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The free, monthly, newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists and social scientists.
Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn156/irn156.html
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Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk ),
Catherine Ure.and Marion Kennedy
Heriot-Watt University Library
ISSN: 1361-9381
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ISSUE 156- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
News items of interest
2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites
3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: Google Guide, and Chipwrapper
4. BLOGORAMA
Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items
5. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
6. BOOK REVIEWS
Libraries and Google,
edited by William Miller and Rita M Pellen
7. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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A very packed issue this month. We hope you find it useful.
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
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Here is this month's selection of news items of interest
The New Live Search: Microsoft’s Live Search had a major update.
http://www.pandia.com/sew/533-live.html
There have been major changes to Live Search, which is much improved.
PCG unveils research into the evolution of renewals trends over the last four years
http://www.publishingtechnology.com/news/pcg_renewals_report_sep07.pdf
Publishers Communication Group (PCG), the leading provider of research, sales and marketing services to scholarly and professional publishers, has recently published its latest research report, an analysis of journal renewal trends in the scholarly information sector over the last four years.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology to collaborate with JANET http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=1540&Pid=10&Zid=3338&issueno=155
The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced it will be collaborating with JANET, the UK's national network for research and education, to enable academic institutions to web stream important research seminars, conferences and lectures, via IET.tv, the institution's web streaming service.
From: UKSG Serials-eNews
The Charleston Advisor and Ingenta announce new partnership
http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/charleston.htm
Creating Cross-Domain Consensus for the European Digital Library
http://www.europeandigitallibrary.eu/edlnet/
A project has begun to bring the European heritage online through a single portal.
All work to be counted in RAE evaluation
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2038655
From: The Times Higher
EurOpenScholar Launched by European University Rectors
http://www.ulg.ac.be/relationsexterieures/RecteursOA/
"a showcase and a tool for the promotion of Open Access (OA) in Europe. It will be a consortium of European universities resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode of communication of tomorrow."
UK Universities record chemical engineering intake
http://www.processingtalk.com/news/ihe/ihe149.html
From Processingtalk
For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/
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2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
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Adooda
http://adooda.co.uk/
A unique hybrid online trading environment – (classifieds, etc).
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Alliance for Taxpayer Access
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/
“Access to scientific and medical publications has lagged behind the wide reach of the Internet into U.S. homes and institutions. Subscription barriers limit U.S. taxpayer access to research that has been paid for with public funds.
Taxpayer access removes these barriers by making the peer-reviewed results of taxpayer-funded research available online, and for no extra charge to the American public.
To achieve this, the ATA supports applying the developing practices of Open Access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002.”
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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2007/09/awareness-watch-newsletter-v5n10.html
October 2007 V5N10 Awareness Watch Newsletter. Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Journalism Resources.
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BBC Music
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/learning/genres/
Links to the best in BBC content.
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Best Fifty Web Sites You Don't Know About
http://websearch.about.com/od/bestwebsites/qt/discovery.htm
Interesting compilation of sites from About.com’s Wendy Boswell.
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British Library Annual Report and Accounts
http://www.bl.uk/mylibrary
Impressive presentation of facts and figures.
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Buying a laptop
http://askbobrankin.com/buying_a_laptop.html
Advice from Bob Rankin.
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Carlyle Letters Online
http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/
“Here you will find a perspective on the 19th century like no other, through the words of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Browse over 10,000 of their collected letters by date, by recipient, by subject, and by volume. We invite you to explore a correspondence that features some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day.”
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Chipwrapper
http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/
Chipwrapper is a collection of resources for searching UK newspapers on the internet.
All of the resources use existing open source or free technologies to help you get the most out of the content that UK newspapers publish online.
In this Beta phase, the first tool is a Google Custom Search Engine across nine of the UK's leading national newspapers - The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.
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CollegePrep-101
http://www.collegeprep101.com/
Help with the process of applying to, selecting and transitioning to college.
This is a new location from the one mentioned in issue 33 of this newsletter.
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Construction Software Advice
http://www.softwareadvice.com/construction
A free resource that helps contractors find the right software for their construction projects.
