This is a double issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter, for August and September.

Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

We've noted that the following subject gateways are no longer being maintained:

Agrigate
http://www.agrigate.edu.au/

EdWeb
http://www.edwebproject.org/

DutchESS
http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/

The use and usefulness of subject gateways seems to be diminishing, just as the use of subject-based repositories is growing. We've therefore made some changes to Pinakes: A subject Launchpad. We've deleted some subject gateways, and will be adding a number of subject-based repositories, so that Pinakes will remain a good subject launchpad to what's available.

Journal Table of Content RSS feeds

Have you noticed how many journal publishers are now producing RSS feeds for their journal's Table of Contents? The University of Liverpool Library maintain a list at: http://www.liv.ac.uk/Library/techserv/ejrnl/rss.html

Recent additions include:

American Physical Society
Emerald
SIAM

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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

2.0 Websites Directory

http://2.0websites.com/

2.0 Websites is a web directory for those interested in what’s available and happening in the Web 2.0 arena.

9th US National Conference on Computational Mechanics

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/compmat/USACM/main.html

San Francisco, CA. Technical Program: July 23-26, 2007, Pre- & Post-Congress Short Courses: July 22 & 26, 2007.

Action for Libraries

http://www.bcr.org/publications/afl/

Action for Libraries is published monthly by BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research). AFL provides news about BCR, including the latest information about OCLC, reference databases and other BCR products and services, as well as a regular column about the Internet.

Afghanistan Geological Survey: AGS

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/afghanminerals/

This is the official website of the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) and the Mines Affairs Department of the Ministry of Mines and Industries (MMI). It is dedicated to providing information on the geology of Afghanistan and to promoting interest in the country’s mineral resources.

AllHousingJobs.co.uk

http://www.allhousingjobs.co.uk/

Social housing jobs.

ANOVASOFIE

http://www.anovasofie.net/

ANOVASOFIE started out as a research project funded by the European Commission. DG Research (contract no. CIT2-CT-2004-506035) from 2004-2006. The project’s objectives were analysis of the reasons for the fragmentation in the European sociological research community and developing means to overcome the fragmentation of sociology in Europe.

ArtPromote

http://www.artpromote.com/

A searchable directory divided into over 200 categories of visual art, music, and literature, and lists thousands of contemporary artists, galleries, and art resources.

Association for University Research and Industry Links

http://www.auril.org.uk/

AURIL is the professional association representing all practitioners involved in knowledge creation, development and exchange in the UK who work to ensure that new ideas, technologies and innovations flow from their institution into the market place. It is the largest knowledge transfer association in Europe, with more than 1600 members from universities, NHS Trusts and public sector research establishments.

Association of European Science & Technology Professionals: ASTP

http://www.astp.net/

The Mission of ASTP is to professionalise and promote technology and knowledge transfer between the European science base and industry.

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/06/awareness-watch-newsletter-v4n7-july.html

The July 2006 V4N7 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 32 page .pdf document. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Entrepreneurial Resources on the Internet including related resources and sites. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The article review covers Open Access Publishing: A Developing Country View by Jennifer I. Papin–Ramcharan and Richard A. Dawe

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/07/awareness-watch-newsletter-v4n8-august.html

The August 2006 issue of the Awareness Watch Newsletter is available.

BD4jobs

http://www.bd4jobs.co.uk/

Architecture jobs on the web.

British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association: BAFSA

http://www.basa.org.uk/

The British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association is the oldest UK trade association for the fire sprinkler industry, and celebrated its 30th birthday in 2004.

Building and Fire Safety Investigations

http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/investigations/investigations.htm

National Institute of Standards and Technology is authorized to investigate major building failures in the United States. The NIST investigations will establish the likely technical causes of the building failure and evaluate the technical aspects of emergency response and evacuation procedures in the wake of such failures. The goal is to recommend improvements to the way in which buildings are designed, constructed, maintained and used.

