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ISSUE 139- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
Mashup
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest If you
only read one or two things this month, read...
2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites
3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: Open J-Gate
4. BLOGORAMA
News of Weblogs, RSS, etc
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
5. PRESS RELEASES
New Connotea software supports institutional repositories SAGE Announces
Journal Backfile Digitization Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts(tm) with Full Text Now Available from EBSCO Publishing
6. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY Recent arrivals
7. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of: The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future
8. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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A reminder that the Call for Speakers deadline for Discovering New
Resources: Demystifying Web Technologies - Internet Librarian International
2006 conference, is 30 March 2006
http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml/
Internet Resources Newsletter is a media sponsor of this conference.
Mashup
A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content
from more than one source into an integrated experience.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29
ProgrammableWeb Web 2.0 Mashup Center
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups
RSS feed for Mashups via Programmable Web
http://feeds.feedburner.com/programmableweb/mashup
Daily Mashup
http://dailymashup.com/
Mashup Feed
http://www.mashupfeed.com/
WSFinder
http://wsfinder.typepad.com/
A conversation about Open APIs, Web Services, Mash Ups, and Web 2.0
WSFinder.com
http://wsfinder.jot.com/WikiHome
The Wiki for Finding Web Service and Open APIs
Google Maps, BBC Travel, Local News, Flickr, Weather & more...
http://www.dynamite.co.uk/local/
This is an interesting prototype.
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
RSC offers developing countries free access to journals archives The Royal
Society of Chemistry (RSC) is to be the first Learned and Professional
organisation to provide developing countries with free access to science
journal archives.
http://rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/Archive.asp
Google Scholar becomes direct link to British Library
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2151270/google-scholar-be
comes-direct
British Library gains Google Scholar direct link status in second major deal
with a GYM member.
From: Information World Review
ContentsDirect - the free e-mail alerting service that delivers tables of
contents from Elsevier journals and books will be closing on 25 May 2006.
Instead, for journal issues alerts, visit ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com and click on the Alerts tab. For science &
technology book alerts, sign up for e-newsletters from:
http://books.elsevier.com/emailentrance.asp
UKDataPoint Launch Events DatabaseKataPoint Launch Events Database
UKDataPoint Ltd have launched UKDataPoint Events Database.
UKDataPoint will collate data from all entertainment venues, production
companies and attractions across the entire UK. UKDataPoint Ltd is part of
the Science Navigation Group of independent companies that collaborate
closely with each other to publish and develop information and services for
professional and consumer markets.
http://web.vivavip.com/forum/Wire/read.php?i=1449&t=1449
From: VIP
JISC announces Athens switch to Shibboleth
JISC is planning a new initiative, to fund the next generation of access
control technology based on Shibboleth. This will affect JISC funding of
Athens, and will require institutions to make choices and decisions.
Features of the new system will include easier access to online resources
for users, enhanced opportunities for collaboration and facilitation of
national e-strategies.
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=6726&Pid=10&Zid=2363&issueno=114
From UKSG Serials-eNews
Research exercise to be scrapped
The research assessment exercise (RAE) - a gargantuan exercise in which
every active researcher in every university in the UK is painstakingly
assessed by panels of other academics - is to go.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/RAE/story/0,,1737082,00.html
From: Guardian Unlimited
If you only read one or two things this month, read...
Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World by
Stephen Abram, MLS, SirsiDynix vice president of Innovation
http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000505688.cfm?x=b6yRqLJ,b2rpQhRM
The New Wisdom of the Web
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/
By Steven Levy and Brad Stone, Newsweek
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2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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21st Century Information Professional
http://www.aukml.org.uk/conf2006.htm
The 2006 AUKML Conference, Point Hotel, Edinburgh, 22nd-24th September 2006.
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Academic Podcasts
http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/pri/podcasts
A list from Duke University Libraries.
Found via E3 Information Overload.
