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Comment News items Internet Resources Newsletter by email	A-Z New & Notable Web Sites Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites
Nice Web Site This month: Sapling: The Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway	Press Releases U.S. Department of Energy Proposes to Discontinue PubSCIENCE IOP adopts OAI technical framework Award-winning scientific search engine, Scirus, and Fast deliver improved search experience for researchers The Scientist Launches New Website
Network News DNER BUBL EEVL SOSIG EDINA CHEST MIMAS PSIgate BIOME ELDIS Netskills BIZ/ed AHDS JISCmail UK Data Archive Chemical Database Service Academic Info RDN Humbul	Book Reviews Review of: Getting and staying noticed on the web: your web promotion questions answered by Phil Bradley
Recent Internet Books in the Library	Get a life! Leisure Time

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Pinakes http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html is a 'subject launchpad'. It links to numerous subject gateways which in turn provide access to useful Internet resources. Pinakes has become quite popular with those seeking Internet resources, and I invite you to consider placing a link to it from your web site.

A text only version of the Internet Resources Newsletter is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl/0304/www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

News items

Here are this month's news items of interest

Joint Information Systems Committee Signs Deal With Wiley InterScience Consortium
All further and higher educations institutions in the United Kingdom stand to benefit from an agreement signed between the Joint Information Systems Committee and Wiley InterScience, according to a statement issued by Wiley.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=768

Education and Skills Committee Highlights British Library's Role in the Digital World
The House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Report on Library Resources for Higher Education has highlighted the importance of the British Library in providing an information resource to support the expansion of UK higher and further education.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=711

Chemical Abstracts - Wiley InterScience Links now Live
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and John Wiley & Sons Inc. have announced new links between their leading electronic resources for the research community, CAS's STN® and SciFinder® and Wiley InterScience.
http://www.biblio-tech.com/UKSG/SI_PD.cfm?PID=10&ArticleID=362&XSection=Business&issueno=22

Internet Resources Newsletter by email

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

1DO3

http://www.1d03.com/

1DO3 is a new kind of online directory that aims to anticipate the things you might want to do using the web.

4th MIRA International Aerodynamics Conference

http://www.mira.co.uk/news/AeroConf/AeroConf.htm

The Heritage Motor Centre, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwick.
16-17 October 2002.

AbilityHub

http://www.abilityhub.com/

Assistive Technology for people with a disability who find operating a computer difficult, maybe even impossible. This web site will direct you to adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers.

Advanced Internet Search Strategies: RBA Workshop

http://www.rba.co.uk/training/searching.htm

Venue: Reading Business School, Berkshire UK, Tuesday, 15th October 2002, 9.30 - 16.30

AmphetaDesk

http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/

"AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage."

Answering Quick Reference Enquiries Using Google

http://www.freepint.com/issues/080802.htm#feature

An article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Terry Kendrick.

Asian-Nation

http://www.asian-nation.org/

"Asian-Nation, your one-stop information source on the historical, political, social, economic, and cultural elements and issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community."

Atomica

http://www.atomica.com/

"Atomica Corporation's mission is to empower companies to fully capture and leverage their information capital to gain and maintain a competitive edge. Atomica's solutions quickly and easily unify data from back-end enterprise systems and content sources across the web to deliver relevant information on demand."

Best History Websites

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

"Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History."

bookgroup.info

http://www.bookgroup.info

"This site will give you recommendations for a really good read. This book group has been going for over seven years. We get together once a month to discuss a book that we chose at the meeting before. "

Campus Pipeline

http://www.campuspipeline.com/

"Campus Pipeline provides industry-leading software and services to help institutions of higher education direct and build their version of a unified digital campus."

Cheltenham Computer Training

http://www.cctglobal.com/

Courseware for computer training.

Chemsoc Timeline

http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/timeline.html

An attractively designed timeline.

Citebase

http://citebase.eprints.org/

Citebase allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature eprint archives, with results ranked according to many criteria (e.g. by citation impact), and then to navigate that literature using citation links and analysis.

Click2learn

http://home.click2learn.com/

"Click2learn (NASDAQ: CLKS), is an e-Learning industry leader with the largest installed base of e-Learning software in the world. Founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, the company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and has offices and resellers worldwide."