Building4jobs

http://www.building4jobs.co.uk/

Construction jobs on the web.

Can you contribute code to an open source project?

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/contributing.xml

How do you go about doing this? Randy Metcalfe explores the issues around copyright and institutional consent.

Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada's institutional repository search service.

http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/

The CARL/ABRC OAI Harvester currently has over 22,000 records from 12 archives indexed, and is updated daily.

Chemical Suppliers Directory

http://www.chemsuppliers.org/

“Chemical Suppliers Directory is dedicated to provide its visitors with most comprehensive information about vendors of compounds, chemicals building blocks, compound libraries, custom synthesis, peptide synthesis, lead optimization, and services that support drug discovery in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

The goal of this project is to create a common and freely accessible directory of companies providing products and services for drug discovery industry over the internet.”

ChemSpy.com

http://www.chemspy.com/

“ChemSpy.com is the top portal for chemical searching and chemical databases, offering a one-stop shop for chemistry professionals, including scientists, engineers, students and anyone else interested in finding chemical industry information. Best of all chemical searching on ChemSpy.com is free.

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large

http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ6i9.pdf

The July issue is available.

Click4Teachers

http://www.click4teachers.co.uk/

Secondary & Primary Teaching Jobs in London, UK. Education Jobs Overseas.

Collections of expert-reviewed resources

http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collections_of_expert-reviewed_resources

An initiative of the Digital Universe Foundation.

Communiqué

http://www.communique-initiative.org/

An initiative of AlphaGalileo Foundation to facilitate the creation of a European research media service.

CompWisdom

http://www.compwisdom.com/

A computing search engine. The results you get contain real sentences, not just sites that contain keywords without any relevance.

Countryside Jobs Service

http://www.countryside-jobs.com/

UK Market Leader for Countryside and Environmental Jobs.

Creating Static Repositories, evaluating this method, and case studies

http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stargate/StargateStaticRepositoryCreationandCaseStudies.pdf

A document which has been produced by the Stargate project.

CUFTS Journal Search

http://lib-cufts.lib.sfu.ca/CUFTS/sbt.cgi

Journal Search allows you to quickly find journal titles in over 245 different electronic collections listed in CUFTS.

CUFTS is an open source (GPL) OpenURL link resolver designed for use by library consortia.

DisabledGo

http://www.disabledgo.info/

Launched to mark the European Year of Disabled People, DisabledGo is an ambitious Internet service which will transform the daily choices available to millions of disabled people, their families and friends. Founded by wheelchair user Gregory Burke and supported by Marks & Spencer and leading local authorities, this innovative service is opening up towns and cities across the UK.

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/07contents.html

The July/August 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.

This issue contains four articles, seven reports from the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006), the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.

Doncaster Business Portal

http://www.business-in-doncaster.co.uk/

Doncaster Chamber of Commerce and the Doncaster Strategic Partnership have launched a new portal serving the South Yorkshire business community.

DRIVER

http://www.driver-repository.eu/

DRIVER is an EU FP-6 funded project, with the primary aim of building a production quality testbed for a Europe-wide digital repository infrastructure. The testbed is the first step towards a vision of preparing a pan-European, digital repository infrastructure, which will ultimately be an integral part of the European e-infrastructure.

”RIVER will deliver the content resources, i.e. any form of scientific output, including scientific/technical reports, working papers, pre-prints, articles and original research data. The vision, to be accomplished in a second phase, is to establish the successful interoperation of both data network and knowledge repositories as integral parts of the E-infrastructure for research and education in Europe.”

Dropload

http://www.dropload.com/

Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days.

e4books

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/close/xln38/e4books/

e4books is for booksellers, publishers, distributors and wholesalers who want to find out about supply chain e-commerce - electronic trading.

Economic and Social Data Service: ESDS

http://www.esds.ac.uk/

The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), the national data service promoting and supporting the use of social science data in research and teaching, has launched its redesigned web site.

ESDS provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes.