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Adelphi Charter
http://www.adelphicharter.org/
The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
responds to one of the most profound challenges of the 21st century:
How to ensure that everyone has access to ideas and knowledge, and that
intellectual property laws do not become too restrictive.
The Charter sets out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on
governments to apply a new public interest test.
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Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization
http://www.heatsoft.com/ADCSindex.html
ADCS is an intuitive directories comparison and synchronization utility from
Heatsoft Corporation. It is potentially useful for anyone who shares
documents/programs with friends and colleagues.
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AskNumbers
http://www.asknumbers.com/
The website provides online conversions for different kind of metrics such
as length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, frequency, light,
cooking, currency and many more with pictures to allow easy access the menu
items and some explanations.
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Awareness Watch Newsletter: March
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N3.pdf
The March 2006 V4N3 Awareness Watch Newsletter is available. The Awareness
Watch Featured Report this month features Internet Alerts on the Internet
including related resources and sites.
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Blackwell Publishing
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/
Blackwell Publishing UK has redesigned its web site.
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BlogMarks
http://www.blogmarks.net/
Social bookmarking service.
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ChemRefer
http://www.chemrefer.com/
ChemRefer is a search engine that is designed to allow students, academics,
chemical and pharmaceutical companies quick access to chemistry literature
which is available on the internet. There is plenty of such literature
around, but it is all located on different websites. Most such websites
contain a mixture of accessible and restricted literature and it is
frustrating to locate an article, only to find it restricted to subscribers.
ChemRefer only finds literature that is full text and freely available (from
many different sources).
You can also sign up for ChemRefer's free, monthly Newsletter and receive
sources of quality, open access chemistry literature in your inbox every
month.
Found via Neat New Stuff on the Net.
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Community halls for rural people
http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/communities/halls/default.htm
Village halls and other community buildings, such as rural community
centres, Women's Institutes, British Legion halls, memorial halls, halls
belonging to churches and chapels, etc, are the focus for people who live in
rural communities. In the past few years, many are no longer just a place to
meet for social occasions such as parties, wedding receptions, guides and
scouts clubs but have blossomed into providing a venue for an impressive
range of other activities such as local health facilities, farmers' markets,
lunch club for older people and IT facilities. These are the village halls
of the future.
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COMPASS
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~oaces/compass.html
COMPASS is the online review from Oxford Austrian and Central European
Studies, covering academic journalism.
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CompWisdom
http://www.compwisdom.com/
A new way to search the web.
"Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.
CompWisdom offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic."
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Congoo
http://www.congoo.com/
Congoo's mission is to provide information seekers with free access to the
Web's most valuable and credible information. Congoo is not for everyone,
however.
Congoo's technology creates a free bridge that spans the divide between
expensive information services available to large corporations and the mass
of information available on the free Web.
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craftscotland
http://www.craftscotland.org/
The Scottish Arts Council has developed this website for the crafts in
Scotland. The project initially comprised a pilot phase, primarily covering
the Highlands & Islands, and in June 2004 the full craftscotland website was
extended to cover Scotland as a whole.
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Craigslist Edinburgh
http://edinburgh.craigslist.org/
Classified ads for Edinburgh.
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Current Educational Research in the UK
http://www.ceruk.ac.uk/ceruk/
CERUK is a database of current or on-going research in education and related
disciplines. It covers a wide range of studies including commissioned
research and PhD theses, across all phases of education from early years to
adults.
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Dagstuhl-Seminars
http://www.dagstuhl.de/Seminars/index.en.html
The International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science in
Schloss Dagstuhl regularly organizes scientific workshops, so-called
Dagstuhl-Seminars.
A Dagstuhl-Seminar serves to gather a group of scientists in Dagstuhl who
wish to jointly delve into and work on a computer science topic for a week.
This topic is generally an established computer science field, and more
frequently it is an area which overlaps with various computer science
disciplines or other scientific fields. The participants are established
researchers or promising young scientists.
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diggdot.us
http://diggdot.us/
Slashdot, dig and del.icio.us combined into a unified format.
