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Random quotes
"...if new research isn't picked up quickly by scholarly communities, it could be discounted before it has been seriously evaluated."
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=188
Research Information, October/November 2008, p.12
News items of interest.
International science community agrees on first steps to establish a global virtual library for scientific data
Scientific organizations representing over one hundred and thirty countries agree to overhaul existing world data centres and services to create a World Data System
From: ICSU Press Release http://www.icsu.org/3_mediacentre/RELEASES/ICSU_29GA_Data_Information_Press_Release.pdf
Web journals 'narrowing study'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/28/research-internet
Online publishing reduces academic research to little more than a 'popularity contest', critics warn
From: guardian.co.uk
“I Don’t Know What to Believe...” Making sense of science stories
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/PDF/ShortPeerReviewGuide.pdf
This leaflet is for people who follow debates about science and medicine in the news. It explains how scientists present and judge research and how you can ask questions of the scientific information presented to you.
100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150897/article.html?tk=nl_wbxnws
From PC World.
3 great ways to find free images
http://www.pandia.com/sew/939-3-great-ways-to-search-flickr.html
Advice from Pandia.
A short and easy search engine tutorial
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html
From Pandia.
A Vision of Students Today - Some Additional Thoughts from Michael Wesch
http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/28/a-vision-of-students-today-some-additional-thoughts-from-michael-wesch/
Michael Wesch gained instantaneous fame with his viral video, "A Vision of Students Today." Recently the associate professor offered his suggestions for teachers charged with educating this current generation of students. OpenEducation.net featured Wesch's follow-up and gave an assessment of his suggestions.
Agency Seeker
http://www.agency-seeker.co.uk/
“Agency Seeker can help you find a recruitment consultant with the industry knowledge and experience to make your job search or recruitment process as painless as possible. Whether you are an employer looking for a recruitment consultant to help with paralegal recruitment in the UK or a job hunter trying to find a list of UK healthcare recruitment agencies, our easy-to-use search will help you find local UK employment agency firms that specialise in your sector or industry.”
AllTheTopBananas
http://www.allthetopbananas.com/
A UK job search engine. You can search by region to get a more localised search to find the exact town or village you are hoping to work in.
Alltop
http://alltop.com/
This is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics.
Ariadne Autumn 2008
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/
Issue 57 (Autumn 2008) of Ariadne Web Magazine is available. Features articles on Europeana, copyright, remote working social media search engines and more.
ARL 2008 New Model Publications Study: Examples Collected for Analysis
http://www.arl.org/sc/models/model-pubs/search-form.shtml
Digital resources used by a test group for a study on Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication.
Awareness Watch Newsletter V6N11 November 2008
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/10/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n11.html
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Healthcare Bots and Subject Directories. The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Reasons for the Non-adoption of OpenOffice.org in a Data-intensive Public Administration by Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven, and Jan Verelst.
BBSLG: the British Business Schools Librarians Group
http://www.bbslg.org/
BBSLG (the British Business Schools Librarians Group) exists as a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas and to facilitate networking opportunities, co-operation and participation in joint activities.
Biznar
http://www.biznar.com
Interesting looking business research website which uses federated search technology.
Blog Search Engines: The Complete Overview
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/blog-search-engines-the-complete-overview/7856/
From Search Engine Journal.
British Cartoon Archive
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, gallery, and is a registered museum dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. It holds more than 130,000 original editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.
Careers Seeker
http://www.careers-seeker.co.uk/
An online jobs network featuring vacancies in various subject areas and also advice on CV writing, interviews, etc.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
http://english.cas.cn/
Mission: To conduct research in basic and technological sciences; to undertake nationwide integrated surveys on natural resources and ecological environment; to provide the country with scientific data and advice for governmental decision-making, and to undertake government-assigned projects with regard to key S&T problems in the process of social and economic development; to initiate personnel training; and to promote China's high-tech enterprises by its active involvement in these areas.
CiteULike Current Issues
http://www.citeulike.org/journals/
CiteULike currently has over 11,000 journals online. You can browse all the recent articles in these journals.
ClimateChangeCorp.com
http://www.climatechangecorp.com/
“ClimateChangeCorp.com is an independent news website, dedicated to providing high quality news and analysis on climate change to companies around the world. We run a regular news feed, in-depth articles and opinions from the world’s leading climate change and business experts.”
