[Offtopic] Fwd: Internet Resources Newsletter
stephen at melbpc.org.au
stephen at melbpc.org.au
Tue Aug 12 04:02:03 EST 2008
Another gem from Roddy, Catherine & Marion. You may like to subscribe ..
> From: IRN at hw.ac.uk
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:59 +0100
> Subject: Issue 164, Internet resources newsletter
INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER
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Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn164/irn164.html
Edited by:
Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk ), Catherine Ure.and Marion Kennedy
Heriot-Watt University Library ISSN: 1361-9381
Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html
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ISSUE 164- CONTENTS
1. COMMENT
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
Random quotes
News items of interest
2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and notable Web sites
3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: Wordle, and DRIVER Search
4. BLOGORAMA
Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items
5. RECENT INTERNET BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Recent arrivals
6. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours
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1. COMMENT
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COMMENT
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
Over 40,000 people subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter.
Very many thanks go to FUMSI http://www.fumsi.com/ who sponsor this
newsletter. FUMSI publishes articles, tools, and a monthly magazine, to
give you practical help with information skills.
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Random quotes
"Library users are going to be less and less willing to spend a lot of
time learning about how to access specialist resources. They'll want their
information available through the sources they're most comfortable with.
As information professionals we may still feel that we should be leading
people to our catalogues and teaching them to get the most out of them,
but in reality if students are going to search Google we need to make sure
they can retrieve our records there as well." Gordon Hunt, University
Librarian, University of the West of Scotland. Library + Information
Gazette 27 June - 10 July 2008, p.23.
News items of interest.
PRISM™ Cookbook Released
http://www.prismstandard.org/news/2008/PRISM_%20PR070808.pdf
PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata), have
announced the availability of the new PRISM Cookbook. The Cookbook is
designed to assist new users by providing step-by-step recipes to
implement PRISM.
Inderscience online collection reaches 20,000!
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=28#20000
Springer publishes 5,000th volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science -
09 Jul 2008
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?
pickUpID=6357&pickUpBatch=935#6357
STM publisher Springer has announced the publication of the 5,000th volume
in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. From: Knowledgespeak
Web address total tops one trillion
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2222620/web-address-
total-tops-trillion
From: IWR
For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP:
http://www.vivavip.com/
For news from Heriot-Watt University Library, see the spineless? blog.
http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/
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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES
100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/07/100-unbelievably-useful-
reference-sites-youve-never-heard-of/
>From the Teaching Tips.com blog.
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99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/99-resources-to
A list by Jessica Hupp.
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9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/
3 - 5 February 2009 in Bielefeld, Germany
The Bielefeld Conference 2009 provides insights into the future of
eLibraries, based on the threefold interdependency of service, technology,
and economics.
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AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/
“AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that
creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other
independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and
advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social
justice, media, and health care issues.”
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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/06/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n7-
july.html
The July 2008 V6N7 Awareness Watch New is available.
The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Internet
Demographics and Statistics Resources.
The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Key differences between Web 1.0
and Web 2.0 by Gaham Cormode, Balachander Krishnamurthy.
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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2008/07/awareness-watch-newsletter-v6n8-
august.html
The August 2008 V6N8 issue is available. The Awareness Watch Featured
Report this month features Student Research Resources.
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The Best Reference Sites
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/newsreference.htm
>From Wendy Boswell at About.com
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BOSS International
http://www.bossintl.com/
BOSS International, a developer of civil engineering hydrology and
hydraulic software, have a new website.
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CheckCost UK
http://www.checkcost.co.uk/
Price comparison site for products like computers, consumer electronics,
photography, music, movies, books, clothing and more.
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Complete University Guide
http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/
Previously the Good University Guide (as reported in IRN 162).
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Cuil
http://www.cuil.com/
Claims to be the world’s biggest search engine.
”Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and
ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with
your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content,
its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.”
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DimensionEngine
http://www.dimensionengine.com/
A scientific calculator with automatic units conversion.
”What makes our site different is that units conversion is part of the
equation solution, not a separate step.”
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DOE Data Explorer
http://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer/
Identifies collections of Department of Energy sponsored numeric files,
figures and data plots, multimedia and images, computer simulations,
specialized databases, and interactive data maps.
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DRIVER Search Portal: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for
European Research
http://search1.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/
This is the DRIVER search portal, which features more than 600,000 Open
Access documents from over 110 European repositories in 25 languages.
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EDINA Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline.html
The latest edition of Newsline, EDINA's quarterly newsletter, is now
available.
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Elius Books
http://www.elius-books.co.uk/
An internet based publishing company that produces books about the arts.
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Emerald Bookstore
http://books.emeraldinsight.com
Over 2,000 books now available to browse and buy online.