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D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/03contents.html
The March issue is available, and is a special issue on digital library
evolution.
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Ebook Explorer
http://www.ebookexplorer.com/
Offers a summarized directory of niche ebooks and how-to guides on hundreds
of specialty topics.
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ECS Digital Library
http://ecsdl.org/
The Digital Library provides searchable online access to the various
journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical
Society.
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EEDAL'06: International Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances & Lighting
Conference '06
http://livegroup.co.uk/EEDAL
21 - 23 June 2006, Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre,
London, UK.
Jointly organised by the UK's Market Transformation Programme and the
European Commission's Joint Research Centre, EEDAL '06 is a major
international conference bringing together world experts to present the
latest policy and technical advances influencing the energy and
environmental performance of domestic appliances and lighting.
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ELPUB 2006
http://www.elpub.net/
The 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, focusing on
challenges for the digital spectrum, 14-16 June 2006 Bansko, Bulgaria.
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EPrints community wiki
http://wiki.eprints.org/
This is the documentation wiki for EPrints.
The content of this site is technical only. For more information on the
EPrints project, visit http://eprints.org/.
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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the
University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose
of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information
professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in
professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on
the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as
reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide
number of topics.
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Exact Editions
http://www.exacteditions.com/
"The home of digital magazines! From here you can gain access to your
favourite publications, anywhere, anytime. All you need is access to the
internet. Once you subscribe to a magazine you will have the ability to
search seamlessly across archived back issues as well as the current issue."
Titles currently available include: The Spectator, The Scientist, London
Review of Books, and Literary Review.
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fealth
http://www.fealth.com/
"We have now one of the biggest reliable health indices with unique
technical features."
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Federation of International Trade Associations: FITA
http://www.fita.org/
The Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA), founded in 1984,
fosters international trade by strengthening the role of local, regional,
and national associations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada
that have an international mission.
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Fifth Street Review
http://www.fifthstreetreview.com/
The Fifth Street Review is an online-only journal of international
literature and culture.
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Finding information on the World Wide Web: A specialty meta-search engine
for the academic community
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/
An article in First Monday, December 2005, by Yaffa Aharoni, Ariel J. Frank,
and Snunith.
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Focus on MIMAS
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/06mar/
Issue 27 of Focus on MIMAS, with items on Jorum, Web of Knowledge, OpenURL
Framework Standard and CoinS, etc.
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Fold
http://www.fold.com/
"Fold is a portal or start page. The aim of Fold is to consolidate most of
the tools and information you need every day into a single web page. No
matter where you are in the world, each time you log in you'll feel right at
home."
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For Diversity Against Discrimination
http://www.stop-discrimination.info/
The European Commission's website on anti-discrimination! This website
serves as a source of information on the EU-wide campaign "For Diversity.
Against Discrimination." At the same time you will find background
information about the measures that have been initiated by the European
Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities to combat discrimination. Finally, the website provides an
update on current anti-discrimination issues and activities in all of the 25
EU Member States.
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Freeform Construction
http://www.freeformconstruction.co.uk/
"Freeform Construction is a truly adventurous and far-reaching new
construction method which will change the very future of building and
construction as we know it. It will revolutionise the way we build, it will
enhance existing construction processes and bring about new capabilities for
the construction process, and it will allow us to build in ways which simply
weren't possible before. Freeform Construction is about 'printing'
buildings, as if you were printing this page."
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Fresh Direction
http://www.freshdirection.co.uk/
A site with information for students.
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Friend of a Friend: FOAF
http://www.foaf-project.org/
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of
machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the
things they create and do.
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Funnelback
http://funnelback.com/
Funnelback is an enterprise search engine for corporate and government
websites, intranets and portals, but can be used in almost any web or data
search application.
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Generic Rationale for University Open Access Self-Archiving Policy
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12078/
By Stevan Harnad.
