There will be no Internet Resources Newsletter next month, due to holiday commitments. Instead, the next issue (August/September) will appear at the end of August.

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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

2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing: WORLDCOMP'06

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/index_html

June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA.

ALT-C 2006: the next generation

http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/

The 13th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 5 and 7 September 2006.

ARCHON Directory

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

The ARCHON Directory includes contact details for record repositories in the United Kingdom and also for institutions elsewhere in the world which have substantial collections of manuscripts noted under the indexes to the National Register of Archives.

Awareness Watch Newsletter: June 2006 V4N6

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/05/awareness-watch-newsletter-v4n6-june.html

The June 2006 V4N6 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 36 page .pdf document available from this site. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Accessibility Resources on the Internet including related resources and sites.

Balanced Value

http://www.balancedvalue.com/

Balanced Value is about making ‘balanced value’ judgments in design and specification – incorporating issues of functional performance with society, environment and economics (the sustainability ‘triple bottom-line’).

Balanced Value makes the design and specification decision process more transparent, and allows the influencing issues of those decisions to be better understood.

Both the Balanced Value Toolbox and the Balanced Value Framework are currently free to use.

BioDirectory

http://www.biodirectory.com/

What is BioDirectory.com? "The Open Content Directory of Life Sciences and Medical Sciences"

Book Cloud

http://www.bookcloud.co.uk/

The Book Cloud is an experimental collaborative website creating linkages between books and book genres.

Brazilian studies: Online resources for researchers

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2006/may06/irbrazilianstudies.htm

An item in College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News), May 2006.

BritCaster

http://britcaster.com/

Lists of podcasts.

Collections Link

http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/

“... the new national advisory service for collections management managed by MDA in partnership with the Institute of Conservation (ICON) and the National Preservation Office (NPO).

Collections Link provides fast, easy access to current best practice in 16 areas of professional collections management. All of the content of the site has been provided by authoritative national bodies and experts with years of experience in their field.”

Construction and Property Industry Charity for the Homeless: CRASH

http://www.crash.org.uk/

CRASH brings professionals and companies from the construction and property industries together to help homelessness charities to improve their premises.

Corporate Affiliations

http://corporateaffiliations.ecnext.com/

Commercial service from LexisNexis.

Corporate Affiliations is a corporate database containing linkage information for nearly 200,000 parent companies, their affiliates, and subsidiaries. Corporate linkage can be seen all the way down to the 7th level in corporate structure, allowing for thorough investigation. Each of the nearly 200,000 companies listed on the Corporate Affiliations service has its own personal profile containing relevant information about the company.

Creare

http://www.creare.com/

Creare provides engineering research, development, and consulting services to an international customer base.

Create Change

http://www.createchange.org/

A new version of the Create Change Web site, launched June 22, 2006. “This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.”

Digimind

http://www.digimind.com/

A commercial service, the newly developed technology by Digimind now allows companies to easily follow competitors’ movement by monitoring any relevant changes in websites, newsletters, weblogs, databases and other electronic sources.

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web

http://www.digital-librarian.com/

Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian who lives in Cortland, New York.

Directory of Published Proceedings

http://www.interdok.com/dopp/dopp_search.cfm

Contains over 50,000 records.

Distance learning as a collaborative enterprise: Tips on teamwork to make the class work

http://www.freepint.com/issues/080606.htm#tips

An article by Robin Neidorf, the new General Manager of Free Pint Limited.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june06/06contents.html

The June issue is available.

dLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology

http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

dLIST - a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures.

Dr Pods healthcast

http://www.drpod.co.uk/

Dr Pods healthcast is an energetic romp around the latest health news, research, gadgets and gizmos.

Edina Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline11-2/index.html

The June issue is available.

Electronics Buyer

http://www.ebmag.co.uk/

A magazine fully dedicated to the function of the UK electronics buyer.

Focus on MIMAS

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/06jun/index.htm

Issue 28 is available.

Further Education News

http://www.fenews.co.uk/

“We specialise in providing up to the minute news and features about Further Education across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including Colleges, Training Providers, Awarding Bodies, Funding Bodies, Apprenticeships and Inspections.”

Gateway

http://www.gateway-uk.org/

Aims:

To provide public library staff and end users with a single contact point for enquiries regarding reading materials and library services for visually impaired people.

