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"It's estimated that an average buyer of books and CDs could save £1,000 a year by using their local library" Benedict Page, The Bookseller, 6 March 2009, p.8

News items of interest.

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

5th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference: EBLIP5

http://blogs.kib.ki.se/eblip5/

Stockholm, Sweden, June 29th – July 3rd 2009.

A more research-intensive and integrated European Research Area: Science, Technology and Competitiveness key figures report 2008/2009

http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/pdf/key-figures-report2008-2009_en.pdf

This report shows that since 2000, Europe has made clear progress towards a European Research Area. Universities in Europe are under going reforms and are linking up in transnational networks. Funding for coordinated research is increasing in absolute terms, and in 2006 half of the national research programmes in Europe allowed for the participation of non-resident researchers.

AccessArt

http://www.accessart.org.uk/

“If you are a teacher, student, parent, home-user or artist looking for practical and inspirational visual arts resources, AccessArt is the site for you. Created by artists, our resources are packed full of ideas, inspiration and techniques which can be used at home, in school and in the community.”

AccessEngineering

http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/

AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere online engineering resource, formerly known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library.

Ariadne Issue 58

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/

Ariadne is a Web magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors.

ASN NEURO

http://www.asnneuro.org/an/default.htm

ASN NEURO launched in March 2009 is an Open Access journal to further the American Society for Neurochemistry's mission to advance, promote, support, encourage and facilitate communication among investigators in the cellular and molecular neuroscience community.

AuseSearch

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012189697858739272261:yyyqychcumo

Searches open access research repositories in Australia.

Awareness Watch Newslette

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/03/awareness-watch-newsletter-v7n4-april.html

The April 2009 V7N4 Awareness Watch Newsletter is now available. This month's featured report will be highlighting Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources.

Book Depository

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/

The Book Depository was founded in 2004 with the aim of making "All books available to All" through pioneering supply chain initiatives, republishing and the digitizing of content. It is a continuing project, still in its infancy, and one of the most ambitious ventures in the book industry.

BookRags

http://www.bookrags.com/

BookRags is the premier research site for students, with over 8.3 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks sourced from over 100 respected education databases.

Brainify

http://brainify.com/

Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students.

”Find the best academic websites, ask questions & connect with other students.”

British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management

http://www.bjhcim.co.uk/

An online magazine covering developments in information technology in health and social care.

Calculus Animations, Graphics and Lecture Notes

http://calculus7.com/

Computer animations, labs, and graphics for use in classes that cover course from PreCalculus and Trig through the Calculus sequence and elementary differential equations.

Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004803

An article in PLoS ONE, by Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, Luis Bettencourt, Ryan Chute, Marko A. Rodriguez, Lyudmila Balakireva.

Collaborative Librarianship

http://www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/

A new journal, Collaborative Librarianship, builds on the great traditions of the past and seeks to promote library networking, cooperation and partnerships in new ways.

Compendle

http://www.compendle.com/

“Compendle is a dynamic workspace where you can create, organise, review and publish courses online. It incorporates a suite of user-friendly tools which allow you to create vibrant, professional courses for who you want, when you want.”

Includes a free trial.

CompletelyNovel

http://completelynovel.com/

The community for everyone who loves books.

DeepDyve

http://www.deepdyve.com/

“For the first time, researchers, students, technical professionals, business users, and other information consumers can access a wealth of untapped information that resides on the "Deep Web" – the vast majority of the Internet that is not indexed by traditional, consumer-based search engines. The DeepDyve research engine unlocks this in-depth, professional content and returns results that are not cluttered by opinion sites and irrelevant content.”

definr

http://www.definr.com/

Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0.

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/

“Diigo enables effective collaborative research. You can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues. A project team, a class, or a club can create a group on Diigo to pool relevant resources, findings and thoughts together.”

D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march09/03contents.html

The March/April 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available, featuring items on citation counts, social networks, digitisation, etc.

