations would want one. But – how is that achieved? If you are at all unclear about what might be involved – this book will leave you in no doubt that researching, proposing, tendering and implementing a content management system, if done well, is an involved and time-consuming process.
From timescales to identifying risks this book offers a realistic picture of what to expect. The limitations of content management solutions are covered as well as the possibilities. As the word ‘handbook’ suggests, the text is a very practical one. It includes case studies; step by step procedures; checklists and sample interview questions to guide the reader through each stage of the project. Indeed, White advocates the project approach to content management. Ideally this involves a full-time project manager to co-ordinate specification, selection and implementation based on organisational objectives and user needs within budget. Given this project approach, although continuous iteration is mentioned in passing, the text does not cover the processes of post implementation evaluation and review. However, from identifying organisational objectives to preparing the room for tender presentations, White manages to integrate operational detail while stressing the project should have a strategic foundation.
The author writes clearly on a subject prone to jargon which will be welcome to beginners in content management. While stating the definition of content management lacks clarity, White’s description of this and other concepts are well formed. There is a particularly neat metaphor given to define content, data, information and knowledge of pages 3-4. As a content management novice, I emerged with a clear picture of content management systems and software. However, a degree of familiarity in the wider knowledge/information environment is assumed. The term ‘knowledge management’ for example, is used within the text without definition or inclusion in the glossary.
Visually, I found the non-justified text and mix of fonts slightly distracting. However, the book is well structured with logical chapter divisions. Each chapter also ends with a useful summary. There is a good section on further sources of information (with brief reviews) and pointers given in the text to useful toolkits. Inevitably, mention of specific vendors is made but this is not heavy-handed or biased to one product.
The preface and introductory chapter suggest the book is written for information professionals. Indeed, the author suggests that content management offers major opportunities for information professionals to have a significant impact on their organisation. While later sections of the text outline the key skills and qualities required to undertake CM project work with competence and flair – it is not explicitly stated what post holder/s would, could or should undertake the work (although it states that web managers are often mistakenly given the task). Although I understood the process, pitfalls and benefits of a CM project as outlined in the book, as a Subject Librarian, I did find it slightly removed from anything I might attempt in my current post. From an academic library’s perspective, the tasks outlined are perhaps more the bailiwick of a management or systems librarian. However, the majority of the content is not setting/sector specific. The book therefore has application across all types of organisations and disciplines - with reference to specific sectors covered by the case studies.
Good application of the points made in the book will undoubtedly carry any CM project through more effectively. Colleagues, vendors and other stakeholders could not fail to be impressed if the book’s advice is followed and implemented well. The practical, hands-on wisdom offered will certainly help avoid some of the pitfalls. Given that content management solutions help organise, locate and access information within an organisation, the book’s publication is also timely. All these functions facilitate an organisation’s response to queries and will aid compliance with Freedom of Information.
If you want to manage content successfully within your organisation but are not sure how to go about it – start by reading this book. It will help you realise that, much like cleaning out your cupboards – it’s a worthwhile task but it might take longer than you think!
As well as his role as Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd, Martin White is also a visiting Professor in the Department of Information Studies and the University of Sheffield.
MK
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Unkle Bob
http://www.unklebob.com/
Scottish band
Music News Scotland
http://www.mnscotland.co.uk/
AlbaFolk
http://www.albafolk.co.uk/
Edinburgh and Scotland's premier site for live traditional Scottish music and song.
Elevation Station
http://www.elevationstation.net/main.htm
Elevation Station is an non-profit organisation which is dedicated to promoting, supporting and developing the music of unsigned artists and bands in Scotland and abroad.
Unearthit.net
http://www.unearthit.net/
Unearthit.net offers an unrivalled, fully searchable database of original creative work, enabling you to buy work direct from source.
Edinburgh Printmakers
http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/
SeaScotland
http://www.seascotland.com
SeaScotland 2005, in association with SeaBritain 2005, is a celebration of Scotland’s coastline and inland waterways, our maritime heritage and our affinity with water. Possessing over two thirds of all the coastline in Britain, plus lochs, rivers and canals, it’s not surprising that Scotland is awash with an inspirational array of water sports, maritime and seafaring culture all of it’s own.
Portfolio Catalogue
http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/
Contemporary photography in Britain
Glasgow World Music
http://www.glasgowworldmusic.com/
Progressive Rock
http://prog4you.com/
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