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From: Catherine Ure [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 01 March 2003 18:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Issue 102, Internet Resources Newsletter INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER The free, monthly, newsletter for academics, students,engineers, scientists and social scientists. Edited by: Roddy MacLeod ([log in to unmask]), Catherine Ferguson and Catherine Ure. Heriot-Watt University Library ISSN: 1361-9381 Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html ------------------------------- The Internet Resources Newsletter is only distributed to readers who have subscribed to the service. To subscribe or unsubscribe please visit the homepage at http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html or to unsubscribe by email please reply to this email with unsubscribe in the subject field. -------------------------------- ISSUE 102- CONTENTS COMMENT More Blogs ScienceDirect Librarian Services News items of interest A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites NICE WEB SITE This month: Education UK PRESS RELEASES Full text searching FREE with IOP Eighth International Summer School on the Digital Library JISCmail redesign New Resource Guides JISC and NSF to collaborate on major digital initiative NETWORK NEWS BUBL BIDS EEVL SOSIG EDINA CHEST MIMAS RUDI BIOME ELDIS Netskills BIZ/ed AHDS JISCmail Data Archive TASI Chemical Database Service BOOK REVIEWS Review of: Implementing Digital Reference Services: Setting standards and making it real, edited by R David Lankes, Charles R McClure and Abby S Kasowitz RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME STOP PRESS CRC handbook collections, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, and OSIRIS: all now available online to members of Heriot Watt University -------------------------------- COMMENT Over 13,000 people now subscribe to the email version of this Newsletter! The number of subscribers has been increasing over the past few months, and very many thanks go to Willco who distribute the email version. To subscribe, at no cost, go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html More Blogs ITnews Weblog http://itnews.johntelford.com/ Internet News http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog.html Blawg http://blawg.org/ Law & Legal Related Weblogs See also a recent item in xrefer Reference Update: http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=18#blog ScienceDirect Librarian Services It seems some time ago now, but at the Online 2002 exhibition in December of last year I visited the large Elsevier stand to ask some questions about the ScienceDirect service. The ScienceDirect people were extremely helpful, and I not only came away with some useful promotional items, but they also later sent me a supply of their leaflets and some pens, for distribution to staff and students. At the stand, it was Wendy Gaurii who showed me a section of the ScienceDirect site I hadn't noticed before, called Librarian Services http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/librarian_help/index.shtml (note: you will not be able to link to this site unless your institution or organisation subscribes to ScienceDirect, as does Heriot Watt University). ScienceDirect is very heavily used at Heriot Watt University, and the Librarian Services section contains quite a bit of useful information for those who provide support for the service. This includes: "10 ways to get the best out of ScienceDirect" which gives details of how to add the Scirus search box to a site, links to printable user guides (9 different ones are available), information on SD Connect (bi-monthly librarian newsletter), and such like. There is a link to ScienceDirect Usage Reports information and login. There is information about how to link directly to the issue page of a particular journal within ScienceDirect, plus information on how to use shortcut URLs which enable you to quickly "jump" to a specific area in ScienceDirect, such as the Database page, the Reference Works page and the My Alerts page.Also to be found is information on journal cover images and using ScienceDirect logos, and also a ScienceDirect FAQ.. Here are this month's news items of interest UK higher education on course for rise in student numbers http://www.ucas.ac.uk/new/press/news140203/index.html From: ucas.com 13th European Business Information Conference in Paris Corporate governance, risk management, social network analysis and search& retrieval are just some of the key topics to be addressed at TFPL's 13th annual thought leadership event. http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1130 From: Managing Information News Jupiter Research Releases Reports on Web Site Search and Enterprise Portals http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2003/feb03/reports.html From: INB EU Copyright Directive: Update from the Patent Office Anthony Murphy, Director of the Patent Office Copyright Directorate says that work is still progressing on the UK implementation of the EU Directive on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright in the Information Society. http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1179 From: Managing Information News Survey Shows Companies House is Most Popular Financial Data Source When it comes to locating company financial data, UK business information professionals use Companies House as their main resource, according to Headland's annual Business Information Resources Survey http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1205 From: Managing Information News Microsoft going after Hotmail spammers http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985018.html From News.Com Text version A text only version of the Internet Resources Newsletter is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl/0304/www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES 10 Ways to Access the Invisible Web http://www.inmagic.com/sherman/10ways/@nl/ ""10 Ways to Access the Invisible Web" provides tactics for searching the Invisible Web as well as a URL Catalog of key Web sites and resources that will enable you to gain access to critical business information not normally accessible through search engine spiders." -------------------------------------- 10th ISPE/CE2003 International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (CE2003) http://isg.uninova.pt/ce2003/ Madeira Island, Portugal, 26 - 30 July, 2003. -------------------------------------- 2nd International Conference on Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development http://www.liv.ac.uk/sustain/ 3-4 September 2003 Homerton College, Cambridge, UK. -------------------------------------- Aerospace and Defence Librarians Group: ADLG http://www.adlg.org.uk/ The ADLG is a subgroup