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Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 47, August 1998 (Section C)
I.T. recruitment.
URL: http://www.ibnix.co.uk/
"Designed to provide a first stop for professionals, academics and learners in this key management field, the Information Management Global Forum is continuously updated with the latest information, thinking and discussion.
With online access to topical information, interactive resources, current awareness AND a core body of academic and professional knowledge, this revolutionary new forum provides all the quality information needed to remain at the top of your profession."
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/imgf/gateway.htm
A directory, plus other information, about conference centres.
URL: http://www.iacconline.com/
Part of the Cranfield University Internet Site Explorer (CRUISE) includes this Internet Newsletter.
URL: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/docs/flyers/internetnews98.htm
Not new, but not mentioned before. Interwater aims to help you find sources of information about water and sanitation in developing countries. It is maintained by a group of partner institutions in the water and sanitation sector under the auspices of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
URL: http://www.oneworld.org/ircwater/iwindex.htm
Siemens Nixdorf has launched a new online database of UK job opportunities. The new site is part of the company's recruitment drive to hire up to 400 new staff over the next four months in order to fuel continued growth in the run-up to the restructuring of the Siemens I&C Information and Communications business in October. The company is currently looking to recruit across its range of business activities, and is seeking staff for its IT Service, Telecom Solutions, R/3, Enterprise & Personal Computing and Self-Service operations. Opportunities range from Graduate posts in Siemens Nixdorf's R/3 business to senior consultancy positions.
URL: http://www.sni.co.uk/jobs/
A UK independent law publisher.
URL: http://www.jordanpublishing.co.uk/jordanhome.html
Abstracts, summaries and the full text of editorials. This is a fairly new address for this title.
URL: http://www.ama.org/pubs/jim/index.html
"DCPress is proud of the free access to articles provided to scholars, students and researchers through the Journal of Modern Business."
URL: http://www.dcpress.com/page2.html
LAB is an independent research and publishing organisation. It works to broaden public understanding of issues of human rights and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
URL: http://www.lab.org.uk
An index to engineering links.
URL: http://www.spacey.net/ldavis/index.html
The LIC was set up in 1995, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is a national source of expertise, advising Government on all issues relating to the library and information sector.
URL: http://www.lic.gov.uk/
An article about finding jobs online for engineers, available in full text pdf format, is linked to from this page.
URL: http://www.aiche.org/docs/cep/articles98/articles98.htm#jul98
Information about over 100 titles.
URL: http://www.magazineshop.co.uk
It is now possible to search the archives of groups of Mailbase mailing lists. To do this, first select the category from the lists on this page.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/category.html
"This site contains links to many sites of interest to engineers involved in the plant maintenance and maintenance engineering. It includes links to maintenance consultants, CMMS vendors, maintenance conferences and conference papers, amongst others." This site was still under construction when I visited.
URL: http://www.iinet.net.au/~sdunn/maintenance/index.html
Annotated list of links from Nottingham Business School.
URL: http://www.nbs.ntu.ac.uk/resources/mktglong.htm
New address from that given in issue 19 of this newsletter.
URL: http://www.molvis.org/molvis/
The largest voluntary women's organisation in the United Kingdom.
URL: http://www.nfwi.org.uk/
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting.
URL: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/home/index.html
New look web site.
URL: http://www.housing.org.uk/
Osteoporosis causes bones to become so porous that they break very easily.
URL: http://www.nos.org.uk
NAPS is a free weekly Current Alerting Service for the sleep field. Subscribers to NAPS receive, each week, an E-mail Alert of new citations in their specific Areas of Interest. NAPS Archives contains all sleep and sleep-related papers for the current year. A search engine is available for searching by author, category, or keyword.
URL: http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/naps/
Beginning July 1, 1998, the NEW-LIST mailing list was brought under the umbrella of services provided by the Internet Scout Project. The NEW-LIST mailing list continues to provide the Internet community with prompt notification of the creation of a new mailing list on any given topic.
URL: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/new-list/
Looks a lot like Yahoo! but is run by volunteers.
URL: http://www.newhoo.com/
NewsTrawler is a Meta Search Engine. It helps you search for news from the archives of hundreds of news sources from around the world.
URL: http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
This is a gateway to quality-assessed Internet resources in the fields of forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and environmental sciences. The database is produced and maintained by the libraries of the NOVA University.
URL: http://novagate.nova-university.org/
OneWorld Online is a partnership: over 100 organisations working for human rights and sustainable development.
URL: http://www.oneworld.org/
Different address from that noted in issue 23 of this newsletter. "Based within the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University Computing Services , the OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings."
URL: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Good list, with descriptions, of what is available.
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/patent/patdbases.html
The Net extension of Pathfinder magazine and the jobhunting and career switch monthly.
URL: http://www.pathfinder-one.com/index.html
New address from that given in issue 19 of this newsletter.
URL: http://www.planex.co.uk/index.html
"Designed to provide a first stop for professionals, academics and learners in this key management field, the Property Management & Facilities Global Forum is continuously updated with the latest information, thinking and discussion."
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/pmgf/gateway.htm
"The Quality Methods Association is a practical User Group whose members network via a full programme of events and other meetings to exchange information and experience related to Quality Improvement in all its aspects."
