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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Abebooks

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

“Abebooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, secondhand, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 80 million books from around the globe.”

ACM Queue

http://www.acmqueue.org/

“As a publication of ACM, an organization with a long-standing heritage of intellectual integrity and unvarnished critical commentary, Queue's articles and observations anticipate and assess the challenges expected to arise in the months ahead as new and emerging technologies gain widespread acceptance. Unlike most other magazines aimed at the computer professional, Queue's "forward-looking" editorial does not provide solutions for the "here-andnow," but instead helps decision-makers plan future projects by examining the challenges and problems they are most likely to face.”

African Journal of Science and Technology

http://www.ansti.org/journal.php

The African Journal of Science and Technology (AJST) is a biannual technical publication of the African Network of Scientific and Technical Institutions (ANSTI).

Content is available free of charge as an Open Access journal.

APE 2007: Academic Publishing in Europe

http://www.ape2007.eu/

Innovation & Publishing: 23 - 24 January 2007, Berlin.

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/

Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

Awareness Watch Newsletter, September Issue

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/08/awareness-watch-newsletter-v4n9.html

The September issue of this freely available newsletter is now available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Research Resources on the Internet including related online research resources and sites. At 57 pages, this is the largest issue of the newsletter yet.

The past four year archives of the monthly Awareness Watch newsletter is available at: http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

Beyond Brunel

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchHighlights/BeyondBrunel/default.htm

Discover how modern engineers are building on Brunel's amazing achievements

BioWizard

http://www.biowizard.com/

“BioWizard is a revolutionary, free-of-charge research portal designed by scientists for the entire life science community.”

Books24x7

http://www.books24x7.com/

Books24x7, a SkillSoft Company, is a leading provider of web-based digital technical and business reference content, containing thousands of digitized "best-in-class" reference books, research reports, documentation and articles.

Business Research Engine

http://www.nlresearch.com/imarket.php

Search and browse is free. Market Intelligence Centers provide an overview of selected industries and business trends, with a detailed picture of market segments, issues, breaking news, companies, and government regulatory actions. Our editors scour the Web and the Business Research Engine for authoritative news, analysis and commentary, and useful resources to create a concise, easy-to-navigate market intelligence site for an industry. Daily updates and dynamic content keep the information up-to-date.

Calisphere

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

CALL-EJ Online

http://www.tell.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/callejonline/index.php

CALL-EJ Online is a refereed professional journal on Computer-Assisted Language Learning and related fields. It is published biannually. It began publication in 1999 after CALL-EJ in Japan and On-Call in Australia joined together. CALL-EJ Online is now an international journal that welcomes contributions from around the world.

CALL-EJ Online is available free of charge as an Open Access journal.

Chemistry Central

http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from the same team that created BioMed Central, the leading biomedical open access publisher.

Chinese Journal of International Politics

http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

A new journal. The first issue of can be accessed for free online.

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large

http://citesandinsights.info/

I often mention issues of this excellent publication in the Internet Resources Newsletter. Please note that this is the new address. Issue alerts are also available by RSS.

Culture.info

http://network.culture.info/

The aim of the new Culture.Info is to be the first port-of-call for users seeking cultural information on a particular topic. Each Culture.Info sub-portal will provide a focused and carefully researched set of listings of links to information that is more focused and useful than can usually be obtained from the vast majority of existing listings or search engines.

CV-Library

http://www.cv-library.co.uk/

Mentioned in issue 112 of the Internet Resources Newsletter, CV-Library currently lists over 28,000 job vacancies.

cybrarians : The Arabic Portal For Librarianship and Information

http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/

cybrarians Journal is an Arabic referred electronic journal on Librarianship & Information Science and other related fields.

Demographix

http://www.demographix.com/

Demographix is an online tool for creating, capturing and analysing web-based surveys, feedback forms, competitions, visitor offers and registration forms.