of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)'s Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group (ICLG). It brings together librarians working in a wide range of aerospace and defence institutions, such as government, industrial and academic organisations, learned societies and research associations. -------------------------------------- All Engineering Jobs UK http://www.all-engineering-jobs-uk.co.uk/ "All Engineering Jobs UK is here to help you with your engineering career. Whatever you are looking for, whether it is a process engineering, manufacturing engineering or design engineering job, All Engineering Jobs UK is the only tool you need to find a job in engineering." -------------------------------------- ALT-C 2003 http://www.shef.ac.uk/alt/call/index.htm Sheffield, UK, 8-10 September. Call for Papers. ALT-C 2003 is aimed at practitioners and researchers at all stages in their careers. It will cater for those interested in the application of learning technology in further and higher education and other comparable settings. -------------------------------------- American Engineering Campaign http://www.americanengineeringcampaign.org/ The American Engineering Campaign aims to help people understand just what engineers do, the role engineers have in the many facets of everyday life, and the fun engineers have in their careers. -------------------------------------- AmphetaDesk http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage. -------------------------------------- Apache Jakarta Project http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. Jakarta Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. -------------------------------------- Axioms & quotations on Life http://www.axiom.ws/ A collection of favorite quotations and axioms about life, with resources for inspiration, personal improvement, psychology, recovery, and wellness. -------------------------------------- BEAR 2003 http://www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/bear2003/ April 9 - 11, The Lowry, Salford, UK. "The 2003 conference of the CIB Working Commission W89, concerned with Building Education and Research, will be a landmark gathering of international academics, industrialists, professionals and policy makers concerned with advances in the technology of construction and property education, research into educational pedagogy, and examples of leading edge collaboration between academe and partners from industry, the professions and government." -------------------------------------- BOAI Forum http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/ Budapest Open Access Initiative: BOAI Forum Archive. -------------------------------------- BrainMass http://www.brainmass.com/ "...the global community of graduate-level students, teachers and professionals. By offering 24/7 access to expert knowledge, we are helping students from around the world understand academic concepts across 42 fields of study." -------------------------------------- British Nuclear Energy Society http://www.bnes.org.uk/ The Society, established in 1962, is the leading learned body for all persons interested in nuclear energy. The Society is one of fifteen specialist organisations, associated at The Institution of Civil Engineers and is administered by the Engineering Division of the Institution. -------------------------------------- California Secretary of State Business Portal. http://www.ss.ca.gov/business/business.htm "Through this portal, you will find information you need to start and file a business entity in the State of California. In addition, you can access information relating to business entity and other statutorily required filings, trademarks, service marks, UCC financing statements and Notary Public Commissions." -------------------------------------- Cambridge Publishers http://www.campublishers.com/ UK firm of contract magazine and general publishers. -------------------------------------- Construction Industry Institute: CII http://www.construction-institute.org/ "The Construction Industry Institute is a research organization with a singular mission: improving the competitiveness of the construction industry. CII is a unique consortium of leading owners and contractors who have joined together to find better ways of planning and executing capital construction programs." -------------------------------------- Construction Industry Research and Information Association: CIRIA http://www.ciria.org.uk/ CIRIA has a new website. CIRIA is a UK-based research association concerned with improving the performance of all involved in construction and the environment. -------------------------------------- Creative Commons Weblog http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ "Our aim is not only to increase the sum of raw source material online, but also to make access to that material cheaper and easier." -------------------------------------- Crossbounds http://www.crossbounds.com/ Crossbounds introduces self-service to the control of web site content. -------------------------------------- Delft Cluster Tunnelling Knowledge Centre http://www.library.tudelft.nl/dckc Provides access to published and un-published information resources in the field of Tunnel Construction. -------------------------------------- Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/ Written by: Russ Rowlett. -------------------------------------- Digital Resources for the Humanities: DRH 2003 http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/content.asp?sid=6 University of Gloucestershire 31 August - 3 September 2003. "The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as the major forum bringing together scholars, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities." -------------------------------------- Disability Links for people of All Abilities http://www.allabilities.com/ An Internet Community and Center for Disability Resources. -------------------------------------- disinfojournal http://www.disinfojournal.net/ The first international e-journal of disinformation on the net. -------------------------------------- Eatonweb Portal http://portal.eatonweb.com/ A directory of weblogs. -------------------------------------- eBizSearch http://www.ebizsearch.org/ "eBizSearch is an experimental niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address various business and technology aspects of e-Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts." -------------------------------------- eGove Monitor http://www.egovmonitor.com/ A knowledge service on eGovernment and public sector information. Also available is the eGov monitor Weekly. The eGov Monitor Weekly newsletter is an e-zine being provided on a complimentary basis to relevant groups of ICT and other professionals within the public sector, the business and voluntary communities and wider civil