Welcome to the first issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter for 2007. You'll find all sorts of interesting Internet-related material below, including lists of new and notable websites, a Blogorama section featuring news about blogs and RSS, and much more. Also, Marion has added a Google custom search to the newsletter's website, so you can search the back issues.

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

1Job

http://www.1job.co.uk/

1 Place to Search for Jobs.

Acquire A Teacher

http://www.acquireateacher.com/

“Acquire A Teacher Limited is a specialist job matching website for teacher recruitment in the private and public sector. Our primary aim is to facilitate introductions between teachers and schools and we do not charge a placement fee unlike traditional agencies. The website is written by teachers for teachers and is advertised nationally.”

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository)

http://amser.org/

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

Archive Awareness Campaign

http://www.archiveawareness.com/

Local and national archives, large and small, public and private, general and specialist will open their doors throughout the year to celebrate the wealth of archive material across the UK.

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/112760285

A new journal, published by Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

AskPhilosophers

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

“This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it.”

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/12/v5n1-january-2007-awareness-watch.html

The January 2006, V5N1 Awareness Watch Newsletter is available from this website. This special report is on Deep Web Research 2007.

Best Tech Videos On The Net

http://www.bestechvideos.com/

Very useful directory.

CareerBuilder.co.uk

http://www.careerbuilder.co.uk/

Launched in January ‘06 and now the 4th largest recruitment website in the UK.

Click4Teachers

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

A “fresh and thoughtful online education tool, designed to benefit all parties involved in the recruitment of Primary, Secondary and Special Needs teachers, Nursery Nurses and FE Lecturers searching for those all important permanent or temporary teaching jobs in the UK and abroad.”

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.”

Communications in Information Literacy: CIL

http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil

Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge, theory, and research in the area of information literacy. The journal is committed to the principles of information literacy as set forth by the Association of College and Research Libraries. CIL is also committed to the principles of open access for academic research.

CommunityArchives.org.uk

http://www.communityarchives.org.uk/

This website has been set up to show the variety and quantity of community archives in the UK. It's a meeting-place where archives can publicise their work and share their experiences.

ConstructionJobs.com

http://constructionjobs.com/

An Internet job board and resume database for the Construction, Design/Build and Engineering industries.

EasyBib

http://easybib.com/

“We at EasyBib understand the burdensome task of composing a bibliography. After finishing a paper, no one wants to go through the process of looking up the many different formats to cite their individual sources. Placing colons in one place, periods in another, and deciding when and where to underline is both confusing and frustrating.

We designed EasyBib to solve these problems. By providing us with the information you know about your sources, we can properly format, alphabetize, and print your citation list. We’ve used EasyBib ourselves, and personally vouch for its performance: it cuts down bibliography creation time from one half to two thirds.”

eBay Express

http://www.express.ebay.co.uk/

“eBay Express is the new Shopping site from eBay- buy brand new items instantly and get great service from professional sellers. It has all the choice and fun of eBay combined with a new way of finding the items you want to buy and an easy checkout function.”

eCrystals

http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/

eCrystals - Southampton is the archive for Crystal Structures generated by the Southampton Chemical Crystallography Group and the EPSRC UK National Crystallography Service.

Edge

http://edge.org/

The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.

Emerald Asset

http://engineering.emeraldinsight.com/pr/asset.htm

“As a publisher of a range of high profile engineering journals, Emerald is piloting a new Open Access (OA) publishing model, for a trial period, via the Emerald Engineering web portal.

Unlike other OA models which require authors to pay a fee to have their article openly published, the Emerald Asset trial offers authors the opportunity to contribute, not in cash but in kind: In exchange for open publication authors will be asked to submit a summary of their research findings highlighting their practical application.

Summaries will be considered for publication on the Emerald Engineering website. Each summary will include a link to enable readers to gain free access to the full text of the published article.”

Details of how to take part are available at this site.”

First International Conference on Management Innovation: ICMI 2007

http://www.icmi2007.org/index.html

June 4-6, Shanghai, P.R. China.The Conference of Management Innovation of 2007 provides three day’s focus on the science and technology that are the basis for management. .

fonetiks

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages.

Functional Glycomics research

http://www.functionalglycomics.org/fg/

“This gateway represents a unique collaboration between the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). It is designed to provide up-to-date information and resources for research aimed at elucidating the roles of glycan-protein interactions in cell surface biology.”

