Random Quotes

"If we consider that there are thousands upon thousands of users, accessing millions of articles, written by hundreds of thousands of authors, in as many publications, through tens of thousands of libraries and organisations, whose holdings are supplied by tens of thousands of publishers, who in turn can provide access to approaching a third of a million titles of which some 15,000-plus are available online, you can begin to understand just how complex the supply chain has become!"
Margaret Dunne, talking about the role of subscription agents and intermediaries in the serials supply chain. "Subscription agents – from paper to electronic" Library + Information Update, Vol 4(11), November 2005, pp37-39

"Blogs are darned good therapy for people who need to get stuff off their chests and don't care who, if anyone, reads it. The best of them share useful information and welcome thoughtful feedback - but they fall down when the motivation is self-aggrandisement." David Tebbutt, from the article "Shut up until you have something to say" Information World Review, November 2005.

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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

ACME / ISSEC 2006 Meeting

http://www.me.qub.ac.uk/ai06/

ACME, the UK Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering.

ISSEC, the Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation.

This year, the annual meetings ACME and ISSEC will be combined and hosted by the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Queen's University of Belfast, April 19-20 2006.

AERADE Newsletter

http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/newsletter1105/

The November edition of the AERADE newsletter is now available.

Ariadne Issue 45

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/

The latest issue of Ariadne is available, including articles on Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search within Portal Frameworks, and Repositories, etc.

ARTstor

http://www.artstor.org/info/

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections.

AskaChE

http://www.askache.com/

“We answer questions related to chemical engineering in petroleum refining”

Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories: APSR

http://www.apsr.edu.au/

The APSR Project aims to establish a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format.

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V3N11.pdf

The Awareness Watch Featured Report in November features a comprehensive listing of Agriculture Resources on the Internet.

Bioenergy NoE

http://www.bioenergynoe.org/

The Bioenergy Network of Excellence (NoE) is a pan-European group of eight leading bioenergy institutes. We are integrating our activities to achieve new synergies in research to build a Virtual Bioenergy R&D Centre that will spearhead the development of a competitive bioenergy market in Europe.

Biogs

http://www.biogs.co.uk/

Biogs is a specialist research service providing biographical information on business people and other notable individuals.

Britain in Print

http://www.britaininprint.net/

Launched in January 2003, the Britain in Print project will, for the first time, provide free access for all - from the home, school, library, or workplace - to information about the rich collections of early British books that are held in twenty-one of the nation's most important libraries.

British Library Research Archive

http://sherpa.bl.uk/

A database of papers and materials by researchers who are not affiliated to an academic institution. Those submitting documents here are usually the author or editor or have the necessary permission to make the documents available via this archive. Some of the material may not have been peer-reviewed.

BSI education

http://www.bsieducation.org/

The BSI education website helping students to understand the value and need of standards.

Career.edu

http://www.career.edu/

A new non-profit job board organized specifically for the international academic community. United Kingdom is the newest member of their academic network.

Che-Comp BookStore

http://www.chembookstore.com/

“Che-Comp BookStore™ is an online affiliate bookstore that features chemical engineering books. It compiles a list of recommended chemical engineering books and references for students and chemical engineers.”

ChemIndustry.com Newsletters

http://www.chemindustry.com/newsletter/

This is the Newsletter archive page, with links to a number of useful newsletters.

Chmoogle

http://www.chmoogle.com/

An open-access chemistry search engine.

Collecting the history of fuel cells

http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/

The history of fuel cells, especially developments of the past 30 years, presented by the Smithsonian Institution.

Commanet

http://www.commanet.org/

Commanet is a charity that promotes and supports the development of community archives using Comma software.

Conference Room 4: CR4

http://cr4.globalspec.com/

Conference Room 4 (CR4) is a forum for engineers, scientists and technical researchers to discuss engineering news, seek technical help and get answers to burning questions.

CourseCafe

http://www.coursecafe.com/

“CourseCafe is a personalized, student powered search application.

Search, Manage, and Track all of your course work related Internet search in a single place. Benefit from the combined search of all students who have searched on the same topic.”

Database Reviews and Reports: Compendex Engineering Village 2

http://www.istl.org/05-fall/databases.html

Reviewed by Meghan Lafferty in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2005.

