[ECP] NetHappenings -- Issue 155, Internet resources newsletter
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INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER
The free, monthly, newsletter for academics,
students, engineers, scientists and social scientists.
Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn155/irn155.html
Edited by:
Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@xxxxxxxx ),
Catherine Ure.and Marion Kennedy
Heriot-Watt University Library
ISSN: 1361-9381
Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html
ISSUE 155- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
Pinakes - the subject launchpad
If you only read one (or two) thing(s) this month, read...
News items of interest
2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites
3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: Patent Lens
4. BLOGORAMA
News of Weblogs, RSS, etc
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
5. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
6. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
Over 40,000 people subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter.
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Pinakes: a subject launchpad
Pinakes
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
is a subject launchpad - a page of links to major
subject gateways which in turn let you find good
quality Internet resources which have been
selected by hand. Pinakes is hosted by
Heriot-Watt University Library, and has recently been updated.
If you only read one (or two) thing(s) this month, read...
Student expectations study
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/studentexpectations
JISC commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake
research among prospective university students
also
Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/head/index.html
An article in First Monday
Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
Annual statistics show libraries meeting the challenge
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/news/stats
Annual statistics released today have shown the
higher education library sector is moving to a
'clicks and mortar' approach, with increased use
of online services offsetting a decline in the
number of library visits by UK students.
From: SCONUL
Coalition of publishers takes on US government over Open Access ?interference?
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2197494/coalition-publishers-takes
From: IWR
Read the response to this from SPARC at:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/07-0907prism.html
Read also this comment from Research Information
at: http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=126
ITU opens up huge online resource
Move will enable free downloads to the public
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/21.html
ITU Standards produced by the Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) are now available online without charge.
For more news items in business information
products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/
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2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization 1.21 (Heatsoft ADCS)
http://www.heatsoft.com/adcs/ADCSindex.html
Heatsoft Corporation has released Advanced
Directory Comparison and Synchronization 1.21
(Heatsoft ADCS), a handy Windows utility that
lets you recursively compare multiple folders
side-by-side, and synchronize folders contents.
The utility helps keep files synchronized between
a desktop & laptop or between multiple drives on
your desktop and is a method of backing up critical directories.
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AERADE newsletter
http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/newsletter0907/
The September edition of the AERADE newsletter is
now available. The AERADE portal provides
integrated access to key aerospace and defence information sources.
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Association for Downloadable Media
http://www.downloadablemedia.org/
A newly formed industry association focused on
providing standards for advertising and audience
measurement for episodic and downloadable media.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics: ABS
http://www.abs.gov.au/
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is
Australia?s national statistical agency.
?The ABS collects, compiles, analyses and
disseminates a wide range of statistics. We also
work with other federal, state and local
government agencies to help them do likewise,
with the vast array of data they collect during
the course of administrative processes.?
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Awareness Watch? Newsletter V5N9 September 2007
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/08/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n9.html
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month
features Directory Resources. This is a
comprehensive listing of selected niched single
subject directories located all over the global
Internet as well as multi subject directories.
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Beyond Google: How do Students Conduct Academic Research
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/head/
An article in First Monday.
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Biz/ed
http://www.bized.co.uk/
A Web site for students and educators in business
studies, economics, accounting, leisure, sport &
recreation and travel & tourism. This is now a service from Cengage Learning.
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ChemGate
http://chemgate.emolecules.com/
Search for NMR, IR and MS Spectra.
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Classic Cafes
http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/
Often dismissed as 'greasy spoons', classic cafes
are actually little gems of British vernacular
high street design. This site celebrates their
ambience and architecture with over 130 vintage
London Formica caffs reviewed, revealed and reappraised.
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Country Codes
http://www.countrycodes.com/
?Search for International Country Codes used for
long distance calling. Our Search box allow you
to find all international country calling codes
available and the specific phone area code.?
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Current Publisher Price Lists
http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?pid=27
Publisher journal price lists for 2008 are now
being posted on the Serials-eNews web site.
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eLearning Africa 2008
http://www.elearning-africa.com/
The 3rd International Conference on ICT for
Development, Education and Training will take
place from May 28 to 30, 2008 in Accra, Ghana.
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ERAWATCH
http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch/
ERAWATCH® provides information on national
research policies, structures, programmes and organisations.
The aim of this service is to support policy
making in the research field in Europe, by
facilitating a better knowledge and understanding
of national research systems, policies and the
environments in which they operate.
