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ISSUE 140- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
Random Quotes
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest If you
only read one thing this month, read...
2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites
3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: NewPR Wiki
4. BLOGORAMA
News of Weblogs, RSS, etc
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
5. PRESS RELEASES
IngentaConnect introduces Resource Zone for library administrators
UnityUK goes live in the first library authorities
SAGE Rolls Out RSS Feeds for all Journals on SAGE Journals Online
6. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Recent arrivals
7. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of: The Google Legacy : How Google’s Internet Search is Transforming
Application Software
8. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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COMMENT
Lorcan Dempsey's articles are always worth reading for their insight and
ideas. Dempsey recently wrote Libraries and the Long Tail
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/dempsey/04dempsey.html which appeared in
D-Lib Magazine, April 2006. The subtitle of the article is: Some thoughts
about libraries in a network age.
In it, he relates issues of supply and demand within a networked environment
toRanganathan's laws of library science. Amongst many other things, Dempsey
also writes about the discovery experience for materials within libraries:
"The discovery experience is a fragmented one. A user has a range of
discovery tools available and may not always know which is the most
suitable... One approach is consolidation: fewer but larger pools of
metadata to support discovery would help. Another is 'syndication', moving
the metadata to where it might more readily rendezvous with the reader."
Some recent initiatives are seeing developments in consolidation. In Spain,
the Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología
http://www.biblioteca.secyt.gov.ar/ is developing 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.
In Ireland, the HEA and SFI have invested €20 million in Universities
Research Facilities
http://www.sfi.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=467&language_id=1&publicati
on_id=1251
In Germany, there is the vascoda initiative http://www.vascoda.de/ This is a
portal for academic information. One of the main features is an integrated
search of individual subject portals.. At the moment, vascoda offers access
to about 30 heterogeneous subject portals.
The new Windows Live Academic http://academic.live.com/ enables searching
for peer reviewed journal articles contained in numerous journal publisher
portals and on the web. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ provides a
similar service (and has just launched a 'Recent Article' feature:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/keeping-up-with-recent-research.html
)
Other large aggregators include IngentaConnect
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ and MetaPress http://www.metapress.com/
Scitation http://scitation.aip.org/ facilitaties the discovery of more than
one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference
proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific
societies and technical publishers.
On a smaller scale, and dedicated to one subject area, TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ an initiative of Heriot Watt, aggregates access
to 27 databases and over 4 million items (books, technical reports, theses,
articles, eprints, etc), and also, via some additional services such as
OneStep Jobs http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepjobs/ syndicates content from
numerous sources, providing one location to find the latest job and industry
news announcements.
Random Quotes
"Many of the library sector's current systems and processes may well be
overdue for criticism, especially when viewed through a lens shaped by
experience of the lightweight, flexible, intelligent and responsive
applications encountered online every day. Our innumerable opaque
information silos, our endless authentication challenges, our wilfully
different interfaces, and our insistence on attempting to suck everyone and
everything into the library building or onto the library site – all of that,
we should collectively be prepared to admit, could be better." Coming
Together around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms, Paul
Miller, D-Lib Magazine, April 2006
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
Swiss scientists sign up to open access
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/02/07/eng/article6445776.html
From: NZZ Online
Complaints soar as public's right to know is denied
Rising complaints about failure of public bodies to disclose information
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=578992006
From: The Scotsman
Major US group calls for digital openness
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has recommended that several
areas of business activity should be more "open" including "digital
information products" and suggests that the National Science Foundation
should fund research into alternative compensation methods and to "reward
creators of digital information products and accommodate the changes brought
about by the digitization and growth of the Internet".
http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=1817&Pid=10&Zid=2442&issueno=117
From: Serials eNews
Technology makes marketing too intrusive, say marketers
While technology has made marketing in general more effective, concerns have
been raised by marketing professionals about its perception as being
intrusive by customers, according to a report published by The Chartered
Institute of Marketing.
http://www.out-law.com/page-6841
From: Out-Law.com
Zetoc now provides RSS feeds for journal articles
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/news/21apr2006.html
You can now choose to keep up to date with the latest information in your
chosen subject area by using Zetoc RSS.
