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ISSUE 141- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
And now for something completely different Correction Update Internet
Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest If you only
read one thing 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: Alacra Wiki, and Top 10 Sources
4. BLOGORAMA
News of Weblogs, RSS, etc
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
5. PRESS RELEASES
New Web Portal for Engineering from Emerald SAGE signs agreements with
CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve E-Journal Content
6. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Recent arrivals
7. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of: The Institutional Repository
Richard Jones, Theo Andrew and John MacColl
8. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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And now for something completely different
I often refer to pretty weighty articles or websites in this section. Not so
this month. Instead, here is a handful of tips and shortcuts.
1. Google Help : Cheat Sheet
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
A one-page summary of Google Search syntax.
2. Press F11 and the menu bars will be removed from your browser. Press F11
again to bring them back.
3. Google Advanced has a feature for finding pages that link to an already
known page.
4. Alexa http://www.alexa.com/ gives traffic rankings, with traffic graphs,
and you can compare the rankings of sites.
5. You can use Google to search within a site, e.g. entering the query:
research site:www.hw.ac.uk
will find "research" within the Heriot Watt University website.
Correction
In the last IRN I mentioned the Spanish Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y
Tecnología initiative to develop a new electronic library, to be set up at
an estimated €80 million, which will provide nearly 150,000 researchers in
Spain with instant access to scientific articles and books. Unfortunately, I
hyperlinked this with an Argentinian website. The Spanish initiative does
not yet have a website, as far as I can see.
Update
Open J-Gate http://www.openjgate.org/ was the "Nice Web Site" for April.
They have let me know that they have added a new feature. Since Open J-Gate
indexes articles from both peer-reviewed and and professional/industry
journals, they have provided a facility for users to limit the search to
peer-reviewed only journals, or professional & industry journals only.
Open J-Gate's policy is - "To index articles from all English Language
journals in open access domain, available online". Currently they index
articles from 3,580 OA Journals, which includes 1957 peer-reviewed
journals.
An excellent initiative.
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
US scholarly publishers oppose Bill on mandatory public access
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=2090&pickUpBa
tch=373#2090
From KnowledgeSpeak
Scholarly, evaluated web sites now available in every ISI Web of Knowledge
Crosssearch
http://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2006-03/8318097/
The Current Web Contents module provides access to over 5,000 editorially
evaluated and carefully selected Web sites
From: KnowledgeLink Newsletter
Institute of Physics unveils new open-access environmental science journal
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=2133&pickUpBa
tch=379#2133 The Institute of Physics has announced the launch of
open-access (OA) journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL).
From: KnowledgeSpeak
Majority Of UK websites Fail To Provide Basic Answers
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4907
The web is failing customers by lagging behind other channels at providing
service, according to research from eService provider, Transversal.
From: Managing Information
Smart sites to power semantic web
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5013146.stm
From: BBC News
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If you only read one thing this month, read...
Stephen's Web
http://www.downes.ca/
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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 (Association of UK Media Librarians) Conference - Point
Hotel, Edinburgh, 22nd-24th September 2006.
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24-7 Press Release Newswire
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/
Press release distribution and news syndicate services.
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Academy of Urbanism
http://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/public/
The Academy of Urbanism is a high level, cross-sector group of individuals
from a wide range of disciplines brought together to champion the cause of
good quality urbanism throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Through
discourse, research, education and awards, the Academy actively seeks to
promote good urbanism and works towards delivering best practice in
partnership with other agencies and organisations.
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Alacra Wiki
http://www.alacrawiki.com/
The Alacra Wiki is a guide to business information companies, publishers and
databases. Anyone can contribute, but you must create an account in order to
do so. Marketing materials, product reviews, product announcements and
executive bios are all welcome.
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Australasian Digital Theses Program Database
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
A comprehensive metadata repository of Australian PhD and Masters [research]
theses. To be augmented over time by New Zealand theses.
Access to 150,000 Australian PhD and Masters [research] theses
over 5,000 available full-text online
link directly to home institutions for access to non-digitised theses
unrestricted open access serving the national and international research
community.