Development Gateway

http://www.developmentgateway.org/

“The Development Gateway puts the Internet to work for developing countries. We provide innovative Internet solutions for effective aid and e-government – increasing access to critical information, building local capacity and bringing partners together for positive change.”

dgMarket

http://www.dgmarket.com/

Tenders and consulting opportunities worldwide.

Digital Library of India

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/

“The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality.”

DLF Newsletter

http://www.diglib.org/pubs/newsletter.htm

The DLF Newsletter is a web-based publication in which the members report - to the rest of the Digital Library Federation and beyond - on new digital library services, collections, projects, and challenges.

DRIVER: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

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

“DRIVER sets out to build the testbed for a future knowledge infrastructure of the European Research Area. Aimed to be complimentary to GEANT2, the successful infrastructure for computing resources, data storage and data transport, DRIVER 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.”

E&P Focus

http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/ReferenceShelf/epfocus.html

This quarterly newsletter focuses on oil exploration and production research programs under NETL's auspices.

Edinburgh and the Lothians Samaritans

http://www.edinburghsamaritans.org/

“Edinburgh and the Lothians Samaritans was the second Branch to be set up in the UK and the first in Scotland. We work from accessible premises in the West End of Edinburgh 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”

eeNewsFeed

http://www.eenewsfeed.com/

An information & news portal for the semiconductor & electronics industries.

Emerald Shop

http://shop.emeraldinsight.com/

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has launched the Emerald Shop which offers an easy-to-use e-commerce platform for a range of Emerald’s non-subscription products.

Emulating Web Tools to Become Indispensable to Your Users

http://www.freepint.com/issues/070906.htm#feature

An article in FreePint, by Emma Wood.

EprintWeb

http://eprintweb.org/S/

EprintWeb is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology, and consists of e-print records which can be browsed and searched.

” We have focused on your experience as a user, and have addressed issues of navigation, searching, personalization and presentation, in order to enhance that experience. We have also introduced reference linking across the entire content, and enhanced searching on all key fields, including institutional address.”

European Educational Research Journal

http://www.wwwords.co.uk/eerj/

The European Educational Research Journal is a peer-refereed international journal devoted to Europeanization in educational research. It publishes aspects of educational research which illuminate the cases and contents of the emerging borderless space of European educational research.

Articles become free-access one year after first publication.

European Journal of Open and Distance Learning: EURODL

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

The European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL), relaunched in 2004, publishes the accounts of research, development and teaching for Europe in its most inclusive definition, exploring the potential of electronic publishing. Furthermore, EURODL presents scholarly work and solid information about open, distance and e-learning, education through telematics, multimedia, on-line learning and co-operation.

everystockphoto.com

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

“everystockphoto.com is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. We aim to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better, easier access to license-specific media on the web.”

FindGuru

http://www.reedlink.com/

“FindGuru, formerly known as ReedLink, is a vertical product search engine brought to you by Advantage Business Media, formerly Reed Business New Product Division, the world's premier provider of product information across various industries for more than 30 years. FindGuru is the premier search engine for locating products, product specifications, and companies, connecting buyers and suppliers in various vertical markets.”

Fire in the Ice

http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/FutureSupply/MethaneHydrates/newsletter/newsletter.htm

The methane hydrate newsletter, Fire in the Ice, conveys information about the latest developments in methane hydrate research and development.

Flickr geotagged photos

http://flickr.com/map

Now you can explore photos by place.

Google Accessible Search

http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired.

Google Co-op

http://www.google.com/coop

Google Co-op is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information. This is a work in progress. You can expect to see evolution in both the Co-op's structure and the platform's features.

Google Librarian Newsletter

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0609.html

September 2006 issue.

Google News: News archive search

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

Guide to Scottish Newspaper Indexes

http://www.nls.uk/collections/newspapers/indexes/index.cfm

This searchable list provides details of Scottish newspaper titles that have an index.

Gulf Research Center

http://www.grc.ae/

“The Gulf Research Center (GRC) is an independent research institute located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The GRC was founded in July 2000 by Mr. Abdulaziz Sager, a Saudi businessman, who realized that in a world of rapid political, social and economic change, it is important to pursue politically neutral and academically sound research about the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and disseminate the knowledge obtained as widely as possible. The GRC seeks to provide a better understanding of the challenges and prospects of the GCC countries.”

