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2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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2collab
http://www.2collab.com/
From Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information. This is an online platform for scientific collaboration, which supports researchers by working as a community to filter information and enhance information literacy.
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Academic Database Assessment Tool
http://www.jisc-adat.com
JISC Collections in partnership with DataSalon Ltd has launched a free online database comparison tool.
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ACME - Computational Mechanics in the UK: 2008
http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/acme/
The 2008 annual meeting of the UK branch of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering is being organised by M Rouainia and will be held from 1 - 2 April 2008 at Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Advances in Engineering Education
http://advances.asee.org/
A new journal. Highlighted significant advances in instruction, pedagogy, technology and assessment that substantially improve learning in the broadest sense.
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AlphaGalileo eNews
http://www.alphagalileo.org/en/about-us/AlphaGalileo-eNews
AlphaGalileo is the online news centre for European research in science, medicine, technology, the arts, humanities and social sciences. The service is provided by the independent not-for-profit company, AlphaGalileo Foundation.
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American Journal Experts
http://www.journalexperts.com/
"American Journal Experts is an association of highly skilled, subject specific, academic research editors from the Top 10 Research Universities in the U.S. They specialize in research editing for authors wishing to publish their research manuscripts in English language journals. Researchers, Academic Publishers, and Universities around the world trust AJE's English proofreading and journal editing skills to help them publish the best science in the best journals... no matter what country the author is from."
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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/10/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n11.html
The November 2007 issue is available. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Data Mining and Web Data Extraction Resources.
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British Journal of Higher Education in Further Education: BJHEinFE
http://bjheinfe.org/index.php/
The BJHEinFE is an online journal that aims to strengthen links between research and practice related to delivering HE in FE. The emphasis is on providing a vehicle for researchers, practitioners and theoreticians to jointly explore ideas using a diverse mix of research methods and disciplines.
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CERN Courier
http://cerncourier.com/
The CERN Courier website brings you online articles from the print magazine and a variety of resources for the high-energy physics community.
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ChannelCrowd
http://www.channelcrowd.com/
This website is aimed specifically at Sales, Marketing and Supply-Chain professionals and other executives who have a shared interest in Channel Management.
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Christmas Carols Database
http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/christmas-carols/
A free, searchable database of Christmas Carol Lyrics has been released by askSam Systems.
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CiNii
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/CiNiiTop?USELANG=en
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
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Coller IP Management
http://www.colleripmanagement.com/
“At Coller IP Management we understand that realising value from your intellectual property and wider intellectual capital is vital to your business. We combine patent attorney and commercial expertise to deliver intellectual property (IP) management and evaluation services that unlock the potential of your business assets. We work at all levels within organisations, from start ups to multinationals, and with the investor community”
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Connexions
http://cnx.rice.edu/
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
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CQ Press
http://www.cqpress.com/
A leading publisher of books, directories, subscriptions, and Web products on American politics, federal and state government, American institutions, campaigns and elections, current events, and world affairs.
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CTWatch Quarterly
http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/archives/november-2007/
November 2007 issue. The theme of this issue of CTWQ - Software Enabling Technologies for Petascale Science.
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dawsonera
http://www.dawsonera.com/
A web-based collection of ebooks designed for use in libraries.
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DigiCult
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/digicult_en.html
The DigiCult website is now available through the ICT portal, the new FP7 web presence of the European Commission, "Information Society and Media".
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DiSCS-UK
http://www.discs-uk.info/
”Digital Services for the Cultural Sector [DiSCS] helps cultural and heritage organisations get the most out of technology. The pioneering website provides an online directory of information technology (IT) and digital services suppliers to work with the cultural and heritage sector.”
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D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/11contents.html
The November/December 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.
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EdinPhoto
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/
The EdinPhoto web site includes: History of Photography in Edinburgh, History of Edinburgh, Photos of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Today.
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ED-MEDIA 2008
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/default.htm
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 30-July 4, 2008, Vienna, Austria.
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eEarth
http://www.electronic-earth.net/
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the Earth Sciences.
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Engineering Pathway
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/
Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology and engineering technology, for use by K-12 and university educators and students. It is part of the engineering education "wing" of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
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EPA ENVision
http://maps.epa.ie/InternetMapViewer/MapViewer.aspx
A mapping viewer giving access to environmental data.
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Foster + Partners' architecture
http://www.fosterandpartners.com/
Various projects are detailed, including the new airport at Beijing.
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Frixo
http://www.frixo.com/
Frixo is a road / motorway traffic reporting site. It gives users up to date information as the site gets updated every 3 minutes via feeds from various sources including the government's official Highways Agency site.