One of the biggest challenges for any software buyer is narrowing down hundreds of possible software products to a "short list" of three to five that merit more detailed research. Software Advice accelerates this process by providing the information required to research, compare and contact leading software products and the companies that develop them.
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Creating and Renewing Urban Structures: Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure
http://www.iabse.org/conferences/chicago2008/
IABSE Annual Meetings and Congress Chicago, USA, September 14-19, 2008.
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Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
http://cdms.berkeley.edu/
'The most powerful search yet for the Universe's missing matter”
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Cultural Leadership Programme
http://www.culturalleadership.org.uk/default.aspa
The Cultural Leadership Programme has two overarching aims: Creating a culture of strong leadership; Diversity in leadership.
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DCMI Scholarly Communications Community
http://dublincore.org/groups/scholar/
The DCMI Scholarly Communications Community is a forum for individuals and organisations to exchange information, knowledge and general discussion on issues relating to using Dublin Core for describing research papers, scholarly texts, data objects and other resources created and used within scholarly communications.
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DELOS
http://www.delos.info/
DELOS is a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries partially funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The main objectives of DELOS are research, whose results are in the public domain, and technology transfer, through cooperation agreements with interested parties.
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Digital Lives Research Project
http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/
“The Digital Lives project is designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. The project team drawn from the British Library, University College London and University of Bristol is led by Neil Beagrie of the British Library (the lead partner) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The research for Digital Lives commenced in September 2007 and will run for 18 months to March 2009. We expect outcomes from our research to be of significant interest within the Arts and Humanities and the libraries, archives, and information sector. It will also be of potential interest to researchers exploring applications of digital memory in other areas such as health and aging populations and for individuals who wish to manage their own personal digital collections for family history or other purposes.”
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Digizen.org
http://www.digizen.org/
Targeted at teachers, parents and carers who are interested in understanding and supporting children and young people's online social participation.
”Digital citizenship isn’t just about recognising and dealing with online hazards. It’s about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy - using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way, and inspiring others to do the same.”
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Downloadpedia
http://downloadpedia.org/Main_Page
Downloadpedia is a web-based, free content software encyclopedia project.
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Edina Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline12-3/index.html
Newsline is aimed at user support staff, interested users and others with an in interest in EDINA. It carries information on EDINA services and developments and this issue is particularly full of varied information.
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Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/
“Provides information about U.S. K-12 public, private, and charter schools in all 50 states. Find Content for Music, Teachers, Internet, Technology, Literacy, Arts and Linguistics. For students, teachers, parents, and policy makers.”
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eIUS: e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models
http://www.eius.ac.uk/
The eIUS project aims to gather and document concrete evidence of how e-infrastructure is, or is planned to be used as a facilitator of the research process across all major disciplines.
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Engage in Research
http://www.engageinresearch.ac.uk/
A new, interactive website for biosciences undergraduates. It covers the basic areas of research, including how and where to search for scientific papers, how to structure a literature review, basic statistics and more.
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EngineeringSpecifier
http://www.engineeringspecifier.com/
News for engineers.
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European Archive
http://www.europarchive.org/
The European Archive is a digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
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Eurydice
http://www.eurydice.org/portal/page/portal/Eurydice/
The information network on education in Europe, Eurydice has since 1980 been one of the strategic mechanisms established by the European Commission and Member States to boost cooperation, by improving understanding of systems and policies. Since 1995, Eurydice has also been an integral part of Socrates, the Community action programme in education.
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Focus on Mimas
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/07sep/
In the September issue, you'll find news on the ISI Web of Knowledge Service, the Hairdressing Training service, ESDS International, CrossFire, Census and a feature on the Landmap service.
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Freelang
http://www.freelang.net/
Found via Bates InfoTip
Resource for language dictionaries.
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fResource: knowledge sharing for fundraisers
http://www.fresource.info/
This is a website for prospect researchers but the focal point of the site is the fResource database. The database lists products, tools, resources and websites spanning a wide variety of fundraising and research areas, from trusts, major donors and companies, right through to general reference, volunteering and events.
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FUMSI Report: European Research Resources
http://www.freepint.com/issues/270907.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by Adrian Janes.
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Google Guide
http://www.googleguide.com/
Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between.