EDINA Land, Life & Leisure

http://edina.ac.uk/landlifeleisure/

Subscription service.

EDINA Land, Life & Leisure is a bibliographic database of land-based literature whose focus is both practical and scholarly.

Eluta

http://www.eluta.ca/

Eluta lets job-seekers search the career websites of more than 71,000 employers across Canada directly.

Emerald LIS journals and database resources

http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/emerald

CILIP members have full text access to five of Emerald's LIS publications. The Emerald portal can be accessed through the CILIP website, and is available immediately and free of charge to all members.

eMolecules Chemical Search

http://www.emolecules.com/

“With eMolecules, just draw your chemical structure with your favorite molecule editor, then click "Go", and instantly search millions of molecules from across the Web and from chemical suppliers worldwide.”

e-Portfolios

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/InfoKits/effective-use-of-VLEs/e-portfolios/index_html

From the JISC infoNET.

e-Portfolios have the potential to allow learners a greater control over their learning, to support learning and promote deep learning as they make connections between different types of learning - in college, in university, in the workplace and in the community.

espace@Curtin

http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/

This is the institutional repository for Curtin University of Technology.

European Commission Information Society Technologies

http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/digicult/projects_fp6.htm

A list of projects, with links, funded under the EU Sixth Framework.

EventSeer

http://eventseer.net/

EventSeer is a searchable library of computer science events. It currently indexes calls for papers (CFPs), proposals, demos, posters, participation, etc. for conferences, journals, books, tutorials, as well as any other relevant event.

find it!

http://www.findit.org.uk/

A guide to library collections throughout England.

Free Our Data

http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/

“On March 9 2006 the Guardian's Technology supplement carried an article called "Give us back our crown jewels". The argument is simple: government-funded and approved agencies such as the Ordnance Survey and UK Hydrographic Office and Highways Agency collect data using our funds, but then charge users and companies for access to it. That restricts innovation and artificially restricts the number and variety of organisations that can offer services based on that most useful data - which our taxes have helped to collect. Making that data available for free - rather as commercial companies such as Amazon and Google do with their catalog and maps data - would vastly expand the range of services available.”

GeoDataSource World Cities Database

http://geodatasource.com/

GeoDataSource provides quality geographical database gazetteers of world features, cities and ZIP Codes with place names, coordinates, latitude, longitude, and distance calculation.

Google U.S. Government Search

http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web.

GroundTechJobs.com

http://www.groundtechjobs.com/

Job Vacancies within Ground Engineering, Earth Sciences, Environmental, Water, Wastewater, Geo Science, Geology, Environmental Science, Mining, Oil and Gas, Tunneling, Contaminated Land, EIA, GIS, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Ecology, Energy, Waste Management.

Highlights

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=19

The latest issue of Highlights, the quarterly newsletter from Inderscience, is available. Includes information about newly published journal titles, a free short article, latest calls for papers, a librarian’s corner, etc.

iChapters.com

http://www.ichapters.com/

iChapters.com is an online store provided by Thomson Learning.

iChapters.com offers affordable college textbooks in a variety of formats. Students can purchase a full electronic college textbook at a 50% discount off the price of a new hardcopy textbook or choose to buy only the chapters they need for $1.99 per chapter. Both the full textbooks and chapters can immediately be downloaded from the site and accessed by students.

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

http://www.interscience.wiley.com/TEEE

A new journal from Wiley InterScience.

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes six times a year and contains original research papers and review articles on the most important and latest technological advances in core areas of electrical and electronic engineering and related disciplines. The journal also publishes short communications reporting on the results of the latest findings from researchers in Japan and around the world.

iLumina

http://www.ilumina-dlib.org/

iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses.

Info@UK Issue 64

http://www.britishcouncil.org/info64.doc

The July issue of this newsletter from the British Council is available.

International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E 06)

http://www.cisse2006online.org/

December 4 - 14, 2006, Bridgeport.