New engineering institution launches with promise to promote the profession
to young people
http://www.theiet.org/media/pressreleases/z31mar2006.cfm
Europe’s largest professional society for engineers, the Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET) has been launched in London.
If you only read one thing this month, read...
Web 2.0 - a new generation of services, by Phil Bradley, Library +
Information Update, May 2006.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2006/may/
web2bradleymay06.htm
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2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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3DSeek
http://www.3d-seek.com/3DSeek/Update.aspx
“With 3D-Seek.com, the world’s first online 3D search engine, we utilize the
3D shape of the product as a means to find other similar parts.”
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Africa Renewal Online
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/
Internet version created by Africa Section, Strategic Communications
Division, in cooperation with the UN Website Section, Department of Public
Information, United Nations.
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African American Art and History
http://www.african-american-art-history.com/
This site provides information on the history of art by Blacks and Black
history from slavery to the present in the visual arts, literature,
performing arts and music.
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African Study Monographs: ASM
http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/root.htm
A multi-disciplinary journal which publishes academic articles in all fields
of African studies. The journal will emphasize monographs, but brief
communications are also published. Although this journal is primarily for
original papers, review articles and book reviews are also published.
African Study Monographs is available free of charge as an Open Access
journal.
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Airports, Airlines, And Airplanes
http://askbobrankin.com/airports_airlines_and_airplanes.html
Learn how to make online air travel reservations, find airports, get airline
information, and view real-time flight tracking data.
An article by Bob Rankin.
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ajaxWrite
http://www.ajaxwrite.com/
“The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely
web-based AJAX platform. Try ajaxWrite today, and experience first-hand how
AJAX applications are changing the way the web works, and redefining the
software industry.”
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ASLP Technical Update Meeting, March 2006
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/meetings/alpsp-2006-03/
What are the implications of Web 2.0 for the publishing sector? In this
presentation Brian Kelly describes how various Web 2.0 technologies can be
exploited by the publishing sector.
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Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement: APRA
http://www.aprahome.org/
The Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA)
represents over 1,900 development professionals around the world who are
dedicated to meeting the data and information needs of the nonprofit
community.
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Awareness Watch Newsletter April 2006 V4N4
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N4.pdf
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Semantic Web
Research Resources on the Internet including related resources and sites.
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BigCite
http://bigcite.com/
Quotations.
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blog.ac.uk
http://incsub.org/edublog/
‘blog.ac.uk’ represents the UKs first educational blogging conference
bringing together practitioner and research based expertise to explore
cutting edge issues surrounding the educational use of weblogs and
weblogging software.
2nd June 2006: London, UK.
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Center for diffusion of academic mathematical journals
http://www.cedram.org/index.php?lang=en
Portal for common access to a set of mathematical journals funded by CNRS,
ministère de la Recherche and université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble).
Three journals are available.
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CIDL Newsletter
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cidl/040021-200-e.html
CIDL News is the bilingual newsletter of the Canadian Initiative on Digital
Libraries. It is published twice a year. CIDL News carries reports on the
Steering Committee activities, members' projects, plus news of conferences
and workshops. CIDL members are invited to submit articles about their
concerns and experiences with organizing, managing, and sustaining
digitization projects of service to Canadians.
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Clustering versus Faceted Categories for Information Exploration
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/papers/cacm06.pdf
By Marti A. Hearst, from Communications of the ACM.
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Construction Contracts Mediators' Group: CCMG
http://www.ccmg.co.uk/
CCMG provide access to a group of mediators who specialise in construction
contract disputes. Each mediator has experience of the difficulties that can
arise which need to be overcome in order to enable construction contract
disputes to be settled amicably, economically, and on terms acceptable to
the parties.
