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Random quotes

"Boomers are invading Facebook and Second Life, blogging frantically, creating wikis, editing Wikipedia entries, and relying on RSS feeds for current awareness. I sometimes see these actions as the digital equivalent of men using comb-overs or women shopping in the preteen department." Marydee Ojala, Online, Mar/Apr 2008 p.5.

"...it is the case that many researchers – actually, still, most of them – are uninformed, poorly informed or misinformed about new scholarly communication developments in general and about Open Access, which is the main change agent in the networked environment, in particular." Alma Swan, Key concerns within the scholarly communication process: Report to the JISC Scholarly Communications Group, March 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/topconcernsreport.doc

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News items of interest

Nature Publishing Group journals provided through PERI
http://www.inasp.info/file/744/----nature-publishing-group-journals-provided-through-peri.html
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and INASP have announced that they will provide free access to more than 65 NPG journals for a number of developing world countries.

Irish Research Council announces OA initiative for state funded research
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=6036&pickUpBatch=895#6036
The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) has taken moves to ensure that research papers published by its funding recipients are made available in an open access (OA) repository within six months of publication.

Science cuts 'hit UK reputation'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7373940.stm
The UK has been left looking like an "unreliable" and "incompetent" partner for international science, according to a committee of MPs.
From: BBC News

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Akama

http://www.akama.com/

Akama is a business directory containing local listings of more than 700 000 USA and Canadian companies.

AllHousingJobs

http://www.allhousingjobs.co.uk/

AllHousingJobs is a specialist site for jobs in social housing. AllHousingJobs offers CV advice, weekly alerts, case studies, courses and training and more.

America’s Favorite Architecture

http://www.favoritearchitecture.org/

View and comment on the top 150 architecture projects.

Archinect

http://archinect.com/index.php

The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.

Archi-Tourist

http://architourist.pbwiki.com/

A free, Wiki-based travel guide to contemporary architecture around the globe, started in 2005. The Wiki software enables multiple users to create and edit the content of the site.

ARROW Discovery Service

http://search.arrow.edu.au/

The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories.

You can search over 160,000 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures.

Awareness Watch Newsletter.

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/04/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n5-may.html

The May issue is available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Privacy and Security Resources and Sites.

BBC Monitoring Library

http://bbcmonitoringlibrary.com/

BBC Monitoring tracks the global media for the latest news reports emerging around the world as a searchable source of news, information and comment gathered from media worldwide.

The BBC Monitoring Library provides subscribers with open source intelligence from the BBC’s unparalleled network. Articles are selected from traditional and new media worldwide, with over one hundred source languages being translated into English to provide a fully searchable digital current affairs resource.

Free trials are currently available to academic libraries: contact bbcmonitoringlibrary@pcgplus.com

Biotechnology for Biofuels

http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/

Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal featuring high-quality studies describing technological and operational advances in the production of biofuels from biomass.

Book Glutton

http://www.bookglutton.com/

”Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book.”

Books from Scotland

http://www.booksfromscotland.com/

“BooksfromScotland.com, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is no ordinary bookseller. Set up to showcase and sell Scottish-interest books, the site combines bookselling and interesting, newsy content.”

Capital Collections

http://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/

A choice of images from the collections of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services.

Careerjet

http://www.careerjet.co.za/

Careerjet is an employment search engine for South Africa.

ChooseMoney

http://www.choosemoney.co.uk/

ChooseMoney is one of the leading review and comparison sites for credit cards and loans.

Also offers a news/analysis and guide section written by finance journalists.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

http://cks.library.nhs.uk/home

Freely available, the NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care.

Clipmarks

http://clipmarks.com/

Like scissors for web pages, Clipmarks lets you capture the specific content on a web page that you want others to see.

Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/

Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them

Copyright in higher education

http://www.surf.nl/copyright-in-nl

SURF has launched the English version of its website about copyright in higher education, especially for scholarly communication. This is a translation of the Dutch site that has been online since early in 2007. Since then, SURF has received numerous requests to make this information available for the many foreign scientists and scholars working at Dutch universities.

CrowdVine

http://www.crowdvine.com/home

Create a community around your conference.

DANTE: Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe

http://www.dante.net/

DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) plans, builds and operates advanced networks for research and education. It is owned by European NRENs (national research and education networks), and works in partnership with them and in cooperation with the European Commission. DANTE provides the data communications infrastructure essential to the development of the global research community.

denCity.net

http://dencity.konzeptrezept.de/

denCity.net examines the enrichment of real urban sites by a virtual dimension of information and networking, this being accomplished by localising the virtual.

