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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

academici

http://www.academici.net/

Similarities with Facebook, but aimed at academics.

Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture: ACDM 2008

http://www.ad-comtech.co.uk/ACDM08/

April 29th - 30th, 2008, at Engineers House, Clifton, Bristol, UK

Aluka

http://www.aluka.org/

“Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions. Our mission is to build a high-quality scholarly resource of materials from and about Africa. We seek to attract contributed collections about Africa from institutions and individuals around the world.”

American Rhetoric

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Includes a database of the full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

Ariadne Summer 2007 issue

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue52/

Includes articles on repositories, Open Access, web archiving, and more.

Bizwiki

http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/

Bizwiki is a structured wiki with a specific focus on business information. Anyone is welcome to add to or edit the site provided they have registered. Registration is free, as is adding or editing businesses. Bizwiki has that modern aspect of social networking and ability to share consumer reviews, ratings and comments.

Business Information Trends: Locking Down and Opening Up Content

http://www.freepint.com/issues/090807.htm#feature

An article in Free Pint, by Pam Foster

Census.ac.uk

http://census.ac.uk/

Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which allow users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

ChemxSeer

http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/

ChemXSeer is an integrated digital library and database allowing for intelligent search of documents in the chemistry domain and data obtained from chemical kinetics.

Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cscie1/

Freely available, via Harvard Extension School.

Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l’Elaborazione Automatica: CILEA

http://www.cilea.it/

Italy’s largest university consortium.

Credit Card Comparison Online

http://www.credit-card-comparison-online.co.uk/

“Credit Card Comparison Online aims to provide you with the tools to find the right credit card for your financial needs.

We provide consumers with a range of information about the different credit card offers, to enable you to better understand the various offers and then to make the most out of your credit card.”

CTWatch Quarterly

http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/

CTWatch Quarterly is an online journal that focuses on cyberinfrastructure related research critical to collaboration and information dissemination within the science community as a whole.

DiscoveR8

http://www.discover8.com/

DiscoveR8 is a user-driven website dedicated to the dissemination and intelligent discussion of life science news, discoveries, hypotheses, and procedures.

European Digital Library Project: EDLproject

http://www.edlproject.eu/

EDLproject is a Targeted Project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme and coordinated by the German National Library.

The project, started in September 2006, works towards the integration of the bibliographic catalogues and digital collections of the National Libraries of Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden, into The European Library.

Emerald InTouch

http://intouch.emeraldinsight.com/

Emerald InTouch is a personal web space and hosting service that supports learning, networking and collaboration. 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.

eprintweb

http://eprintweb.org/S/

eprintweb.org 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.

The contents of eprintweb.org are provided by arXiv, which is operated and funded by Cornell University Library, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Europeana

http://www.europeana.eu/

Europeana est un prototype de bibliothèque en ligne développé par la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dans le cadre du projet de Bibliothèque numérique européenne.

ExpatEngineer

http://www.expatengineer.net/

Part of the ExpatJob.net Group, ExpatEngineer is an engineering recruitment portal.

Factbites

http://www.factbites.com/

"Ordinary search engines tell you next to nothing about the sites they select for you. How many times have you thought - "Well, sure, I know that these pages all contain my keywords, but do they really have anything to do with my topic?" Visiting every site until you find the right one is a hassle. Factbites presents the user with full, meaningful sentences from every site in the search results. This means that you can often gain a great deal of factual information on a topic without ever having to leave the search page! When users do select a page, they can have much more confidence that the page deals directly and informatively with their topic.”

FDA Legislative Watch

http://www.fdalegislativewatch.com/

Of interest to biomedical industry professionals who need to understand how current legislative developments will affect their business.

Flickr Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license.

Focuss.eu

http://www.focuss.eu/

A starting point for internet searches on development work and studies.

Free Research.com

http://www.free-research.com/

Search across more than 5,000 market and company reports covering 27 industry sectors.

”Free Research provides market research reports and competitor information for FREE. The information is provided on an industry sector basis, and is being added to continuously. Our team of analysts are specialists in their industry sectors and regularly monitor industry verticals for market reports, company annual reports and investor presentations. And it's all in one place.”

Freecycle

http://uk.freecycle.org/

The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

FreePatentsOnline

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

An online site for free patent searching. This site has been given a makeover.

