And at the start of a new academic year, a special mention for The RDN Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/ which offers 60 free subject guides to using the Internet for research.

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Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS

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

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacturing: ACDM 2006

http://www.ad-comtech.co.uk/ACDM06/

April 25th - 27th, 2006 at Engineers House, Clifton, Bristol, UK

Call for papers.

As in previous years, the Conference will explore the integration of Evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence (CI) technologies (e.g. neural computing, intelligent agent systems, fuzzy logic etc) across a wide spectrum of design and manufacturing activities.

AIIM Europe Conference and Expo 2005

http://www.aiimexpo.org.uk/

October 25th & 26th, Novotel West, Hammersmith, London.

”For almost 50 years AIIM has run the largest information and document management conference in the US, and we are now proud to introduce a similar event in Europe.”

ASCE Research Library

http://ascelibrary.org/

“The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library provides you with unprecedented access to more than 18,500 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings published.”

Association of Play Industries

http://www.api-play.org/

The Association of Play Industries is the lead trade body within the play sector, representing the interests of the manufacturers, installers, designers and distributors of both outdoor and indoor play equipment and safer surfacing.

Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories

http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769

This draft report is the first guide for determining whether a digital repository can be certified as a trusted location for digital collections.

Automotive Industry Information Sources

http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/automotive.shtml

A list produced by Karen Blakeman.

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V3N9.pdf

V3N9 September 2005 is now available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of online resources, sources and sites covering areas for Online Tutorials.

Citywebwatch

http://www.citywebwatch.com/

Subscription base service which aggregates an important area of the financial press in a format that is simple to use and personalised to the users business requirements.

Click2Britain

http://www.click2britain.com/

A UK & Ireland based Search Engine.

colLib

http://collib.info/

A prototype of a system for organizing and finding documents in library and information science that are available in Open Access Repositories.

Configure Limited

http://www.configure.co.uk/

“Configure Limited is the UK's leading commercial disability access consultancy, providing integrated solutions for businesses to meet their obligations under the Disablity Discrimination Act.”

CRIS 2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/

8th international Conference on Current Research Information Systems.

May 11-13th, 2006 in Bergen, Norway.

CRIS 2006 is aimed at promoting scientific discussion and information exchange on research information systems.

CSR Monitor

http://www.csr-monitor.com/

Subscription-based service. CSR Monitor allows you to take control of your information monitoring and research needs. Access and filter thousands of on line news sources, csr resources, blogs and other information resources through a single, intuitive personalised interface

DAREnet

http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/home

DAREnet gives digital access to academic research output in the Netherlands.

Data Mining: An overview

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL31798.pdf

A CRS Report for Congress, introduces the concept of data mining and explains its uses.

Design for Manufacture Competition

http://www.designformanufacture.info/

The Design for Manufacture Competition aims to demonstrate that it is possible to build a high-quality home for a construction cost of £60,000.

On this website, you can view an exhibition of the designs which have met the £60,000 construction-cost challenge.

Digital broadband content: Scientific publishing

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/12/35393145.pdf

OECD Report

“This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy in December 2004 and was declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2005.

The report was prepared by John Houghton, Victoria University, Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. It is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.”

Disability Rights Commission

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

“Our goal: "a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens".”

Discovery in Design: People-centred Computational Issues

http://www.ip-cc.org.uk/did/

“An EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' Cluster

The objective of the cluster is to identify primary research aspects concerning the development of people-centred computational conceptual design environments that engender concept and knowledge discovery across diverse design domains.“

eLearning Africa 2006

http://www.elearning-africa.com/

News & Information on the eLearning Africa - eLA conference, an annual event for building eLearning capacities in Africa

UNCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 24 - 26, 2006

Electronexxus

http://www.electronexxus.com/

A human edited website directory.

electronic Environmental Resources Library

http://www.eerl.org/

eERL's mission is to be the best possible online collection of environmental and sustainability resources for community college educators and for their students.

ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture

http://www.elpub.net/

10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 14 to 16 June 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria).

Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

http://www.engcetl.ac.uk/

“The engCETL is an engineering centre for excellence located in the Faculty of Engineering at Loughborough University in the UK. It was established in March 2005 and so is currently still in its start up phase.

The vision of the engCETL is to be internationally recognised by engineering academics and students, and nationally recognised by professional bodies and employers, as a centre of excellence for research and development in, support for, and implementation of, industry-linked higher education in a wide range of engineering disciplines.”