society. -------------------------------------- ELSIN 2003 Conference http://www.hull.ac.uk/elsin/ 8th annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) addressing effects of individual differences in cognitive style and learning style in the study of human performance. June 30th - July 2nd, 2003, Centre for Management and Organizational Learning, Hull University Business School, UK. -------------------------------------- Energy Saving Trust http://www.est.co.uk/ The Energy Saving Trust was set up by the UK Government after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and is one of the UK's leading organisations addressing the damaging effects of climate change. -------------------------------------- Engineering 2003 http://www.engineeringnet.co.uk/engineering2003/ 13 - 15 May Stoneleigh-Park, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Coventry. -------------------------------------- Engineering Project Management Forum http://epmf.iee.org/EPMF/ The EPMF is an Inter-Institutional committee, established for over eleven years, which promotes effective project management techniques, mainly by organising events around the United Kingdom. -------------------------------------- EngineeringDegreeHunter http://www.degreehunter.com/engineering_jobs.html "Engineering jobs are the focus at EngineeringDegreeHunter, the job search service that enables engineering recruiters to post engineering jobs to our engineering job search engine and helps engineers and advanced degree engineers find engineering employment with a new career opportunity including engineer jobs, electrical engineering jobs, mechanical engineering jobs, chemical engineering jobs, civil engineering jobs, biomedical engineering jobs, marine engineering jobs, petroleum engineering jobs, agricultural engineering jobs, aerospace engineering jobs, nuclear engineering jobs, materials engineering jobs, industrial engineering jobs, structural engineering jobs, computer engineering jobs, and environmental engineering jobs." -------------------------------------- ERIL: Electronic Resources in Libraries. http://www.arches.uga.edu/~jconger/ERIL/index.htm "ERIL: Electronic Resources in Libraries is a community of librarians concerned with the practical aspects of managing electronic resources in libraries. We are from acquisitions, administration, archives, collection development, cataloging, reference, serials, systems, and beyond." -------------------------------------- EUROPA - public-services.eu http://europa.eu.int/public-services/ This Portal provides information and services to assist Europe's citizens and enterprises carry out cross-border activities. For example, citizens who wish to move to, or enterprises that would like to establish a subsidiary in, another European country. -------------------------------------- European Construction Institute http://www.eci-online.org/ New address from the one mentioned in issue 17 of this newsletter. "The complete knowledge resource for those striving to build a world class European construction industry." -------------------------------------- EuroSime conference http://www.eurosime.com/course.htm March 30 to April 2: Aix-En-Provence (France). This conference deals with thermal and thermo-mechanical simulations and experiments in microelectronics and microsystems. -------------------------------------- Feedreader http://www.feedreader.com/ Feedreader is a freeware Windows application that reads and displays Internet newsfeeds aka RSS feeds based on XML. -------------------------------------- First International Conference on Appliance Design http://www.appliancedesign.org/1ad/ HP Labs, Bristol May 6-8 2003. -------------------------------------- GATS and Libraries http://www.libr.org/GATS/ This web page provides links to readings about the likely impact on libraries of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which is modified, renegotiated, and entered into by national governments at meetings of the WTO. -------------------------------------- Global Directory of fee-based Researchers, Information Brokers & Competitive Intelligence (CI) Professionals http://www.ipconexions.com/ A directory of fee-based Researchers, Information Brokers & Competitive Intelligence (CI) Professionals from around the world. The directory aims to become: 1. a recognised and reliable starting point for those seeking to outsource their research, information or intelligence needs and seek a fee-based Researcher, Information Broker or Competitive Intelligence (CI) Professional 2. a point of reference and resource for those working within, or seeking to join, any of these fee-based research, information or intelligence professions. -------------------------------------- GraduateEngineer.com http://www.graduateengineer.com/ "The site provides engineering students from all disciplines with a place to meet, exchange information and work collaboratively: helping you to complete your degree, consider further education options, and explore the range of opportunities open to you as an engineering graduate." Supported by ICE, Thomas Telford , Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers and ECITB. -------------------------------------- GraduateExpo http://www.graduateexpo.com/ "We have brought many of the UK's leading Graduate Employers together under one virtual roof." -------------------------------------- GrantsNet http://www.grantsnet.org/ A one-stop resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education. -------------------------------------- Handle System http://www.handle.net/ The Handle System is a comprehensive system for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers, known as "handles," for digital objects and other resources on the Internet. Handles can be used as Uniform Resource Names (URNs). -------------------------------------- HealthcareFreeware.com http://www.healthcarefreeware.com/ A free virtual library of hundreds of on-line databases of information, downloadable software, and lots of other interesting resources for healthcare professionals and the general public. -------------------------------------- IEEE Power Engineering Society Abstracts http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/power/subpages/abstract.html Abstracts of Transactions Papers of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Abstracts. -------------------------------------- Impact http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/impact/ Impact is the journal of the Career Development Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information, and is sent free to all its members. Impact keeps members up to date and in touch with important issues in the library and information sector. -------------------------------------- Indian Yellow Pages http://www.indianyellowpages.com/ Indian Exporters, Importers, Service Providers, Manufacturers Directory And Yellow Pages