Design Build Network

http://www.designbuild-network.com/

Design Build Network lists many industry suppliers for the design, construction and outfitting of new buildings. It also lists industry events and conferences and has a growing glossary of industry terms.

Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisationof cultural and scientific content

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/dap.htm

Minister for Culture, David Lammy, launched in Bristol on 15th November 2005, a new action plan to make Europe's cultural heritage more accessible through the Internet.

Earth Science World ImageBank

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

The Earth Science World ImageBank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This ImageBank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.

EazyFolder

http://www.eazyfolder.com/

EazyFolder is a tool for Windows users which improves work ergonomics.

“Find the required file quickly and accurately – free trial version now available!”

eBook Impressions

http://www.ebookimpressions.com/

Stocks over 20,000 bestseller fiction and non-fiction ebooks which are downloaded to any PC or handheld device.

EDINA Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline10-3/index.html

November 2005: Volume 10.3

e-Framework

http://www.e-framework.org/

The e-Framework is an initiative by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) and partners to produce an evolving and sustainable, open standards based, service oriented technical framework to support the education and research communities.

Emerald Librarian Toolkit

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/librariantoolkit

A series of free guides which will enable librarians to better market the electronic full text, reviews and abstracts to their faculty and student user base, to encourage optimum use of services. The toolkit comprises modules ranging from training users to monitoring usage and promoting Emerald within the institution.

E-MmITS Autumn/Winter issue

http://www.slainte.org.uk/mmits/files/pdf/emmits/winter05.pdf

The Autumn/Winter issue of E-MmITS the electronic newsletter of the Multimedia and Information Technology Group Scotland is now available.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: EPSRC – Annual Report

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CMSWeb/Downloads/Publications/Corporate/AnnualReport2004-2005.pdf

This annual report provides an account of EPSRC’s key activities in Research, Training, Knowledge Transfer and Science in Society for the period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005.

ePortfolio.org

http://www.eportfolio.org/

“ePortfolio.org is a student-centered platform which, in Version 4, is augmented by a Project Builder and an Assessment Module. Students can create and customize portfolios for academic, career, or personal uses; maintain their plan of study; and share their work, goals, and achievements with advisors, career counsellors, and employers. Faculty, departments, and institutions can create portfolio assignments linked to scoring rubrics. Assessment committees can randomly select portfolios, score them with rubrics, and generate assessment reports.”

eScholarship Repository

http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/

The repository, sponsored by the California Digital Library, provides persistent access and makes the content easily discoverable. It is a project of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library within the University of California Office of the President. eScholarship, whose mission is to facilitate and support scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication, is providing this and other services in response to an expressed need for alternative publishing mechanisms.

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/index.html

New open access journal.

The aim of “EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing” (EURASIP JASMP) is to bring together researchers and engineers working on the theory and applications of EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. EURASIP JASMP will be an interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of all basic and applied aspects of speech communication and audio processes.

Eureskter Swiki

http://swicki.eurekster.com/

“A swicki is new kind of search engine that allows anyone to create deep, focused searches on topics you care about. Unlike other search engines, you and your community have total control over the results and it uses the wisdom of crowds to improve search results.”

ExpoAdvantage

http://www.expoadvantage.com/en/

“ExpoAdvantage Inc. is wholly responsible for launching the independent exhibition Web Site ExpoAdvantage. Its goal is to support and develop North American trade and consumer shows via the Internet.”

Fez - the new Fedora-based digital repository management and workflow system.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez

Programmers at The University of Queensland Library have developed digital repository software freely available to any institution wanting to implement it. The digital repository software, called Fez, is based on Fedora 2 and can run any kind of repository - from publications archives to image repositories, as well as mixed-use business or institutional repositories which contain a variety of digital objects such as datasets, documents, spreadsheets, institutional records, archives and multimedia. Fez can also be used for the management of learning objects, or simply as a metadata gateway to distributed content. The software can handle multiple metadata schema.

It is still in beta, with many further developments planned.

The software was developed as part of the UQ Library's contribution to the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories project.

FiltraGuide

http://www.filtraguide.com/

Filtration and Separation Portal.