To provide staff of local visual impairment societies, social services departments and educational establishments with a single contact point for enquiries regarding reading materials and library services for visually impaired people.

To provide information and support to library staff in addressing the library and information needs of visually impaired people.

To establish simplified joint membership procedures for access to partner services.

GetCheapBooks

http://www.getcheapbooks.co.uk/

Compares text book prices for UK vendors and offers both new and used text books.

Hotcourses Student Money

http://www.studentmoney.org/

“Hotcourses and UCAS bring you a comprehensive guide to everything you need when planning and organising your student finances.”

How to find images on the mighty internet

http://urbanex.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/how-to-find-images-on-the-mighty-internet/

A helpful blog entry from ‘Urbanex’.

HYDRAFACT

http://www.hydrafact.com/

HYDRAFACT Ltd. (Hydrate and Flow Assurance Consulting and Technologies) is a Heriot-Watt University spin-out company, currently based at the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.

HYDRAFACT’s main areas of activity will be:

Providing consultancy to the petroleum industry on gas hydrates and flow assurance

Developing and commercialising phase behaviour and hydrate-wax predictive software

Building, commissioning and support of experimental equipment

Providing training in the use experimental equipment and predictive software

INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science

http://www.dcc.ufla.br/infocomp/index.eng.html

INFOCOMP is an open access scientific journal (published, quarterly, peer-reviewed, continuous flow) from the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Minas Gerais, Brazil.

InfusionS is a training partnership based in Scotland specialising in information skills training tailored to suit the customer and their work environment.

http://www.infusions.org.uk/

Their next seminar is: The Informed Web Searcher: Advanced Search Strategies for the Internet - a full day workshop. 18 July 2006 - Edinburgh - Queen Margaret University College.

Institute for People-centred Computation

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

Encouraging research relating to the cross-disciplinary development and integration of generic human-centric computational support for complex design and decision-making processes emerging from the Discovery in Design (DiD) cluster.

International Fire Consultants Ltd: IFC

http://www.intfire.com/

“International Fire Consultants Ltd (IFC) is a major force in the field of quality fire safety consultancy. IFC consists of a team of highly qualified fire engineers with experience in almost every aspect of fire safety, including structural and material matters and employs design engineers who are specialists in fire safety engineering.”

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB)

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijdmb

A new journal.

IJDMB aims to publish the latest research and development results and experiences in the areas of bioinformatics, data mining and knowledge discovery, and the role of data mining techniques and methods in integrating and interpreting the bioinformatics data sets and improving effectiveness and/or efficiency and quality for bioinformatics data analysis.

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management (IJENM)

http://www.inderscience.com/ijenm

A new journal.

IJENM proposes and fosters discussion on the interaction, collaboration, partnership and cooperation between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and larger enterprises in a supply chain. More innovative analysis and better understanding of the complexity in a supply chain are essential in today’s global businesses. A typical supply chain usually comprises of SMEs and larger enterprises. Supply networks at every tier have a different level of complexity and specific types of enterprises and industries have dedicated characteristics and constraints. Therefore, new and adapted theories, configurable models and frameworks are necessary for enterprises to compete and perform in such a dynamic, complex and evolving supply chain.

Internet Detective

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/

Internet Detective is a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research. Internet Detective was originally developed in 1998 with funding from the European Union and was translated into a number of different languages by national libraries and research organisations. The original version was withdrawn in 2005, but there was a high demand for its return, as issues of information quality and overload on the Internet persist.

The new version, which is available on the Web or as a VLE download, is part of the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

Internet Librarian International 2006

http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml

Registration for Internet Librarian International 2006, 16-17 October 2006, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London is now available from this site.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl.org/06-spring/index.html

The Spring 2006 issue is now available.

Journal of Web Librarianship

http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl/

The Journal of Web Librarianship is an international, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by Haworth, Inc.

Just Published

http://www.just-published.co.uk/

This simple web tool turns new book lists created with My-RSS.CO.UK into HTML book lists with images, prices and availability.

Karpeles Library

http://www.karpeles.org

The Karpeles Library is the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents. The archives include Literature, Science, Religion, History and Art.

Library.wales.org

http://www.library.wales.org/

A new Welsh Information Portal.

Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services

http://www.librijournal.org/

Libri makes full-text articles available online one year after publication.

