Welcome to the May 2007 issue (#150) of the Internet Resources Newsletter. 150 Not Out! - That's not bad at all. This newsletter has now been published since way back in October 1994, and Marion, Catherine and myself would like to thank you for your support and encouragement over the years.
In this issue there's the usual collection of links to Internet-related material, a number of blogs of interest are noted, and you'll also find details of some music festivals for the summer, etc.
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Random quotes
"It's amazing to get out of your bedroom and actually meet real people. I'd forgotten that there's another world out there offline." 17-year-old James McFadden, quoted in The Sunday Times, News Review, April 1, 2007
"Scotland ranks third in the world for research publications and citations per capita - ahead of America and Germany." The Sunday Times, Ecosse section, p. 1, April 8, 2007
"Currently, the majority of researchers think that their institutions’ libraries are doing an effective job in providing the information they need to do their work, but it is time to consider the future roles and responsibilities of all those involved in the research cycle – researchers, research institutions and national bodies, as well as libraries – in meeting the challenges that are coming." and "...most researchers lack any clear understanding of what the library is doing on their behalf."
Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services.
A report commissioned by the Research Information Network and the Consortium of Research Libraries.
If you only read one thing this month, read...
Open Access and the Progress of Science
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55131
An article in American Scientist Online, by Alma Swann
Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
1st International Conference Online Educa Moscow 2007
http://www.online-educa-moscow.com/files/cfp.pdf
President Hotel, Moscow September 30 - October 3, 2007. Call for papers.
33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed
An article by Will Sherman, in DegreeTutor.
Able Magazine.
http://www.ablemagazine.com/
Able is a bi-monthly, lifestyle magazine for disabled people, including a wide variety of celebrity interviews, informative articles and information on accessible holidays and legislation.
All the Top Bananas
http://www.allthetopbananas.com/
UK job search engine.
All Things Web 2.0
http://allthingsweb2.com/
A directory, etc.
AMS Digital Mathematics Registry
http://www.ams.org/dmr/index.html
The aim of the AMS-DMR is to provide centralized access to certain collections of digitized publications in the mathematical sciences. The registry is primarily focused on older material from journals and journal-like book series that originally appeared in print but now is available in digital form.
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V5N4 April 2007
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/03/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n4-april.html
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources.
BibblyWiki
http://www.giffmex.org/bibblywiki.html
BibblyWiki is an adaptation of TiddlyWiki software designed to create bibliographies, personal library inventories and notes on books.
CADjunky
http://www.cadjunky.com/
CADjunky is CAD demonstrated through an ever-growing number of common sense, informative, helpful and entertaining videos.
Chemists Without Borders
http://www.chemistswithoutborders.org/
“Chemists Without Borders is a public benefit, non-profit, international humanitarian organization designed to alleviate human suffering through the use of proven chemical technologies and related skills. Our primary goals include, but are not limited to, providing affordable medicines and vaccines to those who need them most, supplying clean water in developing countries, facilitating sustainable energy technologies, and supporting chemistry education.”
ChemSpider
http://www.chemspider.com/
ChemSpider makes available a database of chemical structures and related properties as well as providing access to a series of property prediction algorithms. It has been built with the intention of aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it available to everybody, at no charge. ChemSpider intends to become a community for chemists to share data and knowledge associated with chemical structures and reactions and providing an open forum for discussion and sharing.
Congenital Cardiology Today – Live Cases
http://www.chdvideo.com/
Presented here courtesy of: the Pediatric and Adult Interventional Therapies for Congenital and Valvular Disease (PICS) and the 6th International Workshop on Interventional Pediatric Cardiology (Workshop IPC).
CSA Illustrata
http://www.il.proquest.com/division/forms/csaillustrata.shtml
Request a free 30 day trial of CSA Illustrata CSA Illustrata uses deep indexing to provide web-based access for the search and retrieval of indexed tables, figures and other objects found in scholarly research literature. Researchers can then view the full object (including all captions and label text) or easily link to the full-text article containing the illustration. Results can be easily saved or imported with citations and used for presentations, lectures, or research.
Current TV
http://uk.current.com/
Current is a global television network that gives you the opportunity to create and influence what airs on TV.
Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/CI_Vision_March07.pdf
64 page National Science Foundation publication.
Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/
Highlight, Clip and Sticky-Note for any webpage.
