In the June issue of this newsletter I chose EEVL Xtra http://www.eevlxtra.ac.uk/ as the Nice Web Site. EEVL Xtra is a free service which helps you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in three subjects: engineering, mathematics and computing.
EEVL Xtra is an initiative of Heriot Watt University, so I was pleased to see the service has been mentioned in a number of publications, including EngLib, Scitech Library Question, NewsBreaks and ResourceShelf, etc, and has been getting good reviews.
However, free services such as EEVL Xtra have limited budgets and depend on the goodwill of others to spread the word, so please help by telling anyone who might be looking for engineering, mathematics or computing information about this service. Thanks!
If you are involved in a service, project or website of interest to academics which has not been mentioned in the Internet Resources Newsletter, or which has been redeveloped or which otherwise has something new, let me know. Being mentioned in this newsletter helps others know about your efforts. Email me at: r.a.macleod@hw.ac.uk
Its Edinburgh Festival time of the year. Here are a few links:
Edinburgh International Festival
http://www.eif.co.uk/
Fringe
http://www.edfringe.com/
Edinburgh Festivals
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/
Edinburgh International Book Festival
http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
ALPSP calls on Google to stop unlicensed digitisation.
ALPSP - the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - has published a position statement on Google Print for Libraries in which it calls on the search engine company to cease its digitisation programme for "in copyright" works.
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=8139&Pid=10&Zid=1968
From Serials e-News
IEEE to digitize all their papers
IEEE completes first step in digitizing all papers from its technology journals, back their first issues, by adding 12,000 papers and articles published in the Proceedings of the IEEE from 1963 - 1987 to its online collection.
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=8139&Pid=10&Zid=1975
CSA Launches MultiSearch
In a move that illustrates the growing library demand for federated search solutions, CSA (http://www.csa.com) has partnered with MuseGlobal (http://www.museglobal.com) to launch MultiSearch. The new federated search capability operates within the CSA Illumina framework and provides connectors for more than 2,000 target sources.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050705-1.shtml
From InformationToday
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123stones.com
http://www.123stones.com/
Marketplace to buy and sell mine, natural stone, sandstone rock, limestone marble, granite, slate tile, gem stone, jewelry, semi precious stone, stone cutting machine and diamond tool.
3SmartCubes
http://www.3smartcubes.com/
Personality, IQ and Aptitude tests.
77 Finance
http://www.77finance.co.uk/
A new website directory covering the UK financial services market, including banking, investment, mortgages, credit cards, financial advice and insurance. Includes links to over 5,000 separate financial websites and a short review of every single website listed.
Access to Archives: A2A
http://www.a2a.org.uk/
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
Aroq
http://www.aroq.com/
Market research information
AthenWeb
http://www.athenaweb.org/
A web portal for audio-visual scientific information professionals.
Ayrshire Libraries Forum
http://library.paisley.ac.uk/alf/alfohome.htm
The Group's mission is to improve information provision to and learning opportunities for members of the public through public sector partnerships
BIREME
http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ihome.htm
The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.
Business & Environment Network: BEN
http://www.business-environment-network.org.uk/
The Business & Environment Network (BEN) was founded in 1993 in response to a CBI initiative to promote awareness of environmental issues in the business decision making agenda. BEN is a registered company and supports its activities through membership subscriptions and direct funding / sponsorship.
CityCarClub
http://www.smartmoves.co.uk/
Practically-on-the-doorstep, pay-as-you-drive car clubs nationwide that give members the flexibility and freedom of a car when they need one with none of the drawbacks.
CM Professionals
http://www.cmprofessionals.org/
CM Professionals was founded to provide an organization that enables members to focus on the practitioner aspect of content management.
Community Recycling Network for Scotland
http://www.crns.org.uk/
The CRNS is a membership organisation set up to provide support and information for community led groups involved in recycling, reuse, composting, reduction and waste education activities.
Computer Clubs for Girls: CC4G
http://www.cc4g.net/
Computer Clubs for Girls (CC4G) is an innovative award winning initiative, created by e-skills UK and funded by DFES. CC4G raises the standard of girls' ICT skills while transforming girls’ attitudes to careers in IT. Popular interests such as music, fashion, dance and celebrity have been combined with elements of Key Stage 2 and 3 ICT curricula, to deliver an engaging and fun approach for girls aged 10 to 14.