Collins Gallery
http://www.strath.ac.uk/collinsgallery/
The Collins Gallery is an integral part of the University of Strathclyde presenting a cultural interface between the University and the city.
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network: CKAN
http://www.ckan.net/
CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.
Content Wrangler Network
http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com/
Content Wrangler Network site for content professionals.
CrunchBase
http://www.crunchbase.com/
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf
Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries.
Demarco Digital Archive
http://www.demarco-archive.ac.uk/
The digital archive comprises photographs plus documents, publications and other printed material either created or gathered by Richard Demarco. The digital records are drawn from the Demarco archives held by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Demarco European Art Foundation. The site is still in construction and is due for completion in October 2008 when approximately 10,000 records will be searchable.
DTIC Advanced Search
http://multisearch.dtic.mil/dtic/
You can search various US defense-related resources in one simultaneous search.
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008
http://www.educause.edu/ers0808/135156
“This 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites.”
ELAG 2009
http://indico.ulib.sk/elag2009
European Library Automation Group (ELAG) is Europe's premier conference on the application of information technology in libraries and documentation centres. ELAG 2009 will take place in Bratislava, 22-24 April 2009.
Ensembl
http://www.ensembl.org/index.html
Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. This site provides free access to all the data and software from the Ensembl project.
FreeForAll
http://lendinglibrarians.googlepages.com/freeforall
FreeForAll is an international collaboration of libraries whose mission is to provide underserved nations with health science journal articles for free.
fResource
http://www.fresource.info/
“fResource is a unique online community for researchers and fundraisers from around the world to come together and share their knowledge about all things research related. Our aim is to help develop fundraising research as a discipline in it's own right as well as ensuring the vast array of information and resources can be accessed by everyone in the search for funding.”
Geosciences Network: GEON
http://www.geongrid.org/
The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a collaboration among a dozen PI institutions and a number of other partner projects, institutions, and agencies to develop cyberinfrastructure in support of an environment for integrative geoscience research.
Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange: GLOBE
http://www.globe-info.org/
A search engine for online learning resources.
Global Library of Women's Medicine
http://www.glowm.com/
“The Global Library of Women's Medicine, was launched at a dinner held at The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London last night. It is a unique web library incorporating a vast range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women's medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by over 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion.”
GlobalSpec e-Newsletters
http://www.globalspec.com/Subscriptions/SignUp?frmtrk=home
A suite of e-Newsletter Publications on engineering topics.
Great War Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home.
Hakia
http://www.hakia.com/
Hakia brings search results from credible sites recommended by librarians.
HathiTrust
http://www.hathitrust.org/
This is described as “As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-tee) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.”
HWURPA: Heriot-Watt University's institutional repository
http://www.hwurpa.hw.ac.uk/
HWURPA is Heriot-Watt University's institutional repository. It aims - through the capture, preservation, and dissemination of the University's collective intellectual output - to serve as a meaningful indicator of the institution's research and academic quality. In addition, it provides an invaluable service to individual researchers and academics by disseminating and preserving their work. At present HWURPA contains only Heriot-Watt theses but it will expand to include other types of output, such as working papers, articles and conference papers, as well as supplementary materials such as past examination papers.
IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities
http://unicat.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/unicat/
IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country.
Innovation in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 conference
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/
Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, Tuesday 16th June – Wednesday 17th June. Information Professionals have to be highly innovative if they are to support their organisations in delivering effective e-information services. This major UKeiG event brings together experienced practitioners in many fields of e-information to share and discuss issues on innovating and improving delivery of e-information services. Delegate involvement will be key with opportunities to discuss future issues, share experiences and formulate practical, often innovative, solutions to emphasise the pivotal role of information professionals in driving, supporting and demonstrating effective information management.
Innovation.gov.au
http://www.innovation.gov.au/
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research strives as a key priority to encourage the sustainable growth of Australian industries by developing a national innovation system that drives knowledge creation, cutting edge science and research, international competitiveness and greater productivity. The Department is committed to developing policies and delivering programs, in partnership with stakeholders, to provide lasting economic benefits ensuring Australia's competitive future.
International Journal of Defense Acquisition Management
http://www.acquisitionjournal.org/index.cfm
The International Journal of Defense Acquisition Management (ISSN 1940-3445) is jointly published and supported by the Acquisition Research Program of the Naval Postgraduate School, and Cranfield University at the Defence College of Management of Technology.
