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Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn122/irn122.html Edited by: Roddy MacLeod ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ), Catherine Ferguson and Catherine Ure. Heriot-Watt University Library ISSN: 1361-9381 Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html ------------------------------- The Internet Resources Newsletter is only distributed to readers who have subscribed to the service. To subscribe or unsubscribe please visit the homepage at http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html or to unsubscribe by email please reply to this email with unsubscribe in the subject field. -------------------------------- ISSUE 122- CONTENTS 1..COMMENT Random Quotes Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest If you only read one thing this month, read... 2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES Information and reviews of new and recent Web sites 3. NICE WEB SITE(S) This month: Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching 4. PRESS RELEASES Technology Futures for Libraries New Conference: Talis Insight 2004, 9-10 November 2004, Venue: NEC, Birmingham Single Search Environment to join up NHS Library Services across England For around 700,000 staff European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) partners with Emerald for Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards 5. NETWORK NEWS BUBL BIDS EEVL SOSIG EDINA CHEST MIMAS RUDI BIOME ELDIS Netskills BIZ/ed AHDS JISCmail Data Archive TASI Chemical Database Service 6. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY Recent arrivals 7. BLOGORAMA News of Weblogs, RSS etc. 8. BOOK REVIEWS Review of: Software Engineering, 7th Edition, by Ian Sommerville 9. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME After hours ------------------- 1.COMMENT ------------------ Random Quotes "OA activists are a small vocal minority, and the whole discussion has taken on a kind of moral element of 'good versus bad'. We wanted to take the moral element out by being pragmatic and simply offering what some of our authors and customers are asking for." Derk Haank, Springer's chief executive, quoted in the Information World Review article 'Springer blasts Open Choice criticism', Sept 2004. "In Australia, North Emerica and Western Europe, where there were relatively low levels of authors publishing in open access journals, open access was associated with ephemeral publishing, poor archiving and no career advantage." David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands and Paul Huntington 'Open access publishing: what authors say', Library + Information Update, 3(11), November 2004, p.34. "In a recent report, Datamonitor found that the global e-learning market for higher education will grow by a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of 12% to $1,891 million by 2008" Information Age, October 2004, p.78. ----- Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Over 28,000 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. This means that you can read its 'headlines' (essentially the Table of Contents) through a feedreader or service such as Bloglines' My Blogs, and then link through to the sections of interest. The RSS feed is available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss This is a .rss file and therefore it must be processed (or 'parsed') before it can be displayed. The easiest way to do this is via Bloglines' My Blogs, or via a feedreader, such as those listed in the RSS Primer. ----- Text version A text only version of the Internet Resources Newsletter is available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl/0304/www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html ----- Here is this month's selection of news items of interest New Online Resources For Librarians From CABI Publishing In response to feedback from customers, CABI Publishing has launched the �For Librarians� part of its website. The new site contains training resources and promotional materials to help librarians get the most from their CABI holdings. http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3148 From: Managing Information Thomson Gale Introduces Single Platform for Online Resources Thomson Gale, a part of The Thomson Corporation, has announced the introduction of a new platform for its online databases that is designed to allow the company's content to be searched through one user interface. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7132 >From EContent Wiley Launches SpecInfo on Wiley InterScience Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced the launch of SpecInfo on Wiley InterScience, its online publishing platform. SpecInfo offers search functionality, allowing users to search by structure, substructure, complete spectra, individual spectral features, chemical names, and molecular properties. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7114 >From EContent ----- If you only read one thing this month (and you are a librarian), read... Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ4i13.pdf -------------------------------------------------- 2. A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES -------------------------------------------------- 21Publish http://21publish.com/ 21Publish is a new service that allows groups and organizations to create and manage blogs easily. -------------------------------- A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/new-media-tools/index.htm Edited by Dr Lizbeth Goodman of SMARTlab at London Central St Martin's College and produced in association with the EU IST Programme. -------------------------------- A Look at... Web-Based Databases and Search Tools http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/sep04/doe.shtml An article by Charles G. Doe. -------------------------------- A Rodamap to African-American and Diversity Resources (ARAADR) Links http://cisit.sfcc.edu/~sdupree/RESORLIK.HTM Purpose: Learn about African-American resource links that you can visit on the internet. The sites offer a range of resources: connecting you to pages where you can access both primary and secondary documents, databases, archives, libraries, maps, images and more. -------------------------------- AccountancyAge.com http://www.accountancyage.com/ Finance and accounting news from the website of Accounting publication Accountancy Age. News stories and features are often of wider interest, covering current issues in business and finance. Also features jobs and resources for accountants and finance professionals. -------------------------------- Acoustics Research Letters Online: ARLO http://scitation.aip.org/ARLO/ Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO) is an electronic letters journal of The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) devoted to research in all fields of acoustics. ARLO is a rapid publication journal and accepts multimedia content. -------------------------------- Admissions to Higher Education Review http://www.admissions-review.org.uk/ This website provides you with information about the review, links to related information, and enables you to download the consultation papers and final report. -------------------------------- anacubis http://www.anacubis.com/ �anacubis is changing the way people work with information, providing software solutions that support the rapid discovery of business intelligence within large amounts of structured or semi-structured data.