Google Librarian

http://www.googlelibrarian.com/

“GoogleLibrarian.com is the ultimate guide to Google made especially for Librarians and information professionals. This site was created to help you - the librarian - master the art of online searching and harness the infinite power of Google and its services. We provide you with tips, tricks, strategies, lesson plans, tutorials, and easy to understand explanations to make your Google experience the best. Visit the blog for the latest Google news.”

Google Patent Search

http://www.google.com/patents

Search over 7 million patents.

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual_property/gowersreview_index.cfm

In December 2005, the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked Andrew Gowers to conduct an independent review into the UK Intellectual Property Framework. The Review was published on 6th December 2006 and can be accessed from this site.

GRACE

http://www.grace-ist.org/

GRACE is an innovative Information Retrieval system that enables just in time, flexible allocation of data and computational resources, thanks to integration with GRID technology.

High Performance Computations for Engineering

http://morpheus.pte.hu/~peteri/hpc2007/index.html

A Five Day Course for Engineering PhD Students & Research Assistants to be held at Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs, Hungary, 18th March - 23rd March 2007.

Holiday Express: Taking the Mobile Web on Holiday

http://www.freepint.com/issues/040107.htm#tips

An article by Gary Price in a recent issue of Free Pint.

The Free Pint Index is also available.

HTML Code Tutorial.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

“Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere.”

Images for All

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/rsgs/ifa/home.html

'Images for All' is a two year project which aims to improve access to the collections of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. The main activities of the project are:

Implementing an ongoing repair and conservation programme
Cataloguing all items in the collections
Making catalogues freely available via this website
Scanning one hundred gems selected from throughout the collections and creating an image gallery
Promoting the collections to a diverse public
The project is funded for two years until August 2007 by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and has two full time staff and a Project Management Group.

IMAGINATION

http://www.imagination-project.org/

IMAGINATION is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP), which is carried out by 8 partners under the European Union's 6th Framework programme's (6FP) Information Society Technologies (IST) priority, more specifically under the IST action line "Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources". The project was started in May, 2006. Its duration is 36 month.

The main objective of IMAGINATION is to bring digital cultural and scientific resources closer to their users, by making user interaction image-based and context-aware. Our aim is to enable image-based navigation for digital cultural and scientific resources. Our vision is a system where users receive meaningful contextual information about images and image parts, which makes images easier to understand. Moreover, users can simply navigate to new, relevant images and texts in the knowledge repository only by clicking on interesting image parts.

Improving Business Performance through Effective IT and Business Collaboration!

http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/w_al02/

This white paper is free to qualifying professionals on completion of a form.

Indian Journals Directory

http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=indianjournaldirectory

An Online Directory of Indian Publications.

Information Literacy

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/informationliteracy/index.asp

Learning and Teaching Scotland has launched a new resource for pupils aged 9-18. The Information Literacy website provides a range of interactive materials designed to help pupils improve the ways in which they identify, gather, organise and use information.

INFORUM 2007:

http://www.inforum.cz/en/

13th Conference on Professional Information resources, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC (May 22-24, 2007).

INFORUM deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes.

Infosecurity Europe 2007

http://www.infosec.co.uk/

24-26 April, Olympia, London. “Infosecurity Europe is Europe's most comprehensive convergence of information security professionals. Showcasing the most diverse range of new and innovative products and services and addressing today's strategic and technical issues in an unrivalled education programme. The event delivers an audience hungry for education and information on how, what, why and when to purchase the products on offer. It also offers vendors the platform to evolve current or create new channel relationships.”

Interlude

http://www.interludemagazine.co.uk/

Interlude is an Arts magazine that includes writings, poetry and visual work.

International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS)

http://www.inderscience.com/ijhfms

This is a new peer-reviewed journal title from Inderscience.

Internet Economist

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/economist

An online tutorial.

Internet for Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/elec

A new edition of the "Internet for Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering" online tutorial has been released.

IP Strategy Today

An Open Access journal.

IP Strategy Today is published by bioDevelopments-International Institute, in collaboration with individuals at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University and at The Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University.

IST World

http://www.ist-world.org/

The IST World portal offers information about experts, research groups, centers and companies involved in creating the technologies for the growing information society. Focus of the service is the expertise and experience of relevant players in European countries.

IT Jobs-online

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

The IT Job Site advertising IT Jobs in UK and IT Jobs in Europe.

JCP: BioChemical Physics

http://jcp-bcp.aip.org/

From the AIP, this new online-only publication features the portion of newly published content from The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) that deals directly with, or has important implications for, biologically related systems.