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How To Evaluate a Web Source
http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/a/evaluatesource.htm
By Wendy Boswell, from About.com
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HSE - Workers
http://www.hse.gov.uk/workers/
These web pages are about helping workers become more aware of the health
and safety issues that affect them and their responsibilities, so they can
play their part in improving health and safety in the workplace.
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ILA Scotland
http://www.ilascotland.org.uk/
If you are over 18 and living in Scotland, you could get up to #200 towards
the cost of learning new skills with an individual learning account from ILA
Scotland.
ILA Scotland is a Scottish Executive scheme which helps you pay for learning
that you can do at a time, place, pace and in a way to suit you.
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IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996
http://archive.pepublishing.com/
"The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996 gives you direct access to over
200,000 pages of unique material, including technical papers, obituaries,
meeting reports, technical drawings, and editorial comment, all covering
some of the most influential and innovative years of engineering
development."
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Implementation Science
http://www.implementationscience.com/
An online journal published by BioMed Central.
Implementation Science is ready to receive manuscripts that research methods
to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare.
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Implementation Science
http://www.implementationscience.com/
An online journal published by BioMed Central.
Implementation Science is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that
aims to publish research relevant to the scientific study of methods to
promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in both
clinical and policy contexts.
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Info@UK February 2006 issue
http://www.britishcouncil.org/info59.pdf
Info@UK is a monthly guide to major UK Information Society developments and
news.
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Institute for System Level Integration: ISLI
http://www.sli-institute.ac.uk/
The Institute for System Level Integration provides postgraduate education,
professional training and research in system level integration and
system-on-chip technologies.
Its aim is to support the development of electronics systems design
worldwide and to encourage the exploration of new technologies through
research.
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Institutional Repositories & Research Assessment: IRRA
http://irra.eprints.org/
A JISC project, and a part of the JISC Digital Repositories' Programme,
which is investigating and developing Institutional Repository
infrastructure for EPrints and DSpace to enable Research Assessment,
specifically for the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008.
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Institutional Repositories, and a little experiment
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-little.ht
ml
An article by Richard Poynder, with an option to download a full article
giving an historical overview of institutional repositories.
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Integration & Steering of Multi-site Experiments to Assemble Engineering
Body Scans
http://pw63.mt.umist.ac.uk/isme/sites/index.htm
A project to construct, refine and deploy a prototype Virtual Research
Environment (VRE) to enable teams of material scientists, academic and
industrial engineers and instrument scientists to work together in
undertaking, compiling, analysing, interrogating and visualising multiple
experiments on components of high complexity at different sites.
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International Direct Marketing Fair
http://www.idmf.co.uk/page.cfm
9-11 May, Earls Court, London.
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International Journal of Agile Systems and Management: IJASM
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijasm
A new journal. The IJASM proposes and fosters discussion on business
agility, responsiveness and competitiveness. The emphasis is on methodology,
framework, tools and techniques as well as operational performance, linkage
between technology choice and product needs in the marketplace, extended
enterprise, new forms of organisations, and contemporary management insights
into better coordination of the organisation's internal and external supply
chains.
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International Journal of Electronic Finance: IJEF
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijef
A new journal. IJEF publishes articles that present current practice and
research in the area of e-Finance. It is dedicated to design, development,
management, implementation, technology, and application issues in e-Finance.
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International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering: IJISE
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijise
The main objective of IJISE is to provide a platform for interaction between
researchers and practitioners who are dealing with ISE theory and
applications. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the
field of ISE.
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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies: IJMSO
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmso
IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about meta-data
in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological
structures, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and with an emphasis on
domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social
issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. It also intends
covering Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive
technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a
critical issue.
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Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
http://www.istl.org/06-winter/index.html
The Winter 2006 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is
now available.
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J-Gate
http://j-gate.informindia.co.in/
J-Gate is an e-gateway to global e-journal literature and provides seamless
access to millions of journal articles available online by linking to full
text at publisher sites.
J-Gate is offered in 7 different subject groups.
