From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 01 February 2006 00:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Issue 137, Internet resources newsletter INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER The free, monthly, newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists and social scientists. Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn137/irn137.html Edited by: Roddy MacLeod ([log in to unmask] ), Catherine Ure.and Marion Kennedy Heriot-Watt University Library ISSN: 1361-9381 Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html You received this mailing to <[log in to unmask]>. ------------------------------- 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 137- CONTENTS 1. COMMENT Random Quotes Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest If you only read a few things this month, read... and if you're interested in information in engineering, you might also want to read... Open Educational Resources survey 2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites 3. NICE WEBSITE(S) This month: CiteULike 4. BLOGORAMA News of Weblogs, RSS, etc Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds 5. PRESS RELEASES SAGE Becomes First Corporate Affiliate of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences JORUM Contributor Service Launched SAGE Publications Announces New Offering to NESli2 Institutions for 2006 Libraries benefit as Ingenta's subscription activation program is strengthened New Full-Text targets added to CSA Illumina Administrative Module 6. BOOK REVIEWS Review of: Digital Copyright, by Paul Pedley, 7. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY Recent arrivals 8. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME After hours -------------------- 1. COMMENT -------------------- I'm pleased to announce that the Internet Resources Newsletter is one of the media sponsors of the Internet Librarian International 2006 conference, which will be held on 16 - 17 October 2006, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK The title of this year's conference is Discovering New Resources; Demystifying Web Technologies. The Call for Speakers has been announced - details are at: http://www.internet-librarian.com/CallForSpeakers.shtml Possible topics include: Web search; Federated search; Digital libraries/collections; Social software and social networking; Blogs, wikis, podcasts; Libraries as publishers; Taxonomies, folksonomies; Gaming in the library; Information policy; Web site usability; Needs assessment; Findability; Internet resources; E-books; Web 2.0; Library 2.0; Open access; open source; Distance learning; Information management; Web design; Content management; Training and teaching. A number of presentations from last year's conference are available at: http://www.internet-librarian.com/2005Presentations/ Random Quotes "Web 2.0 is about sharing and connectivity and participation. It is a user-centered era of the Web. We are moving away from expert-dictated, exclusionary models of information organization and toward inclusive, participatory ones." Ellyssa Kroski, The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging "Web 2.0 is about remix. For too long, we have jumped from one area of the Web to another, struggling with different interfaces, ignoring endless advertisements, and wading through uninteresting content on a site in order to locate the service, document, or snippet that meets our needs. Increasingly, we can unambiguously reference and call upon the service, document or snippet that we require, incorporating it into something new that is both ours and the original contributors'". Paul Miller, Web 2.0: Building the New Library. ----- Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Over 36,000 people now subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter. 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 The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss To add this RSS feed to Bloglines, Feedster, etc, you can use the RSS subscription buttons towards the top left on IRN web pages. ----- Here is this month's selection of news items of interest CSA acquires Community of Science, Inc. http://www.openrfi.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=8586&Pid=10&Zid=2253&issueno=109 CSA has acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community. From UKSG Serials-eNews Five million duped by scams, says Which? http://www.out-law.com/page-6513 Five million UK adults have fallen victim to a series of moneymaking frauds such as premium rate prize scams, work-from-home schemes and Nigerian 419 email scams, according to research published by consumer watchdog Which?. From Out-LAw.com arXiv and Trackbacks http://arxiv.org/help/trackback/ arXiv.org supports the Trackback standard. By sending a trackback, you can notify arXiv.org that you've created a web page that references a particular paper. Here are some recent Trackbacks: http://arxiv.org/tb-recent/ Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot Project Gets Underway http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4601 The British Library, HighWire Press, Ringgold Inc., Swets Information Services B.V. and a group of HighWire-affiliated publishers have announced the launch of an initiative that will see these esteemed parties joining forces in 2006 to explore the creation, prototype implementation and value of a common institutional identifier that can be used throughout the entire industry, from purchaser to end user. From Managing Information If you only read a few things this month, read... What is Web 2.0 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.h tml by Tim O'Reilly http://web2.wsj2.com/ Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog http://i-a-l.blogspot.com/2006/01/last-word-on-library-20.html The last word on Library 2.0, from Chris Armstrong From libraries to 'libratories' http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/waaijers/index.html From First Monday, Dec 2005. Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000505688.cfm?x=b6ySQnR,b2rpmkgK by Stephen Abram, MLS, SirsiDynix vice president of Innovation Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog http://orweblog.oclc.org/ Always an excellent source for the latest thinking on libraries, services and networks. And if you've interested in information in engineering, you might also want to read my most recent article... Engineering: the changing information landscape http://www.freepint.com/issues/190106.htm#tips by Roddy MacLeod, in FreePint, No 198 Open Educational Resources survey OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation is carrying out a study on Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. As one part of that study they are launching a web based survey for individual teachers, instructors and researchers using or producing OER. They would like to invite anyone working in a higher educational institution that uses or produces open learning content, such as courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals, or open software tools to develop, use, re-use and deliver learning content, to take their survey. It will not take more than 10-15 minutes to complete. This is the link to the survey: http://www2.oecd.org/survey/Surveys/TakeSurvey.aspx?surveyid=1075 Anybody completing the questionnaire will receive a free electronic copy of the final report. For more information regarding the study, please see: http://www.oecd.org/edu/oer ---------------------------------------------------- 2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES ---------------------------------------------------- 2006 International Conference on Data Mining http://www.dmin-2006.com/ Call for papers for one of 28 conferences at the 2006 WORLDCOMP World Congress in Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Computing, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 26-29, 2006. -------------------------------- AJAX Matters http://www.ajaxmatters.com/r/welcome AJAX Matters is an informational site about AJAX (short for "Advanced Javascripting and XML" or "Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML") and how these technologies are applied to web development. -------------------------------- Articleteller http://www.articleteller.com/ The Free Article Directory. "There are now 1173 Excellent Articles in our Database from 266 great Authors" -------------------------------- Asset Management Source for North America: AMSNA http://amsna.org/ An industry information source dedicated to Asset Management. -------------------------------- Association for Scottish Literary Studies http://www.asls.org.uk/ The Association for Scottish Literary Studies aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. -------------------------------- Awareness Watch Newsletter, January Issue http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness%20Watch%20V4N1.pdf The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Bot Research on the Internet including resources and sites for bots, intelligent agents and related sources. -------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin web portal http://ben.clusty.com/ "A comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin's own writings and proverbs, and tens of thousands of websites scattered throughout cyberspace." Noted via Sci-Tech Library Newsletter. -------------------------------- Best Practices for Electronic Resources http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/punchlist/ "The content, stability, and accessibility of electronic resources have vastly improved since the early days of electronic publishing. However, significant outstanding problems persist. After surveying the field, ELD.s Best Practices for Electronic Resources Task Force selected and focused on eleven of the most important issues. This list of issues, as well as the best practices addressing them, was unanimously endorsed by the membership of the Division, which includes academic engineering librarians from North American educational institutions of all sizes." -------------------------------- BiblioVault http://www.bibliovault.org/ "The BiblioVault repository contains a growing collection of older, recently published, and new books from participating scholarly presses. The Scholars' Portal, now in its beta-test phase, enables you to pinpoint books that are of interest to you." "You can do full-text searches over the BiblioVault collection and learn which books contain the search topic." "Launched in late 2001 by the University of Chicago Press, the BiblioVault repository operates under the umbrella of the Chicago Digital Distribution Center (CDDC), which also includes a digital printing center adjacent to the Chicago Distribution Center. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has supported the development of the CDDC with two grants totaling $2.75 million. The repository contains digital files for 11,000 books and serves nearly 45 university presses." -------------------------------- Books from Scotland.com http://www.booksfromscotland.com/ A new site dedicated to the world of Scottish books and writers. -------------------------------- Bulletin of Applied Mechanics http://bulletin-am.fsid.cvut.cz//index.php/vam/issue/current This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. -------------------------------- Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen http://game.itu.dk/ "Computer games are an important part of contemporary culture. We need new research to understand the nature of games, their structure, their function and their impact." -------------------------------- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health: CIEH http://www.cieh.org/ The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is an independent professional body and registered charity representing those who work in environmental health and related disciplines. -------------------------------- Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large http://cites.boisestate.edu/ V. 6 no. 2 is a very interesting issue dealing with Library 2.0 and "Library 2.0" -------------------------------- CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/ CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software. -------------------------------- Clipmarks http://clipmarks.com/ "When you find something on the web that you want to save or share, you probably bookmark the page. But you usually don't want the whole page, right? Maybe you just want a couple of paragraphs from a news article, a photo, a recipe, or an excerpt from a blog post. With Clipmarks you can clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page. Then sign in with your free account at www.clipmarks.com to search, browse and share your clipmarks. You can also search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who's clipping it." -------------------------------- CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe http://www.lockss.org/clockss/ CLOCKSS is a collaborative initiative by a group of organizations drawn from publishers, libraries and learned societies. This two-year project will test the LOCKSS technology and social model to support a 'large dark archive' that is both fail-safe and has an acceptable process for providing continuing access for orphaned materials. -------------------------------- Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories : CD-LOR http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/ The CD-LOR project aims at identifying and analysing the factors that influence practical uptake and implementation of learning object (LO) repositories within a range of different learning communities. The