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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/04/v4n5-may-2006-awareness-watch.html
The May issue of Awareness Watch Newsletter, covering Biotechnology
Resources on the Internet including related resources and sites, is
available.
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Biodiversity Science
http://www.biodiversity-science.net/
Biodiversity Science (formerly Chinese Biodiversity) published its first
issue in October 1993. It is sponsored by the Biodiversity Committee of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and jointly managed by Institute of
Botany, Institute of Zoology and Institute of Microbiology, CAS. It is the
first nationwide academic journal that specifically addresses the issues of
biodiversity, aiming to enhance information exchange between Chinese and
international scholars.
An Open Access journal.
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Britain in the EU
http://www.europe.gov.uk
From the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website, a Guide to the EU.
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Change Management
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/change-management
An infoKit developed with the University of Luton which is now live on the
JISC infoNet site.
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colLib
http://collib.info/index.php?title=Main_Page
A collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library &
Information Science.
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Connecting-Africa
http://www.connecting-africa.net/
Connecting-Africa is the web portal for African Studies in the Netherlands.
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DataPlace
http://www.dataplace.org/
A site from the USA: DataPlace aims to be your one-stop source for housing
and demographic data about your community, your region, and the nation. The
site not only assembles a variety of data sets from multiple sources, but it
also provides tools and guides to assist you in analyzing, interpreting, and
applying the data so you can make more informed decisions.
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Digital Libraries a la carte: New Choices for the Future
http://www.ticer.nl/06carte/
The course will take place at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from
Tuesday 22 up to and including Friday 25 August 2006.
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Digital Universe
http://www.digitaluniverse.net/
The Digital Universe is a network of interlinked web portals intended to
become — over time — the largest reliable public information resource in
history.
Currently available in an initial pilot test release, the Digital Universe
reveals the “UniNav” visual directory navigation system and a unique method
for organizing the best of the Web, through “Activities” such as Explore,
and soon, Communicate, Watch, Blog, and Play.
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DRoster Employee Scheduling Software
http://www.kappix.com/
Kappix Employee Scheduling Software Producer – offers DRoster employee
scheduler. Free fully functional copy available at Kappix. Creates shifts,
duties, rosters, availability times, rules, and exportable reports that
integrate with other data sources.
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eConf: Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/
“This site provides a fully electronic, Web-accessible archive for the
proceedings of scientific conferences in High-Energy Physics and related
fields. In its present stage, the site is maintained by Technical
Information Services at SLAC as a free service to the scientific community.
Our intention is to provide a home for electronically published conference
proceedings. Through this, we hope to promote a permanent change in the way
that scientific conference proceedings are published and accessed.”
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Emerald Engineering
http://engineering.emeraldinsight.com/
“Emerald Engineering showcases practical and theoretical insightful
articles, interviews, case studies, viewpoints and more…
Whether you are an academic, researcher or industry practitioner, Emerald
Engineering can help you find solutions to problems and keep up to date with
current research, industry news, trends and debates by providing access to
quality engineering information. Join us and stay at the forefront of your
discipline!”
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En-power
https://www.en-power.co.uk/
“The portal combines the experience of Einstein Network's video based CPD
content with the power, convenience and flexibility of Internet based
delivery. Offering unrivalled access to the content of Einstein Network as
well as allowing complete in house management of CPD, all in a cost
effective and configurable solution.”
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Europass
http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/
Europass is a new way of helping people to:
make their skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe
(European Union, EFTA/EEA and candidate countries);
move anywhere in Europe.
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Evaluation of the JISC’s Open Access Funding Initiative Spring 2006
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/OA_Funding_Initiative_Evaluation_Re
port.doc
“The JISC’s involvement had the effect of raising awareness of open access
publishing among the UK author community through the promotional activities
of publishers.”
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Flow Meters
http://www.iqsdirectory.com/flow-meters/
Flow meter manufacturers, including peak flow meters, flowmeter, water flow
meters, ultrasonic flow meter, mass flow meters, and air flow meter.
