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BUBL LINK
BUBL LINK Updates
Recent Additions to the Subject Tree
20 - 26 April 1998
For live links to all these resources, see
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004 Computing and the Internet
NetNames: International Domain Name Registry
Details of how to register Internet domain names in the UK, with a
search option to find out whether specific domain names are already
registered, in the UK or worldwide.
Sonador Automated Usenet Service
Free service which searches the header and body of selected Usenet
newsgroups, and if a match is found, the article is emailed to you.
The Service searches the groups once each day, and remembers the
articles it has already sent. There is a limit of five separate
newsgroups per email address.
Open Studio
Open Studio provides information of use to advanced Web developers.
Includes articles, dynamic HTML, Java, JavaScript, technical manuals,
sample code, and white papers.
XML .com
Information about Extensible Markup Language, XML, for both
introductory and advanced Web developers. Includes an annotated
version of the XML 1.0 specification, historical commentary, technical
explanations, advice on how to use parts of the specification,
examples, toolbox, news and articles.
MySQL
MySQL is a basically free SQL (Structured Query Language) database
server for Unix systems. It is a client server implementation that
consists of a server daemon and many different client programs and
libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed and robustness.
OpenGL
Information about the OpenGL software interface for creating 2D and 3D
graphics. Includes documentation, industry news, sample source code,
and links to OpenGL tools.
Flash Open File Format
The file format specification for Flash, a multimedia Web tool used to
create vector based graphics and animation. Includes press releases,
news, FAQ, and a vector graphics white paper.
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020 Library and Information Science
Change and the Academic Library: Understanding, Managing and Coping
Discussion about coping with change in academic libraries due to the
increased use of electronic information and pressures to provide
services with fewer human and financial resources.
Staff Development and Training
Identifies that library staff require training and development to cope
with their changing roles and to exploit IT. Sets out success factors
and frameworks.
Effective Use of Electronic Information Sources
Solutions suggested to the problem that although many members of the
academic community acknowledge electronic information sources have an
impact on their work, many of these services remain underused.
Resource Based Learning and the Impact on Library and Information Services
Discussion of the role of LIS in, and the effect of, the shift to
resource based learning.
Structure and Strategy
Discussion of issues of structure and strategy required to incorporate
communications and information technology into library services as
they become more central to the workings of higher education.
Acquisitions Advantages
Index of over 120 publishers, booksellers and library acquisition
departments mostly in the US.
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200 Religion
>From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Information about the contemporary world of Jesus. Includes assessment
of how well archaeological evidence supports well known stories, the
historical accuracy of the gospels, the success of Christianity as a
religion, maps, a chronology and a primary source collection.
Idea of the Icon
Information and images of Mexican religious icons called retablos.
Includes the history of retablos and descriptions of the symbolism and
meaning of the icons.
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300 Social sciences
SYMBOLS.com: Encyclopaedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
A collection of more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into over 50
groups according to their graphic characteristics. Includes the
symbols' histories, uses, and meanings. The signs range from ideograms
carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway
graffiti.
Books on the Social Aspects of Computing, 1996-1997
A bibliography of books on the social, cultural, political, economic,
business, literary, legal, and religious aspects of networking and
computing published in English in 1996 and 1997.
Statistical Links
Set of links to international statistical offices, statistical
newsgroups and related links.
Abolition of Slavery Debate
Information about the debate in the 1831-32 Virginia General Assembly
on the abolition of slavery. Includes the significance of the debate,
a map and biographies of key participants.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Full text of a book written by Harriet Jacobs under the pseudonym
Linda Child, an escaped slave, first published in 1861.
Museum of African Slavery
Information about the trade of African slaves with particular
reference to the United States. Includes morality, numbers, personal
accounts, songs and learning resources.
Women and Slavery
Information about women and slavery in the United States. Includes
female slaves and their families, early African-American feminists,
from oppression to progression and female slaves and masters.
White and Yellow Pages Europe
A collection of links to personal and business telephone directories
from over 25 countries around the world.
World Fax Directory
Worldwide listings of company fax numbers, organised by country.
World Court Digest
Digested views of the International Court of Justice on various issues
in international law from 1986 onwards, as expressed in their
judgements, advisory opinions and orders. Includes a case decision and
opinion summary.
Court Service
Information about the Court Service. Includes the High Court, Court of
Appeal, Crown Court, county courts, tribunals and forms and leaflets.
Judicial Work of the House of Lords
Information on the judicial aspect of the House of Lords describing
the jurisdiction of the House, the Law Lords, procedure, and the
history of the House's judicial role.