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Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/
The Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has
responsibility for the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors and
regulates, protects and develops the Marine and Natural Resources of
Ireland.
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DiSCS-UK
http://www.discs-uk.info/
This website is an online database of potential suppliers of ICT and
digitisation resources for the cultural and heritage sector. NEMLAC in
partnership with the regional agency One NorthEast have developed this
digital and IT knowledge resource - a one stop shop for sector
professionals. Benefits include the better use of existing digital resources
within the sector, the sharing of knowledge and the engagement with
technical experts from outside the sector.
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D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/04contents.html
The April issue is available, with articles on Library 2.0, the ‘long tail’,
etc.
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E-access Bulletin
http://www.headstar.com/eab/
A free, independent monthly e-mail newsletter on information technology
issues for people with visual impairment and blindness.
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Edinburgh Community Councils
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/communitycouncils
There are currently 39 community councils in Edinburgh. Community councils
play an important part in allowing local residents to speak out on local
issues and conveying their views to a range of organisations. In addition,
community councils have an influence in a number of areas such as local
planning applications, transport, environment, leisure, conservation and
licensing matters.
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Editorial Manager
http://www.editorialmanager.com/homepage/home.htm
Editorial Manager is an online manuscript submission and tracking system. It
provides a user experience for authors, reviewers, editors and journal
office staff.
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ePrints@IISc
http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/
An open access repository from India. ePrints@IISc repository collects,
preserves and disseminates in digital format the research output created by
the IISc research community.
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Exploring the Academic Invisible Web
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006071/
An article by Lewandowski, Dirk and Mayr, Philipp.
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Frappr
http://www.frappr.com/
A ‘friend mapper’. You probably have to visit this site to understand, at a
glance, what it is.
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Google Librarian Newsletter
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0604.html
The third issue is available.
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Google Scholar Versus Metasearch Systems
http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/12/papers/1/
An article in High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine.
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Green Metropolis
http://www.greenmetropolis.com/
GreenMetropolis.com is a huge online bookstore.
All books sell for one low price of £3.75 and all standard paperbacks
include free delivery. They also pay £3.00 for every book you sell with
GreenMetropolis.com.
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Highlights
http://www.inderscience.com/highlights
The Spring issue of Highlights, the free newsletter from Inderscience, is
available.
Contents include details of new journal titles in agile systems, electronic
finance, green economics, etc, latest calls, a free article on Research
Trends in Information Systems and Change Management, and more.
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IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference
http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/
Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
“The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of
concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in
recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but
other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological
as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main
tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that
don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of
benefit to conference attendees.”
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IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal
http://www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html
This service is provided by the IFPMA, on behalf of its Member Companies and
Associations. The portal has been designed as a single entry allowing you to
search for comprehensive information on on-going clinical trials (registry)
or results of completed trials (database) conducted by the innovative
pharmaceutical industry.
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Informatica
http://ai.ijs.si/informatica/
Informatica is an open access international refereed journal with its base
in Europe. It publishes papers addressing all issues of interest to computer
professionals: from scientific and technical to educational, commercial and
industrial. It also publishes critical examinations of existing
publications, news about major practical achievements and innovations in the
computer and information industry, as well as conference announcements and
reports. Informatica is published by the Slovenian Society Informatika.
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Information Literacy Website
http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/
This website has been designed and developed by information professionals
from key UK organisations actively involved in the field of information
literacy.
The site will support practitioners by providing news, case studies,
examples of best practice and freely available toolkits. Their aim is to
provide a practical resource that information professionals regularly visit
to discover the latest developments in information literacy.
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Information: Interactions and Impact
http://www.i3conference.org.uk/
Preliminary announcement of a conference to be held at The Department of
Information Management, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK in June
2007.
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
http://www.theiet.org/
A new institution formed in spring 2006 by the coming together of the IEE
and IIE. Aims to serve a global community engaged in engineering and
technology, providing a knowledge network accessible whenever or wherever
you choose.
