This issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter seems to have turned into a bit of a Twitter issue.
Who knows how long the craze will last, but in the meantime, included along with the usual selections of notable websites, blogs and more, are some Twitter resources, Twitter feeds and applications.
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Random quotes
"We estimate that researchers and students in higher education downloaded 102 million full
text articles in 2006/07, at average cost (excluding overheads, time and other indirect costs)
of £0.80." and "Per capita expenditure and use of e-journals is strongly and positively correlated with papers
published, numbers of PhD awards, and research grants and contracts income." From: E-journals: their use, value and impact, A Research Information Network report, April 2009. http://www.rin.ac.uk/use-ejournals
"Internet–accessible content represents a profound shift in our expectations about knowledge markets when we traditionally bought printed content." and "The historical dichotomy of author and reader, creator and consumer, is everywhere being blurred." From:
Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal, in First Monday,
Volume 14, Number 4 - 6 April 2009 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2309/2163
News items of interest.
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
http://alsos.wlu.edu/default.aspx
This digital library provides an annotated bibliography of over 2,700 books, articles, films, CDs, and websites about a broad range of nuclear issues. This project is part of the National Science Digital Library funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grants
ArtSource
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/
A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture.
Awareness Watch Newsletter V7N5 May 2009
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/04/awareness-watch-newsletter-v7n5-may.html
The May issue is available. This month's featured report will be highlighting International Trade Resources.
BibMe
http://www.bibme.org/
BibMe is a free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages databases provided by Amazon, FindArticles, Yahoo! News, and CiteULike to quickly and accurately AutoFill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information according to the rules and guidelines of the style guides. If you prefer, you can enter your citation information manually. BibMe also contains a quick citation guide to show students the correct syntax for citing in various formats.
Book Cover Archive
http://bookcoverarchive.com/
The Book Cover Archive is edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.
Business Link
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/
Business Link is a free business advice and support service, available online and through local advisers.
Cairn
http://www.cairn.info/
201 revues de sciences humaines et sociales
CheapFlights
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/
This is the CheapFlights UK website. Cheap Flights works with more than 150 travel partners. They also have a travel tips section and they review some travel blog sites.
Creative Commons Licences
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/bpcreativecommons.aspx
The purpose of this briefing paper is to provide JISC-funded projects, as well as content creators and others within higher (HE) and further education (FE) institutions, with information that can be used to make judgements as to when the use of open content licences, particularly CC licences, may be appropriate.
Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet
http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelibrary.net/Current%20Awareness%20Discovery%20Tools.pdf
By Marcus P. Zillman.
Darwin and his diaries
http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/02/darwin-and-his-diaries.html
A post from the Diary Junction Blog.
Data Visualisation: Tools and Examples
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3619
An article in FUMSI Feb 2009 by Matthew Solle
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
http://database.oxfordjournals.org/
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation provides a platform for the presentation of novel ideas in database research surrounding biological information, and aims to help strengthen the bridge between database developers and users.
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/
Ticer’s international summer course "Digital Libraries à la Carte" will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 28 July - 5 August 2009.
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.
E-Books Directory
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.
ECEG 2009 - 9th European Conference on e-Government
http://academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2009/eceg09-timetable.htm
Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK 29-30 June 2009
Education Professionals
http://theeducationprofessionals.com/
The Education Professionals showcases career and recruitment opportunities for teachers, teaching assistants, nursery nurses, school support staff and lecturers looking for jobs within Dubai and the Middle East.
Eduserv Symposium 2009 - Evolution or revolution: The future of identity and access management for research
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09
Royal College of Physicians, London, Thurs 21 May 2009, 10:00AM - 4:45PM
E-journals: their use, value and impact
http://www.rin.ac.uk/use-ejournals
This Research Information Network document takes an in-depth look at how researchers in the UK use electronic journals, the value they bring to universities and research institutions and the contribution they make to research productivity, quality and outcomes.
eLearning Africa 2009 – Learn, Share, Network
http://www.elearning-africa.com/conference.php
4th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Dakar, Senegal, May 27029, 2009.
Employment Tribunals
http://www.employmenttribunals.gov.uk/
Employment Tribunals hear claims about matters to do with employment. These include: unfair dismissal, redundancy payments and discrimination.
Epublishing Innovation Forum
http://www.epublishing-forum.com/
19-20 May, 2009, Marriott Regents Park, London.