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Global Collaborative Search: Watch This Space
http://www.freepint.com/issues/081107.htm#feature
An interesting article in Free Pint, by Judith Koren.
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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: HCUP
http://ahrq.gov/data/hcup/
From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership. HCUP produces powerful, comprehensive, health care data that can be used to identify, track, and analyze national, regional, and state trends in health care utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes. The HCUP databases and tools have been used in more than 900 peer-reviewed publications and also support Congressionally-mandated studies. HCUP databases and products have been relied on by health services researchers and policymakers.
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Informit
http://www.informit.com.au/
“Informit is the premier source of online Australasian scholarly research. Informit offers a wide range of databases and full content publications that deliver the majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products: Informit Media, Informit Indexes, Informit Plus Text and Informit e-Library.”
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InfoVision 2007
http://www.infovision.org.in/
The Knowledge Summit.
The Maratha, Mumbai - Dec 17-18.
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Insidermedicine
http://www.insidermedicine.ca/
Insidermedicine is a physician-led news organization that allows you to keep on top of the latest medical information by watching our unique videos that are created each and every weekday by our team of medical experts.
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International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies:
http://www.inderscience.com/ijepee
A new journal from Inderscience. IJEPEE is intended to serve as the primary international outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of economic policy concerning Russia, the post-Soviet states, China, and other former planned economies.
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International Journal of Precision Technology
http://www.inderscience.com/ijptech
A new journal which promotes technological advances in precision engineering that are not accompanied by science and mathematics.
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International Journal of Trade and Global Markets
http://www.inderscience.com/ijtgm
A new journal.
IJTGM fosters discussion on the various interrelationships between economic growth at national and international levels and international trade. The journal will emphasise the implications that trade policy exerts on economic growth and vice versa, as well the role of national governments, international organisations and the business community on related issues of worldwide concern.
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JCE Digital Library
http://jce.divched.org/JCEDLib/index.html
JCE Digital Library (JCE DLib) collects and catalogues digital resources available on the WWW in the area of chemistry education. The items you find in our collections are not limited to those at JCE Online, but include exemplary resources found throughout the WWW.
The JCE Digital Library will soon expand to become the ChemEd Digital Library, a recently funded Pathways project of the NSDL.
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JISC’s annual review 2007
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/annualreview07
JISC’s annual review is for the first time an entirely online publication.
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Jobrapido
http://www.jobrapido.co.uk/
Jobrapido enables you to search through over 500,000 jobs posted on job boards, recruiting agency and company websites. A UK site.
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LibrarySpot
http://www.libraryspot.com/
A free virtual library resource centre for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
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LibriVox
http://librivox.org/
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
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lingro
http://lingro.com/
Try this site!
lingro's mission is to create an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them.
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Military videos
http://www.militaryvideos.net/
The purpose of this site is to serve military related videos.
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My Local Job Search.
http://www.mylocaljobsearch.co.uk/
A general Job Board offering a large selection of UK jobs online.
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Nanotation
http://www.nanotation.org/
The goal of ACS Nanotation is to be the premiere destination for nanoscience and nanotechnology news, highlights, and community.
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Nanotechweb.org
http://nanotechweb.org/
A community website from IOP Publishing.
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New Civil Engineer
http://www.nce.co.uk/
New Civil Engineer has recently relaunched it's website.
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No To Knives (NTK)
http://www.ntk.org.uk/
A campaign to reduce the number of knives on our streets.
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NRC Research Press Scientific Publishing
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
The redesigned site features updated navigation tools and a new look and feel and provides users with improved access to journal and book content, news, RSS feeds, advanced search functionality and online forms.
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OA, OK?
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/home/53735/
How far has open access come in a decade? And where will it go in the next? This is an article in TheScientist.com
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Office of the Queen’s Printer for Scotland
http://www.oqps.gov.uk/
The Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland (OQPS) provides access to Scottish legislation and delivers a range of services to the public, information industry and government relating to the re-use of information created by the devolved government for Scotland, the Scottish Executive. The Queen’s Printer for Scotland reports to Scottish Ministers.
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People, Place and Policy Online
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/
People, Place and Policy Online provides a forum for debate about the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate a satisfactory accommodation with the various opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society.
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Power of Information
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/upload/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/power_information.pdf
An independent review by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg.
”This is an unusual review in that it is a story of opportunities rather than problems. It takes a practical look at the use and development of citizen and state-generated information in the UK.“
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PROWE (Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment)
http://www.prowe.ac.uk/
PROWE was a research project that addressed the challenge of supporting part-time distance education tutors' continuing professional development (CPD) needs, including collaboration and resource sharing, through the provision of informal and personal repositories created using wiki and wiki-type environments.