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International Journal of Internet Science
http://www.ijis.net/
A peer reviewed open access journal for empirical findings, methodology, and
theory of social and behavioral science concerning the Internet and its
implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society.
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International Journal of Online Engineering
http://www.ijoe.org/ojs/
Open Access journal.
The objective of the journal is to publish and discuss fundamentals,
applications and experiences in the field of remote engineering and virtual
instrumentation.
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KCPR 2006
http://www.info-cybernetics.org/KCPR2006
The First International Conference on Knowledge Communication and Peer
Reviewing: KCPR 2006, July 20-23, 2006 - Orlando, Florida, USA.
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Landmarks for School
http://landmark-project.com/index.php
Landmarks for Schools is one of the earliest educational websites on the
Internet, Landmarks has served teachers since 1995 with links to teaching
and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools.
The latest edition to this site is the Shroud of Turin.
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Lingo24 Articles
http://www.lingo24.com/articles/index.html
Lingo24, a translation company, has provided translation and foreign
language-related information – essentially a collection of articles which
may be of interest to academics, plus a Translation Industry Career Guide
for languages graduates, and some blogs about translation.
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Low-Profile Regs You Don't Want to Miss: The Re-Use of Public Sector
Information Regulations 2005
http://www.freepint.com/issues/300306.htm#feature
An article by Sue Broughton in a recent issue of FreePint.
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Luminous-Lint
http://www.luminous-lint.com/
“The purpose of this site is to create the world‘s leading collaborative
knowledge-base for the history of photography showing significant vintage
and contemporary photography”
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Mailbase
http://www.mailbase.org.uk/
Mailbase is a national service, providing electronic discussion lists and
information sharing facilities for all sectors.
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Market Segmentation: A Guide to Sources of Information
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/marketing/
Compiled by Ellen Terrell, Library of Congress, January 2005
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Mtandao Afrika
http://www.mtandao-afrika.org/
Mtandao Afrika (MAf) Internet Challenge is a website contest for African
youth in the age of 12-19. The contest is focusing on the creation of
African web sites with African content and promotes the use of African local
languages.
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Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nkos/nkos2006/
The 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop.
Workshop at the 10th ECDL Conference, Alicante, Spain, September 21, 2006.
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NewPR Wiki
http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php
This wiki is:
a repository of relevant information about how the PR practice is changing
a collaboration tool for PR professionals and people interested in the
practice of public relations
an open space where anyone can ask questions, post ideas, or start a
project.
I saw this site mentioned in the excellent TFTTR.
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Office for Disability
http://www.officefordisability.gov.uk/
“On this website you can find out about the work of The Office for
Disability Issues and share your views with us.
The Office for Disability Issues will be the focal point within government
to coordinate disability policy across all departments.”
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On the Horizon
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/oth/oth.jsp
On the Horizon is an international quarterly publication providing analysis
and comment on the future of post-secondary education. On the Horizon
provides a 'radar' service to key decision makers concerned with post
secondary education in its many and emerging forms, from traditional
institutions to corporate universities, from private/for-profits to
non-profits around the world. Our mission is to inform educators about the
challenges that they will face in a changing world and the steps they can
take to meet these challenges.
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Oxford Distance Learning College
http://www.oxfordcollege.ac/
New site for this resource mentioned in issue 137.
Oxford Distance Learning College (ODL) is one of the leading distance
education providers in the United Kingdom.
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PerX Pilot
http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=basic
This is a pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource
discovery in engineering. It has been created to investigate practical
management and maintenance issues, and is not a fully-supported service.
However, it is freely available for use by anyone, and PerX would very much
appreciate feedback and opinions.
Anyone who provides feedback in the PerX 60 Second Survey will be entered
into a draw for £100 Amazon vouchers.
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PRONOM
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/
PRONOM is an on-line information system about data file formats and their
supporting software products. Originally developed to support the accession
and long-term preservation of electronic records held by the National
Archives, PRONOM is now being made available as a resource for anyone
requiring access to this type of information.