Kayak.co.uk

http://www.kayak.co.uk/

“Kayak.co.uk searches 100+ travel sites to bring you the widest possible selection of flights. Use our tools to refine & compare results. Then, book your flight direct.”

Krugle

http://www.krugle.com/

A search engine for developers.

Learning at the British Library

http://www.bl.uk/learning/

This is a fairly new website. “The British Library offers an exciting programme of workshops, activities and resources for teachers and learners of all ages. Explore a wealth of source material online or plan a visit.”

Library Related Conferences

http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

A useful list compiled by Marian Dworaczek.

Medknow Publications

http://www.medknow.com/

“Medknow Publications is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals.”

”Medknow, with over 35 print + online journals, is probably the largest open access publisher of print journals in the world which does not charge author or author institution for submission, processing or publication of articles. Each journal published by Medknow has its independent website. The websites use the OpenURL standard, making it easy for libraries to link users as directly as possible from citation to the full text of the article.”

MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

http://www.michael-culture.org/en/home

The MICHAEL European Service provides access to digital resources from museums, libraries and archives. The website includes:

A searchable database of digital resources from museums, libraries and archives in several European countries.

Articles and user stories, which look at various aspects of the European cultural heritage and the contents of MICHAEL.

Information about the MICHAEL project, the technology that it uses and links to useful materials.

MS Dewey

http://msdewey.com/

A flash based search engine. Make your own minds up – but its entertaining.

National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium

http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/

An initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, M H R D, Govt. of India.

Nature Photonics

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/index.html

A new research journal dedicated to the best photonics research from academia and industry.

Online Academic Advisor

http://www.onlineacademicadvisor.com/

This website's goal is to help students with academic difficulties during their studies. Students can post their academic problems on this system, discuss them with peers in communities and, if necessary, get help from experienced academic advisors.

Open Access Research

http://ojs.gsu.edu/index.php/OAR

Open Access Research (OAR) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to furthering the conversations surrounding open access to scholarly research.

Open Culture

http://www.oculture.com/

“The Mission:

To explore the best of contemporary intellectual life.

To connect users with free, high-quality online media -- podcasts, videos, online courses, etc. -- that makes learning dynamic, convenient and fun.

To keep users apprised of new cultural developments and resources worth their limited time.”

Pambazuka News

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/

Pambazuka News (Pambazuka means arise or awaken in Kiswahili) is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. Pambazuka News offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.

Pathway Interaction Database

http://pid.nci.nih.gov/

The Pathway Interaction Database is an authoritative, peer-reviewed collection of information about biomolecular interactions that occur in human cellular signaling pathways. Created in a collaboration between the U.S. National Cancer Institute and NPG, the database is aimed at cell biologists, biochemists, computational biologists and bioinformaticians. It offers a range of intuitive tools to allow users to easily search, view and download data, and complex queries can be created to further explore the database. A concise editorial section provides synopses of recent important research articles and specially commissioned articles on the practical use of other relevant online tools.

Response to consultation on successor to research assessment exercise

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2006/rae.htm

“To reduce the administrative burden on universities, the RAE will be succeeded by a new overarching framework for assessing research quality and allocating funding which is more metrics based. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will lead further development of the new process, which will use a set of indicators of research income and quality combined with advice from experts including research users, to rate university research and inform the distribution of Government funding for research funding for English universities.”

Risk Management Report: An Essential Toolkit for Businesses

http://www.freepint.com/issues/180107.htm?#feature

An article in Free Pint, by Jela Webb.

Ruby

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

SAS-SPACE

http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/dspace/

SAS-SPACE is the digital respository for the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Science Publications

http://scipub.org/

“Science Publications operates as an independent science and technology publisher with a global reputation for quality products and services. Our internationally recognized publishing programme covers a wide range of scientific disciplines.”

Scotland on TV

http://www.scotlandontv.tv/

“Scotland on TV is a web tv channel bringing programming about Scotland to a world-wide audience. So, whether you’re a Scottish ex-pat, or someone who has Scottish roots, or you would just like to know more about the country which aims to be ‘the best small country in the world’ welcome to programming you can watch when YOU want to watch it!”

Search Engine Strategies

http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/

The Premier Event for Search Engine Marketing & Optimization Returns to London February 13th – February 15th, 2007.

Shibboleths: A Journal of Comparative Theory

http://www.shibboleths.net/

Shibboleths is an open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring all aspects of Philosophy and Theory.

