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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
‘Author and Publisher Rights for Academic Use: An Appropriate Balance, May 2007’
http://www.stm-assoc.org/home/stm-aappsp-alpsp-issue-white-paper-on-academic-use-of-journal-content.html
A position paper of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing division (AAP PSP), and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).
AbeBooks
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/
Search 13,500 booksellers selling 100 million books.
African Higher Education Research Online: AHERO
http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/
AHERO is an open access archive of texts that focus on the study, practice and governance of higher education in Africa. It is a project of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Education Faculty, University of the Western Cape, South Africa) The collection includes research reports, journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, working papers, booklets, and policy documents. All the resources have been submitted by the authors and are reproduced with their permission.
Ariadne 51
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/
Issue 51 of Ariadne is now available, with various articles of interest to those in the information world.
Askville, by Amazon
http://askville.amazon.com/
“ask a question, get real answers from real people”
AttentionTrust
http://www.attentiontrust.org/
AttentionTrust is a not-for-profit organization that puts the user in control of their Attention data. Until now, only companies on the other side of our clicking captured the value.
Authors@Google
http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html
The Authors@Google program brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books.
Avano
http://www.ifremer.fr/avano/
Offers access to 63527 electronic resources about the marine and aquatic sciences (aquaculture and fisheries for instance, but also geosciences, biology, ecology...).
Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/04/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n5-may.html
The May 2007 V5N5 issue is available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Employment Resources
Best of the Web
http://botw.org/
"Best of the Web is committed to maintaining the high standard of listings that has proven key to its success while continuing to grow. To rank among the Best of the Web, a site must adhere to the strict criteria of editors who ensure that it contains substantive unique content, navigates in a user-friendly manner, contains no broken links or pictures, is up and running 24/7, and conforms to universally accepted web standards. In this way, quality sites are added to the directory on a daily basis and listed in relevant categories that run the gamut of the alphabet from the arts to zoology.”
BibMe
http://bibme.org/
“BibMe is your one-stop source for all your bibliography needs! Don’t remember all the information for the source you cited? No problem! BibMe allows you to search from a database of millions of entries to find your source and autofill in the information. Or, if you the source in front of you, you can enter your entries in manually. BibMe also offers resources to help you cite your work properly in the ‘Citation Guide’ section.”
Blue Pencil Science LLC
http://www.bluepencilscience.com/
Blue Pencil Science LLC is a scientific and medical editing service for journal manuscripts, grant proposals, and other document types, providing language assistance to non-native English-speaking researchers and physicians.
BookYards.com!
http://www.bookyards.com/
“Our goal is to be "The Library To The World", in which books, education materials, information, and content will be provided freely to anyone who has an internet connection. Bookyards has a total of 13,435 books, 38,295 web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos and access to hundreds of online libraries (500,000 eBooks) for your reading pleasure.”
British Society for Strain Measurement: BSSM
http://www.bssm.org/
The BSSM sits at the interface between industry, academia and the wider engineering community and promotes their interaction to ensure the wide dissemination of new ideas and best practice in the field of engineering measurement.
California Planning & Development Report
http://www.cp-dr.com/
California Planning & Development Report has launched a new web site.
ChaCha
http://www.chacha.com/
“ChaCha combines the best of the web's search engines with the human intelligence made possible by our vast community of skilled search experts.”
ChemiPlus
http://chemiplus.net/
Chemistry periodic table.
Cisco TelePresence
http://www.cisco.com/telepresence
“Cisco TelePresence is an innovative, new technology that creates unique, in-person experiences between people, places, and events in their work and personal lives—over the network.”
Coach4Growth.com
http://www.coach4growth.com/
“Throughout Coach4Growth.com you will find helpful resources targeted to people managers, leaders, and coaches. This content is not targeted to a specific industry but focuses on leadership and coaching skills that are transferable into any environment or organization.”
Cogito
http://www.cogito.org/
“On Cogito, you can read news and features on topics ranging from global warming and biostatistics to cold fusion and bioethics, and beyond. You can explore the intersection of science and the arts, from computer animation to science fiction. You can find great resources including book reviews, "Best of the Web" guides, and listings and reviews of summer and distance-education programs, internships, and academic competitions.”
Comcast
http://www.comcast.net/
Basic and Digital cable for premium entertainment.