Communities Scotland

http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/

Works for housing and regeneration.

Construction Risk Management Portal and Library

http://www.constructionrisk.com/

A site for risk management resources and information including articles, newsletters, including ConstructionRisk.com Report, and an arrangement of valuable websites.

ConstructionEducation.com

http://www.constructioneducation.com/

"ConstructionEducation.com and RedVector.com, Inc. have partnered in an effort to offer our professionals the best continuing education available. RedVector.com is an Internet portal featuring the largest selection of online continuing education offerings for licensed and certified professionals in the engineering, architectural, interior design, construction, building inspection and land surveying industries."

Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) - UK Implementation

http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm

Information from the UK Patent Office.

ctionbioscience.org

http://www.actionbioscience.org/

Actionbioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created and managed by BioScience Productions, Inc. to promote bioscience literacy.

Diccionarios en internet

http://home.worldonline.es/migonzal/diccionarios/

Diccionarios en internet, directorio de obras de referencia en español o en inglés, clasificadas por materias, con más de 400 enlaces.

A directory of reference works in English or Spanish, classified by subject, with over 400 links.

Dotukdirectory

http://www.dotukdirectory.co.uk/

Dotukdirectory is a directory of UK web sites, listed by subject and by location.

eBooks N' Bytes

http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/

"Your source for eBooks, contests, eBook Compiler Reviews, ePublisher list, epublishing and promotion articles among other eBook Resources!"

eBusinessClubs

http://www.ebusinessclubs.co.uk/

"A fusion of leading technology providers and business support organisations deliver ultimate eBusiness information solutions to the SME community."

ECDL Homepage

http://www.ecdl.ie/

ECDL is a certificate that declares your competence in computer skills.

EDNER : Formative Evaluation of the DNER

http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/edner/ip/issue-papers.html

EDNER Key Issues papers are intended to distil formative evaluation questions on topics which are central to the development of the UK's higher and further education Information Environment. They are presented as short check-lists of key questions and are addressed to developers and practitioners.

Electronic Book Web

http://12.108.175.91/ebookweb/

Quite a good site giving news and views about electronic books.

Engineering Weblines

http://www.engineeringnet.co.uk/weblines.shtml

A directory from the Engineering magazine.

Engineering, Mathematics and Computing news

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

This is EEVL's revamped news page, offering links to the latest news sources.

ePrints-UK

http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/

This project plans to develop a national service through which the higher and further education community can access the collective output of e-print papers available from compliant Open Archive repositories provided by UK universities and colleges.

Excite UK

http://www.excite.co.uk/

Excite UK is back. They claim to have created the most complete search channel on the web. With a collection of 2,100,000,000 web sites and the world's largest man-made directory.

exec-appointments.com

http://www.exec-appointments.com/main.asp

A new executive jobsite for career, interim and contract positions over £50,000 plus non-executive and senior voluntary positions.

First International NAISO Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering: ITEE'2003

http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/itee2003/index.html

Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, June 24 - June 27, 2003.

Call for papers.

Free Range Librarian

http://lii.org/FRL

A Monthly Meditation from Librarians' Index to the Internet.

Free-Translator.com

http://www.free-translator.com/

A selection of the best free Translators, Dictionaries and language Courses on the web.

FS Database

http://sirsi.fs.fed.us/

180,000+ records of natural resources literature.
Over 55,000 records and links to Forest Service Research publications dating back to 1904, etc.

Genesis Project

http://www.genesis.ac.uk/

The Genesis project is a mapping initiative, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles.

Gigablast

http://www.gigablast.com/

A new search engine.

Green Consumer Guide.com

http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/

The site has a wide range of environmental products and services, and reports on the top environmental news stories every day. It also features the option to signup and receive a weekly roundup of the news in plain text or html email.

Groundwater

http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wat/gws/

A site from the Ministry of Water Land and Air Protection, Province of British Columbia.

Gurteen Knowledge-Website

http://www.gurteen.com/

"This website is a KM resource site aimed at knowledge professionals who wish to transform the way that they work; the way that they manage and interact with other people in their organization and who wish to better leverage workgroup technology. A wealth of information exists that can help us thrive in this new economy. "

Heriot Watt University: Registry Office

http://www.hw.ac.uk/registry/

The Academic Registry is responsible for a range of academic administrative services in relation to students, staff and courses at both campuses of the University.