Distance Learning, ifs KnowledgeBank and Usability
http://www.freepint.com/issues/050407.htm#tips
An article in Free Pint, by John McBurnie.
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Open Data Edition
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqCs8wrw32HHTWuRwgm6bQA
Spreadsheets, showing the growth of OA.
Drupal
http://drupal.org/
Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
Eigenfactor.org
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
“Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research. We are committed to sharing our findings with interested members of the public, including librarians, journal editors, publishers, and authors of scholarly articles.”
Elgg
http://elgg.org/
Elgg is an open source social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.
englishediting.net
http://www.englishediting.net/
“englishediting.net is a fast and efficient online editing service. Whether you are submitting a dissertation/essay to university, an article to a journal, or a research proposal, we cater to your different needs as a student, academic or a corporate client.”
eResearch Australasia
http://www.eresearch.edu.au/
eResearch Australasia 2007 will be held 26-28 June at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, with workshops following on 29 June. The conference will feature speakers, posters, and demonstrations from the Australian and international eResearch community.
EThOS: A New Start for Doctoral Theses in the UK
http://www.freepint.com/issues/050407.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Neil Jacobs and Anthony Troman.
European Journal of International Management
http://www.inderscience.com/ejim
This is the first international journal devoted entirely to fostering an understanding of issues in international management theory and practice in the newly expanded European arena – including the underrepresented regions of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe – and to providing both conceptual and functional implications useful for the further development of research, teaching practices, and managerial techniques.
Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Ingénieurs des Techniques de l'Automobile : FISITA
http://www.fisita.com/
The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Ingénieurs des Techniques de l'Automobile (FISITA) was founded in Paris in 1948 with the purpose of bringing engineers from around the world together in a spirit of cooperation to share ideas and advance the technological development of the automobile. FISITA is the umbrella organisation for the national automotive societies in 38 countries around the world. Our network of member societies represents more than 144,000 automotive engineers around the globe.
Flightline
http://www.flightline.co.uk/
An online search & booking system, specialising in providing low-cost flights from every UK airport, on all airlines, to any destination around the world.
Freebase
http://www.freebase.com/
"It's about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data. Its a big job and we're just getting started.”
Global Access to Science – Scientific Publishing for the Future.
http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/
Annual conference, IATUL 2007, June 11 - 14, 2007 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
HOST
http://www.mediascot.org/host/
HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to online projects by artists. Here you can experience art from a range of Scottish and international artists.
Inderscience Highlights
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=19
The Spring 2007 issue of Inderscience Highlights newsletter is available. It contains news, calls for papers, articles, etc.
Info@UK British Council
http://www.britishcouncil.org/info@uk.htm
This new website is designed to give key information about the knowledge economy, and includes news and latest developments in the UK and overseas, core briefs and case studies.
Information Society Watch
http://www.is-watch.net/
The Information Society Watch (ISW) captures information society issues in the context of development needs of the South. It is intended for developing learning and knowledge-sharing platforms to help build perspectives for analysis, advocacy and action.
International Journal of Automation and Control
http://www.inderscience.com/ijaac
This is a new journal from Inderscience. IJAAC fosters information exchange and discussion on the evolution and realisation of the theory, algorithms, techniques, schemes and tools for any kind of automation and control platforms including macro, micro and nano scale machineries and systems, with emphasis on implications that state-of-the-art technology choices have on both the feasibility and practicability of the intended applications.
International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
http://www.inderscience.com/ijhpsa
This is a new journal from Inderscience. IJHPSA proposes and fosters discussion on all aspects of the design and implementation of high-performance architectures, which are centred around the concept of parallel processing. The journal will cover all types of advanced architectures ranging from pipelined structures, array processors and multiprocessor systems.
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
http://www.inderscience.com/ijict
This is a new journal from Inderscience. IJICT is a refereed journal in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), providing an international forum for professionals, engineers and researchers. IJICT reports the new paradigms in this emerging field of technology and envisions the future developments in the frontier areas. The journal addresses issues for the vertical and horizontal applications in this area.
IRIScotland Project Pilot Cross-Repository Service
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/iriscotland/
Search records harvested from participating institutions, including the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde.
IT Jobs Online
http://www.itjobs-online.com/
IT Job Site strictly for IT professionals - advertising IT Jobs in UK & Europe.