Communications in Information Literacy
http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil
The first issue is available.
“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.”
ContentAgenda.com
http://www.contentagenda.com/
"In addition to blogs and commentary by some of the most distinguished reporters and analysts covering the new entertainment economy, the ContentAgenda.com community is comprised of leading executives from the media and entertainment, hardware, technology, government and policy making, financial and retail communities."
CYCLADES
http://www.ercim.org/cyclades/
CYCLADES is developing an open collaborative virtual archive service environment supporting both single scholars as well as scholarly communities in carrying out their work.
In particular, it will provide functionality to access large, heterogeneous, multidisciplinary archives distributed over the Web and to support remote collaboration among the members of communities of interest.
Development 2.0: A New Paradigm for the Non-Profit Sector?
http://www.freepint.com/issues/240507.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Giulio Quaggiotto and Pierre Wielezynski
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2007
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/07carte/index.html
From 27 to 31 August, Ticer will organise this international, modular course at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
DiscoveR8.com
http://www.discover8.com/
DiscoveR8.com provides the scientific community with a place to share and promote your discoveries.
Emerald InTouch
http://intouch.emeraldinsight.com/
Emerald InTouch is a personal web space and hosting service that supports learning, networking and collbaoration. Built upon the Elgg learning landscape system, InTouch places a range of collaborative technologies and social networking tools in one simple, easy-to-use, secure space.
Estatoo.com
http://www.estatoo.com/
A large, international Real Estate Database.
Flash Earth
http://www.flashearth.com/
A mashup of mapping services.
FreeFoto.com
http://www.freefoto.com/
FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site is free to private non-commercial users and for sale to other users.
GEO-LEO
http://www.geo-leo.org
Geo-Leo searches approximately 4 million geoscience and mining related bibliographical records from the catalogues of the UBF - part of the Cataloging Union in South Western Germany (SWB), the SUB - part of the Common Library Network (GBV) and the Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein in Potsdam, the Erdbibliothek of the ETH Zürich - part of the Network of Libraries and Information Centers in Switzerland (NEBIS) and the Geographische Zentralbibliothek
Global Warming Articles
http://www.bestglobalwarmingarticles.com/
“There are now 691 excellent articles in our Global Warming Articles' database from 593 diverse authors providing necessary information about Global Warming and Climate Change.”
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
http://docs.google.com
Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers.
hakia
http://www.hakia.com/
A search engine. “The basic promise is to bring search results by meaning match - similar to the human brain's cognitive skills - rather than by the mere occurrence (or popularity) of search terms.”
Heatsoft Automatic Synchronizer
http://www.heatsoft.com/has/HASindex.html
Heatsoft Corporation has released Heatsoft Automatic Synchronizer(HAS) 1.08, an easy-to-use Windows utility designed for an automatic synchronization, backup, replication and mirroring of important files on most storage media or even between two computers on a network. HAS is priced competitively at only $39.92 for a single user license.
HFSP Journal
http://hfspj.aip.org/
The HFSP Journal is a new journal which aims to foster communication between scientists publishing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.
Higher Education Academy Scotland
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/scotland.htm
The Academy is a UK-wide organisation which supplements a general operation with a distinctive approach to its work in Scotland.
Information: interactions and impact
http://www.i3conference.org.uk/
Conference to be held at The Department of Information Management, Aberdeen Business School,
The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, 25-28 June 2007.
International culture guide
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/page.php?section=homenew&page=intcultguide
Bradford University School of Management has produced a guide on international cultures which will help those who manage and employ people from overseas, as well as employees, lecturers and students.
International Journal of Information Quality
http://www.inderscience.com/ijiq
A new journal. It aims to promote research on the theory, design, analysis, management and implementation of information quality systems in service industries, manufacturing industries, and government organisations.
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
http://www.inderscience.com/ijiids
A new journal from Inderscience. The issues addressed by IJIIDS involve solutions of real-life problems, in which it is necessary to apply intelligent technologies for achieving effective results. The emphasis of the reported work is on new and original research and technological developments rather than reports on the application of existing technology to different sets of data.
International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship
http://www.inderscience.com/ijte
A new journal from Inderscience. The objective of IJTE is to provide a platform of exchange for academics, researchers, managers and policy makers interested in the issues faced by entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in fast-pacing technology intensive activities. The international dimension is now compulsory in the growing global technological world from Silicon Valley to Bangalore, from Helsinki to China...