E-books and E-content 2009

http://www.econtent2009.com/

University College London, 12 May 2009, 10.00 to 17.00

The theme of E-books and E-content this year is innovation – the new tools and techniques which have emerged in e-publishing which will impact on everybody involved in content creation and delivery. As usual the event will be of interest to publishers, librarians, content developers and managers, and all involved in the information value chain.

Edina Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline14-1/index.html

The March 2009 edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is now available

Edinburgh International Science Festival

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/

4-18 April.

The Edinburgh International Science Festival is the world’s first and Europe’s largest celebration of science and technology.

EdJournal

http://twitter.com/EdJournal

Scotland's largest student newspaper is tweeting.

eLearning Africa 2009 – Learn, Share, Network

http://www.elearning-africa.com/

eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that this year’s conference, the fourth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Senegal. In May 2009, the Continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Dakar.

ENER-Plast

http://www.enerplast.eu/

ENER-Plast is a European Community funded project, supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme.

The objective of ENER-Plast is to provide the European polymer and its associated industries with the information, resources and tools needed to reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact.

Engineering History and Heritage

http://www.engineeringhistoryandheritage.com/

A new journal, Engineering History and Heritage provides an indispensible historical perspective on existing structures and infrastructure around the world.

Engineering Maintenance Solutions

http://www.engineeringmaintenance.info/

Engineering Maintenance Solutions is an information resource for engineers that are responsible for maintenance & asset management.

eSciDoc

http://www.escidoc.org/

eSciDoc is an eResearch environment developed specifically for use by scientific and scholarly communities to collaborate globally and interdisciplinary. It comprises a set of services and solutions that enable innovative eScience scenarios: Scientists, librarians, and software developers can work with research data, create novel forms of publications, and establish new ways of scientific and scholarly communication.

Eventi Verdi

http://www.eventiverdi.org.uk/

“Eventi Verdi are the ONLY green and sustainable professional conference /event organisers in Scotland dedicated to the charitable / voluntary / social enterprise sectors.”

F1000 Biology Reports

http://www.f1000biology.com/reports/

The F1000 Biology Reports (ISSN 1757-594X) journal publishes short commentaries by the world's top scientists in which the hottest biology papers/clusters of papers identified by Faculty of 1000 are put into a broader context.

Fire Protection Association Australia

http://www.fpaa.com.au/

The Fire Protection Association Australia is Australia‘s major technical and educational fire safety organisation aiming to achieve continual improvement in fire safety through active membership and a range of activities.

FPA Australia provides a central source of information and services to promote the protection of life, assets and the environment in Australia.

Flipside Extra

http://www.flipside.org.uk/

The web site for Flipside magazine; the science, engineering and technology magazine for teenagers.

Focus on Mimas

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/09mar/

Published quarterly, Focus on Mimas provides a snapshot of the latest news and features spanning the full range of Mimas services.

Fostering an Identity and Access Management Commons for e-Research

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09

Eduserv Symposium 2009, Royal College of Physicians, London, Thurs 21 May 2009.

Freecycle

http://www.freecycle.org/

The Freecycle Networ is made up of 4,698 groups with 6,506,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

Freeze Frame

http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/

Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute.

”As part of the preservation programme, negatives, daguerreotypes and lantern slides, which form part of a rich but fragile archive held by the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, are now available to scientists, researchers, scholars and members of the public.”

Google Power Searching Tips for Students and Universities

http://diplomaguide.com/articles/Google_Power_Searching_Tips_for_Students_and_Universities.html

With so much information on the web, it can be difficult to navigate Google and find exactly what you are looking for. These Google power searching tips are designed to eliminate this common difficulty and lead you to the relevant information you need.

GradShare

http://www.gradshare.com/landing.html

A graduate student community.

"Use GradShare TM to ask questions and get answers about anything affecting graduate students. Begin by selecting a subject, then you can explore different aspects of graduate life. Post questions that you can't ask your advisor or you peers. Or ask what tools others are using to complete their projects. No question is too big or too small."

