BUBL LINK Updates
Recent Additions to the Catalogue of Internet Resources
1-15 November 1998
For live links to all these resources, see
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html
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004 Computing and the Internet
ZDNet AnchorDesk
Independent of vendors, AnchorDesk is a technology news service aiming
to provide notification of important stories. Subscribers to the
service receive regular email alerting them to new developments, with
more detailed information available on the Web.
WebPromote Metatag Builder
Computer program to insert metatags in HTML source code. Users enter
the URL of their chosen page, keywords, and a description of the page.
The source code, with Metatags inserted, is delivered via email.
ISO Country Codes
Complete list of all two-letter ISO (International Organization for
Standardization) country codes, as used in Internet domain names.
Web Standards Project
International coalition of Web developers which aims to persuade
browser makers to support standards created by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) and other standards bodies.
WebCoder
Information on JavaScript and Dynamic HTML. Includes tutorials,
documentation, demonstrations and an archive of simple scripts.
Open Source Page
Articles on Open Source software including a brief introduction to the
concept, a history of the concept, and a series of case studies on the
use of Open Source software by people in a variety of backgrounds,
including technicians, hackers, businesses and customers.
Linux Center
Index of sources of information about the Linux operating system, its
applications, and free software in general. English and French display
option.
Linux System Administrators' Guide
A guide to the Linux operating system, including information on parts
of an operating system, services in a Unix system, file systems,
memory management and backups. Features a glossary of related terms.
UK Linux Links
Index of sources of information about the Linux operating system,
including hardware and software vendors, online publications, software
archives and local UK projects.
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resources
Sources of information on the Resource Description Framework format,
including documents, publications, discussions, press coverage,
events, applications and examples of RDF markup.
Office of the Data Protection Registrar
Official information from the body responsible for implementing the
Data Protection Act 1984 and influencing national and international
thinking on privacy and personal information. Includes data protection
guidelines, guidance notes, news, specialist papers and details of the
new Data Protection Act 1998.
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020 Library and Information Science
Latin American Bookstore
Suppliers of Latin American and Spanish academic publications to
university libraries and the communities they serve, specialising in
literature, history and the social sciences. Includes a selection of
new titles and a database of current titles in complete bibliographic
format.
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070 News and publishing
Alphabetstreet.com
UK-based online bookstore with catalogue searchable by subject, author
or title. Also includes recommended titles, and sections on books for
children and young adults, and fiction titles by genre.
Newsweek
Online edition of the US news and current affairs magazine. Includes
full text of articles from the current edition, the latest news, stock
market updates and a searchable archive of past issues.
British Library Newspaper Library
Information about the BL Newspaper Library, including a historical
overview, a chronology and a select bibliography.
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100 Philosophy and psychology
Automated Visual DMS/DNMS tasks
Video evidence and multimedia interactive assessment of rats'
performance in an automated visual DNS/DNMS (delayed matching /
nonmatching to sample) task, testing rats use of memory in behavioural
tasks
Learning and Memory
Resources in learning and memory, including publications, tutorials
and details of research projects in areas such as animal models of
memory and amnesia.
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300 Social sciences
European Union Research
Pointers to resources of interest to those researching and studying
the European Union and to research sponsored by the European
Community. Topics include regional information, international
relations, European law and current affairs. Library catalogues and
electronic journals are also accessible.
Report of the Independent Commission on the Voting System - Jenkins Report
Final report of the independent commission established by the UK
Government in December 1997, and chaired by Lord Jenkins, to
consider and recommend an alternative to the present system for UK
parliamentary elections, to be put before the people in the
Government's referendum.
National Assembly for Wales
Official information from the devolved Welsh Assembly. Includes
information on relevant legislation and the process of designing the
Assembly.
BIRD: Business Information Resources Directory
Business resources for the UK and Ireland. Includes a Virtual
Reference Library with an index of sources of free business
information available on the Internet. Searchable by category and
keyword. Also includes a facility to purchase business books online.
Currency Exchange Rates History Graphs
Exchange rates for a range of foreign currency, and rate information
for the last thirty days. Also includes a currency calculator
function. Exchange rate information is based on the daily 12 noon
buying rates by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Universal Currency Converter
Converts any one of a wide range currencies to any other, at current
rates of exchange. Information available in English, French or
Swedish.
