Random Quotes

"If we act collectively we have the chance to create a digital library environment that we control, and which will suit our users much better than the one which Googlezon threatens to provide. We can give our learning and research communities much better tools and much stronger content than Googlezon will ever manage, since it can ultimately only be a toy of consumer markets. We have a mission which runs deeper, with values based upon the activity of research - and learning led by research - that is not dependent upon the state of the stock market nor led by the entertainment industry." John MacColl, extract from a UKEiG presentation, 21 June 2005, CILIP, London. Quoted in eLucidate Vol 2, Issue 5, September/October 2005.

For interest, though unrelated to the above, here is Google's College life site: http://services.google.com/university/

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Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS

Over 35,000 people now subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter. Very many thanks go to Willco who distribute the email version. To subscribe, at no cost, go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue with links to the full text): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss

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

[Contents] - [ IRN Home Page ] - [HWU Library Home Page] 

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Academic Books Auction.com

http://www.academic-books-auction.com/

An auction for university, reading books, college, school, collectables, rare books, general reading books for the public, braille books and also children’s books.

AccessToLaw

http://www.accesstolaw.com/

AccessToLaw is a gateway site, providing annotated links to selected UK, Commonwealth and worldwide legal web sites. Over 1,000 sites are currently included.

Adventure Lounge

http://www.adventurelounge.com/aircraft/

A museum of early aircraft design.

African Journal of Information & Communication Technology

http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ajict

“African Journal of Information and Communication Technology (AJICT) is an international journal providing a publication vehicle for coverage of topics of interest to those involved in computing, communication networks, electronic communications, information technology systems and Bioinformatics. It is serving as an open source vehicle of the works of researchers in ICT world wide that hitherto would not be available to organisations outside and within the African sub-region.”

Air Tightness Testing and Measurement Association: ATTMA

http://www.attma.org/

“The Air Tightness Testing and Measurement Association, ATTMA, is a professional association dedicated to promoting technical excellence and commercial effectiveness in all air tightness testing and air leakage measurement applications. It promotes the testing and measurement industry and supports its members by extending market awareness of the technology and the members' services.”

Alexa Traffic Rankings

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none

A listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic.

Archives Awareness Campaign

http://www.archiveawareness.com/

Local and national archives, large and small, public and private will open their doors throughout the year to celebrate the wealth of archive material across the UK.

Association for Women in Science and Engineering: AWiSE

http://www.awise.org/

AWiSE is a multi-disciplinary membership organisation composed of individuals, businesses, associations, institutions and other organisations, all of whom share the common goal of advancing the interests of women in science, engineering and technology (SET).

Association of Construction Performance Advisors

http://www.constructionsupport.org.uk/

The Association of Construction Performance Advisors (ACPA) exists to provide consultancy support and training to the UK Construction Industry.

Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N10 October 2005

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/09/v3n10-october-2005-awareness-watch.html

The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of Astronomy Resources on the Internet including astronomy, astrophysics, bioastronomy, radio astronomy, roboscopes and related sources on the Internet.

BioethicsWeb

http://bioethicsweb.ac.uk/

The guide to Internet resources for biomedical ethics.

Campus Technology

http://www.campus-technology.com/index.asp

“Campus Technology is the only monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education. Campus Technology provides in-depth, aggressive coverage of specific technologies, their uses and implementations, including enterprise resource planning; eLearning and course management systems; presentation technologies; communication, portal, and security solutions - all the important issues and trends for campus IT decision makers.”

Career Magazine

http://www.careermagazine.co.uk/

Search for jobs and careers online. Designed to help jobseekers, employers and recruiters.

CCLRC ePublication Archive

http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/

The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) ePublication archive records the scientific output of CCLRC in the form of Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Technical Reports, ePrints, Theses and Books.

ChemIDplus

http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/

ChemIDplus is a free, web-based search system that provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, including the TOXNET® system.

Cites and Insights

http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i11.pdf

The October issue of this thought-provoking journal on libraries, policy, technology and media is available.

Combat Climate Change

http://www.combatclimatechange.ie/

“Combat Climate Change was launched to help you understand what climate change is and how you can take action to combat it. By working together we can make a difference!”