Heriot-Watt University Students Association

http://www.hwusa.org/

HWUSA has completely re-vamped its website.

IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2007

http://www.internet-conf.org/

Vila Real, Portugal 5 - 8 October 2007.

"The IADIS WWW/Internet 2007 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments.”

IDEA 2007

http://ideaconference.org/

A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds. New York City, October 4 and 5, 2007.

Infomania: Why we can’t afford to ignore it any longer

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/zeldes/index.html

An article in First Monday, about email overload, etc.

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: INFORMS

http://www.informs.org/

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.). It was established in 1995 with the merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS).

International Journal of Computer, Information, and Systems Science, and Engineering: IJCISSE

http://www.waset.org/ijcisse/

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

International Journal of Digital Curation

http://www.ijdc.net/./ijdc/issue/current

The second issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol.2, issue 1, 2007, has been published.

International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry: IJLSE

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/ijlse

A new journal from Inderscience.

“IJLSE proposes and fosters discussion on the application of scientific knowledge to litigation, adjudication, legislation and public policy, with emphasis on the implications that informed interpretation of science exert on policy choices. IJLSE serves as a vehicle for exploring systematic approaches to scientific evidence in specific disputes. The journal is particularly interested in issues involving medicine, ecological analysis and risk assessment, and “critical appraisal" (as applied in health care sciences) to assist courts, administrative agencies, and policymakers.”

International News Safety Institute

http://www.newssafety.com/

The International News Safety Institute is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the safety of journalists and media staff and committed to fighting the persecution of journalists everywhere.

Issues in Science & Technology

http://www.issues.org/

“Issues in Science & Technology is a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine. This includes policy for science (how we nurture the health of the research enterprise) and science for policy (how we use knowledge more effectively to achieve social goals), with emphasis on the latter.

Although Issues is published by the scientific and technical communities, it is not just a platform for these communities to present their views to Congress and the public. Rather, it is a place where researchers, government officials, business leaders, and others with a stake in public policy can share ideas and offer specific suggestions.”

Journal of Place Management and Development

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jpmd/jpmd.jsp

A new journal from Emerald.

Journal of Place Management and Development

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jpmd/jpmd.jsp

A new journal from Emerald.

Keeping Up with I.T.

https://wiki.nla.gov.au//display/AGLIN2/Keeping+Up+with+IT

Useful list, maintained by the Australian Government Libraries and Information Network, a confederation of Commonwealth government libraries in Australia and hosted by the National Library as one of its services to the Australian library community.

Libraries, Archives, Museums and Publishing Online Statistics Tables: LAMPOST

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/lampost.html

“For more than ten years, LISU produced the LIST – a summary of key statistics of interest to the library and information community. The LIST was made freely available both on paper and on the LISU website.

The LIST has now been replaced with the LAMPOST, which incorporates most of the LIST tables, together with a wider coverage of the museums and archives sectors.”

Library Of Unified Information Sources: LOUIS

http://www.louisdb.org/

”Our ultimate goal is to create a comprehensive, completely indexed and cross-referenced depository of federal documents from the executive and legislative branches of government.”

Library Technology Guides

http://www.librarytechnology.org/

“The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the field, Library Technology Guides is the place to start.”

Mint Portal

http://www.mintbusinessinfo.com/

A commercial service, providing company information.

National Library of China

http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/indexen.htm

The National Library of China (NLC) is a comprehensive research library and a national repository of publications, with the functions of the collecting, processing, storage, research, utilization and dissemination of knowledge information.

NLC is also a national center of bibliographical records, a national center of digital libraries and a center of R&D in library science, researching and applying modern technologies and playing a leading role in standardization, digitization and networkization in the library community in China.

NeuroPsychoEconomics – Journal of Neuroscience

http://www.neuropsychoeconomics.org/english.html

NeuroPsychoEconomics – Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics is the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes research on neuroeconomics, neurofinance and neuromarketing besides topics on behavioral, economic, and business research.

The first English version of NeuroPsychoEconomics - Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics (Vol. 1, No. 1) will appear in fall 2007.

Online Social Networks, Virtual Communities, Enterprises, and Information Professionals

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul07/Reid_Grey.shtml

Part 1 of a series of articles, by Mike Reid, from the Searcher magazine.