project findings will be made available in a range of ways for the benefit of UK higher and further education. -------------------------------- Community Information Service Bulletin http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Community_Information_B ulletin/Bulletin.html News from Edinburgh City Libraries. -------------------------------- Competitive intelligence: an introduction http://www.freepint.com/issues/050106.htm#feature An article in FreePint, by Vernon Prior. -------------------------------- Construction Materials http://www.constructionmaterialsjournal.com A new journal from Thomas Telford: Construction Materials provides original research and practice papers on the procurement, specification, application, development, performance and evaluation of all materials used in construction and civil engineering. -------------------------------- Corporate Information Management 2006 http:// www.tandfevents.com/cim2006 7th March, London. -------------------------------- CSI Consultancy http://www.csiconsultancy.co.uk/ "CSI Consultancy has expertise in strategic and management services to higher and further education organisations. We help to create, manage, evaluate and share online learning materials, assist organisations to make the most of their specialist knowledge and available technologies, and meet the needs of their users." -------------------------------- DCMT Digital Library http://diglib.shrivenham.cranfield.ac.uk/ The DCMT Digital Library is produced by Cranfield University's department of Information Services, located at the Defence College of Management and Technology, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham, UK. This strikes me as a nicely organized example of a digital library website. -------------------------------- Deutsche Initiative f|r Netzwerkinformation http://www.dini.de/ German Initiative for Networked Information. -------------------------------- Digital Web Magazine http://www.digital-web.com/ Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Digital Web Magazine is a non-profit publication created by a world-wide network of volunteers dedicated to producing quality educational and informative material free-of-charge, to foster the development of the web for the benefit of all. -------------------------------- Discovery Net http://www.discovery-on-the.net/ The DNet project aims to design, develop and implement an advanced infastructure to support real-time processing, interpretation, integration, visualization and mining of massive amounts of time critical data generated by high throughput devices. -------------------------------- Economics Search Engine: ESE http://ese.rfe.org/ ESE ("ease") uses the Nutch Search Engine to index 300,000 pages on 10,000 economics web sites from around the world. It is a companion to Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) and is also sponsored by the American Economic Association. Noted via Sci-Tech Library Newsletter. -------------------------------- Education World http://www.educationworld.com/ Consists of: a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; employment listings. -------------------------------- EH&S Software News http://www.ehssoftwarenews.com/ Reporting on electronic tools and resources for the environment, health & safety. The EH&S Software News has a new look, a new web site, and a new format! We've abandoned the old-fashioned "issue" format and created a more dynamic and timely automated system in which news is posted as soon as it is received. -------------------------------- eHub http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/ eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. -------------------------------- Embark Initiative http://www.ircset.ie/ Operated by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). Funded by the State under the National Development Plan, the Embark Initiative is aimed at knowledge creation for the long term benefit of society and the economy. Embark takes a unique approach to funding people and ideas, providing direct financial support for researchers & research students. Its programmes do not target research projects with an industrial or economic focus but instead aim to support researchers in exploring ideas and bringing vision to reality. -------------------------------- Embedding Libraries in Learning and Research http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iatu2006/ IATUL 2006 Conference in Portugal, Porto on 22-25 May, 2006. -------------------------------- Engineering: the changing information landscape http://www.freepint.com/issues/190106.htm?#tips A Tips article in Free Pint, by Roddy MacLeod. -------------------------------- ePressReleases http://www.epressreleases.org/ ePressReleases.org is Free news - press release - event announcement service where you can submit the latest news, PR, and events. -------------------------------- ERCIM News 64 http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/ European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. -------------------------------- European Science Communication and Information Network: ESCIN http://www.esf.org/escin/default.htm The European Science Communication and Information Network (ESCIN) aims to improve the appreciation and understanding of basic and applied scientific research among Europe's citizens and opinion-formers. -------------------------------- Focus on MIMAS http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/05dec/index.htm Issue 26 is available of the electronic newsletter from Manchester InforMation and Associated Services. This edition includes a report from the ESDS International Annual Conference, news of the JORUM Contributor service launch and much more. -------------------------------- FreePint Index http://www.freepint.com/issues/05indexb.htm The complete index to all articles appearing in the FreePint Newsletter (1997-2005) is now available -------------------------------- Gather http://www.gather.com/ Gather is a place where you can share the things that matter to you with the people that matter to you, too. -------------------------------- Global FM http://www.globalfm.org/ Global FM is a newly-formed worldwide federation of member-centered organizations committed to providing leadership in the facility management profession. As a single, united entity promoting facility management, Global FM is a conduit for furthering the knowledge and understanding of facility management, sharing of best practices and resulting in added value to the individual members of each member organization. -------------------------------- Google's Newsletter for Librarians. http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/newsletter.html The 2nd issue is available. -------------------------------- Highlights http://www.inderscience.com/highlights The winter