Engineering Subject Centre Guide to Lecturing

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/LecturesGuide.pdf

The guide covers good lecture practice, building on lectures and student support and self and peer evaluation.

Enviropedia

http://www.sustainable-environment.org.uk/

300+ topics about the Environment

E-print Network

http://www.osti.gov/eprints/

Previously the ‘PrePRINT Network’

The E-print Network is a: “vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.”

eSnips

http://www.esnips.com/

“eSnips is the easy FREE way to snip, store online and easily share anything you want: things you find online, and your own files, photos and movies.”

Focus on MIMAS

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/05sep/

Issue 25 of Focus on MIMAS, the electronic newsletter from Manchester InforMation and Associated Services.

GEODISE

http://www.geodise.org/

“GEODISE is one of a new breed of EPSRC funded research programmes involving multi disciplinary teams working to build a state of the art design tool demonstrator. The GEODISE demonstrator is intended to carry out engineering design search and optimisation involving fluid dynamics, and is bringing together the collective skills of engineers and computer scientists.”

Geosphere

http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/geosphere/

A new open access journal from the Geological Society of America.

Glossary of Electrical Engineering Terms

http://www.maxim-ic.com/glossary/

From Maxim/Dallas.

Google Blog Search

http://www.google.com/blogsearch

Google’s search engine for blogs.

"Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well.”

Housing Corporation

http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/

Its role is to fund and regulate housing associations in England.

ICISnews

http://www.icis.com/Home/

Information provider for the chemical and oil industry. ICIS is part of Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Business and a member of Reed Elsevier plc.

IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology: ICMIT'2006

http://www.icmit.net

June 21-23, 2006, Singapore.

ICMIT2006 continues a series of international conferences (ICMIT2000, ICMIT2002 and IEMC2004) devoted to the area of innovation and technology management first initiated by the IEEE Engineering Management Society Singapore Chapter. These conferences aim to provide a platform for international scholars to meet and exchange ideas in exciting locations within Asia.

Impart-Nanotox

http://www.impart-nanotox.org/

This website had been specifically developed to deliver the findings of two European Nanotechnologies Projects funded by the European Commission' Sixth Framework Programme, under priority 3: Nanotechnology and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices (NMP).

InCommon

http://www.incommonfederation.org/

“InCommon® eliminates the need for researchers, students, and educators to maintain multiple, password-protected accounts. Built using Shibboleth® authentication and authorization technology, InCommon enables cost-effective, privacy-preserving collaboration among InCommon participants.”

info@UK

http://www.britishcouncil.org/info54.pdf

The latest (September) issue of the monthly newsletter from the British Council.

Inside Scopus

http://www.info.scopus.com/news/insidescopus/

Inside Scopus, the quarterly newsletter for researchers, brings you the latest news about Scopus as well as tips for getting the most out of your searches on Scopus.

Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool, produced by Elsevier.

International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers: STM

http://www.stm-assoc.org/

“STM is a broad and welcoming organisation which includes large and small companies, not for profit organisations and learned societies, traditional primary and secondary publishers and new players. Members have the opportunity to participate in a body central to the well being of our industry.

The mission of STM is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information and to represent the interest of the STM publishing community in the fields of copyright, technology developments, and end user / library relations.”

International Calendar of Information Science Conferences

http://icisc.neasist.org/

A resource for researchers and practitioners of information science and related fields.

International Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain Management: LSCM2006

http://www.imse.hku.hk/iclscm2006/

5-7 January 2006 at The University of Hong Kong.

”The objective of the Conference is to provide a forum for the sharing of experience, best practices and innovative ideas among the academia, industry and government agencies from a global perspective. It is also expected that a synergy can be established between the academia and the industry which will pave the way for further collaborations.”

International Council on Nanotechnology: ICON

http://icon.rice.edu/

The creation of a sustainable nanotechnology industry requires meaningful and organized relationships among diverse stakeholders. The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) is the only global organization aimed at providing such interactions for a broad set of members. Managed by Rice University’s Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, ICON activities ensure effective nanotechnology stewardship through risk assessment, research and communication.

IQS Directory

http://www.iqsdirectory.com/

IQS Directory is a product/service specific vertical directory, for finding products, services, manufacturers and suppliers.