� -------------------------------- Apcareers.com http://www.apcareers.com/ Indian jobs website. -------------------------------- Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals http://www.astp.net/ With the field of technology transfer growing rapidly, European Professionals in Transfer of Science & Technology have had an increasing need for a platform to meet and share experiences on a regular basis. The initiative of a multinational group of professionals resulted in the establishment of the non-profit Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals on 31 December 1999. -------------------------------- Atomic Dog Publishing http://www.atomicdogpublishing.com/home.asp �Atomic Dog blends online content delivery, interactive multimedia components, and print to form a completely unique learning and teaching tool. Our online textbooks (New Breed Textbooks�) contain interactive elements that allow instructors and students to customize their text to meet course objectives and fit individual learning styles. Identical core content found in the online edition is also available in the print edition with iconic references to interactive material found online.� -------------------------------- Backup4all http://www.backup4all.com/ �Backup4all is an award-winning backup software for Windows. It was designed to protect your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. The application is feature rich and offers an intuitive interface making all features easily accessible for both beginners and professionals.� -------------------------------- Best of the Web http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/nl/oct2004/ A news-sheet from the RDN giving information about developments at the Resources Discovery Network: SOSIG, PSIgate, GEsource, Artifact, EEVL, Altis, Biome and Humbul. -------------------------------- CABE Space http://www.cabespace.org.uk/ CABE Space aims to bring excellence to the design, management and maintenance of parks and public space in our towns and cities. -------------------------------- Campaign for Learning http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/ �We are working for an inclusive society in which learning is understood, valued and accessible to everyone as of right.� -------------------------------- Clusty the Clustering Engine http://clusty.com/ A clustering search engine, from Vivisimo. -------------------------------- Convera http://www.convera.com/ Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. -------------------------------- Copyright and intellectual property rights a case study from the web face http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/case-studies/protecting-rights/ By Dr William Kilbride, Assistant Director, Archaeology Data Service / Arts and Humanities Data Service Centre for Archaeology, University of York. -------------------------------- Creative Industries: Money Map http://www.culture.gov.uk/moneymap/ �At the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, we know from talking to creative businesses that raising finance can be a problem. This is because most high street banks tend to perceive them � unfairly - as a �high risk�, possibly because they rely on intellectual property rather than fixed tangible assets. But there are alternatives to the traditional debt finance offered by the Banks. This �money map� attempts to list funding schemes that might be open to creative businesses. We�ve also listed the funding schemes that are exclusive to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the English regions.� -------------------------------- CSC http://www.csc.com/ �With core capabilities in the areas of IT outsourcing, systems integration and consulting, CSC�s business expertise spans a range of industries, solutions and geographies.� -------------------------------- Cyana: Engineering http://engineering.cyana.co.uk/ A new subscription based information service that will help you find and discover relevant engineering information from the surface and deep web. -------------------------------- Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming http://www.darcof.dk/ The Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF) was established in 1995 as a so-called "centre without walls" where the actual research is performed in interdisciplinary collaboration between the participating research groups. -------------------------------- Delivery, management and access model for e-prints and open access journals within further and higher education http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF1E88.pdf A report by EPIC. -------------------------------- DesignGuide.com http://www.designguide.com/ An internet directory for services and products in the building + design industry. Includes 6,000 company profiles and web links to: Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects, Interior Designers and other commercial + residential building design specialists. -------------------------------- DigBig http://www.digbig.com/ Excellent service from Willco. Long Web addresses (URLs) are tricky to remember, difficult to dictate to others and often break across lines when being sent by email. The purpose of DigBig is to shorten long URLs to overcome these problems. Great service! -------------------------------- DigiCULT Newsletter ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/digicult/october2004.pdf A new issue is available. -------------------------------- Digital Libraries for Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork: DIDET http://dmem1.ds.strath.ac.uk/didet/introduction.htm The Universities of Stanford and Strathclyde are involved with a large, high profile project, funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF)/Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Libraries in the Classroom Initiative. The project is entitled 