Every Single Place
http://www.everysingleplace.com/
This site was submitted to IRN. It gives the ability to upload and share photos of any location or region, cross references to places to stay near each location, etc.
Facet Publishing
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/
Facet Publishing’s website has undergone a major redesign and upgrade so it can deliver an attractive and rich shopping experience for its growing online customer base. Facet Publishing is the commercial publishing and bookselling arm of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Famous Quotes and Authors
http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/
”Famous Quotes and Authors.com is the most complete and useful Quotations web resource. We have a large collection of Famous quotations for all occasions! Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors.”
Field guide to misunderstandings about open access
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-09.htm
This is included in SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #132
Filling in the Gaps: Company Intelligence Beyond the Corporate Website
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3729
An article in FUMSI, by Sarah Hinton
FinanceArticleDirectory.info
http://financearticledirectory.info/index.php
FinanceArticleDirectory.info has scoured the web and indexed a collection of articles on various subjects.
From word to webpage - the birth of an electronic article
http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=8721&Pid=10&Zid=4492&issueno=193
An article by Ros Letellier, Marketing Communications Manager, Atypon Systems
GeoNames
http://www.geonames.org/
The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names.
Google News Timeline
http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
GRANTnet
http://www.grantnet.com/
”GRANTnet, a straightforward FREE-to-use service from GRANTfinder, can help small businesses, charitable and community groups like yours to find suitable funding.”
Harvesters - national and international
http://repinf.pbwiki.com/Harvesters+-+national+and+international
This is a page in the International Repositories Infrastructure wiki. It lists services which harvest institutional repositories.
Horizon Report, 2009 Edition
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5612.pdf
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.
IFLA
http://www.ifla.org/
IFLA have a new website. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users.
Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
http://journal.elnet.com.au/impact
Impact has been established to address the paucity of research publication avenues with a particular emphasis on e-learning in organisational and workplace settings. It publishes both refereed and non-refereed contributions from both researchers and practitioners relating to the design, implementation, evaluation and management of workplace e-learning across a range of sectors and industries.
INIS Database
http://inisdb2.iaea.org/
Access to the INIS database has been now opened to all Internet users around the world. Established in 1970, INIS represents the world's largest database of scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture, health and industry.
Intellogist
http://www.intellogist.com/
Helps patent searchers locate sources of patent information.
International Center for Journalists: IJNet
https://www.ijnet.org/
Helping connect journalists with the opportunities and information they need to better themselves and raise journalism standards in their countries. Found via Marcus P. Zillman
International Journal of Autonomic Computing
http://www.inderscience.com/ijac
A new journal from Inderscience.
io-port.net
http://www.io-port.net/
FIZ Karlsruhe now offers its computer science portal io-port.net, which was launched for the first time 3 years ago, free of charge with a new database interface and numerous new search functions. io-port.net is a bibliographic database covering literature in the field of Computer Science and Computer Technology with about 1 million citations from 1951 to current.
IREL-Open
http://www.irel-open.ie/
This is the collaborative workspace of the IREL-Open Project Working Group which is tasked with building a federated open access repository service for Ireland. All Irish universities are represented on the Working Group.
Job Vacancies in London
http://www.jobvacanciesinlondon.co.uk/
Vacancies and professional advice for job seekers.
Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology
http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/jaset
The Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology (JASET) is an open access, peer reviewed, double blind, journal for the dissemination of applied technical scholarship.
LeapFish
http://www.leapfish.com/
”LeapFish utilizes proprietary hyper-threading technology to communicate with all major online portals and their API’s simultaneously to deliver the various search results from across the web to users in a single search query.”
Libraries Agency
http://www.librariesagency.com/
“We are a network of creative professionals with backgrounds in marketing and business development, and with a wealth of experience in the library sector. You can now draw on that expertise to widen user engagement and effectively communicate the value of your services.”
Methodspace
http://www.methodspace.com/
A public social network for discussion of research methods online.
missing links : the enduring web
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/090721MissingLinks.html
JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop, 21 July 2009, The British Library Conference Centre, London.
My Shop Is Your Shop
http://www.myshopisyourshop.co.uk/
Launched in 2004, the FWD My Shop Is Your Shop (MSYS) campaign is the only generic consumer and trade marketing activity promoting the value to the community of the independent c store, newsagent and rural shop.
