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Random quotes

"I believe Google Book Search really will make book learning accessible on a new, worldwide scale, despite the great digital divide that separates the poor from the computerized."
The Library in the New Age, by Robert Darnton, in The New York Review of Books, June 2008

"Scientists now read 25 per cent more articles from almost twice as many journals than they did six years ago, according to research by Carol Tenopir of the University of Tennessee, USA"
Connecting researchers boosts collective intelligence, by Jay Katzen, Research Information, June/July 2008, p.21

News items of interest.

International initiative licenses resources across four European countries
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/05/knowledgeexchange.aspx
International partnership will deliver savings as well as new business models to European education and research communities.

End of Microsoft Live Search Academic and Book Search
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-winding-down.aspx
More on this from NewsBreaks
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=49423

Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3064/encyclopedia-britannica-goes-gasp-wiki
From: The Chronicle of Higher Education

ProQuest signs agreement to acquire Dialog business from Thomson Reuters
http://www.proquest.co.uk/pressroom/pressrelease/08/20080612.shtml
June 12, 2008 -- ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has signed an agreement under which ProQuest would acquire the Thomson Reuters Dialog® business. The transaction is expected to close pending a successful completion of the formal consultation period and other customary closing conditions.

The Internet Resources Newsletter is delighted to be a media sponsor of Internet Librarian International 2008 http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml . Now in its 10th year, Internet Librarian International continues to place emphasis on the practical rather than the theoretical. Speakers and the busy exhibition address the new realities we face, suggest new roles we can play, and explore important new resources and tools we can immediately add to our information professional toolbox. A preview of Internet Librarian International's full conference and activity programme is available.

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life

http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2008/05/27/50-tips-and-tricks-to-create-a-learning-space-in-second-life/

A good list, with links.

AllPlus

http://www.allplus.com/

A metasearch engine, which searches across several other major search engines.

Alltop Science

http://science.alltop.com/

Science news from a variety of sources. Essentially, an aggregation of RSS feeds.

Aluka

http://www.aluka.org

“Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Our name, ‘Aluka’, is derived from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting Aluka’s mission to connect resources and scholars from around the world.

Aluka seeks to attract high-quality scholarly content about Africa from institutions and individuals across the globe. By contributing their collections to the Aluka platform, content owners will have a means of offering access to their collections to an international audience—without having to develop and support their own technology platforms. Aluka’s web-based platform provides powerful tools for research, teaching, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.”

Association of Virtual Worlds

http://www.associationofvirtualworlds.com/

Found via Maeve’s blog.

The Association of Virtual Worlds believes that virtual worlds represent a major information and technological revolution in how we work, play and live. The Association mission is to serve those companies and individuals who are dedicated to the advancement of this multi-billion dollar global industry and reach out to those who have not yet found virtual worlds.

AusStage

http://www.ausstage.edu.au/

AusStage provides an accessible research facility for investigating live performance in Australia. It was built by a consortium of universities and industry partners with funding from the Australian Research Council.

Awareness Watch Newsletter June 2008

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/05/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n6-june.html

The June 2008 V6N6 Awareness Watch Newsletter is a freely available 60 page .pdf document.

The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Information Quality Resources and Sites. These resources and sites bring you the latest information and happenings in the area of information quality that are currently available on the Internet.

B & E Boys - Property developers Lancashire

http://www.beboys.co.uk/

Boys, based in the Rossendale valley are a North West building company with strong family management allied to tradition and a full range of craft skills:

Barclay Simpson

http://www.barclaysimpson.com/legal-jobs/

Barclay Simpson are corporate governance recruitment specialists in London. Search and register for the latest legal jobs (and more) in financial and banking services, with firms within the UK and US.

Bioscience Hypotheses

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17562392

Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the publication of Bioscience Hypotheses, a new journal for radical hypotheses on topics throughout the life sciences.

CAPTCHA

http://www.captcha.net/

A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.

ClickAJob

http://www.clickajob.co.uk/

Job search UK - IT, graduate, teaching, government, engineering, nursing and other jobs.

Concharto

http://www.concharto.com/

Concharto is an encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki.