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Journal Cost-Effectiveness
http://www.journalprices.com/
Use this search engine to find internationally-published journals and rank
them by price per article or citation.
"This website represents our best attempt to compute the price per article
and price per citation."
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Journal of Computing and Information Technology
http://cit.srce.hr/
The aim of the international Journal of Computing and Information Technology
(CIT) is to present original scientific and professional papers, as well as
review articles and surveys, covering the theory, practice and methodology
of computer science and engineering, modelling and simulation, and
information systems.
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Journal title: Informacisn Tecnolsgica
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&lng=en&pid=0718-0764&nrm=i
so
Publication of the Centro de Informacisn Tecnolsgica
Mission: The journal Informacisn Tecnolsgica is dedicated to the
transmission of scientific and technological information in Iberoamerica. In
its broad coverage, the journal publishes original articles in all areas of
applied sciences, technology and engineering, with the condition of being
the product of scientific research work and that the work has relevant
impact on the development of our Iberoamerican countries.
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JOVIS
http://www.jovis.de/
Publisher focusing on architecture, new buildings, restoration and extension
of existing buildings, history of architecture and town planning.
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lib.rario.us
http://lib.rario.us/
A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs...
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London Cross: A straight line walk across London
http://www.londoncross.co.uk/
By Paul K Lyons.
The basic concept of this book, London Cross, is simple - to describe a walk
across London along a route that sticks as closely as possible (without
trespassing) to a straight line.
Read the full text, at this site.
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'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and
Visibility of Online Content.
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm
This document, written by Malcolm Moffat, PerX Project Officer, introduces
the means by which content providers can share, or embed, their descriptive
data (metadata), with other websites, in standard and reusable ways.
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MP3s, Podcasts and all that
http://www.freepint.com/issues/020306.htm#feature
An article by Nick Luft, in the FreePint Newsletter.
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National House-Building Council: NHBC
http://www.nhbc.co.uk/
NHBC, (the National House-Building Council), is the standard setting body
and leading warranty and insurance provider for new and newly converted
homes in the UK. Our role is to work with the house-building and wider
construction industry to provide risk management services that raise the
standards of new homes, and to provide consumer protection to new home
buyers.
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National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting: NICEIC
http://www.niceic.org.uk/
The National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting is
the industry's independent, non profit-making, voluntary regulatory body
covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The NICEIC's sole purpose is to
protect consumers from unsafe and unsound electrical work. We are not a
trade association and do not represent the interests of electrical
contractors.
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NeoByte Solutions
http://www.neobytesolutions.com/
This company's PC solutions products include System LifeGuard, Invisible
Secrets, AlphaZIP and SafeBit programs.
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Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline11-1/index.html
Newsline, March 2006: Volume 11.1 is available. This is the newsletter of
EDINA, a JISC-funded National Datacentre.
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NPO e Journal
http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/journaltemp.html
A National Preservation Office (NPO) newsletter about preservation and
conservation guidelines and programs.
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Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com/
"Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open
access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of
Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access
to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a
database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals,
with links to full text at Publisher sites."
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Postgenomic
http://www.postgenomic.com/index.php
"Postgenomic collates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and
interesting things with that data.
For example, it allows you to get an instant picture of which web sites are
being heavily linked to by researchers in the medical sciences, or which
papers are being cited or reviewed most often by bioinformaticians, or which
buzzwords are being used the most frequently by evolutionary biologists.
It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire biomed blogging
community. Sort of. "
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Preserv
http://preserv.eprints.org/
Preserv is a JISC project investigating and developing infrastructural
digital preservation services for institutional repositories.
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QUOSA
http://www.quosa.com/
QUOSA boosts the efficiency and power of literature search for both academic
and commercial life science researchers.
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Qwika
http://www.qwika.com/
"Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims
are to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them,
make them easily findable in the shortest possible time."
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Save yourself! Free resources for organising, maintaining and sharing the
fruits of your web searches
http://www.freepint.com/issues/160306.htm#tips
Very helpful article in Free Pint, by Mary Ellen Bates.