Source Code for Biology and Medicine

http://www.scfbm.org/

An online journal published by BioMed Central.

South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SESTRAN)

http://www.sestran.gov.uk/

SESTRAN is one of 7 Regional Transport Partnerships in Scotland. Within the SESTRAN area there is a a huge diversity of transportation issues from urban congestion to rural public transport and from ferry ports to Airports. SESTRAN aims to address these issues and work towards a more sustainable and efficient transport network.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-07.htm

issue #105, January 2, 2007, by Peter Suber. This issue includes an informative summary of activity: “Open access in 2006”.

Well worth a read.

Strengthening the library brand?

http://www.slainte.org.uk/publications/serials/infoscot/vol4(5)/vol4(5)article7.htm

A ‘parasite’ on services financed by libraries or a valuable tool for users? However Google is perceived it should act as an urgent call for libraries to collaborate and digitise, says John MacColl, in an article in Information Scotland.

SuprGlu

http://suprglu.com/

“Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites.”

TeLearn

http://www.telearn.eu/

TeLearn is the first international Open Archive in Technology Enhanced Learning.

Submitting your research publications or videos to Kaleidoscope TeLearn guarantees best possible exposure. Your work will be found, read and used by more researchers and you will be making a valuable contribution to Kaleidoscope’s mission - to shape the scientific evolution of technology enhanced learning.

The Diary Junction

http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.html

The aim of this website is to provide an internet resource for those interested in historical and literary diaries and diarists.

The Education Show

http://www.education-show.com/

22-24 March, NEC, Birmingham.

The institutional repository: what it can do for your institution and what the institution can do for the repository

http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/Conference%20presentations/ANKOS%20-%20Turkey.pdf

An informative presentation by Alma Swan, delivered at the ANKOS Workshop 2006 (Istanbul, October 26-27, 2006).

TIRAMISU (The Innovative Rights and Access Management Inter-platform Solution) project

http://www.tiramisu-project.org/

The TIRAMISU (The Innovative Rights and Access Management Inter-platform Solution) project addresses the problem of creation, delivery and consumption of audio-visual media across a wide range of hybrid networks and platforms, where security issues, such as intellectual property rights protection, privacy, access rights and transaction tracing are of major concern.

The objective of TIRAMISU is to unleash the full potential of digital media, addressing the complete consumption chain - media creation, delivery and consumption, while removing the Digital Rights Management (DRM) barrier.

Trexy

http://trexy.com/

Trexy.com is a new search technology that enables you to remember your searches and the web pages you visit by creating search trails. Search trails are the paths you create while searching on your favourite search engines such as Google, Teoma and MSN. Working with over 3000 engines, Trexy allows you to save time and become a better searcher.

UK PubMed Central: UKPMC

http://ukpmc.ac.uk/

Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.

UK’s Website of Year 2006:

http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/winners.php

The winners are revealed.

Virtual Institute of Applied Science: VIAS

http://www.vias.org/about.html

The Virtual Institute of Applied Science (VIAS) has been founded by Hans Lohninger to supply high-quality learning materials at virtually no costs. Thus, the VIAS Web site is dedicated to the enhancement of learning and the understanding of science concepts.

Web Designer Scotland

http://www.webdesignerscotland.com/

Web Designer Scotland is a leading solution provider for web based services like Web Site Design, Logo Design, Content Development and Management, Ecommerce Design and Development.

Welders Warehouse

http://www.thewelderswarehouse.com/

An online welding information and supply company. They supply all the UK and offer a free "Knowledge Zone" and free "Welding Course Finder".

What Next

http://www.dhf.uu.se/whatnext/

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s What Next initiative seeks to identify and analyse emergent global challenges and explore strategies for social change. Carried out in close collaboration with numerous scholars and activists around the world, What Next builds on the Foundation’s three decades of work on development alternatives – initiated with the 1975 report What Now: Another development.

Wikibooks

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

A collection of free content textbooks that you can edit.

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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.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #105
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-07.htm

The SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) (Formerly, The Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter), is published and sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): http://www.arl.org/sparc/ and written by Peter Suber. Peter also authors the Open Access News blog: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Both the Newsletter and the Blog are very informative about issues surrounding Open Access.

This issue of SOAN is particularly good because it provides a summary of Open Access activity in 2006.

