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Issue 81 - June 2001

Edited by:

Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk),

Catherine Ure and Catherine Ferguson.

COMMENT

In the last issue of this Newsletter I listed some dotcom and ebook sites. I should also have included the following thought-provoking article:

Free pork pies for all?
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/lt/2001/news2057.html
Philippa Dolphin looks at the new world of dot com libraries, in an article first published in the LA Record.

Internet Resources Newsletter by email

Over 1,000 people now subscribe to the email version of this Newsletter! To subscribe, at no cost, go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

Random Quotes

"Nine out of ten computers connected to the internet are located in English-speaking countries and more than 80% of all home pages on the web are written in English." BBC News, 23rd March

StepStone, the online career site, was the most-visited pan-European careers site in February 2001. Marketing, 5 April 2001, p. 10.

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

101 Information Hub

http://www.elosoft.com/101/

Free online tutorials, books, guides and tips. Topics: computers, the Internet, home and family, education, entertainment, finance, business, health, cooking and more.

123PriceCheck

http://123PriceCheck.com/

"Sites such as Amazon, StreetsOnline and WHSmiths sell items like books, music, DVDs and VHS videos online far cheaper than you can usually find in the shops. BUT their prices can still vary enormously, especially when you add their postage charges on.

123PriceCheck allows you to quickly and easily compare the prices (including postage) that these online shops charge so you can see in seconds which the cheapest is. You can then go direct to that site, with just one click, where you can then buy the product knowing that you are saving money. Remember - we don't sell anything ourselves, we offer this free service to allow you to compare prices at other shops."

1st International Conference on IT & Information Literacy: ITIL2002

http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/itil2002/Net/index.html

Kelvin Conference Centre University of Glasgow 20-22 March 2002

"We live in an age of escalating information-richness. Thus, the preparation of individuals to be effective information-users as students, employees and as citizens becomes an imperative. Up to now this situation has been viewed from two perspectives, that of computer/IT literacy (developing in IT service and academic contexts) and that of information skills/literacy (developing in library contexts). However, these two strands of thought and action are rapidly converging, especially in educational environments. This conference, the first International Conference on IT and Information Literacy, will consider the nature of these two strands and the implications of their convergence, and ask how those involved in the education process can take this development forward."

adviceguide

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/

Adviceguide gives basic advice and information on your rights. It gives you a broad outline of where you stand and what you can do. If your problem is complicated, you will need more detailed advice, for example from a Citizens Advice Bureau.

Alternative Durham

http://www.dur.ac.uk/alternative.prospectus/homepage.html

A reference for prospective Durham students.

ASEE/SEFI/TUB International Colloquium

http://www.asee.org/conferences/international/default.cfm

The colloquium, which takes place September 15 -18, 2001, in Berlin, Germany, immediately following SEFI's annual conference, will feature the active participation of engineering educators, practitioners, corporate executives, and companies worldwide.

Bibliography on Computer Based Assessment and Distance Learning

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/cba.html

Includes over 400 entries.

Blackboard Research Center

http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/main.jsp

The goal of the Resource Center is to provide a world-class, online academic destination, through which instructors and students can access high-quality supplemental information and resources that enhance teaching and learning.

The Resource Center includes the following features for more than 230 academic disciplines:

news about specific academic categories and disciplines;
a research center with thousands of articles organized into discipline-specific topics;
featured links to useful external Web sites screened and summarized by our editorial staff ;
instructor and student communities organized according to academic categories.

Buy Open University Learning Resources

http://www.ouw.co.uk/home.shtm

"Buy study materials with a worldwide reputation for quality, innovation and accessibility."

CargoFinder

http://www.cargofinder.com/

This site describes itself as "...an open market exchange where shippers' transport needs meet carriers' demand."

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture: CDDC

a.bayley@ed.ac.uk

"The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) is a college-level center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the College of Arts and Sciences. Working with faculty in the Virginia Tech Cyberschool, the CDDC provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. At the same time, it supports the continuation of traditional research practices, including scholarly peer review, academic freedom, network formation, and intellectual experimentation. Our aim is to be open to all forms of cultural, ideological, methodological, and scientific discourse, while encouraging diversity, interdisciplinarity, and academic excellence."

ChemSpy.com

http://www.chemspy.com/

"ChemSpy.com makes the most important Chemistry and Chemical Engineering related www-Databases readily accessible for Professionals, Scientists and Students."

Co-Construct

http://www.construction.co.uk/

A single entry point for information on projects, publications, events and news provided by 5 member-based organisations, namely BSRIA, TRADA, CIRIA, SCI and The Concrete Society.

