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ISSUE 138- CONTENTS

1.  COMMENT
Random Quotes
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
News items of interest
If you only read one thing this month, read...
and if you're a librarian, read...
and if you're interested in digital repositories, read...
Shopbots


2.  A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites


3.  NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: HighBeam, and NARCIS


4.  BLOGORAMA
News of Weblogs, RSS, etc
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds


5.  PRESS RELEASES
Emerald leads new JISC RSS project to push Table of Contents into
library catalogues


6.  RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Recent arrivals


7.  FOCUS ON?
Ovid Mental Health Collection

8.  GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours


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1.  COMMENT
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Random Quotes
"Web 2.0 is about the more human aspects of interactivity. It?s about
conversations, interpersonal networking, personalization, and
individualism." Stephen Abram, MLS, SirsiDynix vice president of
Innovation. Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the
2.0 World
http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000505688.cfm?x=b6yRqLJ,b2rpQhRM

"Sharing information is everywhere. Right across the generations
people are sharing and organising music files on their ipods, sharing
and tagging their photographs online or collaboratively editing an
online encyclopedia. They share metadata in blogs and apply tags to
social bookmarking tools." Annabel Colley, Library + Information
Update, Vol 5 (1-2) p. 6.

"Tags are a means not only to remember links, but also to discover
content tagged by others, to target searches and advertising, to
connect people of common interests, and even to collect the wisdom of
the crowds." Jeff Jarvis, Guardian Unlimited.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1676391,00.html

"Thus, deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished
much of their fundamental and sustaining role. For most people,
including academicians, the library - in its most basic function as a
source of information - has become overwhelmingly a virtual
destination." Jerry D Campbell, Educause Review,
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp

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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

FRANCIS is available on CSA Illumina
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=3472&Pid=10&Zid=2325&issueno=112
Francis, a humanities and social sciences database is now available on
CSA Illumina.
From UKSG Serials-eNews.
More information about Francis is available at: http://info.csa.com/francis/

HighBeam Research upgrades
HighBeam Research has added upgrades to its collection of content on
HighBeam Research Engine, offering 1.5 million full-text articles to
individual researchers for free.
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=3472&Pid=10&Zid=2327&issueno=112
From UKSG Serials-eNews

Ad-Supported Free Books Arrive
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060213-1.shtml
Perhaps information really does want to be free. Citing the desire to
create new revenue streams for authors, mega-publisher HarperCollins
(http://www.harpercollins.com) has announced the first free Web-based,
ad-supported, full-text business book.
From: eContent.

Inderscience launches nine new peer-reviewed journals
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=1736&pi
ckUpBatch=321#1736
Scientific publisher Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, has
announced the launch of nine new peer-reviewed journal titles. The
quarterly journals are available in print and online at
http://www.inderscience.com.
From Knowledgespeak

If you only read one thing this month, read...

Ariadne, 46, February 2006:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/
The whole of this issue of Ariadne is of much interest to anyone
wanting to know the latest thinking on scholarly publishing, search
engines, and more. Essential reading!
In particular, I recommend the following articles in this Decennial issue:

The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After, by Lorcan Dempsey
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dempsey/

Google Challenges for Academic Libraries, by John MacColl
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/maccoll/

Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice, by Derek Law
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/law/

and if you're a librarian, read...

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual
Destination http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp
In Educause Review

and if you're interested in digital repositories, read...

Digital repositories in UK universities and colleges, By Neil Jacobs
http://www.freepint.com/issues/160206.htm#feature
FreePint, Issue 200.

Shopbots
According to the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shop_bot "Shop
bots are autonomous software agents that crawl through the web and
look for specific information, like prices for similar products from
different vendors."
Here are some which were mentioned in a recent Guardian feature:

kelkoo
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/

PriceRunner
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/

Shopping.net
http://www.shopping.net/

Froogle UK
http://froogle.google.co.uk/

Zencudo
http://www.zencudo.co.uk/

PriceGrabber
http://www.pricegrabber.co.uk/


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2.  A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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1st International Conference on Digital Information Management: ICDIM
http://www.icdim.org/
December 06-08, 2006 Christ College, Bangalore, India.

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28th European Conference on Information Retrieval
http://ecir2006.soi.city.ac.uk/
Imperial College London between Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th April 2006
The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) is
the main European forum for the presentation of new research results
in the field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the
submission of high quality research papers reporting original,
previously unpublished results.