Nanorisk

http://www.nanorisk.org/

“Nanorisk is a bi-monthly newsletter published by Nanowerk LLC. You have to read it if you want to be informed about what research is being done, what results are reported, what regulatory bodies are up to, what experts have to say with regard to the risk of engineered nanomaterials.”

Netvouz

http://www.netvouz.com/

Netvouz is a social bookmark manager where you can store your favourite links online and access them from any computer.

NewsArchivePlus

http://www.newsarchiveplus.com/

The initial aim of NewsArchivePlus is to make the 18th, 19th & early 20th Century UK national & regional newspapers available in digital format using the latest technology...in co-operation with the publishers of in copyright newspaper titles...and with libraries for older materials.

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records

http://www.deathindexes.com/

This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. Also included is information about searching the Social Security Death Index online.

Open Access

http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

A series of interviews about open access to peer-reviewed research articles, from Research Information.

Open Content

http://opencontent.org/

“Making it easy for you to:

- collaborate on the design and development of open content via our wiki service,

- find open content with our oishii!, ocwfinder, and google ocw services, and

- license and share your open content via our Open Publication License.”

Open Dynamics Engine

http://www.ode.org/

ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with friction. ODE is useful for simulating vehicles, objects in virtual reality environments and virtual creatures. It is currently used in many computer games, 3D authoring tools and simulation tools.

OpenDEN

http://www.openden.com/

Free Open Source software. Found via Marcus P Zillman, Who writes “OpenDEN intends to be a well structured guide to 'Free, Open Source Software' on the net.”

Post Compulsory Education & Training Network: PCET.NET

http://www.pcet.net/

The Post Compulsory Education & Training Network is designed to support tutors and teachers within FE Colleges and Adult Education Centres around the UK. We are dedicated to giving Managers, Co-ordinators, Tutors and Support Staff the tools to manage the classroom and guide the learners to achieve progression in qualifications and skills.

Preside CMS

http://www.presidecms.com/

“Preside CMS is powerful content management system that's affordable, scalable and easy to use. Designed for websites, intranets and extranets, it enables marketers and other line-of-business users to take control of creating, managing and maintaining their own content.”

Product News Network

http://www.productnews.com/

Product News Network delivers new industrial product information in a timely, reliable and complete manner covering the whole range of products from adhesives through waste handling equipment.

Production Engineering Solutions

http://www.pesmag.co.uk/

A trade magazine published by MIT Publishing Ltd, Rochester, Kent.

Reading Lists

http://www.reading-lists.co.uk/index.php

“This simple web tool turns university and college reading lists created with My-RSS.CO.UK into HTML book lists with images, prices and availability. Users can purchase books from the Blackwell Online Bookshop by clicking links on this site.”

RLG DigiNews

http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20952

RLG DigiNews Volume 10, Number 3, June 2006 is now available.

Science, Technology & Innovation Studies

http://www.sti-studies.de/index.htm

An open access internationally oriented, reviewed online journal for the German speaking STI community.

Scotcast

http://www.scotcast.net/

Scotcast.net is a local directory of what's new and being broadcast on the internet by music, literature, media, arts, sports and politics enthusiasts and professionals.

Search International Patent Applications

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/

This facility allows you to search 1,129,632 international patent applications and to view the latest information and documents available to the International Bureau.

shortText.com

http://www.shorttext.com/

shortText.com is a site where you can post any information and share it with others.

SOA Versus Web 2.0?

http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2006/04/soa_versus_web_.html

An article by John Hagel.

Student Finance Direct

http://www.studentsupportdirect.co.uk/

This site provides services and information for those in England who are interested in financial support for students in Higher Education.

Sudan Open Archive

http://www.sudanarchive.net/

The Sudan Open Archive provides free digital access to contemporary and historical knowledge about Sudan. The initial version of the Archive consists primarily of technical reports and unpublished grey literature from the history of aid in Sudan, covering the period from the start of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) in 1989 to the present day.

Tales from the Terminal Room

http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2006/may2006.shtml

The May 2006, Issue No. 70 is now available. TFTTR includes reviews and comparisons of information sources; updates to the RBA Web site Business Sources and other useful resources; dealing with technical and access problems on the Net; and news of RBA's training courses and publications.

Technology and Industrial Innovation Resources on the Web

http://www.freepint.com/issues/220606.htm#feature

An article in a recent issue of FreePint, by Steve Lee.