Computer science: A guide to selected resources on the Internet

http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjune01.html

An article by Michael Knee in College and Research Libraries News.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Engineering, at Cardiff University

http://onlinecpd.cf.ac.uk/index.asp

We provide Online Continuing Professional Development for engineers. We offer convenient access to high quality interactive multimedia resources, reference information and collaborative communication systems, designed to meet the professional development requirements of the region's engineering industry

Convey Systems

http://www.conveysystems.com/

Web-based technology that allows people to interact with each other regardless of location, redefining interaction in a way that will shift business-processing models.

Convey Systems provides Universities, Colleges & Learning companies web-based interactive multi-media tools using voice-over-the-Internet, video, text-chat, URL and application share solutions which allows on-demand access to live help while browsing Web-sites.

Cultivate Interactive (ejournal)

http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/

Issue 4 is available.

Cultivate Interactive is a Web magazine which is funded under the European Commission's Digital heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) programme.

Department for International Development

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

DFID: Working to eliminate world poverty and promote sustainable development.

Design Council Slide Collection

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/search.html

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is delighted to announce that the Design Council Slide Collection is now searchable on-line via the VADS website.

Developments (e-journal)

http://www.developments.org.uk/

"Developments is a free quarterly magazine produced by the Department for International Development to increase awareness of development issues."

Digital information in the Information Research field

http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html

Links to journals and newsletters.

Distance Education and Technology

http://det.cstudies.ubc.ca/

The Distance Education and Technology (DE&T) unit of Continuing Studies develops and delivers programs, courses and learning materials for individual and institutional clients who require cost-effective, quality education delivered in flexible formats.

ECEG 2001: The European Conference on e-Government

http://www.mcil.co.uk/2c-eceg2001.htm

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 27-28 September 2001.

ECITE 2001: The 8th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation

http://www.mcil.co.uk/2b-ecite2001.htm

Oriel College, Oxford, UK, 17-18 September 2001.

ECKM 2001: The 2nd European Conference on Knowledge Management

http://www.mcil.co.uk/2a-eckm.htm

IEDC Bled School of Management, Slovenia 8 - 9 November 2001.

e-Culture (ejournal)

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/newsletter.html

A newsletter on cultural content and digital heritage.

Edge

http://www.edge.org/

"The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society."

Education Network Australia: EdNA

http://www.edna.edu.au/

Not new, but not mentioned before.

EdNA (Education Network Australia) is a network of and for the Australian education community (government and non-government schooling systems, vocational education and training, adult community education and higher education). This website, EdNA Online, supports and promotes the benefits of the Internet for education. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.

eFashion

http://www.efashion.com/

Over 1,000,000 searchable fashion web sites
100+ shopping sites, 1,000+ fashion categories
hundreds of current photos and articles
content is updated daily.

e-global library

http://www.egloballibrary.com/

"e-global library gives your online students immediate access to an extensive collection of authoritative electronic resources to support their research needs."

"e-global library has been developed by a team of twenty-five professional librarians who have evaluated thousands of Internet resources to identify and annotate only those deemed useful to students doing academic or professional research on the Web."

Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods

http://informationr.net/rm/

Includes electronic journals, organisations, data archives etc.

Emerge

http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

Emerge is an NCSA effort to develop middleware components of a new distributed search infrastructure which addresses the scale and heterogeneity of scientific data. Our components enable search services to interoperate across scientific domains by providing user-configurable tools for mapping between metadata schemas, performing search queries against multiple data sources, and performing query pre- and post-processing. Access to our search services is through platform-neutral standard and emerging-standard tools such as Z39.50, XML, and Java.

Engenius 2001

http://engenius.cse.rmit.edu.au/

August 15th, Melbourne, Australia.

Engenius is an annual conference organized by final year students from RMIT's School of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for students, academics and industry representatives to exchange ideas and bridge the gap between the workplace and university.

EUHealth.net

http://www.euhealth.net/

EUHealth.net from SearchandMatch provides:

Knowledge - explanation of what is happening in European healthcare activity.
Planning - segmented information from health planning documents.
Directories - organizations, names and contact details.
Analysis - key data on healthcare provision - quantitative analysis.

e-University

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/partners/euniv/

"e-University" is the working title of a collaborative project by the UK higher education funding bodies to establish a new way of providing HE programmes through web-based learning. The project is designed to give UK higher education the capacity to compete globally with the major virtual and corporate universities being developed in the United States and elsewhere.