India. -------------------------------------- Info@UK February 2003 http://infoatuk.britishcouncil.org/pdf/info23.pdf Info@UK is a guide to major UK Information Society developments and news. -------------------------------------- Information Environment Service Registry http://www.mimas.ac.uk/iesr/ The aim of a Service Registry is to improve resource discovery for users of electronic services. -------------------------------------- INFORMS http://informs.hud.ac.uk/ "The INFORMS project will be part of the gradual iterative process of disseminating and scaling up the INHALE model for delivery in a wider range of institutions and will therefore enable the:- Replication, testing and refining of all the models, methodologies, tools and materials already developed by the INHALE Project in the area of the delivery of Information Skills within VLEs." -------------------------------------- Insight Research Corporation http://www.insight-corp.com/ US based telecommunications industry analysis firm that produces off-the-shelf market research reports and engages in custom consulting for telecom carriers, vendors, and service providers. -------------------------------------- Institutional Web Management Workshop 2003: Supporting Our Users http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/ The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop will take place at the University of Kent on 11-13th June 2003. -------------------------------------- International CIPAC List http://www.ub.tuwien.ac.at/cipacs/c-i.html CIPACs = Card-Image Public Access Catalogues (scanned / digitized card catalogues). Mostly library catalogues. -------------------------------------- International Conference on Metal Fabrication and Welding Technology and European Symposium on Manufacturing and Modelling of Fabricated Structural Components (MMFSC) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/school4m/news/METFAB-Brochure-v3.htm 16-18 September 2003 Nottingham, UK. Call for abstracts. -------------------------------------- International Network HST-Urban Regions http://www.hst-network.net/ "The HST train is bound to become a major instrument for travelling throughout Europe this century. TGV, Eurostar, Thalys and ICE bring nations and cities together, within a few hours travelling. Borders are broken, new network societies will be built. This should result in new forms of co-operation with respect to future developments. The High Speed Train Network is founded to promote that goal." -------------------------------------- Internet News http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog.html A weblog. Articles and news about Internet use. Will cover search tools, communication tools, and general use. -------------------------------------- Internet News Bureau Archives http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/search/ "Many journalists have discovered that INB's archives are a valuable information source when researching a story. We provide a search engine to help you find what you're looking for, and access is free of charge." -------------------------------------- Investing in Our Human Resource http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=jisc_rslp_conf 4 April. This one day conference, at the Royal Society of Arts, London, will examine the findings of a report: 'Resolving the Human Issues in Library and Information Services (LIS) Projects' commissioned by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the RSLP (Research Support Libraries Programme). Relevant report is Resolving the Human Issues in LIS Projects -------------------------------------- ITnews Weblog http://itnews.johntelford.com/ "Digging for the few kernels of truth buried in IT news. Provided by JohnTelford.com LLC." -------------------------------------- Kable http://www.kablenet.com/ "Kable is Europe's leading independent authority on e-government and public service IT and telecoms markets." -------------------------------------- Library Associations Around the World (On The Web) http://www.ala.org/work/international/associations.html A Project of the IFLA Management of Library Associations Section, coordinated by the American Library Association, International Relations Office. -------------------------------------- Library Events for Library and Information Professionals http://www.libraryevents.com/ "The Library Events website will keep you up to date with all the important events you need to know about to enhance your professional career and to build up your professional skills and contacts. The service consists of a current awareness database, which is fully searchable, and a monthly newsletter." -------------------------------------- Life Events Access Project: LEAP http://www.leap.gov.uk/ "LEAP [Life Events Access Project] is a #2million project of which #1.2m is government money from the Invest to Save programme. It is a partnership project between a group of Councils. LEAP aims to utilise knowledge management in order to improve service provision to customers. The LEAP consortium will use new information and communication technologies to develop services to best meet the needs of customers and clients." -------------------------------------- Light Rail Transit Association http://www.lrta.org/index.html Information and campaigning about better public transport through trams, tramways, streetcars and light rail transit systems -------------------------------------- Manufacturing Methods for Fabricated Structural Components: MMFSC http://www.mmfsc.net/index.asp The European Aerospace industry is one of the Community's leading industrial strengths, competing successfully in world markets and ensuring the employment of some hundred thousand personnel across Member States. MMFSC project seeks to enable a step change in the process of design and manufacture of aero-engine structures, leading to significant reductions in lead time, material use and cost. -------------------------------------- Meta Search Engines: A Web Searcher's Best Friends http://www.web-design-in-new-york.com/meta_search_engines.html An article by Daniel Bazac. Daniel Bazac is a Search Engine Marketer, for Web Design in New York -------------------------------------- Nexcerpt http://www.nexcerpt.com/ "Nexcerpt is a sophisticated briefing service. It monitors selected web-based sources -- yours or ours -- to discover tens of thousands of newly published articles and papers each day. From that vast resource, Nexcerpt isolates the specific passages that best match your personal interests. The service intelligently extracts those most relevant excerpts, capturing their written context, along with links to the original web sources." -------------------------------------- NLN materials http://www.nln.ac.uk/materials/default.asp This site gives users a 'one-stop shop' for information and support on downloading and using the high quality e-learning materials that are now available free to FE colleges through the NLN partnership programme. -------------------------------------- Nuclear Technologies http://www.nuclear.co.uk/ Nuclear Technologies is a leading supplier of professional engineering and scientific consultancy services to the nuclear industry. -------------------------------------- Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Lists 18,000 titles at present. -------------------------------------- Opening Doors: web-portals and the historic environment http://www.britarch.ac.uk/heirnet/conference.html 17th June, 2003, The British Museum. 