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_INTERNET RESOURCES_ Newsletter Issue 13 (Section B)
"AdWeb provides a focus for Internet services of relevance to owners and users of the UK regional press. We aim to expand our services to carry pages for every UK regional newspaper - rates, contact details - indeed anything that helps to promote this important medium."
URL: http://www.adweb.co.uk/
"This new weekly review of US political affairs brings several previously unavailable text sources to the net. Daily news summaries are drawn from American Political Network publications (The Hotline daily political briefing, and the issue-based daily briefings Greenwire, American Health Line and Abortion Report) and National Journal publications (CongressDaily and CongressDaily/A.M.) The Weekend Edition features selections from the weekly magazine National Journal."
URL: http://PoliticsUSA.com/PoliticsUSA/news/
A non-commercial listing from Amsterdam of free-lancers and agencies worldwide.
URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jumanl/
These are pages from the new book about the Web by Bob Powell, from Ziff-Davis Press. A substantial part of the book is available on the Web, along with a good A-Z list of sites, using many graphics. The book is on order at Heriot-Watt University Library!
URL: http://www.rhythm.com/~bpowell/Atlas/home.htm
This used to be known as Bioline, and used to be gopher based. It contains a lot of bioinformatics information, plus links to other biological resources.
URL: http://www.bdt.org.br/
The BBC public access World Wide Web server.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
An electronic public debate about biotechnology
URL: http://www.scicomm.org.uk/biosis/
The quarterly Biomedical Engineering Society Newsletter, from Volume 19, No. 1 is now available on the Web.
URL: http://www.mecca.org/BME/BMES/bmeshome.html
Each month, John S Makulowich writes a column for the journal 'Database' entitled 'Net Sitings'. The column for the June/July issue featured sources of information on the Internet about books. The information includes notes about mailing lists, gopher sites, newsgroups, etc.
URL: http://www.cais.com/makulow/da180395.html
"BGS, the national geological survey of the United Kingdom, was founded in 1835. Its primary functions are to maintain and revise geological information for the land and offshore areas of the United Kingdom and the nearby continental shelf. Its work relates directly to mineral, energy and groundwater resources, land use, geological hazards, and the protection of the environment." Includes an index of data sets produced by the BGS.
URL: http://www.nkw.ac.uk/bgs/home.html
Includes a monthly What's New bulletin, descriptions of electronic and selected microform publications and a diary of exhibitions and conferences where Chadwyck-Healey staff will be available.
URL: http://www.chadwyck.co.uk/
The UK Building Society. Mortgage information, home-buyer's guide, etc.
URL: http://www.cheltglos.co.uk/
ChemDex is the Sheffield list of Chemistry Internet sites, with links under the following headings:
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/chem/chemistry-www-sites.html
Interesting article which appeared in the printed periodical Chemistry in Britain, Sept. 1995.
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/www-publications/chem-in-brit-95.html
Provided by the Community of Science Web Server, which states that "The Community of Science is designed to help you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to your own. It contains an on-line inventory of researchers, inventions, and facilities at leading U.S. and Canadian Universities, and other R & D organizations. The Community of Science contains over 40,000 first-person expertise records, 5,000 inventions records, and 2,000 facilities records."
URL: http://medoc.gdb.org/work/facil.html
Another database provided by the Community of Science Web Server.
URL: http://medoc.gdb.org/work/invent.html
This is the Conference Announcement Archive at Fraunhofer-IAO, covering conferences, symposia, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, and meetings all over the world. Primarily, this reflects what is being submitted to the newsgroup news.announce.conferences, but there are also other channels for submissions.
URL: http://www.iao.fhg.de/Library/conferences/
Connect was part of a week-long series of articles which appeared in The Guardian newspaper in which the Internet was explored by selected 'net virgins' (previous non-users).
URL: http://www.gold.net/guardian/connect/
Information about the printed journal Construction Management and Economics, which includes Contents of current issue, and contents of some back issues, with editorials.
URL: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~kcshuwil/cme/intro.html
CORROSIONEERING is a new on-line newlsetter from CLI International, Inc., Houston, Texas. The newsletter features short technical articles that may be of interest to the materials community.
URL: http://www.clihouston.com/newslet.html
York University now has a creativity course on the WWW. The course is called "Creativity: Pure and Applied". "The main goal of our work is to inspire people to become active creators. The number one roadblock to creative ideas being implemented is blocks that cause a lack of action. Creativity is of little use to the world and the problems that lie ahead if action does not take place. Therefore, we want the site to give you concrete ways to actively be creative."
URL: http://creativity.psych.yorku.ca/
This is a quick awareness service for information management professionals covering the core 300 English language library, information science and information management periodicals. Produced by Aslib, on a trial basis.
URL: http://www.aslib.co.uk/aslib/caa/index.html
New French e-magazine, parts of which are available free, and parts of which are available to subscribers. Some serious articles, and some leisure oriented articles.
URL: http://www.quelm.fr/CybersphereU.html
Basic information about the Department, extracts from the Governments White Paper on Housing, Press releases, etc.
URL: http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/doehome.htm
Commercial site for UK companies looking for a Web presence
URL: http://www.drealms.co.uk/welcome.html
This is a list of engineering related sites which have been reviewed by Point. "Point Web Reviews give you friendly descriptions and ratings of the Top 5% of all World Wide Web sites. Point Now gives you daily listings of the key news and fun events happening on the Web." The Point home-page is here.
URL: http://www.pointcom.com/gifs/reviews/sten.htm
How does a University develop a good Web presence? How does it make sure that information being loaded on the server comes up to standard? See how FAU have listed extensive policies/procedures/guidelines and templates to assist developers that are adding information to their server.
URL: http://www.fau.edu/wise/publish.html
Information about the Book Fair (under construction)
URL: http://gandalf.stadt-frankfurt.de/frankfurt-bookfair/
Hiscox Underwriting Ltd. specialists in high value household, fine art, personal and commercial insurances. They are part of the Hiscox Group, which manages some of the syndicates at Lloyd's of London, the international insurance market.
URL: http://wire.co.uk/insurance/
Selected Resources for the Social Sciences & Humanities, from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
URL: http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/hub/hub.home.html
The purpose of this electronic newsletter is to highlight the ever-increasing array of digital information resources at the University of Michigan. There is so much going on at the University that this is actually a very interesting site. Includes a link to the JEP (Journal of Electronic Publishing)
URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/IDINews/
Initiatives Online is the electronic version of Initiatives in Environmental Technology Investment. The newsletter contains articles about innovative environmental technology resources. It provides information about DOE programs in order to promote technology exchange and development opportunities.
URL: http://www.wpi.org/uetc/
Information about the IIS, plus a jobs page, plus some pages from Inform, the IIS Newsletter, plus some other interesting links.
URL: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/IIS/
The Interactive Yellow Pages (TM) has moved to:
URL: http://netcenter.com/yellows.html
This is the OCLC Internet Cataloging Project's Catalog of Internet Resources. It is a searchable database containing bibliographic records for Internet resources that have been selected and cataloged by libraries worldwide. It contains details of around 1,000 resources.
URL: http://www.oclc.org:6990/
"The site provides information on a wide range of issues related to conflict and conflict victims as well as the role, activities, concerns and opinions of the ICRC. The information is in the form of press releases, fact sheets, in-depth articles, illustrated brochures, position papers, etc."
URL: http://www.icrc.ch/
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