Community Led Image Collections: CLIC

http://clic.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

The CLIC (Community Led Image Collections) study will review the growth of community owned digital image collections, survey the socio-cultural, institutional and technical barriers owners face in image collection building, and make recommendations on how national initiatives could help in sharing and embedding the collections within the wider national FE and HE sectors.

Construction Innovation

http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/pubs/ci/toc_e.html

Construction Innovation is published quarterly by the NRC's Institute for Research in Construction. It provides news of recent research results, product evaluations, code developments and conference highlights to Canada's construction practitioners.

Cybula

http://www.cybula.com/

Cybula builds search technology using AURA for use in managing your existing complex unstructured data.

diacriTech

http://www.diacritech.com/

e-Publishing and Electronic Content Management company.

Digital Document Quarterly

http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_3.htm

Volume 4, Number 3, 3Q2005 is now available.

Digital Preservation Training Programme: DPTP

http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/

The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is a project funded by JISC under its Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme, or JISC 4/04 as it is more commonly known. The project is led by ULCC, working with its partners the Digital Preservation Coalition, Cornell University and the British Library. The project's aim is to develop a modular training programme with content aimed at multiple levels of attendee.

Directory of Persecuted Scientists, Engineers, and Health Professionals

http://shr.aaas.org/dpsehp/dir.pdf

This report is a product of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which operates under the oversight of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (CSFR).

Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment: DAME

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/dame/

DAME is an e-Science pilot project, demonstrating the use of the GRID to implement a distributed decision support system for deployment in maintenance applications and environments.

EESI-View

http://www.biochemj.org/bj/evhelp.htm

EESI-View is a completely new way to read journal articles on screen. It does not require any special software or plug-ins. Any modern browser will display this format.

From 1 January 2005 all new papers from the Biochemical Journal are available in EESI-View. In due course ALL new papers from journals published by Portland Press will be available in this format.

Engineering book reviews

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/bkrev/reviewedbks.asp

These are books reviewed by different academics, for the HE Academy: Engineering Subject Centre.

Engineering Education Conference: EE 2006

http://www.ee2006.info/

EE 2006 International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education, 24 — 26 July 2006, Liverpool, England.

espida

http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/

espida is a project which is developing a sustainable business-focused model for digital preservation at an FE/HE Institution. It will bring digital preservation to the core of strategic thinking, planning and culture at the University of Glasgow and disseminate the model to the wider community.

ESRC Society Today

http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/

“ESRC Society Today is a new website offering access to an unrivalled range of high quality social and economic research. It is run by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - the UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training relating to social and economic issues.”

ETD Center

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/

Electronic Theses and Dissertations from OhioLINK member universities.

EThOS

http://www.ethos.ac.uk/

The aim of the EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) project is to deliver a fully operational, easily scaleable and financially viable prototype UK online electronic theses service, and supporting infrastructure.

The EThOS project is part of JISC's (Joint Information Systems Committee) Digital Repositories Programme.

ETS

http://www.ets.org/

ETS is a nonprofit institution with a commitment to advance learning. The mission of ETS is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services for all people worldwide.

European Chemical Engineers' Directory: ECED

http://www.eced.cz/

Any person from Europe who considers himself/herself as a chemical, biochemical or process engineer can enter into the ECED

European Federation of Chemical Engineering: EFCE

http://www.efce.info/

Since 1953 the European Federation of Chemical Engineering has promoted scientific collaboration and supported the work of engineers and scientists in 28 European countries. Moreover, from the very beginning Eastern and Central European countries were included.

European inventory on validation of nonformal and informal learning

http://www.ecotec.com/europeaninventory/

“The European inventory is a key tool for realising lifelong learning in Europe. It will provide a catalogue of good practices in the area of validation for policy-makers and others to seek inspiration in.”

EuroSimE 2006

http://www.eurosime.org/

Conference covering Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems.

EuroSimE 2006 will be held in the city of Como, near Milan, Italy, in April 2006.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal due to begin publication in the spring of 2006. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians to discover research which can contribute to best-practice decision making.

First South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics: SEECCM-06

http://www.seeccm06.kg.ac.yu/

Following the growing success of International and National Conferences of Computational Mechanics worldwide, the National Associations of Computational Mechanics of the South-East European countries decided to launch an initiative for the organization of South-East European Conferences on Computational Mechanics every three years. The First Conference on this series will be held from June 28 -30, 2006 in Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro.