National Centre for Text Mining newsletter
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/newsletter/Newsletter3.pdf
News from NaCTeM. This issue includes an update on new tools, services and resources from the National Centre for Text Mining, a look at recent innovations in text mining infrastructure, plus a discussion of the levels of solutions text mining can provide, and lots more.
Newbusiness.co.uk
http://www.newbusiness.co.uk/
Business advice for all UK firms from starting a business to flotation.
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education
https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) is a peer reviewed open access journal. Information literacy is a multidisciplinary field as it is the subject of both academic research, as well as of library pedagogical practice.
Nottingham eTheses
http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/
An electronic archive of research degree theses from the University of Nottingham.
Omeka
http://omeka.org/
Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
http://www.academicmatters.ca/AcademicMatters_printable_article.aspx?catalog_item_id=2477
”The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.”
Open University Scholarly Networking Report
https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/display/BPUB/Open+University+Scholarly+Networking+Report
This report summarises research conducted in the Open University during January 2009 which looked at OU technology-enabled scholarly networking activity.
PARSE.Insight
http://www.parse-insight.eu/
PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is accessible, usable and understandable in future. There is a draft roadmap.
Paying for open access publication charges
http://www.rin.ac.uk/openaccess-payment-fees
The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide (March 2009) to provide advice on paying open access publication charges: that is, fees levied by some journals for the publication of scholarly articles so that they can be made available free of charge to readers, immediately upon publication. The guide also sets out recommendations for universities and other research institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.
Pondered.org
http://www.pondered.org/
”Almost every day we pick a topic, any topic and 'ponder' it. We think about it. We research it. We look into it. We give it a bit of thoroughness and a bit of care. Then we write about it... And we post it here.”
Prezi
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/03/30/a-couple-of-resources-to-support-jiscri-bidders/
”Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.”
Project Leadership: Building and Improving Teams 09
http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/main/programme.asp?event_ID=84
The Barbican, London, 19th May. “Increasingly the project management community is debating the role of leadership within projects, having realised that the plethora of systems, processes, procedures and IT software created in the past couple of decades is still not guaranteeing a successful project outcome. Is project leadership the key skill that has been missing our attention?”
Public Service Events
http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/
Our event themes are based upon key topics and leading edge policy changes and delivery, and are designed to examine areas across a wide range of both central and local government.
PublicationsList.org
http://publicationslist.org/
PublicationsList.org exists to let researchers and research organizations maintain a reliable web-based record of their academic output without any fuss.
Standard version free for individual use.
Q-Sensei
http://www.qsensei.com/
Q-Sensei introduces a new way of making information accessible. Our goal is to provide advanced search tools for the vast amount of information available nowadays on the Internet, in books, research articles, blogs, news, or wikis. We currently provide access to the first several million scholarly articles. Q-Sensei's approach applies innovative search technologies to various heterogeneous data pools; our users can easily browse through a data source as well as discover cross-references between individual records. Found via Marcus P. Zillman
Read4Charity
http://www.read4charity.co.uk/
When you buy books online at read4charity.co.uk, they donate 15% of the sale to the charity you choose when you check out.
ScotlandsPeople
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
One of the largest online sources of original genealogical information.
Scottish Borders Campus
http://www.scottishborderscampus.ac.uk/
The Scottish Borders Campus will be the new home for Borders College and its wide range of education opportunities and for Heriot-Watt University's higher education provision in the Scottish Borders.
Scottish Information Literacy Project
http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/ils/
“The initial focus of the Project was to link secondary and tertiary education and develop an information literacy framework with secondary and tertiary partners which, at the end of the project, could be rolled out to other participants. The aim - to produce secondary school leavers with a skill set which further and higher education can recognise and develop or which can be applied to the world of work directly.”
Search PDF
http://search-pdf-books.com/
Claims to search for millions of free eBooks
SearchCloud.net
http://searchcloud.net/
Search engine with a difference – allows weighting of words, etc.
SearchPetroleum.net
http://www.searchpetroleum.net/
SearchPetroleum.net (SP.net ) is a search engine created specifically for the petroleum industry. It displays the most relevant and highest quality petroleum websites.
Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2309/2163
An article in First Monday, by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis ” This article takes the academic journal as its reference point because it is symptomatic of underlying knowledge systems. It looks at the academic journal in a moment of enormously unsettling, uncertain and perhaps also exciting times. We look at seismic stresses in the workings of the academic journal, and analyze these for signs of a deeper epistemic disruption — in the very ways we know.”