Health-EU Portal

http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/index_en.htm

“The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General is pleased to present the Health-EU Portal (the official public health portal of the European Union) and the wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level. The main objective of this thematic Portal is to provide European citizens with easy access to comprehensive information on Public Health initiatives and programmes at EU level. The portal is intended to help meet EU objectives in the Public Health field, it is an important instrument to positively influence behaviour and promote the steady improvement of public health in the 25 EU Member States.”

Historic Scotland

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

Historic Scotland safeguards the nation's historic environment and promotes its understanding and enjoyment on behalf of Scottish Ministers.

How WiFi Works

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wireless-network.htm

A nice introduction from howstuffworks.

IEEE Publishing Tools & Policy Information For Authors, Editors & Conference Organizers

http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubtoolsandpolicyinfo/index.html

For potential authors, editors, etc.

IMPALA Project

http://www.impala.ac.uk/

Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation.

IMPALA investigates the impact of Podcasting on student learning and how the beneficial effects can positively be enhanced.

Informa

http://www.informa.com/

Informa plc is the leading provider of specialist information to the global academic & scientific, professional and commercial communities via publishing, events and performance improvement.

Ingenierías

http://ingenierias.uanl.mx/

Ingenierías is available free of charge as an Open Access journal.

Inspire

http://www.inspire.gov.uk/

The Inspire programme seeks to provide a seamless cross-sectoral pathway for learners across public, academic and national libraries.

Institute of Historic Building Conservation: IHBC

http://www.ihbc.org.uk/

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is the professional institute which represents conservation professionals in the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has approximately 1500 members, divided between 15 branches.

Intellagencia

http://www.intellagencia.com/

A resource for UK media, advertising and marketing related information.

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design: ICSID

http://www.icsid.org/

ICSID facilitates co-operation and interaction among its more than 150 Member Societies in over 50 countries, providing a global force through which independent organisations can combine resources and efforts.

International Journal of Computer Science: IJCS

http://www.enformatika.org/ijcs/

International Journal of Computer Science (IJCS) is a scholarly open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, quarterly and fully refereed journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in computer science.

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning: iJET

http://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet

The iJET journal aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of technology enhanced learning.

Content is available free of charge as an Open Access journal.

International Journal of Manufacturing Research

http://www.inderscience.com/ijmr

IJMR is a new refereed international journal, aimed at fostering discussion and providing an authoritative source of information on modern manufacturing research. IJMR focuses on publishing innovative methodologies and disseminating solutions to problems that challenge today’s manufacturing operations.

International Journal of Public Information Systems

http://www.ijpis.net/

International Journal of Public Information Systems is available free of charge as an Open Access journal.

International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications

http://www.inderscience.com/ijrfita

The IJRFITA is a new journal which provides a forum to report and address the fundamental engineering and physical issues of RFID tag operation and tag/reader communication.

International Journal of Reliability and Safety

http://www.inderscience.com/ijrs

The IJRS is a new journal dealing with reliability and safety.

International Mathematics Research Papers

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/imrp/

A new journal which is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

Lemelson Center

http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/

The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was founded in 1995 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History through a generous gift from the Lemelson Foundation.

Live Science

http://www.livescience.com/

News, stories, blogs, newsletters, etc.

Looking for tools to help teach your patrons how to use Google more effectively?

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html

Some useful pdf files, from Google’s Librarian Center.

MediaWiki

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this very website, the home of MediaWiki.

Medscape

http://www.medscape.com/home

“Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time.”

MyiLibrary

http://www.myilibrary.com/

Used by academics, researchers and professionals, MyiLibrary is a reference tool for businesses and institutions looking to provide their users with access to the most current and topical learning eBooks available today.

Nacro

http://www.nacro.org.uk/

“At Nacro, the crime reduction charity, we make society safer by finding practical solutions to reducing crime. Since 1966 we've worked to give ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities the help they need to build a better future.”