issue of the Inderscience Highlights newsletter is now available, featuring news of newly published titles, a featured article, latest calls for papers, librarians' corner, etc. -------------------------------- Housingnews.co.uk http://www.housingnews.co.uk/ Housingnews.co.uk exists to provide a national platform for Britain's affordable and social housing sector. -------------------------------- Industrial Biotechnology http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/ind Industrial Biotechnology is celebrating its inaugural year by releasing the entire first year's volume for complimentary online access through March 15, 2006. -------------------------------- Infiltration http://infiltration.org/ "Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. This site is the online companion of the paper zine about going places you're not supposed to go." -------------------------------- Information Literacy: recognising the need http://www.staffs.ac.uk/infolitconf/ Staffordshire University, Ashley Building, Leek Road, Stoke on Trent campus, ST4 2DF Wednesday 17th May 2006, 9:30am - 4pm -------------------------------- Inforum 2006 http://www.inforum.cz/inforum2006/english/ The 12th annual conference of INFORUM that deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes will be held from May 23 to May 25, 2006 in Prague. -------------------------------- International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics: IJEES http://www.geocities.com/ceser_info/ijees.html The main aim of the International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES) publish refereed, well-written original research articles, and studies that describe the latest research and developments in ecological economics and ecological statistics. IJEES is an interdisciplinary research journal in the area of environmental economics & environmental statistics. It's covers the many potential applications and connections to other areas of Science and technology such as the use and development of mathematical/ statistical modeling. IJEES is published in Winter, Spring and Fall i.e. thrice in a year by CESER. -------------------------------- International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management : IJECRM http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijecrm A new journal from Inderscience: The aim of IJECRM is to provide an international forum and refereed reference in the field of electronic customer relationship management (ECRM). It also proposes and fosters discussion on the interaction, collaboration, partnership and cooperation between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and larger enterprises in a customer relationship. More innovative analysis and better understanding of the complexity involved in a customer relationship are essential in today's global businesses. Therefore, manuscripts offering theoretical, conceptual, and practical contributions for ECRM are encouraged. -------------------------------- International Journal of Manufacturing Research: IJMR http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmr A new journal from Inderscience: IJMR is a refereed international journal aiming to foster discussions and to provide an authoritative source of information on the state-of-the-art cutting-edge research on manufacturing in dynamic environments. IJMR focuses on innovative methodologies and disseminates solutions to problems that challenge today's manufacturing. By publishing original quality contributions, IJMR also aims to establish active channels of communication between academic researchers and manufacturing practitioners for knowledge sharing and technology transfer. -------------------------------- IRIScotland http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/ IRIScotland was conceived as a means to provide the organisational and technological framework for a Scotland-wide institutional repository infrastructure for research. -------------------------------- iWeb http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/ "Use iWeb to create websites and blogs - complete with podcasts, photos and movies - and get them online, fast." -------------------------------- JISC Conference 2006 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/conference2006 14 March 2006 International Convention Centre, Birmingham. This year's JISC Conference programme will be built on the theme of Supporting Education and Research. -------------------------------- Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Opening Information Horizons (JCDL 2006) http://www.jcdl2006.org/ June 11-15, 2006 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. -------------------------------- Journal of eLiteracy http://www.jelit.org/tocDec2005.html Volume 2 Issue 2, December 2005. JeLit is an open access journal. Readers are not charged for access or making use of JeLit contents. -------------------------------- KnowledgeBoard http://www.knowledgeboard.com/ A self-moderating global community thinking and collaborating on subjects around (but not limited to) Knowledge Management and Innovation in the worlds of business and academia. -------------------------------- LinkLike http://linklike.com/ "LinkLike is a social networking web site for folks who run web sites. Its metered ad exchange service lets you trade eyeballs with your partners, boosting unique visitors. /Metered/ means that for every user you send to their site, they must send a user to your site." -------------------------------- London Book Fair http://www.lbf-virtual.com/index.cfm 5-7 March, 2006, London. London Book Fair is the publishing industry's international spring event for rights and titles. -------------------------------- Mathematics Online http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/MAO/ This site provides links to a large number of Open Access Lecture Notes and a smaller number of Open Access monographs. For historical reasons it concentrates mainly on analysis and associated subjects, but submissions in other fields are welcome. -------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering Calculations http://www.mechengcalculations.com/index.html A new website which offers on-line computing in Mechanical Engineering and related disciplines. It provides mechanical and allied engineers and technologists with the ability to perform medium-complexity computations, graphics and data access online. There are currently 62+ calculators (all free), and new ones are added about each month. The areas covered in both SI & US customary units include: machine mechanics, dynamics, design, material stresses, fluid flow, heat transfer, thermodynamics, vibrations, beam flexure, economics, units conversion, etc. -------------------------------- Mosoki http://mosuki.com/ Mosuki lets you share calendars and events with people you