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6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing: RASC 2006
http://www.rasc2006.org.uk/
The 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing,
RASC 2006, will be hosted by the Department of Electronics at the
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, on the 10th, 11th, and 12th July 2006.

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A2A
http://www.a2a.org.uk/
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally
throughout England and dating from the eighth century to the present
day. ?The A2A database was last updated in January 2006 and now
contains 9.5 million records relating to 8.7 million items held in 396
record offices and other repositories.?

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AACSB International
http://www.aacsb.edu/
AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business is a not-for-profit corporation of educational institutions,
corporations and other organizations devoted to the promotion and
improvement of higher education in business administration and management.

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AbbreviationZ.com
http://abbreviationz.com/
?Launched on 2001, AbbreviationZ.com is the largest human-edited
acronyms and abbreviations directory on the internet with more than
350,000 entries classified by over 120 different categories and
sub-categories.

The new innovative meta-search feature allows users, who are searching
for acronyms and abbreviations definitions on the local
AbbreviationZ.com directory, to locate additional meanings on the
internet by using a meta-search engine, which is based on proprietary
natural-language-processing algorithms, that lookup and parse multiple
search-engines simultaneously.?

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Academia
http://www.ybp.com/acad/index.html
A magazine and resource for academic librarians.

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Accessibility Resources
http://www.accessibilityresources.info/
A Subject Tracer Information Blog from Internet expert, author,
keynote speaker, and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for
monitoring accessibility resources on the World Wide Web.

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AfricanIndex
http://www.africanindex.com/
The mission of AfricanIndex is to maintain a network of regional,
local and international organizations serving the African Market worldwide.

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Ariadne: Decennial Issue
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/
The Decennial Issue, no. 46, of Ariadne has now been published.
This issue contains many articles of interest to academics.

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Ask Jeeves Picture Search
http://pictures.ask.com/
A new picture search service.

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AskPhilosophers
http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/
?This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the
service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might
be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it. To
date, there have been 907 questions posted and 1231 responses.?

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Awareness Watch
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N2.pdf
The February 2006 V4N2 Awareness Watch? Newsletter is available. The
title is Deep Web Research 2006.

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Biology Direct
http://www.biology-direct.com/
Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, and
reviews from the full spectrum of biology.

?Biology Direct aims to provide authors and readers of research
articles with a novel system of peer review. This will include making
the author responsible for obtaining reviewers' reports, via the
journal's Editorial Board; making the peer review process open rather
than anonymous; and publishing the reviewers' reports along with the
articles, thus increasing both the responsibility and the reward of
the referees and eliminating sources of abuse in the refereeing process?

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Blended Learning Conference
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/List_4033.htm
15 June 2006, University of Hertfordshire. The objectives of this
conference are to share and discuss practice and to generate and
capture new insights into Blended Learning and institutional change.

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BlogBridge
http://www.blogbridge.com/
The BlogBridge UI was designed for you to easily categorize your news
feeds, your blogs or your data feeds

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BMD-Certificates
http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/
They locate and obtain UK (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland) birth, marriage or death certificates.

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Campaign for Normal Birth
http://www.rcmnormalbirth.net/
The Campaign aims to inspire and support normal birth practice.

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Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp
By Jerry D. Campbell, in Educause Review.

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Charleston Advisor
http://charlestonco.com/toc.cfm?iss=v7n3
The January 2006 issue is available. Critical reviews of web products
for information professionals.

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Cites & Insights 6:3 and 6.4
http://cites.boisestate.edu/
The February 2006 issue is now available for downloading. Includes a
Follow-up Perspective: Beyond 'Library 2.0 and "Library 2.0"'.
The March issue is also available, with a Perspective on: Folksonomy
and Dichotomy.

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Deep Web Research Research 2006
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2006.htm
An article by Marcus P. Zillman in LLRX.

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Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges
http://www.freepint.com/issues/160206.htm#feature
A recent article in Free Pint, by Neil Jacobs.

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D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/01contents.html
The January 2006 issue is available, with articles on folksonomies,
thumbnails and metadata aggregation services, etc.

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dohop
http://www.dohop.com/
dohop.com searches more than 660 airlines around the world for the
best flights and connections.

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DTI Knowledge Transfer Networks
http://amf.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/KTN/
From here you can find out more about KTN's nd the KTN Platform; it's
free-for-members-to-use tools including: online conference calling,
presenting and sharing; business collaboration system and powerful newsfeeds.