TecTrends

http://www.tectrends.com/

TecTrends teams with Information Sources providing in-depth research of Companies and their technology products. Combining detailed information with thousands of digests of independent, third party reviews and analyses, TecTrends is able to blend this information into an integrated format. The resulting research is used by professionals around the world, giving them valuable insight to make informed decisions on how technologies will affect their business in the global marketplace.

Telephone Cheat Sheet

http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/travel-tips/cheatsheet.html

The Cheapflights Team has compiled a Cheat Sheet to help you get to a real-live-person when calling a top travel company.

The Learning Edge

http://www.thelearningedge.com.au/

The Learning Edge is an advanced Learning Content Management System (LCMS) allowing educators to discover, reuse, create, manage and deliver educational material electronically.

ToxSeek

http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/toxseek/

ToxSeek is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different information resources on the World Wide Web.

Trexy

http://trexy.com/

Trexy works with search trails. Search trails are the paths you create while searching on your favourite engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The Trexy Trailbar helps you pinpoint information you’ve already found and works with over 3000 engines. You can create, remember and share your search trails using the Trexy Trailbar.

Web Search Guide

http://www.websearchguide.ca/

The Web Search Guide is about web searching, web strategies and tools from a Canadian perspective.

Your London

http://www.yourlondon.gov.uk/

The official online guide to London’s public and community services.

Zibb

http://www.zibb.com/

“Zibb is the business to business search engine of Reed Business , the premier provider of business information to the world. It includes content from across the entire Reed Business portfolio with the addition of selected business to business websites outside of Reed Business.”

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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.

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BLOGORAMA

News about Blogs, RSS, etc:

You already know what blogs are, but for more information about RSS see the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or Webopedia 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

A special mention this month for Tame The Web http://tametheweb.com/ the blog by Michael Stephens. I was fortunate enough to listen to a presentation given by Michael at a conference recently, and was very impressed by his knowledge and understanding of Web 2.0 ideas. His blog is a great source of information.

Ask.com Blog & Feed Search.
A new service on both Bloglines.com and on Ask.com at Ask.com. You'll also find a link to it on the Ask.com customizable "search tools" list located on the right side of the Ask.com home page http://www.ask.com
For more information about this very useful service, see: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/06/askcom-launches-blog-feed-search.html

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.

xFruits
http://www.xfruits.com/
xFruits is a Web 2.0 service. It is a free service offering creating, generally, your information system from the RSS feed

Bloggapedia
http://www.bloggapedia.com/

Tons of New to Me Library Blogs
http://www.librarystuff.net/2006/06/tons-of-new-to-me-library-blogs.html
by Steven M Cohen

FeedYes.com
http://www.feedyes.com/
FeedYes.com gives rss feeds to websites without feeds

TheScientificWorld
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
The internet is increasingly becoming about the people who use it and how they share information - instantly. TSW's new article blogs is intended to help this informal exhange. You can add or edit your comment to any published article - immediately, without the need to register.

RSS Bandit
http://www.rssbandit.org/
An RSS/Atom aggregator (also known as an RSS Reader) for your desktop written with the .NET Framework.

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

Online Insider
http://www.onlineinsider.net/
The editorial blog of Marydee Ojala, Editor of ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals, published by Information Today, Inc.

fenews.co.uk
http://www.fenews.co.uk/rss/newsfeed.xml.asp
Further education news

Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/
Information resources that relate to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, and other groups that have been uprooted by violence, conflict, disasters, and development projects.

News from the National Library of Medicine: Division of Specialized Information Services
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/news.html

Depth Reporting
http://depthreporting.com/
Pointers to useful Web sites, examples of computer-assisted and investigative reporting, and whatever else strikes Mark Schaver, the author, as interesting, funny or worthwhile.

Physical End Engineering Sciences
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/xmlsrv/rss.php?blog=18
This blog delivers library news and information of interest to the Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics and Astronomy/Astrophysics faculty and students at North Carolina State University.

Internet News
http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog/
Internet News is written by Gwen Harris as a current awareness service for people wishing to stay abreast with developments affecting web searching. It is a companion to the Websearchguide tutorials and the online courses Gwen teaches.

Archives Hub Blog
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/

iterating toward openness
http://opencontent.org/blog/

Inderscience
http://inderscience.blogspot.com/
Publishers of academic, scientific and professional journals in business, environment, engineering, information technology and more..