European Information Network in the UK

http://www.europe.org.uk/info/

This site provides a gateway to European information for the UK regions.

European Union of Agrement: UEAtc

http://www.ueatc.com/

UEATC brings together the national approval bodies in order to achieve the goals of technical approval.

UEAtc aims to be the European network offering the best possible voluntary approval services.

Technical approvals, for construction materials, products and systems are favourable assessments of the fitness for use and durable quality, of innovative products and systems or products and systems that deviate otherwise from established specifications.

EUSIDIC Annual Conference

http://www.eusidic.org/

30 September - 3 October 2001 Kongreshaus Baden-Baden, Germany

This conference held in the city of Baden-Baden covers three days of presentations by prominent personalities from the Global Information Community assessing the current state of the electronic publishing industry and the evolving information value chain: recent developments, trends, strategies and impact on the information society.

Fifth International CAA Conference

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/fli/flicaa/conf2001/index.html

Computer Assisted Assessment. The conference will take place at the Burleigh Court Conference Centre, Loughborough University, 2nd and 3rd July 2001

FinanceLink

http://www.financelink.co.uk/

A UK personal finance directory.

Free Pint Jobs

http://www.freepint.com/jobs

Free Pint, the Internet community for information researchers, has added job listings to its collection of free resources.

Free Pint Jobs - is a job board specifically designed for the information researcher community.

For advertisers, Free Pint's specialised, global audience of over 38,000 information professionals means that their vacancies will reach precisely the audience they need.

Features for jobs searchers include:

Keyword searching by country, region, sector, duration, salary
Weekly alerts (to the email address of your choice) of jobs which match your profile.

GDNet

http://www.ids.ac.uk/gdn/

The Global Development Network's online community linking local development research and policy

HyperMethod Company

http://www.hypermethod.com/epub.html

Products include ePublisher 2001

"Is the fast and effective tool for a creation of professional electronic versions of the books, catalogues of production, documentation."

Images on the Web

http://www.freepint.com/issues/240501.htm#feature

An article by Ian Watson in a recent issue of the Free Pint newsletter.

Index to Ships Mentioned in Maritime History Books

http://faculty.washington.edu/petermcc/shipindex.html

This page represents the start of an index to ships mentioned in non-fiction books on ships and maritime history.

Information Provision for the Information Providers

http://www.freepint.com/issues/100501.htm

The feature article in Issue 87 of Free Pint is: "Information Provision for the Information Providers" by Carl Clayton.

INSPIRAL: INveStigating Portals for Information Resources And Learning

http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects-inspiral.html

INSPIRAL (INveStigating Portals for Information Resources And Learning) is a JISC-funded research project. Its purpose is to identify and critically analyse the issues around linking virtual learning environments (VLEs) and digital libraries.

Institute of Quality Assurance: IQA

http://www.iqa.org/

IQA, the Institute of Quality Assurance, is the UK's leading body for the advancement of quality practices, a respected contributor to policy issues at a national and international level and can give you the opportunity to help shape the future of business.

Institution of Planning Supervisors: IPS

http://www.planningsupervisors.org.uk/

"The foremost professional body dedicated to the continuous improvement of safety standards in the built environment."

International Autumn School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/autumn01/

From 9 - 14 September 2001, a one-week course on digital libraries and e-publishing will be held on the premises of CERN in Switzerland. The course has been especially developed for librarians in the fields of physics, astronomy and mathematics. The course is being organised by Ticer B.V. and Tilburg University, renowned for their International Summer School on the Digital Library, in co-operation with the CERN Scientific Information Service and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. The course director is Rick Luce, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The course is aimed at providing knowledge support to academic libraries, research libraries, and publishers in the current transitional phase and to identify new roles and opportunities for them.

The programme is designed for library managers, librarians, reference librarians, subject specialists, publishers and other information professionals in the fields of physics, astronomy and mathematics. Advanced libraries will mainly be addressed, without excluding the less technically advanced libraries.

International Council of Psychologists' 59th Annual Conference

http://www.geocities.com/icpsych/convent.htm

8-12 July, 2001

Location: Winchester, Great Britain

Information: Theme: Catching the Future: Women and Men in Global Psychology.

International Energy Outlook 2001

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/

All about world energy consumption.

internet news network

http://netnewsnet.tripod.com/

A Daily Roundup of the Best Stories from the Top Newspapers.

IP News

http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/t_en/n_006_title_en.asp

Daily IP News updates from the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Helpdesk.

IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Aspects of Internet Collaborations

ftp://ftp.ipr-helpdesk.org/ipr.pdf

Working paper on IPR Aspects of Internet Collaborations published and available from the IPR-Helpdesk website.

The final report of the workshop on IPR Aspects of Internet Collaborations, organized by the European Commission's Research Directorate-General, has been published.

The aims of the workshop included identification of intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, problems and opportunities specific to intensive Internet collaborations.

The workshop paper can be downloaded (in pdf format)

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-spring/

The Spring 2001 issue is now available.

Joining up the academic information landscape

http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/record/r200105/article2.html

This is a recent article in the Library Association Record, written by Michael Breaks and myself, on the role of the RDN hubs within the Distributed National Electronic Resource.

LearnHowToWrite.com

http://learnhowtowrite.com/

This site helps you write more clearly. There are 9 skills to learn.

Libraries Without Walls 4

http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww4/

The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users: Distributed Resources - Distributed Learning

The Fourth Conference 14 - 18 September 2001 Hotel Delfinia, Molyvos, Lesvos, Greece.

Library Association Multimedia Information & Technology Group: LAMIT

http://www.lamit.org.uk/

The Multimedia Information and Technology Group aims to unite Library Association members engaged in or interested in multimedia information and technology developments in library and information science, and to enable communication between them to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experience and the promotion of their professional interests.

Major Projects Association

http://www.majorprojects.org/

The Major Projects Association provides a forum for organisations concerned with large complex projects to share knowledge and experience.

Based in the United Kingdom, it is international and interdisciplinary. Its members include government departments and agencies, contractors, consulting engineers, suppliers, management consultants, lawyers, funding institutions and project promoters.

MBA Depot

http://www.mbadepot.com/

MBA Depot is a free online community that aims to ease information overload and provide networking and collaboration opportunities for MBAs and like-minded individuals. Features include: a market research repository, top business articles and links, a file exchange, an expert marketplace, a mentor matching program, discussion forums, classified ads, an alumni database, interactive calendars and much more.

MedPharmGuide

http://www.chemistry.de/en/datenbanken/medpharmguide/

A fulltext search engine for pharmacology-related Internet servers.

Merlin Learning Environment

http://www.hull.ac.uk/merlin/

"Merlin is a unique web-based environment developed at the University of Hull. It is simple and effective and can be tailor-made to support online education, training and development, e-learning, communication and resource sharing between virtual groups."

Metamath

http://metamath.org/

New address for the site mentioned in issue 70.

National Network for Immunization Information: NNii

http://www.immunizationinfo.org/

This new resource is designed to provide parents, healthcare professionals, legislators, media and others with up-to-date, scientifically valid information related to immunization.

The NNii site provides the latest immunization news, a vaccine information database and a guide to evaluating vaccination information on the Web. For health professionals, the site has a downloadable resource kit to assist them as they talk to their patients about immunization.

OCEANS 2001

http://www.oceans2001.com/

November 5-8, 2001 Hilton Hawaiian Village Honolulu, HI

Oil and Gas International

http://www.oilandgasinternational.com/

News and information about this sector.

Oildex

http://www.oildex.com/

e-business for the oil & gas industry

Pan European Network of Environmental Legislation Observatories for Planning Education and Research: PENELOPE

http://www-penelope.et.ic.ac.uk/penelope/home.htm

The PENELOPE project offers a new resource tool designed to assist in understanding how environmental law is being developed and applied within Europe. It is the result of a combined effort by experts in information technology and a number of leading European environmental law institutes.

Quipu: Dedicated to Researchers of Andean Archaeology

http://libweb.sdsu.edu/quipu/

This web site was created by Bruce Harley, Anthropology Subject Specialist Librarian, San Diego State University, and Patricia Knobloch, Research Associate, Institute of Andean Studies, as a vortal focused to help Andean archaeologists.

RailFind

http://www.Railfind.co.uk/

UK Railway Web site directory.

Research and Development�UK

http://www.ukresearchanddevelopment.com/

"This provides easy access to UK R&D expertise in six sectors: automotive, biotechnology, chemicals, health equipment, Information Communication Technology (ICT) and pharmaceuticals. These will be expanded in the future to cover further key sectors.

The site is fully searchable. It gives an overview of R&D in the UK and can signpost you to other useful organisations. The site has lots of links to university departments, science parks, national laboratories and R&D organisations. It can be searched by both by sector and region."

Resources for research

http://www.bl.uk/collections/resources/overview.html

These pages provide links to resources for research within the British Library and selected links to other online resources.