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Education Podcast Network
http://epnweb.org/
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one
place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to
teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore
issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

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Electronic courseware in higher education
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/minielli/index.html
An article by Maureen C. Minielli and S. Pixy Ferris which appeared in
FirstMonday, September 2005.

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Electronic Literature Organization: ELO
http://www.eliterature.org/
Found via Marcus P. Zillman?s blog
?The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the
writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its
formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist
writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider,
global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure
necessary to reach one another.?

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Energy Academy
http://www.pet.hw.ac.uk/ea/
The Heriot Watt University Energy Academy is a pan-university
initiative supported by all Schools at the Edinburgh, Orkney and
Borders campuses. It has two principal objectives. Firstly, to
consolidate energy research activities and facilitate
interdisciplinary programmes, both within the university and with
other HEIs. Secondly to ensure external parties can easily gain an
appreciation of our vision, skills-base and active research projects.

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euroCRIS
http://www.eurocris.org/en/
euroCRIS has been established in Europe to be the internationally
recognized point of reference for all matters relating to CRIS:
Current Research Information Systems.

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Finding Articles Online
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3584851
An article in SearchEngineWatch, by Mary Ellen Bates.

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Flight
http://www.flightglobal.com/Home/
?Home to Flight, the world?s longest established name in aviation
media. The group brings together the leading international magazines
Flight International, Airline Business and Flight Daily News, which
can be found in the Professional area of this site, as well as the
Expert Air Transport Intelligence 24h aviation news service and the
ACAS fleet database.?

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Frye Leadership Institute
http://www.fryeinstitute.org/
The purpose of the Frye Leadership Institute is to develop creative
leaders to guide and transform academic information services for
higher education in the twenty-first century.

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Gateway to Archives of Scottish Higher Education: GASHE
http://www.gashe.ac.uk/
The GASHE project provides electronic access to descriptions of the
archives produced by ten higher education institutions and their
predecessors in Scotland, dating from 1215 to the present day.

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Geopassage Specialty Travel
http://www.geopassage.com/
?We are an innovative online travel company based in Austin, Texas
that offers you an unprecedented level of e-commerce capability,
control and customization in planning and booking your vacation
travel. GeoPassage.com actually enables people for the first time to
fully customize their vacations, either on or off-line, according to
their interests, needs and preferences, to any of GeoPassage's popular
world-wide destinations.?

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Google Maps, BBC Travel, Local News, Flickr, Weather & more...
http://www.dynamite.co.uk/local/
This prototype, primarily for BBC Backstage, demonstrates layering of
live geographic data onto Google Maps.
Recommended viewing!

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HighBeam Research Engine
http://www.highbeam.com/
?Search our extensive archive of more than 35 million documents from
over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from leading
publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years.?

The HighBeam Research Engine offers more than 1.5 million full-text
articles to individual researchers for free and adds extensive premium
reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University
Press and The Washington Post.

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HomeIn
http://www.homein.org/
A website developed by the NHBC Foundation that promotes best practice
use of innovative and non-conventional housing systems, components and
technologies.

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How To Evaluate a Web Source
http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/a/evaluatesource.htm
By Wendy Boswell.

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IADIS International Conference: Applied Computing 2006
http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/
San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 February 2006y 4 - 7, 2006

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ICTP Open Access Archive
http://eprints.ictp.it/
The ICTP Open Access Archive of the Science Dissemination Unit allows
scientists from anywhere to post on-line, at no cost, their scientific
work and scientific CV in electronic format.

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Information rights journal
http://www.foi.gov.uk/irj.htm
From the Department of Constitutional Affairs.
?We have launched a new information rights journal to provide
information rights practitioners with a round up of the latest
developments in the information rights field. The journal will provide
information on a wide range of issues across information rights as a
whole, uniting freedom of information, data protection and the
environmental information regulations.?

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Informer
http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/Informer17.pdf
The latest edition of Informer (the newsletter of the BCS Information
Retrieval Specialist Group) is now available.

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Institution of Structural Engineers Library
http://www.istructe.org.uk/library/index.asp
Catalogue search: Details of over 37,000 references on everything from
adhesives to zoos.