International Journal of Power Electronics
http://www.inderscience.com/ijpelec
A new refereed international journal which presents to the international scientific community important results of work in this field, whether in the form of modelling, simulation, analysis, fundamental research, development, application, design or real-time implementation. The scope of IJPElec is broad, encompassing all aspects of power electronics.
Introduction to Federated Search
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3345
An article in FUMSI by Jill Hurst-Wahl.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
http://www.istl.org/08-fall/index.html
The Fall 2008 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available – featuring articles on Web 2.0, chat widgets, Geospatial Technology Support, etc.
IT Counts
http://www.ion.icaew.com/itcounts
A social networking site for accounting and finance professionals.
JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online
http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/
JAIRO is a cross-search service for academic information (journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc.) accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories.
JLC Online
http://www.jlconline.com/
Where contractors go to work on the web.
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
http://jrse.aip.org/
New Open Access journal with several additional features such as a blog, news, interviews, etc.
Long Term Ecological Research: LTER
http://www.lternet.edu/
The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1800 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. The Network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs.
Macdonald and Company Property Recruitment
http://www.macdonaldandcompany.com
A recruitment agency that offers jobseekers a range of jobs within the Property sector, plus CV & job advice.
Medicexchange
http://www.medicexchange.com/
“Medicexchange is one of the fastest growing online portals for radiologists and related medical imaging professionals. Medicexchange offers a global portal covering the latest medical imaging news, educational resources and jobs, and is the only multi-vendor online sales channel for medical imaging products.”
Medworm
http://www.medworm.com/
“the Internet's medical router
over 6000 authoritative RSS feeds go in, hundreds of new RSS feeds by category come out”
MyJournals.org
http://www.myjournals.org/
The latest issues of all your favorite science journals on one page
Nanoforum.org
http://www.nanoforum.org/
A European nanotechnology gateway.
NanoScienceWorks.org
http://www.nanoscienceworks.org/
NanoScienceWorks.org is a not-for-profit community portal for the nanoscience research community supported by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC—an Informa business. NanoScienceWorks.org serves the nano community as a gateway to the news, journals, books, and articles that support and drive nano research and development. We invite you to explore these resources, view our slidecasts, and join our networking database of nano-involved people and institutions from around the world.
Nanotechnology.com
http://www.nanotechnology.com/
Nanotechnology.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Nanotech Company, LLC.
NASA Images
http://www.nasaimages.org/
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER
http://www.nber.org/
US resource. Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.
National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering: NCLT
http://www.nclt.us/
The mission of NCLT is to develop the next generation of leaders in nanoscale science and engineering teaching and learning, with an emphasis on NSEE capacity building, providing a strong impact on national science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The guiding theme of NCLT is learning and teaching through inquiry and design of nanoscale materials and applications.
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
http://www.ncn.purdue.edu/
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology is a National Science Foundation infrastructure and research network with a mission to enable education and research in nanoscience for nanotechnology applications. NCN currently focuses on nanoelectronics, nanoelectromechanics, nanophotonics, and nanodevices for biology and medicine - as well as other key areas.
Ohio Web Library
http://ohioweblibrary.org/
Unless you are based in Ohio, you won’t be able to click through to the full text of all search results, because although there are links to some resources that are publicly accessible, the vast majority of Ohio Web Library resources are available to Ohio residents only. However, this is a very interesting example of a library portal to an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources.
One Minute Languages
http://oneminutelanguages.com/
Claims that you can learn the basics of a language in a matter of minutes. One Minute Languages will introduce you to a new language from scratch. Each language features ten lessons and each lesson is only a couple of minutes long.
Online Educa Berlin
http://www.online-educa.com/
e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors, December 3-5, Berlin.
Ozmo
http://www.ozmo.com/
Ozmo is a web-based service for licensing independent, or user-generated, content for commercial use. Ozmo makes it easy for photographers, artists, bloggers, researchers and others to license their work to content buyers such as marketing firms and advertising agencies, who are increasingly incorporating user-generated content into their work.
ParlInfo Search
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/
ParlInfo Search enables everyone to search and obtain Australian Parliamentary information resources including Hansards, Bills, Senate Journals, Votes and Proceedings, Notice Papers, Committee reports, Parliamentary Handbook, newspaper clippings, media, publications and much more. It will also search for information located on the Australian Parliament website.