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SearchEdu
http://www.searchedu.com/
A specialty search engine which searches university and education websites.
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Semefab
http://www.semefab.co.uk/
Semefab is a semiconductor manufacturing organization with a long and
successful track record of developing and supplying silicon based
semiconductor processing technologies and products to the open market.
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Silobreaker
http://www.silobreaker.com/corporate/
Subscription based service: "Silobreaker is the current awareness service
for people in the know and for those who want to get there. Get online news,
content and structured data from thousands of global sources. Catch it in
real-time and view it topically or geographically for easier navigation and
use. Most of all discover the benefits of putting information in context by
using Silobreaker's analytical tools for search, research, monitoring and
analysis. All of which are available in this easy-to-use online service that
has only one aim - to give you a better idea of what's going on."
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SPIRE project
http://spire.conted.ox.ac.uk/
The SPIRE project will tackle policy, middleware and software issues to
facilitate a community of authenticated peer-2-peer early adopters within UK
HEIs. The SPIRE project is run by TALL in partnership with Penn State
University funded by the JISC.
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StAnza: Scotland's Poetry Festival
http://www.stanzapoetry.org/
The only regular festival dedicated to poetry in Scotland, StAnza is
international in outlook. Held in the ancient university town of St Andrews,
the festival presents world class poets and writers performing in exciting,
atmospheric venues.
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StartGuard
http://www.startguard.net/
StartGuard is an anti-spyware tool, able to block all known and unknown
spyware, perform a full spyware scan in under 5 seconds, and doesn't depend
on spyware definition updates.
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Synergy 07: Saltire Centre Special
http://www.learningservices.gcal.ac.uk/synergy/07/index.html
This is a special issue of Synergy (Glasgow Caledonian University's Learning
Services magazine), which celebrates the new Saltire Centre.
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Talis Whisper
http://research.talis.com/2005/whisper/
This prototype application shows the discovery of UK based library
bibliographic and holdings data.
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Teacher Job Online
http://www.teacherjobonline.com/
"Britain's premier jobs website for Teachers. No need to register or even
leave your Email address. Browse jobs anonymously and contact the advertiser
direct."
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Textbook Revolution,
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/
"The web's source for free educational materials."
Worth checking out.
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The Canadian
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/index.php
Online newspaper.
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The Combined Regions
http://www.thecombinedregions.com/
The Combined Regions is the organisation behind the Unity resource sharing
service. The Unity service began over 10 year ago to enable interlending of
resources between libraries in the South West, North West, East Midlands,
North East and Scotland.
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Tropicultura
http://www.bib.fsagx.ac.be/tropicultura/
Tropicultura publishes original articles, research and synthesis notes, book
and thesis summaries as well as reviews of films and videos relative to all
aspects of rural development: plant and animal production, veterinary
science, forestry science, soil science, rural engineering, environmental
sciences, bio-industry, agro-food science, sociology and economy.
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trovando
http://www.trovando.it/
"With trovando you only need enter keywords once, to access and compare
results from 250+ search engines across 10 categories (Web, Images,
Reference, Tag, News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL), by simply
clicking on the engine's name."
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TW Bookjuice
http://www.twbookjuice.co.uk/
TW Bookjuice is produced by Time Warner Book Group UK and features new
titles, author events, etc.
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UK Active Map of Universities and HE Institutions
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/
Useful map.
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Unesco Literacy Portal
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40338&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&UR
L_SECTION=201.html
The Literacy Portal aims to provide a platform for information-sharing on
literacy projects and activities undertaken around the world and enhance
UNESCO's capacity in coordinating the United Nation Literacy Decade (UNLD)
in building partnership at all level.
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Web Focus
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html
Nature special issue. All the articles are free, thanks to sponsorship from
Microsoft.
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Xtra for Deans
http://deans.emeraldinsight.com/
Emerald Group Publishing announces the launch of Emerald Management Xtra for
Deans and Directors, a suite of online resources designed to support senior
managers and administrators in management education. Building on the
communities of practice concept of Emerald Management Xtra for librarians,
authors, researchers, students, and faculty, this latest addition is focused
on leading the future of global business and management education.