FriedlNet

http://www.friedlnet.com/

“Friedl Business Information has concentrated its full energy on filling one of the international community's greatest needs… the need for up-to-date, China-based business and economic information.”

Get Safe Online

http://www.getsafeonline.org/

Get Safe Online will help you protect yourself against internet threats. The site is sponsored by government and leading businesses working together to provide a free, public service.

Gizmag

http://www.gizmag.co.uk/

Gizmag is a multiple-medium magazine with a bi-monthly print edition, free downloadable back issues, a free weekly email newsletter and a web site covering invention, innovation and emerging technologies.

Glasgow Women's Library

http://www.womens-library.org.uk/

Glasgow Women's Library is a provider of information by and about women. It is a popular meeting place for women and its creative, supportive environment acts as a catalyst for projects, friendships and laughter.

Glasgow's Health Hub

http://www.ghi.org.uk/glasgowshealthhub/

Glasgow's Health Hub aims to provide an electronic one-stop shop for information about health and health related issues for citizens of Glasgow and the Greater Glasgow area.

Gomeo

http://www.gomeo.co.uk/

Gomeo, born in November 2003, is a guide to the net. Includes “web-search and product-search, directories with complete vertical search solutions, functional instruments, as well as constantly adjourned contents and offers.”

Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography

http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/

This bibliography presents selected English-language electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project.

Graham Technical Library

http://www.graham-mfg.com/techlib.html

The Graham Technical Library contains articles developed by Graham Corporation for publication in various magazines and technical seminar presentations. Contains articles on Heat Transfer, Vacuum Equipment, Surface Condensers, etc.

Heriot-Watt University Dubai

http://www.hwud.com/

Heriot-Watt now has a campus in Academic City, Dubai.

Higher Education Libraries in your PERsonal history research: Helpers

http://helpers.shl.lon.ac.uk/

Helpers is intended to be used as a second line of attack in your research. If you've exhausted all the possibilities in your local library or with the census data and you've come up against a brick wall, or you want to deepen your understanding of your family history, then this may be the place that can help you.

Highlights

http://www.inderscience.com/highlights

The free quarterly newsletter from Inderscience - keep up to date with the Inderscience dynamic publishing programme and services, and also read news of special offers and free trials, plus topical articles. Inderscience publish journals in: Engineering, Computing/ICT and Technology; Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development; Management and Business Administration; Healthcare, Sport and Leisure.

Look out for a very special offer in February.

Humanities Ejournals

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ejournals/

This page from Humbul brings together over 100 freely available, peer-reviewed ejournals in the Humanities.

I want to ...

http://www.philb.com/iwantto.htm

Hints from Phil Bradley, such as how to share research with colleagues, set up bookmarks that can be used anywhere, etc.

IMS ePortfolio Specification

http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/

The IMS ePortfolio specification was created to make ePortfolios interoperable across different systems and institutions.

Information Gateway and Learner Guides

http://www2.sfeu.ac.uk/

From the Scottish Further Education Unit.

SFEU are pleased to announce that a revised and enhanced Information Gateway (an online resource with access to educational websites and Learner Guides) has been launched. A significant number of resources have been added to support the SQA Higher National modernisation programme.

The new subject material specifically focuses on the following subjects: Administration - Biotechnology - Business - Care - Computing and IT - Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Performing Arts – Acting and Performance - Sport and Fitness - Sports Management - Working with Communities.

Ingenious

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

Ingenious is a new website that brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture. It weaves unusual and thought-provoking connections between people, innovations and ideas. Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates.

Innovation Insights

http://www.scientific.thomson.com/news/innovation-insights/mainarticle.html

“This new e-newsletter, Innovation Insights, gives you the latest Thomson Scientific company and product news relevant to your business. It replaces the Delphion®, MicroPatent, and MDC e-newsletters and offers the same high quality, regular updates on these products plus other key solutions including Derwent World Patent Index®, Web of Knowledge® and Techstreet™.”

Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology Library Catalogue

http://www.imarest.org/olib/

Searchable Library catalogue of the IMarEST.

Institution of Civil Engineers Image Library

http://www.ice.org.uk/knowledge/library_image_gallery.asp

A selection of images of interest to civil engineers.