International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics: Special Issue on Stream Ecology and Low Flows

http://ceser.res.in/ijees/cont/self.html

Papers are sought on ecological modeling of streams with emphasize on low flow limitations.

Intute

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

The new website for the RDN. Altis, Biome, EEVL, GEsource, Humbul, PSIgate and SOSIG are now included in this nicely designed new site. Intute uses a national network of subject experts to select and evaluate all the Internet resources for their quality and relevance.

io-port.net

http://www.io-port.net/index_eng.html

“FIZ Karlsruhe‘s informatics portal io-port.net offers fast and convenient access to more than 2 million publications in informatics and related subject areas.”

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

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

Issue 46, with a theme of “Assessment” is available.

JISC Collections Catalogue of Online Resources

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_cat_2006.html

The latest version of the JISC Collections Catalogue of Online Resources is now available.

JISC draft strategy 2007-2009

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/draft_strategy0709.html

JISC's draft strategy 2007-2009 is being issued for formal consultation.

JobsGroup.net

http://www.jobsgroup.net/

Established in 2000, JobsGroup.net is a network of ten specialist online recruitment websites featuring tens of thousands of jobs from thousands of recruitment agencies and corporate recruiters.

Journal of Community Informatics

Journal of Community Informatics

Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the "digital divides" that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others.

The Journal of Community Informatics brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers.

The Journal of Community Informatics is provided free to the Internet community.

JournalSales.com

http://www.journalsales.com/

Come here to buy and sell new and used journals and periodicals.

Journey for the Wild

http://www.jmt.org/journey/

From the John Muir Trust.

Just Published

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

The Just Published online bookshop. This website keeps you informed about new books published on an ever growing range of subjects. All lists have RSS feeds.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

http://www.ktponline.co.uk/

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships enable private and public sector research organisations to apply their research knowledge to important business problems.

Library 2.0 Reading List

http://www.squidoo.com/library20/

By Jenny Levine & Michael Stephens

Library Technology Now

http://librarytechnologynow.org/

Library Technology Now has announced its beta 2.0 release. Welcome to Library Technology Now is a one-stop resource for library technology news and product reviews written by library people for library people.

Livingstone Online

http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/

Livingstone Online provides unique insights into the medical and scientific work of the missionary doctor and African explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873).

LivRe!

http://livre.cnen.gov.br

Developed by developed CNEN - Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (Brazilian National Nuclear Energy Commission), through its CIN - Centro de Informações Nucleares (Nuclear Information Center), this is a Portal to free access journals on the Internet. The Portal covers scientific journals, magazines, bulletins and newsletters.

Love Libraries

http://www.lovelibraries.co.uk/

Love Libraries is a campaign to make English libraries even better.

Manual for Streets

http://www.manualforstreets.org.uk/

The purpose of the Manual for Streets is to consolidate the necessary components for effective street design into a single integrated source of information and guidance that will facilitate professional communication and understanding.

MedicalPhysicsWeb.org

http://www.medicalphysicsweb.org/

A portal with the latest news and innovations in medical physics.

Metal-Pages

http://www.metal-pages.com/

Metal-Pages offers a total solution for the speciality metals, ferro-alloys and metallic minerals markets.

MineralsUK

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/home.html

“MineralsUK is the British Geological Survey's Centre for Sustainable Mineral Development. This website will give you a wealth of information on mineral resources, mineral planning, policy and legislation, sustainable development, statistics and exploration.”

See also http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/digital_maps/home.html.

Moving Image Gateway

http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/index.html

The Moving Image Gateway (MIG) is a new service that collects together websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education. From the BUFVC.

There are some 600 sites on the MIG database at present, and it continues to grow at the rate of ten per month.

National Archives Search

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

The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public.

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity: NSABB

http://www.biosecurityboard.gov/

The NSABB has been established to provide advice to federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security.

Near

http://www.near.co.uk/

A local business directory for the UK.