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EUREKA Science Journal Watch
http://www.eurekajournalwatch.org/index.php/Main_Page
EUREKA is a freely-editable source of information
on scientific journals, starting with
mathematics. It aims to be a central resource for
understanding the journal system, and a catalyst
for change - change away from the current system
of corporate-run journal monopolies, towards an
open-access system run by the scholars themselves.
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European Grid Initiative: EGI
http://www.eu-egi.org/
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) represents an
effort to establish a sustainable grid
infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and
requirements of the research community, it is
expected to enable the next leap in research
infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative
scientific discoveries in the European Research Area.
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Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding
Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the University Of California
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/activities.html
Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding
Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the
University Of California [August 2007]. Reports
the results of over 1,100 responses to a late
2006 survey of UC faculty attitudes and behavior
with regard to several key issues in scholarly
publishing and scholarly communication.
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First Scottish University Credit Union Limited
http://www.universitycu.org.uk/
First Scottish University Credit Union Limited is
a democratic, member-owned and controlled
financial co-operative for employees of
Heriot-Watt, Napier, Edinburgh and Queen Margaret Universities.
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Free Web Search vs. Paid Search Tools: a
comparison of productivity in the research process
http://www.ei.org/documents/Akel-Whitepaper.pdf
This white paper is based on a research project
sponsored by Elsevier. Conducted independently by
Martin Akel & Associates (Chester, NJ), the study
reflects the opinions and activities of 415 U.S.
engineers and scientists in the corporate (industrial) market.
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GazetteLive
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/
A source for North East England and national news.
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Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/
Draw and share diagrams on the Web.
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headhuntme.co.uk
http://headhuntme.co.uk/
?A more focused approach to recruitment that
ensures total anonymity for candidates and a
highly targeted selection process for recruiters, headhuntme.co.uk is unique.?
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High Performance Computations for Engineering
http://morpheus.pte.hu/~peteri/hpc2008/
A Five Day Course for Engineering PhD Students &
Research Assistants to be held at Pollack Mihály
Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs, Hungary: 18th May - 23rd May 2008.
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InfoLit Global
http://www.infolitglobal.info/
The Information Literacy Section of the
International Federation of Library Association
and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database
to record information literacy materials from
different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.
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INSOURCE 2008
http://www.insource.cz/en/
Conference on Professional Information Resources
for Business, Management, Marketing and Market
Research. Prague, Czech Republic (February 5-6, 2008).
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Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation: ISSTI
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/
The Institute for the Study of Science,
Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), has been
formed to bring together the interdisciplinary
network of researchers working in these fields.
The University of Edinburgh is a leading centre for such research.
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InterEC.NET
http://www.interec.net/
Engineering Jobs Search & Discussion Forums For Engineers.
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International Association of Aquatic and Marine
Science Libraries and Information Centers: IAMSLIC
http://www.iamslic.org/
The International Association of Aquatic and
Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
(IAMSLIC) is an association of individuals and
organizations interested in library and
information science, especially as these are
applied to the recording, retrieval and
dissemination of knowledge and information in all
aspects of aquatic and marine sciences and their allied disciplines.
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International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: ICADL
http://www.icadl.org/
The International Conference on Asian Digital
Libraries (ICADL), initiated in 1998 and rotated
among Asian-Pacific countries, has become one of
the premiere meetings in digital library.
The 10th ICADL 2007 will take place from 10th to
13th December 2007 at Ha Noi, Viet Nam.
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International Joint Conferences on Computer,
Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering: CIS2E 07
http://www.cisse2007online.org/
December 3 - 12, 2007. The virtual conference
will be conducted through the Internet using
web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference.
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International Journal of Business and Systems Research
http://www.inderscience.com/ijbsr
The first issue of International Journal of
Business and Systems Research has just been published.
International Journal of Business and Systems
Research is a refereed, multidisciplinary journal
for bridging the latest advances in business and systems research.
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International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions: IJITST
http://www.inderscience.com/ijitst
A new journal.
IJITST is an international refereed journal
dedicated to the advancement of the theory and
practical implementation of secured internet
transactions and to fostering discussions on
information technology evolution. IJITST aims to
provide a highly professional and comparative
academic research forum that promotes
collaborative excellence between academia and industry.
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International Journal of Technological Learning,
Innovation and Development: IJTLID
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/ijtlid
A new journal from Inderscience.
The main objective of IJTLID is to bridge the
communication gap between government
policymakers, corporate executives, development
agencies and investors on the one hand, and
scholars/academics and research institutions
concerned with the impact of technological
progress on industrial, economic, and social
development in latecomer economies.