Rethinking Construction

http://www.rethinkingconstruction.org/

Rethinking Construction is the banner under which the construction industry, its clients and the government are working together to improve UK construction performance.

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com/

This site was mentioned before when it was still in development. Scirus is now available for use.

"Responding to the need for focused, comprehensive and reliable overviews of relevant scientific information, Elsevier Science has developed the powerful Internet search tool Scirus. Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both Web and membership sources .... It enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports and articles in a clutter-free, user-friendly and efficient manner."

Scout Report (Mirror)

http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/mirrors/scout/report/sr/current/index.html

Different address from the one given in issue 50 of this newsletter (which doesn't seem to work any more).

SearchDay (ejournal)

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/

SearchDay is a free newsletter from Search Engine Watch featuring web search news, reviews, tools, tips, and search engine headlines from across the web.

Software Teaching of Modular Physics: SToMP

http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/stomp/

SToMP is a non-profitmaking computer-based resource, developed as a tool for teaching introductory-level undergraduate Physics.

Stork & May

http://www.stork-may.com/

Stork & May is a career strategy consultancy that specialises in advising the most senior people on their career choices.

This site includes links to many business resources.

Target Marketing Magazine (e-journal)

http://www.targetonline.com/

All about direct marketing.

Technical Advisory Service for Images: Books and Journals

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/books.html

This is a list of books, papers and journals that TASI thinks is useful to keep up to date with developments in digital imaging.

Technical Staffing Solutions (recruitment)

http://www.techstaffjobs.com/

Technical jobs.

The Career Engineer

http://www.thecareerengineer.com/

The Career Engineer has been launched to provide an internet careers site dedicated to engineering industries and related technical areas.

UK Centre for Materials Education

http://www.materials.ac.uk/

The LTSN Materials Subject Centre is now called the UK Centre for Materials Education.

UK GovTalk

http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/

UK GovTalk is part of the implementation strategy for the e-Government Interoperability Framework aimed at achieving seamless electronic government.

The purpose of this site is to enable the Public Sector, Industry and other interested parties to work together in developing and agreeing policies and standards for e-government. This is achieved through the UK GovTalk RFP and RFC processes. The site also provides repositories for draft and agreed schemas, toolkits, best practice and relevant information for the running of the e-GIF programme.

Universities UK

http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/

Used to be known as CVCP. Universities UK is a Company limited by guarantee with charitable status. It was founded in 1918. It is supported through subscription by its members' institutions.

Urban Design Alliance: UDAL

http://www.udal.org.uk/

The Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) was formed in 1997 by seven professional and specialist organisations working to create quality towns and cities. the central goal of UDAL is to raise awareness of urban design, and the fundamental role it plays in creating sustainable, safe and desirable urban areas.

VR World Congress 2001

http://www.elpub.org/vrcongress.htm

June 27-29, 2001, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

"This event represents an exceptional opportunity for organizations expecting to be involved as major players in VR/i3D for the 380m population European marketplace. Organized under the auspices of the European Commission (EC), it is an ideal forum for those aspiring to support under the imminent EC's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme."

Waste on the WWW

http://www.freepint.com/issues/240501.htm#tips

An article by Helen Rendell in a recent issue of the Free Pint newsletter.

Web Robots Pages

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

Web Robots are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders. These pages have further information about these Web Robots.

Work With Designers On-line

http://www.workwithdesigners.com/

WWD is based on the popular detailed WWD Design Profile Directory and The Professional and Business Guide to Design Services Directory published by Janvier Books Publishing and Information Services. WWD on-line gives instant access to Creative, Media Art, Design and related Design services including Engineering, Furnishing and Product Services mainly in the UK.

Xgrain Project

http://www.edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/xgrain/

The EDINA Xgrain Project (pronounced "cross grain") is part of the JOIN-UP Programme, and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee of the higher and further education funding councils, as part of its programme to develop the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).

Project Aim
To enhance and promote the use and usability of specialist Abstracting and Indexing, and electronic Tables of Contents, services across the DNER in learning and teaching, as well as research.

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 normally 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 Site is:

Virtual Training Suite (VTS)

http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

The RDN Virtual Training Suite was Nice Web Site of the month in August 2000, so why is it featuring here again? Well, a whole series of new tutorials are now available. The full list is given below.

The new tutorials were launched on May 8th, simultaneously at six universities. Details and photographs of the launch are available at http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/launch/index.htm . The VTS project was co-ordinated by The Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at Bristol University, in collaboration with the RDN hubs. The five hubs are: SOSIG (The Social Science Information Gateway), EEVL (The Internet Guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), BIOME (Internet Resources in Health and Life Sciences), PSIgate (The Physical Sciences Information Gateway) and HUMBUL (The Humanities Hub).