Nereus

http://www.nereus4economics.info/

Nereus provides researchers in the global academic community with first-rate information irrespective of a source's location, type or format.

Nereus is integrating access to the economics resources of key libraries, academic publications and other online resources in Europe and beyond. It is a follow-up to the European Commission projects Decomate I & Decomate II.

News Search Portal

http://www.nieuwsbronnen.com/newssearchportal/

Lots of links tonews search engines on one page.

NoWAL

http://www.nowal.ac.uk/

NoWAL is a consortium of all the UK University and Colleges of Higher Education libraries in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

On the Verge of Revolution - Open-access Publishing

http://www.freepint.com/issues/130706.htm#tips

An article in Freepint, by Christine Hamilton-Pennell.

Online Educa Berlin

http://www.online-educa.com/

November 29 - December 1, 2006. This is the world's largest international e-learning conference.

Open Repository

http://www.openrepository.com/

Open Repository is a service from BioMed Central to build, launch, host and maintain institutional repositories for organisations. Built upon the latest DSpace repository software the service has been designed to be flexible and cost-effective. BioMed Central's economy of scale makes it possible for organisations that could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure or technical capacity in-house to run their own repositories.

Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/index.html

Conference at the University of Glasgow 18-20 October 2006.

QSNews4jobs

http://www.qsnews4jobs.co.uk/

Jobs in quantity surveying and project management.

Quarry Management

http://www.qmj.co.uk/qm/

As the official monthly Journal of the Institute of Quarrying, QM covers all the latest news, issues, developments and advances in the sector.

QUOSA

http://www.quosa.com/

QUOSA is a specialist in the management of scientific and technical documents. We provide a range of solutions for everyone from the PhD student through lab groups to corporate information services.

RDA: Resource Description and Access: Prototype Demonstration

http://www.rdaonline.org/

RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media.

Research Findings electronic Register: ReFeR

http://www.refer.nhs.uk/

The Research Findings electronic Register (ReFeR) is a database of the findings of research studies funded by the Department of Health. Researchers prepare ReFeR records at the end of projects.

San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science

http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is the largest accredited library and information science program in the world.

Schools Design Forum

http://www.schoolsdesignforum.org.uk/

The Schools Design Forum (SDF) is a focused national task force of people from the client and supply side who collectively want to bring about a step change in sustainability in the education sector.

Scientific Journals International

http://www.scientificjournals.org/

“Every researcher, writer or artist deserves a fair consideration to be published. The academic, creative and scientific developments depend on the effective, rapid and efficient dissemination of information and ideas from all disciplines and at all levels. This revolutionary project is an attempt to provide a one-stop efficient forum for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines.”

Search Tools for Air Travelers

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623038

By Chris Sherman.

Sherpa Juliet

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils (and others) to try and simplify

* what the policy says has to be done

* what authors should archive

* when they should archive

* where they should archive their outputs.

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: SCAN

http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/

A new title from Oxford Journals. All content is freely accessible throughout 2006.

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals: SCIP

http://www.scip.org/

The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is a global nonprofit membership organization for everyone involved in creating and managing business knowledge.

StudyBuddy

http://studybuddy.aol.com/

A free search engine built for school homework.

SUNCAT: the Serials UNion CATalogue

http://www.suncat.ac.uk

SUNCAT the Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community is now a full, freely available, EDINA service.

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy

http://ejournal.nbii.org/current.html

The Spring 2006 issue is available. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability.

Talk Digger

http://www.talkdigger.com/

Talk Digger is a new way to find, follow and join discussions evolving on the Internet.

Teen Librarian

http://www.teenlibrarian.co.uk/index.html

This website has been relaunched.

”The purpose of this site is to bring together as many strands of the Teen Service as possible; to act as a guide and information source to those taking their first steps in offering a Teen Service within their local Library Service and provide a place for those that are more experienced in this field to share ideas and experiences.”