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International Fire Research and Innovation Network: IFRIN
http://www.ifrin.org/
The International Fire Research and Innovation Network aims to
facilitate co-operation and innovation in fire prevention, protection
and intervention.

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International Institute of Informatics and Systemics: IIIS
http://www.iiis.org/iiis/
The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), is a
nonprofit organization based in Venezuela, which examines and
contemplates the globalization process.

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JISC/CNI Meeting
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2006/
Envisioning future challenges in networked information
6-7 July 2006, York Moat House, York.
?It should be of interest to all senior management in information
systems in the education community and those responsible for
delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and
research.?

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JORUM User Service
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
The JORUM User Service, providing access to the resources, is now
available. UK Further and Higher Education institutions can sign up.
This service allows staff from registered institutions to search,
browse, preview, download, review, reuse and repurpose resources.
There are around 300 objects in the system, covering areas which
include ESOL, engineering, astronomy and creative arts.

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Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp
The main purpose of the Journal is to collaborate in the systemization
of knowledge and experience generated in the areas of Systemics,
Cybernetics (communication and control) and Informatics.

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Latin American Applied Research
http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0327-0793&ln
g=en&nrm=iso
Publication of the Universidad Nacional del Sur y Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
Mission: To publish original articles about Chemical Engineering,
Applied Chemistry, Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Mechanics, Control
and Information Processing.

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Learning languages online
http://www.freepint.com/issues/020206.htm#tips
An article in Free Pint, by Emma Thompson.

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Library + information Show
http://www.lishow.co.uk/
26-27 April, NEC, Birmingham, UK.

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Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
http://www.libsuccess.org/
?This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas and
information for all types of librarians. All over the world,
librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative
things with technology that no one outside of their library knows
about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information
about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this
information is collected and organized.?

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LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/
?LiveScience is an original content site focusing on the innovative
and intriguing in Science and Technology. Aimed at the intellectually
curious, it covers news, views and scientific inquiry with an
original, provocative point of view. With articles by respected
science journalists and contributors, LiveScience looks at new
discoveries, intellectual adventures and the idiosyncrasies of the
world that surrounds us.?

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London Book Fair
http://www.lbf-virtual.com/
5-7 March, London. LBF is the global publishing community?s leading
Spring forum for bookseller, publisher and librarian buyers and
specifiers worldwide.

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Materials Knowledge Transfer Network: KTN
http://www.materialsktn.net/
The web portal for the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).
The KTN is an overarching network of networks in Materials, set up to
bring together the views of all in business, designers, research and
technology organisations, trade associations, the financial market,
academia and others in the value network across the materials community.

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Mechanical Engineering Calculations
http://www.mechengcalculations.com/index.html
A website which offers on-line computing in mechanical engineering and
related disciplines.

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Moodle
http://moodle.org/
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source
software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help
educators create effective online learning communities. You can
download and use it on any computer you have handy (including
webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a
40,000-student University.

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Mountaineers Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/mtnweb/
These albums depict some of the first major expeditions of the
Mountaineers including the first major outing to Mt. Olympus in 1907.

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Museum of Modern Betas: MoMB
http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
The MoMB is a site dedicated to listing web-based applications on a beta trip.

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NARCIS
http://www.narcis.info/narcis/
National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System
NARCIS is the gateway to Dutch scientific information.
?Information produced by Dutch universities, research institutes, KNAW
and NWO is searchable here. In addition NARCIS is the entry par
excellence for scientists, policy makers, intermediary organisations,
journalists and the public for obtaining a survey on ongoing research
in the Netherlands.?

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newsroom archive catalogue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/archivecatalogue
The Newsroom has been collecting, housing and making available records
of the Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited since June 2002.
The material is owned by the charitable Scott Trust Foundation.

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Newton's Castle
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051308/index.htm
Explore Newton's Castle to learn about the discoveries and secret life
of Isaac Newton.

Learn about color, optical illusions, observations from nature and
fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and why dogs chase cars.

This site was created by students with their peers at the Thomas
Hepburn School in the UK.

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NOD - Dutch Research Database
http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/
The Dutch Research Database (NOD) is a publicly available online
database with information on scientific research, researchers and
research institutes. The NOD covers all scientific disciplines
(multidisciplinary).

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Obis Omni
http://www.obisomni.com/home/
Obis Omni members are responsible for business performance, data
management and customer insight across all organisations from leading
FTSE companies, SME?s and the Public Sector.

