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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

1st International Conference on Digital Information Management: ICDIM

http://www.icdim.org/

December 06-08, 2006 Christ College, Bangalore, India.

28th European Conference on Information Retrieval

http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/

Imperial College London between Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th April 2006

The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.

6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing: RASC 2006

http://www.rasc2006.org.uk/

The 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, RASC 2006, will be hosted by the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, on the 10th, 11th, and 12th July 2006.

A2A

http://www.a2a.org.uk/

The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally throughout England and dating from the eighth century to the present day. “The A2A database was last updated in January 2006 and now contains 9.5 million records relating to 8.7 million items held in 396 record offices and other repositories.”

AACSB International

http://www.aacsb.edu/

AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is a not-for-profit corporation of educational institutions, corporations and other organizations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management.

AbbreviationZ.com

http://abbreviationz.com/

“Launched on 2001, AbbreviationZ.com is the largest human-edited acronyms and abbreviations directory on the internet with more than 350,000 entries classified by over 120 different categories and sub-categories.

The new innovative meta-search feature allows users, who are searching for acronyms and abbreviations definitions on the local AbbreviationZ.com directory, to locate additional meanings on the internet by using a meta-search engine, which is based on proprietary natural-language-processing algorithms, that lookup and parse multiple search-engines simultaneously.”

Academia

http://www.ybp.com/acad/index.html

A magazine and resource for academic librarians.

Accessibility Resources

http://www.accessibilityresources.info/

A Subject Tracer Information Blog from Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring accessibility resources on the World Wide Web.

AfricanIndex

http://www.africanindex.com/

The mission of AfricanIndex is to maintain a network of regional, local and international organizations serving the African Market worldwide.

Ariadne: Decennial Issue

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/

The Decennial Issue, no. 46, of Ariadne has now been published.

This issue contains many articles of interest to academics.

Ask Jeeves Picture Search

http://pictures.ask.com/

A new picture search service.

AskPhilosophers

http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/

“This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it. To date, there have been 907 questions posted and 1231 responses.”

Awareness Watch

http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N2.pdf

The February 2006 V4N2 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available. The title is Deep Web Research 2006.

Biology Direct

http://www.biology-direct.com/

Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, and reviews from the full spectrum of biology.

”Biology Direct aims to provide authors and readers of research articles with a novel system of peer review. This will include making the author responsible for obtaining reviewers' reports, via the journal's Editorial Board; making the peer review process open rather than anonymous; and publishing the reviewers' reports along with the articles, thus increasing both the responsibility and the reward of the referees and eliminating sources of abuse in the refereeing process”

Blended Learning Conference

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/List_4033.htm

15 June 2006, University of Hertfordshire. The objectives of this conference are to share and discuss practice and to generate and capture new insights into Blended Learning and institutional change.

BlogBridge

http://www.blogbridge.com/

The BlogBridge UI was designed for you to easily categorize your news feeds, your blogs or your data feeds

BMD-Certificates

http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/

They locate and obtain UK (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) birth, marriage or death certificates.

Campaign for Normal Birth

http://www.rcmnormalbirth.net/

The Campaign aims to inspire and support normal birth practice.

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp

By Jerry D. Campbell, in Educause Review.

Charleston Advisor

http://charlestonco.com/toc.cfm?iss=v7n3

The January 2006 issue is available. Critical reviews of web products for information professionals.

Cites & Insights 6:3 and 6.4

http://cites.boisestate.edu/

The February 2006 issue is now available for downloading. Includes a Follow-up Perspective: Beyond 'Library 2.0 and "Library 2.0"'.

The March issue is also available, with a Perspective on: Folksonomy and Dichotomy.

Deep Web Research Research 2006

http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2006.htm

An article by Marcus P. Zillman in LLRX.

Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges

http://www.freepint.com/issues/160206.htm#feature

A recent article in Free Pint, by Neil Jacobs.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/01contents.html

The January 2006 issue is available, with articles on folksonomies, thumbnails and metadata aggregation services, etc.

dohop

http://www.dohop.com/

dohop.com searches more than 660 airlines around the world for the best flights and connections.

DTI Knowledge Transfer Networks

http://amf.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/KTN/

From here you can find out more about KTN's nd the KTN Platform; it's free-for-members-to-use tools including: online conference calling, presenting and sharing; business collaboration system and powerful newsfeeds.

Education Podcast Network

http://epnweb.org/

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Electronic courseware in higher education

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/minielli/index.html

An article by Maureen C. Minielli and S. Pixy Ferris which appeared in FirstMonday, September 2005.