Conversate
http://www.conversate.org/
“Conversate lets you create instant online discussion spaces. It's simpler, faster, more polite, and less annoying than group emails.”This was Phil Bradley’s ‘Site of the month’ in Library + Information Update, July/August.
Digital Document Quarterly
http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_2.htm
Vol 4, No 2 issue is available. This issue focuses on how institutions might choose digital repository software.
Edina Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline10-2/index.html
The latest edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is now available
EnCams
http://www.encams.org/home/
“We are an environmental charity who campaign directly to the public. We are best known for our Keep Britain Tidy campaign, which has been running for over fifty years. We try to persuade you to stop dropping litter and put it in a bin.”
European Documentation Centre (EDC) University of Mannheim
http://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/bereiche/edz/en/homepage.html
New address from the one listed in issue 20 of this newsletter.
Four Winds Inspiration Centre
http://www.four-winds.org.uk/
Established in 1998, Four Winds is a grass roots organisation, working for the benefit of present and future generations in line with Local Agenda 21, the Global / Local Action Plan for Sustainable Living, arising from the Earth Summit [Rio de Janeiro 1992].
FPM
http://www.fpmonline.co.uk/
FPM is an independent provider of leadership and management development opportunities for managers of public services in all sectors
Free Public Domain and Copyrighted e-Books Online
http://www.freepint.com/issues/140705.htm#tips
An article in the FreePint Newsletter, by Sam Vaknin.
Gilbane Report
http://www.gilbane.com/
The Gilbane Report is a widely read newsletter covering content management technologies
Green Guide Online
http://www.greenguide.co.uk/
Local directories of eco-friendly goods.
Greening the Office: Online Audit
http://www.green-office.org.uk/
“Every day at Friends of the Earth Scotland we receive calls asking us about environmentally friendly products: whether it is really worth recycling and how to go about greening the office. Our Online Audit is designed to answer these questions.”
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
Produced by Robert H Zakon.
i2010
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm
An initiative to foster growth and jobs in the information society and media industries.
Info@Uk July Issue
http://www.britishcouncil.org/info52.pdf
Excellent coverage of major developments of interest to those involved in the UK information world.
Info@UK Special Issue
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ism-info@uk-wsis-supplement.htm
This special issue of Info@UK, a supplement to issue 52, covers the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Civil Society.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge
http://ijikm.org/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management is an academically peer refereed Journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. IJIKM is published in print by subscription and its articles also appear online free of charge.
Internet Librarian International
http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml
London, 10 - 11 October 2005. Learn from international experts, update your skills and interact with colleagues from around the world during the conference sessions and a range of special networking activities.
Journals list
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-current.htm
A list of scholarly, academic, intellectual, cultural, peer-reviewed, full text or accessible without cost journals, compiled by Jan Szczepanski, a librarian at Sweden's Goteborg University. As Peter Suber pointed out “Jan's list is larger than the DOAJ list in part because the DOAJ is working through a backlog, in part because Jan has focused especially on the humanities, and in part because Jan is willing to list journals that are not peer reviewed.” Also available is Jan's < A HREF=”http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-retro.xls “>second file of historic or retrodigitized OA journals. (An Excel spreadsheet, 315 KB.)
Knowledge Speak
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/
“Knowledge Speak is the world's first online news service to report all the relevant developments within the STM publishing industry, on a daily basis. This is a free service that also offers additional resources including a blog area, calendar of events, articles, white papers and a directory of STM publishers.”
Making Windows XP Start Faster
http://www.askbobrankin.com/making_windows_xp_start_faster.html
Technical help from Bob Rankin.
MetaScholar
http://metascholar.org/
The MetaScholar Initiative is currently working on six main projects: MetaArchive, AmericanSouth, MetaCombine, Music of Social Change, OCKHAM, and the open access journal Southern Spaces.
Newsplan 2000
http://www.newsplan2000.org/
The Newsplan 2000 Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the UK Regional Newspaper Industry, preserved unique and fragile collections of local newspapers held in libraries throughout the United Kingdom.