ITMatchOnline

http://www.itmatchonline.com/

A platform where outsourcing service seekers (called Buyers) submit projects free. The qualified service providers can search projects of your interest and can contact the Buyer directly.

Land Registers of Northern Ireland

http://www.lrni.gov.uk/static/staticFrame.jsp

“The Agency's purpose is to record accurate details of legal interest in land in Northern Ireland and to provide a fast and accurate land information service to facilitate the process of conveyancing.”

Modern Building Services

http://www.modbs.co.uk/

A monthly journal.

Modern Building Services offers an editorial perspective covering not only traditional areas of building services but also seeking to unify the role of everyone in the industry across the entire building process, from inception to lifetime maintenance and refurbishment.

mybookyourbook

http://www.mybookyourbook.co.uk/

mybookyourbook can best be described as an on-line co-operative library. Each member contributes a small number of book titles to the central database at mybookyourbook with these books remaining on their own shelf until requested by another member.

National Outsourcing Association: NOA

http://www.noa.co.uk/

The NOA is a Not-For-Profit trade association, which promotes best outsourcing practice and represents the interests of outsourcing users, suppliers and third party support companies. Its main aim is to provide advice on best practice and an environment where organisations can ask for and give advice.

NC3Rs

http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/

The NC3Rs was established in September 2004 to provide a UK focus for the advancement of the 3Rs – the basic principles which underpin the humane use of animals in scientific research. The Centre aims to increase the development and implementation of the 3Rs in biomedical, biological and veterinary research in academia and industry.

NCSS Web Soil Survey

http://soils.usda.gov/survey/

Official USDA soil information as viewable maps and tables for more than 2300 soil surveys.

Noise Mapping England

http://www.noisemapping.org/

The Noise Mapping England Project is part of the first stage of the development of the National Ambient Noise Strategy (NANS). It also addresses the requirements of the Rural White Paper.

NOLA.com

http://www.nola.com/t-p/

NOLA.com is a New Orleans Internet site.

OurProperty.co.uk

http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/

Find out UK house prices for free.

Petroleum Journals Online

http://petroleumjournalsonline.com/journals/

Open access journals (free and unrestricted access to the web-based contents). Fully refereed e-journals of petroleum engineering. The publications cover the following main areas of petroleum engineering namely: petrophysics, production geology, drilling, production, reservoir engineering, and energy economics.

Sakai

http://www.sakaiproject.org/

The Sakai Project is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education. The Project began in January, 2004.

SCOTBIS: Scottish Business Information Service.

http://www.scotbis.com/

“As part of the National Library of Scotland, we provide a national business information service to the Scottish community and beyond. We hold an extensive range of resources, with a particular emphasis on company and market information.”

Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)

http://www.supa.ac.uk/

“Six Scottish Universities have come together to form a research alliance in Physics. The aim is to place Scotland at the forefront of research in Physics through an agreed national strategy, an inter-institutional management structure, and co-ordinated promotion and pursuit of excellence. Adopting a coherent approach to staffing strategy, research training, research initiatives and funding opportunities, SUPA will pool and enhance Scotland's strongest Physics research areas and will develop as a world leader in Physics, creating the largest group of Physics researchers in the UK. It is also intended as a single "front door" for potential staff, sponsors, and industrial collaborators.”

Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society

http://technology-conference.com/

Hyderabad, India, 12-15 December 2005.

Survey of the rights and rewards in blended institutional repositories

http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/survey/

Please take part in this National Survey focusing on your 'Rights and Rewards' associated with contributing teaching materials to digital repositories.

The Canadian Encyclopedia

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/

“With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Canadian Heritage, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world.”

The Slow Movement

http://www.freepint.com/issues/080905.htm#feature

An article in FreePint by Alison Scammell.

Theory of Computing

http://theoryofcomputing.org/

Theory of Computing (ToC) is an Open Access theoretical computer science journal.

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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.

Petroleum Journals Online

http://petroleumjournalsonline.com/journals/

There's not much actual content at this site yet, but the motives are excellent. These journals provide free and unrestricted access to the web-based contents on the principle that "removing access barriers to literature gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact."

Areas covered include: petrophysics, production geology, drilling, production, reservoir engineering, and petroleum management and economics.

RM

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BLOGORAMA

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

RSS DreamFeeder
http://www.rnsoft.com/products/rssdreamfeeder/
An extension for Dreamweaver to allow webmasters to create and manage RSS feeds.