9.30 am - 5.00 pm. A one day conference jointly hosted by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and the British Museum. -------------------------------------- Ownership and control: managing IPR in universities http://www.publishers.org.uk/paweb/paweb.nsf/0/89442CD3A9DAA75880256CB000429 C48!opendocument CAPP/City one-day conference and debate, London, Monday 28 April 2003. -------------------------------------- Patent Searching Without Words - Why Do It, How To Do It? http://www.freepint.com/issues/060203.htm#feature An article in the popular Free Pint newsletter by Stephen Adams. -------------------------------------- Peerkat http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/python/peerkat/ Peerkat is a personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop. -------------------------------------- Processingtalk http://www.processingtalk.com/ Process plant equipment, control systems and industry news. -------------------------------------- QA-talk http://www.qa-talk.com/ Test and measurement equipment, and quality control systems. -------------------------------------- RAD-04: International Symposium on Radiative Transfer http://www.ichmt.org/upcoming-meetings/Rad-04/announce.html Istanbul, Turkey on June 20-25, 2004. -------------------------------------- Rail-Tech(r) Europe 2003 http://www.railtech.nl/ International Congress & Exhibition on Rail Technology, 1, 2 & 3 April 2003 -------------------------------------- Research Information http://www.researchinformation.info/index.html Research Information is a quarterly printed full-colour magazine produced by Cambridge Publishers Ltd, a UK-based company. -------------------------------------- Research Support Libraries Group: Final Report http://www.rslg.ac.uk/final/final.pdf The four UK higher education funding bodies, in collaboration with the British Library and the national libraries of Wales and Scotland, have established a new strategic advisory group on research support libraries, chaired by Sir Brian Follett. The final report of the Research Support Libraries Group is now available. -------------------------------------- Revolutionising science and engineering through cyber-infrastructure http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/ Report of the NSF Jan 2003. -------------------------------------- ROBOTIKER http://www.robotiker.com/english/index.jsp ROBOTIKER is a private, non-profit Foundation whose aims are to contribute actively to the Sustainable Development of Society using Technological Innovation and Improvement in its search for balance between technological potential, efficient business management and usefulness. -------------------------------------- Searchers' Swiki http://searchers.swiki.net/1 "The Searchers' Swiki Knowledgebase is intended for experimental and demonstration purposes, and as a research notes repository. The intent is to provide a place for Searcher author David Mattison and other information professionals to collaborate on the searching experience and the use of wikis as database, organizational, and collaborative tools." -------------------------------------- SEO SnapShot http://www.seo-reporter.com/ SEO SnapShot presents a hourly updated, one page snapshot of the latest search engine optimization news, discussions, articles and commentaries offered around the Internet. -------------------------------------- Smoogle http://smoogle.info/ The Smart Googler's News, Views and Tools about online search. -------------------------------------- Southeast Asian Studies: Online resources http://www.ala.org/acrl/resfeb03.html An article in College and Research Libraies News by Lisa Klopfer -------------------------------------- SpamButcher http://www.spambutcher.com/ "SpamButcher is an advanced client-side anti-spam filter. It will solve your spam problem." -------------------------------------- SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html Prepared by Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition. -------------------------------------- Subcontractingtalk http://www.subcontractingtalk.com/ News from subcontract manufacturing companies. -------------------------------------- Sweden.se http://www.sweden.se/ Sweden.se offers a representative collection of the extensive range of information that is available on Sweden on the Internet. Sweden.se principally comprises three gateways. One provides direct access to the information about Sweden produced by the organizations that are directly responsible for providing information about Sweden to the outside world. Their fact sheets, publications, films, slide presentations etc. are listed jointly on the site to enable visitors to find the answers to their questions about Sweden quickly and easily. The second gateway is a link collection for access to these organizations and to over 2000 Swedish government agencies and NGOs on the Internet. The idea is for visitors to be able to find and access without delay the organization that has the information they are seeking. The third gateway is aimed at helping visitors keep updated on current issues and events. -------------------------------------- The European Group of Valuers' Associations http://www.tegova.org/ TEGoVA (originally named TEGOVOFA) was established on 4 May 1977 by a steering group of professional bodies representing valuers from Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. -------------------------------------- The European Library: TEL http://www.europeanlibrary.org/ "The European Library (TEL), a 30-month co-operative project will provide the groundwork on which to build a pan-European service. The project uniting ten European partners as a consortium will make recommendations on how to improve 'interoperability' across national boundaries." -------------------------------------- The Joint Information Systems Committee: JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is delighted to announce the launch of its new web site. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is an independent advisory body that supports further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning, research and administration. -------------------------------------- The People's Network: A turning point for public libraries http://www.resource.gov.uk/documents/pnreport.pdf A publication of Resource. -------------------------------------- Ticer BV http://www.ticer.nl Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources. -------------------------------------- TrackBack http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_trackback.html Movable Type's TrackBack system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between blogs. -------------------------------------- UACE Administration and Librarians' Network Annual Conference http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/exaajs/uaceadmin/ 7-9 April 2003 University of Lancaster. The conference is open to anyone involved in any aspect of administration and/or librarianship in continuing education/lifelong learning. -------------------------------------- Useful Science and Engineering E-Books http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~ned/E-books.html A list, with links, divided by subject. -------------------------------------- Virtual European Laser Institute: VELI http://www.veli.net/ VELI connects 15 leading laser institutes from Finland to Portugal to a unique European network, bundling the competence and knowlege on laser technology across Europe. -------------------------------------- Web-Based Bookmark Managers http://useful.webwizards.net/wbbm.htm These free services enable you to access your bookmarks with any web browser. -------------------------------------- Weblog Awards http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2003 The Bloggies(tm) are publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs in 30 categories. -------------------------------------- NICE WEB SITE 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. Education UK http://www.educationuk.org/ A site with some excellent content (though a bit slow to load), produced by the British Council to help international students interested in studying for a UK course or qualification. Roddy MacLeod PRESS RELEASES **** Full text searching FREE with IOP **** On behalf of the Institute of Physics (IOP), I'm pleased to announce that full text searching is now available in our Electronic Journals service. The facility is free to use and enables you to search our entire archive back to 1874! Access to the full text of articles identified in your search results is subject to subscription status. However if your institution doesn't subscribe to the source journal, you will be able to access the abstracts at the very least. In addition to our article abstracts, the full text is also free for: *Every paper published in our journals in the last 30 days *Novel and significant articles chosen by our Editors for IOP Select (http://select.iop.org). **Search the full text of every IOP article since 1874** You can run free full text searches at http://www.iop.org/EJ/search by entering your search terms in the 'Search full text of articles' field. Any articles containing your search terms will then be listed on the search results page. Where you have full text access to the articles in your search results, you will be able to identify where your search terms appear in each PDF by using the Acrobat 'Find' tool to locate them. To do this, simply open the PDF, click on the button displaying the binoculars icon and enter your search terms again. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Electronic Products Helpdesk at [log in to unmask] The free journal services mentioned above, IOP Select and This Month's Papers, can be found online at http://www.iop.org/EJ/ejs_extra. Lucy Pearce Senior Product Manager Institute of Physics Publishing www.iop.org [log in to unmask] **** Eighth International Summer School on the Digital Library **** http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/index.htm In the summer of 2003, the International Summer School on the Digital Library will be held for the eighth year in a row. This year, the Summer School will consist of three courses that will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, right after the IFLA Conference in Berlin. Every year, the Summer School is updated to respond to the most recent developments. Course 1: Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future (Tilburg, 11 August - 12 August 2003) This new course aims to discuss and develop visions for the future, thus enabling library managers to anticipate trends when developing their strategic plans and library policies. Course 2: Change: Making it Happen in your Library (Tilburg, 13 August - 15 August) The course aims to identify new opportunities for libraries, to support librarians in developing a vision, and to provide librarians with tools to initiate a change in their own organisation. Course 3: Libraries, Electronic Resources, and Electronic Publishing (Tilburg, 25 August - 27 August) The course is designed for library managers/directors, IT or systems librarians, licensing officers, and digital library project managers from academic and research libraries. The course is highly relevant for publishers. Many international experts will present lectures and case studies. Group discussions and workshops will enable participants to apply the new information to their own situation. A detailed programme is available via Ticer's website: http://www.ticer.nl/summer03. The Summer School will be organised by Ticer B.V. (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) in co-operation with Tilburg University, the European University Institute in Italy and the University of Leeds in the UK. More information Ticer B.V. Ms. Jola Prinsen or Mrs Leonne Portz P.O. Box 4191 5004 JD Tilburg The Netherlands Phone: +31-13-4668310 Fax: +31-13-4668383 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.ticer.nl **** JISCmail redesign **** We are pleased to announce the release of the new JISCMail web: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ The design offers a completely fresh approach, with emphasis on ease of use. The content of the documentation, in particular, has been overhauled for clarity, providing a logical and concise breakdown of key areas of the JISCmail service from both a general user (Using JISCmail) and list owner (List Owners) point of view. One or two additional features are due in the next few days, including a web search facility. [log in to unmask] **** New Resource Guides **** Technical advances and the continued growth of the range of available resources mean that, more than ever, institutions and users need to be able to access information, advice and support in the use of these resources. The Resource Guide initiative provides an important means of making a sometimes confusing information landscape manageable and comprehensible for our users. Developed for the UK higher education community, the Resource Guides take a subject based approach to raising awareness of relevant electronic resources through