Online conversion
http://convertplus.com/en/
Non-commercial online converter (Online conversion of currencies, weights and measures)
Online Educa Berlin 2005
http://www.online-educa.com/en/
“Meeting the networking needs of the international e-learning and distance education industry, the annual Online Educa Berlin conference is the key networking venue for strategists and practitioners from all over the world.”
Open access debate: what is the future of scholarly communication?
http://www.ucrg.org.uk/contact/branches/bbo/events/openaccess.html
This event, held on 21 June, provided an opportunity for academics, librarians and publishers to contribute their opinions and experiences of developments in scholarly communication, and in particular the future of the academic journal in a time of technological change. The presentations are available on the Berks, Bucks and Oxon UCR Website.
Open Access: The Swedish Hub
http://www.researchinformation.info/rimayjun05open_access.html
An article in Research Information. The proliferation of open-access resources means that searching for the right material can be a headache. Vanessa Spedding reports on a European initiative that's easing the pain.
PanAfrican Localisation Project
http://www.bisharat.net/PanAfrLoc/
Facilitating, informing & networking ICT localisation initiatives across the continent
Passport to Africa
http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/divisions/scottish/newscot.htm
From the Career Development Group Scottish Division, a reading challenge raising funds for VSO Librarian Sarah Ellis in Uganda.
Promoting Information and Search Skills
http://www.freepint.com/issues/300605.htm#feature
An article in the popular FreePint Newsletter, by Jean Bedord.
Pythagoras Newsletter
http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/English/index.htm
The Pythagoras Foundation publishes a Newsletter two times a year. This Newsletter gives a bibliographic summary of literature, book reviews, abstracts of recent publications and short articles concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans. Interesting internet sites, work in progress and conferences are also included.
Recycling Advisory Group Scotland: R.A.G.S.
http://www.rags.org.uk/
Was formed in 1993 to promote, inform, research and facilitate the development and understanding of sustainable waste management.
Revenue
http://www.revenuetoday.com/
Magazine about online revenue raising, affiliate schemes, etc.
RSS4Lib
http://www322.pair.com/ginnblog/rss4lib/
Innovative ways libraries use RSS
Scottish Further Education Unit
http://www.sfeu.ac.uk/
The SFEU website has been given a complete makeover.
Scottish Readers.net
http://www.scottishreaders.net/
A Scottish reading website.
Scottish Textile Heritage Online
http://scottishtextileheritage.org.uk/
“This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections.”
Snapdata International
http://www.snapdata.com/
“Snapdata International publishes a range of unique data products designed to support your analysis of market potential for new business, strategic development, overseas expansion, and creating business plans. All reports are produced in-house by the Snapdata Research team combining both secondary and primary research. All tables are fully sourced.”
South African Association for theoretical and Applied Mechanics: SAAM
http://www.samechanics.co.za/
The mission of the South African Association for theoretical and Applied Mechanics is to promote, foster, organise, and coordinate various activities concerning theoretical, experimental and computational mechanics in South Africa.
TEEAL
http://teeal.cornell.edu/
TEEAL is a full-text and bibliographic library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. TEEAL is available on CD-ROM and now also for Local Area Network. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, as listed in the World Bank's 1998-9 World Development Report.
Telephone Preference Service: TPS
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations, including charities and voluntary organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive
Voice of the Listener & Viewer
http://www.vlv.org.uk/
Information about broadcasting policy in the UK, from the perspective of listeners and viewers.
Yahoo! Search Subscriptions
http://search.yahoo.com/subscriptions
Yahoo! Search Subscriptions enables you to search access-restricted content such as news and reference sites that are normally not accessible to search engines. Sources currently include: Consumer Reports; FT.com (60 days); Forrester Research; IEEE publications; New England Journal of Medicine; TheStreet.com; Wall Street Journal (30 days).
YH Learning
http://www.yhlearning.org.uk/
The YH Learning repository, formally the HLSI project pioneered the use of a digital repository and authoring tools to enable subject specialists, lecturers, trainers and teachers to create e learning materials, targeted to meet the needs of learners in their care.
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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.
Info@UK
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ism-info@uk.htm
In this month's A-Z list of new and notable web sites is the July issue of Info@UK. The July issue is not this month's Nice Web Site, but rather the home page of the news service. This is part of the British Council's website, which can sometimes be painfully slow to load, but its worth the wait for Info@UK.