FirstStop Monarch Search

http://www.monarchsearch.com/

“FirstStop Monarch Search in simple words, is a Website Investigation and Mining tool.

This tool provides a set of powerful and highly customizable features to handle the most common web site mining tasks: creating site maps and offline copies, searching sites for keywords, comparing contents and search results with historical results, downloading selected contents, and requesting automated alerts about changes, to name a few.”

FirstStop Web Search

http://www.firststopwebsearch.com/index.html

Meta search software.

Forced Migration Online

http://www.forcedmigration.org/

“Forced Migration Online is a comprehensive web site that provides access to a diverse range of relevant information resources on forced migration. It is a technically and intellectually administered resource, combining specialist subject knowledge with high standards of information management.”

Free Pint Reports

http://www.freepint.com/shop/report/

These provide in-depth treatment of topics specifically for information professionals.

FreePatentsOnline.com

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

“FreePatentsOnline.com provides fast, easy-to-use access to millions of patents and patent applications.”

FRESHTIES

http://www.freshties.com/

FRESHTIES is a networking place for any aspect of study, career and lifestyle.

Frontiers in Forest Information: a centenary conference/workshop

http://www.plantlib.ox.ac.uk/forestry/events.htm

St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, 5-7 December 2005.

Frontline Global Marketing Services

http://www.frontlinegms.com/

Frontline Global Marketing Services Ltd was set up in September 2004 to provide outsource marketing, promotion and sales services to the academic and professional publishing industry.

Gold Bulletin

http://www.goldbulletin.org/

Free to access:

“Gold Bulletin is the quarterly, international peer reviewed journal on the latest science, technology and applications of gold. It includes papers on the latest research advances, state-of-the-art reviews, conference reports, book reviews and highlights of patents and scientific literature. Gold Bulletin is a multidisciplinary journal read by chemists, physicists, engineers, metallurgists, materials scientists, biotechnologists, surface scientists, and nanotechnologists amongst others, both within industry and academia.”

GoshMe

http://www.goshme.com/

Find the best search engines to your query.

Hamburg International Conference of Statistics

http://www.hicl.org/

To be held at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany from 15 - 16 September 2006. This international conference is co-organized by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Hamburg School of Logistics (HSL).

HomePoint

http://www.homepoint.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/

HomePoint works to improve the standard of housing information and advice provision throughout Scotland.

Household Products Database

http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/

Health & Safety Information on Household Products.

HR-Guide.com

http://www.hr-guide.com/

Contains hundreds of pages of information related to Human Resources.

IDES - The Plastics Web™

http://www.ides.com/

“People in the plastics industry refer to us as "The Plastics Data Sheets Guys." It's what we do - it's the only thing we do and we've been specializing in plastics data management since 1986.”

Also of interest is this page.

IEE Digital Library

http://www.ieedl.org/

You can freely search this database and browse the IEE Digital Library which holds more than 50,000 technical papers from IEE Journals and magazines back to 1994. Highly cited journals such as Electronics Letters are available alongside 14 IEE Proceedings titles, the IEE member magazine and 6 professional magazines, plus IEE conference publications and seminar digests.

Immunome Research

http://www.immunome-research.com/

An new online journal published by BioMed Central

Inderscience Journals Catalogue

http://www.inderscience.com/catalogue/

Features information about the 170 journals from Inderscience, which cover:
Engineering & Technology
Computing and ICT
Management & Business Administration
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development.

Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group Newsletter

http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/D53D190B-5AF7-4A15-B9F6-567A9C4A7671/0/NLUpdate2.pdf

The Summer 2005 issue is now available.

Info@UK

http://www.britishcouncil.org/info55.pdf

Issue 55, October 2005, is available.

Informal Education: infed

http://www.infed.org/

infed is an open, independent and not-for-profit site put together by a small group of educators.

Institution Archives Registry

http://archives.eprints.org/

You can register an institutional repository here.

Integral Vision

http://integralvisioning.org/

A weekly newsletter, Pluralities/Integration, monitoring P2P developments.