'Digital Libraries for Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork' (DIDET). -------------------------------- ECDL European Conference on Digital Libraries http://www.ecdl2005.org/ September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria -------------------------------- EDINA Newsline http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline9-3/ The latest edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is now Available. -------------------------------- Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre http://www.edvec.ed.ac.uk/ The Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre is concerned with the capture, modelling and representation of 3D real world objects and domains. EdVEC can create and deliver virtual environments to support teaching and research within the University. -------------------------------- EEVL New Learning Materials http://www.eevl.ac.uk/whatsnewlearning.htm The most recent learning materias which have been added to EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing. -------------------------------- elearning-reviews http://www.elearning-reviews.org/ elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. -------------------------------- ELECSA http://www.elecsa.org.uk/ ELECSA is a joint venture between FENSA and the BBA to deliver an independent, no nonsense, certification scheme for tradesmen who undertake domestic electrical installation work. Such independent certification is required by Government as evidence that you are competent to undertake electrical work in accordance with the Building Act 1984, and specifically Approved Document P �Electrical safety in Dwellings�. -------------------------------- e-lip http://www.elip.info/ Information and learning opportunities for the Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies community in the UK. -------------------------------- Endeca http://endeca.com/ �Endeca has award-winning infrastructure software for information delivery that revolutionizes the way users search, navigate and analyze enterprise data. Endeca Search and Guided Navigation, powered by the Endeca Navigation Engine, expose the full richness and potential of large data sets by allowing users to explore knowledge bases, intranets, information portals, catalogs and other data stores with tremendous speed, precision and certainty.� -------------------------------- Environment Agency: Flooding http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/?lang=_e Featured on TV recently, this site allows you to insert your postal code to assess the risk of flooding. -------------------------------- EU Survey on Farm Animal Welfare. http://www.animalwelfare.eu.org/ A survey from the University of Bologna regarding a highly topical issue: the welfare of farm animals. -------------------------------- European Academy of Digital Media: EADiM http://www.eadim.org/ �The Academy brings together the producers and designers whose products and applications have been nominated as Europe's best in multimedia from EUROPRIX since its start in 1998. It provides them with the means to stay in touch and cooperate. It serves as their personal, professional Europe-wide contact network independent of the companies or institutions they work for. EADiM aims to establish the Europe's premier network for the development and advancement of quality e-contents.� -------------------------------- European Industrial Relations Sources http://www.freepint.com/issues/281004.htm#tips An article in Free Pint Newsletter #170, by Kay Renfrew. -------------------------------- Evolution of the Shopping Center http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/shoppingcenter.html Revised by Steve Schoenherr at the University of San Diego. -------------------------------- eWaste Guide http://www.ewaste.ch/ A guide from Switzerland. -------------------------------- Exalead http://beta.exalead.com/search Quite interesting new search engine, which I saw mentioned in Phil Bradley�s Blog. �Exalead introduces a new search engine with a billion indexed Web pages and many innovative features that will change the way you browse the Web forever...� -------------------------------- FLOODsite http://www.floodsite.net/ The FLOODsite project covers the physical, environmental, ecological and socio-economic aspects of floods from rivers, estuaries and the sea. -------------------------------- Floorspace Database Search Form http://www.floorspace.odpm.gov.uk/ This database is designed for planners, researchers, local authorities and anyone with an interest in commercial and industrial property statistics. -------------------------------- Free On-Line Translation Services in 7 Languages http://www.langdy.com/dacc_g.htm Language Dynamics Corp. announces the availability of on-line translation services in 7 languages : Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Access to these services is either free with advertising banners, or available via yearly subscription. -------------------------------- Global Knowledge Review http://www.globalknowledgereview.com/ A new magazine. Issues of learning, creativity, innovation, personal development, and corporate and personal knowledge management are discussed. -------------------------------- Holyrood.com http://www.holyrood.com/ �Holyrood.com is the essential site for anyone interested in Scottish politics.� -------------------------------- iHispanicCenter.com http://www.ihispaniccenter.com/ �iHispanicCenter.com is committed to providing you the excellent and enjoyable online information, exclusively for Hispanic people in US and worldwide.� -------------------------------- Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology: INDEST http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ �The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set-up the �Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium� on the recommendation made by the Expert Group appointed by the ministry under the chairmanship of Prof. N. Balakrishnan. The Ministry provides funds required for subscription to electronic resources for 38 institutions including IISc, IITs, NITs, IIMs and a few other centrally-funded Government institutions through the consortium headquarters set-up at the IIT Delhi. Besides, 66 Government or Government-aided engineering colleges and technical departments in universities have joined the Consortium with financial support from the AICTE.