VTS launch Edinburgh

I attended EEVL's VTS launch at Edinburgh, of which a photo appears above. (l - r) Nicola Harrison (author of one of the tutorials - Internet Electrical, Electronic & Communications Engineer), Michael Breaks (Librarian at Heriot Watt University), Linda Kerr (EEVL Coordinator), Lesa Ng (EEVL Information and Cataloguing Officer), Agn�s Guyon (Engineering Manager and EEVL Cataloguing Coordinator) and Roddy MacLeod (EEVL Manager).

The following Virtual Training Suite tutorials are now available.

Internet Instructor
Internet for Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Internet Anthropologist
Internet Bioresearcher
Internet Business Manager
Internet Chemist
Internet Civil Engineer
Internet Economist
Internet ElecEng Engineer
Internet Earth Scientist
Internet Geographer
Internet for Development
Internet for Education
Internet for English
Internet for Government
Internet for Health and Safety
Internet for Historians
Internet for History and Philosophy of Science
Internet for Lawyers
Internet for Materials Engineering
Internet for Modern Languages
Internet for Nature
Internet for Religious Studies
Internet for Social Policy
Internet for Social Research Methods
Internet for Social Statistics
Internet for Women's Studies
Internet Instructor
Internet Mathematician
Internet Mechanical Engineer
Internet Medic
Internet Offshore Engineer
Internet Philosopher
Internet Physicist
Internet Politician
Internet Psychologist
Internet Social Worker
Internet Sociologist
Internet Theologian
Internet Vet

These tutorials offer a subject-based introduction to discovering, choosing and using high quality Internet resources. They aim to help lecturers seeking to incorporate information skills teaching into their curriculum, librarians who need tools to support their user-education programmes, and learners wanting a self-paced resource to help them improve their Internet information skills.

More information: rdn-vts@bristol.ac.uk

PRESS RELEASES

****CD-ROM from the Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk (IPR-Helpdesk)****

The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk (IPR-Helpdesk) http://www.cordis.lu/ipr-helpdesk/, a project funded by the European Commission Innovation Programme of Enterprise DG, has produced a CD-ROM for the EU-RTD community. Entitled "It all starts with an idea", the CD-ROM incorporates a complete offline copy of the multilingual IPR-Helpdesk website, more than 10,000 pages of IPR information in English, French and German.

The IPR-Helpdesk offers help with intellectual property (IP) issues for FP5 contractors providing free advice with research contracts, consortium agreements, and general IP information. A legal Helpline (info@ipr-helpdesk.org) enables registered users to have specific IP questions answered.

The IPR-Helpdesk website is the primary source of IP and innovation information for every EU member state. Tutorials and guides in at least three EU languages will lead you through the pitfalls and help you understand the complex IPR issues that confront you and your colleagues when undertaking EU-funded R&D activities. A free monthly electronic newsletter IP-Wire (ip-wire@ipr-helpdesk.org) will keep you abreast of the latest news in the IPR and innovation fields.

One of the most eagerly awaited tools available for SMEs and others engaged in EU-funded research is the multimedia esp@cenet tutorial. This service of the European Patent Organisation enables you to search in more than 30 million patent documents. The IPR-Helpdesk tutorial available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and the EPO manual on patent information will help laypersons to use the esp@cenet database effectively.

The IPR-Helpdesk enables researchers and SMEs to understand the how and why of protecting and exploiting the results of their work.

The CD-ROM "It all starts with an idea" is available free. If you would like to order extra copies then either send an e-mail to promo@ipr-helpdesk.org or telephone +352 47 11 11 1 or fax your request to +352 47 11 11 60. In all cases please provide us with your full details.

****A new ingenta.com****

There is a new website at ingenta.com http://www.ingenta.com/ . As well as a new look and feel, the site launches the first of our improvements to the ingenta service. (See below for a list of features available on the new site.)

You should not experience any disruption in service, and you will not need to re-register your personal or institutional information. None of the functionality of the current site will be lost.

We have worked hard to ensure that none of our users are confused by our changes - and we hope the new site will be easier to use than our current one. Please let us know what you think when you see it. e-mail us at ideas@ingenta.com

Over 20,000 publications

Search, browse and purchase articles from 20,000 publications from over 150 publishers, including 4,500 online full text publications.

Content from UnCover, CatchWord and ingenta is available from one simple search.