How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students' Web-Based Information Choices

http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/pdf/printondemand/informationhabits.pdf

A paper from OCLC.

IMMediate Transactions

http://www.transedit.co.uk/

Published on behalf of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.

Infoshare

http://www.infoshare.org.uk/

Infoshare is the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) weekly newsletter giving the latest news and views on developments and projects within the civil engineering profession.

Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) Gateway

http://irc.cordis.lu/

A major European source for innovative technologies or new technology solutions.

International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials IV

http://www.fatiguedamage-iv.com/

Sept 22-27, Hyannis, MA, USA.

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives: ICLEI

http://www.iclei.org/

ICLEI is the international environmental agency for local governments.

International Precision Assembly Seminar: IPAS'2003

http://www.ipas2003.org

17-19 March 2003 Bad Hofgastein, (near Salzburg) Austria.

Call for papers.

Internet News Bureau

http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/

A place to send, and sign up for, press releases.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl.org/02-summer/

The Summer 2002 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available.

JA-SIG

http://www.ja-sig.org/

"The Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is an independent organization designed to increase the flow of information between educational institutions and companies involved in the development of administrative applications using Java technology. "

Jenzabar

http://www.jenzabar.com/

"Our Internet enterprise software, e-learning solutions, and services deliver a competitive edge to higher education institutions..."

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

http://www.jpgmonline.com/

"Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Print ISSN 0022-3859, CD ISSN 0972-2823), a multidisciplinary quarterly biomedical journal, is one of the oldest medical journals from India. The journal is official publication of the Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India. The journal is published, managed and funded by Medknow Publications, Mumbai, India. "

Kluwer Alert

http://www.kluweralert.com/

The latest research developments in your field of interest -- including journal tables of contents and announcements about new books, journals and other products as soon as they become available.

Latin America Links.com

http://www.latinamericalinks.com/

Sites covering all subjects about Latin America.

Library orientated portals solutions

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch/reports/tsw_02-03.pdf

A new Technology and Standards Watch Report.

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

http://www.renewnyc.com/index.shtml

"The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was created in the aftermath of September 11th by Governor Pataki and then-Mayor Giuliani to help plan and coordinate the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan, defined as everything south of Houston Street. "

Manufactured Housing Institute

http://www.manufacturedhousing.org/default.asp

MHI is the national trade organization representing all segments of the factory-built housing industry.

MedHist

http://medhist.ac.uk/

The guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet.

MedHist is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge. MedHist is aimed principally at students and staff working within the further and higher education sectors, and also at anyone with a general interest in the subject area. MedHist is affiliated to the BIOME life sciences hub and the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), but is developed and managed by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust.

Michigan Teacher Network

http://mtn.merit.edu/

The Michigan Teacher Network provides easy access to quality reviewed and selected K-12 Web resources based on their relevance, practicality, and overall quality. The collection includes over 7,000 resources reviewed by Michigan content area librarians as well as information and links for upcoming educational conferences, area events, and job listings. There is a strong focus on promoting and sharing information on Michigan resources in addition to highlighting Michigan educational organizations, groups, and learning opportunities.

Microwho.com.

http://microwho.com/

A World Search Engine and Portal Link Directory.

Military Book Titles

http://www.militaryink.com/

"A single source comprehensive listing of books published each month on topics regarding the military."

National Academies

http://www.nas.edu/

A US site, this is a guide to help you find more information about the National Academies. The National Academies consist of four organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

National Geographic Photography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/

National Geographic's new Photography Guide

New Scientist Graduate

http://www.newscientistjobs.com/graduate/

"Newscientistjobs.com is the most effective place to recruit science & technology professionals online. At December 2000, registered users exceeded 350,000"

News Agencies on the Web

http://www.freepint.com/issues/250702.htm#feature

An article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Sam Vaknin.

Open eBook Forum: OeB

http://www.openebook.org/

An International Trade and Standards Organization for the eBook Industry.