SingleFunction
http://singlefunction.com/
SingleFunction is a showcase of one purpose, one function, single serving sites; meaning, websites that have one functionality, no clutter, and require no learning curve.
Some comments prepared jointly by The Publishers Association, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the International Association of STM Publishers on the report “Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring the costs and benefits”
http://www.stm-assoc.org/storage/2009_04_07_Publisher_comments_on_H_O_JISC_report.pdf
The debate continues.
Soundzabound
http://www.soundzabound.com/
“Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education”
StartupSpace
http://www.startupspace.com/
A social network for entrepreneurs and business owners.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/sixt/
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. The database currently has over 34,000 pages.
ThinkFree
http://www.thinkfree.com
ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software - all usable online and offline.
TopTenREVIEWS
http://software.toptenreviews.com/
“TopTenREVIEWS gives you the information you need to use today’s technology to make your life better. Here you won’t get lost in a maze of products and jargon. You’ll find what you need, when you need it. Detailed product reviews, side-by-side comparisons, helpful buying guides, articles explaining how to get the most out of a product, and an easy way to get it.”
Towards improvement of information literacy in the digital era through useful and meaningful educational programs. If you can't find it on Google, it does not exist?
http://eprints.rclis.org/15926/
An interesting paper on student behaviour, from E-LIS, by barbara Devilee.
Trackle
http://www.trackle.com/
“Trackle is a new service that tracks all of your personalized information on the Web, all in one place. Offering the industry's most comprehensive index of popularly tracked categories, Trackle keeps tabs on everything in your life, from local, to social to shopping. The service is built with advanced algorithms that provide a layer of intelligence to the tracking process - ensuring timely and relevant results. Users get automatically notified over the Web, email or SMS whenever Trackle finds a match. Trackle is built on top of a robust tracking platform, designed to offer a wide range of tracking services. The service is completely free, secure and privacy compliant.”
Twine
http://www.twine.com/
Twine is a new way for you to collect online content – videos, photos, articles, Web pages, products - and bring it all together by topic, so you can have it in one place and share it with anyone you want.
UK Research Reserve: UKRR
http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/
The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) is a Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded initiative, in partnership with the British Library and HE institutions, led by Imperial College, London. UKRR offers HE libraries a secure solution to storing and preserving lower use print research journals.
Ultimate Guide to Twitter Hashtags
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/twitter-hashtags/9419/
From Search Engine Journal.
United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories: UKCoRR
http://www.ukcorr.org/
The professional organisation for UK Open Access repository administrators and managers.
Virtual Journals in Science & Technology
http://www.virtualjournals.org/
The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society (AIP/APS) Virtual Journals are free topical alerting services that collect and organize papers from a broad range of sources, including Science and Nature.
Watch Television on Your Computer
http://askbobrankin.com/watch_television_on_your_computer.html
By Bob Rankin.
White Rose Etheses Online
http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
White Rose Etheses Online holds electronic doctoral level theses from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.
A Widget Onto the Future
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/08/widgets
An article in Inside Higher Ed.
”They float around on desktops, populate home pages and bulge out of Facebook profiles. They aren't exactly tangible, which is why they're called widgets, but they're real enough within the digital ether than some educators want to turn them into teaching tools.”
World Digital Library
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/
Newly launched.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube.com/edu
Video channels of more than 100 colleges and universities.
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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.
There are two Nice Web Sites this month
Harvesters - national and international
http://repinf.pbwiki.com/Harvesters+-+national+and+international
This is a list created by Alma Swan of global, regional and national services which harvest content from Institutional Repositories. It is part of the repinf (International Repositories Infrastructure) wiki.
INIS Database
http://inisdb2.iaea.org/
Access to the INIS database has been now opened to all Internet users around the world.
INIS represents the world's largest database of scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture, health and industry.
Currently, the INIS Database contains over 3 million bibliographic records and almost 200,000 full-text nonconventional documents, consisting of scientific and technical reports and other non copyrighted information.
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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items, and Twitter items and feeds
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
Students and tutors ready to embrace the Twitter bug
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405904&c=1
HotStuff 2.0
http://www.daveyp.com/hotstuff/
“HotStuff 2.0? is an automatically updated blog developed by Dave Pattern (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield, UK). RSS feeds from over 800 library related blogs are collated on a daily basis and analysed in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics. Definitely worth checking out!