This is part of the Industrial Quick Search Directory, which was mentioned
in issue 133 of Internet Resources Newsletter.
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Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends
“With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite
topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched for
on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics
have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have
searched for them most often.”
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Google Video
http://video.google.com/
An open online video marketplace, where you can search for, watch and even
buy an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos,
documentaries, personal productions and more.
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Home Information Packs
http://www.homeinformationpacks.gov.uk/
“Home Information Packs are launching on 1 June 2007 to help improve the
home buying and selling process.
This Government website is designed to give those in the Industry more
information on the new Home Information Packs. There are also useful details
provided for home Buyers & Sellers, although a dedicated consumer website
will be launching in 2007. The site will be updated regularly, reporting on
news and progress of the Home Information Pack Programme.”
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How the financial world goes round - a primer on financial information
resources
http://www.freepint.com/issues/180506.htm#feature
An article in FreePint, by Dave Dixie
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iBoogie
http://www.iboogie.com/
iBoogie is a search site developed and owned by CyberTavern. This site using
Clusterizer™ - a clustering engine developed by CyberTavern. You now have a
way to navigate through large numbers of search results. Clusterizer puts
documents with similar content or with related topics into the same group.
Each group is assigned a label based on the content of the documents. You
can easily see the main topics and focus on the ones that are of interest to
you, without being forced to scroll through a very long list of ranked
documents.
Mentioned in Phil Bradley’s weblog
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Identity and Passport Service
http://www.ips.gov.uk/
The Identity and Passport Service was established as an Executive Agency of
the Home Office on 1 April 2006. The Agency builds on the strong foundations
of the UK Passport Service (UKPS) to provide passport services and in the
future, as part of the National Identity Scheme, ID cards for British and
Irish nationals resident in the UK. Foreign nationals resident in the UK
will also be included by linking the scheme to biometric immigration
documents.
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Info*Nation
http://www.cla.ca/infonation/
Info*Nation is a website designed to promote the library and information
professions in Canada.
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Info@UK
http://www.britishcouncil.org/info62.doc
Issue 62, May 2006 is available.
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Information World Review
http://www.iwr.co.uk/
IWR have redesigned their website.
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
http://ijikm.org/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management is an
academically peer reviewed journal. All submissions are blind refereed by
three or more peers. IJIKM is published in print.
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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm
International Research Journal of Finance and Economics is available free of
charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.
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Internet publications
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Inet
Free publications about Internet business, design and technology, from
Tradepub via TechXtra.
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ISRIC - World Soil Information
http://www.isric.org/
ISRIC - World Soil Information is an independent foundation funded by the
Netherlands Government. We have a strategic association with Wageningen
University and Research Centre. Our aims:
To inform and educate - through the World Soil Museum, public information,
discussion and publication
As ICSU World Data Centre for Soils, to serve the scientific community as
custodian of global soil information
To undertake applied research on land and water resources.
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James Clerk Maxwell
http://www.maxwellyear2006.org/
The year 2006 marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of James Clerk
Maxwell, a Scot whose ideas increasingly electrify, magnetize and change the
world today.
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Journal of Sustainability Science and Managementy
http://journal.kustem.edu.my/
A new journal from the Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia
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Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society: JICS
http://www.ics-ir.org/jics/
All contributions in the form of original papers or short communications
will be peer reviewed and published free of charge after acceptance.
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Knowledge & Content UK: KCUK
http://www.kc-uk.co.uk/
4-6 July, London. This year’s KCUK focuses on two main themes; innovation
and advancement in the enterprise information arena and adding value to your
whole organisation through cutting-edge KM methods and techniques.
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Learning and Teaching Scotland
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/
Learning and Teaching Scotland is an executive non-departmental public body,
sponsored by the Scottish Executive Education Department, with a remit to:
actively promote a climate of innovation, ambition and excellence throughout
the Scottish education system
support teachers, schools and local authorities in improving the quality of
education and raising levels of achievement of all learners
ensure that the curriculum and approaches to learning and teaching,
including the use of ICT, assist children and young people in Scotland to
develop their full potential
work in close partnership with the Scottish Executive and other key
stakeholders to build capacity and support the delivery of a first-class
education that is recognised as such nationally and internationally.