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Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings: EDVR
http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) is an index to
master recordings (matrixes) and published discs made by the Victor
Talking Machine Company beginning in 1900. The database is edited by a
team of researchers based at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Libraries and currently includes master recordings made by Victor in the
United States through the fall of 1914. The database includes trial
recordings of new artists and sessions from which no discs were issued.
Approximately 1,000 new master recordings are added to the database
monthly and the database will eventually extend to the end of the 78rpm
era in the early-1950s.
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Energies
http://www.mdpi.org/energies/index.htm
A new Open-Access Journal of Related Scientific Research, Technology
Development and Studies in Policy and Management.
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Engineering Learning Wiki: E-Wiki
http://econtent.wikispaces.com/
This portal is a repository of engineering learning and reference support
links.
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EUROPARC
http://www.europarc.org/
EUROPARC is the umbrella organisation of Europe's protected areas. It
unites national parks, regional parks, nature parks and biosphere reserves
in 38 countries, with the common aim of protecting Europe's unique variety
of wildlife, habitats and landscapes.
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European Portal on Research Infrastructures Database
http://www.riportal.eu/public/
“The European Portal on Research Infrastructures Database provides
information on a large number of Research Infrastructures (RIs) of pan
European interest in all fields of science. It covers facilities,
resources and related services that are used by the scientific community
to conduct top-level research in their respective fields.
This database is not exhaustive and intends to be a tool for the
scientific community looking for services offered by these
infrastructures. It resulted from a survey undertaken by the European
Commission (EC) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) in a tentative
to identify the current scenario of infrastructures in Europe.”
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Faronics
http://www.faronics.com/
“Market leaders in delivering solutions that help manage, simplify, and
secure computing environments.
Driven by a desire to deliver a trouble-free computing experience,
Faronics is focused on solving real world computing problems that threaten
user productivity, system integrity, and organizational efficiency.”
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FictionDB
http://www.fictiondb.com/
- Find author pseudonyms
- Read the latest reviews from a variety of websites
- Browse series of books by publisher and by individual author
- Learn about upcoming releases
- Search almost every field in our database
- Visit author websites
- Buy books from sellers around the world
- Track your collection and wish list
- Sell your books to customers directly with no commissions
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FileInfo.net
http://www.fileinfo.net/
“The purpose of the FileInfo.net website is to make finding file extension
information simple and fast. The layout of each FileInfo.net page is
designed to clearly display file extension information, while providing
easy navigation and fast-loading pages.
While other file extension lists provide only short definitions of each
extension, FileInfo.net gives a detailed description of each extension and
lists the programs that can open the file. Programs are listed for both
Macintosh or Windows platforms, if available. Each entry also includes the
file type (or file format) and indicates whether the file extension is
common or not.”
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Five Dials
http://www.fivedials.com/
“Hamish Hamilton is a London publisher specialising in contemporary
writing from both sides of the Atlantic. You can learn what’s new, meet
our authors, browse our titles, and download our new magazine, Five
Dials.”
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Graduate Junction
http://www.graduatejunction.com/
The Graduate Junction is a brand new website for Masters, Doctoral and
Postdoctoral researchers working in any field all over the world.
The Graduate Junction is the first website to give graduate researchers an
easy way of making contact and communicating with other researchers who
share their research interests no matter which department, institution or
country they work in.
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Highlights
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=19
The summer issue of the Inderscience Highlights newsletter is now
available, featuring details of new titles, calls for papers, an overview
of sustainable strategic management, and more.
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
An article in Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008.
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Kigose
http://www.kigose.com/
Kigose is a website designed for students and teachers to find educational
resources. Kigose only includes public websites that are for educational
purposes only. Educational websites that need subscription are excluded.
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Knol
http://knol.google.com/
New from Google.
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
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Many Eyes
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
For shared visualisation and discovery.
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MyNetResearch
http://www.mynetresearch.com/
A new website for online global collaborative research.
MyNetResearch contains a variety of features and functionality designed to
support the entire Research Enterprise for Academic and Corporate members
alike.
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Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie: NOWT
http://www.nowt.nl/index.php?lang=GB
”NOWT focuses on the collection and analysis of figures about the Dutch
research system in a broad sense, including interfaces with public
information services related to science, the higher education system, and
the technological innovation system. The CWTS and UNU-MERIT researchers
involved in NOWT studies concentrate mainly on the position and
performance of the Netherlands in an international comparative context
with an emphasis on recent trends and topical long-term developments.”
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Oil, Gas, Alternative Energy Jobs
http://www.totaljobs.com/IndustrySearch/OilGasAlternativeEnergy.aspx/
A new addition to the Totaljobs.com service.