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OmniMedicalSearch.com
http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/
A health information metasearch engine, which has added Healthline as
its preferred provider for its selected search of health and medical websites.

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Open News Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/news/
?For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to
the UK public for a trial period. You can download nearly 80 news
reports covering iconic events of the past 50 years including the fall
of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting soldiers from Beijing's Tiananmen
Square and behind-the-scenes footage of the England team prior to
their victory over West Germany in 1966.?

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Open Proteomics Databases
http://bioinformatics.icmb.utexas.edu/OPD/
OPD is a public database for storing and disseminating mass
spectrometry based proteomics data. The database currently contains
roughly 1,200,000 spectra representing experiments from 4 different organisms.

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OpenCms
http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/
OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management
System. OpenCms helps to create and manage complex websites easily
without knowledge of html.

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OpenDOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
The OpenDOAR service is being developed to support the rapidly
emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. This
will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research
archives that have grown up around the world.

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OpenURL COinS: A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML
http://ocoins.info/
COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc community
specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

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Oz eTeachers' Wikiway to the World of e-Learning:
http://ozeteacher.wikispaces.com/
A Bridge to Possibilities in K-12 Education.
This guide is primarily designed to assist prospective Australian K-12
teachers. It is not designed to be an exhaustive library of K-12 sites
but a guide to a cross-section of areas in the field of K-12 ICT in
Education. Where possible, Australian content is placed at the top of
any section and free or very cheap resources are given priority.
It should be useful to teachers in other countries too.

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Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)
http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm
Summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking
habits and preferences.

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Picture Search
http://pictures.ask.com/
A service from Ask

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Pligg
http://www.pligg.com/
?Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other
existing CMS. Pligg's Web 2.0 user interface gives your visitors a
reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site's
content and giving them the chance to social network. By giving users
the ability to collaboratively submit and dismiss articles, you are
offering an experience that users are happy to take part in on a daily basis.?

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Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA '06
http://www.conf-info.org/pista06/website/default.asp
The 4rd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems,
Technologies and Applications: PISTA '06, July 20-23, 2006 ­ Orlando,
Florida, USA.

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Registry of Open Access Repositories: ROAR
http://archives.eprints.org/
Produced by Southampton University.

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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public
Health: RPSP/PAJPH
http://journal.paho.org/
The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of
Public Health (RPSP/PAJPH) is the flagship technical and scientific
periodical of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, which is the
Secretariat of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),
headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America.

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Rightscom
http://www.rightscom.com
Rightscom is a consultancy that specialises in the provision of
solutions for the management, trading and protection of intellectual
property rights and digital content in the network environment.

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Royal Institution of Great Britain
http://www.ri.ac.uk/
For over 200 years, the Ri has been 'diffusing science for the common
purposes of life'. A range of activities takes place under one roof,
from schools lectures to providing a forum for the general public,
through to a heritage programme, an arts-science initiative, a media
centre and state-of-the-art chemistry labs.

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RSS feeds for journal tables of contents
http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/techserv/ejrnl/rss.html
Useful list from the Library, University of Liverpool.

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Rural Community Gateway Website: RCGW
http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/
Scotland's Rural Gateway - your first stop for rural news, information
and networking.

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Sabifoo
http://www.sabifoo.com/
?Sabifoo makes it easier than ever to publish to the web. By combining
instant messaging with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a whole new
publishing infrastructure has been born. Now publishing to the world
is as simple as sending a message?

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ScienceBlogs
http://scienceblogs.com/
ScienceBlogs is the web's largest conversation about science. It
features blogs from a wide array of scientific disciplines, with new
voices coming on board regularly. It is a global, digital science salon.

ScienceBlogs is powered by Seed Media Group ? publishers of Seed
Magazine ? and is part of the Seed Digital Network, which also
includes Seedmagazine.com and Phylotaxis.com.

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Scottish Distributed Digital Library
http://scone.strath.ac.uk/sddl/index.htm
The library contains collections of texts, images, and sounds in
digital format, distributed over the World Wide Web, with Scottish themes.

All items in the collections are easy to access and do not require passwords.
Items include:

Scanned images of pages, and digital transcriptions, of printed books,
and documents created on computers;

Digital photographs and scanned images of photographs;
Scanned images of paintings and drawings;
Websites.

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Sens2B - Sensor to Business
http://www.sens2binternational.com/
A sensors portal. Read up-to-date sensor market news and search for
international sensor manufacturers and suppliers.