ITI-InfoCentral.com

http://www.iti-infocentral.com/

ITI-InfoCentral.com is the new digital archive of Information Today, Inc. (ITI) publications, brought to you by ITI and ProQuest Information and Learning.

Search, browse, preview and purchase from over 25,000 full-text news reports, articles, interviews, and critical reviews about the companies, products and people in the library, electronic information services, and digital content industries.

Contains content from Information Today, ONLINE, Searcher, Computers in Libraries, EContent, EMedia/EventDV, Multimedia & Internet@Schools, CRM, and KMWorld. The collection also includes past issues of Link-Up (now incorporated into Information Today).

Iugo

http://iugo.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

Iugo is a research and development project funded by JISC under the Virtual Research Environment Programme. All conferences and research events have much informal related content spread around the Internet, including abstracts, papers, presentations and audio/visual material. Locating this content can be difficult and time-consuming. Using semantic web tools, Iugo is investigating how to organise and provide access to this valuable information.

JLC-Online

http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/jlconline.storefront

JLC-Online is produced by the editors and publishers of The Journal of Light Construction, a monthly magazine serving residential and light-commercial builders, remodelers, designers, and other trade professionals.

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures: JoMMS

http://www.jomms.org/

New title.

The journal has as its objective the publication and wide electronic dissemination of innovative and consequential research in mechanics of materials and deformable structures of all types.

Journal of Vision

http://journalofvision.org/5/9/

A journal about visual function in humans and other organisms. Full-text articles may be accessed for free via the internet.

J-Stage

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/

Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic.

LIFE: Life Cycle Information for E-Literature

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/lifeproject/

LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) is a project looking at the life cycle of the collection and preservation of digital material. The project is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) Library Services and the British Library. LIFE is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

Linguamatics

http://www.linguamatics.com/

“Interactive Information Extraction, the new text mining and search technology from Linguamatics, puts information at your fingertips…”

LisJobNet

http://www.lisjobnet.com/Lisjobnet

CILIP’s recruitment website has been relaunched, with new functionality and content.

Magforum.com

http://www.magforum.com/

The site is all about magazine publishing (all aspects - from journalism through design, advertising, distribution, etc).

Mars Odyssey Mission Themis

http://themis.asu.edu/

The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) is an instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. It combines a 5-wavelength visual imaging system with a 9-wavelength infrared imaging system.

Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11220/

An article by Professor Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton.

Measuring Public Relations

http://www.freepint.com/issues/271005.htm#feature

Interesting feature article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Catherine Dhanjal.

mgsOnline

http://www.mgsonline.org.uk/

Musselburgh Grammar School's international learning zone, funded by Learning & Teaching Scotland's ICT Enhancement Awards.

This is a multi-award winning website, featuring amongst other things, mgsPodcasts.

Museums and the Web 2006

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/

International conference, March 22-25, 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

National eService Delivery Standards

http://www.nesds.gov.uk/index.html

The NeSDS programme sets efficiency benchmarks for local authorities based on aggregation of their own professional experience and best practices.

O&G

http://www.oilgas.co.uk/

A directory of oil and gas websites.

Oasis UDDI

http://www.uddi.org/

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) protocol is one of the major building blocks required for successful Web services. UDDI creates a standard interoperable platform that enables companies and applications to quickly, easily, and dynamically find and use Web services over the Internet. UDDI also allows operational registries to be maintained for different purposes in different contexts. UDDI is a cross-industry effort driven by major platform and software providers, as well as marketplace operators and e-business leaders within the OASIS standards consortium.

OilGas.co.uk Jobs

http://jobs.oilgas.co.uk/

Job vacancies from OilGas.co.uk

Oil-Rig-Job.com

http://www.oil-rig-job.com/

Includes detailed information on offshore oil rig jobs and employment at oil fields and installations.

Open Content Alliance: OCA

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.

Open Source Academy

http://www.opensourceacademy.gov.uk/

This is the main Web site for the Open Source Academy, its aim is to encourage the use of Open Source software by local authorities throughout the United Kingdom. In addition, this server will be used to host pages for a similar initiative aimed at SME's across the EU.

OU Careers Advisory Service

http://www.open.ac.uk/careers/pages/common/a-z.php

The OU Careers Advisory Service provides professional careers and education advisers in every region to support your course choice and career planning.