PhilSci Archive
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.
Populrs
http://popurls.com/
“popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.”
ProjectScotland
http://www.projectscotland.co.uk/
"ProjectScotland is a new kind of volunteering. It offers full-time placements for 16-25 year olds (30 hours a week minimum) lasting between three or six months. Placements are available with non-profit organisations in loads of areas such as the arts, sports, the environment and cliff diving (Actually, we made that last one up)."
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.
Reference Extract
http://referencextract.org/
Reference Extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, Reference Extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe.
RefSeek
http://www.refseek.com/
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
Repositories Worldwide
http://www.eprints.org/repositories/
This is a work in progress, featuring Repository platform news, repository bloggers, repository agendas, etc.
Repository Records Statistics
http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/
This website provides data on the number of records in Institutional Repositories over time.
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356
An article in FUMSI by Lisa Rogers. The article examines how publishers can make better use of RSS by adoptive good practice.
Science in Industry
http://www.scienceinindustry.co.uk/
“Science in Industry is a new venture started by a group of industrial scientists with the object of forming a reciprocal link between the academic and the industrial worlds. We hope to explain the basis of new technologies and show how and where they are being applied in industry, as well as look at the technology used in different areas of industry. We will also have occasional "A Week in the Life of..." articles based on real industrial experience.”
SciFeeds
http://www.scifeeds.com/
SciFeeds delivers to you the most recent life science literature as it is published direct from RSS feeds.
Scoofers
http://www.scoofers.com/
A blend of Google with social bookmarking.
Scotland’s History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/
From the BBC.
Second Life for Business: Ten Techniques
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3326
An article in FUMSI, by Sheila Webber.
'Sitting on a gold mine' - improving provision and services for learners by aggregating and using 'learner behaviour data'
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=318
A workshop being held on 12th December, 2008, JISC Offices, Brettenham House, South Entrance (5 Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN).
StoneContact
http://stonecontact.com/
A business to business contact site for stone products, such as marble, granite, etc.
STR Group
http://www.strgroup.co.uk
A specialist technical recruitment
website. They have a wide range of technical engineering, built
environment and construction jobs.
Tech Welding Equipment Ltd
http://www.r-techwelding.co.uk/
A welding equipment manufacturer and distributor to the UK, Specialising in Mig Welders, Tig Welders and Plasma Cutters with product endorsement from Morgan Motor Co.
The Value that Repositories Add
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.html
If you work with an institutional repository, or have deposited a paper or papers in an IR, have a look at the excellent presentation on this blog entry by Les Carr, which gives examples of ways in which researchers can promote their repository outputs.
ticTOCs - Tables of Contents Service
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
A free service, giving access to the latest tables of contents (TOCs) from over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 300 publishers.
TurnitinUK
http://www.submit.ac.uk
TurnitinUK is an online service hosted at www.submit.ac.uk that enables institutions and staff to carry out electronic comparison of students' work against electronic sources including other students' work.
UK-National Conference on Computational Mechanics in Engineering
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csec/acme2009/
Nottingham, 6th-8th April 2009. The conference covers all aspects of Computational Mechanics from classical areas of structural, solid and fluid mechanics to the new emerging areas of multiscale modelling, micro and nano mechanics, electromechanical coupling and biomechanics.
Vadlo
http://vadlo.com/
Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences. This beta offering allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, downloadable programs and collaborations.
WelshArtNow
http://www.welshartnow.co.uk/
WelshArtNow features art that has a Welsh connection. The aim of the magazine is to increase awareness and understanding of Welsh art and get more people talking about it.
What is Twitter?
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetworking/a/what-is-twitter.htm
An explanation, from About.com
What will the new Research Excellence Framework mean for institutions?
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/10/researchex.aspx
Information from JISC.
Worldmapper Science Growth
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=206
This map shows the growth in scientific research of territories between 1990 and 2001.
YUDU
http://beta.yudu.com/
YUDU is a library of digital content to read and explore, as well as an ePublishing Marketplace that gives you the freedom to express, the power to publish and the tools to share or sell online.
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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 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.
This month's Nice Web Sites are several services which give access to scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs):
SciFeeds
http://www.scifeeds.com/
Sub-titled 'Your Life Science Magazine Rack', this site
delivers the most recent life science literature as it is published direct from RSS feeds.