Librarian's World
http://www.librariansworld.com/
Librarian's World is a network of Librarians & Information Scientists. It is a democratically managed site without any editor. It offers Social bookmarking, Expertise Exchange, Discussion Forums, Librarians Webpages and many other facilities with an objective of better networking & knowledge sharing amongst Librarians.
lisSite
http://libsite.org/
A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites.
Manual for Streets
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/manforstreets/
Manual for Streets provides guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones. It aims to increase the quality of life through good design which creates more people-orientated streets.
MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://www.mesur.org/
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in support of a two-year project that will investigate metrics derived from the network-based usage of scholarly information. The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data.
Miscellaneous Mathematical Utilities
http://www.akiti.ca/Mathfxns.html
“This page contains links to several mathematical utilities. More will be added as I write them. The algorithms underlying these utilities come from the BLAS, EISPACK, and LINPACK collection of subprograms, written by some of the brightest mathematicians and computer scientists (I have cited sources when I found them). Those subprograms incorporate excellent basic algorithms and programming techniques to optimize the routines for speed and accuracy.” The intended audience is mainly undergraduate university students. The utilities are meant to be convenient, user-friendly calculators.
Open Access and the Progress of Science
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55131
The power to transform research communication may be at each scientist's fingertips. A thought-provoking article in American Scientist Online, by Alma Swan.
PerX Setup & Maintenance Issues
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/setupmaintenance.htm
This document provides details of the set-up and maintenance effort expended by the PerX team for a 12 month period between March 2006 and February 2007 and includes issues and conclusions arising from setting up and maintaining cross-search targets. It covers setup and maintenance of 27 OAI-PMH targets, setup and maintenance of 14 Z39.50 targets, and setup and maintenance of some non-standard targets.
pipl
http://www.pipl.com/
A quite good people search engine.
Play Radio UK.com
http://www.playradiouk.com/mobile/
Play Radio UK.com via mobile phones has become a reality. Four brand extensions of the Internet radio service are available to listen to now, on your mobile, these include: Play Radio UK, Play Rock UK, Play Classical UK and Play Top 40 UK. via mobile phones has become a reality. Four brand extensions of the Internet radio service are available to listen to now, on your mobile, these include: Play Radio UK, Play Rock UK, Play Classical UK and Play Top 40 UK. PlayRadioUK.com is available now on all mobile phones that can access the Internet.
PMC Physics A
http://www.physmathcentral.com/pmcphysa
A new Open Access journal. PMC Physics A is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on high-energy & nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity & astroparticle physics and also the instrumentation & data analysis of results in these areas.
Podcasts from IWR
http://www.online-information.co.uk/online07/pod_list.shtml?press_id=13980
Free podcasts, on such topics as: Wikis and the lightweight software revolution; The value of social media in 21st century organisations; Enterprise wikis and employee collaboration.
Product Evaluations: Completing a Needs Assessment
http://www.freepint.com/issues/190407.htm#tips
An article by FreePint FUMSI Editorial Staff.
ProgrammableWeb
http://programmableweb.com/
Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs
PureVideo
http://www.purevideo.com/
A Web-wide video search destination. Includes a custom webpage solution and a new channel dedicated to educational research.
Red Jasper’s Center for Journal Ranking
http://www.journal-ranking.com/
Ranks 7,000 journals according to a new paradigm.
Researchers’ use of academic libraries and their services
http://www.rin.ac.uk/researchers-use-libraries
This study was designed to provide an up-to-date and forward-looking view of how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK.
RoboBraille
http://www.robobraille.org/index.htm
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Collection: SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
SPARC has reorganized and redesigned its Web site. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
Science and Technology Facilities Council
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/
Formed by Royal Charter in 2007 (by combining CCLRC and PPARC), the Science and Technology Facilities Council is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organisations supporting scientists and engineers world-wide. The Council operates world-class, large scale research facilities and provides strategic advice to the UK government on their development. It also manages international research projects in support of a broad cross-section of the UK research community. The Council also directs, coordinates and funds research, education and training.
Scottish Digital Library Consortium
http://www.nls.uk/sdlc/
Provides facilities management, liaison and support for seven libraries using the Voyager system in Scotland, and also provides a hosted institutional repository service for the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.
Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/
“Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy and fun to publish, convert, embed, analyze, and read documents. Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.”