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Librarians Without Borders
http://www.lwb-online.org/index.html
An organization that wants to address the vast information resource inequity
existing between different regions of the world.
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Library Student Journal
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/index.html
Library Student Journal is a new peer-reviewed open access journal,
supported by the University at Buffalo School of Informatics, Department of
Library and Information Studies, Graduate Student Association and the DLIS
Club.
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mad.co.uk
http://www.mad.co.uk/
mad.co.uk delivers business insight to professionals in marketing, media,
new media, advertising and design.
mad.co.uk contains the web sites of a number of magazines and newsletters
including Marketing Week, Design Week, Precision Marketing, Creative Review,
In-Store, Televisual, and Brand Strategy.
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Magazines for Libraries Update
http://www.bowkersupport.com/mfl/update/
Magazines for Libraries Update is a quarterly e-mail service. The MFL Update
is dedicated to the review and analysis of journals of note that have been
published since the last edition of Magazines for Libraries has gone to
press, as well as selected other titles.
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managing digital assets in tertiary education: mandate toolkit
http://www.jwheatley.ac.uk/mandate/Toolkit/index.htm
This toolkit is aimed at managers, administrative and technical staff
considering the management of digital assets in colleges. This toolkit is
the primary output of the mandate project, funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) as part of its Supporting Digital Preservation and
Asset Management in Institutions Programme, itself part of its wider
Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy.
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Medical Technology Business Europe
http://www.mtbeurope.info/index.htm
An online magazine covering developments in electromedical technology,
medical imaging and related technologies.
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Molecular Biology Protocols and Bioinformatics
http://www.molecularstation.com/
A portal for molecular biology which contains immunology methods and
protocols, bioinformatics, and news categorized by DNA, RNA, protein, and
proteomics. Also discuss and ask questions about molecular research
techniques in the forum.
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Name and Address Search
http://www.askbobrankin.com/name_and_address_search.html
Bob Rankin gives some advice on which people search directories he thinks
are the best, and also what to do if you don’t want to be found in an online
directory.
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New Urbanism
http://www.newurbanism.org/
“We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within
coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into
communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of
natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy.”
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Nordic Journal of African Studies
http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/
Nordic Journal of African Studies is an interdisciplinary journal published
by the Nordic Association of African Studies (NAAS) with a focus on Africa,
including various fields of African language studies, literature,
sociolinguistics, cultural and social anthropology, population, history, and
art. Each article submitted for publication is independently refereed,
before articles are selected for publication.
Nordic Journal of African Studies is available free of charge as an Open
Access journal on the Internet.
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Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0630.asp
An article in Educause Review by Charles M. Vest.
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OriginLab
http://www.originlab.com/
OriginLab produces professional graphing and data analysis software for
scientists and engineers.
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Peoples Archive
http://www.peoplesarchive.com/
Peoples Archive is dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the
great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time. The people whose
stories you see on this site are leaders of their field, whose work has
influenced and changed our world.
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PhDforum.eu
http://www.phdforum.eu/
PhDforum.eu is an informal online discussion board where PhD candidates can
discuss freely with their peers about their PhD work and experiences.
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Photonics Engineering Doctorate Centre
http://www.photonics-engd.hw.ac.uk/
The Photonics Engineering Doctorate Centre has recently been established by
Heriot-Watt University and the Universities of Strathclyde and St. Andrews.
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Play the Regs
http://www.playtheregs.com/
Part L of the Building Regulations is changing in England and Wales from 6
April 2006. NEHR and the Construction Products Association have provided
this interactive site to help understand the impact of the changes.
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Real Recruitment Solutions.com
http://www.jobcentre.realrecruitmentsolutions.com/
Real Recruitment Solutions is one of Scotland’s recruitment solutions
companies.