Jinfo Newsletter
http://www.jinfo.com/newsletter/
The monthly Jinfo Newsletter contains advice and tips from recruitment consultants and information professionals.
JISC Collections online interactive copyright activity
http://restricted.jisc.ac.uk/freearea/copyright2/0000.html
The aim of the activity is to inform and educate practitioners in the FE and HE sectors in the UK some of the key issues about using copyrighted material in a digital online environment and the role of JISC Collections (and the JISC Model licence) in the provision of solutions to these issues.
Librarian-Resources-ReadyToGo
http://librarianresources-readytogo.wikispaces.com/
A Wiki designed by library students and professionals to pool resources for use in libraries of all types.
List of scientific journals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals
A partial list of scientific journals from Wikipedia.
Local Authority Building Control: LABC
http://www.labc.uk.com/
LABC's mission is to ensure that buildings are healthy, safe, sustainable and accessible for all users and tenants whether domestic, commercial or public service.
manybooks.net
http://manybooks.net/
Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader.
MetroBoxTV
http://teachbyvideo.com/
MetroBoxTV is a niche web television channel with a series of how-to style programs containing fun, actionable and relevant information for the life stage of a young professional.
Molecular Oncology
http://www.molecularoncology.org/
Molecular Oncology will be published by Elsevier as of April 2007.
morguefile
http://www.morguefile.com/
This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
myFeedz
http://www.myfeedz.com/
myFeedz uses an innovative way to show you personalized news based on your reading habits.
National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://www.nbii.org/portal/server.pt
Biological Information on the Web.
OARiNZ Project
http://www.oarinz.ac.nz/
The Open Access Repositories in New Zealand (OARiNZ) project, funded under the Government's eLearning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF) will design and build the infrastructure necessary to connect all of New Zealand’s digital research repositories that meet standards for interoperability and access.
OASIC
http://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/
OASIC is a search engine for French articles, memories and thesis in Communication and Information Sciences.
Online Educa Moscow 2007
http://www.online-educa-moscow.com/index_e.php
President Hotel, Moscow, September 30 - October 3, 2007. This will take place in Moscow, Russia. The conference is held within the framework of ONLINE EDUCA annual conferences and for the first time will be conducted in the capital of the Russian Federation.
open-access.net
http://openaccess-germany.de/de/startseite/homepage/
”This information platform is intended to meet the rising demand for information on open access. Apart from basic information, assistance is offered ranging from practical conversion to basic legal conditions. The availability of different access options (via different subject matters or scenarios) allows searching target group specific information.”
Planets Project
http://www.planets-project.eu/
The Planets project brings together European National Libraries and Archives, leading research institutions, and technology companies to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge.
Price Inspector
http://www.priceinspector.co.uk/
Price Inspector aims to make online shopping easy and to help you save money.
scenta
http://www.scenta.co.uk/
The scenta website has been redesigned. scenta is a community for the science, engineering and technology community.
Scientific Communication and the Dematerialization of Scholarship
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/scholarship/review.php
A new discovery guide, from ProQuest CSA, by Douglas Brown.
Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive
http://digitalcommons.shu.ac.uk/
Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) is an open access repository containing scholarly outputs and publications of researchers at the University.
Sitemaps
http://www.sitemaps.org/
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Sorley MacLean Online
http://www.thesorleymacleantrust.org.uk/english/index.htm
Sorley MacLean Online aims to provide a comprehensive range of information for the study of the work of the acclaimed Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean (1911-1996), and to introduce his work to new audiences across the world.
Special Report: Information Architecture Summit 2007
http://www.freepint.com/issues/030507.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Monique Cuvelier.
Sproose
http://www.sproose.com/
Sproose was created to give the power of search ranking to you, the user. We believe that allowing users to rank the search results will provide the most interesting and accurate results for each user.
Taxonomy Warehouse
http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/
"We are the only site on the Internet dedicated to taxonomies for corporations."
TendersZEAL
http://www.tenderszeal.com/
International Tenders & Procurement Notices Resource.