Blogs and Information Community Respond to Hurricane Katrina
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050906-1.shtml
Article in Information Today

Embracing Technology in the Classroom: One Professor's Story
By Chris Procello
http://www.sdsuniverse.info/people_content.asp?id=34363 
From: SDSUniverse

FeedMail
http://www.feed-mail.com/
FeedMail sets up individual, encrypted, private RSS feeds between you and each of your contacts. Messages to Contacts are sent like email (”To, CC, BCC..”) from within your FeedMail pages, but instead of email addresses, you use your contact’s FeedMail Username or pick them from your Contact List.

Why blogs & RSS feeds will help drive open-access journal publishing
http://davehook.blogspot.com/2005/08/why-blogs-rss-feeds-will-help-drive.html
An article from The Industrial Librarian

Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds

IPANDAnet
http://slablogger.typepad.com/ipandanet/
The Information Professional's Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents

Soldier blogs
http://www.aapavatar.net/blogs.htm
A list with links to military blogs

Engineering Job vacancies
http://www.engineeringjobs.co.uk/rssfeed.asp

Tag Tuesday
http://www.tagtuesday.com/
A meeting place for tag developers

Britblog: the Blog
http://blog.britblog.com/
From the British Blog Directory

Springer RSS feeds
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40691-12-147540-0,00.html
Subscribe to Springer's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to get new titles in your area delivered directly to your desktop.

pheedo blog
http://pheedo.info/
"Pheedo started as a simple idea to help thousands of bloggers, micro-publishers and large media outlets in need of a flexible advertising solution. Our aim is to provide publishers and advertisers alike the tools needed capitalize on the business opportunities surrounding weblogs and syndicated content feeds."

International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
http://icisc.neasist.org/iciscfeed.xml

Science Library Pad
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/
Thoughts on the use of technology and other issues for science libraries and science publishers.

Tom Roper's Weblog
http://tomroper.typepad.com/
Tom is a Medical (and sometime veterinary) librarian based in Sussex, UK.

Marketing Pilgrim
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/

Sakai Project News
http://www.sakaiproject.org/index2.php?option=com_rss&feed=RSS1.0&no_html=1

UKeiG at Online 2005
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/blog/

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PRESS RELEASES

**** SAGE Publications Contributes Journals to Developing World Research Initiative ****

INASP and SAGE team up to provide online access to hundreds of SAGE's publications for research institutions in developing countries.

SAGE Publications is delighted to announce the signing of an agreement with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) for 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, SAGE will provide online access to more than 300 SAGE journals to research institutions in 66 of the world's less developed countries, either free of charge or for greatly subsidized rates.

This agreement was arranged via the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI), an INASP initiative. This programme supports capacity building in the research sector of developing countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information and knowledge.

For a full list of countries whose researchers will benefit from this agreement with SAGE, see the INASP website at http://www.inasp.info/peri/countries.shtml

"The objectives of the PERI programme fit closely with SAGE's core company values, which aim to support the dissemination of teaching and research on a global scale," commented Stephen Barr, Managing Director of SAGE UK. "We are delighted to have been invited to participate in this important program."

About SAGE
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for scholarly, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE (http://www.sagepublications.com) has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students.

About INASP
INASP was established in 1992 by the International Council for Science
(ICSU) to improve access to information and knowledge through a commitment to capacity building in emerging and developing countries. Initially based within the International African Institute, the organization moved to its own premises in Oxford UK in June 1996. http://www.inasp.info

Interested in information via email about the latest Journal Content from SAGE? Visit SAGE Online at http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts to sign up for the service.

Sign up to SAGE's 'New Product Alerts' service at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/NewProductAlerts to get emails that keep you up to date with the latest products, services and special offers from SAGE Publications.

**** Xrefer Signs Dorling Kindersley as 50th Publishing Partner: Financial Times World Desk Reference to be added to Xreferplus ****

Dorling Kindersley's Financial Times World Desk Reference provides a complete overview of the modern world. It features over 25,000 facts and statistics on every nation in the world, 600 maps, and 5,000 charts and diagrams, all of which will be fully integrated with Xreferplus.

To read more, go to: http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=2

**** Connotea wins award for publishing innovation ****

Connotea, a free online reference management service for scientists, developed by Nature Publishing Group, has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Award for Publishing Innovation.  This international award is presented annually to products that display 'a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of publication', as judged by a panel of independent experts.  The award coincides with the release of the full version of Connotea.