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HAERVI: HE Access to e-Resources in Visited Institutions
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/haervi/haervi.aspx
The HAERVI (HE Access to e-Resources in Visited Institutions) project was promoted by SCONUL and UCISA to improve the service offered by HE institutions to visiting students and researchers from other HEIs who wish to access licensed e-resouces. The project, which was funded by the JISC, has now reached its conclusion with the publication of the Best Practice Guide to HE Access to e-resouces in Visited Institutions.
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Harvey Smith Recruitment
http://www.harvey-smith.co.uk/
Harvey Smith Recruitment is a specialist recruitment consultancy focusing on the design side of the built environment, with an executive search arm for the construction sector.
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How-to-study.com
http://www.how-to-study.com/
Some guidelines.
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IHS BRE Press
http://www.brepress.com/
IHS BRE Press was formed after the acquisition of BRE Press by IHS in June 2006. IHS BRE Press is the exclusive publisher of BRE publications providing relevant publications for the construction industry.
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Inderscience Highlights
http://www.inderscience.com/highlights
The autumn 2007 issue is available, giving information about new journals, calls for papers, etc.
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Bridges, Buildings and Construction Practice:
http://www.iabse.org/conferences/helsinki2008/
IABSE Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 4-6, 2008
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Information Management infoKit
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/information-management
From JISC infoNet.
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International Council of Museums: ICOM
http://icom.museum/
ICOM is the international organisation of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.
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Investigative Study towards establishing a Scottish Higher Education Digital Library for Scottish Universities
http://scurl.ac.uk/documents/SCURLSHEDLREPORTfinal280907JE.doc
A Report commissioned by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow for SCURL.
The Report sets out a rationale for greatly improving access to electronic information resources, particularly e-journals, for all Scottish higher education institutions, and supplies a series of options for structure and governance, funding, consultative mechanisms, and content acquisition strategies, in order to take SHEDL forward to implementation.
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Janette Ray
http://www.janetteray.co.uk/
Specialist dealer in books about architecture, design, gardens and fine art.
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jellycast
http://www.jellycast.com/
“We host your podcast, letting you publish and transmit audio files across the world via our service. We provide lightning fast hosting, excellent bandwidth and all the support you need to upload, publish and broadcast your own podcast. And all for as little as a one-off setup fee.”
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JISC Information Governance Gateway: JIGG
http://www.jigg.ac.uk/
JIGG is a JISC commissioned 'one stop shop' for all matters relating to information governance legislation and the HE sector. The gateway covers records management as well as UK and Scottish legislation including, but not necessarily limited to:
The Freedom of Information Act 2000
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
The Environmental Information Regulations 2004
The Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
The Data Protection Act 1998
Copyright legislation
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JISC Involve
http://jiscinvolve.org/
JISC Involve is provided by JISC as a free service to the JISC community.
Anyone with a .ac.uk email address can sign up instantly and be blogging in minutes.
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Joining Educational mathematics: JEM
http://www.jem-thematic.net/
The goal of the JEM thematic network is to pool together the required expertise and to contribute to the coordination of content enrichment activities in the area of mathematics, to the maintenance of agreed standards and to the delivery of powerful synoptic high-quality user information and support pages, invoked in e-learning platforms operated by the partners.
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Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
http://www.library.gatech.edu/jerl/index.php/jerl/
A new journal from The Haworth Press.
This journal aims to inform librarians and other information professionals about current research, evolving work-related processes and procedures, and the latest news on topics related to electronic resources and the digital environment’s impact on collecting, acquiring and making accessible library materials.
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Journal of K-Theory
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=KAG
A new journal.
Journal of K-Theory is concerned with developments and applications of ideas and methodologies called K-theory. They have their origin in the work of Alexander Grothendieck in algebraic geometry. Subsequently they have taken hold in various areas of topology, algebra, and analysis and in recent.
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Leitch Review of Skills
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
The Government commissioned Sandy Leitch in 2004 to undertake an independent review of the UK's long term skills needs. The Review published its interim report "Skills in the UK: the long term challenge" in December 2005. It committed the Review, in its final report, to identify the UK’s optimal skills mix for 2020 to maximise economic growth, productivity and social justice, set out the balance of responsibility for achieving that skills profile and consider the policy framework required to support it.