Institution of Structural Engineers Library

http://www.istructe.org.uk/library/index.asp

Direct access to over 37,000 references on everything from adhesives to zoos.

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language: IATEFL

http://www.iatefl.org/

“Our mission is to link, develop and support English Language Teaching professionals throughout the world.”

International Osteoporosis Foundation: IOF

http://www.osteofound.org/

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is an international non-governmental organization whose bylaws were registered in Berne, Switzerland in 1987 as the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (EFFO). In 1998, EFFO joined forces with the International Federation of Societies on Skeletal Diseases (IFSSD), established 1995. IOF's mission is to advance the understanding of osteoporosis and to promote prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease worldwide.

International Review of UK Engineering Research 2004

http://www.irer2004.org.uk/

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Royal Academy of Engineering have jointly organised an international review of the standing, quality and potential of engineering research in the UK. This review is the seventh in a series undertaken by EPSRC in collaboration with the relevant subject societies.

Internet TV Station Directory

http://www.internet-tvstations.co.uk/

A web-site directory detailing true broadband internet TV stations that are free to view.

“Our company, Intervision, is one of the leading companies in Europe for producing content and running internet TV stations. We were not satisfied with existing directories and sites that claimed to list TV stations and decided to launch our own, primarily with a view to providing one easy access point for the growing number of people with connection speeds that make an internet TV station a realistic viewing proposition.”

inthenews.co.uk

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/

inthenews.co.uk is a site dedicated to entertainment news – including celebrity, film, television, theatre and gaming news.

Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation: ISSEC

http://www.issec.ie/

The Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation (ISSEC) was founded to act as a focal point for people with a common interest in aspects of scientific and engineering computation.

I-volv Recruitment Solutions Ltd

http://www.i-volv.co.uk/

I-volv Recruitment Solutions Ltd is an Independent Recruitment Consultancy providing high quality personnel, to companies and organisations throughout the Environmental, Renewable Energy and Water sectors within the UK and Worldwide.

JeLit Journal of eLiteracy

http://www.jelit.org/

JeLit is an open access journal. Readers are not charged for access or making use of JeLit contents. JeLit is hosted by the University of Glasgow, courtesy of DAEDALUS and IT Education Unit.

LAMS Community

http://lamscommunity.org/

This website is the global online community for all teachers, administrators and developers that use LAMS.

Leonardo ENERGY

http://www.leonardo-energy.org/

Leonardo ENERGY is a network providing qualified information on sustainable electrical energy. It is an initiative of the European Copper Institute, supported by over 120 partners from industry & academia. The primary focus of Leonardo ENERGY is energy conservation, quality of supply, safety & comfort.

Leonardo Power Quality Initiative

http://www.lpqi.org/

“To professionals, designing, building or operating electrical installations, this website offers: - a comprehensive library of application notes, describing power quality problems, their diagnosis and solutions...”

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

http://www.libsuccess.org/

“This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas for librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized.”

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

http://www.libraryresearch.com/

EBSCO Publishing is providing the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database as a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management.

LILAC 2006

http://teaching.lse.ac.uk/tech/lilac/

Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference. University of Leeds, 27th-29th March 2006.

LookSmart Science

http://www.looksmartscience.com/

"LookSmart Science offers a more useful web experience by customizing search results, therefore only providing information which is relevant to your needs. We provide you with the essential, not exhaustive, search results and relevant content -- which means we keep it simple and make it easy."

National Digital Archive of Datasets: NDAD

http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

The National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) is part of The National Archives. NDAD preserves and provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments.

National Probation Research and Information Exchange: NPRIE

http://www.nprie.info/

NPRIE advises and supports members, agencies and other organisations in the development, use and provision of research and information in the pursuit of National Probation Service objectives and towards the support and development of NOMS.

Netvibes.com

http://www.netvibes.com/

• Netvibes.com is a customizable web 2.0 homepage solution. This service is free and gives you the user the ability:
• to create a personalized page with the content you like.
• to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 applications with a very simple interface
• to access your page anytime and from any computer.

NHS Scotland e-Library

http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/

The NHS Scotland e-Library aims to empower NHS Scotland staff and benefit patient care by providing high quality knowledge support throughout the patient journey. It is the primary vehicle for delivery of NHS Education’s national strategy for NHS Scotland Knowledge Services Exploiting the Power of Knowledge in NHS Scotland.

