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Nice Web Site Archive

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 pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites are normally UK based, may be small or large, and are of interest or potential interest to academics. Below is a listing of the "Nice Web Sites" which have featured in the newsletter, together with a link to our review of the site.

December 2009

TechJournalContents
[ REVIEW ]

Trove
[ REVIEW ]

Microsoft Academic Search
[ REVIEW ]

November 2009

ResearchScope
[ REVIEW ]

Welsh Repository Network
[ REVIEW ]

October 2009

Mendeley
[ REVIEW ]

September 2009

Bus Tracker Edinburgh
[ REVIEW ]

August 2009

spezify
[ REVIEW ]

June 2009

Springer Exemplar
[ REVIEW ]

May 2009

Harvesters - national and international
[ REVIEW ]

INIS Database
[ REVIEW ]

April 2009

TweetDeck
[ REVIEW ]

March 2009

JURN
[ REVIEW ]

novo|seek
[ REVIEW ]

January/February 2009

TwitterSearch
[ REVIEW ]

December 2008

SciFeeds
[ REVIEW ]

ticTOCs - Tables of Contents Service
[ REVIEW ]

CiteULike Current Issues
[ REVIEW ]

FeedNavigator
[ REVIEW ]

MyJournals.org
[ REVIEW ]

Zetoc RSS
[ REVIEW ]

November 2008

nzresearch.org.nz
[ REVIEW ]

October 2008

Nature databases and gateways
[ REVIEW ]

nanoHUB
[ REVIEW ]

September 2008

OpenSIGLE
[ REVIEW ]

IET Discover
[ REVIEW ]

August 2008

Wordle
[ REVIEW ]

DRIVER Search
[ REVIEW ]

July 2008

yougofurther
[ REVIEW ]

June 2008

ARROW Discovery Service
[ REVIEW ]

UK Government Information on the Internet
[ REVIEW ]

Open Access Journal Collection from Sabinet
[ REVIEW ]

May 2008

ScienceWatch
[ REVIEW ]

March/April 2008

MasterKey Power Search
[ REVIEW ]

February 2008

Times Higher Education
[ REVIEW ]

January 2008

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
[ REVIEW ]

December 2007

Smashing Magazine
[ REVIEW ]

November 2007

Google Guide
[ REVIEW ]

Chipwrapper
[ REVIEW ]

October 2007

Patent Lens
[ REVIEW ]

September 2007

The European Library
[ REVIEW ]

August 2007

Journal Info
[ REVIEW ]

July 2007

OpenCourseWare Finder
[ REVIEW ]

scitopia.org
[ REVIEW ]

June 2007

morgueFile
[ REVIEW ]

May 2007

Scribd
[ REVIEW ]

The Depot
[ REVIEW ]

April 2007

What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education
 [ REVIEW ]

March 2007

CiteBite
 [ REVIEW ]

 
February 2007

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #105
 [ REVIEW ]

 
 
December 2006

iMechanica
 [ REVIEW ]

CR4
 [ REVIEW ]

November 2006

Hebridean Connections
 [ REVIEW ]

October 2006

BioWizard
 [ REVIEW ]

August/September 2006

ChemSpy.com
 [ REVIEW ]

MineralsUK
 [ REVIEW ]

 
July 2006

Internet Librarian International 2006
 [ REVIEW ]

 
 
 
June 2006

Alacra Wiki
 [ REVIEW ]

Top 10 Sources
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
 
May 2006

NewPR Wiki
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
April 2006

Open J-Gate
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
March 2006

HighBeam
[ REVIEW ]

NARCIS
[ REVIEW ]

February 2006

CiteULike
[ REVIEW ]

 
January 2006

TagCloud
[ REVIEW ]

Shadows
[ REVIEW ]

Digg
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
December 2005

Netvibes
[ REVIEW ]

ingenious
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
November 2005

CCLRC ePublication Archive
[ REVIEW ]

ESRC Society Today
[ REVIEW ]

IEE Digital Library
[ REVIEW ]

ITI-InfoCentral
[ REVIEW ]

J-STAGE
[ REVIEW ]

Science Conferences
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
October 2005