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Internet Advocacy Book
http://www.issuemarketing.com/index.html
I was impressed by the good, commonsense approach
of this book about online marketing, designed
specifically for non-profit organizations and
cause-marketers who use the internet to advocate for their cause.
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Internet Librarian International 2007
http://www.internet-librarian.com/
8-9 October 2007, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London.
The programme looks excellent, and the Internet
Resources Newsletter is delighted to be one of
the media sponsors of this event.
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IRIScotland Project Pilot Cross-Repository Service
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/iriscotland/
Search records harvested from participating
institutions, including Aberdeen, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Queen Margaret, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde universities.
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Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
http://www.istl.org/07-summer/index.html
The Summer 2007 issue is available. Includes
articles on Promoting Miami University's Brill
Science Library; Science Librarians as Advocates
for Change; Computer Science Students Practice
Usability Engineering in an Academic Library.
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
http://www.oloep.org/jidc/
A new Open Access journal.
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Karger Publishers
http://www.karger.com/
?Today, the company employs more than 200 people
at the Basel headquarters and has a worldwide
network of branch offices and distribution
centers, and the publishing house produces close
to 80 scientific journals and about 150 serial
and non-serial book titles and supplement or
themed journal issues per year, primarily in English.?
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Light and Matter
http://www.lightandmatter.com/
These physics textbooks are free in digital form.
Light and Matter is also available in print.
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Medical History of British India: Disease Prevention and Public Health
http://www.nls.uk/indiapapers/index.html
The Medical History of British India: Disease
Prevention and Public Health collection consists
of official publications varying from short
reports to multi-volume histories related to
disease, public health and medical research
between c. 1850 and 1920. The site can be browsed
and searched across 50 disease and public health
reports which are held at the National Library of
Scotland and are now accessible online. These
vary from short reports to multi-volume histories
related to disease, public health and medical
research between c, 1850 and 1920. This
collection will be of interest to medical
historians; social historians, and historians of
Empire and colonial rule, as well as genealogists.
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Medworm
http://www.medworm.com/
The medical RSS filter engine. Over 4000
authoritative RSS feeds go in, hundreds of new RSS feeds by category come out.
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Nature Precedings
http://precedings.nature.com/
?Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to
share pre-publication research, unpublished
manuscripts, presentations, posters, white
papers, technical papers, supplementary findings,
and other scientific documents. Submissions are
screened by our professional curation team for
relevance and quality, but are not subjected to
peer review. We welcome high-quality
contributions from biology, medicine (except
clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences.?
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OncologySTAT
http://www.oncologystat.com/index.html
OncologySTAT's mission is to improve worldwide
cancer care and prevention by providing
healthcare professionals with immediate
integrated access to the most authoritative
evidence-based information available.
OncologySTAT?s commitment to international health
ensures that news, research, education, and
analysis from all regions of the world are
covered in a publisher-, society-, and sponsor-neutral online environment.
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Online Information 2007
http://www.online-information.co.uk/index.html
The world's leading event for online content and
information management solutions. 4-6 December, Olympia, London.
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Online Publishers Association
http://www.online-publishers.org/
Redesigned website from the OPA.
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Partnership for Integrity in Scientific Dis-semination: PISD
http://pisdcoalition.org/
;-) See also PRISM below.
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Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine: PRISM
http://www.prismcoalition.org/
The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science
& Medicine (PRISM) was established to protect the
quality of scientific research.
?The Partnership for Research Integrity in
Science and Medicine - the PRISM Coalition -- was
established by The Executive Council of the
Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of
the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to
educate policy makers and the American people
about the risks posed by government intervention
in scholarly publishing. The coalition is guided
by the PRISM Principles, which affirm the key
role that publishers play in peer review, access
and dissemination, and preservation of knowledge,
and which advocate sustainable business models to
ensure continued investment and innovation in
these essential contributors to scientific objectivity and integrity.?
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Patent Lens
http://www.patentlens.net/
CAMBIA Patent Lens lets you search the full text
of 7 million patents and patent applications from
bulk data collected from WIPO, USPTO, EPO, IP Australia.
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Patient Voices programme
http://www.patientvoices.org.uk/
?Through this website we distribute (free of
charge) digital stories told by patients,
clinicians and service users in health and social
care. These stories are distributed under a
creative commons (attribution non-commercial
no-derivatives) licence for use in health and
social care education and quality improvement as
a social enterprise element of the Patient Voices
programme - which is part of the digital
story-telling work of Pilgrim Projects. They are
already in use in healthcare and academic
institutions around the world, and there are
currently nearly 100 short, focussed stories -
typically about 2-3 minutes long, making them
ideal for use within teaching programmes, presentations, etc.?