OAses

http://www.psyplexus.com/oases/

OAses, a toolbar for Internet Explorer, is designed to make internet searching easier for students, academicians and scientists. OAses searches many open access resources, free databases, and search engines. The toolbar is free to download and use, easy to install, and requires no registration.

Open Video Project

http://www.open-video.org/

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

OpenCourseWare Finder

http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/

The OCW Finder currently shows results from:

MIT OCW
Utah State University OCW
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
Tufts University OCW
Foothill De-Anza SOFIA
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative.

PetrolPrices.com

http://www.petrolprices.com/

Shows the price of fuel at the cheapest stations in your area.

Photographic Information eXchange: PIX

http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/

PIX, the Photographic Information eXchange, is a collection of photographs related to renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and to the work of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.

PodSpider

http://www.podspider.com/

Podcasting is the process of making audio files (podcasts) available on the internet using a special RSS feed.

PopulationMondiale.com

http://www.populationmondiale.com/

World Population Clock.

Regenex 2006

http://www.regenex.co.uk/

Earls Court, London, 21-23 Feb 2006. “Regenex 2006 is an exciting event dedicated to promoting and developing the business of urban regeneration and its critical role in the creation of Sustainable Communities”

Royal Institution of Naval Architects

http://www.rina.org.uk/searchcommon.pl?content=publication&n=565

Searchable publications database.

Scottish Information Network

http://www.scotinfonet.com/

The Scottish Information Network is an informal networking group for information professionals. Members come from a mix of backgrounds to organise and attend events, and network.

Scottish Language Dictionaries

http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/

SLD is a body established to develop dictionaries and to promote the languages of Scotland.

ScotWays

http://www.scotways.com/

Our objects are the preservation, defence, restoration and acquisition of public rights of access for the public benefit over land in Scotland, including public rights of way.

Semantic Web Environmental Directory: SWED

http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/index.html

“The Semantic Web Environmental Directory (SWED) is a prototype of a new kind of directory of environmental organisations and projects. Our goal is to develop a sustainable (realistically maintainable) and easy to use directory about environmental organisations and projects throughout the UK.

How is SWED different? - Rather than centralising the storage, management and ownership of the information, in SWED the organisations and projects themselves hold and maintain their own information. The information is published on their web sites. SWED simply 'harvests' that information and uses it to create the directory.”

Sense of Place South East

http://www.sopse.org.uk

This site brings you images and information about South East England. You can find material from libraries, museums, archives, local papers and a range of organizations from the region.

Seohawk Internet Marketing Articles

http://www.seohawk.com/expert_seo_articles.asp

Some articles related to Internet Marketing.

SOA Web Services Journal

http://webservices.sys-con.com/

From SYS-CON.

Spider Networks

http://www.spider-networks.net/

“Spider Networks is the power behind interactive web communications. With over 500,000 registered users, we are the leader in the rapidly expanding market for online interactive solutions for sports clubs, ISPs, associations, enterprises and schools.”

Supergen Future Network Technologies

http://www.supergen-networks.org.uk/

This web site records progress by the consortium of universities researching Future Network Technologies, that is, networks that are able to support a sustainable energy policy for the UK.

Supergen Marine

http://www.supergen-marine.org.uk/

The Marine Energy Research Consortium commenced in October 2003 following the award of £2.6 million under the EPSRC's SUPERGEN Programme. The award will fund research into marine renewable energy conversion and delivery. The consortium is undertaking collaborative research with the intention of achieving a step change in the development of generic marine energy technologies.

The Heart Of Neolithic Orkney Publications

http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/orkneyresearch

A Historic Scotland site.

The London Skills Institute: TLSI

http://www.tlsi.co.uk/cms/index.php

“We are a well established London based College (School of English) registered with the Department For Further Education and Skills, with a world-wide reputation for offering the highest quality English courses at the most attractive prices.”

The Solar Guide

http://www.thesolarguide.com/

Information on the benefits of solar power, investment opportunities, panel installation and more.