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PsycEXTRA
http://www.apa.org/psycextra/
PsycEXTRA, a gray literature database, is a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. It supplies clinicians, information professionals, policy-makers, researchers, and consumers with a wide variety of important information in psychology, behavioral science, and health. Most of the content was written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals.
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ReadItSwapIt
http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/
Bought a book and finished it? Don't know what to do with it? If you've read it swap it!
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Sales training for engineers
http://www.seviourbooks.com/
Manuals and courses by Robert Seviour.
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Scirus Topic Pages
http://topics.scirus.com/
Scirus Topic Pages is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific scientific topics, and where links to the latest, most relevant journal literature and web sources are presented on one page.
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SCOAP3 - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
http://www.scoap3.org/
A consortium facilitating Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money.
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SCOTBIS
http://www.scotbis.com/
SCOTBIS (Scottish Business Information Service) provides a research service for businesses across Scotland.
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Scotland Crawler
http://www.scotlandcrawler.co.uk/
A Scottish search engine.
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Search Engine Wiki
http://www.searchenginewiki.com/HomePage
“Our aim is to be your online public library for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) resources.”
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Service-Oriented Architecture - What Is It, and How Do We Get One?
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ServiceOrientedArchi/44839
An article in Educause Quarterly.
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Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Every month they take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. They read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources, etc.
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sportscotland library
http://www.sportscotlandlibrary.org.uk/
This is the sportscotland library website.
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StatCounter
http://www.statcounter.com/
“A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.”
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Tales from the Terminal Room October 2007, Issue No. 81
http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2007/oct2007.shtml
Usual excellent review of resources from this newsletter.
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The Cryosphere
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union.
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The Future of Things: TFOT
http://www.tfot.info/
The Future of Things (TFOT) is an online magazine dedicated to bringing original content on science, technology, and medicine from around the world. TFOT aims to provide comprehensive, accurate, and high quality coverage of emerging scientific and technological innovations.
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The Harvard Crimson
http://www.thecrimson.com/
Daily college newspaper.
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Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web
http://websearch.about.com//od/bestwebsites/tp/free-images.htm?nl=1
By Wendy Boswell, at About.com.
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Top 100 European Universities - Leiden Ranking
http://www.cwts.nl/cwts/LeidenRankingWebSite.html
“The Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, is currently developing a new ranking system entirely based on its own bibliometric indicators.
We now present the first ranking results for the 100 largest universities in Europe”
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Top 5 social web sites for book lovers
http://www.pandia.com/sew/557-top-5-books.html
A review, from Pandia.
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Transition Culture
http://transitionculture.org/
An exploration into energy descent.
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Twine
http://www.twine.com/
Share, organise and find information.
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UK Statute Law Database
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.
Provides free access to the official laws of the land.
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Unshelved
http://www.unshelved.com/
The library comic strip.
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Upingme
http://upingme.com/
Upingme is 'Classified ads 2.0'; a free service that allows you to post adverts directly from your mobile phone.
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Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks: VOSON
http://www.engineering.ac.uk/images/logo_jisc.gif
The Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Project is conducting empirical social science research into online networks and developing e-Research tools to facilitate this research.
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Visual Medical Dictionary
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
From CureHunter.
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Walkit.com
http://www.walkit.com/
Find out how to walk to your destination. Coverage currently of central London, Birmingham and Edinburgh.
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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
http://www.webometrics.info/
The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) the largest public research body in Spain.
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What is a Mashup?
http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_a_mashup.html
Bob Rankin explains.
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Wikiquote
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
A free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.
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Woodhead Publishing Limited
http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/
This is an independent international publishing company publishing in the areas of Food Science, Technology & Nutrition, Materials Engineering, Welding and Metallurgy, Textile Technology, Environmental Management and Finance, Commodities and Investment.
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WOWIO
http://www.wowio.com/index.asp
WOWIO is a source where readers can legally download high-quality copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. Readers have access to a wide range of offerings, including works of classic literature, college textbooks, comic books, and popular fiction and non-fiction titles.
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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.
Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
This magazine is really worth having a look at. It features useful and innovative information for designers and web-developers. The articles are helpful, not too technical, and are good summaries.
Do you know the origin of the word 'smashing'? Probably from the phrase: is math sin (Scots Gaelic).
RM
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4. BLOGORAMA
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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items
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
Journal TOC RSS feeds for Portland Press Ltd
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/journal-toc-rss-feeds-for-portland-press-ltd/
The Portland Press RSS site is at:
http://www.portlandpress.com/pp/rss.htm
OUseful Info
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/
Exploring the potential of Web 2.0 techniques and applications in higher and distance education, informal and lifelong learning.