know. -------------------------------- National Engineers Week http://www.eweek.org/ Feb 19-25, 2006 -------------------------------- Navisso Search http://navisso.com/ "Navisso is an independent web search engine that (unlike many other popular search engines) does not rely on external search feeds. Our focus is to build a reliable, content-driven searchable index while reducing spam and other undesirable pages within our results. Navisso employs its very own search robot called NavissoBot. NavissoBot spiders the web by following links from one page to another. The spidering process is fully automated and managed and maintained from more than 10 different locations worldwide." -------------------------------- NESLi2 http://www.nesli2.ac.uk/ NESLi2 is the UK's national initiative for the licensing of electronic journals on behalf of the higher and further education and research communities, 2003-2006. NESLi2 is a product of the JISC and underwritten by the Higher Education Funding Council for England on behalf of the Funding Bodies. -------------------------------- newbooks http://www.newbooksmag.com/nbm.html The magazine for readers and reading groups. -------------------------------- Ning http://www.ning.com/ "Ning is the easiest way to create your own social web apps on the Internet today." -------------------------------- ODINPubAFRICA http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/ Research & Publications in Marine Science in Africa in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more. -------------------------------- Oxford College Online Distance Learning http://www.oxforddistancelearning.com/ Provides information about Oxford College and online distance learning education. -------------------------------- Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/ Pageflakes will start as a personalized startpage that allows you to: read blogs and other RSS/Atom feeds check your email get the latest sports news and stock quotes start Web searches store notes and use services like Del.icio.us or Flickr. -------------------------------- Pain-talk http://www.pain-talk.co.uk/ A national discussion forum and community for UK Healthcare Professionals with an interest in acute, chronic, or palliative Pain Management. -------------------------------- PapersInvited http://www.papersinvited.com/ "PapersInvited was conceived and developed to assist researchers at all levels - scientists, professors, post-docs and students who are seeking publishing opportunities for their research papers. PapersInvited presents an exhaustive list of Calls for Papers issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines. PapersInvited has become the preferred destination where conference organizers, journal publishers, researchers and academicians come together to issue and receive information resources that encourage presentation and publication of contemporary research." -------------------------------- Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/kirriemuir/12kirriemuir.html An article by John Kirriemuir, in D-Lib Magazine, December 2005. -------------------------------- Petroleum Engineering Calculations http://www.peteng.com/ The on-line computational and graphics website for Petroleum engineers & geologists in: Drilling, Reservoir Engineering, Production, Geosciences & Economics. -------------------------------- Popcasts http://popcasts.po-di-um.net/ Popcasts is an aggregator of the most popular podcasts from many different directories and ranking sites, all on one page. -------------------------------- 'Punch List of best practices for electronic resources http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/punchlist/PunchlistRevision2005.pdf The members of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) have produced a 'Punch List of best practices for electronic resources'. This list is well worth reading, and provides excellent guidelines for publishers. -------------------------------- ResearchNow http://researchnow.bepress.com/ ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from three primary sources: The roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals All working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository Materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive. materials posted directly to ResearchNow via the ResearchNow Upload Utility. -------------------------------- Scholar Universe http://www.scholaruniverse.com/ "Scholar Universe is the web's fastest growing collection of accurate, regularly updated, and richly linked profile content covering faculty members, published authors, professional researchers and their organizational affiliations. Content within Scholar Universe is made available directly to our Scholar members and to publishers, professional associations, and universities through content licensing and customized search and expertise management offerings." -------------------------------- ScieCom - Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific Communication http://www.sciecom.org/?lang=en&query= "ScieCom has been created as a response to the current crisis in the field of scientific communication. Our aim is to provide information about what is happening, to stimulate discussion and debate, and to describe initiatives. We collate, evaluate and describe articles, web resources and other relevant material." -------------------------------- Scottish Science Hall of Fame http://www.nls.uk/scientists/ The National Library of Scotland is putting together 'The Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. This website will feature 10 figures from the past whose scientific discoveries or inventions have affected the way we live today. -------------------------------- script.aculo.us http://script.aculo.us/ "The Web is changing. The 30-year-old terminal-like technology it was originally is gradually giving way to new ways of doing things. The power of AJAX allows for rich user interaction without the trouble that has bugged traditional web applications. Building upon the wonderful Prototype JavaScript library, script.aculo.us provides you with some great additional ingredients to mix in." -------------------------------- Second International Conference on Business, Management and Economics http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-cesme2006.htm Organized by the Yasar University Izmir, Turkey, 15-18 June 2006 -------------------------------- Social, Economic and Political Change http://gsociology.icaap.org/ A web site of the Global Social Change Research Project. Features various reports which present basic world and regional trends in population, infant mortality rate, GDP per capita, literacy, freedom, and world and regional life satisfaction. -------------------------------- Static Repository Gateway and Toolkit: STARGATE http://www.