National Energy Technology Laboratory: Oil and Natural Gas Supply

http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/

News, links, etc.

News Map

http://muti.co.za/static/newsmap.html

Clicking on a country/region retrieves news about that country.

NGC4Lib

http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/ngc4lib/

This is the home page for a mailing list called NGC4Lib -- Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries.

Nightline

http://www.nightline.ac.uk/

Nightline is a student welfare, telephone helpline scheme run by students, who care about their peers.

Open Access Central

http://www.openaccesscentral.com/

A family of sites from Science Navigation Group. Includes BioMed Central, Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central.

Platinax Internet

http://www.platinax.co.uk/

This site is run by a volunteer staff of company directors, who provide free help and advice for small businesses, to assist them in getting to grips with the internet for business purposes. Includes forums where tips and help on everything from business planning, business start-up, marketing, advertising, design, hosting, tax issues, etc are discussed, plus articles, etc.

PLoS ONE

http://www.plosone.org/

PLoS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Positive Steps To Assessing, Monitoring and Comparing the Accessibility of Public Websites: Introducing The European Internet Accessibility Observatory

http://www.freepint.com/issues/240806.htm#feature

An article by Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud, in a recent issue of FreePint.

PROLEARN Academy

http://www.prolearn-academy.org/

“…transfers the research results into education and training programmes, international conferences, and scientific journals designed to federate and showcase European leadership in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.”

RDA: Resource Description and Access

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.

Resource Personnel Oil & Gas Jobs

http://www.resourcepersonnel.com/

Specialists in supplying professionals for field development teams to the upstream oil and gas industry worldwide.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: RCAHMS

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

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is responsible for recording, interpreting and collecting information about the built environment.

RS Hydro

http://www.rshydro.co.uk/

RS Hydro is a multi-disciplined consultancy providing specialist expertise in process measurement technlogy and in particular clamp on, non contact, non intrusive and ultrasonic flow and level sensors to tackle technological issues facing clients over a large range of work in the water, environmental and industrial sectors, worldwide. Specialists in ultrasonic flow meter and open channel flow measurement installations, we offer a full selection of flowmeters from world class manufacturers.

Salafi Bookstore

http://www.salafibookstore.com/sbs/

Islamic Salafi Bookstore.

Samaritans

http://www.samaritans.org/

Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

Scientific-computing.com

http://www.scientific-computing.com/jobs.html

Scientific-computing.com has launched a new jobs portal.

Simply HR Jobs

http://www.simplyhrjobs.co.uk/

Simply HR Jobs specialises in advertising 1000s of jobs in HR throughout the UK from leading HR recruitment companies and employers

Spam Blocker

http://askbobrankin.com/spam_blocker.html

Bob Rankin gives advice.

Sphere

http://www.sphere.com/

"Sphere's advanced search algorithm helps you discover high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts that match what you're looking for."

Student Engineering & Design Community

http://students8.autodesk.com/

A free networking site for students in the fields of architecture, design, civil, and mechanical engineering.

Synapse Information Resources

http://www.synapseinfo.com/

Synapse Information Resources, Inc., serves to provide the Chemical Industry with timely, integrated access to thousands of chemical manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of trade name and generic chemicals.

Tate Images

http://www.tate-images.com/

An online service for professional image buyers. From here the Tate's Collection of British and international modern art is easily accessible for licensing.

TechniTex

http://www.technitex.org/

TechniTex is industrially driven and focuses on research, design and development of new technologies and applications for the textile industry.

TEK

http://tek.sourceforge.net/

TEK empowers low-connectivity communities by providing a full Internet experience using email as the transport mechanism

Telephone Helplines Association

http://www.helplines.org.uk/

“The Telephone Helplines Association works with helplines to achieve the highest quality response to all those seeking information, advice and help on health, social welfare or educational issues via the telephone and other interactive technology. We do this by providing good practice guidelines, a membership scheme, a Quality Standard, training, evaluation and consultancy services for helplines, including telephone, email, SMS and internet-based services. We also work with other stakeholders including government departments, OFCOM and telecoms providers, to enable organisations to provide quality, accessible and confidential helpline services to the public.”