Conspicuous Recruitment

http://www.conspicuous.com/

“IT Recruitment specialists. We work on a contingency and search and selection basis nationally and internationally, recruiting technical, accountancy and sales professionals from Graduate to Director level.”

Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/2971

An article in FUMSI, June 2008, by Derek Law.

COPENMIND 2008

http://www.copenmind.com/

September 1-3, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

An exhibition and conference devoted to research, technology and innovation.

Copyright should be the same for digital media, say researchers

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=253

An article in Research Information.

Create Change Canada

http://www.createchangecanada.ca/

“In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly. There’s great potential in change. After all, faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It’s a two-way street — sharing research benefits you and others. But will the promise of digital scholarship be fully realized? How will yesterday’s norms adapt to tomorrow’s possibilities?

This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.“

CrossCheck

http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html

“CrossCheck powered by iThenticate” is a new initiative from CrossRef to help the scholarly publishers verify the originality of submitted manuscripts.

CustomGuide

http://www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm

Quick reference guides to Access, Project, Internet Explorer, etc.

D4Science

http://www.d4science.eu/

D4Science is a project involving 11 participating organisations and co-funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project started in January 2008 and has a duration of 2 years.

D4Science aims to continue the path that the GÉANT, EGEE, and DILIGENT projects have initiated towards establishing networking, grid-based, and data-centric e-Infrastructures that accelerate multidisciplinary research by overcoming several crucial barriers that stand in the way, primarily those related to heterogeneity, sustainability and scalability.

DARIAH – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

http://www.dariah.eu/

DARIAH is a project to support the digitisation of data. We will provide the research infrastructure for digital research and preservation and thus, bring information users, information managers and information providers within countries and across Europe together.

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage

http://www.exacteditions.com/

“Debrett's is the modern authority on all matters of etiquette, taste and achievement.”

The free preview allows for unlimited searching; the search results are available in a 'snippet' format.

Digital Lives Research Project

http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/

The Digital Lives Research Project is designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. The project team is drawn from the British Library, University College London and University of Bristol.

DOepatents

http://www.osti.gov/doepatents/

DOepatents is the U.S. Department of Energy's central collection of patent information, where research and development intersect with innovation and invention. This collection demonstrates the Department's considerable contribution to scientific progress from the 1940s to today.

DReSNet: EPSRC Digital Repositories e-Science Network

http://www.dresnet.net/

The proposed Network is motivated by the potential for synergy between two fields of technology and technique, e-Science and Digital Repositories, and the benefits that will be obtained by increasing interaction and cooperation between researchers and practitioners in these fields.

Earthscan

http://www.earthscan.co.uk/

Earthscan is a leading international publisher of books and journals, specializing in sustainable development, environmental technology and conservation.

EdITLib Digital Library

http://www.editlib.org/

“The EdITLib Digital Library is your source for peer-reviewed and published articles and papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.”

electronic Journals Delivery Service: eJDS

http://www.ejds.org/

The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) is a prototype programme geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics.

Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom

http://www.kazembassy.org.uk

A new website.

EprintableCalendars.com

http://www.eprintablecalendars.com/

EprintableCalendars.com is an easy to use website, to view or print out calendars by month or year, and in various sizes.

e-SciDR

http://www.e-scidr.eu/

e-SciDR is a study led by the Digital Archiving Consultancy on behalf of the European Commission to drive forward the development and use of digital repositories in the EU in all areas of science, from the humanities to the earth sciences.

ESF Research Conferences Scheme - Call for Proposals

http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals/framework-call-for-proposals.html

The ESF Research Conferences Scheme provides the opportunity for leading scientists and younger researchers to meet for discussions on the most recent developments in their fields of research. It acts as a catalyst for creating new synergistic contacts throughout Europe and the rest of the world. ESF Research Conferences are open to scientists world-wide, whether from academia or industry.

The ESF will fund Research Conferences in 2009 for the following scientific domain:
Mathematics

And in 2010 for the following scientific domains:
Biology +
Energy and Environment
Mathematics
Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities.