The Book Depository
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
The Book Depository was founded in 2004 with the aim of making "All books available to All" through pioneering supply chain initiatives, republishing and digitizing of content. It is a continuing project, still in its infancy and one of the most ambitious ventures in the Book Industry.
The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors: ISM&TE
http://www.ismte.org/
The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors is an individual-based membership organization formed to promote the professionalism of Managing and Technical Editors and the value of the position.
The ISME Journal – Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
http://www.nature.com/ismej/index.html
Launched recently, The ISME Journal – Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology is a new journal from the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG).
Web4Ren Forum (W4RF)
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/W4RF/YaBB.pl
Many sorts of information of potential relevance to those interested in Renaissance Intellectual History.
World Public Library
http://worldlibrary.net/
400,000+ PDF eBooks to Download
Expand Your Home Library With A Lifetime Of Reading.
WWW Virtual Library Engineering
http://vlib.org/Engineering
A good starting point for finding engineering websites.
yougofurther
http://www.yougofurther.co.uk/
The yougofurther website is brought to you by UCAS Media, a subsidiary of UCAS, the University and Colleges Admissions Service. yougofurther is a website available to students from application to graduation and provides students with a comprehensive information resource and social networking opportunities just for students.
Your Archives
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Home_page
The National Archives' online community of records users.
Zamzar
http://www.zamzar.com/
Allows you to convert files from one format to another.
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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.
morgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com/
The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in
all creative pursuits.
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
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j
Webbed or Web Sceptic? You Decide!
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/guest-post-webbed-or-web-sceptic-you-decide/
A guest post by Sheila Webber on the UK Web Focus blog
INSPIRE Newsletter
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/w_nl08
NetLine's INSPIRE Newsletter delivers a series of blogs authored independently by industry experts in the B2B Marketer space, and provides compelling topics ranging from best practices to discussions on current industry trends for B2B Marketers.
This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
Hitwise
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/
Information and the future
http://infoandfuture.blogspot.com/
This is the blog of the Information and the Future task force of the Rolfing Library at Trinity International University. The IF task force exists to explore the role of libraries in the future of Christian higher education.
by Ron Miller
http://byronmiller.typepad.com/
Interesting technology news and recent articles
DiscoveR8
http://www.discover8.com/support/rssfeed/
News for Life Scientists - various feeds are available.
Everyday Web Finds
http://everydayatthecomputer.blogspot.com/
by L. Marvin, from San Diego
BlogDriver's Waltz
http://blogdriver.typepad.com/waltz/
Laurie's health science and academic library current awareness blog.
EduStat Blog
http://www.edustatblog.com/
This has been created to examine how teachers can use technology to improve student achievement. It is written by a variety of education professionals from Fordham University, William and Mary University and Education Week (among others). This blog is dedicated to discussing "Teacher 2.0," the concept that the classroom is also undergoing a Web 2.0 revolution and those who take advantage of this will usher in a new era of student performance.
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**** Emerald Group Publishing Launches Two New Titles in Marketing ****
Emerald Group Publishing Limited announces the launch of the following new title:
Direct Marketing: An International Journal
International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing
For the press release and more details, see:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/about_emerald/News/press/marketinglaunches.jsp
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
303.4833
Mobile communications and society
by Manuel Castells and others
MIT Press, 2004
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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Shetland Folk Festival podcast
http://sffpodcast.blogspot.com/
Presenter
http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/Presenter
For CDs see http://www.back40books.com/list.asp?d=1420
Running The Highlands
http://www.runningthehighlands.com/
Running The Highlands is based in the beautiful North East of Scotland. We organise running holidays in the Eastern Cairngorms and Royal Deeside for runners of all abilities.
FindSounds
http://www.findsounds.com/
FindSounds Palette is a software program that lets you search more than one million sounds on the Web and helps you organize and search your own sound collection.
Hotels by city
http://www.hotelsbycity.net/
Guitar Lessons
http://www.guitarweek.com/
Outdoor Activities Scotland
http://www.g2outdoor.co.uk/
Rockhopper Sea Kayaking
http://www.rockhopperscotland.co.uk/
Rockhopper Sea Kayaking is a fully mobile provider of guided sea kayaking trips and sea kayaking instruction based near Fort William on the West Coast of Scotland.
Wilderness Scotland
http://www.wildernessscotland.com/
Wilderness Scotland is the leading adventure tour operator in Scotland
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