Papar Project

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/papar/

The Northern and Western Isles are dotted with islands called ‘Papay’ or ‘Pabbay’. What do these strange names mean? This report is the first stage of an attempt to find an answer.

paradigm

http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/

The Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (paradigm) project sees the major research libraries of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester come together to explore the issues involved in preserving digital private papers through gaining practical experience in accessioning and ingesting digital private papers into digital repositories, and processing these in line with archival and digital preservation requirements.

Pat2PDF

http://www.pat2pdf.com/

Convert patent documents to the PDF file format for easy viewing.

Patent Room

http://www.patentroom.com/

A museum of early design and illustration.

Pathway Card

http://www.pathwaycard.co.uk/

Skills passport for the management of the built environment.

“The Pathway Card provides a simple but highly effective medium that allows any individual to build and maintain their skills and qualifications profile containing both educational and vocational skills. This record can then be verified by either an employer, job centre, agency, qualifying organisation or school, college or university, adding significant credibility to your skills record.”

People’s Network

http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/

“The People’s Network is your network, whoever you are, whatever it is you want to do. It is delivered by England’s public libraries, managed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and supported by lottery funding.

People’s Network services started with computers in public libraries giving high speed access to the web for everyone. In total the network in libraries offers over 60 million hours of computer use every year, most of it free, with access to a wide range of software and digital content, in buildings already rich with collections of books and other material, all supported by trained and supportive staff.

Now through this website, the People's Network is here for you to enquire, discover and read online at your convenience whenever and wherever you want to log on.”

Portobello Online

http://porty.org.uk/home/

As I live in Portobello, a special mention for this site which is a community website serving residents, ex-pats and visitors to Portobello - Edinburgh's seaside.

Public Knowledge Project

http://pkp.ubc.ca/

The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research initiative located at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University on the west coast of Canada. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through innovative online environments.

Pulse on Germany - German sources of business information on the World Wide Web"

http://www.freepint.com/issues/131005.htm#tips

A Tips article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Helen Clegg.

Renewable Power Association: RPA

http://www.r-p-a.org.uk/

The RPA is a trade association whose membership spans the range of renewable technologies and resources and also includes service providers such as law firms, consultants, financiers, equipment manufacturers and supply agents.

RLG DigiNews

http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20793

The October issue is available.

RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly electronic newsletter that focuses on digitization and digital preservation.

Robust Details Limited.

http://www.robustdetails.com/

Robust details are construction solutions which provide an alternative to pre-completion sound testing as a method of complying with Part E (resistance to the passage of sound) of the Building Regulations (England and Wales).

RSSRules.com

http://www.rssrules.com/

Articles, forums, etc.

Saddam Hussein Sourcebook

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/

This site was mentioned in a recent LII Week.

Declassified Secrets from the U.S.-Iraq Relationship.

Science & Engineering Encyclopaedia

http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/

Freely available encyclopaedia.

”The idea behind the product is to replace the standard data and formula books that should be on every engineer and scientist's bookshelf (but which often go astray) with an easy to use electronic version.”

Science & Technology Web Awards 2005

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0005CFF9-524F-1340-924F83414B7F0000

25 sites.

Science Conferences

http://www.osti.gov/scienceconferences/index.html

The OSTI Science Conferences portal was devised to expedite access to conference papers and proceedings in various fields of science and technology. Emphasis is on U.S. conferences hosted and/or published by scientific and professional organizations whose areas of focus relate substantially to the Department of Energy's mission.

Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Network: SETNET

http://www.setnet.org.uk/

The Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Network (SETNET) is a UK-wide charity that promotes Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) awareness, especially among young people.

ScotCareers

http://www.scotcareers.co.uk/

For jobs in Edinburgh, jobs in Glasgow, jobs in Aberdeen or jobs in Scotland.

ScotCHEM

http://www.scotchem.ac.uk/

ScotCHEM is a major new collaborative venture for the pooling and enhancement of resources for chemistry research in Scotland. It brings together the major players in research in chemical sciences through the creation of new structures to generate enhanced critical mass and enable joint access to major resources.

Scottish Funding Council

http://www.sfc.ac.uk/

The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) was formally established on 3 October 2005. The new Council creates a single body providing a strategic overview of tertiary education in Scotland and will secure a more coherent system of high-quality learning and research.