European Students' Conference.

http://www.esc-berlin.com/index.php

The European Students' Conference (ESC) is one of the largest biomedical conferences worldwide and has been one of the main events at the Charité for many years.

Every year the ESC takes place at the Charité, Medical Faculty of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. This year will be the 19th time.

Focus on Mimas, June 2008

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/08jun/

This issue highlights Jorum's move to Open Access with JorumOpen. Also mentions the Mimas Open Forum, which will be held at The University of Manchester on Wednesday, 09 July 2008.

Google Sites

http://sites.google.com/site/sites/

Share information online.

Great Expectations of ICT: how higher education institutions are measuring up

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/greatexpectations

JISC commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake research among first year students studying in higher education.

Guide to Reference

http://www.guidetoreference.org/

This is a subscription-based service.

“The new online edition takes full advantage of the Web's capacities to connect information sources; it also creates and links to content that makes it a center for learning about and practicing reference librarianship.”

hakia

http://www.hakia.com/

hakia is a general purpose "semantic" search engine, dedicated to quality search experience. hakia is focused on bringing quality results via its semantic search technology. Today's search engines bring popular results via statistical ranking methods. Popular results are not always quality results, and the searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information.

Hits and misses

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402225&c=1

An article in the Times Higher Education by Matthew Reisz

Does the Google generation, which has grown up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz investigates.

Human Genomics and Proteomics

http://www.sage-hindawi.com/journals/hgp/

A new Open Access journal.

Human Genomics and Proteomics is an international, peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for discussion of research on human genomics and proteomics, systems biology, and various aspects of personalized medicine. Publishing an article in Human Genomics and Proteomics requires an article processing charge of £ 700.

iBreadCrumbs

http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/

A Social Network for Researchers to Share Recorded URLs, Track Websites, Review Notes Online, and Encourage Online Collaborative Research.

IET Discover

http://discover.theiet.org/

A collaborative intelligence network in science, engineering and technology.

With IET Discover you can: find (Search for articles, reports and resources and other resources other engineers are finding useful), share (Save your bookmarks in one place so you can access them from any computer and share them easily) and connect (Join (or create) groups that match your interests to see what your peers are reading).

IET.tv

http://tv.theiet.org/

Links to webcasts from The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

If Members Won’t Come: The Royal Society of Chemistry Builds a Virtual Library

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2818

An article in FUMSI, by Nigel Lees.

Information Literacy Resources Directory

http://www.infolitglobal.info/

The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.

Librarians, educators and information professionals are invited to participate. If you have developed information literacy materials and would like to share them with the world community, please submit the required data.

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research

http://www.inderscience.com/ijbhr

A new journal.

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research publishes a broad range of original experimental and theoretical papers that deal with behavioural and healthcare concerns.

International Journal of Biometrics

http://www.inderscience.com/ijbm

Biometrics and human biometric characteristics form the basis of research in biological measuring techniques for the purpose of people identification and recognition. IJBM addresses the fundamental areas in computer science that deal with biological measurements. It covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of human identification and verification.

International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems

http://www.inderscience.com/ijmms

A new journal from Inderscience. IJMMS publishes refereed quality papers in the broad field of mechatronics and manufacturing systems with a special emphasis on research and development in the modern engineering of advanced manufacturing processes and systems. IJMMS fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of mechatronics (computers, electrical and mechanical engineering) with applications in manufacturing processes and systems.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl.org/08-winter/index.html

The Winter-Spring 2008 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available.

Joint Guidelines on Copyright and Academic Research

http://www.publishers.org.uk/en/home/copyright/copyright_guidelines/joint_guidelines.cfm

Guidelines for researchers and publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Published jointly by the British Academy and the Publishers Association.

Journal of Life Sciences

http://www.tjols.com/

“The Journal of Life Sciences is a bi-monthly magazine founded in 2007. Focusing on the space "where science and society meet," the Journal offers fresh analysis and commentary about the impact of biotechnology and the other bio sciences on business, policy, and culture.”

Keeping Within the Law: KWtL

http://www.kwtl.co.uk/home/

A copyright and information law resource, for the library and information profession, edited by Paul Pedley, Head of Research, Economist Intelligence Unit.