providing both online and printed guides to key resources. These guides give an overview of the JISC collection of electronic resources relevant to each subject area and, where appropriate, complementary resources and initiatives, which fit within the Resource Guide Scope Policy, are included. Each guide has an associated Resource Guide Adviser (RGA) who collaborates with JISC services, partner organisations, publishers, and other bodies to produce the Resource Guides and to promote the key resources to their subject communities. The RGAs will offer a variety of awareness raising and training activities - providing a co-ordinating role that brings staff and students in higher education a variety of free activities tailored to suit their needs. The Resource Guides are a UK wide, JISC funded, initiative covering 7 subject areas - broadly in line with the subject areas of the RDN (www.rdn.ac.uk), and the LTSN centres (www.ltsn.ac.uk) Arts and Humanities: Emma Beer Engineering, Mathematics and Computing: Sarah Kelly Geography and the Environment: Adam Gardner Health and Life Sciences: Jo Badge Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism: Theresa Summerfield Physical Sciences: Gillian Sinclair Social Sciences: Helen Wharam The Resource Guides have already proved popular with staff and students in the Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, and have gained a reputation for providing a user-friendly approach to navigating the labyrinth of resources on offer by providing a manageable and digestible overview of available resources. Now available in 5 further subject areas, not only will staff and students now have a single point of reference for resources within their subject areas, but expert advisers too - helping make sense of the environment for them, and pointing them in the right direction. Visit the Website at www.jisc.ac.uk/resourceguides/ To order the paper guide, or if you have any comments or queries, contact the relevant Resource Guide Adviser **** JISC and NSF to collaborate on major digital initiative **** The JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) have agreed to fund a programme which will provide exciting new content and a range of benefits to education sectors on both sides of the Atlantic. The five-year programme, called 'Digital Libraries in the Classroom' will cost around #6m ($9.5m) and will draw on best practice in the creation and delivery of content from both the UK and the US, resulting in a range of resources in four key subject areas. The focus of the programme is to investigate and exploit the potential of online resources in learning and teaching across a range of pre-selected subject disciplines. But a key focus for each of the projects across the programme will be to combine the application of sound pedagogic principles in the creation, delivery and use of online materials, with new research to develop the underlying information technology . The result will be resources that will provide exemplars for the provision of digital resources in disciplines beyond the ones chosen for development. Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary, welcomed the new programme, saying: "The JISC and the NSF have a long history of collaboration, but this is a particularly exciting programme which will bring a number of important benefits on both sides of the Atlantic." The programme consists of four projects, each of which will pool the resources and expertise of British and US Universities with long and distinguished track records in the use of information and communication technologies. The projects are: *The Spoken Word* New resources for transforming teaching and learning - Glasgow Caledonian University, Northwestern University, Michigan State University *Teaching and Learning Anthropology* Using 'scalable' digital library platforms and innovations in approaches to content - London School of Economics and Columbia University *Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Geography* University of Southampton, University of Leeds, University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Pennsylvania *Accelerating Globally Distributed Team Innovation* University of Strathclyde and Stanford University For further information, please contact: Rachel Bruce - JISC [log in to unmask] +44 020 7848 2572 Stephen M. Griffin - National Science Foundation [log in to unmask] +1 703-292-8930 NETWORK NEWS NISS News A week-by-week listing of new information resources on the NISS (National Information Services and Systems) Information Gateway selected by experts in the subject area is available at: http://www.niss.ac.uk/welcome/whatsnew.html -------------------------------------- BUBL News BUBL has retained a strong library element, but now provides a subject-based service to the academic and research community more generally, this via the BUBL LINK Subject Tree. The latest news from BUBL is available at: http://bubl.ac.uk/news/ The latest updates to the BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources are available at: http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html -------------------------------------- EEVL News The latest news from EEVL, plus the latest additions to EEVL, The Hub for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, are available at: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/news.htm What EEVL can do for you: Students http://www.eevl.ac.uk/publications/wiify/students.pdf What EEVL can do for you: Lecturers and researchers http://www.eevl.ac.uk/publications/wiify/lecturer.pdf What EEVL can do for you: Librarians and Information Professionals http://www.eevl.ac.uk/publications/wiify/librarians.pdf -------------------------------------- SOSIG News The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at: http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html -------------------------------------- EDINA Newsline The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at: http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/ -------------------------------------- CHEST News CHEST aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the Education and Research Community at low prices and attractive licence terms. The latest news from CHEST is available at: http://www.chest.ac.uk/news.html -------------------------------------- MIMAS News MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, to provide the following range of services to the academic community: Flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets. Access to key bibliographic information. Access to specialist support and training. Access to software packages and large-scale computing resources. The latest news from MIMAS can be found at: http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news.html -------------------------------------- New additions to PSIgate PSIgate (Physical