You can browse for over 100 journals within life science by subject, see the most recently updated TOCs, search the content of TOCs (it's a bit slow), see the most 'popular' articles, and if you register, you can do a lot more. There are links to the full text of articles.
ticTOCs - Tables of Contents Service
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
Also based on scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), ticTOCs is a user friendly service that covers all subjects - over 11,000 journal TOCs are included from more than 300 publishers. You can Search for Tables of Contents, view the latest TOC for each journal, link to the full text of around 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows), export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders, and select and save (by ticking them) journal titles in order to view future TOCs ( Register to ensure your MyTOCs are permanently saved).
And more! ticTOCs is where researchers can now keep-up-to-date. Heriot-Watt University is one of the partners involved in developing this service, which was funded by JISC.
CiteULike Current Issues
http://www.citeulike.org/journals/
CiteULike currently has over 11,000 journals online.
You can browse all the recent articles in these journals.
FeedNavigator
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/
From the University of Helsinki, FeedNavigator downloads medical RSS feeds published by websites and aggregates their content into a single feed, latest news first. This gives access to
over 4,000 medical sources, including numerous journal Tables of Contents, which are updated continuously.
MyJournals.org
http://www.myjournals.org/
The latest issues of popular science journals on one page. You can select from various subject areas.
Zetoc RSS
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html
Find journal TOC RSS feeds by name, keyword or subject. Zetoc produces its own feeds but has more than the other services mentioned above. Requires some knowledge of how RSS works.
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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
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356
An article in FUMSI
Bloglines Top 1000 feeds
http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds
FeedBeater
http://www.feedbeater.com/
Turn any URL into an RSS feed
The Green Library
http://thegreenlibraryblog.blogspot.com/
The Green Library blog is devoted to documenting significant activities, events, literature, and projects that focus on " ... increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal" of and by libraries.
Science & Engineering Library News & Views - The University of Nottingham http://nottinghamsciencelib.blogspot.com/
NTIS RSS feeds
http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspx
From the National Technical Information Service
Stuart Benjamin's Blog
http://stuartbenjamin.wordpress.com/
The blog of Stuart Benjamin, Information Manager at TRL. Coverage includes transport, travel, librarianship, knowledge, music, art, gossip, and so forth.
Issues in publishing
http://issues-in-publishing.blogspot.com/
Publishing 2.0
http://publishing2.com/
A free eBooks download blog
http://findebooks.blogspot.com/
PKP blog
http://pkp.sfu.ca/blog/feed
From the
Public Knowledge Project
Nanoforum news feed
http://www.nanoforum.org/rss_news.php
BSI British Standards RSS feeds
http://www.bsigroup.com/en/Standards-and-Publications/Industry-Sectors/RSS-Feeds/
ASTM International RSS feeds
http://www.astm.org/RSS/index.html
Library news for ACES
http://shu-lits-isacesteam.blogspot.com/
From Sheffield Hallam University
Interesting Pile
http://charlierb3.blogspot.com/
Posts from a librarian on inteersting things, lists, book reviews, etc
San Francisco Chronicle RSS feeds
http://www.sfgate.com/rss/
NS2: Niche Social Network Sites
http://nichesocialnetworksites.blogspot.com/
NS2 is devoted to documenting the variety of online social network sites and services established to faciliate networking among communities with focused interests or purpose. NS2 is a companion blog to Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services and SciTechNet(sm):Science and Technology Networks .
Business Marketing Online
http://www.bmon.co.uk/leadgeneration/
Online Lead Generation: An Article A Day
TechXtraNews
http://techxtranews.wordpress.com/
News from the TechXtra service (where you can search for books, artices, patents, websites,
jobs, technical reports, theses, learning & teaching resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing).
Scottish Information Literacy Project weblog
http://caledonianblogs.net/information-literacy/
OUseful.Info, the blog…
http://ouseful.wordpress.com/
The Tech Static
http://www.thetechstatic.com/
The Tech Static is focused on technology-related collection development in libraries.
AltSearchEngines
http://www.altsearchengines.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
301.243 STR
Planet google : how one company is transforming our lives
by Randall Stross.
Atlantic Books, 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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The story of the guitar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/
eBird
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
Birding news and features
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