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Skills Framework for the Information Age: SFIA Foundation
http://www.sfia.org.uk/
The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) provides a common
reference model for the identification of the skills needed to develop
effective Information Systems (IS) making use of Information &
Communications Technology (ICT).

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Source-to-Output Repositories: StORe
http://jiscstore.jot.com/WikiHome
This project will address the area of interactions between output
repositories of research publications and source repositories of
primary research data.

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Tagging - the latest way to search the web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1676391,00.html
An article by Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian Unlimited.

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TechRepublic's White Paper Directory
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/
?TechRepublic's White Paper Directory is the Web's largest library of
technical IT white papers, webcasts, and case studies. Covering IT
categories including Data Management, IT Management, Networking,
Communications, Enterprise Applications, Storage, Security and much
more, TechRepublic's White Paper Directory is the best source for
technical white papers and IT information.?

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TelematicsWire
http://telematicswire.com
TelematicsWire publishes telematics specific news on a daily basis,
covering business and consumer issues, etc.

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Tempinbox.com
http://www.tempinbox.com/english/
Noted by Phil Bradley, in his column for Library + Information Update.
Tempinbox.com is a free, receive only e-mail service.

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Terasem Journals
http://www.terasemjournal.org/
The Terasem Journals include The Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology
and The Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness. They are the journals
of the Terasem Movement, Inc., a not-for-profit charity endowed for
the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity
of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity,
via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.

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The Deepening
http://www.thedeepening.com/
Short stories and novels for those who like the cutting edge of new &
want to save trees, too.

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The Women's Library Special Collections (Archive and Museum) Catalogue
http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/archivemuseumcatalogue
The Women's Library holds over 400 Archive Collections and a
significant Museum Collection. The catalogue contains detailed
information about the collections available for consultation in the
reading room. As well as individual descriptions for each document or
object the archive catalogue includes summary descriptions of each collection.

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ThomsonNOW
http://west.ilrn.com/ilrn/
A new subscription-based service. An integrated online suite of
course-management resources and services that utilizes a first-of-its
kind approach to educational technology development aimed at
maximizing its value to and optimizing its use among Thomson customers.

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Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
http://vjbo.osa.org/
The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics consists of selected
articles recently published in OSA's peer-reviewed journals. For the
virtual journal, biomedical optics is considered to include research
involving the interface between light and medicine or biology.

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Virtual Technical Reports Center
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
?EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web
Welcome to the Virtual Technical Reports Center! The Institutions
listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended
abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site
contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints,
dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.?

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VirtualE Library
http://www.virtualelibrary.com/
?VirtualE Library is your one-stop resource for Elsevier science,
technology, and health science book products. You'll find books from
Academic Press, Architectural Press, Butterworth-Heinemann,
Churchill-Livingstone, Digital Press, Focal Press, Gulf Professional
Publishing, Hanley & Belfus, JAI Press, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
Mosby, Newnes, North-Holland, and Saunders. The site is designed
specifically for your needs as a librarian??

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WannaLearn
http://www.wannalearn.com/
WannaLearn has been designed to provide a wide range of users with an
effective and efficient means of accessing the best learning
opportunities available on the Web, in books, DVDs and other
instructional media.

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WIDWISAWN
http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
The latest issue (Vol.4 No.1) of WIDWISAWN is now available. This is a
'webzine' covering various developments in the Scottish library,
museums and archives communities.

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WikiMatrix
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Noted by Phil Bradley, in his column for Library + Information Update.
A Wiki comparison site.

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wink
http://www.narcis.info/narcis/?language=en
?If you're using services like Digg, Furl, Slashdot, or Yahoo! MyWeb,
this is your search engine.?

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3.  NICE WEB SITE
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In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we
sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more
than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such
sites, and give them a short review. The sites will 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.

HighBeam
http://www.highbeam.com/
Unless you're distracted by the animated graphics, you'll find this
site useful for locating both free and paid-for content. It indexes
articles from various respected publishers as well as the best of the
Web. It searches 35 million documents from 3,000 sources, updated
daily and going back 20 years. Its possible to restrict searches to
freely available materials, whilst the default is to search free and
premium content.

Essentially, HighBeam fills the gap between free search engines and
high-end research services.