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RefWorks
http://www.refworks.com/
RefWorks - an online research management and collaboration tool - is
designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all
types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
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Research India Publications
http://www.ripublication.com/
Publish several sci-tech journal titles.
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Rollyo
http://rollyo.com/
Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.
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Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/search-engines/
An article in Ariadne, in which Phil Bradley takes a look at the development
of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might
anticipate in the years to come.
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Searchforipod
http://www.searchforipod.com/
Searchforipod makes it easy to get iPod compatible video into iTunes in one
click.
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Searchforvideo
http://www.searchforvideo.com/
A video search engine.
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Second International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems
Sciences, and Engineering: CISSE 2006
http://www.cisse2006online.org/
December 4 - 14, 2006. Technically Co-Sponsored by: Institute of Electrical
& Electronics Engineers (IEEE) University of Bridgeport, USA
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Sphere
http://www.sphere.com/
“Sphere's advanced search algorithm helps you discover high-quality,
relevant, and timely blog posts that match what you're looking for.”
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Spotback
http://spotback.com/
An interesting personalisable news portal.
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Sustaining Repositories: newsletter of the APSR project
http://www.apsr.edu.au/news/newsletter2006april/newsletter.pdf
The April 2006 issue is available.
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Talis Developer Network
http://www.talis.com/tdn/
This resource exists to support innovators across the global library domain.
It is open to all and it is free.
Content includes advice, documentation, scripts, APIs, Web Services, SDKs
and other relevant resources. It is applicable to users of any library
automation solution.
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Technical Acoustics
http://www.ejta.org/
Purely electronic (on-line) journal. Free for readers.
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The oil & gas industry
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/BERA/issue5/issue5_main.html
Business and Economics Research Advisor, Issue 5/6, Winter 2005/Spring 2006.
One of a series of guides from The Library of Congress.
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Top 10 Sources
http://toptensources.com/
“Top 10 Sources is a directory of sites that bring you the freshest, most
relevant content on the Web. We know it's impossible for anyone to keep
track of the 20 million+ online sources of information. So our editors
search Web 2.0 -- blogs, podcasts, wikis, news sites, and every kind of
syndicated source online -- by hand. Our Top 10 lists are updated frequently
as great new sources come online.“
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Trends in business information, provision and use
http://www.freepint.com/issues/040506.htm#feature
An article in FreePint by Pam Foster.
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Trumba
http://www.trumba.com/
Website calendars.
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UK Resource Centre for Women in Science Engineering and Technology
http://www.setwomenresource.org.uk/
This is the official website funded by the Department of Trade and Industry
as part of their Strategy for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology
(SET) and includes:
statistics
information for employers
women in SET database
mentoring information
courses for women in SET
links to women's groups.
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UKeiG Wiki
http://ukeig.xwiki.com/
An experimental wiki from the UK eInformation Group.
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Web Search for Beginners
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/searchstarters.htm
A Beginners Guide to the Web, by Wendy Boswell.
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WhereCanWeGo
http://www.wherecanwego.com/
Britain’s what’s on guide.
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World Soil Surveys Archive and Catalogue: WOSSAC
http://www.wossac.com/
The mission of the World Soil Surveys Archive and Catalogue (WOSSAC) is to
provide a secure home for soil survey reports and maps produced by British
companies and surveyors overseas in the last 80 years in 250 countries, with
a view to ensuring their enduring availability and protection.
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YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/
YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original
videos worldwide through a Web experience.
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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.
Alacra Wiki
http://www.alacrawiki.com/
Top 10 Sources
http://toptensources.com/
Traditional web directories seem to be gradually disappearing. Even the
Yahoo directory, originally the main part of the site, is now hard to find
in amongst all the other information now available on Yahoo, including (by
the way) the very interesting House Price Centre
http://uk.houseprices.yahoo.net/
Instead, there are initiatives such as Top 10 Sources:
http://toptensources.com/
Top 10 Sources editors search 'Web 2.0' -in other words, blogs, podcasts,
wikis, news sites, and other syndicated sources online by hand - and then
produce lists of the best sources which are updated frequently
And then there are joint efforts such as the Alacra Wiki:
http://www.alacrawiki.com/ The Alacra Wiki is a guide to business
information companies, publishers and databases. Anyone can contribute, but
you must create an account in order to do so. Marketing materials, product
reviews, product announcements and executive bios are all welcome.