DISC-UK

http://www.disc-uk.org/

DISC-UK (Data Information Specialists Committee - United Kingdom) is a forum for data professionals working in UK Higher Education who specialise in supporting their institution's staff and students in the use of numeric and geo-spatial data.

Drinking Water Engineering and Science

http://www.drinking-water-engineering-and-science.net/

An Interactive Open Access Journal.

Energy Current

http://energycurrent.com/

A publisher of upstream energy business news focused on offshore petroleum and emerging and alternative energy resources.

Enterprise Social Search: ESS

http://www.enterprisesocialsearch.com/

ESS is a way to search, manage, and share information within a company: combined search across many sources (with faceted search, contextual search, ...), intelligent ways to organize searched information, company-defined and user-defined tagging of all shared sources, and more.

Finding People Information: Free Sources and Web 2.0

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2773

An article in FUMSI by Marcy Phelps.

Fourth International Conference on Forensic Engineering

http://www.forensicengineering2008.com/

The Institution of Civil Engineers is organising the fourth international conference on Forensic Engineering on 2-4 December 2008.

Free Online Full-text Articles (List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press)

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

”HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 5/4/08, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,880,373 free full-text articles and 4,755,845 total articles. There are 13 sites with free trial periods, and 44 completely free sites. 248 sites have free back issues, and 1047 sites have pay per view!”

GeoURL

http://geourl.org/

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location.

GIS.com

http://www.gis.com/

Guide to geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

Green Collar Economy

http://www.greencollareconomy.com/

“Green Collar Economy is a site dedicated to helping businesses learn about and share ideas for going green and doing so profitably. We have a B2B directory with over 2600 green business links, daily news in 7 channels, a Green Collar Job board and channel specific forums.”

hprints

http://www.hprints.org/

The Nordic arts and humanities e-print archive. Hprints is an Open Access repository aiming at making scholarly documents from the Arts and Humanities publicly available to the widest possible audience.

HWU Magazine - Current issue

http://www.hw.ac.uk/ppr/magazine_latest.htm

The full text of features and Watt Club articles.

India Today

http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/

The most widely read newsweekly in South Asia.

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.).

INFORMS Online provides a number of searchable databases of online resources, e.g. a Conference Presentation Database.

International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management

http://www.inderscience.com/ijssm

A new journal. IJSSM serves as an interface between business leaders, policy makers, economists, and management scholars. IJSSM seeks contributions with global relevance concerned with organisational and economic sustainability.

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering

http://www.inderscience.com/ijsse

A new journal. IJSSE proposes and fosters discussion on the evolution and current developments in the field of system of systems and systems engineering concepts, with emphasis on the implications of the fact that new developments on technical and non-technical systems are merging. This perspective acknowledges the complexity of the current man-made, ecological as well as societal systems, their interfaces and socio-economic perspectives, in parallel with different space-time scales, as well as the reflexive characteristic of human systems.

Key Concerns Within the Scholarly Communication Process.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/topconcernsreport.doc

A report by Alma Swan, Key Perspectives to the JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group.

LISWire, the Librarian's News Wire

http://liswire.com/

“LISWire is a brand new idea from the guy behind LISNews & LISHost, Blake Carver. The plan is to allow member companies and organizations to use LISWire to send their full-text news releases and multimedia content to librarians, journalists, library professionals and the general public.”

LiveNewsCameras

http://www.livenewscameras.com/

Multi-Cameras showing the latest news headlines.

Materials Views

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/hottopics/materialsviews/

“Materials science is a vast field in which exciting breakthroughs are made every day. Materials Views is a new service that will help keep you up-to-date on these new developments, by providing you with a selection of highlights selected by the editors of some of the top journals in the field. All areas of materials will be covered from the borders of chemistry and physics to the boundaries of life sciences and engineering, and from basic research to cutting-edge applications.”

National Nuclear Security Administration

http://nnsa.energy.gov/

A new site from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to provide information to the public and media about its national security efforts.

NECTAR: the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research

http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/

NECTAR, the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research, is The University of Northampton's open access institutional repository. Its purpose is to showcase university research to the world. NECTAR will make full content available whenever possible and operates a take down policy in the event of any concern.

NextBio

http://www.nextbio.com/b/home/home.nb

A new, free-to-access life sciences search engine. Searches across 1.2 billion data points (10,000+ study results) and over 16 million articles!