Physics Information Fluency
http://physicsinformationfluency.blogspot.com/

TechnoLibrarian
http://library.wlu.ca/blogs/gsennema/
Greg Sennema’s blog about libraries, technology, and other stuff

Kenton Good
http://www.kentongood.com/
Thoughts on the Web and politics

Montague Institute Review
http://www.montaguelab.com/digest.xml
Original articles, links, and a digest for corporate knowledge base publishers

RSS feeds from the Department for Education and Skills
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/feeds/

Mass Customization & Open Innovation News
http://mass-customization.blogs.com/
Notes and ideas on mass customization, personalization, customer integration, and open innovation -- strategies of value co-creation between suppliers and customers.

The "M" Word
http://themwordblog.blogspot.com/
A blog designed to bring the wonderful world of marketing to librarians.

Work-related blogs and News
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/
Written by James Richards. The main source of attention is linking to people who blog about their work. It also covers work subjects and new forms of communication technology such as blogging, podcasting, etc.

My-RSS and Related Sites
http://www.my-rss.co.uk/blog/
The purpose of this blog is to keep users up to date with developments to the MY-RSS news feed creator and its sibling sites. The blog will alert users to changes and improvements - and to new feeds as they are added by other users.

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PRESS RELEASES

**** SAGE Journals Online Usage Reports Compliant With Release 2 of COUNTER ****

SAGE Publications, publisher of over 400+ scholarly journals in the social sciences and science, technology, and medicine, has announced that its online journal delivery platform, SAGE Journals Online is fully compliant with Release 2, the latest version of the International COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. With this announcement, librarians can be assured that SAGE is providing journal usage reports that follow the standards set by the COUNTER Code of Practice.

An international organization of librarians, publishers, and societies, the COUNTER provides library administrators, publishers and customers at subscribing institutions access to credible, regular and consistently measured usage reports for online content, such as the SAGE Journals Online platform. The reports conform to an agreed-upon international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. Full details on Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice are available on the COUNTER web site located at http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html

SAGE Journals Online (http://online.sagepub.com) is powered by HighWire Press, which offers COUNTER compliant usage reporting. Additionally, SAGE and HighWire Press are both official members of COUNTER.

More news from SAGE:

New Journal Backfile Purchase And Lease Options Available From SAGE
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4951

SAGE have also recently acquired a significant amount of journals from Hodder Arnold.

**** Major journals archive made available free to UK universities ****

JISC agreement with Oxford University Press brings 135 years of scholarly resources online

An archive totalling over 3 million pages from 300,000 journal articles and encompassing over 135 years of human knowledge is being made available free of charge to the UK academic community in perpetuity.

JISC and Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, have announced an agreement which will see major collections of journal articles in the humanities, sciences, medicine, law and the social sciences made available to all higher education institutions, collections which include many of the leading titles in their fields over the last two centuries.

The agreement represents a significant commitment to the widening of access to major scholarly resources and follows a programme of digitization undertaken by Oxford Journals. Functionality incorporated by the archive includes full text pdfs of each article with HTML headers and abstracts, full text searching, the inclusion of all images and graphics, and links to 'similar articles in this journal'.

For further details of the JISC/OUP agreement, please see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_oxfordjournals.html

To access the Oxford Journals Digital Archive, please go to: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/archives.html

For further information, please contact:

Philip Pothen (JISC) p.pothen@jisc.ac.uk

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Pure Australia
http://www.pure-australia.co.uk/
PURE Australia is an invaluable resource providing gap year travel advice for backpackers visiting Australia.

Travel Tips
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/travel-tips/
Cheapflights' experts have produced a series of guides to help you get the most out of your getaway.

Travel Guides
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/travelguide/
Guides from Cheapflights.

sinkmyship.com
http://www.sinkmyship.com/
Battleships game

Bands etc

tartanpodcast
http://www.tartanpodcast.com/
The tartanpodcast is a music podcast dedicated to Scotland’s independant music scene.

Patrick Lamb
http://www.patricklamb.com/index.php
Patrick Lamb has played with multiple Grammy award winning vocalist Diane Schuur around the world, as well as Bobby Caldwell and Patsy Meyer. He is releasing a single with his own band (which includes guitar legend Eddie Martinez) this summer.

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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