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stargate/ The STARGATE project is exploring the use of static repositories as a means of exposing publisher metadata to OAI-based disclosure, discovery and alerting services within the JISC IE and beyond. The project's primary aim is to lower the technical barriers to the implementation of OAI-compliant repositories, thereby enabling small publishers of electronic resources to participate more readily in OAI-based disclosure and delivery services. -------------------------------- The Expanding Role of Search http://www.pandia.com/sew/141-the-expanding-role-of-search.html Search engine marketing expert Paul J. Bruemmer takes a look at 2005 from a search engine perspective. -------------------------------- The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL 2006 http://www.jcdl2006.org/ June 11-15, 2006 - Chapel Hill, NC, USA. The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. -------------------------------- The Structural Engineer - Archive Search http://www.istructe.org.uk/thestructuralengineer/ The international journal of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). The Structural Engineer Archive provides electronic access to all papers published in The Structural Engineer since 1923. The service is FREE to all IStructE membership grades, just login Available to journal subscribers for a small additional fee on the annual subscription A pay-per-view service allows non-members to download single papers Search through a chronological list of contents pages for the specific paper you require or do a full text search across the whole archive. -------------------------------- The Why and How of JISC Support for Open Access http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo/artiklar/friend_05_03.shtml An article by Frederick J. Friend in ScieCom -------------------------------- Trends in business information, provision and use http://www.freepint.com/issues/190106.htm?#feature An article in Free Pint, by Pam Foster. -------------------------------- UKTAG - Water Framework Directive Site http://www.wfduk.org/ The WFD-UKTAG is the United Kingdom Technical Advisory Group (UKTAG) supporting the implementation of the European Community (EC) Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC). It is a partnership of the UK environment and conservation agencies. It also includes partners from the Republic of Ireland. -------------------------------- Waste and Resource Management http://www.wasteandresourcemanagement.com A new journal from Thomas Telford: Waste and Resource Management publishes original research and practice papers on all construction and civil engineering aspects of managing, minimising, reusing and processing of waste materials. Subjects covered include the procurement, planning, construction, operation and logistics of waste-management facilities - including recycling and reprocessing activities - as well as associated legislation and standards. The journal also focuses on strategies for reducing construction waste, including better design, improved recovery and reuse and more efficient management of resources. -------------------------------- Web 2.0 Conference http://www.web2con.com/pub/w/40/coverage.html Links to news articles, podcasts, blogs, photos, and announcements from the Web 2.0 Conference which took place October 5-7, 2005 at the Argent Hotel located in beautiful San Francisco. -------------------------------- Wilfred Thesiger Web Gallery http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ThesigerWeb/index.htm The aim of this gallery is to introduce a selection of some 100 of Thesiger's less well-known images. -------------------------------- Wink http://www.wink.com/ "Wink lets you search across the Tagosphere. If you're using services like Digg, Furl, Slashdot, or Yahoo! MyWeb, this is your search engine. Find the latest links that people like you think are great." Wink searches and integrates tag results from multiple sources such as del.icio.us, digg, Furl, SlashDot, and Yahoo! MyWeb. -------------------------------- Yotophoto http://yotophoto.com/ Yotophoto is a search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images. --------------------------- 3. 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 often 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. CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/ I like the idea of this site, which was first mentioned some time ago in this Newsletter. CiteULike is a free service to help academics share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software. Because your library of citations is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. RM ------------------------ 4. BLOGORAMA ------------------------ News about weblogs, RSS, etc: Webopedia gives a definition of RSS 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 The Edublog Award Winners http://incsub.org/awards/2005/winners-announced/ An online community-based initiative designed to recognise and celebrate excellence in educational and scholarly blogging (edublogging) and promote the use of weblogs to support teaching and learning. memeorandum http://memeorandum.com/ The Web is humming with discussions on politics and current affairs. memeorandum is page A1 for these conversations. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs RapidFeeds http://www.rapidfeeds.com/ "RapidFeeds FeedManager (Beta) allows anyone to create and manage their own RSS feeds completely and effortlessly." "RapidFeeds MySite (Beta) is an exciting new free service, which gives publishers the freedom to distribute and get their RSS or Atom feeds displayed on other websites, while webmasters can customize the whole look and feel of the content displayed." Articleteller http://www.articleteller.com/rssfeed.php Articleteller, which is mentioned in the this month's A-Z listing, has RSS feeds for numerous categories. These allow you to be updated when relevant free articles are added to the service. "Today, the web is no longer about surfing and passive reading; it's about creating, sharing, socialising and collaborating." Kathryn Dawson, Blogging and RSS: Predictions for 2006. http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/22/22_1/blogging-and-rss-predictions.shtm l UK National Newspaper RSS Feeds http://dave.org.uk/newsfeeds/ Helpful list. Introducing RSS http://mag-sol.com/Articles/article.cgi?art=rss An article by Dave Cross, Director, Magnum Solutions Ltd A Unified Theory of Search, Social Networking, Structured Blogging, RSS and the Active Web http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2006/01/a_unified_theor.html FeedBurner http://www.feedburner.com/ FeedBurner helps bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers get more value from the content they create. Selected interesting blogs and RSS feeds The Patent Librarian