Select A Skip UK Ltd
http://www.selectaskip.co.uk/
Select A Skip UK Ltd provides a comprehensive nationwide skip hire and waste disposal service, supplying sites nationally from more then 1200 local depots.
Sight & Sound Technology
http://www.sightandsound.co.uk/
“Sight & Sound Technology was formed in 1982. We are proud of our reputation as being the leading supplier of equipment to blind and visually impaired people within the United Kingdom. Our professional standing is built upon our reputation for being large enough to supply and support leading quality products but small enough to listen to what our customers want and to care how we meet their needs.”
Signs4Site
http://www.signs4site.co.uk/
Sign Making Company in the United Kingdom. Most of their Customers are in the Construction Industry,
Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: SNN
http://www.nano-society.org/
The Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SNN) is a worldwide organisation set up to serve the needs of the “nano” community. SNN is designed to provide an effective and stimulating platform for world people to foster, develop and promote communication, education, networking, dissemination of knowledge, research and innovations in aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
State of the English Cities: Report and Database (SOCD)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1127498
State of the English Cities is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of England's cities and towns.
Statistics Resources
http://www.statisticsresources.info/
A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring statistics resources and sites on the Internet.
Tenders.ac.uk
http://www.tenders.ac.uk/
UK higher education tenders.
The cyberLibrary
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/homepage/leisureandtourism/libraries/cyberlibrary.htm/
The cyberLibrary contains links to hundreds of websites chosen, described and organised by librarians from public library services across south-west England.
The Depot
http://depot.edina.ac.uk/
The purpose of the Depot, as a national facility, is to enable all UK academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. It is a facility to support the policies of institutions and national funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional archive network.
The Map Archive
http://www.maparchive.org/
The Map Archive is a large collection of ancient and modern maps, maintained by a non profit organization, the maps are gathered and submitted by volunteers, mainly students and University teachers. This project goal is to create the largest online collection of maps.
The One Big Ad
http://www.theonebigad.com/
Richard Stratton, 22, from Berners Roding, came up with the idea for theonebigad.com when he was in hospital after dislocating his hip while jumping a fence in Cambridge at the end of February. Here is the full story
Understanding Nanotechnology
http://www.understandingnano.com/
This site focuses on clearly explaining the concepts behind nanotechnology applications. In line with the author’s experience as co-author of Nanotechnology For Dummies.
Widwisawn
http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
Vol.5 No.2 is available. Widwisawn, a 'webzine' covering various developments in the Scottish library, museums and archives communities.
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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.
Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/
This offers an easy way to put your documents online, and also convert them to other formats, including mp3. It also offers code for embedding items in websites/blogs, etc.
The Depot
http://depot.edina.ac.uk/
Funded under the JISC Repositories and Preaservation Programme, The Depot is a national facility, designed to enable all UK academics to share in the benefits of
open access exposure for their research outputs.
Researchers based at UK institutions of higher and further education are welcome to use this national facility to deposit their peer-reviewed papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).
The Depot is currently being finalised and is at the field testing stage. The service will be launched in June 2007.
RM
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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
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Open Directory: Library and Information Science Weblogs
http://pscontent.com/od2/opendirectory.php?browse=/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/
LISWiki weblogs section
http://liswiki.org/wiki/Weblogs
Sample Library Blogs
http://wiki.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/Sample_Library_Blogs
From Web Junction
Internet Public Library Blog List
http://www.ipl.org/div/blogs/
Library Blogs, Lists & Newsletters
http://library.com.edu/librarian/BlogsLists.htm
Peterson's College and University Feed Directory
http://directory.edufeeds.com/
Library podcasts for students
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/news/latest/podcast
The library at Oxford Brookes’ Wheatley campus began offering downloadable podcasts in October 2006 to help students find their way around the library. But the service has now been extended to include podcast interviews with lecturers and librarians, providing students with advice and tips on getting the best out of their studies.
Guest Post: UK Library Blogs - What Do We Think We’re Doing?
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/guest-post-uk-library-blogs-what-do-we-think-were-doing/
I was invited to launch the guest blog spot in the UK Web Focus blog by posting on the use of blogs in the UK Library community.
Resources of the Week: RSS Fishing Holes
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/04/19/resources-of-the-week-serious-rss-fishing-holes/
From ResourceShelf
Blogs & Social Media Forum 2
http://www.socialmediaforum.co.uk/
June 5th, London, UK.