� -------------------------------- Information Architecture Library http://aifia.org/library The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more. -------------------------------- Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators: ISTC http://www.istc.org.uk/ Established for more than 50 years, the ISTC is the largest UK body representing professional communicators and information designers. -------------------------------- Intellectual Property Society http://ipsociety.net/ The Intellectual Property Society is a donor supported membership organization working to increase public awareness of, and participation in, the evolution of intellectual property rights and emerging technologies. -------------------------------- Interface Journal http://www.interfacejournal.com/ The current edition of Interface Journal, featuring articles on wheel/rail optimization and the effects of truck warp, is now available. -------------------------------- Internet Crystal Mark http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/internetcrystalmark.html �Plain English Campaign already offers the Crystal Mark logo for printed documents that pass our rigorous testing on the public. Now we can offer your website the only mark of clarity that matters: the Internet Crystal Mark.� -------------------------------- Internet Experts Resources and Sites http://www.internetexperts.info/ By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. -------------------------------- Internet Librarian International 2004 Presentation Links http://www.internet-librarian.com/Presentations.shtml This page features links to World Wide Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Internet Librarian International 2004. -------------------------------- iZito http://www.izito.com/ A new search engine which searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Teoma, Wisenut, AlltheWeb, Kobala. Quite impressive. -------------------------------- JoDI: Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Issue 3 - Digital Libraries and User Needs, is now available. -------------------------------- Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net/ Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). -------------------------------- Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment: JSTAT https://jstat.sissa.it/index.jsp Available free online until the end of 2004. -------------------------------- Kinja http://kinja.com/ Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. -------------------------------- Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/docs/lo_do.pdf By David Wiley, Utah State University. -------------------------------- Librarian Insider http://ej.iop.org/pdf/insider/insider.pdf A newsletter for librarians from the Institute of Physics (IoP). -------------------------------- LOCKSS http://lockss.stanford.edu/ Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. The LOCKSS Program is an inexpensive, practical solution to digital preservation and access. -------------------------------- Long-Term Retention and Reuse of E-Learning Objects and Materials http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LTR_study_v1-2.doc Report Commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Version 1.2, June 30th, 2004. -------------------------------- LookDirectory.com http://www.lookdirectory.com/ LookDirectory.com is a comprehensive Human-Edited web directory, and Internet resource site featuring: A full featured searchable directory where visitors can find, rate, and comment on sites; A search engine interface to simultaenously search all major search engines, including the directory itself. -------------------------------- Max Planck Society http://www.mpg.de/ The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is an independent, non-profit research organization that primarily promotes and supports research at its own institutes. -------------------------------- Meeting of Frontiers http://frontiers.loc.gov/ "Meeting of Frontiers" is a bilingual, English-Russian collaborative project that chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It features rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, sheet music and other materials from libraries in the United States and Russia, and is widely used in schools and libraries throughout the United States and Russia. -------------------------------- Modern Apprenticeship Summary Database for Scotland: MASCOT http://www.mascot.uk.com/ This database will be of interest to everyone involved in the management or delivery of modern apprenticeships in Scotland. -------------------------------- Modern Apprenticeships http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/modern-apprenticeships Modern Apprenticeships offer people aged over 16 the chance of paid employment linked with the opportunity to train for jobs at craft, technician and management level. -------------------------------- Music Therapy, and Using Music in Therapy The Power of Music as a Coping Skill http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com/ �This site is your source for information on how to help children and adolescents use popular music, something they already listen to and enjoy, as a way to express their feelings.� -------------------------------- my.OAI http://www.myoai.com/ my.OAI is a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project. -------------------------------- National Association of Safety Professionals: NASP http://www.naspweb.com/ The National Association of Safety Professionals offers six professional safety certifications and eighteen specialty certifications. NASP is a nonprofit membership association with a unique approach that makes safety training fun and effective, while meeting and exceeding the requirements of OSHA regulations. The NASP offers both classroom and distance learning courses with a wide range of topics, from ergonomics to hazardous materials and bloodborne pathogens to electrical protection. -------------------------------- NEC Contract http://www.neccontract.com/ The NEC Contract is a legal framework of project management procedures designed to handle all aspects of the management of construction projects. -------------------------------- Nethistory.info http://www.nethistory.info/ �Nethistory.info is the premier resource centre for Internet history, including all the applications and platforms that came together to create the early Internet - protocols, personal computers, email, world wide web, networks, and much more!� -------------------------------- NetRegs http://www.netregs.gov.uk/ This web site is designed to help businesses to understand the complex regulations affecting their environmental obligations. It is designed particularly for small businesses, and contains both mandatory measures required by the law, and good practice measures to help look after your environment. -------------------------------- Noozz.com http://www.noozz.com/ �Established in London in 2003, Noozz.com is focused upon individual emerging markets and offers decision makers a powerful blend of news, market research and business services �under one roof�.