URL: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~qma/
Pay-as-you-go service providing country risk reports plus latest news and statistics.
URL: http://www.questeconomics.com/
SORT is a directory of quality educational resources available on the Internet. This is a free service for teachers being developed by the World ORT Union as part of its Global Campus programme. A prototype of the SORT directory is online and the project is looking for UK Science and ICT teachers to help us test it in a small pilot programme.
URL: http://www.campus.ort.org/Library/
"For more than a quarter of a century, the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators report series has been a chronicler of key trends in science and engineering research and education. This year, the online versions offer additional features that take advantage of Web technology to assist in finding and displaying information."
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind98/start.htm
Over 250 pages of info there on all aspects of Scottish culture.
URL: http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/scotfaq.html
Not new, but not mentioned here before. This site includes Quality Assessment of Teaching and Research publications, including those for Heriot-Watt.
URL: http://www.shefc.ac.uk/shefc/welcome.htm
The purpose of the Scottish Legal Action Group is to promote equal access to justice in Scotland. The Group seeks to improve and advance Scots Law for the benefit of those members of society who are economically, socially or otherwise disadvantaged.
URL: http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/forsythproductions/scolag
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) provides technical advice, assistance and training, and applied research to its Island member countries and territories throughout the Pacific region.
URL: http://www.spc.org.nc/
"Service First - the new charter programme aims to improve service delivery across the public sector. It is an integral part of our Better Government initiative, on which a broader White Paper will be published soon. It builds on what has already been achieved throughout the country, but gives a new emphasis to promoting responsiveness, quality, effectiveness, and cross-sectoral working."
URL: http://www.servicefirst.gov.uk/index.htm
Signposts to Government - public interest news and views about information age government - and how to find out more about it. This site is provided by Kable, a UK independent research company specialising in analysis of information systems and telecoms markets.
URL: http://www.kable.co.uk/kabledirect/kablesign.nsf?OpenDatabase
"The Social Market Foundation was established in 1992. It's main activity is to commission and publish original papers by independent academic and other experts on key topics in the economic and social fields, with a view to stimulating public discussion on the performance of markets and the social framework within which they operate."
URL: http://www.smf.co.uk
"The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is the internationally recognised trade association of the UK Aerospace Industry. The Society represents the interests of 350 companies covering every sector and tier of the industry from airframes and aero engines to equipment, components, materials, guided weapons and satellites."
URL: http://www.sbac.co.uk/mzdefault.htm
Volume 3, Issue 2 is now available.
URL: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/
Announcement for the 'Strategy of Industrial Experiments' conference, sponsored by TQM Magazine
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/announcements/sie_announcement.htm
Full text issues of the Survey of Current Business, the Bureau of Economic Analysis' monthly journal, for the current year are now available at this site.
URL: http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/pubs.htm
The July 1998 issue of The Technology Source is the first to be published on the Horizon Web site since moving the periodical from Microsoft to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Technology Source looks at the advantages, problems, and issues associated with integrating information technology tools in educational organizations.
URL: http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/
Excellent guide written by Margaret Isaacs. "TERENA's GNRT is a reference for network users and user-support staff that will help you to discover... how to carry out common networking tasks how and where on the network to search for information which tools are available - where to find them - how to use them". This has also just been published as a book entitled Internet Users' Guide to Network Resource Tools by Addison Wesley.
URL: http://www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/
This site, billed as the 'World's Largest Online Database', has been in the news recently. You can view images of parts of the earth taken from space (and then buy them).
URL: http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
TFPL is an international information management company offering training, consultancy, recruitment and executive search, conferences and seminars to the information market.
URL: http://www.tfpl.com/tfplhome.htm
Thela Thesis is an independent publisher of mainly scientific books. They specialize in social sciences and development studies, but books on other subjects are also available.
URL: http://www.thelathesis.nl/
"An independent, non-profit organisation, TVE's mission is to act as a catalyst for the production and distribution of films on environment, development, health and human rights issues. Based in the UK but with very much a global focus, TVE's goal is to use broadcast television and other audio-visual resources to raise environmental awareness worldwide."
URL: http://www.tve.org/
This page compiles links to the 'access policy' web pages of UK academic libraries. It aims to provide a shortcut to such information for distance learners, and librarians or information professionals involved in supporting off-campus students.
URL: http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/services/access.html
Exhibitions, courses, access, etc.
URL: http://cumaa.archanth.cam.ac.uk/
An old site, but a very useful one which has not been mentioned before. "This service contains pointers to many useful Usenet FAQ's and the Newsgroups Info Center -- what the project is really about. The Newsgroups Info Center is your source for info on Usenet's Newsgroups. It contains a heritage browsable list of the newsgroups and a way to search for a group of interest. The Newsgroups Info Center is one of the first big attempts to gather all the useful information on a group in one location; including a long description."
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/
A new job announcement service from NISS for academics.
URL: http://www.vacancies.ac.uk/
From Cranfield University School of Management.
URL: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/home6.htm
Lots of useful HTML information from builder.com
URL: http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Html/
Not new, but not mentioned before. Published by the School of Modern Languages University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~njw5/
Winchester's primary focus is on vacancies within the IT and Telecoms industries.
URL: http://www.winchesterss.co.uk/default.htm
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