Petroleum Journals Online
[ REVIEW ]

 
September 2005

Lulu
[ REVIEW ]

 
August 2005

Info@UK
[ REVIEW ]

 
July 2005

Arrow National Discovery Service
[ REVIEW ]

 
June 2005

EEVL Xtra
[ REVIEW ]

 
May 2005

Creative Commons
[ REVIEW ]

 
April 2005

TheyWorkForYou.com
[ REVIEW ]

 
March 2005

EServer TC Library
[ REVIEW ]

 
January 2005

Common Information Environment
[ REVIEW ]

December 2004

CSA Illumina
[ REVIEW ]

 
 
November 2004

Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching
[ REVIEW ]

October 2004

AERADE
[ REVIEW ]

August 2004

Scientific Publications: Free for all
[ REVIEW ]

July 2004

CompleteRSS
[ REVIEW ]

IHS University Resource Centre
[ REVIEW ]

RSS(sm): Rich Site Services
[ REVIEW ]

June 2004

DOAJI Search
[ REVIEW ]

May 2004

Access to the literature: the debate continues
[ REVIEW ]

FreeFullText.com
[ REVIEW ]

 

April 2004

March 2004
 

RecycleWood
[ REVIEW ]

Scotland’s Culture
[ REVIEW ]

January 2004

Big List of Blog Search Engines
[ REVIEW ]

December 2003
 

OneStep Industry News
[ REVIEW ]

 
November 2003

Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing
[ REVIEW ]

October 2003

scenta
[ REVIEW ]

September 2003

Picsearch
[ REVIEW ]

Daypop Top 40
[ REVIEW ]

 
August 2003

Technorati
[ REVIEW ]

Mapping the JISC IE service landscape
[ REVIEW ]

June 2003
 
May 2003
 
 
April 2003
 
 
March 2003
 
February 2003
 
 
January 2003

SpamArchive.org
[ REVIEW ]

Eprintblog
[ REVIEW ]

December 2002
 
 
October 2002
 
 
September 2002
 
 
August 2002
 
 
July 2002
 
 
May 2002
 
 
March 2002
 
 
February 2002
 
 
January 2002

December 2001

Managing Information
[ REVIEW ]

November 2001
 
 
October 2001

Electronic Journal Minder
[ REVIEW ]

SciTechResources.gov
[ REVIEW ]

Info@UK
[ REVIEW ]

 
August 2001

Teoma
[ REVIEW ]

July 2001

SurfIP
[ REVIEW ]

June 2001

Virtual Training Suite (VTS)
[ REVIEW ]

May 2001

CrossRef: A Collaborative Linking Network
[ REVIEW ]

Future e-access to the primary literature
[ REVIEW ]

April 2001

HERO
[ REVIEW ]

March 2001

British Library Public Catalogue
[ REVIEW ]

Government Gateway
[ REVIEW ]

February 2001

HSE Bookfinder
[ REVIEW ]

January 2001

£5,000 worth of new engineering books, absolutely free!
[ REVIEW ]

December 2000

No Nice Web Sites this month: several sites of note instead

November 2000

ZETOC
[ REVIEW ]

Information Retrieval Skills for Distance Learners
[ REVIEW

October 2000

BIOME
[ REVIEW ]

GreyLit Network
[ REVIEW ]

September 2000
 

Mining Environment Database
[ REVIEW ]

August 2000

RDN Virtual Training Suite
[ REVIEW ]

ETDEWEB
[ REVIEW ]

FindArticles.com
[ REVIEW ]

 
July 2000

National Statistics
[ REVIEW ]

June 2000
 

xrefer
[ REVIEW ]

May 2000
 

LateRooms.com
[ REVIEW ]

April 2000
 

i-engineering.com
[ REVIEW ]

Engineeringtalk.co
[ REVIEW ]

E4Engineering
[ REVIEW ]

March 2000
 

WorldSkip.com
[ REVIEW ]

February 2000
 

Community of Science: United Kingdom
[ REVIEW ]

January 2000
 

Good Book Guide
[ REVIEW ]

December 1999
 

The Nutshell
[ REVIEW ]