� -------------------------------- Nursing Jobs http://www.nursing-jobs.us/ US based nursing employment site. -------------------------------- OECD Work on Spam http://www.oecd.org/sti/spam �Spam undermines user trust online, reduces firm productivity, and increases costs for Internet service providers. Spam implicates data privacy and consumer protection laws, and spreads computer viruses. A variety of measures and initiatives have been undertaken to address spam by OECD countries, but it is recognised that no single approach will likely succeed without close international co-ordination.� -------------------------------- Open access publishing and self-archiving http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OA/sarchiv.htm �We are interested in understanding scholar's views on open access publishing and self-archiving.� -------------------------------- Open Access to Journals Won't Lower Prices http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i06/06b02001.htm Interesting article in The Chronicle by John H. Ewing. -------------------------------- Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-III.pdf By Gerry McKiernan, from _Library Hi Tech News_ 21 no. 7 (September/October 2004): 30-39. -------------------------------- Open Source Software Questionnaire for European Small & Medium Entreprises http://www.mba-disaro.com/ If you are in a company which has between 50 and 250 employees, Antonio Disar�, Warwick Business School, would appreciate it if you could complete this questionnaire. -------------------------------- O'Reilly Digital Media http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/ For digital media users. -------------------------------- Pediatric Cardiology Today http://www.pediatriccardiologytoday.com/ Pediatric Cardiology Today � (ISSN 1551-4439 - print; ISSN 1551-4447- online) is a monthly newsletter and a source of timely information in the field of pediatric cardiology. -------------------------------- PGM Database http://www.platinummetalsreview.com/jmpgm/index.jsp The PGM Database assists you to find materials based on their properties, enabling you to find the right material for the job without the hassle. -------------------------------- Polymer Recruitment Services http://www.polymerrecserv.co.uk/ PRS is specifically devoted to the plastics and rubber industries and their allied trades such as tool-making and paint & pigments manufacture, Blow Moulding, Injection Moulding, Extrusion, Rotational Moulding, & Toolmaking. -------------------------------- PRISM http://www.prismstandard.org/ The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine, news, catalog, book, and mainstream journal content. -------------------------------- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/ PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. -------------------------------- Research Assessment Exercise: a re-assessment http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/586/58602.htm >From the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. -------------------------------- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/pages/publications/oup.html This report, published with the permission of Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, documents the results of the Journals Pricing Analysis project, undertaken by LISU for OUP. -------------------------------- Science in the United Kingdom, 1999-2003 http://in-cites.com/research/2004/september_20_2004-1.html The United Kingdom's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. -------------------------------- Scottish Academic Periodicals Implementing and Effective Networked Service: SAPIENS http://sapiens.strath.ac.uk/ The SAPIENS service provides online access to a number of Scottish academic and cultural periodicals. -------------------------------- Snap http://www.snap.com/ A new search engine. -------------------------------- Solar Electric Power Association: SEPA http://www.solarelectricpower.org/ The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) is a collaboration of utilities, energy service providers and the photovoltaic industry working together to create and encourage commercial use of new solar electric power business models. -------------------------------- Solcara http://www.solcara.com/ �Solcara�s software enables users within a department, or across an enterprise, to capture, store, share and easily access information, content and knowledge in order to help them work more efficiently.� -------------------------------- SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-04.htm Iissue #78 October 2, 2004. -------------------------------- Stepnewz http://www.stepnewz.com/sn/ Thousands of news feeds, read, design, share. -------------------------------- Student Research Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Student%20Research%20Resources.pdf By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. -------------------------------- The Conundrum that is Online Advertising http://www.freepint.com/issues/300904.htm#tips An article in FreePint by Tim Houghton. -------------------------------- The Tun Holyrood http://the-tun.co.uk/ The Tun comprises the comprehensive re-development of the former East Tun brewery building and adjoining plot, part of the historic William Younger brewery site lying between Cannongate and Holyrood Road in Edinburgh's Old Town (The Holyrood Project North Site). -------------------------------- TII http://www.tii.org/ TII - the European Association for the Transfer of Technologies, Innovation and Industrial Information - is one of the longest-standing, voluntary, independent associations representing the innovation support and technology transfer professions in Europe. -------------------------------- Trends in business information, provision and use http://www.freepint.com/issues/141004.htm#feature An article in a recent issue of FreePint, by Pam Foster -------------------------------- TripDatabase http://www.tripdatabase.com/ �The TRIP Database started in 1997 as a small search engine with a focus on medical articles considered evidence-based. Since then it has grown significantly in terms of ease of use, coverage and popularity. The aims of the TRIP Database have remained the same since 1997 - allow health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web. The TRIP Database is produced by TRIP Database Ltd.