Proofreading by English Index

http://www.englishindex.com/

Approved University Editing Service

QuickStudy: Library Research Guide

http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/

An interesting study guide from the University of Minnesota Libraries.

rainer eschen web.solutions

http://www.researchsuite.com/

"The approach client-side search engine allows it to create web-based search engines without use of server software or CGI. It is possible to use the same search engine - without any changes - online (on http-server in Internet/Intranet) or offline (on CDROM, hard disk or disk)."

Researchers' Forum

http://www.researchersforum.gov.uk/

The Researchers' Forum has been developed by the UK Office of Science and Technology.

If you are a researcher, registering with this free Forum allows you to take part in online discussions on a research topic of your choice.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

Links to free on line guides, books and articles about various research methods, such as surveys, interviews, observations. Also links to research about methods, to resources on how to present data, and to free software.

Sapling

http://www.sapling.org.uk/

The Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway.

Scottish Council of National Training Organisations: SCONTO

http://www.sconto.org.uk/

The Scottish Council of National Training Organisations (SCONTO) provides leadership, guidance and practical support to Sector Skills Councils and organisations formerly recognised by Government as National Training Organisations in Scotland.

SD Gateway

http://www.sdgateway.net/

"The SD Gateway integrates the on-line information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network.

In addition to over 1,200 documents available in SD Topics, we provide services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing lists (listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development."

Search-22

http://www.search-22.com/

A meta-search engine, which also has a reference search facility.

SkillClear

http://www.skillclear.co.uk/

The resource for Work Permits and Visa Clearance from the Skills Shortage Clearance Centre.

Social, Economic and Political Change

http://gsociology.icaap.org/

Links to free resources for studying long term large scale change in social, political and economic systems. Links to data, research, theory, history sites, etc. Also includes a review of theories and research of change, and a review of current world demographic changes.

Software Technology Outreach

http://www.st-outreach.org.uk/

ST Outreach is a joint Department of Trade and Industry/EPSRC initiative which gives business people a chance to hear about the latest practical research on Software from UK Universities.

sparking reaction

http://www.sparkingreaction.info/

This website looks at the complex issues surrounding the way we generate our electricity and at nuclear power in particular.

Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001: SENDA

http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/directions/issue4/senda.html

From the UK Centre for Legal Education, information about the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001.

" The Act introduces the right for disabled students not to be discriminated against in education, training and any services provided wholly or mainly for students or those enrolled on courses when this is provided by certain 'responsible bodies'. The governing bodies of further and higher education institutions, including sixth form colleges, fall under the category of 'responsible bodies' in the Act. "

Sports Venue Technology

http://www.sportsvenue-technology.com/

A website for the sports industry.

Student centred Learning (ScL) in Construction Education (SLICE) Project.

http://home.plymouth.ac.uk/SLICE/

"Many staff have a perception that developing S-cL will take up huge amounts of time and money. This is certainly true if you are starting from scratch, but many staff have developed S-cL materials already sometimes without realising it. One of the purposes of the SLICE Project is to demonstrate that effective S-cL packages can be developed by adapting existing materials."

Thomson NETg UK

http://www.netg.co.uk/

"NETg is a Thomson Learning Company and worldwide leader in corporate learning solutions."

TOXINZ

http://www.toxinz.com/

"TOXINZ is an Internet database containing information regarding toxic compounds and the management of poisoned patients. Under construction to meet Australasian requirements the database contains some 60,000 listed chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plants and hazardous creatures; and is rapidly expanding to accommodate more."

TWI: The Welding Institute

http://www.twi.co.uk/

The TWI site has been redesigned.

TWI's website is the world's most extensive online source of information and advice on welding and joining of engineering materials.

UK Government Information on the Web

http://www.freepint.com/issues/220802.htm#feature

An article in a recent issue of Free Pint, by Sarah Dillingham.

UK Sustainable Development Commission

http://www.sd-commission.gov.uk/

The Commission's main role is to advocate sustainable development across all sectors in the UK, review progress towards it, and build consensus on the actions needed if further progress is to be achieved.

Vinyl By Design

http://www.vinylbydesign.com/

Vinyl By Design is an online resource for building design professionals that highlights the uses and benefits of various vinyl building materials.