November 1999
 

Dialog's Business, Science, and Technology Portals
[ REVIEW ]

October 1999
 

EEVL Challenge
[ REVIEW ]

September 1999
 

Design Council
[ REVIEW ]

August 1999
 

BookWeb
[ REVIEW ]

July 1999
 

psci-com
[ REVIEW ]

June 1999
 

JoinIT
[ REVIEW ]

May 1999
 

Book Search Engine
[ REVIEW ]

Web Wise: BBC Education's guide to the Internet
[ REVIEW ]

April 1999
 

Polymer Search on the Internet
[ REVIEW ]

March 1999
 

History On-Line
[ REVIEW ]

February 1999
 

Internet Learning Materials for MBA Students
[ REVIEW ]

January 1999
 

Safety98
[ REVIEW ]

December 1998
 

Technology Ventures
[ REVIEW ]

ID21 Development Research reporting service
[ REVIEW ]

November 1998
 

esp@cenet
[ REVIEW ]

PubList.com
[ REVIEW ]

October 1998
 

Internet Detective
[ REVIEW ]

Distance Education in Rural Areas via Libraries: DERAL
[ REVIEW ]

September 1998
 

BSI Standards Electronic Catalogue
[ REVIEW ]

Chemsoc
[ REVIEW ]

August 1998
 

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: INASP
[ REVIEW ]

Distance Learner Support Service: UK Academic Libraries' Access Policies
[ REVIEW ]

July 1998
 

Information Retrieval in Chemistry
[ REVIEW ]

June 1998
 

Book Aid International
[ REVIEW ]

May 1998
 

Bubl 5:15
[ REVIEW ]

Engineering E-journal Search Engine
[ REVIEW ]

BIDS ISI AutoJournals
[ REVIEW ]

April 1998
 

rswww.com (RS Components)
[ REVIEW ]

March 1998
 

BOOKNews on the Internet
[ REVIEW ]

February 1998
 

EUbusiness - European Union business information
[ REVIEW ]

AlphaSearch
[ REVIEW ]

January 1998
 

Library & Information Statistics Tables (LIST)
[ REVIEW ]

Research Index
[ REVIEW ]

December 1997
 

TAFIS (Tayside And Fife Information Skills network)
[ REVIEW ]

UK Company News
[ REVIEW ]

November 1997
 

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
[ REVIEW ]

Computer Forum
[ REVIEW ]

October 1997
 

StudentZone
[ REVIEW ]

September 1997
 

ILI
[ REVIEW ]

ESDU International plc
[ REVIEW ]

August 1997
 

The Alchemist
[ REVIEW ]

July 1997
 

Concrete Society
[ REVIEW ]

June 1997
 

WS Atkins
[ REVIEW ]

May 1997
 

The Courier (aka The Courier & Advertiser, Dundee)
[ REVIEW ]

April 1997
 

UK Offshore Operators Association
[ REVIEW ]

March 1997
 

Timetables On-Line
[ REVIEW ]

All-in-one UK Timetable
[ REVIEW ]

February 1997
 

Association of Consulting Engineers
[ REVIEW ]

The NEC European Home Page
[ REVIEW ]

Jenkins Newell Dunford Ltd.
[ REVIEW ]

November 1996
 

UK Building Resource Pages
[ REVIEW ]

October 1996
 

Applegate Media
[ REVIEW ]

September 1996
 

Pharmaceuticals Today
[ REVIEW ]

August 1996
 

The British Council
[ REVIEW ]

Resource Discovery on the MANs of Scotland
[ REVIEW ]

July 1996
 

Chemistry & Industry Magazine
[ REVIEW ]

June 1996
 

Navigating the World Wide Web, by Roy Davies
[ REVIEW ]

May 1996
 

Electronics Weekly Hyperactive
[ REVIEW ]

UK Industry Web Pages
[ REVIEW ]

April 1996
 

Electrical Review's World Wide Web home page
[ REVIEW ]

the frame
[ REVIEW ]

March 1996
 

Zetnet Internet Services
[ REVIEW ]

February 1996
 

Flow Simulation
[ REVIEW ]

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