Greener View

http://www.greenerview.co.uk/

Scotland's only dedicated magazine for greener living.

Health Management Specialist Library

http://www.library.nhs.uk/healthManagement/

“The NLH Health Management Specialist Library (HMSL) aims to provide timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for health managers, clinical managers and leaders and those involved in commissioning health services. To do so we produce regularly updated information on 'hot topics', news alerts which can be emailed to your desktop or set up as an RSS feed, and a database of evaluated Web resources”.

Higher Education Summit

http://www.hesummit.com

The Higher Education Summit is established as the largest discussion and networking event for higher education leaders and senior managers in the UK.

Imagination Cubed

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/

Virtual Whiteboard.

InCites

http://isiwebofknowledge.com/incites/

Available from Thomson Reuters, InCites is a customized, citation-based research analytics tool on the Web that enables you to evaluate institutional productivity and benchmark your output against peers worldwide.

Institute of Infrared Thermograph

http://www.infraredinstitute.co.uk/

Infrared Thermography is the technique that uses an infrared imaging and measurement camera to "see" and "measure" invisible infrared energy being emitted from an object.

International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009: ICSD 2009

http://www.icsd-conference.org/

The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) will take place from September 8-11 at the University of Trento, Italy.

International Conference on Natural Computation: ICNC'09

http://www.icnc09-fskd09.tjut.edu.cn

The 5th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'09) and the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'09) will be held from 14 to 16 August 2009, in Tianjin, China.

International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion: IJPEC

http://www.inderscience.com/ijpec

A new journal. IJPEC highlights the latest trends in research in the field of power generation, transmission and distribution. Nowadays, there exist significant challenges in the power sector, particularly in deregulated/restructured power markets. A key challenge to the operation, control and protection of the power system is the proliferation of power electronic devices within power systems. The main thrust of IJPEC is to bring out the latest research trends in the power sector as well as in energy conversion technologies.

International Journal of Social Robotics

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1875-4791

A new journal from Springer.

This journal is a periodic publication which consolidates high impact contributions from researchers and developers in the field of social robotics, offering readers a holistic view of this emerging industry.

International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances

http://www.inderscience.com/ijsba

A new journal from Inderscience.

IJSBA aims to foster the creation and dissemination of knowledge on strategic business alliances from various perspectives including economic, organizational, and strategic management. It strives to establish an effective channel of communication between researchers, managers, consultants, policy makers, and others concerned individuals and institutions with the complex role of strategic alliances in business competition.

International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances

http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=303

A new journal from Inderscience.

IJSBA considers inter-firm partnerships as an alternative and effective strategic option for gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. It focuses on inter-firm collaboration in a variety of forms in various industries in both national and international environments. It promotes our understanding patterns and strategies of such ventures in the competitive global marketplace.

International Science Grid This Week: iSGTW

http://www.isgtw.org/

A weekly newsletter promoting grid computing, iSGTW shares stories of grid-empowered research, scientific discoveries, and grid technology from around the world.

iSGTW is jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National Science Foundation, through the Open Science Grid, and by the European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General, through GridTalk. EGEE, TeraGrid, OSG and GridPP are involved in iSGTW through the provision of contributing editors.

Internet Librarian International 2009

http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.php

15 &16 October 2009, Novotel London West, London, UK.

Seeking dynamic speakers from all countries willing to share their knowledge and experience about information tools, techniques, processes, innovations and management.

Journal authors’ rights: perception and reality

http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/JournalAuthorsRights.pdf

A report by Sally Morris, for the Publishing Research Consortium.

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

http://jarhe.research.glam.ac.uk/

A new online journal covering research and scholarship in learning, teaching and higher education management.

LIS Links

http://lislinks.ning.com/

Connecting Library and Information Science Professionals in India.

LogicalReviews

http://logicalreviews.com/

Based in the UK but offering services worldwide, primarily for ecommerce based websites but also other sites such as blogs, forums, educational, entertainment, news, non-profit etc.