Online, fax and Ariel delivery options:
The new site gives you the option to receive articles by fax if they are not available electronically:

* Online delivery: where an article can be delivered electronically - direct to your desktop.

* Fax delivery: fax delivery will be available for those articles that can not be delivered electronically.

* Ariel fax delivery: Ariel faxes are delivered to your desktop rather than to a fax machine. Ariel fax delivery will be available for those articles that can not be delivered electronically.

Where electronic delivery is not available, you can choose between fax and Ariel fax delivery.

Subject area resource collections

A specialist editorial team has researched the premier online research resources across 15 broad subject areas and 125 sub-category subject areas - linked to publications at ingenta.com and a wealth of free resources on the Internet, including research papers, associations, e-prints, news and statistics.

New research aids including: Saved Searches
This feature enables you to save your searches within your personal folders so that you can re-run them at a later date against new articles available at ingenta.com.

Marked List
Mark the articles you have identified when searching ingenta, then create a list which can be printed or emailed.

Manage my ingenta:
Set up a Profile Set up a profile with your personal, payment, and subscription details.

My publications
Select your favorite publications to link directly to from your personal home page.

A new easy-to-use shopping cart facility:
Purchase articles by credit/debit card. Place multiple articles in the shopping cart and make all of your purchases at one time. You can choose between fax or Ariel fax delivery if electronic delivery is not available.

Tracking orders
If you choose fax or Ariel delivery you will be able to monitor your orders online.

Reveal research alerts and table of contents (TOC) alerts
Subscribe to the new research alerts and TOC alerts service. A paid for service allowing you to keep up-to-date with selected publications and research. You select the publications and search terms and ingenta will email you with new information as it becomes available at the ingenta.com.

For more information, please contact: help@ingenta.com.

****Nature and AIP/APS Collaborate for virtual journals and physics portal****

Articles from Nature will appear in the Virtual Journals of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, beginning with their April 2001 issues. The Nature Publishing Group is providing AIP and APS with abstracts from Nature for posting in the Virtual Journals so that the communities using the Virtual Journals will be aware of related articles in Nature. At the same time, AIP and APS are providing abstracts from their journals to the Nature Publishing Group for posting on the Nature Physics Portal (http://physics.nature.com).

AIP and APS currently publish the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (www.vjnano.org) and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research (www.vjbio.org). A third Virtual Journal will be launched this Spring that will offer comprehensive coverage of the field of quantum information.

Nature abstracts are fully incorporated into the VJ database in order to provide a robust search capability. To view the full-text articles, VJ users can follow the links provided to the abstracts and full-text articles at Nature's online platform. Nature subscribers will thus have convenient links to the full-text articles, while those who do not subscribe can purchase the articles via Nature's online facilities.

The VJ Editors will screen peer-reviewed articles in the most recent issues of Nature, select those papers that fall within the scope of the Virtual Journals, and place them under appropriate subject headings within the Virtual Journals' tables of contents. Thus, articles from Nature will appear in the Virtual Journals roughly one week to one month after publication in Nature, depending on the frequency of the Virtual Journal.

The appearance of Nature abstracts in the Virtual Journals is part of a reciprocal arrangement between AIP/APS and the Nature Publishing Group, which has already seen the hosting of abstracts of papers published in AIP and APS journals on the Nature Physics Portal (http://physics.nature.com). The Nature Physics Portal, launched in March of this year, provides access to the physics content of Nature and highlights of the latest physics research, published in Nature and elsewhere.

A list of participating publishers and journals in the Virtual Journal series can be found at http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/vjs/partpub.jsp.

For additional information see www.virtualjournals.org or contact vjnano@aip.org and vjbio@aps.org. For information on Nature Publishing Group, see http://www.nature.com/nature/info/npg.htm.

****The End of the Subject-specific Scout Reports****

The Internet Scout Project is sad to announce that we will be discontinuing publication of our subject-specific reports as we have been unable to secure funding for them. The last issue of the Scout Report for Social Sciences & Humanities will be May 29, the last Scout Report for Business & Economics will be May 31, and the last issue of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering will be June 20. We have, however, no immediate plans to cease publishing our flagship report, the Scout Report. Many thanks to our loyal readers.