Community-type initiatives which combine effort from numerous interested
individuals have surely an important role to play in the future of the Web.
RM
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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
Sphere
http://www.sphere.com/
A new blog search engine
BlogPulse
http://www.blogpulse.com/
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs
Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries
http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/using-rss-to-increase-user-awarenes
s-of-e-resources-in-academic-libraries/
An informative presentation by Jay Bhatt, Drexel University
GeoRSS
http://georss.org/
This site describes a number of ways to encode location in RSS feeds.
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
TASI Lightbox
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/blog/
Mantex
http://mantex.blogspot.com/
News and reviews on writing, typography, design, reference books, music,
literary studies, and language
eGov monitor - Education
http://www.egovmonitor.com/taxonomy/term/16/0/feed
Science and Engineering News
http://ucalgarysciengnews.blogspot.com/
This blog delivers library news and information of interest to Science and
Engineering students and faculty at the University of Calgary.
Library Juice
http://www.libraryjuicepress.com/blog/
I
nformation World Review Blog
http://blog.iwr.co.uk/
A very informative blog for those in the information industry.
COS Funding News
http://fundingopps.cos.com/news/
COS Funding News is published each week and includes a sampling of new and
updated award information from COS Funding Opportunities.
The Liminal Librarian
http://www.lisjobs.com/liminal/
Science Resources
http://liblogs.albany.edu/science_resources/
Science Resources will list and describe new online and print resources in
science. New services will also be described. Some of the resources will be
available only to the University at Albany community.
Share Library Ideas
http://sharelibrary.blogspot.com/
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5. PRESS RELEASES
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**** New Web Portal for Engineering from Emerald ****
Emerald Group Publishing is launching a new web portal. The Emerald
Engineering web portal is an online, comprehensive and focused information
resource for engineers: http://engineering.emeraldinsight.com. To celebrate
the new service, Emerald is offering free access to the full content until
September 2006.
The Emerald Engineering web portal draws on Emerald’s international focus to
ensure global perspectives on all aspects of engineering. It aims to appeal
both to practising engineers and academics with quality, peer-reviewed
content drawn from its 15 engineering and materials science journals,
complemented by material from Emerald’s technology and management titles.
Content is split into four major disciplines to ease navigation: advanced
automation; computational mathematics; electronics manufacture and
packaging; and materials science.
Contact: Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Tel: 01274 777700,
email: [log in to unmask] or Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd,
Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925, [log in to unmask]
**** SAGE signs agreements with CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve E-Journal
Content ****
As a publisher of over 400 scholarly journals, SAGE Publications is
committed to ensuring the long-term stability of its valuable journal
content so future generations of scholars, researchers and student will
always have access to it. In order to accomplish this goal, SAGE is
participating in CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS – Lots of Copies Keep Stuff
Safe) and has signed an agreement with Portico, a new, not-for-profit
electronic-archiving service launched last year.
In the event of a disaster that would prevent the delivery of content,
CLOCKSS will assure that access to the journals is maintained. A joint
advisory board, made up of societies, publishers and libraries, will
determine if the content is orphaned and whether it should be made publicly
available. Since it’s collectively managed, publishers are ensured that
content is controlled and no one entity has authority over orphaned digital
materials in the system. During the two-year pilot, participants will
collect and analyze data for use in developing a proposal for a full-scale
archiving model. As part of a longer-term strategy to permanently preserve
published work, CLOCKSS will report the results to the research community
and begin a dialogue about a global infrastructure to ensure preservation of
all past, present, and future scholarly content.
Portico will provide an ongoing, permanent online archive of SAGE journals,
ensuring that an accessible copy of each issue will exist for decades to
come. The service also offers the migration of the content into future
technological formats as they are developed. Portico’s archiving service
meets library demand for a trusted, third-party archive and perpetual access
while providing SAGE with insurance against loss of the journal content.