The final report of the Leitch Review of Skills, Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills, was published on 5th December 2006.
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Magic Studio
http://www.magicstudio.co.uk/
“Magic Studio enables you to build and share interactive learning resources quickly and easily, with no specialist skills required. It's an online service so you don't have to install any complicated software - you can access your account from anywhere with a broadband connection. This means you can prepare content when and where it's convenient and have the flexibility to deliver learning wherever it's needed, both in and outside the classroom.”
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Manufacturing & Logistics IT Magazine
http://www.logisticsit.com/
Free trade journal.
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MIRACLE: Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment
http://miracle.si.umich.edu/
The MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) Project funded by the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) investigates the development of institutional repositories in colleges and universities to identify models and best practices in the administration, technical infrastructure, and access to repository collections.
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MIT Tech TV
http://techtv.mit.edu/
MIT Tech TV is the video-sharing site for the MIT community. It supports community through the aggregation and distribution of science, engineering, and MIT-related video on the web.
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Nanotechnology Product News
http://www.nanotech-product-news.com/Home/index.php
Nanotechnology Product News aims to serve the emerging nanotechnology industry by providing timely news about nanotech products and government activity related to nanotechnology.
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National Acquisitions Group: NAG
http://www.nag.org.uk/
The NAG website has been given a facelift.
NAG brings together everyone concerned with the selection, supply and management of library collections - print, audio-visual and digital; Librarians in public, academic, national, government, and special libraries;suppliers, including library suppliers, booksellers, systems suppliers, RFID suppliers, publishers, subscription agents and bibliographic suppliers.
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National Centre for e-Social Science: NCeSS
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/
The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to investigate how innovative and powerful computer-based infrastructure and tools developed over the past five years under the UK e-Science programme can benefit the social science research community. This infrastructure is commonly known as the 'Grid'.
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National Centre for Excellence in Housing
http://www.homein.org/
The National Centre for Excellence in Housing's underlying objective is to achieve a step change in housing quality and to achieve a stable and sustainable UK housing market by 2010.
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NHBC Foundation
http://www.nhbcfoundation.org/
NHBC's independent research institution - the NHBC Foundation - was established in January 2006 in partnership with the BRE Trust. Focusing on the new homes industry it facilitates research and development, technology and knowledge sharing, and the capture of industry best practice.
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Office of Public Sector Information
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/
The OPSI site has been upgraded.
”Operating from within the National Archives, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is at the heart of information policy, setting standards, delivering access and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. OPSI provides a wide range of services to the public, information industry, government and the wider public sector relating to finding, using, sharing and trading information.”
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Omniglot
http://www.omniglot.com/
Found via Bates InfoTip
This is about writing systems and languages throughout the world.
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Open Repositories 2008
http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Southampton, UK, 1-4 April, 2008.
Repositories play a pivotal role in the evolving scholarly information environment of open access research outputs and scholarly collections. With its theme of "Practice and Innovation", OR08 will create an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to share experiences and to explore the challenges of the new scholarly communication.
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Open Research Online
http://oro.open.ac.uk/
A repository of Open University research publications and other research outputs.
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Philox
http://www.philox.eu/
Philox is the first pan European student community website that provides a networking platform for students across Europe. The name Philox is derived from the Greek Philos and Philoxenia which is all about friendship and hospitality.
Philox is different from other social networking websites, in that it also facilitates personal and academic learning relevant to the student's studies and provides constructive and useful links to the job market at an European level.
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Podanza
http://www.podanza.com/
“Podanza.com is a podcast search engine and directory. We aggregate audio and video podcasts from over 5,000 international producers including top radio, television, print and independent publishers.”
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Preservation towards storage and access. Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe: PrestoSpace
http://prestospace.org/
The project's objective is to provide technical solutions and integrated systems for a complete digital preservation of all kinds of audio-visual collections.
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Public Sector Web Management Group
http://www.pswmg.org.uk/
Where UK public sector web folk chew the fat.
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Publishing Technology
http://www.publishingtechnology.com/
A leading provider of technologies and supporting services for the publishing industry.
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Rail Recruiter
http://www.railrecruiter.co.uk/
Rail Recruiter is a dedicated rail recruitment web site for UK Rail Jobs.