Scottish Outdoor Access Code

http://www.outdooraccess-scotland.com/default.asp

Statutory Access Rights and the Scottish Access Code are now in effect. They came into effect 9 February 2005.

Scottish Science Advisory Committee

http://www.scottishscience.org.uk/

The Scottish Science Advisory Committee was established in May 2002, under the auspices of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, to provide independent advice to Scottish Executive Ministers on strategic scientific issues, including science strategy, science policy and science priorities.

SearchEnginesDir

http://www.searchenginesdir.com/

Search engines directory, categorized by countries and subjects.

Secret Intelligence Service: SIS

http://www.sis.gov.uk/

As Britain's secret service, SIS provides the British Government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and economic well-being of the United Kingdom.

Setpoint Gloucestershire

http://www.setpointgloucestershire.com/

“We are part of the national network SETNET. At a local level SETNET operates across the UK through its appointed centres of "excellence" - SETPOINTS. We are a one-stop shop with a wealth of information about resources, schemes and initiatives based on Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics. We will provide a focus for business, industry and teachers - promoting excellence.”

SHERPA DP

http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/

SHERPA DP is a two year project funded by the JISC. The purpose of this project is to create a collaborative, shared preservation environment for the SHERPA project http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ framed around the OAIS Reference Model.

The project brings together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the Arts and Humanities Data Service to create an environment that fully addresses all the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information.

ShowIPaddress.com

http://www.showipaddress.com/

Shows you your IP address.

SigmaNEST

http://www.sigmanest.com/

SigmaNEST is the leading CAD / CAM nesting software for laser, oxyfuel, plasma, waterjet, turret punch and routing machines.

Social Capital in Asian Studies

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/NV-eng-asia.htm

A new section of the Social Capital Gateway.

Society of Public Information Networks: SPIN

http://www.spin.org.uk/

“SPiN has over 300 members, including local authorities, health agencies, libraries, museums, central government departments, voluntary organisations and private sector companies. All are involved in disseminating or exchanging information with the public as well as with in-house staff in their own organizations”

Specifying and Implementing Enterprise Search

http://www.freepint.com/issues/290905.htm#feature

An feature article in FreePint, by Martin White

Sponsorships for Nonprofit Scholarly & Scientific Journals: A Guide to Defining & Negotiating Successful Sponsorships

http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/Sponsorship_Guide.pdf

A guide from SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition).

StudentDump

http://www.studentdump.com/

US site that allows students to post homework and school problems online and to discuss these problem amongst themselves.

Teaching Quality Information: TQI

http://www.tqi.ac.uk/

The Teaching Quality Information (TQI) website brings together key sources of official information about the quality of higher education in UK universities and colleges. It is part of an initiative to make more information available and accessible to applicants and their advisers. The TQI website is intended to help you compare institutions and subjects, and make a more informed choice of where to study.

The 21st-Century Chemistry Library

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/83/8341education2.html

An item in Chemical & Engineering News.

The Diary Junction

http://www.thediaryjunction.co.uk

The aim of this website is to provide an internet resource for those interested in historical and literary diaries and diarists.

The facts about open access

http://www.alpsp.org/publications/FAOAcomplete.pdf

A research report from Kaufman-Wills Group.

”Is Open Access publishing a financially viable model? It is impossible to draw any firm conclusions, of course. However, from the evidence we have collected this seems by no means certain.”

Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library

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

The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world.

Top 500 World Universities

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005TOP500list.htm

A ranking by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Touch Oil and Gas

http://www.touchoilandgas.com/

“Touch Oil and Gas.com serves the information needs of the oil and gas industry, creating a stimulating and informative arena that collates the expertise of market leaders and international organisations. Touch Oil and Gas.com is an online continuation of its Touch Briefings counterpart, Exploration and Production: The Oil and Gas Review, an bi-annual publication that provides market intelligence and targeted advertising platforms surrounding this specialist market.”

Trends in business information, provision and use

http://www.freepint.com/issues/131005.htm#feature

An feature article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Pam Foster.

Uncover China

http://www.uncoverchina.com/

Uncover China is a Web Directory designed to provide comprehensive categorised links to websites in Hong Kong.