NARCIS
http://www.narcis.info/narcis/
NARCIS is the gateway to Dutch scientific information, and shows just
how many advances have been made in linking together Institutional
Repositories, outputs from research institutes and other sources of
information to provide an effective service.
RM


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4.  BLOGORAMA
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News about weblogs, RSS, etc:

Webopedia gives a definition of RSS http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the
Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss

Create a Blog
http://askbobrankin.com/create_a_blog.html
Advice from Bob Rankin

BlogBridge
http://www.blogbridge.com/
Blog and feed aggregation solution

Opinmind
http://www.opinmind.com/
Opinmind collects the opinions of bloggers all over the world on every
subject imaginable.

Publisher- and Vendor-Provided RSS Feeds for Journals
http://charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=197&type=fr
An article by Kristen Devoe in The Charleston Advisor

Why Publishing should send fruit-baskets to Google
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/14/why_publishing_shoul.html
Interesting post in Boing Boing.

Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds

MobileCrunch
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/
Our mission is to identify, profile, test and even help develop the
technologies, applications, services and devices that will define the
next generation of connected mobile computing.

What's New at the e-Learning Centre
http://elearningcentre.typepad.com/whatsnew/
New additions to the e-Learning Centre website and more ...

Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
http://www.apsr.edu.au/blog/

Publishing Insider
http://publishinginsider.typepad.com/

TechRepublic Hot Discussions
http://techrepublic.com.com/5280-6257-0.html?type=5

The Olive Reader
http://www.olivereader.com/
Weblog of Harper Perennial

Carnival of the Infosciences
http://infosciences.pbwiki.com/
The Carnival of the Infosciences is a weekly weblog post that
endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics
related to the wide world of Library and Information Science.

StuartYeates's blog
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/stuartyeates
Open Source In Higher and Further Education

RandyMetcalfe/ThisIsNotaBlog
http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/RandyMetcalfe/ThisIsNotaBlog
From OSS Watch, about open source software

Open Source
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/
A blog from ZDNet, written by Dana Blankenhorn


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5.  PRESS RELEASES
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**** Emerald Leads new JISC RSS project to push Table of Contents into
library catalogues ****

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd announces that it is leading a Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) project: ?Table of Contents by
Really Simple Syndication? (TOCRoSS).  The project team will develop
an RSS news feed service that automatically pushes publisher and
e-journal information into library catalogues.  Started in October
2005, the project will run for 10 months, completing in July 2006.

Details http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_tocross&src=alpha

The open source software developed will be freely available to further
and higher education establishments, publishers, and library
management systems developers.

To drive TOCRoSS, an RSS server located at the publisher site will
generate a ?feed? of information that can be automatically picked up
by an RSS monitor located at the customer site. The project will also
develop a plug-in module for the library management system to enable
the catalogue and the OPAC to be updated with the information from the
RSS stream.

With TOCRoSS in place, e-journal table of content data will be fed
automatically into library catalogues without the need for
cataloguing, classification or data entry.  This will improve the
accuracy of records, save time for library staff and deliver a more
integrated OPAC experience to library users.  It will be of particular
value to academic libraries, where students often choose search
engines such as Google over the library catalogue or myriad databases
for tracking down articles and information.

Talis Research Group's Richard Wallis sees this as an example of the
bringing together of new Internet Web Services technology and real
business requirements.  "RSS has, up until now, been used to deliver
news-feeds or alerts of blog postings to individuals' desktops.  This
simple, yet powerful, technology has many potential applications in
machine-to-machine communications.  TOCRoSS will demonstrate how the
innovative application of simple technologies enables the delivery of
services that previously would not have been viable."

TOCRoSS will also deliver benefits to the publishing community,
improvements in the dissemination of data and information to libraries
will lead to a corresponding improvement in the value and management
of e-journals and other resources.

A demonstrator service is a key deliverable of the project and is
expected to be up and running by June 2006.

The technology solution developed for TOCRoSS will also be applicable
to other publisher ?events?, such as book publication, author talks or
calls for papers.

For further information, contact:

Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925,
Catherine.dhanjal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

or

Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Tel: 01274 777700,
email:  gcrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP:
http://www.vivavip.com/


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6.  RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
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The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the
books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.