La Criée: periodiques en ligne
http://periodiques.wordpress.com/
A French blog listing links to free online journals
Enhance your current awareness services with RSS
http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/topic-rss/index.asp
A tutorial from Elsevier
Statistically Speaking
http://abs4libraries.blogspot.com/
A blog for librarians and other like-minded information professionals featuring the latest information, news, tips and stories relating to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Chemical blogspac
http://cb.openmolecules.net/
Chemical blogspace collects data from tens of scientific chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with it.
Intute blog
http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/
Relevant to staff in UK universities and colleges who are interested in the use of Internet resources in education and research.
Why have a blog
http://www.slideshare.net/karajones/why-have-a-blog
Very good presentation on Slideshare
New Civil Engineer feeds
http://www.nce.co.uk/webfeed.html
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
http://www.imeche.org/industries/rss/
A list of more than 20 useful feeds from the IMechE, covering events and news in engineering and engineering-related subjects.
Alex Iskold Technology Blog
http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/
Clip Art Must Die!
http://petertcoyne.typepad.com/clip_art_must_die/
About libraries, marketing and trying to avoid clip art.
European Information Association
http://www.eiaorg.blogspot.com/
An association of librarians and information officers specialising in European Union materials.
RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/02/rss-best-design-practices-and-icons/
BPR3
http://bpr3.org/
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting strives to identify serious academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research by offering an icon and an aggregation site where others can look to find the best academic blogging on the Net.
RepositoryMan
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/
The Blog of a repository administrator (Les Carr)
John Wilkin's Blog
http://scholarlypublishing.org/jpwilkin/
Libraries, library technology, and pizza
feedest
http://www.feedest.com/
A new RSS feed directory
Edublog Award finalists
http://edublogawards.com/edublog-awards-2007-finalists-announced/
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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
346.0482 PED
Digital copyright
2nd ed, by Paul Pedley
Facet Publishing, 2007
658.046 TAP
Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
Atlantic Books, 2006
621.384 BED
Wireless crash course
by Paul Bedell
McGraw-Hill, 2005
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. NEW BOOK REVIEW
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The library in the twenty-first century
2nd edition, by Peter Brophy
facet publishing, 2007
ISBN 978-1-85604-606-0
Once again, time does not permit an in depth book review this month, so this will be the briefest of looks at this new edition of Peter Brophy's The library in the twentieth century.
This book was originally conceived because Brophy was convinced that there was a real danger that libraries and librarians might be left behind in a world which is relying more and more on digital information and knowledge being transmitted almost instantaneously from any place to any other place. Although we have become awash with information objects (Web pages, ebooks, ejournals, news items, multimedia, learning objects, and much more), somehow libraries seem no longer to be at the centre of information organisation. He therefore wanted to analyse how libraries could become successful and relevant in such a world, and to think systematically and strategically about the future of libraries. In the seven years between the first and second editions, there have been tremendous changes in the information world, and Brophy has undertaken a wholesale rewriting, but the purpose remains largely the same.
The library in the twentieth century is in two parts. Part 1 looks at fundamental issues and in particular, what is a library from different perspectives. Part 2 looks at possible models for the future - the library as an information intermediary, or the library with a far wider range of functions. It looks at users, and the information in use. It looks at the information universe, including Web 2.0, Open Access, Metadata, preservation, and so on.
It also looks, for example, at social networking, and why libraries should feel threatened (because: social networking creates communities which are not based on physical proximity, whilst the traditional library is based on a physical presence; because social networking operates in cyberspace where those involved will share freely available electronic resources without the need for any involvement by the library; and because social networking services are presenting content including some which might previously have been available in libraries).
This is an important work and an extremely thought-provoking one for anyone involved in the information world. Peter Brophy is not only able to see the big picture, but he is also an expert on many aspects of the fine detail. This makes The library in the twentieth century vital reading for anyone who wants to understand many of the issues facing the information profession at the present time, and in the future.
RM
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7. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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Edinburgh Lectures
http://www.edinburghlectures.org/
The Edinburgh Lectures presents a wide-range of thought-provoking, challenging and inspiring talks.
Prestongrange Museum
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/content/0,,703,00.html
Prestongrange tells the story - past and present - of local industries and the people who worked in them.
Museum on the Mound
http://www.museumonthemound.com/
Scottish Islands Explorer
http://www.scottishislandsexplorer.com/index.html
Scottish Islands Explorer is the UK's only magazine devoted to exploring the islands of Scotland.