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_INTERNET RESOURCES_ Newsletter Issue 12 (Section C)
"The Katharine Sharp Review, the premiere review of student scholarship in library and information science, announces the publication of its inaugural issue! KSR is published by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and showcases student authors writing about issues that range from those that affect the core of contemporary librarianship to new concepts in network administration. Come take a look!"
ISSN 1083-5261
URL: http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/
Maynard H. Riley, has prepared links to (mainly US) resources in Land Surveying.
URL: http://www.interaccess.com/users/maynard/
Re-vamped pages about one of the world's centres of excellence in management education and development at:
URL: http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/
Many links to web information on distance learning from R. H. Logan, Instructor of Chemistry, Dallas County Community College District, El Centro College.
URL: http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/bm_dl.html
This looks quite good, and will be useful for anyone wanting to learn how to create Web pages.
URL: http://www.mcp.com/general/workshop/
A new online guide to the net with descriptions of more than 25,000 Internet sites. Search by keyword, or browse a category:
URL: http://www.mckinley.com/
This home page from Pittsburg his a resource for practitioners, educators and researchers in medical, clinical and occupational toxicology. It includes links to Web resources, mailing lists, and summaries of important medical toxicology documents.
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~martint/welcome.htm
"A biweekly source of news for practicioners. This service provides excellent summaries of the latest reports on medical treatments and advances from both the professional literature and the national press. All summaries are in plain english with little or no jargon."
URL: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ln/MEDNEWS/
The web weekly e-journal of the converging media and technology marketplaces
URL: http://www.mmwire.com/index.html
"The wall street journal is offering a free trial subscription to its MONEY & INVESTING UPDATE, offering Market columns and features available the evening before the print edition. More importantly - the free trial is a chance to check out their archive to see if its worth the price of a subscription to you. It offers access to a library of past articles and information on subjects like investing, taxes, college financing, retirement planning and other personal finance topics, as well as other business resources such as a glossary of terms and calendars of coming events."
Also has news of business and finance world-wide.
URL: http://update.wsj.com/
Still a lot of construction going on, but worth a visit.
URL: http://www.home.msn.com/
"Those of you tracking the activities of major companies around the globe should know about the full text back issue archive for Multinational Monitor. The publication's issues going back to 1982 are almost all here. This makes it the oldest collection on major companies on the net for which there is no access charge. The cumulative issues provide almost a thousand pages of dense reporting material. Each issue is extensive in its coverage and while it is left of center in orientation - it always publishes rebuttles from companies that send them in. The site is fully searchable and items are also retrievable by issue date."
URL: gopher://essential.essential.org:70/11/ftp/pub/EI/Monitor
"Mutual Funds Magazine is published by The Institute for Econometric Research
URL: http://www.mfmag.com/aam
North American Free Trade Agreement
URL: http://law.wuacc.edu/scall/nafta.html
The purpose of the NEIRC is to provide one-stop, user-friendly access to a broad range of information about environmental matters -- maintained by hundreds of organizations around the globe. Subjects covered include: conservation; ecology; education and training; energy; economics; "green" buildings; health; federal, state, and local government programs and data; public and private sector employment opportunities; laws and regulations; remote sensing and monitoring; research; sustainability; technologies; environmentally conscious manufacturing; environmentally preferable products and services; pollution prevention; national and international policies, treaties, conventions, codes, and standards; wildlife; and many other matters.
URL: http://www.gwu.edu/~greenu/
Information and news for social studies educators in the United States and internationally.
NCSS Online features information about professional development, teaching resources, upcoming media programming and conferences, NCSS publications and journals, the NCSS Annual Conference, Curriculum Standards, and an electronic version of a bi-monthly newsletter.
Founded in 1921, National Council for the Social Studies has grown to be the largest association in the United States devoted solely to social studies education. The NCSS serves as an umbrella organization for educators of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related education.
URL: http://www.ncss.org/home/ncss
The NDTA is a technical subgroup of the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ)
URL: http://www.irl.cri.nz/~spedding/ndta/ndta0000.html
Commercial site for Nelson Bakewell, a leading company of UK commercial real estate agents
URL: http://www.nelson-bakewell.co.uk/
URL: http://mail.nox.ac.uk/ivem/
Netsurfer Tools is a free Newsleter. It provides a guide to the rapidly evolving field of online technology. Every issue gives pointers to the latest sites offering a variety of online related development tools, software, and hardware. In addition it carries pointers to the latest press releases and news dealing with companies and individuals involved in the technical end of the industry.
URL: http://www.netsurf.com/nst/
"This guide highlights trends effecting the process of creating, retrieving and using information for instruction and research at the university level." Many interesting links at:
URL: http://www.ucsc.edu/library/lauc/hotline.html
"NewsLink is bigger and better than ever. We now provide free links to:
More important, we've reorganized NewsLink's lists to make it even easier to find exactly what you're looking for. We also had added a new Top 10 hot list of the most frequently cited on-line news resources. And we preview NewsLink's forthcoming definitive and affordable research report, "Tomorrow's News Today."
Requires registration.
URL: http://www.newslink.org/
Information about a forthcoming conference
URL: http://www.oceans95.org/
An electronic yellow pages for the petroleum industry.
URL: http://www.popc.com/popc/
"Open Market is pleased to announce its university program for university webmasters and educators.The program will make commercial quality products available for use on college and university campuses. The program initially makes available the Open Market WebServer, the Open Market Secure WebServer , and the Open Market WebReporter, with other products available later this fall." The Open Market WebServer is free and there is 95% discount on other web software tools for University webmasters and educators.