Electronic Literature Organization: ELO

http://www.eliterature.org/

Found via Marcus P. Zillman’s blog

“The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another.”

Energy Academy

http://www.pet.hw.ac.uk/ea/

The Heriot Watt University Energy Academy is a pan-university initiative supported by all Schools at the Edinburgh, Orkney and Borders campuses. It has two principal objectives. Firstly, to consolidate energy research activities and facilitate interdisciplinary programmes, both within the university and with other HEIs. Secondly to ensure external parties can easily gain an appreciation of our vision, skills-base and active research projects.

euroCRIS

http://www.eurocris.org/en/

euroCRIS has been established in Europe to be the internationally recognized point of reference for all matters relating to CRIS: Current Research Information Systems.

Finding Articles Online

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3584851

An article in SearchEngineWatch, by Mary Ellen Bates.

Flight

http://www.flightglobal.com/Home/

“Home to Flight, the world’s longest established name in aviation media. The group brings together the leading international magazines Flight International, Airline Business and Flight Daily News, which can be found in the Professional area of this site, as well as the Expert Air Transport Intelligence 24h aviation news service and the ACAS fleet database.”

Frye Leadership Institute

http://www.fryeinstitute.org/

The purpose of the Frye Leadership Institute is to develop creative leaders to guide and transform academic information services for higher education in the twenty-first century.

Gateway to Archives of Scottish Higher Education: GASHE

http://www.gashe.ac.uk/

The GASHE project provides electronic access to descriptions of the archives produced by ten higher education institutions and their predecessors in Scotland, dating from 1215 to the present day.

Geopassage Specialty Travel

http://www.geopassage.com/

“We are an innovative online travel company based in Austin, Texas that offers you an unprecedented level of e-commerce capability, control and customization in planning and booking your vacation travel. GeoPassage.com actually enables people for the first time to fully customize their vacations, either on or off-line, according to their interests, needs and preferences, to any of GeoPassage's popular world-wide destinations.”

Google Maps, BBC Travel, Local News, Flickr, Weather & more...

http://www.dynamite.co.uk/local/

This prototype, primarily for BBC Backstage, demonstrates layering of live geographic data onto Google Maps.

Recommended viewing!

HighBeam Research Engine

http://www.highbeam.com/

“Search our extensive archive of more than 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years.”

The HighBeam Research Engine offers more than 1.5 million full-text articles to individual researchers for free and adds extensive premium reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University Press and The Washington Post.

HomeIn

http://www.homein.org/

A website developed by the NHBC Foundation that promotes best practice use of innovative and non-conventional housing systems, components and technologies.

How To Evaluate a Web Source

http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/a/evaluatesource.htm

By Wendy Boswell.

IADIS International Conference: Applied Computing 2006

http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/

San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 February 2006y 4 - 7, 2006

ICTP Open Access Archive

http://eprints.ictp.it/

The ICTP Open Access Archive of the Science Dissemination Unit allows scientists from anywhere to post on-line, at no cost, their scientific work and scientific CV in electronic format.

Information rights journal

http://www.foi.gov.uk/irj.htm

From the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

”We have launched a new information rights journal to provide information rights practitioners with a round up of the latest developments in the information rights field. The journal will provide information on a wide range of issues across information rights as a whole, uniting freedom of information, data protection and the environmental information regulations.”

Informer

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/Informer17.pdf

The latest edition of Informer (the newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group) is now available.

Institution of Structural Engineers Library

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

Catalogue search: Details of over 37,000 references on everything from adhesives to zoos.

International Fire Research and Innovation Network: IFRIN

http://www.ifrin.org/

The International Fire Research and Innovation Network aims to facilitate co-operation and innovation in fire prevention, protection and intervention.

International Institute of Informatics and Systemics: IIIS

http://www.iiis.org/iiis/

The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), is a nonprofit organization based in Venezuela, which examines and contemplates the globalization process.

JISC/CNI Meeting

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2006/

Envisioning future challenges in networked information

6-7 July 2006, York Moat House, York.

”It should be of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research.”

JORUM User Service

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

The JORUM User Service, providing access to the resources, is now available. UK Further and Higher Education institutions can sign up.

This service allows staff from registered institutions to search, browse, preview, download, review, reuse and repurpose resources.

There are around 300 objects in the system, covering areas which include ESOL, engineering, astronomy and creative arts.

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp

The main purpose of the Journal is to collaborate in the systemization of knowledge and experience generated in the areas of Systemics, Cybernetics (communication and control) and Informatics.