Acts of Parliament
The full text of all Public General Acts since 1996 and all Local Acts
since 1997 as originally passed by Parliament. Subsequent amendments
are not included. Includes summaries of selected pre-1996 Acts.
Australian Legal Information Institute
Information about Australian statutes and law reports. Includes the
full text of Federal and State resources such as High Court of
Australia decisions from 1947, Commonwealth Acts and Regulations,
individual States' Acts and Regulations and Australian human rights
materials.
Casebase
An archive of transcripts from over 20,000 judgements from the Court
of Appeal and Crown Office from April 1996. Searches can be made by
case name, date, case number or division.
Fed Law
Index of full text US Federal and State statutes and law reports.
Public Bills before Parliament
Full text of the Public Bills currently before Parliament in the UK.
Statutory Instruments
The full text of all Statutory Instruments and Draft Statutory
Instruments since 1997.
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
The full text of the Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland since 1998.
Supreme Court of Canada
Full text of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada since 1989.
Also includes weekly bulletins and press releases.
Students' Reports of School Crime: 1989 and 1995
This US report presents school crime from the perspective of its
victims. Sections of the report deal with school victimisation by
gender and age, drug availability and street gangs and guns at school.
International Fire Information Network
Information about all aspects of fire science and management. Includes
bibliography, mailing list and a virtual library.
Environmental Contaminants Encyclopaedia
A database of information about environmental toxicology. Includes
over 100 environmental contaminants, information on chemical elements,
compounds, and products. The encyclopaedia is also a reference for
determining the potential impact of the concentration of a certain
substance.
British Journal of Criminology
Journals for academics and researchers in criminology, probation and
social work, with relevance to professionals concerned with law,
criminal justice, and penology. Abstracts available online.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
FREE is a gateway to US government sites that can be used as teaching
tools or resources. Includes subject areas such as arts, foreign
languages, mathematics, science and social studies.
Teaching and Learning on the WWW
Annotated links to over 500 examples of how the Web is being used as a
medium for learning, searchable and browsable by subject area.
BIC EDI Case Studies
Results of six case studies offering a view of EDI implementation in
the book-world. The subjects included a publisher, bookseller,
wholesaler, library supplier, an academic library and a public
library.
Office of the Rail Regulator
Information about the official regulator of British rail services.
Includes annual reports, news, press releases, publications and the
Rail Users' Consultative Committees.
Rail Info
Comprehensive information about British railways and trains. Includes
travel planning, rolling stock, news, light railways, companies,
privatisation and railway societies.
TGV: French High Speed Trains
Information and images of the French high-speed trains. Includes
introduction, news, history, system map and the TGV spotter's guide.
British Waterways
British Waterways is the public body responsible for maintaining and
developing the waterways and their heritage. Includes information on
stoppages, news, maps of the inland waterways system and a database of
boat hire companies.
Canals: Roots and Routes
Information on the history and routes of British canals, listed
alphabetically and by area.
National Waterways Museum
Information about the history of British waterways. Includes history,
the hey-day of canals, warehousing and trade, building the waterways,
locks, tunnels, aqueducts, cuttings, embankments and maintaining the
waterways.
Clothing of the Ancient Celts
Information about the clothing worn by the ancient Celts focusing
mainly on Irish and Scottish costumes. Includes prehistoric and late
medieval Ireland, clothing in the Scottish Highlands (1100 - 1700 AD),
hair, jewellery, and personal appearance.
European Military Uniforms of the Early Nineteenth Century
A collection of images of European military uniforms from the
nineteenth century. Includes the costumes of the British, Austrian,
Danish, Dutch, French and Prussian armies.
Greek Costume Through the Centuries
Information about the history of Greek costume. Includes the Minoan
civilisation, ancient Greece, Roman times, Byzantium and the
sixteenth-eighteenth centuries.
Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colours
A book about Oriental costumes originally published in 1922. Includes
images of costumes from Afghanistan, Persia, India, Syria, Morocco,
Egypt, China and Japan.
Hindu Customs: Pregnancy and Birth
Information about Hindu customs relating to pregnancy and birth.
Includes the naming ceremony, first hair cutting ceremony and thread
ceremony.
Death, Afterlife and Eschatology
Information about death customs around the world. Includes a
Polynesian journey into the netherworld, the Aztec funerary ritual, a
Siberian funerary ceremony and the Roman view of the afterlife.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Information about the ancient Egyptians' view of death and the
afterlife.
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Information about Tibetan beliefs and practices about death. Includes
sutras, tantras, art of dying and transitions to the other world.