The UK Mirror for the Scout Report is available at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/mirrors/scout/report/sr/current/index.html

NETWORK NEWS

BIDS News Bulletins

http://www.bids.ac.uk/info/fs_whatsnew.htm

BIDS is a UK provider of networked information services for higher education and research.

http://www.bids.ac.uk/info/fs_whatsnew.htm

NISS News

A week-by-week listing of new information resources on the NISS (National Information Services and Systems) Information Gateway selected by experts in the subject area is available at:

http://www.niss.ac.uk/welcome/whatsnew.html

BUBL News

BUBL has retained a strong library element, but now provides a subject-based service to the academic and research community more generally, this via the BUBL LINK Subject Tree. The latest news from BUBL is available at:

http://bubl.ac.uk/news/

The latest updates to the BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources are available at:

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html

EEVL News: The latest Additions to EEVL, The Hub for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, are available at:; http://www.eevl.ac.uk:4321/whatsnew/

SOSIG News

The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at:

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html

EDINA Newsline: The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at:; http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/

CHEST News

CHEST aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the Education and Research Community at low prices and attractive licence terms. The latest news from CHEST is available at:

http://www.chest.ac.uk/news.html

MIMAS News

MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, to provide the following range of services to the academic community:

Flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets.
Access to key bibliographic information.
Access to specialist support and training.
Access to software packages and large-scale computing resources.

The latest news from MIMAS can be found at:

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news.html

New on RUDI

RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information) is a multimedia information resource for research and teaching in the field of urban design in the Western cultural context. The latest news from RUDI can be found at:

http://www.rudi.net/

BIOME News

BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. The latest news from BIOME can be found at:

http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/

Netskills: News

Netskills aims to help the UK HE community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration. The latest news from Netskills can be found at:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/

What's new on Eldis

Electronic Development and Environment Information System. A gateway to information sources on development or the environment. What's new on Eldis can be found at:

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm

What's New on Biz/ed

Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.

http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm

AHDS Newsletter

The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at:

http://ahds.ac.uk/newsletter.html

JISCmail News

JSICmail provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news.htm

UK Data Archive news

The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally.

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/archiveNews.asp

What's new on the TASI web site

TASI is a service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) set up to advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/new.html

Chemical Data Service (CDS)

CDS provides on-line access to a variety of quality databases in the field of Chemistry, plus support, training and advice. This is available (free of charge) to academics at UK Universities.

http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/

Academic Info

Your gateway to quality educational resources. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory tailored toward a college and university audience and is used by students, librarians, and researchers.

http://www.academicinfo.net/new.html

DNER News

The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) is a managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on the Internet which are available from many sources.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/news/

RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

Recent Arrivals

001.645 HAR
XML in a nutshell
by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W Scott Means
O'Rielly
2001

011.645 NIE
Learning web design
by Jennifer Niederst
O'Rielly, 2001

001.645 RAY
Learning XML
by Erik T Ray
O'Rielly, 2001

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/news.html

INTERNET IN PRINT

office@home
Publisher: Blendon Communications Ltd, 207 Province Square, Mill St., London SE1 2EW
Frequency: ?
Subscription: £3.50 cover price
ISSN: 1473-7302
email: info@blendoncommunications.co.uk
Web: http://www.blendon-communications.co.uk/oah/oahframe.htm

This is not an internet magazine per se, but as working from home nowadays often involves a net connection or two, office@home understandably includes numerous items and articles concerning the internet.

The launch issue, which was published recently, was attractively produced and contained a broad spectrum of articles. How would you like to run your office from a yacht moored off Tahiti? Office@home found someone who did just that. It also reported on the slowdown in teleworking in the US, gadgets that can help with the mobile office, the latest on mobile phones, and home-office furniture.

Items of particular interest included an article on using the Web to find the best travel deals (random quote: "It is difficult to find a single source of information on UK travel") and another one on getting your business up on the Web (random quote "A good product will sell despite an uncool web address").

Pity that they got their Web and email addresses wrong, though. The correct ones are as above.

GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME

Internet Restaurant Guide: Http://www.restaurantworlds.co.uk/
LatestEvents: http://www.latestevents.com/
Beer Mad!!: http://www.beermad.org.uk/
TheTravelzine: http://www.thetravelzine.com/

"TheTravelzine is a strictly non-commercial source of information for those who love to travel. That's the dry definition. We think TheTravelzine is for independent travelers who know that anticipation is half the fun, and that the joy of travel is that much greater for the people you meet, and the experiences you share."

STOP PRESS!

CEPR Discussion Papers and NBER Working Papers now available to members of Heriot-Watt University

CEPR Discussion Papers are the primary method for the distribution of research carried out by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The Centre produces about 280 Discussion Papers each year.

NBER Working Papers are the primary method for the distribution of research carried out by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private, nonprofit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.

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