Library budgets, open access, and the future of scholarly communication: Transformations in academic publishing

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2008/may/ALA_print_layout_1_471139_471139.cfm

An article by David W. Lewis in C&RL News, May 2008.

McGarvie Morrison Media

http://www.mcgarviemorrisonmedia.co.uk/

McGarvie Morrison Media brings new levels of expertise to the fields of public relations, public affairs and media consultancy.

me.edu.au

https://me.edu.au/login.htm

me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online networking and profile space.

OFFSTATS

http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

An excellent guide to official statistics on the Web, from the University of Aukland Library.

Open Humanities Press

http://openhumanitiespress.org/

Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing collective in critical and cultural theory.

OpenAustralia

http://www.openaustralia.org/

This site is about giving the public the tools to easily follow what goes on in the Australian Parliament.

ORE Specification and User Guide

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.9/toc

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. This document provides an introduction and lists the specifications and user guide documents that make up the OAI-ORE standards.

Peer-to-Patent

http://www.peertopatent.org/

“Peer-to-Patent opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Become part of this historic pilot program. Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a community reviewer and improve the quality of patents.”

Powerset

http://www.powerset.com/

Powerset’s first product is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008. Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.

Production Engineering Solutions

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

A number of people took advantage of the free technical magazine subscriptions available through TechXtra that were mentioned in last months Internet Resources Newsletter. Here’s a further one available to qualifying individuals in the UK and Ireland.

Production Engineering Solutions' editorial content is an informative blend of the latest news, technology and sector reports, coupled with leading-edge application stories. Designed to deliver concise editorial in an easy-to-read format, this adds up to a strong package that continues to meet the needs of a loyal and influential readership.

Publication and quality assurance of research data outputs

http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-publication

A report from the Research Information Network (RIN).

Research Repository University of Glamorgan

http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk/dspace/

A new institutional repository.

ResearchGATE

https://www.researchgate.net/

”ResearchGATE is a new free of charge web 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and powerful scientific web-based environment, in which scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields. Sign up and be part of the first scientific network.”

RLUK

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/

Research Libraries UK.

RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. RLUK's mission is to work with its members and partners, nationally and internationally, to shape and to realise the vision of the modern research library.

Science a Go Go

http://www.scienceagogo.com/

Science news.

ScienceHack

http://sciencehack.com/

“Every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality”

Scientists Without Borders

http://scientistswithoutborders.nyas.org/

Scientists Without Borders aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world. The research community is already promoting global health, agricultural progress, environmental well-being, and so on, but current communication gaps limit its power. The Scientists Without Borders database will provide a way for organizations, projects, and individuals with complementary needs and resources to find one another. This tool will eventually create a record of accomplishments that also identifies the next steps for solving specific problems.

SciSpace

http://scispace.net/

A collaborative network site designed for scientists by scientists.

SEB'09 -- International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings

http://seb09.sustainedenergy.org/

Brighton, United Kingdom, 29th & 30th April and 1st May 2009

Hosted by the University of Brighton, UK, and organised by the KES International research and knowledge transfer organisation, SEB'09 will be a major opportunity for researchers in subjects related to sustainability, renewable energy technology, and applications in the built environment to mix with industrialists and other stakeholders in the field.

SMIT Hydraulics

http://www.smithydraulics.it/

A leading company in the mobile machinery sector.

Spring 2008 “snapshot” of UK Higher and Further Education Developments in Second Life

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/sl/uksnapshot052008

This report summarises an investigation into the use and uptake of Second Life (SL) by UK Higher and Further Education.

THESEUS

http://theseus-programm.de/

THESEUS ist ein vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) initiiertes Forschungsprogramm mit dem Ziel, eine neue internetbasierte Wissensinfrastruktur zu entwickeln, um das Wissen im Internet besser zu nutzen und zu verwerten.

ThoughtMesh

http://thoughtmesh.net/

ThoughtMesh is an unusual model for publishing and discovering scholarly papers online. It gives readers a tag-based navigation system that uses keywords to connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites.

Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide

http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/05/27/twitter-for-librarians-the-ultimate-guide/

By Christina Laun.

ujiko

http://www.ujiko.com

A search engine that mutates.

UKSG Current Publisher Price Lists

http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?PID=27

Mentioned before in this newsletter, UKSG's Publisher Price List site will be adding 2009 prices from publishers. Launched as a service to all libraries and publishers, it has expanded to include links to licensing and publisher's terms and conditions of online access where available.

Umení a architektura - Subject Gateway Art and Architecture

http://art.jib.cz/subject-gateway-art-and-architecture-art/view?set_language=en

“Subject gateway ART provides to the users simultaneous searching in different Czech and foreign resources (library catalogues, union catalogues, full text databases etc.) from the field of art, architecture and related subjects through one user interface. Resources available in ART can be divided to free accessible and licensed ones. Free accessible resources are available to every user, no matter where he/she is using these resources from or if he/she is registered in the library. Licensed resources are available only for users registered in the library which accesses/owns these resources and at the same time the users have to work on computers with admissible IP addresses.”

WebArchiv

http://www.webarchiv.cz/

A digital archive of Czech documents published on the Internet.

World Lecture Project

http://www.world-lecture-project.org/

“This is the central platform for video lectures in any language and of any faculty worldwide. You are invited to add lectures or to edit the lecture descriptions. Use is open and free of charge, and will remain so.”

World Time Engine

http://worldtimeengine.com/

This site allows visitors to find the past, current and future times for any country, city, town, village, street, zip code and/or geographic coordinates in the world. It also provides the ability to compare up to 5 times in different locations for the purposes of arranging meetings, understanding the time differences at a glance and planning future events.

yougofurther

http://www.yougofurther.co.uk/

Highly recommended site.

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.

Zoomii

http://zoomii.com/

An online bookstore which allows you to zoom in on subjects and titles (try it!)

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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.

yougofurther
http://www.yougofurther.co.uk/

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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Higher Education Update
http://api.edna.edu.au/newsletter.rss?newsletter=highereducationupdate
An excellent publication from EDNA, Australia's free online network for educators

ukbiblioblogosphere
http://del.icio.us/ukbiblioblogosphere
Keir Hopwood has created this useful list of del.icio.us links to UK academic library blogs. Here's his own blog: http://ukbiblioblogosphere.blogspot.com/

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

edna RSS Services
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/help/rss_help#goto-395
Various feeds from Australia's free online network for educators

JISC-PoWR: Preservation of Web Resources: a JISC-sponsored project http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
This blog has been set up to support the work of JISC-PoWR, a project initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee. The project aims to "organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community".

The Diary Junction blog
http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/
Occasional posts on diaries in the news

Academic Librarian
http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/
From the Philosophy & Religion Librarian at Princeton University

Create Change Canada
http://www.createchangecanada.ca/bm~feed.xml

National Institute of General Medical Sciences
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/rss/

Johnnie Moore's Blog
http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/

Mark Hepworth's Blog
http://markhepworthsblog.blogspot.com/
Mark works in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University.

The Ten Thousand Year Blog
http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/
Archivist-historian David Mattison's musings and Web tracks on digital culture preservation issues

AZoBuild.com - Building News Feed
http://www.azobuild.com/rss.asp

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
http://www.fema.gov/help/rss.shtm

The Next Web
http://thenextweb.org/
The Next Web Blog, first started in 2006 at The Next Web Conference, is a weblog that reports on everything that influences the future of the Web, in any way.

FilterMyRSS
http://www.filtermyrss.com/
FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant to you.

EPSRC Digital Repositories e-Science Network
http://www.dresnet.net/rss.xml

National Electrical Contractors Association
http://www.necanet.org/?fa=rss

Peer to Patent Application List
http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/list/rss

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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

001.2 BOR
Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet
by Christine L Borgman
MIT Press, 2007

378.12 ONE
Academic freedom in the wired world
by Robert O'Neil
Harvard University Press, 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

Grows on you - a community for garden lovers
http://www.growsonyou.com/

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