JURIST UK: The Law Professors' Network
Offers news, links and academically-authored UK legal resources for
law students, lecturers and lawyers.
Butterworths Student Notebook
Online resource centre for law students. Includes links to law
departments of UK universities, case notes, articles and an online
book ordering service. Also includes full-text of articles from the
New Law Journal.
General Council of The Bar
UK professional body for barristers. The role, profession and
activities of the Bar Council are discussed, and a directory of
individual barristers and chambers in England and Wales is included.
Fedstats
Gateway to the full range of statistical information produced by over
70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
Community Studies Online
Course on the psychology of communities, which aims to cover their
context and role, the relationship between individual and community,
and what society can learn from communities.
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing: Disaster Monitoring
Information on research and products for the monitoring of natural
disasters, including floods, forest fires, oil spills, and atmospheric
events. Also includes a map of natural hazards in Canada.
Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange
EPIX is concerned with the prevention of, preparation for, and
recovery from natural and socio-technological disasters. Offers
articles, research and training guides for topics including Emergency
Communications, Foreign Animal Diseases and Volcanoes. Also includes
links to related organisations and events worldwide, situation reports
and natural hazard warnings.
Educate Online
Selection of UK education resources, including news, articles, and
links to relevant resources. Also includes a listing of schools and
tertiary colleges in the UK with an Internet presence.
Educational Vacancies
Listing of jobs available in the education field in the UK. Includes
vacancies in administration, further education, higher education and
schools.
Evaluation of the Computers in Teaching Initiative and Teaching and
Learning Technology Support Network
Review of the nationally funded, UK wide CTI and TLTSN initiatives,
published in September 1998.
National Centre for Technology in Education
Under the aegis of the Irish Department of Education and Science, the
NCTE has a wide remit covering all educational Information and
Communication Technology issues. Includes documents discussing the
integration of technology into schools and information on the
Technology Integration Initiative, Teaching Skills Initiative, School
Support Initiative and the School Integration Project.
Industry Canada
Index to information on Canadian industry sectors from the economic
department of the Canadian Federal Government. Includes business,
research, technology and innovation, employment and learning
resources, and consumer information. Also features a business map and
news items. Information is available in English and French.
CommerceNet Consortium UK
Index of articles about the electronic commerce marketplace with news
items, research papers and events.
Electronic Commerce Europe
International non-profit making consortium aiming to promote,
co-ordinate and assist in the development of electronic commerce in
Europe. Includes news items about the electronic commerce market in
Europe, conference details and reports.
Financial Issues Working Group Resources - Electronic Commerce
Links to articles about electronic commerce resources such as BankNet,
an Internet banking service, Chipper, a smart card to buy parking
tickets, and Proton, a rechargeable electronic purse.
Making Electronic Commerce Work
Set of documents from IBM about electronic commerce. The governmental
role, crime and consumer protection, financial and social issues are
discussed.
OECD Policy Brief: Electronic Commerce
Document discussing the potential for electronic commerce,
consequences for employment, growth and trade, the safety of
electronic transactions, consequences for taxation and tariffs, and
consumer protection.
Roger Clarke's Electronic Commerce Pages
Collection of articles on aspects of electronic commerce, including
electronic payment, EDI, electronic publishing, privacy and security
and the underlying questions of underlying questions of information
systems. Consultancy pages and an annotated bibliography are included.
United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy
Documents on electronic commerce from the US Government. Includes a US
framework for global electronic commerce, highlighting principles,
issues and a coordinated strategy, a report on the emerging digital
economy and case studies of electronic commerce in action.
Personal Data Interchange: vCard and vCalendar
Details of the vCard and vCalendar technologies for personal data
interchange. vCard is an electronic business card and vCalendar is an
electronic calendar and scheduling exchange format. Includes an
overview of each format, and their applications.
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400 Language
CILT: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
Charitable trust supported by central government grants, with the aim
of collecting and disseminating information on all aspects of modern
languages and the teaching of modern languages. Includes information
on the Comenius network, CILT projects and initiatives, and a
selection of reference resources. Languages covered include French,
German, Spanish, Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese, English, Finnish,
Modern Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Swedish, Thai,
Ukrainian and Welsh.