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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.
Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com/
Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles
available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature,
indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at
Publisher sites.
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
RSS goes mainstream.
It was interesting to see an item, in the Sunday Times of March 5th, about
using RSS to keep up to date with travel deals - i.e. via
http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/rss.html and
http://www.lastminute.com/site/rss
The article by Mark Hodson explained numerous benefits of RSS, and included
an interesting use of RSS via del.icio.us If you go to
http://del.icio.us/markhodson/hotels you will see a list of his personal top
hotels - at the bottom is an orange RSS button, through which you can
subscribe to the feed for that page. When he adds new hotels, you can be
automatically updated. Click on his del.icio.us tags (to the right of
http://del.icio.us/markhodson/) for numerous other good travel sites.
Other travel feeds I've noticed include:
http://www.justtheflight.co.uk/rss/flights.html and
http://rss.travelocity.com/
blogabond.com
http://www.blogabond.com/
Linking travel blogs to maps, etc
FeedDigest
http://www.feeddigest.com/
With FeedDigest, mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML,
JavaScript, WAP or PHP, or to a new feed.
Blogs & Social Media Forum
http://www.socialmediaforum.co.uk/
A one-day forum, 17th May, Hilton London Metropole.
This new conference, launched by the organisers of the annual Online
Information Exhibition and Conference, brings together a number of leading
thinkers in the field of social media technologies.
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
RF Design
http://rfdesign.com/rss/
RF Design magazine provides RF and microwave engineers with design and
development information concerning wireline and wireless communication's
circuits and products using radio frequency signals going from very low
frequency all the way to millimeter waves.
American Chemical Society RSS feeds
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=siteinfo\rss.htm
l
Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog
http://chronicle.com/news/
LiveSerials
http://liveserials.blogspot.com/
The official blog of the UKSG annual conference
Timbl's blog
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4
gladwell.com
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/
A writer for the New Yorker magazine, and the author of two books, "The
Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference" and "Blink: The
Power of Thinking Without Thinking."
The Laughing Librarian - The Blogga Song
http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/bd_blogga.htm
Warning: Humour!
Intelligent Agent Blog
http://www.ia-blog.com/
Archives Hub Blog
http://archiveshubblog.blogspot.com/
Easy Librarian
http://www.maojun.com/
Micro Persuasion
http://www.micropersuasion.com/
Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media
and public relations.
WSFinder
http://wsfinder.typepad.com/
A conversation about Open APIs, Web Services, Mash Ups, and Web 2.0
Recherchen Blog
http://recherchenblog.ch/index.php/weblog/
MP3Fool.com
http://www.mp3fool.com/
Fortnightly Mailing
http://fm.schmoller.net/
Fortnightly Mailing has a focus on online learning and the internet.
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5. PRESS RELEASES
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**** New Connotea software supports institutional repositories ****
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has released new software which enables
institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social
bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us. This latest innovation allows
content within institutional repositories to be bookmarked, tagged, and
linked to related content. The work behind this development was funded by
the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of their PALS
Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2 program.
Once installed in a repository, the software will enable users to bookmark
documents in that repository using their Connotea or del.icio.us account,
assigning their own tags and without leaving the web page. They can also see
what tags have already been assigned to the document they are viewing in the
repository and click on links to related content, either within the same
repository or elsewhere on the web.
If bookmarked in Connotea, the bibliographic metadata for the institutional
repository item can be automatically imported. Connotea already does this
for items bookmarked from several other sources, including Nature, PubMed,
Science, Blackwell Synergy, Wiley Interscience and Amazon.
Recognizing the importance of the content within institutional repositories,
this new functionality will allow such content to be integrated and linked
with the wider scientific literature.
See http://www.connotea.org/taggingtool for more information.