LogicalReviews professionally review websites, and also offer free reviews. It may be of interest to some students who are keen to develop websites, etc.

MakeBeliefsComix

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

An online comic generator. The site offers fun characters with different emotions to choose from, blank talk and thought balloons to fill in with text, and story and writing prompts.

MDPI - Open Access Publishing

http://www.mdpi.com/home

MDPI.com is a platform for open access journals published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), an international organization based in Basel, Switzerland aimed at preserving rare chemical samples, and publishing several open access journals since 1996.

Modelling the Library Domain: Using the e-Framework and addressing Library 2.0 challenges

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/modellinglibrarydomain.pdf

TILE project overview, by David Kay, Sero Consulting Ltd.

MRC Research Portfolio

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/ResearchPortfolio/index.htm

The Medican Research Council’s research portfolio is now available online as a searchable database. All funded projects and intramural programmes are in the database, each with a lay summary and scientific abstract.

MyComputerGuide

http://www.MyComputerGuide.net/

This is the first release of a website containing over 160,000 records of processes, drivers, dll files, a virus database and pc manuals.

NaCTeM Intute Repository Search

http://www.nactem.ac.uk/nactem_irs/doc_search

This is a demo site developed by the NaCTeM INTUTE Project team, which facilitates advanced searching of documents by making use of added value features extracted from full texts using NaCTeM text mining tools, particularly the Termine term extractor and the Genia tagger, across working papers, journal articles, reports, conference papers and other scholarly items that are available in the UK eprints repositories.

Nature Chemistry.

http://www.nature.com/nchem/index.html

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced the first issue of Nature Chemistry.

Nature Chemistry is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of chemistry. As well as reflecting the traditional core subjects of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry, the journal also features a broad range of chemical research including, but not limited to, catalysis, computational and theoretical chemistry, environmental chemistry, green chemistry, medicinal chemistry, nuclear chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and surface chemistry. Other cross-disciplinary topics such as bioinorganic, bioorganic, organometallic and physical–organic chemistry will also be featured. The submission of manuscripts detailing multidisciplinary research performed at the interface of chemistry and other scientific fields of inquiry such as biology, materials science, nanotechnology and physics is also encouraged, where the central theme of the work — and the major advances that are reported — fall within the bounds of chemistry.

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=52855

An article by Paula J. Hane.

OpenCourseWare Consortium

http://ocwconsortium.org/

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Opus: Online Publications Store: University of Bath

http://opus.bath.ac.uk/

The University of Bath Opus is an Online Publications Store, or research repository which allows research publications by Bath authors to be collected and showcased.

PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research

http://www.peerproject.eu/

PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC eContentplus programme, will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers and will last from 2008 to 2011.

Planets: Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services,

http://www.planets-project.eu/

Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets.

PodioBooks

http://www.podiobooks.com/

“The term podiobook was coined by Evo Terra to describe serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site. Some listeners keep the audio files on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most transfer the file on to their MP3 player so they can listen no matter where they are.”

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Reviews

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/

“A key part of QAA’s role is to review and report on how universities and colleges of higher education maintain academic standards and quality. We carry out reviews using a variety of methods depending on the country and type of institution.”

Readability

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

A simple tool that makes reading on the Web easier by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.

SciVee

http://www.scivee.tv/

“SciVee is changing the pace at which science is conducted and communicated. As the first Web 2.0 site that enables researchers to combine video with documentation and data in a media rich format, we enable scientists to make their research more visible, shareable, and accessible throughout the research cycle. Using our patent pending “virtual studio” technology, scientists can easily enhance their journal articles with “pubcasts” by linking and synchronizing video explanations to their published text. Similarly, video summaries can be associated and synchronized with scientific posters to create “postercasts” highlighting the key finding of the research. We also provide easy upload and hosting of videos on topics in all areas of scientific research.”