Their Past Your Future Scotland

http://www.scotlandswar.info/

An exhibition and events programme exploring the Second World War in Scotland, Their Past Your Future Scotland will bring together people of all ages to learn about the impact of Second World War on Scotland.

THOMAS (Library of Congress)

http://thomas.loc.gov/

THOMAS, the congressional-information website, available free from the Library of Congress, has a new look and easier navigation.

Timothy Pont’s Maps

http://www.nls.uk/pont/

Among the National Library of Scotland's greatest treasures are the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s.

Topenglishteaching.com

http://www.topenglishteaching.com/

A source for English teaching resources: games, activities, worksheets, songs, lesson plans, readings, listening.

TwitchGuru

http://www.twitchguru.com/

TwitchGuru offers reviews, news and information about the gaming industry.

UK Student

http://www.uk-student.net/

“UK Largest Student Community Portal offering Student Forum, Student Directory, Academic Directory, Free Recruitment and other information useful for Students. This is a NON-Commercial Project.”

ViewFinder

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/

A new online image resource for England's history.

Visual and Sound Materials Portal: Scoping Study and Demonstrator Project

http://edina.ac.uk/projects/vsmportal/

JISC has funded a partnership led by EDINA to scope and build a demonstrator portal for time-based media and still images - including those licensed for the JISC community, those available 'free' on the internet, and those generated within the academic and publicly-funded community.

Vital Link

http://www.vitallink.org.uk

Bringing libraries and adult literacy together through reading for pleasure.

VoIP: Threat or Opportunity to the Market Research Industry?

http://www.freepint.com/issues/101105.htm#tips

An article in Free Pint by Gary Giddings.

Walter Scott Digital Archive

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/

“The Walter Scott Digital Archive is an Edinburgh University Library online resource created in the Special Collections Division. It is designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections. We hope that in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web.”

What Is Web 2.0

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

An article by Tim O'Reilly.

WIDWISAWN

http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Issues/Vol3/issue3_4_1.html

The latest issue of WIDWISAWN (a 'webzine' covering various developments in the Scottish library, museums and archives communities) is available.

ZINC

http://blaster.docking.org/zinc/

A free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 3.3 million compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats.

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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.

Netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/

Netvibes is one of the best sites I've come across for a long time. It enables you to create your own web-based home page, which you can access from anywhere. It's extremely easy to use, and easy to add content of interest. I think it has great potential for further development.

Here are some key features:

ingenious
http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

Apart from the fact that the home page makes me feel dizzy, this is an interesting site with some novel ideas for making connections between different kinds of information materials.

Ingenious brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture. Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates.

The key NMSI contributors to the site are the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, the National Railway Museum, the Science & Society Picture Library and the Science Museum Library.

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

Blogcritics
http://blogcritics.org/
"More than 50,000 daily visitors rely upon Blogcritics.org -- the famously "sinister cabal" of more than 1,100 bloggers -- for the latest news, opinions, and reviews on music, books, film, TV, popular culture, technology, and politics. Blogcritics.org is a filtered microcosm of the blogosphere and a full service news and reviews source, covering all aspects of contemporary culture and society."

TagCloud
http://www.tagcloud.com/index.php
I saw this one at Phil Bradley's Blog.
TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

Publishers Missing a Niche?
http://blogs.fletcher.tufts.edu/rss4lib/archives/000848.html
This is an interesting post from the RSS4Lib Blog, which I completely agree with.

"RSS-ssh: it’s really simple" by Leonard Latiff, Library + Information Update, Vol 4(11), November 2005, pp43-44.
"For me the most interesting implication is that RSS readers mark the way the internet might work in the future. With the huge amount of content being added to the internet, web portals and aggregators will become an important tool (and filter) for users."

http://www.chemindustry.com/newsletter/newsletter61.html
This issue of the ChemIndustry.com newsletter is dedicated to RSS news feeds.

Blog Search Market Heats Up
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=14437

British Librarian Bloggers
http://groups.google.com/group/britlibblogs
Are you a British librarian who is blogging? Meet other bloggers, discuss topics of mutual interest, swop tips and ideas on blogging. A group set up by Phil Bradley.

Blog Search Engines
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/newsblog.htm
An article by Wendy Boswell.