JIBS User Group News
http://jibsnews.blogspot.com/
JIBS represents users of bibliographic databases and related products available to the UK HE, FE and Research Council communities via national site-licence arrangements.
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Feeds/index.asp
Is Twitter Killing RSS?
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/04/01/is-twitter-killing-rss/
Ten Reasons Why "Enterprise RSS" Has Failed To Become Mainstream
http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/01/ten-reasons-why-enterprise-rss-has-failed-to-become-mainstream.html
A post from Collaborative Thinking
Suelibrarian
http://suelibrarian.wordpress.com/
Transcript of #cilip2 tweets
http://tinyurl.com/dkvzf6
These are the tweets from the conversation at CILIP Council's Open Session on how we can use web 2.0 to engage with members and the wider LIS community.
SingleFunction
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/singlefunction?format=xml
sciencegeekgirl
http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/
Interesting science tidbits or musings about science, science education, and science communication
Mobile Libraries
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/
Mobile Libraries Is Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Services Provided By Libraries To Patrons Within Mobile Environments.
Twitter Grader
http://www.witter.grader.com/
Top 13 Twitter Don'ts
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2345283,00.asp
From PC Magazine
PR Haystack
http://mithumukherjee.wordpress.com/
BLDGBLOG
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
Architectural conjecture, urban speculation, landscape futures
Biochemical Soul
http://biochemicalsoul.com/
Scottish Information Literacy Project
http://caledonianblogs.net/information-literacy/
everyONE
http://everyone.plos.org/
PLoS ONE Community Blog
Tweetree
http://tweetree.com/
Tweetree puts you Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context.
Twitter Search Bar
http://www.designmeme.com/twitter-search-bar/
Twitter widget for WordPress
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/twitter-widget/
How to present while people are twittering
http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/
How to cite twitter, how to cite tweets, how to archive tweets
http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-cite-twitter-how-to-cite-tweets.html
The latest craze is Twitter channels for all sorts of things. Here are a few:
SWORD Project Twitter feed
http://twitter.com/swordapp
SWORD is a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another.
RepositóriUM
http://twitter.com/repositorium
A feed from the repository of the University of Minho Institutional Repository
USDAFoodSafety
http://twitter.com/USDAFoodSafety
GMC Libraries
http://twitter.com/GMCLib
Glasgow Metropolitan College Library Servic
Various Financial Times Twitter feeds
http://www.ft.com/servicestools/newstracking/rss#twitter
TimesHigherEducation
http://twitter.com/timeshighered
TimesHigherEducation is on Twitter
URLwire
http://twitter.com/urlwire
URLwire is a discreet and selective URL alert service for sharing meritorious Web content.
methodspace
http://twitter.com/methodspace
The online social network for those involved in research methods
ukeig
http://twitter.com/ukeig
United Kingdon eInformation Group
ciltlibrary
http://twitter.com/ciltlibrary
A national reference resource for people interested in language learning and linguistics.
research_inform
http://twitter.com/research_inform
RIN focuses on understanding and promoting the information needs of researchers
financialtimes
http://twitter.com/financialtimes
The FT
The Bookseller
http://twitter.com/TheBookseller
The Bookseller is the UK's definitive book industry magazine and website.
novoseek
http://twitter.com/novoseek
novoseek is a biomedical search enginethat is free, easy and intuitive to use. "The real alternative to pubmed!"
Knowledgespeak
http://twitter.com/Knowledgespeak
STM news by Scope eKnowledge Center, a world-leading provider of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Knowledge services
People's Book Prize
http://twitter.com/PeoplesBkPrize
News Distribution Service - Department for Transport
http://twitter.com/NDS_DfT
HEA Academy ICS
http://twitter.com/heacademy_ICS
New York Times
http://twitter.com/nytimes
infobunny
http://twitter.com/infobunny
Gets my vote for the Law Librarian Tweeter of the Year
briankelly
http://twitter.com/briankelly
UK Web Focus, based at UKOLN, University of Bath, UK.
Philbradley
http://twitter.com/Philbradley
Librarian, Internet Consultant, writer and trainer
libram
http://twitter.com/libram
Roddy MacLeod (editor of Internet Resources Newsletter)
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The Web's Best Travel Blogs
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Cheapflights' pick of some of the best blogs around
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