Personal Loan Comparison Online

http://www.personal-loan-comparison-online.co.uk/

“Personal Loan Comparison Online aims to provide you with the tools to find the right personal loan for your financial needs.

We provide consumers with a range of information about the different loan offers, to enable you to better understand the various offers and then to make the most out of your loan.”

Podcast: What is Web 2.0 and how is it impacting on education?

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2007/08/podcast07lawriephippsdavidwhite.aspx

In this podcast, JISC's Lawrie Phipps and Dave White from the University of Oxford speak about the impact such technologies - commonly gathered under the umbrella term 'Web 2.0' - are having on education and research and how institutions can harness them meaningfully and effectively in support of their students.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology

http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/120792

A new journal from Professional Engineering Publishing.

Projects Abroad

http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/

Previously known as Teaching & Projects Abroad and included in issue 119 of this newsletter, Projects Abroad has changed its name because they are increasingly focused on other projects as well as teaching. They offer projects in such diverse areas as Journalism, Conservation, Law, Community projects, Sport, and Medicine.

S.O.S. MATHematics

http://www.sosmath.com/

S.O.S. MATHematics is a free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations.

Sacred: Discover what we share

http://www.bl.uk/sacred

A british Library online exhibition. The world's greatest collection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy books

SAGE librarian newsletter

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/newsletters/librarians/summer2007.htm

The Summer 2007 edition of the SAGE librarian newsletter is available, with news about their journals, pricing, etc.

Sci-Tech Library Newsletter

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/2007/stan070820.html

The August issue is available, featuring new e-books and reports, interesting websites and news, etc.

SciVee

http://www.scivee.tv/

”SciVee is about the free and widespread dissemination and comprehension of science. SciVee, created for scientists, by scientists, moves science beyond the printed word and lecture theater taking advantage of the internet as a communication medium where scientists young and old have a place and a voice.”

Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech: SCOTS Project

http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/

A corpus of Scottish texts from 1945 to the present day

SearchBoth

http://www.SearchBoth.co.uk

Searches both Google & Yahoo at the same time.

SLAINTE

http://www.slainte.org.uk/news/newsindex.htm

SLAINTE news has been updated to include all of the major developments in the library and information sector in Scotland.

Sustainable Building, Construction and Energy Harvesting Technologies

http://www.cfsd.org.uk/eco-innovation_workshops/index.html

1st Workshop to be held on 24th September, National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex.

TechKnow

http://techknow.pbwiki.com/

This wiki is a knowledge repository of engineering learning and reference support content. Anyone may add, edit or delete content.

What a good idea!

Technojobs

http://www.technojobs.co.uk/

UK based recruitment site. Job vacancies in IT, engineering, electronics and telecoms.

Techocracy.Net

http://www.techocracy.net/

”We created Techocracy.Net with two main goals in mind. One, to provide IT professionals with a forum to share their thoughts with the world. The second was to provide readers with a place to learn, question, and be entertained in as spin-free a forum as possible. No one pays to publish and no one pays for better placement.”

The European Library

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

The European Library searches the content of European national libraries.

Useful Links to Standards and Related Resources

http://contentonline.co.uk/Content/links.asp

From Content Online, a UK based provider of technical information and national standards.

Virtual Learning Resources Center

http://www.virtuallrc.com/

This site has been expanded and re-designed.

The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects.

It has a meta-search engine that includes in its results information gleaned from many of the best research portals including : Librarians' Index to the Internet, Galaxy Web Directory, My Virtual Reference Desk, Big Hub, Internet Public Library, Bibliomania, BUBL Information Service, Digital Librarian, Discovery School, Smithsonian, Suite101, InfoPlease.com, the LibrarySpot, the Awesome Library, and an increasing number of university and public library Internet subject guides.

Zentation

http://www.zentation.com/

Zentation provides a way to synchronize video uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint.

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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.

The European Library
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

This is an ambitious project. The European Library searches the content of European national libraries. From the users guide: "The European Library gives centralised access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe. You can find all kind of material. Original documents, text books, maps, photographs, music, etc.. And ….you can quickly check whether a national library has digitised a particular item!"

The aim is that the European Library will gradually to incorporate all national libraries of the Council of Europe member countries as full-participants.