The International Porter Protection Group: IPPG

http://www.ippg.net/

The International Porter Protection Group (IPPG) works to improve the conditions of mountain porters in the tourism industry worldwide. This means porters carrying for individual trekkers, organized groups, climbing expeditions and those who supply lodges.

Tobacco Information Scotland

http://www.tobaccoinscotland.org.uk/

Tobacco Information Scotland (TIS) is a new initiative from the ASH Scotland Information Service. Working with key partners, ASH Scotland developed TIS to provide the best possible gateway to smoking and tobacco-related information in Scotland.

Trends in the Information Market: A Q&A with Hazel Hall

http://www.freepint.com/issues/270706.htm#feature

An article in FreePint Issue 210.

TryEngineering.org

http://www.tryengineering.org/home.php

TryEngineering.org is a US resource for students (ages 8-18), their parents, their teachers and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers.

Uk-rocks.net

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

This site provides information on the work and training involved in the mining and minerals industries.

UKSG Transfer

http://www.projecttransfer.org

A new UKSG Working Group, established to improve procedures for journals transferring between publishers

University Companies Association: Unico

http://www.unico.org.uk/

Unico was founded in 1994 to represent the Technology Exploitation companies of UK Universities. It provides a forum for exchange and development of best practice. Member companies transfer technology and expertise through the formation of Spin-out companies, licensing, consultancy, training, design and development projects, contract research, testing and evaluation, and problem solving.

university-technology.com

http://www.university-technology.com/

The shop window for new technologies and business opportunities available from all of Scotland's universities.

Upcoming.org

http://upcoming.org/

Upcoming.org is a social event calendar.

Vol-Info

http://www.vol-info.org.uk/

Vol-Info is a national UK network for voluntary sector information workers.

Web Interface for Statistics Education: WISE

http://wise.cgu.edu/

“Our goal is to provide students and teachers of statistics easy access to a wide range of resources that are freely available on the Internet.”

”A special feature of WISE is the sequence of interactive tutorials on key statistical concepts (sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, and statistical power).”

Wetpaint

http://www.wetpaint.com/

Free click-and-type websites you can share with like-minded people.

Wilkinson Eyre

http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/

One of the UK’s leading design practices.

WorldCat

http://www.worldcat.org/

Search for an item in libraries near you. WorldCat contains details of 1.3 billion items from over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Use your postal code, state, province or country to find copies in libraries within reach.

Writing and Editing for the Library Website

http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips

An article in FreePint, by Janet Corcoran.

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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.

ChemSpy.com
http://www.chemspy.com/

There's a great deal of information available through this site.

At ChemSpy.com you can do general searches choosing from a number of search engines like AltaVista, Yahoo, Lycos etc. You can do specific chemistry related searches using the ChemIndustry.com or the Chemedia.com search engines. ChemSpy.com helps you to find chemistry and chemical engineering related terms, definitions, synonyms, acronyms and abbreviations. Also search forms for finding MSDS/safety data, scientific publications in over 20000 different journals, physical data of chemical compounds, worldwide patents are available.

All databases included in this service are free of charge and available without login.

You can find Chemistry Conferences: http://www.chemspy.com/chemistry-conferences.html Chemistry World News http://www.chemspy.com/chemistry-world-newsfeed.html a Full Text Journal Search http://www.chemspy.com/crossref-fulltext-search.html and more.

MineralsUK
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/home.html

There's a wealth of information on mineral resources, mineral planning, policy and legislation, sustainable development, statistics and exploration at this site. There is also an impressive web-based Geographical Information System (GIS) for the English regions which is designed to provide access to a range of minerals-related information and allows it to be related to other forms of land-use (such as urban areas or nature conservation areas) or to other factors (such as transport infrastructure): http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/digital_maps/background/home.html

RM

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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 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

Amazon RSS feed generator
http://www.onfocus.com/amafeed/

FeedNavigator
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/
FeedNavigator is a current awareness tool for health articles

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

Talent Scotland
http://www.talentscotland.com/view_item.aspx?item_id=2877
Receive daily news and features on living and working in Scotland. Talent Scotland is a Scottish Enterprise initiative, managed by Scottish Development International. Their aim is to provide information to those outside of Scotland about living and working in the country.