**** SAGE Announces Journal Backfile Digitization ****
SAGE Publications announced that work has commenced on its complete journal
backfile digitization project. This major undertaking will ensure that the
fullest possible backfile for more than 400 SAGE journals will be available
online to users at academic, government and corporate institutions
worldwide.
SAGE journals span a wide range of subject areas in the humanities, social
sciences and scientific, technical and medical fields. Currently, SAGE
offers deep backfile for selected journals through the SAGE Full-Text
Collections. Once digitized, the complete SAGE backfile will be available
through a range of flexible purchase and subscription options. Further
information will be announced at a later date.
For further information, please contact:
Karine Chapuis, Head of Journals Marketing SAGE UK at
[log in to unmask]
http://www.sagepublications.com
**** Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(tm) with Full Text
Now Available from EBSCO Publishing ****
When EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) released Library, Information Science &
Technology Abstracts(tm) (LISTA), and made it available free to everyone,
the response and subsequent use was extraordinary. Now, EBSCO is pleased to
introduce LISTA with Full Text. While the index-only version of LISTA will
continue to be made available free of charge to all interested users at
http://www.libraryresearch.com, LISTA with Full Text is made available for
an additional annual subscription cost.
LISTA with Full Text provides users with the same comprehensive indexing
found in LISTA including more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research
reports and proceedings. In addition, the full text of more than 100 titles
is provided. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information
management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the
mid-1960s.
For more information, visit http://www.ebsco.com/home/
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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
006.7019 ZHA
Web communities
by Yanchun Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Jingyu Hou
Springer, 2006
025.04 JON
The institutional repository
by Richard Jones, Theor Andrew and John MacColl
Chandos, 2006
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. BOOK REVIEW
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The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future
Lankes, R.D, Abels, E.G., Domas White, M. and Haque, S.N. (eds)
Facet Publishing, 2006
ISBN:1-85604-566-8
#49.95
The content of this new book from Facet Publishing is based on peer-reviewed
main papers presented at the 6th Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Conference in
Ohio in November 2004. The VRD Conference is a leading professional meeting
reporting on developments in the rapidly changing and fluid field of
provision, evaluation and development of virtual reference services.
The papers chosen for inclusion in this book have been developed and
expanded for publication by the contributors [14 from North America, and 3
from Denmark]. They cover chat reference services - concentrating on
teenagers' use of the service and dealing with difficult online
interactions; training and staffing; evaluation (and performance
measurement); and innovative approaches, including chapters on the use of
wi-fi technology and the management of a consortium reference service with a
network of public and academic sector information specialists.
The four main sections of the book mirror the themes covered by the
conference and reflect key issues impacting on a variety of virtual
reference services. The contributors (a mix of educators and reference
service providers from various sectors) succeed in providing a balance
between progressive ideas and practical advice.
Anyone wishing to introduce or further develop a virtual reference service
will undoubtedly want to know -
* examples of best practice or innovative services
* how they can monitor and measure effectiveness
* whether and how services might be tailored to specific user groups
* how to staff and manage services within limited financial resources
The Virtual Reference Desk enables a fuller understanding of these issues
from leading professionals in the field.
Chapters are concisely summarised in the introduction, and the relationship
between the content of the book and the developing Virtual Reference Desk
research agenda is addressed in the conclusion.
This is a forward-looking book which should find a receptive audience
amongst reference information professionals and reader services managers
alike.
For more information, online proceedings from the conference not included in
the book can be viewed at: http://www.vrd2004.org/proceedings/index.cfm
MK
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8. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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Stoats Porridge Bars
http://www.stoatsporridgebars.co.uk/
Stoats Porridge Bars are located in the Meadows on North Meadow Walk at the
George Square entrance to the Meadows.
Stellar Quines Theatre Company
http://www.stellarquines.com/
I-ON Edinburgh Magazine
http://www.ionmagazine.co.uk/
Book This Band
Danny Cockroach
http://www.roach.erathean.com/
Young Edinburgh-based band, who are 'hot'. They also have a super 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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