Language Teaching with the Web
A compilation of ideas for using Web resources as a language teaching
tool. Interactive activities such as CityNet, MetroLink and World News
Tonight enable students to plan every aspect of trips abroad, explore
locations, and gather news from around the world in a chosen language.
Links to language specific activities are included.
LinguaCentral Language Resources
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Catalan
language resources. Features links to European newspapers,
dictionaries, international weather information, national anthems,
world times and a currency converter.
Italian Interactive Test
An Italian language test assessing grammar and vocabulary using phrase
and sentence completion. Links to lectures and grammatical conventions
are included.
Celtic - Latin Word List
A vocabulary checklist from texts used by the Royal Irish Academy's
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources project (DMLCS).
Includes vocabulary foreign to classical Latin (not found in a
standard Latin dictionary) and classical vocabulary that appears in
texts.
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500 Natural sciences and mathematics
Journal of Logic and Computation
Tables of contents to current and archive issues of the Journal of
Logic and Computation with links to abstracts. Also includes facility
to receive new table of contents information via email.
Logic Journal of the IGPL
Tables of contents and abstracts of the Logic Journal of the IGPL,
with full-text articles from Volume 5 onwards.
Centre for Quantum Computation
Set of indexes to theoretical and experimental research articles and
resources relating to quantum information processing. Details of
related research groups and events are included and the implications
of the quantum theory of computation for physics is considered.
Second Law of Thermodynamics
A guide to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, written in question and
answer style, and suitable for non-scientists. Also shows practical
implications of the second law in everyday life, and information on
entropy, gas mixing and endothermic processes.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section B: Biology and Environment
Tables of contents and abstracts of proceedings in Biology and
Environment published by the Royal Irish Academy, the principal
learned society in Ireland for promoting the "study of science, polite
literature and antiquities"
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600 Technology (applied sciences)
Society for Endocrinology Electronic Journals
Contents and abstracts from the Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of
Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine-Related Cancer and Clinical
Endocrinology. The full-texts of articles are available to
institutions who subscribe to the printed versions, with articles from
Endocrine-Related Cancer being available to all.
AVCPT: Association for Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Association which aims to foster interest in, and to disseminate
knowledge of, veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics. Includes
details of the background to the Association, and information on
forthcoming events.
Management Link
Over 300 selected management resources, covering the techniques of
management and sources of management information. Arranged by category
in annotated directories, or in an A-Z index.
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700 The arts
Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data: A Guide to Good
Practice
A guide to aerial photography, remote sensing, archaeology and digital
data sources. The processes of documenting resources and archiving
data are discussed.
All About Jazz
Collection of information on jazz music. Includes articles on jazz
genres such as contemporary, big band, acid and latin, artist
information, interviews, audio reviews and biographies. A time line
traces the history of jazz music from pre-1850 to the present day and
new releases and festivals are announced.
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800 Literature and rhetoric
Luminarium
Designed as a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English
Literature, this is an anthology of medieval, renaissance and 17th
century English literature featuring full text works by authors such
as William Langland, Sir Thomas Malory, Henry VIII, William
Shakespeare, Sir Walter Ralegh and John Donne. Articles and essays
about authors and their works are also included.
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900 Geography and history
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice
Official UK government advice for British citizens travelling abroad,
to help travellers avoid trouble, especially threats to their personal
safety arising from political unrest, lawlessness, violence, natural
disasters, epidemics anti-British demonstrations and aircraft safety.
Includes the full range of Travel Advice notices, and a selection of
consular information material.
@UK
Online information resources for tourists in the UK, arranged by
geographical location, and subdivided into categories which include
accommodation, attractions, events, transport, tourist bodies and
shops.
Web Nepal Communication
A guide to travel agencies, hotels, arts and crafts, education, music
and entertainment, news and media in Nepal. Currency rates and flight
schedules are included. Hotel accommodation and air tickets can be
booked online.
University of Victoria - Canadian History
Links to reference material, visual images, timelines, cartoons,
assignments, and a Canadian history quiz.
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