Scottish Environmental Technology Network: SETN

http://www.setn.org.uk/

SETN members are supported in undertaking collaborative R&D, with everything from finding the most appropriate partners to designing and undertaking laboratory and field trials.

Search4Dev

http://www.search4dev.nl/

Search4Dev is an online library for digital documents from Dutch development organizations.

SenseBot

http://www.sensebot.net/

“SenseBot (Beta) is a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages on the topic of your search query. It uses text mining and multidocument summarization to extract sense from Web pages and present it to the user in a coherent manner. A "Semantic Cloud" of concepts is displayed above the summary, allowing to steer the focus of the results.”

Shiply

http://www.shiply.com/

Shiply enables you to find cheap courier services by matching yourself up with transport companies already making similar deliveries across the UK & Europe.

ShopCorn

http://www.shopcorn.co.uk/

ShopCorn is a social shopping community allowing users to find the best deals available around the internet and share it with others using Deal Box.

SnaffleUp

http://www.snaffleup.co.uk/

SnaffleUp, 'the recycling web site', makes it easy for you to do your bit for the environment by putting items you no longer need back on the market.

SnappyFingers

http://www.snappyfingers.com/

Searches millions of FAQ's spread across the web so that you don't have to.

Spotify

http://www.spotify.com/en/

Probably the future of music.

Streamy

http://www.streamy.com/

Streamy was designed around a few basic ideas to help you get the best news, and to share it with people who matter to you.

SUNCAT Newsletter

http://www.suncat.ac.uk/news/suncat_newsletter7.pdf

SUNCAT is the Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community.

The latest SUNCAT Newsletter (March 2009) is now available.

Sustainable Innovation 09: Towards a Low Carbon Innovation Revolution

http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd14/index.html

26th-27th October 2009, Farnham Castle, Farnham, UK.

Tap Into IT

http://www.tapintoitonline.co.uk/

Edinburgh based personalised 1:1 PC support.

The 800-pound Gorilla in the Room, or, How To Explain To a Non-librarian What a Cataloger Is

http://www.informedlibrarian.com/guestForum.cfm?FILE=gf0903.html

Informed Librarian Online Guest Forum, by Elizabeth J. Cox.

The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/erevolutionebook.aspx

A JISC eBook, edited by Jos Boys and Peter Ford.

The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education book was originally published by Routledge in 2008. Following its own lead on open access publishing, JISC made an agreement with Routledge to make the book’s contents freely available to the public on an open access basis a year after publication.

The Melting Pot

http://themeltingpotedinburgh.org.uk/

“The Melting Pot is a unique place in the heart of Edinburgh. We provide spaces for individuals and organisations to work, connect, meet and hold events. The only facility of its type in Scotland, The Melting Pot is a not-for-profit social enterprise that aims to inspire and support people to realise their ideas for a better world.

Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to Compete)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/the-top-20-twitter-applications/

A report from TechCrunch, in February.

TweetDeck

http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

A simple way to explore Twitter

TweetGrid

http://tweetgrid.com/

TweetGrid is a Twitter Search Dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, converstations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time. As new tweets are created, they are automatically updated in the grid. No need to refresh the page.

tweetzi

http://tweetzi.com/

Tweetzi is a Twitter search engine.

Twellow

http://www.twellow.com/

Twellow is a service to help Twitter users find people to follow.

Twemes

http://twemes.com/

“Twemes.com follows Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term twemes.”

Twitdom

http://twitdom.com/

A Twitter applications database.

Twits Near Me

http://twitsnear.me/

Recent tweets from people near you.

Twitter in plain English

http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter

A video from Common Craft.

Twitter Search - 20 alternative search engines

http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/03/twitter-search-20-alternative-search-engines.html

Phil Bradley looks at different Twitter search engines.

Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

Unistats

http://www.unistats.com/

Search, review and compare subjects at universities and colleges in the UK.