� The TRIP Database is now freely available to low-income countries (as defined by the World Bank). -------------------------------- Twelfth International Conference on Learning http://learningconference.com/ Faculty of Education, University of Granada, Spain, 11-14 July 2005. -------------------------------- UK eInformation Group: UKeIG http://www.ukolug.org.uk/ This is the new face of UKOLUG, a web site for the electronic Information community. -------------------------------- Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching http://www.hanszell.co.uk/google/ A pilot edition of this guide is now freely accessible. It is published as an adjunct to the new third edition of The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources, although it can also be used on its own. Preceded by an examination of Google�s extraordinary growth and popularity and looking at issues such as its page-ranking methods and privacy concerns the guide is designed to help the user get the most out of Google�s Web searching techniques, and at the same time provides a critical evaluation of Google�s many Web search features, services, and tools. The guide is liberally interspersed with examples of searches, and search strategies, relating to Africa or African studies topics. -------------------------------- Water Jetting Directory http://www.waterjettingdirectory.com/ �The aim of this site is to provide users and future users of water jetting\ water jet machines and accessories with a complete information source on the industry. Helping them find suppliers worldwide, which will give the customer greater choice.� -------------------------------- Wellington Academy http://www.wellingtonsquare.com/academy.htm An award winning Internet site with an extensive collection of academic resources. -------------------------------- William Andrew Publishing http://www.williamandrew.com/ Applied engineering, references, guides, data books and electronic products. -------------------------------- WiMedia Alliance http://www.wimedia.org/ The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association formed to promote wireless personal-area network (WPAN) connectivity and interoperability for multiple industry-based protocols. -------------------------------- XrML http://www.xrml.org/ XrML - eXtensible rights Markup Language - is the Digital Rights Language of choice. XrML provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services. -------------------------------- ZPEnergy http://www.zpenergy.com/ This is a news portal dedicated to experimental research on revolutionary energy technologies. ------------------------- 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 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. Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching http://www.hanszell.co.uk/google/ This is an excellent study of how to make the most of Google when researching into African Studies, which, at the same time, also highlights some limitations of Google. Hans Zell has done a thorough job, using practical examples to show the ins and outs of using the world's most popular search engine. But note: there's a great deal of useful information here about Google, Google Groups, Google News, Google Answers, etc., for those searching on any topic. PS - what a nice part of the country Hans Zell is based in. RM ----------------------------- 4. PRESS RELEASES ----------------------------- **** Technology Futures for Libraries New Conference: Talis Insight 2004, 9-10 November 2004, Venue: NEC, Birmingham **** A new conference has been launched to help library and information professionals drive and guide technology and service developments within their organisations. Talis Insight 2004 is the brainchild of Talis, the UK�s market leading software and services partner for academic and public libraries. The two-day event will include keynote speeches from high profile UK and overseas industry figures such as Mary Jackson of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Rachel van Riel of Opening the Book and Paul Miller, Common Information Environment director for JISC. Dave Errington, CEO at Talis and formerly chief technology officer for the �560m t/o Sage Group, says, �Innovation in library services is increasingly seen as a key element for success in the academic, local government and corporate sectors, whether for helping to deliver e-government services or providing users with up-to-date, quality information from the vast mass of unchecked data that is now available. Talis Insight 2004 is a fantastic opportunity for delegates to gain a heads-up on future technologies and to discuss their implications with peers � including key information and strategies to streamline processes, improve user services and understand technology futures. We will also be sharing Talis� vision for the future of library technology and showcasing a number of our research projects and new products.� Three interest streams cover technology, management challenges and user experiences, offering a mix of customer case studies, workshops and software and hardware demonstrations. Open to Talis customers, Talis Insight 2004 provides opportunities to network with leading technology suppliers, Talis staff, and peers in academic and public during the day or at the evening awards dinner on 9th November. For more information visit http://www.talis.com/insight2004 , telephone 0870 400 5000, or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] **** Single Search Environment to join up NHS Library Services across England For around 700,000 staff **** The NHS has begun a project to deliver a single search environment that will integrate the �national� and �local� information resources of NHS library services across England. The single search environment will be one of the first outputs of the emerging National Library for Health; (www.library.nhs.uk) an NHS-wide initiative that is designed to deliver the goal of an integrated English health library. The first phase of the single search environment will be launched in November 2004, as part of the Health Libraries Week, with further developments being made available from April 2005 onwards. The single search environment will be powered by FDI�s ZPORTAL solution, which will integrate NHS resources alongside published data and deliver the resource search engine. The single search environment is a national service that is the result of collaboration between NHS library services, National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) and the National Core Content Group. Ben Toth, Joint Director of NeLH explains, �The National electronic Library for Health is very pleased to have been involved in the procurement of a search engine for the NHS. Building on the successes of our current information projects will deliver benefits to information delivery across the NHS, in a cost effective way.