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Publish or Perish - Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/harnad.html
An article in ERCIM News, by Stevan Harnad.
”Europe is losing almost 50% of the potential return on its research
investment until research funders and institutions mandate that all research
findings must be made freely accessible to all would-be users, webwide.”
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QA Focus Briefing Documents
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/
A total of over 90 QA Focus Briefing Documents are currently available. The
documents provide brief, focused advice in the following areas:
Quality Assurance
Standards
Digitisation
Access (Web sites)
Usability
Metadata
Software
Service Deployment
Legal, IPR, etc.
General.
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Research Journal of International Studies
http://www.eurojournals.com/international_studies.htm
Research Journal of International Studies is available free of charge as an
Open Access journal on the Internet.
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RLG News
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20901
The Spring 2006 issue is available.
RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries,
archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions.
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ScienceDirect China Collection
http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/journals/china/
The ScienceDirect China Collection is a series of prestigious Chinese
science, technology and medical journals never before disseminated outside
of China. The China Collection will continue to grow over the years to form
a rich and unique resource on ScienceDirect.
Free for review until the end of 2006.
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SRU: Search/Retrieve via URL
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/
SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard search protocol for Internet
search queries, utilizing CQL (Common Query Language), a standard query
syntax for representing queries. SRW (Search Retrieve Web Service) is a
companion protocol to SRU. The Library of Congress serves as the maintenance
agency for these standards.
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Structured Blogging
http://structuredblogging.org/
“Structured Blogging is all about giving bloggers the tools to create and
syndicate structured information, such as reviews and events. We currently
offer two Structured Blogging plugins for the popular blogging platforms
Movable Type and Wordpress. Using these plugins makes it easy to create,
edit, and maintain different kinds of posts.”
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Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication
markets in Europe
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publicatio
n-study_en.pdf
A report from the European Commission.
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TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
TechXtra is a suite of ten freely available services which simplify access
to a multitude of different types of technology information from a host of
different sources.
TechXtra facilitates immediate access to the freely available full-text
content of hundreds of thousands of eprints, technical reports, theses,
articles, news items, job announcements and more. In cases where the
full-text is not freely available, TechXtra provides links to venders for
pay-per-view options.
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TelecomSpace
http://www.telecomspace.com/
This website contains Information, Tutorials, Whitepapers, News, Latest
trends in telecommunications, wireless, mobile, cellular, technologies: GSM,
CDMA, SS7, 3G, UMTS, Applications, wireless networks, MVNO, VoIP, SIP,
H.323, MGCP, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, Mobile TV.
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The Better World Report
http://www.autm.net/documents/AUTM_BWR.pdf
Technology Transfer Stories: 25 Innovations That Changed the World.
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The Wireless Event
http://www.thewirelessevent.com/
17-18 May, London. The Wireless Event, now in its fourth year, is the
world's biggest wireless broadband show.
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Thriving on change: The right stuff for resilience in an information career
http://www.freepint.com/issues/130406.htm#tips
An article in FreePint by Kim Dority.
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Tubitak Scientific Journals
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/
TÜBITAK publishes 12 peer-reviewed scientific journals indexed by various
international abstracts.
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UK-Housing.co.uk
http://www.uk-housing.co.uk/
UK-Housing.co.uk is home to Housing Monthly Diary and Legal Update. Online
Archived editions are free to browse, as are the comprehensive listings of
Forthcoming Events and the popular Featured Websites section.
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Visionary Design
http://www.visionary-design.org/
From the National Library for the Blind.
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Wavetrend
http://www.wavetrend.co.uk/
Headquartered in the UK, with offices in London, Washington and
Johannesburg, Wavetrend is a world leader in the design, manufacture and
distribution of Active Ultra Long Range (ULR) Radio Frequency Identification
technology and solutions.
As part of Wavetrend’s strategy to form close links with world-class
academic institutes, Wavetrend is pleased to announce a strategic
relationship with Heriot Watt University.