Glasgow ePrints Service
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/perl/latest_tool?output=rss
The Glasgow ePrints Service is a database of published and peer-reviewed papers by members of the University of Glasgow. The full text of these papers is made freely available where possible.

Inside Google Book Search
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
http://www.scip.org/scip.org.rss

Library Buzz
http://dmcbee.weblts.com/

The Current Events in Education
http://www.pass-ed.com/blogger.html

KnowledgeBoard
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/rss/index.html
"We are a self-moderating global community thinking and collaborating on subjects around (but not limited to) Knowledge Management and Innovation in the worlds of business and academia."

Technology Integration in the Classroom
http://integrationnation.edublogs.org/

ChemSpy.com
http://www.chemspy.com/chemical-searching.xml

Chemistry World
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/CWLatestNews.xml

Larry Sanger's Blog
http://www.dufoundation.org/blog/
Constructing the Digital Universe

Internet News
http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog/

JISC Collections weekly update
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/collections_weekly_update_rss.xml

News from STM
http://www.stm-assoc.org/home/rss.xml
The mission of STM is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information and to represent the interest of the STM publishing community in the fields of copyright, technology developments, and end user / library relations.

Search Engine Blog
http://www.searchengineblog.com/

E-LIS
http://eprints.rclis.org/last.xml
Latest updates to E-LIS, an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities

Designing Libraries
http://www.designinglibraries.org.uk/news/rss/
Designing Libraries is a web portal, incorporating a database, devoted to sharing best practice in the planning and design of library buildings through access to information and images.

Graduate Prospects blog
http://www.blog.prospects.ac.uk/wordpress/

Chemical Suppliers Blog
http://www.chemsuppliers.org/blog/

Journal Tables of Content Feeds for individual Emerald Journals http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/JournalRSSFeeds.do
Emerald has announced that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are now available for all their journals.

Project MUSE feeds
http://feeds.muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Live Science
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LivesciencecomBlogs

SIAM Journals Online
http://siamdl.aip.org/
TOC feeds are on journal home pages

eContent
http://econtent.typepad.com/
The eContent feed has moved

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PRESS RELEASES

**** EBSCO Publishing Introduces Film & Television Literature Index ****

EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Film & Television Literature Index. This bibliographic database covers the entire spectrum of television and film writing.

Film & Television Literature Index subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. This bibliographic database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. EBSCO has seamlessly integrated the indexing from the original print version (Film Literature Index from Film and Television Documentation Center, State University of New York at Albany) with its own coverage. Researchers searching a film title can be sure they have access to records from US & international publications as recent as last month to those from the middle of the last century.

EBSCO will soon release Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

For more information, contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Media Communications Coordinator
EBSCO Publishing
kmcevoy@epnet.com

**** Wiley Announces New Funded Access Service ****

Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., have announced a new funded access service for authors of journal articles. Through this new program, authors will have the option of paying a fee to ensure that their article is available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com), Wiley's online publishing platform, as well as the author's funding agency's preferred archive if applicable.

For more details see: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/funded_access.html

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

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BOOK REVIEW

How to do Research: A Practical Guide to Designing and Managing Research Projects, Nick Moore
Facet Publishing, London: 2006. Revised 3rd edition.
ISBN-13: 978-1-85604-594-0 / ISBN-10: 1-85604-594-3 / £24.95

Nick Moore’s latest “How to do Research” offers wisdom and clarity on the essentials of the research process. Frequently fraught with tension and beset with difficulties, the process of researching can be far from smooth. In this context, Moore’s text offers a calm voice of reason based on a wealth of research experience - as practitioner, academic and communicator.