Latin American Applied Research

http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0327-0793&lng=en&nrm=iso

Publication of the Universidad Nacional del Sur y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

Mission: To publish original articles about Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Mechanics, Control and Information Processing.

Learning languages online

http://www.freepint.com/issues/020206.htm#tips

An article in Free Pint, by Emma Thompson.

Library + information Show

http://www.lishow.co.uk/

26-27 April, NEC, Birmingham, UK.

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

http://www.libsuccess.org/

“This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas and information for all types of 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.”

LiveScience

http://www.livescience.com/

“LiveScience is an original content site focusing on the innovative and intriguing in Science and Technology. Aimed at the intellectually curious, it covers news, views and scientific inquiry with an original, provocative point of view. With articles by respected science journalists and contributors, LiveScience looks at new discoveries, intellectual adventures and the idiosyncrasies of the world that surrounds us.”

London Book Fair

http://www.lbf-virtual.com/

5-7 March, London. LBF is the global publishing community’s leading Spring forum for bookseller, publisher and librarian buyers and specifiers worldwide.

Materials Knowledge Transfer Network: KTN

http://www.materialsktn.net/

The web portal for the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

The KTN is an overarching network of networks in Materials, set up to bring together the views of all in business, designers, research and technology organisations, trade associations, the financial market, academia and others in the value network across the materials community.

Mechanical Engineering Calculations

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

A website which offers on-line computing in mechanical engineering and related disciplines.

Moodle

http://moodle.org/

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University.

Mountaineers Collection

http://content.lib.washington.edu/mtnweb/

These albums depict some of the first major expeditions of the Mountaineers including the first major outing to Mt. Olympus in 1907.

Museum of Modern Betas: MoMB

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/

The MoMB is a site dedicated to listing web-based applications on a beta trip.

NARCIS

http://www.narcis.info/narcis/

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System

NARCIS is the gateway to Dutch scientific information.

”Information produced by Dutch universities, research institutes, KNAW and NWO is searchable here. In addition NARCIS is the entry par excellence for scientists, policy makers, intermediary organisations, journalists and the public for obtaining a survey on ongoing research in the Netherlands.”

newsroom archive catalogue

http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/archivecatalogue

The Newsroom has been collecting, housing and making available records of the Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited since June 2002. The material is owned by the charitable Scott Trust Foundation.

Newton's Castle

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051308/index.htm

Explore Newton's Castle to learn about the discoveries and secret life of Isaac Newton.

Learn about color, optical illusions, observations from nature and fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and why dogs chase cars.

This site was created by students with their peers at the Thomas Hepburn School in the UK.

NOD - Dutch Research Database

http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/

The Dutch Research Database (NOD) is a publicly available online database with information on scientific research, researchers and research institutes. The NOD covers all scientific disciplines (multidisciplinary).

Obis Omni

http://www.obisomni.com/home/

Obis Omni members are responsible for business performance, data management and customer insight across all organisations from leading FTSE companies, SME’s and the Public Sector.

OmniMedicalSearch.com

http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/

A health information metasearch engine, which has added Healthline as its preferred provider for its selected search of health and medical websites.

Open News Archive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/news/

“For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public for a trial period. You can download nearly 80 news reports covering iconic events of the past 50 years including the fall of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting soldiers from Beijing's Tiananmen Square and behind-the-scenes footage of the England team prior to their victory over West Germany in 1966.”

Open Proteomics Databases

http://bioinformatics.icmb.utexas.edu/OPD/

OPD is a public database for storing and disseminating mass spectrometry based proteomics data. The database currently contains roughly 1,200,000 spectra representing experiments from 4 different organisms.

OpenCms

http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/

OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. OpenCms helps to create and manage complex websites easily without knowledge of html.

OpenDOAR

http://www.opendoar.org/

The OpenDOAR service is being developed to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. This will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world.

OpenURL COinS: A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML

http://ocoins.info/

COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

Oz eTeachers' Wikiway to the World of e-Learning:

http://ozeteacher.wikispaces.com/

A Bridge to Possibilities in K-12 Education.

This guide is primarily designed to assist prospective Australian K-12 teachers. It is not designed to be an exhaustive library of K-12 sites but a guide to a cross-section of areas in the field of K-12 ICT in Education. Where possible, Australian content is placed at the top of any section and free or very cheap resources are given priority.

It should be useful to teachers in other countries too.

Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)

http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

Summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences.