The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship - A Call to Action

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/disseminating-research-feb09.pdf

This document reflects the collective authorship of staff at the four sponsoring organizations, particularly Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL; Charles Lowry, Executive Director, ARL; Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI; David Shulenberger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, NASULGC; and John Vaughn, Executive Vice President, AAU, who gratefully acknowledge the inspiration and illumination provided by the participants in the Roundtable on the University's Role in Publishing Research and Scholarship.

Welsh Repository Network

http://whelf.ac.uk/wrn/index.shtml

The 'Welsh Repository Network' is a project that has been funded by JISC to create a network of twelve repositories across Wales

The principality of Wales now has 100% coverage with respect to universities and repositories

WhosTakin

http://whostalkin.com/

WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most.

WhyNotTheBest.org

http://whynotthebest.org/

WhyNotTheBest.org was created and is maintained by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working toward a high performance health system. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality.

WIDWISAWN

http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index.html

Volume 7, Issue 1 of WIDWISAWN (Who is Doing What in Scotland and What's Needed) is now available.

WIDWISAWN provides an open forum for discussions on research and development initiatives relevant to the development of a coherent electronic information environment to support "Virtual Scotland", focusing in particular at those with interests in this area in the libraries, archives and museums sectors.

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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.

TweetDeck
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

I'm finding TweetDeck useful for keeping up with Twitter.

RM

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BLOGORAMA

Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items, including Twitter

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

OneSource Insight
http://insight.onesource.com/

TradePub.com PubFeeds for techxtra
http://cts.tradepub.com/cts4/?ptnr=techxtra&tm=rss_ALL
A feed for news about hundreds of free trade magazines, free White Papers, and free technical publications via TechXtra. For more information, see http://techxtranews.wordpress.com/

Health Management Specialist Library
http://kingsfund.blogs.com/health_management/rss.xml
Health management news

Deep Web Technologies' Alerts Service Delivers Research to Scitopia.org Users Via Email and RSS Feeds
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/deep-web-technologies-alerts-service-delivers-research-scitopiaorg-users-email-rss-feeds-16226

ISO Press Releases
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm

Smashing Magazine
http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/
New feed for this magazine

Speech Tech Blog
http://www.speechtechblog.com/

Search4Dev
http://www.search4dev.nl/d/dprn/all.rss

governmentrss
http://governmentrss.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
This is a wiki that aims to pull together all the rss feeds offered by Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies around the world into one place.

Cultural Heritage
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/
A UKOLN Blog for the Cultural Heritage sector

my:self-archive
http://myselfarchive.wordpress.com/
Reflections on institutional repositories, self-archiving, open access and libraries.

Spotlight
http://jiscinfonet.jiscinvolve.org/
Spotlight will keep you informed of all the latest news and developments at JISC infoNet

Libology Blog
http://www.libology.com/blog/
Libraries::Technology::Ideas

International Science Grid This Week: iSGTW
http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000646

SEO Blog
http://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/
From the SEO Company (search engine optimisation), with interesting posts about getting traffic from social media websites, etc.

library_connect
http://twitter.com/library_connect
Elsevier are using Twitter

infobunny
http://twitter.com/infobunny
The coolest librarian on Twitter, ever!

Library Connect News
http://libraryconnect.blogspot.com/
A blog from Elsevier

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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Twisten.fn
http://twisten.fm/
Twisten.fn crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Then you can listen to them.

Grooveshark
http://listen.grooveshark.com/
Grooveshark is a music community that rewards users for sharing their music.

Hobby Types
http://www.hobbytypes.com/

PEDAL: Portobello Transition Town
http://pedal-porty.org.uk/
Portobello-based community organization working to create a vibrant sustainable Portobello which can help combat climate change by reducing fossil fuel use through re-localising.

FreecycleEdinburgh
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleEdinburgh/
Dedicated to free transfer of unwanted goods in Edinburgh as part of the Freecycle™ movement.

Recycling in Edinburgh
http://www.changeworks.org.uk/content.php?linkid=317

EthicalEscape
http://www.ethicalescape.com/

Go Green Travel Green
http://gogreentravelgreen.com/

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