� The 500+ NHS Libraries in England will use the single search environment to improve information delivery to their clinical staff, including consultants, doctors and nurses � a user population of more than 680 000 clinicians and managers. The initial remit of the single search environment is to the needs of clinical staff, however the service is highly scaleable and incorporating the needs of students of the NHSU, whose target is largely non-clinical staff, is already a goal for the project team. **** European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) partners with Emerald for Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards **** The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) has agreed to work in partnership with Emerald Group Publishing Limited in their search for the winner of the Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Launched in June 2004, the Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards seek to encourage, celebrate and reward excellence in international management research. The Awards are open until March 2005 and will be made in 12 management-related subject areas, each sponsored by a leading journal from the Emerald portfolio. The following research award subject areas are being sponsored by Emerald journals. 1. Interdisciplinary accounting research: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2. Enterprise applications of internet technology: Internet Research 3. Business-to-business marketing management: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 4. Human resource management: Personnel Review 5. International marketing: International Marketing Review 6. International service management: International Journal of Service Industry Management 7. Leadership and organizational development: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 8. Information science: Journal of Documentation 9. Management and governance: Management Decision 10. Operations and supply chain management: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 11. Organizational change and development: Journal of Organizational Change Management 12. Public sector management: Journal of Organizational Change Management For Further Information: Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Tel: 01274 777700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- 5. NETWORK NEWS ----------------------------- Athens News Athens is an Access Management System for controlling access to web-based subscription services. The latest Athens news is available at: http://www.athensams.net/news/ EEVL News The latest news from EEVL, plus the latest additions to EEVL, The Hub for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, is available at: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/news.htm Read the EEVL Update in Ariadne 41 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/eevl/ SOSIG News The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at: http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html EDINA Newsline The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at: http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/ Eduserv Chest News Eduserv Chest negotiates for all forms of commercially available electronic resource (abstracts, full text, journals, software, courseware, etc) for the education and research communities in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and it manages the resultant agreements. The latest news from Eduserv Chest is available at: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/news/ MIMAS News MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, to provide the following range of services to the academic community: Flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets. Access to key bibliographic information. Access to specialist support and training. Access to software packages and large-scale computing resources. The latest news from MIMAS can be found at: http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news.html New additions to PSIgate PSIgate (Physical Science Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/whatsnew.html BIOME News BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. The latest news from BIOME can be found at: http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/ Netskills: News Netskills aims to help the UK HE community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration. The latest news from Netskills can be found at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/ What's new on Eldis Electronic Development and Environment Information System. A gateway to information sources on development or the environment. What's new on Eldis can be found at: http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm What's New on Biz/ed Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers. http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm AHDS Newsletter The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at: http://ahds.ac.uk/newsletters.htm JISCmail News JSICmail provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community. http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/news/index.htm UK Data Archive news The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/archiveNews.asp Chemical Data Service (CDS) CDS provides on-line access to a variety of quality databases in the field of Chemistry, plus support, training and advice. This is available (free of charge) to academics at UK Universities. http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/ Academic Info Your gateway to quality educational resources. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory tailored toward a college and university audience and is used by students, librarians, and researchers. http://www.academicinfo.net/new.html RDN News The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is a cooperative network of independent subject-based service providers called hubs, coordinated by the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC). It is a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/ Humbul The latest additions to Humbul, the humanities hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/new.php?int=30 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 321.8 FER The Internet, democracy and democratization edited by Peter Ferdinand Routledge, 2000 A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page. http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/news.html ----------------------- 7. BLOGORAMA ----------------------- News about weblogs, RSS, etc: A weblog (Blog for short) is an online diary of sorts that usually features daily or regular postings providing commentary, plus links to other sites. For more information on blogs, the article: Search Engines: Weblog search engines http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/search-engines/ is a good place to start. Webopedia gives a definition of RSS http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html 21Publish is a new service that allows groups and organizations to create and manage blogs easily http://21publish.com/ The significance of webfeeds for lawyers http://www.feedmelegal.com/2004/10/the_significanc.html How to get a News Feed into your WebCT Course http://www.sitegeist.com/stories/2003/04/16/howToGetANewsFeedIntoYourWebctCourse.html LS Blogs http://www.lsblogs.com/ The directory for bloggers, Submit or find Blogs, Blog Directories, forums and resources. BlogAfrica http://allafrica.com/afdb/blogs/ This is an open listing of Africa-related weblogs. FindArticles http://www.findarticles.com/ FindArticles now allows you to produce RSS feeds from searches. RSS Digest http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/ Place items and headlines from any RSS or Atom enabled site (or del.icio.us) onto your site, no programming required. It can use either JavaScript, PHP, or an IFRAME as the inclusion method. Kinja: Blogging Blogs http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7125 An article in EContent, about http://kinja.com/ Beyond Email! Wikis, Blogs and Social Networking Software http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2004/ppt2000-html/intro_files/frame.html By Brian Kelly, of UKOLN. Selected interesting blog's and RSS feeds John Battelle's Searchblog http://battellemedia.com/ Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. JORUM News http://www.jorum.ac.uk/rss/news.xml VNUNET News http://www2.vnunet.com/rss/news Blogs from vnu http://www.vnunet.com/blogs/ EdTechUK Adventures in Information Learning Technology http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/ Excellent blog. Inderscience (publishers of academic, scientific and professional journals) new articles http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php Blogcount.com http://www.dijest.com/bc/ Blogcount asks: How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject. NHC/TPC RSS Feeds http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml Tropical Cyclone Advisories released by the NHC/TPC are now available through RSS. Keeping Legal http://www.keepinglegal.com/ Covers legal issues affecting information professionals Search Tip of the Month http://www.batesinfo.com/tip.rss >From Mary Ellen Bates claudmatney http://claudmatney.typepad.com/ Real Estate Technical Issues The following five academic blog-related sites were mentioned in The Guardian Online, 23 Sept http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/ This site created by Esther MacCallum-Stewart, a postgraduate at the University of Sussex writing a thesis on The Great War and Popular Culture Crooked Timber http://www.crookedtimber.org/ UThink http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota to make it easy for faculty to use and create blogs Into the Blogosphere http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. The Pinocchio Theory http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/ Steven Shaviro's Weblog ------------------------- 8. BOOK REVIEW ------------------------- Stop Press! Thanks to an arrangement between Pearson Education and EEVL, you can buy this month's reviewed book for only �27.94 (normal price �42.99) including postage (within UK and Europe), from: http://www.pearson-books.com/eevl That's less than at Amazon! This offer is available for a limited period only. Software Engineering 7th Edition, by Ian Sommerville Addison-Wesley, 2004 ISBN: 0321210263 This is a book that all people involved in the development of medium and large-scale software systems should read. In this 7th edition, Sommerville covers and extends all important details in the life-cycle of any of these systems: from requirements, specification and design to development, verification and validation - not forgetting management. The author also gives special relevance to the social-technical aspects of software system development, all the processes involved in it and also project management. Managing people deserves its own part in the book as it involves, arguably, the most critical processes to achieve success: an evolving system with assured quality in terms of availability, reliability, safety and security. Due to their sensitive characteristics, critical systems are a special class of systems widely covered throughout all the book. In this book, Sommerville demonstrates his considerable experience of being involved as an actor with different roles in the life-cycle of several large-scale and complex systems. He successfully manages to pass the knowledge acquired to the reader. Very useful UML and Java practical examples are employed to exemplify the theoretical concepts and foundations of software engineering. After completing this book, the reader will conclude that in the area of software engineering there is no written recipe for successfully developing and deploying a software system with considerable size and complexity. Success has to be achieved not only by following rigorously some of the methods and techniques wisely exposed in this book, but also by the experience of the people involved in all stages of a project. This book is aimed not only at engineers of software, but also at software analysts, architects, developers, testers, managers and even users when agile methods such as extreme programming are employed. Software Engineering is also a suitable book to be used for an introductory course in degrees with components of information technology and computer science. Dr Francisco Pinto Technical Manager Research Technologies Service Oxford University Computing Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can buy the above book from http://www.pearson-books.com/eevl for �27.94. Also available are many other new and recent titles at large discounts. -------------------------------------------- 9. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME -------------------------------------------- What's New on Electric Scotland http://www.electricscotland.com/update.html Live Music Archive http://www.archive.org/audio/ Caving UK http://www.caving.uk.com/ This page is: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn122/irn122.html � 2004 Heriot-Watt University You may pass this newsletter on to others, as long as it is sent in its entirety. End of issue 122