"This web site is dedicated to major Information Society developments and news in the UK and worldwide. It is a digest of current articles, events and resources with links to further information. Info@UK is compiled and edited for the British Council by Susan Childs, Information Society Research Community (I-SRC) at the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University."
RM
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News about weblogs, RSS, etc:
Webopedia gives a definition of RSS http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
British bloggers lead the world
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2139505/british-bloggers-lead-world
Item in Information World Review
Key issue: weblogs and RSS
Serials 18(2), July 2005
An interesting article by Ian Winship
Blogarama
http://www.blogarama.com/
A blog directory
QuackTrack
http://www.quacktrack.com/
blog index
419,000 mappings to 135,000 blogs in 3100 categories
Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050714gardner/
by Susannah Gardner
Blogs and Wikis as alternative news sources
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/670000067/post/200001020.html
From LJ Tech Blog
Gigablast Blog search
http://blogs.gigablast.com/
BlogPulse
http://www.blogpulse.com/
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs and a portal into the blogosphere. Fascinating site.
Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds
RSS4Lib
http://www322.pair.com/ginnblog/rss4lib/
Innovative ways libraries use RSS
LJ Tech Blog
http://www.libraryjournal.com/LJTechblog.xml?nid=2700
SourceForge.net
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=141424&rss_fulltext=1 A feed from the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications
BizBuzzMedia
http://www.bizbuzzmedia.com/
From Reed Business
Open Access Archivangelism
http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access
025.431: The Dewey blog
http://ddc.typepad.com/
Everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification® system but were afraid to ask ...
Bitácora de un Bibliotecario
http://www.bitacoradeunbibliotecario.blogspot.com/
SPG Media RSS feeds
http://feeds.spgmedia.com/
The latest industry news from a number of sectors.
unstruct.org
http://www.unstruct.org/
All About Unstructured Information and Data Management
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**** Thomson Gale Launches AccessMyLibrary ****
Initiative will improve the quality and relevance of information found on the
Internet
Thomson Gale, the world's leading publisher of library reference information and part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), announced a groundbreaking library advocacy initiative that will enable libraries to capitalize on Internet search engines as a means of connecting library users with authoritative content. This unique initiative, which builds on Thomson Gale's commitment to libraries and their users, will increase peoples' awareness and usage of the library resources users are entitled to and at the same time provide them with direct access to more high-value information than ever before through Internet search.
Studies by a number of organizations, including research firms Electronic Publishing Services (EPS) and Outsell Inc., indicate that student and faculty researchers have joined the legions of more casual information seekers who are augmenting their use of traditional information sources, such as libraries with Internet search engines. The growing reliance on Internet search engines as a means of conducting academic research represents a departure from longstanding research patterns, and according to the EPS, signals a need for libraries to evolve the way they manage and promote their resources to more effectively support their users.
With the launch of AccessMyLibrary.com, Thomson Gale has enabled its content to be crawled and indexed by major search engines such as Yahoo! and Google. In doing so, Thomson Gale is not only making high-value content resources visible to a broader universe of information seekers, but is also highlighting the critical role libraries play as providers of quality information. Once desired content has been identified and made visible through the search engine's results, it becomes available through AccessMyLibrary.com if the searcher is an authorized user of a library that subscribes to that content.
"AccessMyLibrary.com will drive more successful searches and in doing so will remind everyone the worlds' libraries are critically important centers of learning and education," said Gordon Macomber, president of Thomson Gale. "The ubiquity of the Internet and the effectiveness of Internet search engines have forever changed the way people seek information. Thomson Gale has harnessed the power of Internet search engines to assist libraries in continuing to be the world's undisputed source for the highest quality and most authoritative reference information."
A full press release is available
AccessMyLibrary is available at: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/
Adam Gaber
Senior Director, Public Relations
Thomson Learning
203-539-8663
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For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/
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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
371.33 CLA
e-Learning skills,
by Alan Clarke
Palgrave, 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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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/news/current.asp
RDN News
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news
Humbul
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/new.php?int=30
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To Good to Waste
http://leep.interactive.co.uk/tgtw/frameset.html
The A - Z guide of practical ways to reduce, reuse and recycle in Edinburgh and East Lothian
The Storr: unfolding landscape
http://www.nva.org.uk/storr/home.html
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