Christmas Around the World
Brief descriptions of the Christmas traditions of different countries,
including Vietnam, Guatemala, India, Japan and Russia.
Mardi Gras
Information about the customs and history of the Mardi Gras parades
held in New Orleans, USA. Includes history, images and parade
schedule.
World Food Habits Bibliography
A bibliography about food habits from around the world divided into
regions and topics. Includes prehistoric food habits, cannibalism,
eating attitudes, fasting, body image, festivals, feasting and taboos.
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500 Natural sciences and mathematics
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.0 Specification
MathML is a specification that is designed to aid in transmitting
mathematical knowledge on the Internet. The World Wide Web Consortium
has issued MathML as a W3C recommendation.
Mars Global Surveyor Articles
The full text of several Science magazine articles about the Mars
Global Surveyor Mission. Includes an overview of the mission, the
upper atmosphere of Mars and early views of the Martian surface from
the Mars Orbiter Camera of the Global Surveyor.
International Nuclear Safety Centre
Information about nuclear safety. Includes a database of nuclear power
plants, maps, plant types, operational status, type of reactor and a
bibliography.
Polymer Bulletin
Journal providing rapid publication of significant advances in polymer
science, including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics and material
science. Results of current research are presented as brief reports to
provide information useful to all those concerned with polymers.
Descriptions of new methods, procedures or techniques should be
sufficiently detailed so as to permit their use in other laboratories.
Digital Globe
Images of sea floor topography from around the world. Includes views
of Lisbon and the Philippine Trench and MPEG videos which animate
topographic sea floor images.
Ecology Software
Over fifteen free analytical programs designed for data analysis of
exponential growth or decay, predation, diversity indices, harvesting
theory and logistic growth. All programs are designed in Visual Basic
for Windows 95.
DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy
Information about DELTA a method for encoding taxonomic descriptions
for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language
descriptions, interactive or conventional keys, cladistic or phenetic
classifications and information retrieval systems.
E-Quarium: Monterey Bay Aquarium Online
Introductory information on fish, coral reefs, inter-tidal areas, open
ocean environments, marine mammals and conservation issues. Includes
an introduction to the complexities of over-fishing and El Nino, with
background information on global weather anomalies.
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600 Technology (applied sciences)
World Diabetes
Annual diabetes newsletter, with details of the four-year WHO project
to estimate the incidence of diabetes for all countries, the cost,
classification and diagnosis of diabetes and its complications.
Lexicon: Semiconductor Terms Dictionary
A dictionary of brief definitions of semiconductor terms and acronyms.
The Cosmos on a Shoestring
Information about the development of small spacecraft by NASA and the
US Department of Defence. Includes an overview of small spacecraft
missions and their cost effectiveness, current and future technology,
conclusions, recommendations and a glossary of acronyms.
Web Review: Practical Web Advertising
Series of articles about designing, serving, selling and accepting
advertising for Web sites, looking at the creative, business and
technical sides of Web advertising.
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700 The arts
Design, Type and Graphics
Online magazine covering design and publishing, graphics, layout and
typography. Most of the items which will appear in DT&G are real-life
questions and problems from readers.
Digital Image Access Project
A collection of over 1,000 images depicting urban life of various
times. Include descriptive summaries, content notes, the William
Gedney documentary photograph collection and the Philippine Island and
Far East Photograph Albums, 1899-1902.
International Lyrics Server
Provides online lyrics of over 75000 songs from various music styles
including pop, rock and folk. It is possible to search by artist,
album and song, and to request lyrics.
Swinging Through Time: The Greystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz
Information about the history of jazz music and the Greystone Ballroom
in Detroit, Michigan. Includes essays about the history of both
Detroit jazz and the Greystone; four slide shows depicting the Detroit
jazz scene from the 1920s to 1990s and audio and video collections
(require RealPlayer and QuickTime).
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900 Geography and history
Time 100: Choosing the Century's Most Influential People
Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th Century, with
profiles of some of the century's most influential leaders and
revolutionaries. Includes a timeline of each personality and a
timeline of the century.
World War I: Trenches on the Web
An Internet history of World War 1 (1914-1918), with extensive
information on the people, places, and events involved. Features
include armoury exhibits, map room, war atlas, country-specific
sections, artwork including war paintings, drawings and posters and a
discussion forum.
Proposed Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
The full text of the proposed 1998 peace agreement for Northern
Ireland.
China Subject Guide
Index of Internet resources about the People's Republic of China.
Headings include art, business, education, environment, food,
geography, government, health, history, language, law, literature,
music, news, philosophy, religion, science and technology, sports and
leisure, travel and places, universities.
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