"The web offers vast new opportunities for publishers to serve scientists and other scholars in ways that were unimaginable in the print-only world. Connotea is a good example of that. We have taken some of the latest technical and social trends on the web - notably social bookmarking and tagging - and applied them in a way that we hope scientists will find useful for managing and discovering information. We are delighted and honored that this approach has been recognized by the ALPSP," said Timo Hannay, Director of Web Publishing.

Connotea is a free online social bookmarking tool developed by NPG. It allows users to store their web links online, enabling them to be accessed from any web browser, and to organize them using individually chosen tags. The site also allows users to share their links with others and discover links to new publications or other resources relevant to their interests.

Connotea, which went live in 'beta' form in December 2004, is now being launched in its full form. This follows a series of major upgrades to enhance its functionality. Recent additions include DOI support, user groups and extended privacy options. These new features mean, for example, that users can bookmark a paper by simply highlighting its DOI in their browser, or even by entering the DOI of a paper they are reading in print. They can then choose to share this bookmark with everyone or privately within a group.

NPG has released an updated version of Connotea Code, the source code behind Connotea, which now includes these latest features.  Connotea Code is freely available to use under an open source license and can be downloaded from http://connotea.sourceforge.net/.

NPG is a global company, with headquarters in London and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Basingstoke. For more information, please go to http://www.nature.com.

Contact details:
Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing Group, The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, UK
T: +44 (0)20 7843 4750
E: t.hannay@nature.com

This press release is also available at http://npg.nature.com/pdf/connotea.doc.

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For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/

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BOOK REVIEW

The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
Volume 1: Science, Technology & Medicine
Ray Lester, Editor-in-Chief
Facet Publishing, June 2005
848pp; hardback; 1-85604-495
£149.95

(Volume 2: Social Sciences and Volume 3: Arts, Humanities and General Reference)

The New Walford (TNW) is a series of volumes designed to succeed Walford's Guide to Reference Material, which was first published in 1959. Five years on from the eighth and last edition of Walford's Guide to Reference Materials in 2000 the New Walford has been completely revised in both structure and content.

TNW no longer uses the universal decimal classification but is organised by subject areas. The structure has been simplified to give three main subject areas (science, technology and medicine) each with 12 sub-groups.  The organisation of TNW facilitates browsing. There are also two indexes (author/title and topic) to help with searching.

TNW continues to provide what its Editor-in-Chief, Dr Ray Lester, describes as 'starter packs' of key reference resources in particular subjects.  However, the attraction of the New Walford is that it has been re-engineered for the hybrid information world.  It fully reflects the availability of electronic information sources while not neglecting print.  Print encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries continue to be listed.  However, portals, digital data, image & text collections, weblogs and newsfeeds are also now included in its 13 resource categories.

The listings are international in scope and aim to cover leading reference works with broad utility across organisations. For most subjects, sources included reflect mainstream opinion. On controversial subjects sources offering alternative opinions are also included.

TNW is a key resource for library and information professionals - particularly those involved in enquiry work or who are responsible for building up or updating subject-based reference collections.  However, students and researchers will also find TNW accessible and useful. All should find the volume easy to use and navigate.  Indeed, TNW has been designed by a team of 16 subject specialists for ease of use by the novice or non-specialist.  It has clear visual layout, offers a concise and clear quick start guide and provides introductory essays for some sections highlighting key features of the subject.  It is a pleasure to use.

TNW is, as Facet Publishing's own promotional material describes it,  . . . . "your paper portal to the world of reference resources".

MK

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APPRECIATION

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Professor Stan Made, from the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, in a car accident earlier this year. Some years ago I worked alongside Stan for a while in the University of Botswana.

Stan was an extremely friendly, helpful and knowledgeable library professional, and will be much missed.

RM

NETWORK NEWS LINKS

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.

Netskills: News
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/

JISCmail News
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm

UK Data Archive news
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/current.asp

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Old Leith History Trail http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/whereilive/coast/index.shtml?walk=edinburghandlothian

Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship
http://www.uccf.org.uk/

Jet2.com
http://www.jet2.com/
Low cost airline

7stanes
http://www.7stanes.gov.uk/
Mountain biking heaven in the south of Scotland

Book This Band

Stocious
http://www.stocious.com/
Edinburgh based band.

Send me your band websites, and if they're good, I'll try to mention them in future 'Book This Band' sections.

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