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Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively: RUBRIC
http://www.rubric.edu.au/
The RUBRIC Project is recognition that regional and smaller universities have a need to access, manage and disseminate research information in the same way as the large established research universities but often face significant challenges in developing appropriate and sustainable infrastructure.
When significant research output is now often born digital, universities of all types have a pressing need to develop and maintain open access repositories capable of managing research output to ensure ongoing accessibility of that research.
RUBRIC focuses on the needs of smaller and regional universities by providing a structured framework for partner institutions to evaluate, trial and implement an Institutional Repository solution; to collaborate on the development of better processes and tools; to act collectively and to develop the expertise that will be necessary to respond to emerging needs of the Research Quality and Accessibility Frameworks across universities.
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Repositories Research Team Newsletter
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/
The September issue is available. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide specialised information to all those interested in Digital Repositories Research.
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Repositories Support Project
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a major JISC initiative to support the development and growth of the UK repositories network.
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Research Trends
http://www.researchtrends.com
Research Trends is a bi-monthly newsletter providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis, from Scopus.
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Right Livelihood Award
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/
“The Right Livelihood Award celebrates and supports people of vision. People who have ideas and apply them in concrete initiatives for the public good. They give hope for tomorrow, for a world in peace and balance. They demonstrate how we can overcome oppression, war, poverty, the destruction of our environment, and a widespread sense of meaninglessness and fear.”
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Scholaepedia
http://scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
A free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
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scienceprospects.com
http://www.scienceprospects.com/
Covering the whole of the UK, scienceprospects.com is a site totally dedicated to science jobs.
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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
http://www.ted.com/
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
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Telford: Father of Modern Engineering
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/4007
2nd October to 25th November 2007. National Galleries of Scotland exhibition.
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The Names Project
http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
The project is going to scope the requirements of UK institutional and subject repositories for a service that will reliably and uniquely identify names of individuals and institutions.
It will then go on to develop a prototype service which will test the various processes involved.
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Thomas Telford 250
http://www.thomastelford250.org/
Thomas Telford was the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from 1820 until his death in 1834.
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UK FM Jobs
http://www.ukfmjobs.co.uk/
UK FM Jobs is a new jobsite launched specifically to support the human resource function within the Facilities Management and Building Maintenance sectors covering jobs in 29 disciplines within government, public sector, consultancies, service providers and recruitment agencies.
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UKSG 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition
http://www.uksg.org/events/about_torquay
The 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place from 7-9 April 2008 at the Riviera International Conference Centre.
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Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/
UCISA represents the whole of higher education, and increasingly further education, in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems, providing a network of contacts and a powerful lobbying voice
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WorkShop Jobs
http://www.workshopjobs.com/
WorkShop Jobs is a new and original jobs board to enable fast, effective and efficient services to jobs seekers, employers and recruitment consultants alike.
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Your Online Identity: Key to Marketing and Being Found
http://www.freepint.com/issues/111007.htm#feature
An article in Free Pint, by John McBurnie.
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3. NICE WEB SITE
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In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will normally be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After lengthy discussions we have decided, with incredible creativity :-), to call these: Nice Web Sites. Details of previous Nice Web Sites are available in the Nice Web Site Archive.
Google Guide
http://www.googleguide.com/
Written by Nancy Blachman, Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. Google Guide is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Google.
Chipwrapper
http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/
This is a collection of resources for searching UK newspapers on the internet. In this Beta phase, the first tool is a Google Custom Search Engine across nine of the UK's leading national newspapers - The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times. There's also an RSS headline feeds, a search plugin for browsers, and a custom Google Toolbar button.
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4. BLOGORAMA
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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items
You already know what blogs are, but for more information about RSS see the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j
Fifty things you can do with RSS
http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0905.htm
From Wendy Boswell, About.com
Public Sector Web Management Group
http://www.pswmg.org.uk/extern.php?action=active&type=RSS
U.S. Census Bureau feeds
http://www.census.gov/main/www/feeds.html
AccuWeather.com RSS Feeds
http://www.accuweather.com/rss-center.asp
Barque: Thomas Moore
http://barque.blogspot.com/
For those intersted in the contemporary American writer, Dr. Thomas Moore.