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Web 2.0 Awards
http://web2.0awards.org/
Arranged through SEOmoz, who provide companies around the world with
consulting, Internet marketing and search engine optimization services.
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Windows Live Academic
http://academic.live.com/
Windows Live Academic is now in beta. It currently indexes content related
to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject
areas.
Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles
contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like
citeseer.
See Gary Price’s review of this new site.
See also the Blog.
Content sources are available.
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Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of Science: WISCI
http://www.wisci.com/
The Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of Science (WISCI) is a student-run,
peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research conducted by students
at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Wwwtools for education
http://m.fasfind.com/wwwtools/
“wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in
tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web.
Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching
and learning.”
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Zetoc RSS
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html
Zetoc RSS enables you to set up RSS feeds for journals in Zetoc. An RSS
button is provided for each individual journal.
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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.
NewPR Wiki
http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php
This is a collaborative site containing lots of interesting material for
anyone involved in marketing and public relations.
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
250+ PR/Comm-related blogs, wikis and podcasts, organized by country and
topic
http://www.bloglines.com/public/prblogs
Pod2Go
http://www.kainjow.com/pod2go/windows/
A way to use an iPod utility for syncing news feeds, weather forecasts,
movie showtimes, driving directions, lyrics, stock quotes and more, and is
now available for your PC.
Blogging advice from the Webmaster World conference
http://www.pandia.com/sew/205-blogging-advice-from-the-webmaster-world-confe
rence.html
Feed Pile
http://www.feedpile.com/
A feed pile is your own collection of your favorite web sites and web logs.
fotr example, http://www.feedpile.com/scitechlibblogs/ is a list of sci-tech
library blogs I tried to create via Feed Pile.
Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds
Really Simple Syndication
http://www.rssboard.org/
RSS Advisory Board announcements and RSS news
All My Eye
http://allmyeye.blogspot.com/
Provides a new channel for Ingenta to communicate product and technical news
to its customers across the information industry.
Society for International Affairs
http://www.siaed.org/en/rss/index/
Industrialmarketingtalk
http://industrialmarketingtalk.blogspot.com/
Archives and expanded articles from Pro-Talk's newsletter for industrial
marketing managers.
Dialog RSS Feeds
http://www.dialog.com/rss/
"Today, Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information
services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as
business, science, engineering, finance and law."
TechEssence
http://techessence.info/blog/
The essenec of technology for library decision-makers.
"Roy Tennant started TechEssence to address the need for simple, easy to
understand information about information technology. He is lucky to be
joined by a stellar cast of individuals who contribute their unique
perspectives on technology and its appropriate place in library service"
Translation Industry News
http://www.lingo24.com/blogs/ioana.html
From lingo24
Beat the Press
http://beatthepress.blogspot.com/
Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting
2 Cents Worth
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
Thoughts about education, teaching and learning
Informaticopia
http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/blogger.html
Eclectic news and views on health informatics and elearning, by Rod Ward &
colleagues. UK bias but worldwide coverage.
VALIS
http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/
Blog on library and information issues, focusing on news, current awareness
and reference, and New Zealand library news.
LiveSerials
http://liveserials.blogspot.com/
The LiveSerials blog is operated by the Marketing Committee of the United
Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) and provides realtime coverage of news from the
information industry. The blog's inaugural purpose is to provide coverage of
the UKSG 2006 Annual Conference (Warwick University, UK; 3-5 April 2006).
Windows Live Academic Search Blog
http://spaces.msn.com/academicsearch/
Digital sands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/islandblogging/blogs/005261/
ISHUSH
http://ishush.blogspot.com/
An Open Notebook for Excitable Librarians
I want to
http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/
How to do the things you want to do. Including many Web 2.0 applications.
Talis Developer Network - shared innovation
http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/feed
Stephen’s Web
http://www.downes.ca/
Founded in 1995, Stephen’s Web is best described as a digital research
laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education. More than
just a site about online learning, it is intended to demonstrate new
directions in the field for practitioners and enthusiasts.