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Professional/Scholarly Publishing
http://www.pspcentral.org/
A Division of the Association of American Publishers.
?Members of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing
Division (PSP) publish, in print and electronic
form, the vast majority of materials produced and
used by scholars and professionals in science,
medicine, technology, business, law, and the humanities.?
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Protopage
http://www.protopage.com/
?Protopage is your own personal page that you can
use for quick access to everything on the web
that you go to most. You can use it to:Read news
from your favorite news sites and blogs; Keep
bookmarks to your most frequently accessed web
sites; Organize your day with to-do lists and
sticky notes; Create web pages, group pages, and intranets; And much more!?
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Publish or Perish
http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm
Publish or Perish is a software program that
retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It
uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these.
Publish or Perish is provided courtesy of
Harzing.com. It is free for personal non-profit use.
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RDInfo
http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/
RDInfo is part of the National Institute for
Health Research and offers comprehensive
information and support service for health and social care researchers.
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Read Print
http://www.readprint.com/
A website that offers thousands of free books for
students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
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Revues.org
http://www.revues.org/
A French web portal for more than 80 journals.
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ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
A registry of policies on the Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate.
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ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/
The TOP25 Hottest Articles is a free service that
helps busy researchers identify the new
developments in their field by offering them
lists of the most-popular downloaded articles on ScienceDirect.
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Scintilla
http://scintilla.nature.com/
Scintilla collects data from hundreds of news
outlets, scientific blogs, journals and databases
and then makes it easy for you to organise, share
and discover exactly the type of information that you're interested in.
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Search engine markets around the world
http://www.pandia.com/sew/525-international.html
A roundup from Pandia Search Engine News.
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Search Trails: Back to the Future
http://www.freepint.com/issues/300807.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Nigel Hamilton.
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SeeByte
http://www.seebyte.com/
SeeByte was founded in 2001 in Edinburgh,
Scotland with the aim of bringing to market
technologies designed at the world-class Ocean
Systems Laboratory of Heriot-Watt University.
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Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination
http://www.ibclegal.com/sen
Wednesday 28th November 2007, Café Royal, London.
An in-depth look at the legal frameworks
governing special educational needs and
disability discrimination in today's education system.
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STM
http://www.stm-assoc.org/
STM is an international association of about 100
scientific, technical, medical and scholarly
publishers, collectively responsible for more
than 60% of the global annual output of research
articles, over half the active research journals
and the publication of tens of thousands of print
and electronic books, reference works and databases.
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Student expectations study
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/studentexpectations
New research suggests that young university
hopefulls expect unrestricted access to the Internet.
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Survival Guide: Online Social Networking
http://www.freepint.com/issues/130907.htm#tips
An article in Free Pint, by Shally Steckerl.
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Symmetry Magazine
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/
symmetry is a magazine about particle physics and
its connections to other aspects of life and
science, from interdisciplinary collaborations to
policy to culture. It is published 10 times per
year by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, both national
laboratories funded by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy.
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Textbook Revolution
http://textbookrevolution.org/
?Textbook Revolution is the web?s source for free
educational materials. This is a student-run,
volunteer-operated website started in response to
the textbook industry?s constant drive to
maximize profits instead of educational value.?
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THESEUS
http://theseus-programm.de/front
THESEUS is a research program initiated by the
Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology
(BMWi), with the goal of developing a new
Internet-based infrastructure in order to better
use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet.
To this end, application-oriented basic
technologies and technical standards are to be
developed and tested under the umbrella of
THESEUS. The expected results are novel products,
tools, services, and business models for the
World Wide Web, as well as for the service and knowledge society of tomorrow.
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Time Tracker
http://www.asgardsystems.com/products.html
Commercially available Time Tracker employee
scheduling software, allows users to manage large
and complex employee schedules. Time Tracker
maintains schedules from the past, present and into the future.
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Wellcome's World
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node615.html
Details of Sir Henry Wellcome?s career.
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Wink
http://wink.com
A people search engine.
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World Advertising Research Center: WARC
http://www.warc.com/
?The World Advertising Research Center (WARC) is
the leading supplier of information, knowledge,
insight and data to the global marketing,
advertising, media and research communities. Many
of its unrivalled products have been serving the
needs of this market for more than 40 years. WARC
is an independent organisation and works closely
with trade associations, industry bodies and blue
chip companies around the world, including the
Advertising Research Foundation, Institute of
Practitioners in Advertising, ACNielsen, ESOMAR
and the US Association of National Advertisers.?