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

"Social Revolution: Bloggers Dominate Online"
http://www.freepint.com/issues/071206.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Monique Cuvelier

Asian blogosphere surges forward
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2170274/asian-blogosphere-surges
A news item from IWR

Some university press blogs
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/01/some_university.html
Posted to Science Library Pad on 13 January.

Calls for Papers by RSS

It would be nice if it were possible to subscribe to aggregated Calls for Papers from conferences, journals and books etc, in subject areas of choice, by RSS. As far as I'm aware, this is not possible. If you know of any services which do provide this sort of facility, please email me at: r.a.macleod@hw.ac.uk

In the meantime, here are some sites which offer Calls for Papers by RSS. If you know of other similar services, please let me know.

EventSeer
http://eventseer.net/eventseer.xml
EventSeer is a searchable library of computer science events. They currently index calls for papers (CFPs), proposals, demos, posters, participation, etc. for conferences, journals, books, tutorials, as well as any other relevant event.

Elsevier Call for Papers in Computer Science
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P05.cws_home/rss

Inderscience
http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php
This Call-for-Papers channel covers the latest calls for papers produced by Inderscience's journals in science, engineering and technology, management, law and business administration, computing, Internet and IT, and energy, environment and sustainable development.

DSOnline
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gpierre/conf-cal/deadlines.rss
IEEE Distributed Systems Online

European Society for the Study of English
http://www.essenglish.org/calls.xml
Calls for Papers recently posted on the ESSE website

This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

Computing Reviews
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReviewsNews

EPT
http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com/
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

Calls For Papers from Inderscience
http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php

Physics and Maths info @ Imperial College London Library
http://physmaths.wordpress.com/

Chemistry Info @ Imperial College London Library
http://libinfo.wordpress.com/

Egg - Like a bird's egg
http://egglikeabirdsegg.blogspot.com/
By Christopher Leonard

Search Engine Land
http://searchengineland.com/index.php
Search Engine Land is a new search news blog. Danny Sullivan, along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, provide information about search engine marketing and how search engines work in general, from a searcher's perspective.

RUG Combine and RUGlinks
http://linklog.weblog.ub.rug.nl/

Library TV
http://librarytv.blogspot.com/
Exploring video as a training and promotional tool for libraries, on the web and in television

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

Declan Butler, reporter
http://declanbutler.info/blog/
This is the personal blog of Declan Butler, a senior reporter at Nature.

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PRESS RELEASES

**** Cambridge Information Group announces agreement to acquire Proquest Information and Learning ****

Cambridge Information Group (CIG) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ProQuest Information and Learning, a segment of ProQuest Company (NYSE: PQE), for approximately $222 million.

Under the agreement, CIG will combine its Bethesda, Maryland-based CSA subsidiary with Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ProQuest Information and Learning to create a new, privately held independent company. The new company plans to continue operations in both locations.

Both CSA and ProQuest offer libraries and their users access to high-quality electronic resources. CSA and ProQuest will serve a combined customer base of more than 25,000 library customers.

CSA's products include CSA Illumina, the platform from which more than 100 scholarly databases in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities and technology fields are made accessible; Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, a powerful tool for library professionals who need to identify, analyze, evaluate and create reports about the library's print and electronic serials holdings; and the recently launched CSA Illustrata, which permits searching and retrieval of charts, graphs, illustrations and their captions within articles and documents.

ProQuest provides global access to one of the largest online content repositories in the world. It is best known for its extensive collection of business, economics, general reference, genealogy, humanities, social sciences, scientific, technical and medical content. ProQuest's product lines include Chadwyck-Healey®, a collection of more than 40 extensive reference resources of the world's literature; UMI® microform vault, the largest commercially available microform collection in the world; ProQuest Digital Dissertations; Serials Solutions; and ProQuest Historical Newspapers™, an archive of 14 million pages dating as far back as 1764 which includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe and The Hartford Courant.

For more details, see: http://www.csa1.co.uk/news/csa-pressrelease.php

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

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RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Recent Arrivals

006.76 MOS
Developing Web applications
by Ralph Moseley
John Wiley & Sons, 2007

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

Journey for the wild
http://www.jmt.org/journey/

Kuoda Tours
http://www.inturkuoda.com/
A Tour Operator that specializes in designing personalized travel programs catering to dreams and greatest expectations. Located in the ancient Inka capital of Cusco, Peru.

wfiTV.com
http://www.wfitv.com/
wfiTV.com provides a free selection of the best broadband internet television channels. (over 1400).

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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