http://patentlibrarian.blogspot.com/ A forum for exchanging ideas and information related to patent data and documentation, search tools and techniques, free and commercial databases, patent statistics, training tips, USPTO information dissemination policy, and other related topics. TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/ Tracking Web 2.0 You're It! http://www.tagsonomy.com/ A blog on tagging ScienceBlogs http://scienceblogs.com/ apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ Libraries Build Communities http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/ Public Library Association http://www.plablog.org/ From the Hart http://fromthehart.typepad.com/ From the Hart is a blog about the business information industry written by Clare Hart, CEO, Factiva. info NeoGnostic http://i-a-l.blogspot.com/ iNG is a blog for 'new' thoughts about information science - including librarianship, knowledge management, information architecture, content management, collection management - with an emphasis on electronic resources. Written by Chris Armstrong. JenSense http://www.jensense.com/ Making sense of contextual advertising Frequently Asked Questions http://frequanq.blogspot.com/ An example of a library blog Physics Information Fluency http://physicsinformationfluency.blogspot.com/ Springer Engineering Titles http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/rss/0,11855,3-175-0-0-0,00.xml New book announcements AlphaGalileo news to your desktop http://www.alphagalileo.org/index-cms.cfm?page=58 "AlphaGalileo is the world's leading independent resource for European research news. The website is used by our expert communications team to disseminate research news from source organisations to a high-quality audience of journalists worldwide. The service is run by an independent not-for-profit company, AlphaGalileo Foundation, which is based at offices in the UK." Registration required. Walt at Random http://walt.lishost.org/ Libraries, music, net media, cruising, policy, and other stuff not quite ready for Cites & Insights Sumyunglibrarian http://sumyunglibrarian.blogspot.com/ Be warned - strong language and opinions will be found at this blog. Scholarly Communication in Engineering http://eldsc.library.cornell.edu/ From the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm ProQuest feeds http://www.umi.com/syndication/rss/ From here you can get feeds for new dissertations, by subject. Access to full records, etc may require authentication. Webosphere http://webosphere.wordpress.com/ Internet, RSS, Web 2.0 Telecommunication Books Blog http://www.telecombooksblog.com JISC infoNet http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/news/RSS JISC infoNet aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information and learning technology to support the core activities of learning, teaching, research and business processes. National Express News and Innovations http://www.nationalexpress.com/why_choose/rss/innovations.xml From the UK's no.1 coach network -------------------------------- 5. PRESS RELEASES -------------------------------- **** SAGE Becomes First Corporate Affiliate of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences **** SAGE Publications is pleased to announce that it recently became the first corporate affiliate of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences of the USA. The Federation is a dues-supported coalition of member organisations (20 scientific societies) plus affiliates which include university departments of psychology, schools of education, research centres, regional psychological associations, and science divisions of the American Psychological Association. Representing the interests of scientists who do research in the areas of behavioural, psychological, and cognitive sciences, the Federation focuses its efforts on legislative advocacy, education and the communication of information to scientists. For SAGE Publications: http://www.sagepublications.com/ For the full press release, see: http://www.sagepub.com/Sage/pressReleases/FBPSC-PR.pdf **** JORUM Contributor Service Launched **** The JORUM Contributor Service was launched on 7 November 2005 and is now open to all UK further and higher education institutions who sign up. Institutions wishing to contribute learning and teaching materials to JORUM should follow guidance on the Contributor Area of the JORUM website. http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/index.html **** SAGE Publications Announces New Offering to NESli2 Institutions for 2006 **** SAGE Premier is now available to all UK research institutes and universities via national licensing initiative, which is open to all UK research institutes and institutes of further education. The new offering from SAGE is called SAGE Premier, and provides a single, easy route for institutions to 389 full text titles, all via the SAGE Journals Online platform hosted by HighWire. A full list of the titles available via SAGE Premier can be viewed at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/PDF/Journals/2006_SAGE_Premier_Title_list.pdf . The new NESli2 offer for SAGE Premier will initially run from January to December 2006, with a view to expanding it to longer term, multi-year deals. The previous NESli2 offer for access to the SAGE Full-Text Collections hosted by CSA is still available and institutions that have already signed up will continue to have access to SAGE titles via their current access routes. For more information about SAGE Premier and the terms and conditions please visit www.nesli2.ac.uk and click on the 'NESLi2 Representatives Secure Area' link. Further details of SAGE's online offerings for library consortia are available at http://www.sagepublications.com/promos/consortia.htm . SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for scholarly, educational, and professional markets. http://www.sagepublications.com NESLi2 is the UK's national initiative for the licensing of electronic journals on behalf of the higher and further education and research communities, 2003-2006. NESLi2 is a product of the JISC and underwritten by the Higher Education Funding Council for England on behalf of the Funding Bodies. http://www.nesli2.ac.uk The full press release is at: http://www.sagepub.com/Sage/pressReleases/NESLi2.pdf Contact: From: Becky Fishman Senior Marketing Manager, Electronic Products SAGE Publications, 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road London, EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom e: [log in to unmask] t: +44 (0)20 7324 8500 f: +44 (0)20 7324 8600 **** Libraries benefit as Ingenta's subscription activation program is strengthened **** Ingenta, the technology provider which connects the publishing and information industries, has announced the latest developments in its successful subscription agent partnership