Picture Search

http://pictures.ask.com/

A service from Ask

Pligg

http://www.pligg.com/

“Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other existing CMS. Pligg's Web 2.0 user interface gives your visitors a reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site's content and giving them the chance to social network. By giving users the ability to collaboratively submit and dismiss articles, you are offering an experience that users are happy to take part in on a daily basis.”

Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA '06

http://www.conf-info.org/pista06/website/default.asp

The 4rd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA '06, July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.

Registry of Open Access Repositories: ROAR

http://archives.eprints.org/

Produced by Southampton University.

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health: RPSP/PAJPH

http://journal.paho.org/

The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health (RPSP/PAJPH) is the flagship technical and scientific periodical of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, which is the Secretariat of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America.

Rightscom

http://www.rightscom.com

Rightscom is a consultancy that specialises in the provision of solutions for the management, trading and protection of intellectual property rights and digital content in the network environment.

Royal Institution of Great Britain

http://www.ri.ac.uk/

For over 200 years, the Ri has been 'diffusing science for the common purposes of life'. A range of activities takes place under one roof, from schools lectures to providing a forum for the general public, through to a heritage programme, an arts-science initiative, a media centre and state-of-the-art chemistry labs.

RSS feeds for journal tables of contents

http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/techserv/ejrnl/rss.html

Useful list from the Library, University of Liverpool.

Rural Community Gateway Website: RCGW

http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/

Scotland's Rural Gateway - your first stop for rural news, information and networking.

Sabifoo

http://www.sabifoo.com/

“Sabifoo makes it easier than ever to publish to the web. By combining instant messaging with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a whole new publishing infrastructure has been born. Now publishing to the world is as simple as sending a message”

ScienceBlogs

http://scienceblogs.com/

ScienceBlogs is the web's largest conversation about science. It features blogs from a wide array of scientific disciplines, with new voices coming on board regularly. It is a global, digital science salon.

ScienceBlogs is powered by Seed Media Group — publishers of Seed Magazine — and is part of the Seed Digital Network, which also includes Seedmagazine.com and Phylotaxis.com.

Scottish Distributed Digital Library

http://scone.strath.ac.uk/sddl/index.htm

The library contains collections of texts, images, and sounds in digital format, distributed over the World Wide Web, with Scottish themes.

All items in the collections are easy to access and do not require passwords.

Items include:

Sens2B - Sensor to Business

http://www.sens2binternational.com/

A sensors portal. Read up-to-date sensor market news and search for international sensor manufacturers and suppliers.

Skills Framework for the Information Age: SFIA Foundation

http://www.sfia.org.uk/

The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) provides a common reference model for the identification of the skills needed to develop effective Information Systems (IS) making use of Information & Communications Technology (ICT).

Source-to-Output Repositories: StORe

http://jiscstore.jot.com/WikiHome

This project will address the area of interactions between output repositories of research publications and source repositories of primary research data.

Tagging - the latest way to search the web

http://www.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1676391,00.html

An article by Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian Unlimited.

TechRepublic's White Paper Directory

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/

“TechRepublic's White Paper Directory is the Web's largest library of technical IT white papers, webcasts, and case studies. Covering IT categories including Data Management, IT Management, Networking, Communications, Enterprise Applications, Storage, Security and much more, TechRepublic's White Paper Directory is the best source for technical white papers and IT information.”

TelematicsWire

http://telematicswire.com

TelematicsWire publishes telematics specific news on a daily basis, covering business and consumer issues, etc.

Tempinbox.com

http://www.tempinbox.com/english/

Noted by Phil Bradley, in his column for Library + Information Update.

Tempinbox.com is a free, receive only e-mail service.

Terasem Journals

http://www.terasemjournal.org/

The Terasem Journals include The Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology and The Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness. They are the journals of the Terasem Movement, Inc., a not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.

The Deepening

http://www.thedeepening.com/

Short stories and novels for those who like the cutting edge of new & want to save trees, too.

The Women's Library Special Collections (Archive and Museum) Catalogue

http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/archivemuseumcatalogue

The Women's Library holds over 400 Archive Collections and a significant Museum Collection. The catalogue contains detailed information about the collections available for consultation in the reading room. As well as individual descriptions for each document or object the archive catalogue includes summary descriptions of each collection.

ThomsonNOW

http://west.ilrn.com/ilrn/

A new subscription-based service. An integrated online suite of course-management resources and services that utilizes a first-of-its kind approach to educational technology development aimed at maximizing its value to and optimizing its use among Thomson customers.

Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

http://vjbo.osa.org/

The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics consists of selected articles recently published in OSA's peer-reviewed journals. For the virtual journal, biomedical optics is considered to include research involving the interface between light and medicine or biology.

Virtual Technical Reports Center

http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html

“EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web

Welcome to the Virtual Technical Reports Center! The Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.”

VirtualE Library

http://www.virtualelibrary.com/

“VirtualE Library is your one-stop resource for Elsevier science, technology, and health science book products. You'll find books from Academic Press, Architectural Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Churchill-Livingstone, Digital Press, Focal Press, Gulf Professional Publishing, Hanley & Belfus, JAI Press, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Mosby, Newnes, North-Holland, and Saunders. The site is designed specifically for your needs as a librarian…”

WannaLearn

http://www.wannalearn.com/

WannaLearn has been designed to provide a wide range of users with an effective and efficient means of accessing the best learning opportunities available on the Web, in books, DVDs and other instructional media.

WIDWISAWN

http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

The latest issue (Vol.4 No.1) of WIDWISAWN is now available. This is a 'webzine' covering various developments in the Scottish library, museums and archives communities.

WikiMatrix

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Noted by Phil Bradley, in his column for Library + Information Update.

A Wiki comparison site.

wink

http://www.narcis.info/narcis/?language=en

“If you're using services like Digg, Furl, Slashdot, or Yahoo! MyWeb, this is your search engine.”

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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.

HighBeam
http://www.highbeam.com/

Unless you're distracted by the animated graphics, you'll find this site useful for locating both free and paid-for content. It indexes articles from various respected publishers as well as the best of the Web. It searches 35 million documents from 3,000 sources, updated daily and going back 20 years. Its possible to restrict searches to freely available materials, whilst the default is to search free and premium content.

Essentially, HighBeam fills the gap between free search engines and high-end research services.

NARCIS
http://www.narcis.info/narcis/

NARCIS is the gateway to Dutch scientific information, and shows just how many advances have been made in linking together Institutional Repositories, outputs from research institutes and other sources of information to provide an effective service.

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

Create a Blog
http://askbobrankin.com/create_a_blog.html
Advice from Bob Rankin

Opinmind
http://www.opinmind.com/
Opinmind collects the opinions of bloggers all over the world on every subject imaginable.

Publisher- and Vendor-Provided RSS Feeds for Journals
http://charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=197&type=fr
An article by Kristen Devoe in The Charleston Advisor

Why Publishing should send fruit-baskets to Google
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/14/why_publishing_shoul.html
Interesting post in Boing Boing.

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

MobileCrunch
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/
Our mission is to identify, profile, test and even help develop the technologies, applications, services and devices that will define the next generation of connected mobile computing.

What's New at the e-Learning Centre
http://elearningcentre.typepad.com/whatsnew/
New additions to the e-Learning Centre website and more ...

Publishing Insider
http://publishinginsider.typepad.com/

TechRepublic Hot Discussions
http://techrepublic.com.com/5280-6257-0.html?type=5

StuartYeates's blog
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/stuartyeates
Open Source In Higher and Further Education

RandyMetcalfe/ThisIsNotaBlog
http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/RandyMetcalfe/ThisIsNotaBlog
From OSS Watch, about open source software

Open Source
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/
A blog from ZDNet, written by Dana Blankenhorn

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PRESS RELEASES

**** Emerald Leads new JISC RSS project to push Table of Contents into library catalogues ****  

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd announces that it is leading a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) project: ‘Table of Contents by Really Simple Syndication’ (TOCRoSS).  The project team will develop an RSS news feed service that automatically pushes publisher and e-journal information into library catalogues.  Started in October 2005, the project will run for 10 months, completing in July 2006. 

Details http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_tocross&src=alpha

The open source software developed will be freely available to further and higher education establishments, publishers, and library management systems developers.

To drive TOCRoSS, an RSS server located at the publisher site will generate a ‘feed’ of information that can be automatically picked up by an RSS monitor located at the customer site. The project will also develop a plug-in module for the library management system to enable the catalogue and the OPAC to be updated with the information from the RSS stream.

With TOCRoSS in place, e-journal table of content data will be fed automatically into library catalogues without the need for cataloguing, classification or data entry.  This will improve the accuracy of records, save time for library staff and deliver a more integrated OPAC experience to library users.  It will be of particular value to academic libraries, where students often choose search engines such as Google over the library catalogue or myriad databases for tracking down articles and information.