About SAGE
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books,
and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets.
http://www.sagepublications.com/
About CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is a collaborative, community initiative to build a trusted large
dark archive. The CLOCKSS governance and administration structure is
distributed to insure no one-single organization controls oversight of the
archive or has the power to compromise the long-term viability of the
content's safety. http://www.lockss.org/clockss
About Portico
Portico is a new, not-for-profit electronic-archiving service established in
response to the library community’s need for a robust, reliable means to
preserve electronic scholarly journals. http://www.portico.org/
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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
006.76 KAP
Web engineering
Edited by Gerti Kappel, et al
John Wiley and Sons, 2003
A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is
available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi
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7. BOOK REVIEW
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The Institutional Repository
Richard Jones, Theo Andrew and John MacColl
Chandos Publishing, 2006
ISBN: 1843341387 £39.95
At a time when many academic libraries already have an institutional
repository, or are working on establishing one, this book will do much to
help the latter group. In offering cutting edge knowledge and practical
experience, it will also aid those yet to embark on the process.
According to the authors, in the digital age the institutional repository
could become the library’s saviour. In the institutional repository model
the library is central to the institution’s research publication and
dissemination process. In this model the role of the library as a consumer
of published goods for internal consumption is transposed to one in which
the library gathers internal publications for output to the wider world.
One key to the success of this model is the strength of the library’s
outreach and influence across the institution. The authors stress the need
to be able to win people over (e.g. academics and management), and the
difficulties attached to this process are covered in detail.
In highlighting this and other issues, the book identifies and addresses the
major questions surrounding institutional repositories. The need for
continued institutional commitment and significant long term funding is
stressed in a text which gives an excellent insight into the complete
process of establishing and maintaining an institutional repository.
The book presents a very realistic account of the work involved. However, it
achieves a positive tone with the enhancing role of repositories at its
foundation. Suggested positives, in terms of the institution, are increased
visibility of research and the institution in general (with resulting
positives in attracting staff, students and funding), and increased
efficiency of existing systems through integration of the repository with,
for example, the virtual learning environment. In terms of the wider
publishing arena, one suggestion is that once there is a critical mass of
deposited content, the balance will tip in favour of free access to
research, so pushing publishers to lower subscription prices in response to
remaining competitive. In this sense, in addition to practical insights, The
Institutional Repository also offers springboards for debate on the role of
institutional repositories in the future of libraries and in the wider
publishing forum.
The book’s contents include, Chapter 1: The Institutional Repository in the
Digital Library (offering material for debate on whether free research
output managed by librarians is the natural model); Chapter 2: Establishing
a Repository (covering practicalities including costs in some detail);
Chapter 3: Technologies and Technicalities (covering specifications, local
requirements, evaluation, etc); Chapter 4: Workflow and Administration
(giving breakdown of tasks involved with useful workflow diagrams); Chapter
5: Advocacy (vital to the success and economic viability of the repository);
Chapter 6: Intellectual Property (covering need for a robust legal framework
for depositors and end-users); Chapter 7: Case Study-The Edinburgh Research
Archive. Throughout the text the authors succeed in presenting a good mix of
theoretical and practical content written with an easy to absorb, accessible
style.
The authors state that “most University and research institutions should now
be actively considering the establishment of an institutional repository” –
and this book should be read by those involved in this process.
MK
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8. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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8notes.com
http://www.8notes.com/
Free Sheet Music & Lessons
Bands etc
Rock Ness
http://www.rockness.co.uk/
24th June. The village of Dores is approximately 5.3 miles from Inverness.
Isle of Skye Music Festival
http://www.skyemusicfestival.co.uk/
16 - 17 June 2006
Ian Sclater
http://www.iansclater.com/SongWriter/songwriter.htm
Edinburgh based songwriter
Hope of the States
http://www.hopeofthestates.co.uk/
Playing in Edinburgh soon.
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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