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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.
Patent Lens
http://www.patentlens.net/
Patent Lens is an independent, public-good global
resource for increasing patent transparency. It
lets you search the full-text of more than 8
million patent documents from US, Europe,
Australia and WIPO, including their status and
counterparts in up to 60 countries. Plus, there's
more, including technology landscapes.
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4. BLOGORAMA
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News about Blogs, RSS, etc:
You already know what blogs are, but for more
information about RSS see the Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or
Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed
(essentially the Table of Contents for each
issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j
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. To be alerted when a new Carnival is
posted, subscribe to the RSS feed.
Beginner?s Guide to RSS
http://blog.smallofficeaustralia.com/rss-explained
Top 25 Librarian Bloggers (By the Numbers)
http://oedb.org/library/features/top-25-librarian-bloggers-by-the-numbers
From the the Online Education Database (OEDb)
Making marketing work for your library blog.
An article by Jill S Stover, in Internet
Reference Services Quarterly, Vol 11 #4, 2006, pp. 155-167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J136v11n04_10
Describes how marketing ideas can be successfully
applied to any library blog endeavour. Looks at
why it's important to think about who the
intended readers are, what their needs are, and
how a blog can address those needs. The blog's
design, content, tone, distribution and promotion
will depend on this analysis. Quote: "A
well-designed blog can lure readers in and compel them to explore the site."
Looking to the future: Implementing blogs in a community college library.
An article by Troy A Swanson, in Internet
Reference Services Quarterly, Vol 11 #3, 2006, pp. 57-67
http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J136v11n03_04
This article looks at how several blogs have
transformed the Moraine Valley Community
Library's website. Quote: "The more useful the
information on the blogs, the more likely the
librarians will be to read them and contribute to
them, but it is difficult to get useful
information without contributions from a number of people."
This month's selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
InformationMatters
http://www.informationmatters.net/
Library and Information Studies at the University of Brighton
walking paper
http://www.walkingpaper.org/
A longstanding blog about new technologies
Alex Barnett blog
http://alexbarnett.net/blog/default.aspx
PublishingHub Blog
http://www.publishinghub.net/blog
This web site sets out to explore some of the
issues facing publishers in an increasingly web centred world.
Journal TOC RSS feeds from Revues.org
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/journal-toc-rss-feeds-from-revuesorg-long-post/
Revues.org is the French web portal for more than
80 journals in the field of social sciences and
humanities, a number of which are Open Access.
Blog de Revues.
http://blog.revues.org/index.php/
NaCTeM News
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/rss.xml
From the National Centre for Text Mining
Hesperia
http://www.atypon-link.com/rss/etoc/hesp
Table of Contents RSS feed for this journal from
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Journal TOC feeds from World Advertising Reseach Center
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/journal-toc-rss-feeds-from-world-advertising-research-center/
Four journals are listed
Managing Information Latest News
http://www.managinginformation.com/latestnews.xml
Curriculum Match Factor: RSS Feeds
http://www.proquest.com/syndication/rss/rss.shtml
From ProQuest
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5. 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
025.5 BRA
How to use Web 2.0 in your library
by Phil Bradley
Facet, 2007
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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6. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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TravelScotland
http://www.scotland.org.uk/
TravelScotland for details of Scottish hotels and
guesthouses, tours and itineraries, self-catering
holiday cottages and apartments, activities, guided tours and mountain walks.
Self Catering Scotland
http://www.selfcatering-scotland.net/
Career Break and Volunteer Work Specialists
http://www.gapyearforgrownups.co.uk/
Sarvodaya
http://www.sarvodaya.org/
Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka?s biggest charity, is
dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of rural Sri Lankans.
Objective Gap Year
http://www.objectivegapyear.com/
WorldWide Volunteering
http://www.wwv.org.uk/
Detonator
http://www.myspace.com/detonator01
Edinburgh band
Ellens Glen
http://www.myspace.com/ellensglen
Edinburgh band
Great Glen Way
http://www.greatglenway.com/
The route, which spans 73 miles/117km between
Fort William and Inverness, can be walked in 5-6
days, staying overnight in the various communities within the Glen.
Loch Ness and the Great Glen
http://www.visitlochness.com/
Historic Newspapers
http://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/
Scottish Karate Federation
http://www.skfscotland.co.uk/
ChessZone
http://www.chesszone.org/
A free chess school
Africa by bike
http://www.narfstrom.se/
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