Science Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). http://www.psigate.ac.uk/ROADS/whats-new.html -------------------------------------- BIOME News BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. The latest news from BIOME can be found at: http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/ -------------------------------------- Netskills: News Netskills aims to help the UK HE community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration. The latest news from Netskills can be found at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/ -------------------------------------- What's new on Eldis Electronic Development and Environment Information System. A gateway to information sources on development or the environment. What's new on Eldis can be found at: http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm -------------------------------------- What's New on Biz/ed Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers. http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm -------------------------------------- AHDS Newsletter The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at: http://ahds.ac.uk/newsletters.htm -------------------------------------- JISCmail News JSICmail provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community. JISCmail has been redesigned! http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm -------------------------------------- UK Data Archive news The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/archiveNews.asp -------------------------------------- Chemical Data Service (CDS) CDS provides on-line access to a variety of quality databases in the field of Chemistry, plus support, training and advice. This is available (free of charge) to academics at UK Universities. http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/ -------------------------------------- Academic Info Your gateway to quality educational resources. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory tailored toward a college and university audience and is used by students, librarians, and researchers. http://www.academicinfo.net/new.html -------------------------------------- RDN News The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is a cooperative network of independent subject-based service providers called hubs, coordinated by the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC). It is a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/ -------------------------------------- Humbul The latest additions to Humbul, the humanities hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/new.php?int=30 BOOK REVIEW Review of: Implementing Digital Reference Services: Setting standards and making it real edited by R David Lankes, Charles R McClure and Abby S Kasowitz Facet Publishing, 2003 ISBN: 1-85604-462-9 #45 Implementing Digital Reference Services is a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Regerence Desk (VRD) Digital Reference Conference held 12-13 November 2001 in Orlando, Florida, USA. "What a difference a year makes. Just last year the term digital reference had little meaning for many librarians. Few would disagree that the profession has been transformed by technology that has in some ways made us compete with our own users, many of whom think they no longer need the services and expertise of librarians " So begins this book, which goes on to study in depth just what these changes mean for libraries and librarians. It is split into six parts. Part one provides two in depth case studies (one from a museum library, one from government) on identifying the need for digital reference services. Part Two covers the management of digital reference; Part Three: real-time digital reference services; Part Four: collaborative reference initiatives; Part Five: research in digital reference; and Part Six evaluating digital reference. The papers are written in a way which makes them easy to understand. There is techical information, but this is heavily backed up by concrete examples and case studies with clear explanations of pros and cons; what works and doesn t work and why; and the issues surrounding change within libraries. So even with chapters which I found initially off-putting as a non-techie type, I found myself becoming interested in them on reading. This book will be of great interest to anyone working in libraries at the moment, and dealing with the fast paced changes in the way users are wishing to accessing reference materials and services. Cath Ferguson RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter. Recent Arrivals 005.276 CHA Java Wev Services by David A Chappell and Tyler Jewell O'Reilly 2002 005.276 GRA Building Web Services with Java: making sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI by Steve Graham and others SAMS, 2002 A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page. http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/news.html GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME Flavour of Scotland http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/ Mentioned in issue 100, this site now has its own domain name. Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project http://www.benlawers.org.uk/ STOP PRESS! CRC handbook collections, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, and OSIRIS are all now available online to members of Heriot Watt University. The Library has arranged online access to the CRC handbook collections for members of Heriot Watt University. More than 350 titles arranged in six subject services. These are: CHEMnetBASE - a wealth of chemical information from Chapman & Hall/CRC http://www.chemnetbase.com ENGnetBASE - Engineerinmg handbooks online http://www.engnetbase.com EngNet base is also accessible within EI Village from Edina Compendex ENVIROnetBASE - Environmental resources online http://www.environetbase.com FOODEnetBASE http://www.foodnetbase.com MATHnetBASE http://www.mathnetbase.com STATSnetBASE http://www.statsnetbase.com Access to the above is available from on-campus. The online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, http://www.els.net/ which claims to be 'the largest and most comprehensive reference work ever published in the biological sciences' is now available to members of Heriot Watt University. OSIRIS is now available to members of Heriot Watt University: http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/osiris.html The nformation in OSIRIS is similar to that of Extel: comprehensive reports on 25,000 publicly quoted companies worldwide In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and ratios it contains news, ownership, ratings, earnings estimates and stock data to make it the most complete global listed company database available. An Athens username and password is required to access OSIRIS. 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