program. The program, which sees Ingenta work closely with key agents to simplify activation of online subscriptions for its library customers, is winning increased recognition from the information community as strong uptake delivers improved service to institutional subscribers. The program eliminates the need for publishers to pass on the access and authentication data they receive from agents, and has been endorsed by 98% of Ingenta's 280+ publisher customers. For the full press release, see: http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/agents.htm **** New Full-Text targets added to CSA Illumina Administrative Module **** A host of new full-text targets have been added to CSA Illumina, including: Cambridge University Press, Emerald Fulltext Journals, Elsevier Science Direct, etc. For the updated December list, see: http://md1.csa.com/ids70/epub_forms.php?context=technotice_122105&SID=1c5cd2 87b3f022c320f471b79645609f CSA has also acquired Community of Science. See the full press release at: http://md1.csa.com/news/csa-pressrelease-COS.php --- For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. 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 004.36 LI The Grid by Maozhen Li and Mark Baker Wiley, 2005 006.74 BAT XML in theory and practice by Chris Bates Wiley, 2003 301.243 BAT The search: How Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture by John Battelle Nicholas Brealey, 2005 301.243 WOR 2005: Blogged edited by Tim Worstall Friday Books, 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 -------------------------- 7. BOOK REVIEW -------------------------- Digital Copyright by Paul Pedley, Facet Publishing, 2005 Single user: 1-85604-573-0 #34.95 plus VAT Single site licence: 1-85604-559-5 #175.00 plus VAT 'Digital Copyright' is the first in the new series of Executive i-briefings from Facet Publishing. Published in electronic format, it is available on a single user or single site licence and viewed using Adobe Reader. The author, Paul Pedley [currently Head of Research at the Economist Intelligence Unit] has a wealth of experience in the field of copyright and legal issues. He has published extensively in these areas, has worked in the information department of a law firm and currently runs workshops on copyright and legal matters relating to library and information services. This publication will be a welcome guide to anyone trying to get to grips with copyright and how it relates to the electronic environment. The book asks the central questions of if, and how, electronic content differs from print, in terms of copyright. These questions are dealt with clearly and without burdening the reader with excessive legal jargon. In an area heavily dependent on legal documents and directives it succeeds with an accessible writing style. The book covers an introduction to the concept of copyright, issues specific to digital information; categories of digital information; licences, contracts or a set of terms and conditions; permitted acts; educational establishments; authors' rights and useful resources. The content is well structured and includes very practical resources such as checklists, sample permission request forms and flow charts to aid decision making on permissions. There is also a useful glossary (helpfully placed at the start of the book) and tips and explanations set out in boxes throughout the text. There is sobering use of legal cases. The e-book format is exploited to include weblinks - opening up new levels of extended reading from within the text. There are links to, for example, relevant Acts, Regulations and Directives - but these are not overused. The format allows you to personalise the text with impunity - scribble your own notes on the pages using the Note tool, attach your own files to the text with virtual paper clips and emphasise text using the reversible highlighter tool. Comprehensive in terms of content with good formatting and presentation, this book will be of use to a wide range of readers including website developers, licence negotiators, virtual learning environment content developers and those advising on copyright. However, anyone wishing to gain an insight into copyright in the electronic environment would benefit from reading this book. MK --------------------------------------------- 8. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME --------------------------------------------- There's an excellent venue in Peebles called the EastGate Theatre http://www.eastgatearts.com/ In pleasant surroundings, a wide variety of events are held here - films, exhibitions, lectures, plays, concerts and more. They also have Open Mic Nights, featuring local bands. There's one on Saturday 25th February. If you're in the area - Recommended! Bus: No 62 from Edinburgh, Walkerburn, Innerleithen & Galashiels, No 91 from Biggar and also No 93 and 101 via West Linton. Car: Roads A72 from Biggar or Galashiels and the A703 from Edinburgh. (Parking available behind the theatre). Collectable phones http://www.abdyantiques.co.uk/ A family run business specialising in the restoration and renovation of antique phones. They sell a variety of collectable antique phones, primarily GPO (General Post Office) phones dating from the 1920's to the 1970's. Tweeddale http://www.visittweeddale.com/ Lots of things to do in the Borders. chessgames.com http://www.chessgames.com/index.html Within this site are hundreds of thousands of chess games, which you can review move by move in your web browser. Book This Band Black Magic Big Band http://www.blackmagicbigband.com/ The Black Magic Big Band is a 17 piece big band, plus vocalists, based in Galway, Ireland. Soul M8z http://www.geocities.com/soul_m8z/ Soul M8z is comprised of 9 teenagers from schools around Moray, in the north of Scotland. They play jazz, soul and blues. Patrick Lamb & Retro Soul http://www.gigmasters.com/Dance/PatrickLamb/ Available in the Portland, Oregon area. Recommended by Billy Ethridge M.A. & A.R. Reid http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anthony.reid4/ Send me your band websites, and if they're good, I'll try to mention them in future 'Book This Band' sections. ________________________________________ End of issue 137 This page is: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn137/irn137.html ) 2006 Heriot-Watt University You may pass this newsletter on to others, as long as it is sent in its entirety. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the NorMAN MailScanner Service and is believed to be clean. The NorMAN MailScanner Service is operated by Information Systems and Services, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. ==== This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. Please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error. 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