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
http://feedvalidator.org/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/moblog/
Flickr photos tagged as moblogs

http://www.icerocket.com/?tab=moblog&q=
IceRocket MoBlogs

Blog Search Engine
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
has a moblog filter

Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds

OUseful Info
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/index.rdf
Thoughts and doodles on tools and Web2.0 technologies for distance education and digital libraries, that may be OUseful, someday

Ian Snowley's Weblog
http://snowley.typepad.com/ian_snowleys_weblog/

ARCLog
http://www.acrlblog.org/

KnowledgeLink Newsletter
http://scientific.thomson.com/ts/news/knowledgelink-20.rss
From Thomson Scientific

Beyond the job
http://librarycareers.blogspot.com/

RSS Compendium Blog
http://ast.antville.org/

Browsing
http://browsing.blogspot.com/
Interesting blog from a librarian (Keith Nockels, Clinical Sciences Library, University of Leicester) who has a particular interest in Operating Department Practice.

RSS feeds are now available for IEEE journals, via IEEE Xplore, see for example: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5

Thinking about the future
http://paulmiller.typepad.com/
Personal perspectives on information science, the evolving Internet, delivery of public services online, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, communities, folksonomies and more.

News about the PerX project and the Engineering Repository Cross Search Demonstrator
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/news/perx.rss

Fire Engineering Magazine
http://fe.pennnet.com/rss/rssfaq.cfm

OUTDOORSmagic RSS News Feed
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/news/rss.asp

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PRESS RELEASES

**** Nearly 60 years of Human Relations digitized by SAGE Publications ****

As part of a major project, SAGE Publications is delighted to announce that it has digitized the last 59 years of Human Relations, making such ground-breaking articles as Festinger's "A Theory of Social Comparison Processes" from 1954, available online for the first time.

As a result, SAGE is able to offer access to all Human Relations content dating back to 1947 on SAGE Journals Online (at http://hum.sagepub.com) for no additional cost to an institutional subscription in 2006.

Published in association with the Tavistock Institute, Human Relations is one of the most prestigious and longest running academic journals in the management community.

For more information or press enquiries, please contact Becky Fishman
at: becky.fishman@sagepub.co.uk, or call + 44 (0)20 7324 8508

**** Index to Theses announces flexible new subscription options ****

Index to Theses http://www.theses.com/ the only comprehensive repository of British and Irish theses, has announced a series of flexible new subscription options to complement its recent expansion of coverage.

From 2006, customers will be able to dispense with the print or online editions as appropriate, subscribing to either the print edition only, the online service only, or continue with the combined offering.

This new service is just part of a series of enhancements implemented by the publishers, Expert Information, over recent months. Other value-added developments include: the addition of a back file covering theses dating back to 1716, bringing the current collection total to nearly 500,000 theses listings; the addition of 44,000 new abstracts covering the period 1970 – 1985, bringing the total of abstracts available in the collection to nearly 250,000; improved searching linking old and new university names; increased publication cycle from the committed 4 times per year to 6 times per year, and sometimes more, to cope with increased submissions.

Contact: contact@theses.com

**** OCLC PICA acquires Fretwell-Downing Informatics Group ****

The new organisation will be able to offer the best products and services to its customers, at controlled costs and more rapidly.  FDI will continue to trade under its own name. Both OCLC PICA and FDI are committed to supporting the existing product ranges. The acquisition enables both companies to make use of each others’ technology, capabilities and skill sets. It means the new organisation can bring stronger products to market more rapidly. Additionally, even better support can be offered to customers by leveraging the potential of newly acquired local knowledge and service organisations. Read more about FDI at http://www.fdisolutions.com . 

OCLC PICA is the European library cooperative and offers an extensive range of leading edge and high-tech products and services for both library professionals and library end users.

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

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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

The Venue
http://www.edinvenue.com/

travelbite.co.uk
http://www.travelbite.co.uk/
travelbite.co.uk is a site dedicated to travel and holiday news – including accommodation, destinations and flights.

Jazz Centre
http://www.jazzcentre.co.uk/
Grassmarket, Edinburgh

OUTDOORSmagic
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/
news, reviews, forums for walkers

Book This Band

Andy Kain Band
http://www.biggar-little-festival.com/html/index.php
I saw this band play recently, and they were terrific!

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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