Urban Design Ireland

http://www.udi.ie/

Provides an accessible, friendly, cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and communication of urban design knowledge and experiences in Ireland.

West of Scotland Colleges' Partnership: WOSCOP

http://www.woscop.co.uk/

The West of Scotland Colleges' Partnership is a company which exists to provide guidance and support to its members, both individually and as a group, in all matters relating to the European Structural Funds.

The Members of the company comprise seventeen Colleges located in the West of Scotland area.

What Is Open Source

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/15/what-is-opensource.html

By Dan Woods, coauthor of Open Source in the Enterprise.

Workthing

http://www.workthing.com/

Search for jobs by industry.

World Year of Physics 2005

http://physics2005.org/

The World Year of Physics 2005 is a United Nations endorsed, international celebration of physics. Events throughout the year will highlight the vitality of physics and its importance in the coming millennium, and will commemorate the pioneering contributions of Albert Einstein in 1905.

Writely

http://www.writely.com/

Web document sharing service, which was mentioned in Phil Bradley’s Internet Q&A section of CILIP Update recently.

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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.

There are a number of sites in this issue which merit the Nice Website tag:

CCLRC ePublication Archive
http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/

The CCLRC ePublication archive aims to collect the academic output of CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils) and make that accessible to the public. It contains pre-print journal articles, laboratory technical reports, conference presentations/papers, intellectual property rights and patents, theses and final project reports. (>54k records) Approx 30% freely available fulltext.

ESRC Society Today
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/
A new website offering access to a range of high quality social and economic research. It is run by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - the UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training relating to social and economic issues. 

The website brings together all ESRC-funded research with social science research from a select number of other high quality UK and international sources, including the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), the UK Data Archive, the Office of National Statistics and the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN).

IEE Digital Library
http://www.ieedl.org/
Free search and and browse of more than 50,000 electrical and electronic engineering technical papers from IEE Journals and magazines back to 1994.

ITI-InfoCentral
http://www.iti-infocentral.com/
Search, browse, preview and purchase from over 25,000 full-text news reports, articles, interviews, and critical reviews about the companies, products and people in the library, electronic information services, and digital content industries.

J-STAGE
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/
J-STAGE is an electronic journal site operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency ("JST") and it makes electronic journals issued by Japanese academic institutions available to the public via the Internet

Science Conferences
http://www.osti.gov/scienceconferences/index.html
From here you can simultaneously query a number of organizations and collections for scientific and technical conference proceedings or papers.

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

I was very saddened to hear about the death of Dr. Laurel Anne Clyde, the author of Weblogs & Libraries which was reviewed in Issue 124 of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/09/12/survey-of-the-biblioblogosphere-results/

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=543

RSS Feeds: Not Just for ESPN and CNN Anymore http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6257057.html

Physics News sources
http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/subjects/phys.html#News
From an SLA page.

Best Blogs in Asia
http://www.misohoni.com/bba/

PubSub LinkRanks 1000
http://www.pubsub.com/linkranks1000.php?page=1
The PubSub LinkRanks 1000 is a list of the most consistently influential sites that publish feeds, based on their average LinkRank scores over the past 30 days.

Useful information from ResearchBuzz on: Kebberfegg -- Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator
http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/kebberfegg.pl

RSSRules.com
http://www.rssrules.com/
Articles, forums, etc.

Inform
http://www.inform.com/
The new way to discover, access and personalize your news.

Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds

ColLib
http://collib.info/xml.php
The collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS). This feed lists the most recent harvested metadata records.

Online Information 2005
http://vnuuk.typepad.com/online_information_2005/
A blog for the forthcoming conference. This has been developed to provide a dedicated forum for discussion on information industry issues. Speakers and presenters will be posting to the blog in the run up to the event and during the exhibition and conference.

Journal of Vision
http://journalofvision.org/rss/
Open Access journal

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

White House RSS Feeds and Podcasts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/

Canadian Electronic Reserves
http://can-ereserves.blogspot.com/
A forum for librarians implementing E-reserves in academic libraries across Canada.