JISC Digitisation Programme Blog
http://jiscdigitisation.typepad.com/
Trig Points of Skye
http://skyetrigs.blogspot.com/
"I used to do Board Meetings and Audit Committees and watch PowerPoint
presentations. Now I do not."
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4. PRESS RELEASES
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**** IngentaConnect introduces Resource Zone for library administrators ****
IngentaConnect, the home of scholarly research, is pleased to announce the
launch of Resource Zone. This new area of the IngentaConnect website is
designed to provide information and materials to support library
administrators’ usage of Ingenta’s flagship web service, which provides
subscription and pay-per-view access to over 29,500 publications. The
Resource Zone can be reached via the For Librarians menu on the
IngentaConnect homepage, or accessed directly at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/about/librarians/resourcezone
Full press release:
http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/resourcezone.htm
**** UnityUK goes live in the first library authorities ****
UnityUK, the next generation resource sharing and interlibrary loan service
from The Combined Regions (TCR), has gone live in the first three library
authorities to move onto the new system. This represents the first phase of
libraries to migrate to UnityUK and comes just six weeks after the
announcement of the launch of the new service.
Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire have moved over to UnityUK and are
now using the service to search multiple library authority catalogues, to
identify the location of resources they want and to manage interlibrary loan
and resource sharing services for their customers.
The three authorities going live in phase one will be using the first
release of UnityUK. This release incorporates some 2.5 million holdings
records from seven library authorities loaded against the bibliographic
records within the LinkUK database. Holdings information from more
libraries authorities will be incorporated into UnityUK during April, in
readiness for the existing UnityWeb data load which is due to start in May
2006.
UnityUK is the latest generation of the established Unity service. UnityUK
will, for the first time, deliver a national network for resource sharing
for the UK as it brings together the union catalogues of The Combined
Regions and LinkUK. The new service uses the latest resource sharing
technology from world leaders OCLC PICA (incorporating FDI) who also host
and manage the new service
http://ww.thecombinedregions.com
For further information, contact:
Emily Haynes
Marketing Executive
Fretwell-Downing Informatics
Tel: +44 (0)114 281 6040
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**** SAGE Rolls Out RSS Feeds for all Journals on SAGE Journals Online ****
SAGE Publications have announced that all of its journals now offer tables
of contents RSS feeds on the SAGE Journals Online platform located at
http://online.sagepub.com .
SAGE Journals Online already provides advanced alerting services with tables
of contents, keyword, author and citation alerts available alongside the new
RSS option.
“We are excited to be able to provide the RSS feeds as over recent months,
RSS has rapidly become the online standard for information aggregation,”
said John Shaw, SAGE’s Director of Publishing Technologies. “SAGE is
committed to assisting researchers and users by offering the most flexible
ways to access our content online. With RSS aggregators like Feedster,
Bloglines, etc, new users will easily be able to locate SAGE’s journal
content. Working closely with HighWire Press, we have been able to quickly
respond to the changing needs of the marketplace.”
For more details, contact:
Simon Haggis
E-Products Marketing Manager
Sage Publications
1 Oliver's Yard
55, City Road
London EC1Y 1SP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7324 8500
Fax: +44 (0)20 7324 8600
Email: [log in to unmask]
Track the latest research in your subject with journal content alerts.
Sign up at http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts
Information about books, journals and special offers for your subject.
Sign up at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/NewProductAlerts
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For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP:
http://www.vivavip.com/
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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
005.72 EBE
Wiki Web collaboration
By Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser and Richard Heigl
Springer, 2006
006.7 CAM
Web design garage
by Marc Campbell
Prentice Hall, 2005
025.04 BOA
The language of websites
by Mark Boardman
Routledge, 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. BOOK REVIEW
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The Google Legacy : How Google’s Internet Search is Transforming Application
Software
by Stephen E Arnold,
Infonortics, Tetbury, England, 2005
Available in online PDF download version: US$180 or 145 euros.