Talis Research Group's Richard Wallis sees this as an example of the bringing together of new Internet Web Services technology and real business requirements.  "RSS has, up until now, been used to deliver news-feeds or alerts of blog postings to individuals' desktops.  This simple, yet powerful, technology has many potential applications in machine-to-machine communications.  TOCRoSS will demonstrate how the innovative application of simple technologies enables the delivery of services that previously would not have been viable."

TOCRoSS will also deliver benefits to the publishing community, improvements in the dissemination of data and information to libraries will lead to a corresponding improvement in the value and management of e-journals and other resources.

A demonstrator service is a key deliverable of the project and is expected to be up and running by June 2006.

The technology solution developed for TOCRoSS will also be applicable to other publisher ‘events’, such as book publication, author talks or calls for papers.

For further information, contact:

Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925, Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com

or

Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Tel: 01274 777700, email:  gcrawford@emeraldinsight.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

658.05 PAP
e-Business
by Michael Papazoglou and Pieter Ribbers
Wiley, 2006

658.05 SLY
E-business technologies
by Craig Van Slyke and France Belanger
Wiley, 2003

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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FOCUS ON...

Occasional reviews of products, services or areas of interest. This month:

Ovid Mental Health Collection

Decision-making on choosing electronic journal packages and platforms depends on many variables – not least the depth, coverage and suppliers of existing collections as well as comparative price. However, this review highlights the Ovid Mental Health collection as a potential candidate in the field of psychology and related disciplines.

The Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC) offers 10 core journals in psychiatry and psychology. The collection includes high impact factor journals reflecting output from UK and North American publishers including, the American Psychiatric Association, Annual Reviews, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the American Medical Association, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Cambridge University Press and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

The MHC is one of 6 mental health collections available from Ovid covering:

Ovid Mental Health Collection
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/887.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection II
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1900.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection III
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1901.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection IV
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1902.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection V
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1903.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection VI
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1904.jsp

MCH offers a more compact package than MCH II which includes 35 titles and expands coverage to include Clinical Psychology. MCH-III offers 7 titles in Psychiatry; MHC-IV 12 journals in Psychology; MHC-V 9 in Clinical Psychology; and MCH-VI–LWW offers 6 published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

MCH offers a psychiatry weighted mix of journals including titles with a clinical focus, e.g. British Journal of Psychiatry. However, the collection also offers Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychological Medicine and the Annual Review of Psychology. These titles add a further dimension to the collection which will be of interest not only to psychiatrists but to clinicians, scholars and researchers in psychology, clinical psychology, behavioural sciences and allied disciplines.

MHC include titles from the Hague and Brandon / Hill lists of core medical journals and offers titles such as the American Journal of Psychiatry (described as the most widely read psychiatric journal in the world) as well as the Psychology volumes of the highly cited Annual Reviews series. In addition to peer-reviewed journals it is also possible to access abstracts from over 500 international journals with accompanying commentaries via Elsevier’s Year Book of Psychiatry & Applied Mental Health.

For those with a subscription to Ovid PsycINFO, full integration of MHC titles is possible within this database. However, those benefiting from the CHEST PsycINFO offer should note that four MHC titles are covered in the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins full-text linking package (with a 12 month embargo).

The MHC is a neat package offering a mix of core psychiatry and psychology journals. Those wishing a similarly sized package with a psychology focus may prefer the MHC IV collection - but those with existing subscriptions to British Psychological Society titles, should note that this package includes a number of BPS titles. Alternative packages for psychology include Psychology: A SAGE full-text collection http://www.sagefulltext.com/home.aspx?id=1 (which offers a broader range of topics across 35 titles with more coverage of behavioural and sociological aspects) and the comprehensive EBSCO Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=127 offering over 500 titles in psychology, psychiatry, emotion, behaviour and anthropology (available via CHEST agreement for Higher and Further Education and public sector in the UK).

Ovid MHC titles include:-

American Journal of Psychiatry
Annual Review of Psychology in EBSCO
Archives of General Psychiatry
British Journal of Psychiatry
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine
Psychosomatic Medicine
Year Book of Psychiatry & Applied Mental Health

Suppler email contacts:
Ovid ( Europe)
Sage
EBSCO

MK

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Aberdeen Jazz Festival, 8-12 March 2006
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Edinburgh Times
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Edinburgh Times is the capital's monthly newspaper, with a free distribution throughout the city and outlying communities.

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Edinburgh & Glasgow music, arts, theatre, film, etc.

The Whistling Tortoise
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Supplies a wide range of products to the public, dedicated to making life easier for all.

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Gateway to Bristol's music community

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