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
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j

Feed43
http://feed43.com/
"This free online service converts and web page to an RSS feed on the fly"

Rmail
http://www.r-mail.org/
Subscribe by Email to Any RSS Feed

Bloggerati Australia
http://bloggerati.com.au/
Bloggerati, is a web application that allows you to submit an article about Australia and Web 2.0 that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page.

Feedity
http://www.feedity.com/
Feedity lets you create a custom RSS web feed for any webpage

Blastfeed
http://www.blastfeed.com/
RSS filtering

The Issue
http://theissue.com/
A blog newspaper

This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

Andrew Keen
http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/
On media, culture and technology

Power Networking for Introverts
http://www.introvertscannetwork.com/

Repository66.org
http://maps.repository66.org/
A blog about a repository map mashup. Very interesting concept.

Free Science and Video Lectures Online!
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/

blyberg.net
http://www.blyberg.net/
Thoughts from a 'library geek'

theBookseller.com
http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs.html
There are several blogs.

iLibrarian
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution.

Popular US Patent RSS Feeds
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/rssfeed.html
From the revamped FreePatentsOnline site

Business Intelligence Middle East
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=11283&cg=&t=2
Offers various feeds.

T-Net British Columbia
http://www.bctechnology.com/scripts/jobs_rss.cfm
Jobs and news feeds

DIY Librarian
http://diylibrarian.org/
A good example of an informative blog by Tara E. Murray, Pennsylvania State University

Jorum RSS feeds
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/User_Quick_Ref.pdf
See section 5 of this pdf guide

LI Issues
http://ligissues.blogspot.com/
News, musings and issues relating to Legal Publishing, Legal Information Provision and the application of Web 2.0 in Law Libraries.

Louche Cannon
http://www.breakawayrepublic.com/blog/
By Geoffrey Bilder

Himmelfarb Library Blog
http://www.gwumc.edu/library/blog/client/

Ask the SEO Guru
http://massa.techndu.com/
Bob Massa's blog

HWUSA
http://www.hwusa.org/news/rss.asp
Heriot-Watt University Students Association

Library Technology Guides automation update
http://www.librarytechnology.org/rss/

Resources of the Week: Global RSS Feeds
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/08/16/resources-of-the-week-global-rss-feeds/
Various feeds described by ResourceShelf

Journal Table of Contents RSS feeds from Haworth Press
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/journal-toc-rss-feeds-from-haworth-press-long-post/
More than 200 RSS feeds

Life as I Know it
http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/
Thoughts from an MLS student. Worth reading.

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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

006.74 ZEE
HTML & web artistry 2
by Natalie Zee and Susan Harris
New Riders, 2002

621.382 GAR
Wireless communications and networking
by Vijay K Garg
Elsevier, 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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NEW BOOK REVIEW

Going the distance: Library instruction for remote learners
Edited by Susan J. Clayton
facet publishing, 2007
978-1-85604-619-0
£39.95

Once again, time does not permit a proper book review this month, so this will be the briefest of looks at this new title on library instruction and distance learning.

With the growth of virtual learning and learning at a distance, assistance with library and information services for distance learning students is becoming more and more important.

This new book, edited by Susan Clayton, who is Off-Campus Services Librarian at the University of Redlands, includes contributions from twenty-six librarians.

The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 covers aspects of designing distance instruction; Part 2 covers delivering distance instruction; Part 3 deals with aspects of collaborating with faculty and IT staff, and Part 4 is concerned with assessing distance education.

All the chapters in this book deal with real-life issues, however because each one of the contributors is based in the USA, the result is very much an American perspective on the issues at hand. The chapters which 'travel' the best are the ones covering design and organisational elements. If you're involved in library assistance for distance learning courses (I don't particularly like the term 'library instruction' but I also don't want to get into a long discussion over terminology) you may find it interesting to read about the experiences detailed in this book. One criticism I have is that some chapters are rather short, and do not really allow their authors to do much more than introduce and briefly enlarge upon the main issues of concern.

RM

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Mike Seddon's Cartoons
http://www.mikeseddon.com/

Undiscovered Scotland
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/index.html

Galaxiki
http://www.galaxiki.org/
Galaxiki is a fictional online galaxy created, maintained and owned by its Community. It's a new kind of wiki based community portal

The Fix Online
http://www.thefixonline.com/
Comedy

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