Willco Limited

http://www.willco.com/

Willco supply a range of community modules covering all aspects of online community creation and management.

World Advertising Research Center

http://www.warc.com/

"The World Advertising Research Center (WARC) is the leading supplier of intelligence to the global marketing, advertising, media and research communities. "

World Road Association: PIARC

http://www.piarc.lcpc.fr/

The World Road Association (PIARC) deals with road infrastructure planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation.

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.

Sapling, the Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway
http://www.sapling.org.uk/gateway/

The colours are rather garish, and the acronym a bit convoluted, but this gateway to architecture, planning and landscape information works quite well in providing news headlines, other information and links to the main Internet resources in the subjects covered.

Roddy MacLeod

PRESS RELEASES

**** U.S. Department of Energy Proposes to Discontinue PubSCIENCE ****

Since its inception in 1999, PubSCIENCE (<http://pubsci.osti.gov/>) has provided researchers and science-attentive citizens access to bibliographic records of peer-reviewed journal literature relating to DOE-supported work, addressing the need for a searchable gateway for the Department's Web patrons. Based on an extensive public/private sector collaboration, PubSCIENCE has covered journals of participating science publishers, including hyperlinks to the full text on publishers' servers. PubSCIENCE was developed by DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information and made available to the American public in partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

More recently, private sector information products have emerged that freely offer bibliographic records to Web patrons. Provider systems such as Scirus and Infotrieve have progressively increased the availability of freely searchable citations, and this trend is anticipated to continue. A recent comparison of the content between PubSCIENCE and Scirus and Infotrieve showed that 90% of the journal literature in the scope of PubSCIENCE was covered by these two products. Taken as a whole, they provide coverage of information for DOE Web patrons.

As a result of these findings DOE is hereby proposing to discontinue PubSCIENCE. Comments on this proposed action will be collected using the comment form available on this Web site for a 30-day comment period to end September 8, 2002. Comments received will be considered in the final decision process for the future of PubSCIENCE.

Comments may be directed to pubscience@osti.gov.

**** IOP adopts OAI technical framework ****

On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I’m pleased to announce our recent implementation of the Open Archives Initiative technical framework for our Electronic Journals service (http://www.iop.org/EJ).

As you may know, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) ‘develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content’. The key standard promoted by the initiative focuses on content providers making metadata records available in a common format - the Dublin Core Element Set. We are pleased to confirm that we have adopted this standard here at the Institute and metadata records for our article abstracts are now available in this format. They can be‘harvested’ from our server on request.

This news will be of interest to a range of individuals and organizations including the E-Print community, fellow publishers and A & I service providers. It is also relevant to you if your institution subscribes to our journals and you wish to harvest our abstract data with a view to loading it locally and/or adding elements of it to your OPAC.

If are interested, please contact custserv@iop.org in the first instance.

Further information on the Open Archives Initiative can be found online at http://www.openarchives.org.

Lucy Pearce
Senior Product Manager
Institute of Physics Publishing

www.iop.org
custserv@iop.org

**** Award-winning scientific search engine, Scirus, and Fast deliver improved search experience for researchers ****

OSLO, Norway, 21 August 2002 - Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information, announced in conjunction with Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time filtering technologies, a new release of Scirus, the Web search engine dedicated to science. The new version improves the user experience with more subject-specific content and features like expanded information types, dynamic teasers which highlight the search terms within the search result list, and improved relevance ranking.

The full press release is at: http://www.fast.no/press/press_display.asp?pr_rel=150

Scirus is at: http://www.scirus.com/

**** The Scientist Launches New Website ****

The Scientist, an international news magazine for life scientists, has launched a completely new design for its Web site, (www.the-scientist.com) to reflect the new format and style adopted by the print publication last January.

The site's fresh design effectively present it's bi-weekly content and provides easy navigation for its audience of more than 425,000 registered users. A daily news service, where reporters from London and New York report on breaking news in the world of science, is just one new feature implemented to encourage users to visit more frequently.

The 16-year full-text archive of The Scientist back issues has also been completed. This electronic archive makes the earliest issues from the 1980s available, offering a fascinating glimpse of the concerns of scientists over the years. "We take considerable pride in being able to make our entire archive available to anyone, free of charge," states Alexander Grimwade, Publisher.