Internet and Electronic Resources for Engineers latest news on Engineeringtalk
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/indexes/categorybrowsenk_rss.xml
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/indexes/categorybrowsenk.html

unstruct.org
http://www.unstruct.org/
Interesting blog about 'unstructured information management'

RealClimate
http://www.realclimate.org/

PR Newswire's RSS Feeds
http://www.prnewswire.com/rss/

Living the Scientific Life
http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/

Syndication for Higher Ed
http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/wordpress/

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PRESS RELEASES

**** PsycBOOKS now available through CSA Illumina ****

PsycBOOKS, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), is now available through the CSA Illumina platform. PsycBOOKS offers access to more than 12,000 chapters from more than 730 books from APA and other publishers, including out-of-print books, and more than 150 classic psychology books dating from 1806. It also includes more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. The database is updated monthly with 15-20 new books.

Additional information about PsycBOOKS , including a list of the books available in the database, is available at: http://www.csa.com/factsheets/psycbooks-set-c.php.

**** Knovel and GlobalSpec Partner to Facilitate Engineering Research **** 

GlobalSpec to Index Knovel’s Virtual Library

Knovel Corporation, a leading provider of revolutionary Web-based information services that increase productivity for millions of engineers, scientists and librarians worldwide, announced its partnership with GlobalSpec, the specialized search engine and online community for engineers. Knovel’s collection of interactive reference books from over 30 publishers is now indexed within The Engineering Web^SM, GlobalSpec’s vertical search engine. 

**** Commission unveils plans for European digital libraries ****

The European Commission unveiled its strategy to make Europe’s written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet. Turning Europe’s historic and cultural heritage into digital content will make it usable for European citizens for their studies, work or leisure and will give innovators, artists and entrepreneurs the raw material that they need. The Commission proposes a concerted drive by EU Member States to digitise, preserve, and make this heritage available to all. It presents a first set of actions at European level and invites comments on a series of issues in an online consultation (deadline for replies 20 January 2006). The replies will feed into a proposal for a Recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation, to be presented in June 2006.

A full press release is available: http://digbig.com/4etkq

**** Nature Publishing Group announces the launch of Nature Physics ****

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Physics, a new research journal dedicated to publishing top-tier research across the entire spectrum of physics.

The first issue of Nature Physics published in October and is available online at http://www.nature.com/naturephysics

The full press release is available: http://npg.nature.com/pdf/nphys.doc

**** The Renaissance Library Calendar 2006 features two libraries which have been honoured with UNESCO awards in 2005 ****

Biblioteca Palafoxiana, (the Palafoxiana Library) in Puebla, Mexico, dating from 1646, was listed on UNESCO's "Memory of the World" International Register in July, 2005.

Also in July, the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, including its extensive library, dating from 1563, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

These World famous old libraries appear in the 2006 edition of the Renaissance Library Calendar as two of the 12 most beautiful and historic libraries in the World. They were selected from nominations by library and information professionals and book lovers in more than 40 countries.

The calendar contains colour photographs of 12 wonderful old libraries, ranging in dates from 597AD to 1838.

The Renaissance Library Calendar is in its sixth year. The 2006 edition contains libraries from 11 countries - Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy (2), Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA. It is published by ISIM of Stockholm, Sweden.

For additional information on the Renaissance Library Calendar
Contact: Stuart Urwin, ISIM, Torsvagen 7b, 192 67 Sollentuna, Sweden
Tel. +46 8754 15 55 Fax: +46 8754 13 33
e-mail:stuart.urwin@isim.org
Copies of the calendar can be obtained at the Renaissance Library website at http://www.renaissancelibrary.com/calendars.htm

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

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RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

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

Recent Arrivals

621.3845 MOL
Wideband wireless digital communications
by Andreas F Molisch
Prentive Hall, 2001

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi

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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

Scottish Athletics Clubs
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/clubs.php

Great2Run
http://www.great2run.org/

Bored Student
http://www.boredstudent.com/
Edinburgh’s first ultra-friendly, up to date student website.

The Honeycomb, Edinburgh
http://www.the-honeycomb.co.uk/

The Liquid Room, Edinburgh
http://www.liquidroom.com/

Worldwide DJ
http://worldwidedj.com/

Rip Curl
http://www.ripcurl.com/

The Cubes
http://www.cubefigures.com/

PassAlong
http://www.passalong.com/

Book This Band

Strange Brew
http://www.strange-brew.com/
Sunderland 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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