URL: http://www.openmarket.com/omi/nph-univ.cgi
Some nice images from a lovely part of the world.
URL: http://www.hw.ac.uk/ecaWWW/arch/rias/orkney/riasork.htm
The homepage of the Physics Department Library at Oxford University. Contains links to a wide range of Web resources in the Physical Sciences.
URL: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~uzdy0016/library/eng.html
Commercial site for the Pilkington Micro-electronics Ltd (PMeL) company. PMeL is an R and D company operating based in Cheshire, UK, established in 1986. Initially set up to exploit the Dynamically Programmable Logic Device (DPLD), a high performance, fine grained, SRAM based Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It has since developed a number of other technologies, including the world's first fully programmable analogue array (DPAD). PMeL also develop the sophisticated automatic CAD tools necessary o support these products.
URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/pmel/
"The Parallel Processing in Engineering Community Club (PPECC) has been launched to bring together researchers seeking to exploit the potential of parallel processing in their own areas of engineering research."
URL: http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/clubs/PPECC/
Details of the global multimedia distance education course which was run by Birkbeck College, UK, earlier this year.
URL: http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html
A tutorial, by Samuel L. Braunstein
URL: http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~schmuel/comp/comp.html
URL: http://www.CAM.ORG/~sac/SACIS.html
Search multiple search engines (Webcrawler, Lycos, etc) using one form at this site.
URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html
"Scientific Computing & Automation magazine, serves scientists and engineers using new technology in their work. This page will keep you current with the latest technology for scientists and engineers and point you to other appropriate sites on the Internet."
URL: http://gordonpub.loyola.edu/
A National newspaper from Scotland. At the present time, these pages contain information about the Edinburgh International Fringe and Film Festivals, but no doubt will develop further in the future.
URL: http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/scotsman/
For those who like to collect WWW search engines, this is CompuServe's own. It seems to give erratic results though.
URL: http://www.compuserve.com/wizard/wizard.html
Tracy Stanley from the Universityof Leeds has put together a useful guide to using Lycos and InfoSeek search engines at:
URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucs/docs/fur14/fur14.html
"Business Times, a member of the Singapore Press Holdings Group , is Southeast Asia's leading business daily.BT circulates mainly in Singapore, and has a growing regional readership. We offer our readers the news and views they need to understand and to do business in Asia, especially Southeast Asia. Apart from a Singapore newsroom staffed with experienced business reporters, we have correspondents in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, Hongkong, Sydney, and Washington .We also have contributors in Manila, Beijing, Seoul, Bombay, New Delhi, Islamabad, Auckland, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Sacramento, and New York. "
URL: http://www.asia1.com.sg/bt/pages/bt.html
An overview of the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
URL: http://africa.com/pages/jse/page1.htm
URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk:80/~sesd/
Includes bibliographies on plasticity, and materials science software.
URL: http://www.mm.mtu.edu/~drjohn/superplasticity.html
Vol 2 Number 3 of this periodical, from the American Library Association, which reviews books about the Internet, is now available at:
URL: http://chehalis.lib.washington.edu/ter/
New release of The Internet Adapter (TIA), an Internet access utility that lets you use popular TCP/IP software such as Netscape and Eudora with any regular UNIX shell account. TIA, from Cyberspace Development, Inc. converts your shell account into a "pseudo-SLIP" ccount the same way an electrical adapter converts a two-prong outlet into a three-prong outlet. For more information see:
URL: http://marketplace.com/tia/tiahome.html
A finder for commercial Internet products. Not new, but not mentioned in this Newsletter before. If you want to know about email services, online press cutting services, Web servers, Paging and messaging products, etc look at:
URL: http://www.lpac.ac.uk/Trel/
Includes information about print, radio and TV with links to relevant Internet resources.
URL: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~jcridlan/
An automatically produced list of uk. Newsgroups, with links.
URL: HTTP://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/newspage/uk.html
An e-journal for researchers in the applied and theoretical sides of nonlinear mathematics to help keep them abreast of the wide variety of nonlinear activities throughout the UK.
URL: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/index.html
Anyone with an interest in visualization can register with the Club.
URL: http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/clubs/VCC/
The 100 largest companies on the Web
URL: http://fox.nstn.ca/~at_info/w100_table.html
"WEEK is a new print publication that covers the world press. The online version includes summaries of the print content. This is a subscription development site. News offers perspective on the right and left in politics, the broad sheet and tabloid, the daily and weekly in the UK and foreign press. The mix of items is lively and the summaries are brief."
URL: http://metrotel.co.uk/theweek/
This bi-weekly e-journal about the WWW has been around since May 1995. Some interesting features but the issues can take a great deal of time to load, at:
URL: http://www.river.org/~isaac/wweb/
This is a starting point for information about Windows 95. It includes the Win95User Magazine (first issue to be released in September).
URL: http://www.win95.com
ZimTrade is the national trade development organisation for Zimbabwe. Its mission is to assist businesses in Zimbabwe develop and expand profitable ternational trade in products and services by offering a range of services which will have the greatest impact in stimulating economic growth and influencing a positive foreign trade environment. An interesting page for anyone interested in international economics, Developing Countries, or even in a holiday in one of the most attractive parts of the world.
URL: http://www.unicc.org/untpdc/incubator/zwe/tphar/zimtrade.html
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