The newly designed site is, effectively, the fourth generation of The Scientist on the Web. In 1992 - almost prehistoric to Internet time - The Scientist launched an experiment with the National Science Foundation whereby text files of each issue were provided through a Gopher site. Nowadays, Gopher seems quaint, but in the late '80s it was the height of Internet sophistication. Through this service, The Scientist was the first regularly published periodical available in full text on the Internet.

In 1995, The Scientist started its own website in partnership with the library of the University of Pennsylvania. Then in 2000, the Website was moved to a commercial provider using the current domain name, www.the-scientist.com.

Now the design has changed again, boasting easier navigation, daily news and the complete, full-text archive. Unlimited access is free, with just a simple registration process required. The Scientist strongly encourages everyone to visit the site, not only for the latest news and features, but also for the valuable perspective it offers on the development in the scientific field.

For more information about The Scientist, visit: www.the-scientist.com

CONTACT:

The Scientist
Amanda Addis, Marketing Director
Tel: 215-386-9601 ext. 3027
Fax: 215-386-8712
aaddis@the-scientist.com
www.the-scientist.com

NETWORK NEWS

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/information/news/index.html

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/whatsnew.htm

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

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

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AHDS Newsletter

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BOOK REVIEW

Review of:

Getting and staying noticed on the web: your web promotion questions answered
By Phil Bradley
facet publishing
2002
ISBN: 1-85604-455-6
£29.95

Who is Phil Bradley?

He's a well known independent consultant. He writes a monthly Question and Answer column in CILIP Update (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), which I never fail to read.

Do you know him?

I've met him a few times. He chaired an 'Ask the experts' session at Online 2001 in which I took part.

What about this new book, then?

He has written an entire book "Getting and staying noticed on the web: your web promotion questions answered" in a question and answer format.

Does he ever get tired of the question and answer format?

I don't know

Is the Q & A format effective for this new book?

I think it works very well.

How many pages are there in the book?

Two hundred and nineteen.

Do you mean to say that he keeps up the format for two hundred and nineteen pages?

Just about. Even the chapter descriptions list the questions in each section. Though I should point out that the brief index, and the Author's introduction, are normal text.

What is the book about?

It is about how to promote web sites.

Is that all?

Well, promoting your web site is very important. What is the point of spending time and effort producing a web site if no-one knows about it or can find it?

I'll ask the questions, if you don't mind? What sort of topics does he cover?

Everything from why you might want a web site, what its domain name should be, why branding is important, what its content should include, how to register with search engines, how to make the most of images, what features to offer, how to use mailing lists to publicise your site, whether bulk e-mailing is useful, how to utilise banners, how to make the most of traditional promotion services, how to write effective press releases and where to send them, how to deal with competition, and how to monitor success.

Can you quote me a typical question?

If I do, it will be in the form of a question.

That's OK. You don't expect me to answer it do you?

OK, then, here's one: "Are there any types of pages that will be ignored by a search engine?"

And what's the answer?

Its a fairly long answer in this particular case. You can find it on page 70.

Who should read this book?

I think that anyone who has produced, or is thinking of producing, a web site should read it. Anyone who is involved, in any way, in Internet marketing will find it invaluable.

Is it worth £29.95?

When you consider how much it can cost to produce a web site, investing less than thirty Pounds to find out how to promote it can be seen as a bargain.

Does Phil Bradley get tired of asking and answering questions?

You can ask him yourself. His web site is http://www.philb.com/

R.M.

 

RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Recent Arrivals

001.645 MCG
Wrestling legacy data to the Web & beyond
by P.C. McGrew and W.D. McDaniel
MC2 books, 2001

004.019 CAS
The Internet galaxy
by Manuel Castells
Oxford University Press, 2001

004.6 FOS
The Grid: Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
Morgan Kaufmann, 1999

005.276 CER
Web services essentials
by Ethan Cerami
O'Reilly, 2002

005.276 FIE
Web development with java server pages
by Duane K Fields, Mark A Kolb and Shawn Bayern
2nd ed, Manning, 2002

005.8 TEM
Internet and wireless security
edited by Robert Temple and John Regnault
BT Exact, 2002

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

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