“NextBio's mission is to make the world's life sciences information universally accessible. Our goal is to empower researchers and clinicians to make new discoveries in science, find new and better cures to diseases, and work more collaboratively.”

Ninth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology

http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/cst2008.htm

Athens, Greece, 2-5 September 2008

Online Library of Civil & Environmental Engineering

http://www.olcivil.com/Site/index.php

”Our mission is to provide an online web directory for civil & environmental engineering.”

Open Access Journal Collection - Sabinet

http://www.sabinet.co.za/open_access.html

The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles.

Open Access Publishing

http://library.truman.edu/search_articles/open-access.htm

Links to Open Access archives, directories, etc.

OpenWetWare

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.

Parature for the UK academic community

http://www.lestac.co.uk/parature_chest

From the UK based agent for Parature.

“A university never shuts down, support is always needed. With Parature's Academic Support Solution, you have the ability to support your students, faculty and staff in multiple departments on multiple campuses all of the time."

Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

http://www.pestlhe.org.uk/index.php/pestlhe/index

This journal offers an opportunity for those involved in University learning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scholarly practice that report on small-scale practitioner research and case studies of practice that involve reflection, critique, implications for future practice and are informed by relevant literature, with a focus on enhancement of student learning. This publication thus offers a forum to develop and share scholarly informed practice in Higher Education through either works in progress or more detailed accounts of scholarly practice.

Preprint Servers and Databases

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/brown/guides/s-preprn.htm

This page contains pointers to a variety of electronic pre-print sources in all areas of science and engineering.

Productivity Portfolio

http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/

This site offers “how to” articles and tutorials for Windows users. The intent is to help people better understand some of the tools they use on a regular basis such as Excel, Word, Outlook and so on.

Publisher Lookup UK

http://www.publisherlookup.org.uk/

This site is designed to benefit two groups -

educationalists seeking to source electronic formats of textbooks for students with disabilities, and

publishers seeking to respond in a timely and effective manner to such requests.

Publishing Scotland

http://www.publishingscotland.org/

Launched in April, 2007 Publishing Scotland has grown from the Scottish Publishers Association (SPA). It adds a development role, integrating new technologies in all formats with traditional publishing, and provides a network and training opportunity for companies, organisations and individuals in the industry.

Read Books Online

http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0607.htm

From Wendy Boswell, at About.com, an article about free online books.

RIOJA: Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/

The RIOJA project will investigate the overlay of quality assurance onto papers deposited to and stored in eprints repositories. RIOJA is funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), as part of the Repositories and Preservation Programme. It is led by UCL (University College London), working with a partnership of academic researchers, librarians and repository administrators.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0

Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk? An article in Acientific American, by M. Mitchell Waldrop.

searchCrystal

http://www.searchcrystal.com/home.html

I found this via Phil Bradley’s Weblog. searchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place. It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds.

Spread of Scottish Printing

http://www.nls.uk/printing/index.cfm

We can trace Scottish printing back to 4 April 1508.

On that date the earliest surviving dated book in Scotland was printed in Edinburgh.

Here you can read full texts of items printed on the first 33 printing presses set up in Scotland between 1508 and 1900. These have been digitised from the National Library of Scotland's collections.

Teachable.net

http://www.teachable.net/

"Teachable.net lists a wide range of teacher-contributed, interactive teaching files to download and use in class. Teachers upload files to the site, and Teachable.net maintains strict quality control to make sure everything is relevant and well presented. We have over 600 presentations and worksheets to download." "We are a virtual organisation, with contributors and editors based in schools and universities all over the UK."

The Good University Guide

http://www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/

Published in association with The Independent

ThoughtBlend

http://thoughtblend.com/

ThoughtBlend is a collection and forum of good ideas. Users can post their own ideas, or they can view, rate and discuss the ideas of others.

TradeVibes

http://www.tradevibes.com/

“By leveraging the collective wisdom of our community, TradeVibes separates the best startups from their competitors. Come share your opinions, or just come see the ratings, opinions, and discussions about which startup will be the next star.”

Transport Research Knowledge Centre: TRKC

http://www.transport-research.info/web/index.cfm

The Transport Research Knowledge Centre (TRKC) has relaunched its web portal with a dynamic new look, improved navigation and user-friendly structure.

UK Government Information on the Internet

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/2776

An article written by Adrian Janes for FUMSI, April 2008.