Recent Arrivals

658.05 PAP
e-Business
by Michael Papazoglou and Pieter Ribbers
Wiley, 2006

658.05 SLY
E-business technologies
by Craig Van Slyke and France Belanger
Wiley, 2003

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library
is available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi


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7.  FOCUS ON...
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Occasional reviews of products, services or areas of interest. This month:
Ovid Mental Health Collection

Decision-making on choosing electronic journal packages and platforms
depends on many variables ­ not least the depth, coverage and
suppliers of existing collections as well as comparative price.
However, this review highlights the Ovid Mental Health collection as a
potential candidate in the field of psychology and related disciplines.

The Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC) offers 10 core journals in
psychiatry and psychology. The collection includes high impact factor
journals reflecting output from UK and North American publishers
including, the American Psychiatric Association, Annual Reviews, the
Royal College of Psychiatrists, the American Medical Association,
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Cambridge University Press and the
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

The MHC is one of 6 mental health collections available from Ovid covering:

Ovid Mental Health Collection
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/887.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection II
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1900.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection III
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1901.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection IV
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1902.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection V
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1903.jsp

Ovid Mental Health Collection VI
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Group/1904.jsp

MCH offers a more compact package than MCH II which includes 35 titles
and expands coverage to include Clinical Psychology. MCH-III offers 7
titles in Psychiatry; MHC-IV 12 journals in Psychology; MHC-V 9 in
Clinical Psychology; and MCH-VI­LWW offers 6 published by Lippincott
Williams and Wilkins.

MCH offers a psychiatry weighted mix of journals including titles with
a clinical focus, e.g. British Journal of Psychiatry. However, the
collection also offers Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychological Medicine
and the Annual Review of Psychology. These titles add a further
dimension to the collection which will be of interest not only to
psychiatrists but to clinicians, scholars and researchers in
psychology, clinical psychology, behavioural sciences and allied disciplines.

MHC include titles from the Hague and Brandon / Hill lists of core
medical journals and offers titles such as the American Journal of
Psychiatry (described as the most widely read psychiatric journal in
the world) as well as the Psychology volumes of the highly cited
Annual Reviews series. In addition to peer-reviewed journals it is
also possible to access abstracts from over 500 international journals
with accompanying commentaries via Elsevier?s Year Book of Psychiatry
& Applied Mental Health.

For those with a subscription to Ovid PsycINFO, full integration of
MHC titles is possible within this database. However, those benefiting
from the CHEST PsycINFO offer should note that four MHC titles are
covered in the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins full-text linking package
(with a 12 month embargo).

The MHC is a neat package offering a mix of core psychiatry and
psychology journals. Those wishing a similarly sized package with a
psychology focus may prefer the MHC IV collection - but those with
existing subscriptions to British Psychological Society titles, should
note that this package includes a number of BPS titles. Alternative
packages for psychology include Psychology: A SAGE full-text
collection http://www.sagefulltext.com/home.aspx?id=1 (which offers a
broader range of topics across 35 titles with more coverage of
behavioural and sociological aspects) and the comprehensive EBSCO
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=127 offering
over 500 titles in psychology, psychiatry, emotion, behaviour and
anthropology (available via CHEST agreement for Higher and Further
Education and public sector in the UK).

Ovid MHC titles include:-

American Journal of Psychiatry
Annual Review of Psychology in EBSCO
Archives of General Psychiatry
British Journal of Psychiatry
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine
Psychosomatic Medicine
Year Book of Psychiatry & Applied Mental Health

Suppler email contacts:
Ovid ( Europe)
Sage
EBSCO

MK


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8.  GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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North Edinburgh Arts Centre
http://www.northedinburgharts.co.uk

Wee Stories
http://www.weestoriestheatre.org/
Wee Stories is passionate about telling stories, and we hope our shows
inspire you to tell and read stories of your own.

Aberdeen Jazz Festival, 8-12 March 2006
http://www.jazzaberdeen.com/

Edinburgh Times
http://www.edinburghtimes.co.uk/
Edinburgh Times is the capital's monthly newspaper, with a free
distribution throughout the city and outlying communities.

The Skinny
http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/
Edinburgh & Glasgow music, arts, theatre, film, etc.

The Whistling Tortoise
http://www.whistlingtortoise.com/
Supplies a wide range of products to the public, dedicated to making
life easier for all.

Musicapp
http://www.musicapp.com/
Gateway to Bristol's music community

Book This Band
The Powders
http://www.thepowders.com/
They also have an excellent new CD out.

Send me your band websites, and if they're good, I'll try to mention
them in future 'Book This Band' sections.

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