The Open Group

http://www.opengroup.org/

“The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability.”

The Project Handbook: How to Write Clear and Cogent End-User Documentation

http://www.freepint.com/issues/210906.htm#tips

An article in a recent issue of FreePint, by Stephanie Taylor.

Thesis Writing Specialist

http://www.thesisspecialist.com/

“Thesis Specialist has a number of efficient PhD writers who are willing to present personalized support to our valuable customers at affordable costs on thesis and dissertation writing. Our team is made up of a balanced combination of writers, university professors and scholars.”

Trip Database

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

The Internet's leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine.

For about 4 years the TRIP Database was a subscription service, however this ended in September 2006 and it is now free access. The website has also been much improved.

Urban Conservation Glossary

http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/glossary.html

Produced by Neil Grieve, Dundee University.

Waterstone's

http://www.waterstones.com/

New website for Waterstone's , whose mission is to develop specialist bookselling on the high street and online; ensuring expertise and range are at the heart of the business, and delivering the best book-buying experience for every customer. Waterstone's aims to interest and excite its customers and continually inspire people to read and engage in books.

Web Capture

http://www.loc.gov/webcapture/

In 2004, the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives created a Web Capture team to support the goal of managing and sustaining at-risk digital content. The team is charged with building a Library-wide understanding and technical infrastructure for capturing Web content. The team, in collaboration with a variety of Library staff, and national and international partners, is identifying policy issues, establishing best practices and building tools to collect and preserve Web content.

WiderNet

http://www.widernet.org/

Another mention of this very worthwhile initiative, which aims at improving digital communication for people in Developing Countries.

Wildform

http://www.wildform.com/

Wildform have a new, consumer priced “Lite” version of its popular presentation program, WildPresenter, which lets anyone easily create outstanding Flash slide shows, flow charts, ads, online lessons, and sales presentations.

”At $99, it's great for customers who want a simple and inexpensive way to create slide shows and presentations in Flash, but who don't require WildPresenter's more advanced features such as PowerPoint to Flash conversion, video to Flash conversion, and screen recording.”

World Advertising Research Center: WARC

http://www.warc.com/

The World Advertising Research Center (WARC) is the leading supplier of information, knowledge, insight and data to the global marketing, advertising, media and research communities.

WWW Chemistry Guide

http://www.chemistryguide.org/

A nice, simple annotated list of links for chemists and researchers involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other chemistry research.

www.productionscheduling.com

http://www.productionscheduling.com/

Includes information about scheduling: online resources, books, software. Also a growing community with forums.

Production scheduling is concerned with the allocation of resources and the sequencing of tasks to produce goods and services.

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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.

BioWizard
http://www.biowizard.com/

A free subject portal with many interesting features.

"We believe that scientific knowledge is dynamic and should be subject to discussion in an open forum. Our goal is to resolve vital deficiencies in how science information is accessed, reviewed, shared, and archived."

Includes news, forums, blogs, products, etc as well as ways to find, rank and discuss published literature in biomedicine.

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_(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

BlogJet
http://www.blogjet.com/
BlogJet is a weblog client for Windows that allows you to manage your blog(s) without opening a browser.

BlogScholar
http://www.blogscholar.com/
Academic blogging portal

The Potential of RSS and Location-Based Services
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/meetings/edinburgh-2006-09/ppt2000-html/intro_files/v3_document.html
Slides from Brian Kelly's talk at a meeting on 4 September 2006 at the University of Edinburgh.

Commentful
http://commentful.com/
Commentful is a service that watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr pictures, and many other types of content. When ever there is an update, such as a new follow-up or comment, Commentful notifies you instantly.

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

LISFeeds
http://www.lisfeeds.com/
If you havn't visited this site recently, you might want to take another look.
"LISFeeds is a server-side RSS/Atom/XML/Etc... aggregator that scrapes feeds from librarian oriented sites from around the world."