Published by Infonortics Ltd, who specialise in texts for the electronic
information industry, The Google Legacy is written by Stephen Arnold, an
American consultant and established author with six books on the Internet
and related fields to his name.
Taking its title from its last chapter, this book is based on a series of
reports produced by the author in 2004. Arnold’s stated premise is that a
Google-type company is the logical heir apparent to Microsoft. Based on
Google’s technical reports, white papers and patents and from discussions
with Google observers, the book gives a wide-angled view of Google and sets
out the bigger picture for an organisation whose business model is less than
transparent.
The book offers eleven chapters covering Google’s first principles; Google
basics; Google technology; Google relevance ranking and search engine
optimization; Gmail and Google maps-true virtual applications; Google
clustering-news enhanced search; Google Print (now renamed Book Search) and
Scholar; Google-a new force in enterprise search; Google APIs-netting
developers; Google goes personal; and finally The Google Legacy.
Throughout, Arnold succeeds in making Google’s operational opacity more
transparent. The lists of Google patents, publishing and library partners in
the appendices complement this (although the barriers to making these
comprehensive and definitive are noted). The book is written in an informal
but informative style (with some use of American parlance which may alienate
some readers elsewhere).
Although technical in some areas, the Google Legacy is neither a technical
manual nor a practical guide to using Google. It is written from the
business angle and succeeds in setting Google in the context of the wider
industry. Google’s character and profile and its strengths and weaknesses
are discussed. The book’s focus is on Google as an agent of change, and its
relationship to competitors such as Microsoft and Yahoo. It touches on
Google’s impact on the publishing and library sectors and discusses Google
Print (now Book Search) and Google Scholar, services which have been
described elsewhere as “potentially radical developments” for academic
libraries (1).
Reading The Google Legacy will help readers make better informed judgements
on some issues surrounding Google. Although described as a natural heir to
the Microsoft dynasty, does Google see itself a pretender to the throne?
With regard to publishers and libraries, does Google ‘do no evil’ as its
motto suggests, or is it spreading stealthily into the world of information
using “what looks familiar but turns out to be a nasty threat (2)”?
Throughout the book, perhaps with a degree of repetition, Arnold stresses
that Google is not just a search engine – but something much bigger. He
highlights Google’s diverse portfolio of products and services (standing at
fifty plus in 2005) and the fluid nature of their development. In this
sense, the book gives a useful insight into the spread of the company’s
interests. However, Arnold also provides an insight in to what he suggests
is Google’s ace - ‘Googleplex’. Arnold uses this term to refer to Google’s
complete computer infrastructure – a powerful, distributed system of data
centres and computing devices capable of high efficiency data processing.
Googleplex, he suggests is the computing platform which may allow Google to
succeed as the market develops.
The Google Legacy portrays Google as a company in the ascendant. However,
Arnold does discuss in some detail potential downfalls to its future success
- including future disintegration of the Internet and an excess of Google
ego.
However, even if failure becomes a reality for Google, Arnold suggests that
its model of “distributed, parallelized network computing and virtual
applications” would live on as the “next evolutionary phase in computing
systems and software” – the Google legacy.
Notes.
1,2. McColl, J. Google Challenges for Academic Libraries.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/maccoll/. Accessed 12 th April 2006.
Marion Kennedy
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7. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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One-ticket
http://www.one-ticket.co.uk/
Travel in Edinburgh and East Coast Scotland
lyricstrax.com.
http://www.lyricstrax.com/
This is the place where you'll find song lyrics.
Singular Films
http://www.singularfilms.com/
Singular Films is devoted to all things retro. We have extensive galleries
of our World War II, Cold War, and VD propaganda posters to compliment our
collection of DVD’s on scare movies, retro technology, old classics, and
newsreels.
Glasgow Barrowland & Barras Market Site
http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/
Book This Band
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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