Planet
http://www.planetplanet.org/
Planet downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.
Talking with Talis
http://talk.talis.com/
Listen to conversations with thought-leaders at the interface between Web 2.0, Libraries, and the Semantic Web...
This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
Monitor Links
http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/
A weblog of new books, library resources and more!
Blatant Berry Blog
http://blatant.libraryjournal.com/blog/
New views of the library landscape
pintiniblog
http://pintini.blogspirit.com/
sciences de l'info
Libertay
http://libertay.blogspot.com/
Libertay is a blog for the Abertay Library.
Read/WriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Everyday Web Finds
http://everydayatthecomputer.blogspot.com/
Library Blog Buzz
http://my.opera.com/LibraryImportant/blog/
Clever Clogs
http://www.cleverclogs.org/
Short pointers and tips related to desktop and web alert services, news readers and personal productivity.
The Wales-Wide Web
http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell
Graham Attwell, on learning, knowledge and technology
RSS4Lib
http://www.rss4lib.com/
Innovative ways libraries use RSS
Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases News Feed
http://www.so.stfc.ac.uk/rss/rss.xml
The imaginery journal of poetic economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/
Current Awareness from the Inner Temple Library
http://innertemplelibrary.wordpress.com/
UCD Library 2 Go
http://library2go.wordpress.com/
New address for this blog
What's new on the cyberLibrary
http://cyberlibrarynews.wordpress.com/
Recommended websites from libraries in the South West.
FPB Monitor
http://www.foreignpolicybulletin.com/
Monitoring and discussing United States foreign policy - from the editors of Foreign Policy Bulletin
SCITblog
http://scitblog.wordpress.com/
Learning resources. From the
University of Wolverhampton.
jiscAccess Management Team Blog
http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/jam
Access management describes the process of providing controlled, secure access to resources.
askville
http://askville-blog.amazon.com/
James Brown's blog
http://www.rin.ac.uk/blog/5
From the RIN (Research Information Network)
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**** Funding worth more than £15m announced ****
Over 80 projects, totalling more than £15m, have been successful in the latest round of funding under JISC's capital programme, it was announced on 30th March.
The projects are being funded under e-learning, repositories and preservation, e-infrastructure, users and innovation, and e-research strands of the overarching programme, which represents an investment of some £90m over three years. The call for proposals was issued in September of last year, the second of three under the programme.
Among the e-learning projects to be funded are those that will explore administrative processes to support admissions and course validations and develop automated course descriptions. Other projects in this strand will look at a variety of themes, including e-assessment, e-portfolios andThe heaviest investment in the current round of funding is being made in support of the establishment and development of institutional repositories personalised learning.
For the press release and more details, see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/03/news_capital.aspx
For bids funded, see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_capital/capital_funded.aspx
For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/
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The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.
Recent Arrivals
004.678 JOI
Understanding the psychology of Internet behaviour
by Adam N Joinson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi
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Pentland Hills
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/phrp/
The Pentland Hills Regional Park is a living, working landscape, which offers great opportunities to experience and enjoy the outdoors.
Traverse Theatre
http://www.traverse.co.uk/
Now in its 44th year, Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre is Scotland's new writing theatre, with a record of excellence since 1963. With quality, award-winning productions and programming, the Traverse receives accolades at home and abroad from audiences and critics alike.
EdinburghGuide.com
http://www.edinburghguide.com/
Dance Base
http://www.dancebase.co.uk/
Scotland's National Centre for Dance
Authors Festival
http://www.debutauthorsfestival.co.uk/
8-10 June, Edinburgh
Edinburgh: National, Regional and Local Sports Facilities Projects
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet/leisure/sports_development/CEC_national_regional
Massive changes are ahead in the Edinburgh’s major sport facilities as work progresses on plans for a new sports complex and stadium in Sighthill, a modernisation of the Royal Commonwealth Pool and a new community sports centre in the East.
Shetland Folk Festival
http://www.shetlandfolkfestival.com/
4-6 May, 2007
Wickerman Festival
http://www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk/
20-21 July, 2007
Salsa Celtica
http://www.salsaceltica.com/
Peatbog Faeries
http://www.peatbogfaeries.com/
Jason Love's Funnu Cartoons
http://www.jasonlove.com/
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