Edufilter
http://edufilter.org/
Edufilter has been set up as a resource for those wanting to find out more about the various educational projects going on around the world and the people behind them. We will be discussing, reviewing and highlighting educational projects, software, services and research.

Edu_RSS Feed List
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?page=26
These are the feeds harvested by Edu_RSS. Edu_RSS is your one-stop source for today's top writers in educational technology. From Stephen Downes.

Chemistry blogs
http://www.chemistryguide.org/chemistry-blogs.html
A list from the WWW Chemistry Guide

Curious Cat
http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/
Science & engineering blog

IMPALA wiki and blogs
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/impala/
IMPALA (Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation), is a research project funded by the Higher Education Academy

Wiley InterScience
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/
Table of contents for journals on Wiley InterScience are now available as RSS feeds. To view the RSS, just click the orange feed icon [IMAGE] on any journal home page.

Liberating the literature
http://tripdatabase.blogspot.com/
Issues relating to the output of TRIP Database Ltd. Principally medical search (TRIP Database) and clinical Q&A (NLH Q&A Service)

Library Tech Confidential
http://libtechconfidential.com/

Technology on a Shoestring
http://techshoestring.blogspot.com/index.html
The blog supporting the book: Technology on a Shoestring: A Survival Guide for Educators and Other Professionals

The Need for (RSS) Feed
http://the-need-for-rss-feed.blogspot.com/

eFoundations
http://efoundations.typepad.com/
metadata, middleware, e-learning

Rocketboom
http://www.rocketboom.com
Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoblog based in New York City.

David Cameron in India
http://www.dcindia06.blogspot.com/

Development Gateway RSS feeds
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/rc/showRSSFeeds.do

Weblogs@UBC
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/home/
Resources on personal publishing for the faculty, students, & staff of the University of British Columbia

CrossRef
http://www.crossref.org/crweblog/

Enterprise Software Unwrapped
http://www.information-age.com/infolog/enterprise_software_unwrapped/
An Information Age blog

icrworld
http://ircworld.blogspot.com/ircworld.xml
Postings by U.S. information resource centers (ircs) around the world

The RSS Blog
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/

Higher Education Update
http://api.edna.edu.au/newsletter.rss?newsletter=highereducationupdate
Topical information and debates of interest to the Australian Higher Education community.

Hitwise
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/
Hitwise measures Internet usage behavior on over 500,000 websites across 160 industries on a daily basis. One of their roles in the Hitwise Research Group is to find interesting stories, case studies and applications within this massive dataset and write and speak about our findings.

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PRESS RELEASES

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The complete archive of the Royal Society journals, including some of the most significant scientific papers ever published since 1665, is now freely available online for the first time for a two month period.

The archive contains many classic papers including accounts of Michael Faraday's groundbreaking series of electrical experiments, Isaac Newton's invention of the reflecting telescope, and the first research paper published by Stephen Hawking as well as Benjamin Franklin's legendary kite experiment. More details can be found at http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive

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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

025.6 MAT
Adaptive technology for the Internet : making electronic resources accessible to all
by Barbara T. Mates and others.  
American Library Association, 2000.

371.33 ONE
Web-based learning : theory, research and practice
edited by Harold F. O'Neil and Ray S. Perez  
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

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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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

World Wikia
http://world.wikia.com/wiki/World_Wikia
World Wikia is a free travel directory that you can edit

lowcostholidays.com
http://www.lowcostholidays.com/

Personal Development Links
http://www.personaldevelopmentlinks.co.uk/
Personal Development Links aims to provide the highest quality collection of online resources for changing your life.

Student Recommended
http://www.studentrecommended.co.uk/
Edeinburgh's student discount card.

Fresh Air - The Alternative
http://www.freshair.org.uk/
Fresh Air - The Alternative is a non-profit making, independant radio station based in the city of Edinburgh.

Bands etc

Monkeytribe
http://www.monkeytribe.net/

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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