UK National Archive of Educational Computing

http://www.naec.org.uk/

This is the (emerging) web site for the UK National Archive of Educational Computing, documenting the development of learning technology through its invention, application, policies, practices, organisations and people over the last half century.

Urban Archives

http://www.urbanarchives.org/

“On a broad scale we hope to create a conversation between scholars, artists and activists interested in a variety of issues related to communication in public spaces.”

VADS: the Visual Arts Data Service

http://www.vads.ac.uk/

VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) has been re-branded and re-launched.

VADS has been providing services to the academic community for some 11 years and has built up an impressive portfolio of visual art collections. The image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher and Further Education, providing a valuable resource to students and academics which can be incorporated into lectures, seminar presentations and essays.

Virtual Machine Shop

http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/index.html

The Virtual Machine Shop (VMS) is a web site dedicated to the perpetuation of machine tool knowledge and training. This project is designed and maintained by volunteers from industry and academia and is free to everyone.

Webby Awards

http://www.webbyawards.com/

An award honoring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet.

XBRL

http://www.xbrl.org/Home/

XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionising business reporting around the world. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is one of a family of "XML" languages which is becoming a standard means of communicating information between businesses and on the internet.

Your Career Guide

http://www.yourcareerguide.co.uk/

A new student careers website from Setform Limited.

Zebtab

http://www.zebtab.com/

Desktop news aggregator.

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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 often 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.

ARROW Discovery Service
http://search.arrow.edu.au/

Open Access Journal Collection from Sabinet
http://www.sabinet.co.za/open_access.html

The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles. Of the journals in the collection, 14 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list.

RM

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BLOGORAMA

Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items

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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University of Melbourne Library Intelligencer
http://lilyheart.wordpress.com/

The Medium is the Message
http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/
Library, technology, and information thoughts and trends (with respect to Marshall McLuhan)

Feed Informer
http://feed.informer.com/
Mix, convert and republish feeds.

erratica
http://www.erratica.us/
parsing architecture, culture and design

Grampian Information
http://grampianinfo.co.uk/
GI is a not for profit partnership of library, archive, records management, information and advice services based throughout the North of Scotland and beyond.

CILIP Information & Advice Blog
http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/informationadvice/default.aspx

Information & Libraries Scotland
http://scottishlibraries.wordpress.com/
Information & Libraries Scotland is the blog of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS).

VLC horizon scanning
http://litsisvlcteam.blogspot.com/
A Sheffield Hallam University blog for higher education library related technologies, services, resources, developments, good practice, and innovations.

Perennial Searcher, and The Book's the Thing, from NSLS
http://blogs.nsls.info/searcher/
http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/
NSLS is a consortium of over 650 academic, public, school, and special libraries in north suburban Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties.

The physics arXiv blog
http://arxivblog.com/

LISWire
http://www.liswire.com/rss.xml
The Librarian's News Wire aggregator

NL Biblioblogosphere
http://nlbiblioblogs.pbwiki.com
Lists people and library-related organisations from the Netherlands and dutch speaking collegeages from other countires (mostly Belgium ).

DIUS Press Releases
http://www.dius.gov.uk/rss/press.xml
The latest press notices from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)

CERN Action on Open Access
http://open-access.web.cern.ch/Open-Access/cern-oa.xml

Periodic Fable
http://www.helenwhitehead.com/blog/
Helen Whitehead's blog of e-learning, digital literacy, online writing, and digital creativity.

Data Wrangling
http://www.datawrangling.com/
Machine Learning, Data Mining, and More

Library of digress
http://libraryofdigress.wordpress.com/
By a PhD student based at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

IE Demonstrator Blog
http://blog.iedemonstrator.org/?feed=rss2
Surfacing the Information Environment

UK eInformation Group
http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

News from Materials Views
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/hottopics/materialsviews/111_news.xml

To blog or not to blog?
Commentary in NatureGeoscience 1 , 208 (2008) by Gavin Schmidt

Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.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

004.678 ALL
Microformats: empowering your markup for Web 2.0
by John Allsopp
Friendsof, 2007

004.678 ZIT
The future of the Internet, and how to stop it
by Jonathan Zittrain
Allen Lane, 2008

025.52 GOD
Information literacy meets Library 2.0
edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker
facet publishing, 2008

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

Pitlochry Festival Theatre
http://www.pitlochry.org.uk/

Lidos in the United Kingdom
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/oliver.merrington/lidos/

Susan Bluechild
http://www.susanbluechild.com/

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