Moore ’s introduction states that the book is concerned with social research - described as research about people, institutions and the relationship between them. That said, much of the content will be useful for any researcher. Although the cover notes describe this book as invaluable to “both new and experienced researchers” the former will probably find it of most use. However, the book should have a wide ranging audience including those in organisations tasked with in-house research, undergraduate or postgraduate students and academic researchers.

The subtitle of the book has changed from the previous 1999 version from “complete guide” to “practical guide”. This change perhaps more accurately reflects the content. Rather than being a comprehensive manual Moore offers a medium-scale map of the research process. Research fundamentals are introduced. The differences between qualitative and quantitative data; results, conclusions and recommendations, and data, information and knowledge are explained. Details of statistical analysis are kept to a minimum with brief descriptions of crosstabs, multivariate analysis and statistical significance.

Moore divides the book into two parts. Part 1 covers the research process with chapters on developing the research objectives; designing and planning the study, writing the proposal; obtaining financial support; managing the project; drawing conclusions and making recommendations; writing the report and disseminating the results. Part 2 covers research methods with chapters on desk research and its analysis and on collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data. Updated throughout, this revision includes new sections on sub-contracting, ethical issues and internet-based and in-house research. Each chapter is rounded off with a neat summary. There is a reading list (with brief but helpful annotation) and a sample research proposal as an appendix.

Moore succeeds in giving the reader a realistic picture of research which is pragmatic but reassuring in its approach. The text covers constraints and barriers which may have to be overcome - from financial problems to information overload. The content is anchored to real life research situations with key points illustrated with examples drawn from experience. Problem areas common to many research ventures are identified. Readers will benefit from Moore’s experience such as his suggestion that if research aims cannot be expressed in a single sentence then the proposed research is probably too complex or unfocused to succeed; his advocacy of minimalism in research design; and his call to resist the urge to gather non-essential data “while you’re at it”.

The book’s strengths lie in its accessible style and well structured format with content designed not to overload the reader. The result is a very readable text which also allows ease of browsing and searching. It is a book that can be read in its entirety or dipped in to as research progresses when reminders or reassurances are needed. While covering a great deal, Moore succeeds in keeping his message clear – keep it simple, don’t over complicate, slice the project up into manageable, sequential tasks, plan meticulously and build a solid framework around which everything can fit. While distinct chapters separate stages of the project, Moore also succeeds in illustrating the interdependence of each stage, particularly emphasising how early mistakes can escalate as projects develop and increase in complexity.

Touching on ethics to average sentence length to use in the report, the coverage of the book is wide ranging. However, there is perhaps a slight imbalance in the depth to which topics are covered. Some sections are relatively broad brush (e.g. ethics and dissemination) while others go in to greater detail (e.g. costing). Whilst a lot of what is written in this respect may appear to be common sense (e.g. costing the number of forms, letters, envelopes and stamps required for a 200 questionnaire mail out), it is helpful and others sections might have benefited from a similar treatment.

In this book, Moore provides a calm and sensible outline of how to do research. It is steady and reassuring. It is clear, uncomplicated, systematic and structured reflecting Moore’s suggested approach to research. In short, if you want to get it together before you start a research project or want to keep it together during your research, keep this book to hand.

Nick Moore is Managing Director of Acumen Research and Consultancy Ltd and Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton. He is widely published and practiced in the field of research and information management.

MK

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

The Savvy Traveller
http://www.thesavvytraveller.com/
An excellent travel shop

XuQa
http://www.xuqa.com/
The world's largest and most happening online party.

Plazes
http://beta.plazes.com/
Users tag locations to find other users or related places nearby.

Platial
http://www.platial.com/
Add, tag, organize and share places.

Cookin’ With Google
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/tools/cookin-with-google/
Cookin’ With Google allows you to provide a list of ingredients (what’s in the fridge?) and get back a list of recipes that Google finds for you.

Festivals
http://www.play.com/summerfestival.aspx

Bands etc

Drowned in Sound
http://www.drownedinsound.com/

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