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Open Access Directory: OAD
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists
about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA
community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one
place, OAD will make it easier for everyone to discover them and use them
for reference.
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PlanetPhysics
http://planetphysics.org/
PlanetPhysics is a virtual community which aims to help make physics
knowledge more accessible. PlanetPhysics's content is created
collaboratively: the main feature is the physics encyclopedia with entries
written and reviewed by members. The entries are contributed under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) in order to preserve the
rights of both the authors and readers in a sensible way.
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Quantix
http://www.quantix-uk.com/
Quantix, an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner and
Juniper Select Partner, specialise in the provision of Database Technology
solutions, Business Applications support services, High Performance
Networking & Security and Remote Managed Services.
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Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/stam
>From 2008 this journal will be published in an open-access model, with all
content completely free to read. There is no publication charge, as the
costs of publication will be covered by the National Institute for
Materials Science (NIMS).
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Sharpened.net
http://www.sharpened.net/
“Sharpened.net, which has been around since 1999, serves to help people
understand the sometimes intimidating world of computers. When you have a
question, but are afraid to ask, Sharpened.net is here for you.”
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Slezer’s Scotland
http://www.nls.uk/slezer/index.html
Engraved views from 17th century Scotland.
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Springer Content Solutions for Industry
http://www.springer.com/librarians/corporate+licensing?SGWID=0-40475-0-0-0
These feature customised collections of professional, scientific,
technical and medical books, journals, reference works and protocols
specifically organised for the needs of companies heavily active in
research, development and marketing activities.
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TechTransferOnline.com
http://www.techtransferonline.com/
www.TechTransferOnline.com is an online marketplace that facilitates the
in- and out-licensing, selling and buying of IP. This web site provides a
central, global database for organizations and individuals to search,
list, license, buy and sell published and non-published IP in a secure
setting.
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The People History
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/
Find the history of cost of living, prices, events, popular social
culture, inventions, technology by year, decade or type from the 20's,
30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 80's, 90's and the new Millennium. Also
included are over 2,000 video's related to the year or decade or other
sections of the site.
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TinyPaste
http://tinypaste.com/
Enables you to paste a block of text into a form, and then get a short URL
in return.
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TWI
http://www.twi.co.uk/
A fresh new look, better search capability and improved functionality for
TWI website.
”TWI is a global company delivering world class value to its Members,
through research, consultancy and training services in welding and
joining, engineering, NDT inspection, materials, surfacing, and lifecycle
integrity - respected for its expertise, professionalism and independence.”
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Wordle
http://wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in
the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts,
and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use
however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle
gallery to share with your friends.
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Writings about e-book publishing, 2008
http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/resource_ebook2008.html
A list compiled by Chris Armstrong at Information Automation Limited.
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NICE WEB SITE
In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we
sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a
passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and
give them a short review. The sites will often be UK based, may be small
or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After
lengthy discussions we have decided, with incredible creativity :-), to
call these: Nice Web Sites. Details of previous Nice Web Sites are
available in the Nice Web Site Archive.
There are two Nice Web Sites this month:
Wordle
http://wordle.net/
You can have lots of fun with this word cloud site, and there are also
various practical uses - e.g. you can make a graphical representation of a
talk, lecture, paper or discussion.
DRIVER Search
http://search1.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/
DRIVER is the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European
Research. It "responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content
resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles,
experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects
should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based
infrastructures". The project is funded by the European Commission under
the auspices of the "Research Infrastructure" unit.
This Search facility allows you to search for items from more than 600,000
Open Access documents from over 110 European repositories in 25 languages.
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BLOGORAMA
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
Feed Sifter
http://feedsifter.com/create.php
A facility for filtering an RSS according to required word(s)
Library Backwaters
http://www.librarybackwaters.com/
AccessArt
http://www.accessart.org.uk/wordpress/
KM Cyberary: a gateway to Knowledge Resources
http://km-cyberary.blogspot.com/
the Scholarly Kitchen blog
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/
>From the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Whats next in tech
http://whatsnextintech.com/
Power of Information Task Force
http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com/
The Power of Information Task Force was established by Cabinet Office
Minister Tom Watson MP in March 2008.
Joeyanne Libraryanne
http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/
SCIT blog
http://scitblog.wordpress.com/
For staff and students at the University of Wolverhampton
Student as Scholatr
http://student-as-scholar.blogspot.com/
The future of higher education
http://hedebate.jiscinvolve.org/
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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
155.5 CHI (Galashiels Library)
Growing up in the digital age: how stress impacts our younger generation
by Dora Obi Chizea.
Chizea Producations, 2004
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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GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
Sustainable Expeditions
http://www.sustainableexpeditions.org/
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