Journal TOC RSS feeds for International Union of Crystallography journals
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/journal-toc-rss-feeds-for-international-union-of-crystallography-journals/
Google Lat Long Blog
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/
About Google Erath and Maps
Journal TOC RSS feeds for ICE/Thomas Telford journals
http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/journal-toc-rss-feeds-for-icethomas-telford-journals/
RepRODUCE Blog
http://contented.jiscinvolve.org/
JISC programme: Repurposing & Reuse Of Digital University-level Content, and Evaluation
Digital Lives Research Project
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital_lives/
This blog is intented to support the activities of the Digital Lives Research Project.
The Weekly Link Award
http://www.linksgiving.com/award/feed.xml
The prestige of the Weekly Link Award is increased by the fact that it is not possible to directly apply for it and that only a Web site a week may receive it.
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5. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
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The Mantex Information Design web site has reviews of some of the books mentioned in previous issues of the Internet Resources Newsletter.
Recent Arrivals
004.678 VOS
Unleashing Web 2.0
by Gottfried Vossman and Stephen Hagemann
Elsevier, 2007
A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available at: http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi
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6. NEW BOOK REVIEW
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Libraries and Google
edited by William Miller and Rita M Pellen
Haworth Information Press 2005
Hard Cover ISBN: 978-0-7890-3124-2
Soft Cover ISBN: 978-0-7890-3125-9
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=5812
Is Google useful or disruptive? Is it an opportunity or a threat? Is it to be loved and embraced or hated and feared? Is Google a bright and shining light or is it from the dark side? Reading the pages of “Libraries and Google” will give you a collection of balanced arguments to help you decide.
The editors (Miller and Pellen) suggest in the book's introduction that it is perhaps the first book-length collection of essays tackling the relationship between libraries and Google. As such, it presents a set of varied opinions – with some threads and continuities - across its eighteen contributions. Aimed at librarians, this book will be useful to those information professionals working in library administration and systems, in reference work and in reader education.
Both editors are based in the USA where Miller works as Director of Libraries at Florida Atlantic University, and Pellen as Associate Director. The majority of the contributing authors are also North American – with three coming from outside the USA - all from the UK.
The main emphasis in the book is on Google Print and Google Scholar. The latter product is particularly well covered. Six of the essays tackle Scholar from different angles, including its value and impact on libraries in terms of reference work, literature searching, reader education and accessing licensed library content.
The remaining essays cover case studies (on the Google Library project at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the University of Nevada’s use of the Google Search appliance for federated searching; and the Florida Gulf Coast University’s experience of linking to licensed databases with Google Scholar); the future of libraries and how libraries can adapt and exploit opportunities created by Google; Google and privacy; Google Images; and finally how to stay up-to-date with Google and its products (with some blogs and websites recommended for this purpose). The result is a good mix of practical detail, opinions, overviews and philosophical discussion.
Not every Google product is covered. For example, Google Earth, SMS and document sharing are omitted. However, those of most immediate relevance to libraries are tackled in considerable detail. The book is easy to read with useful abstracts and accessible language which never falls into jargon peppered with too many acronyms – even for those potentially more technical subjects such as federated searching.
This book will help allay some fears about the big question on whether libraries will become obsolete in a Google world. It will also help show that although Google may be the ‘elephant in the room’, as one reviewer of the book called it, it may not be the rogue male or the perfect specimen some may think it to be. Whether Google is a seen as a threat or an opportunity to libraries, librarians need to know about Google. The key to survival is knowledge and this book helps in this respect. The book answers some questions about how libraries and librarians can adapt to a world with Google. For example - is it best to exist in parallel, to co-operate and integrate Google and its products into library services, or to exploit the opportunities Google presents in making use of Google products to improve and promote library services, or to remodel roles to dovetail the strengths of libraries and librarians with the weaknesses of Google?
This is useful reading for librarians who want to get a handle on the pros and cons of Google in the library environment, on how to present Google to library users and on the experiences of those who have collaborated with, or used, Google to try to improve library services.
“Libraries and Google” is co-published as Internet Reference Services Quarterly, Volume 10, Numbers 3-4, 2005.
MK
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