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Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 47, August 1998 (Section D)
This list, hosted by the CASTLE project, is for those interested in conducting assessment using the WWW. It is a forum for all WAA (web-assisted-assessment) issues e.g. question design/databases, authoring/delivery software etc., and also use of the CASTLE tools for WAA.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/web-assisted-assessment/
UK-based world wide email broadcast system for CALMAT and TASMAT users, operated by the CALMAT group at Glasgow Caledonian University. All messages relevant to the use of CALMAT or TASMAT with students are welcome.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/calmat/
A network providing a forum for discussion and information on discourse analytic research using Q-methodology.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/q-research/
bopcas-scotland offers weekly updates of the latest UK government publications relating to Scotland and a forum to discuss matters arising from them.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/bopcas-scotland/
The list is a discussion forum and information exchange network concerning all areas of environmental chemistry, geochemistry & biogeochemistry, including the chemistry of terrestrial & marine aquatic environments, soil & sedimentary systems and the atmosphere.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/env-chem/
PhyMeas aims to foster discussion on the methods and problems associated with using and designing physiological measurement equipment. It is hoped that this list will bring together scientists, engineers and clinicians so that problems, solutions and opportunities can be freely discussed.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/physmeas/
EDRESOURCE is a mailing list about the Education Resources which are available on the Internet and can be used for the benefit of Internet educators, teachers and administrators.
The List Manager is Arun Tripathi.
To subscribe, send a blank message to
edresource-subscribe@makelist.com
Information about how to subscribe is available.
URL: http://www.findmail.com/list/edresource/
A Discussion of Environmental Education Internet Resources.
To subscribe, send an empty note to:
ee-internet-subscribe@eelink.net
URL: http://eelink.net/eeadmin/ee-internet.html
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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 try to 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.
There are two Nice Web Sites this month:
URL: http://www.oneworld.org/inasp/index.html
INASP was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU), as a co-operative network of partners aiming to improve worldwide access to information. In particular its mission is to improve the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination. It produces an annual Directory providing information on 230 agencies, organisations, professional societies, and foundations which are involved in supporting library and book development (developing country institutions can apply for a complimentary copy, and the rest of us can buy copies at £25); it produces a newsletter (available at the INASP site in full text); it has a section providing support for health information providers in developing countries; and its African Journals On-line is a pilot project to promote African-published scholarly journals by means of the Internet.
Not only a worthy cause, but also an attractive an easy to navigate Nice Web Site with useful information.
URL: http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/services/access.html
This is part of the Learning Centre department at Sheffield Hallam University, which provides a Distance Learner Support Service. Really, its the whole Distance Learner Support Service which is impressive, but as its site has been available for some time now, I have chosen a new section for the Nice Web Site. The UK Academic Libraries' Access Policies page is very simple, but very effective. It links to the 'access policy' web pages of UK academic libraries, and thereby provides a shortcut to this important information for distance learners, or for librarians or information professionals involved in supporting off-campus students.
A much appreciated set of pages which will help distance learners and information professionals alike.
Roddy MacLeod
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Publisher: MCB University Press, 60/62 Toller Lane, Bradford, W
Yorkshire, BD8 9BY
Frequency: 7 issues per year
Subscription: £3329.00,
Plus Vat £332.90 (includes print and CD-ROM versions, and site licence)
ISSN:
0309-0566
Email: akaminska@mcb.co.uk
Web:
http://www.mcb.co.uk/cgi-bin/journal1/ejm
This title, for which free alerts are available through the Emerald e-mail alert service, includes an Internet Editorial, written by Dr Nicole Coviello, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary, Canada.
Publisher: Special Libraries Association, 1700 Eighteenth Street, MW,
Washington DC 20009-2514
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: $75 US
ISSN:
1091-0808
Email: magazine@sla.org
Web:
http://www.sla.org/pubs/serial/io/intro.html
I was impressed with the media kit Vivian Cohen, Advertising Representative with the Special Libraries Association, sent me in response to my request for a sample copy of Information Outlook. Neatly packaged and designed, it pointed out that special librarians control the spending of $1.5 billion each year in information technology and other related products and services. The SLA, American based with a worldwide membership, is obviously a very professional organisation, and its monthly publication Information Outlook has considerable style. By no means all of Information Outlook concerns itself with the Internet, but such is the world of information professionals nowadays that it is never far from the surface. Apart from occasional articles and news items about trends and resources, each issue features an 'On the Net' column, and most of its advertisers are promoting online and Web materials and services.
Publisher: Online Inc., 462 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897-2126, USA
Frequency:
Bimonthly
Subscription: $120 ($145 outside US and Canada)
ISSN:
0162-4105
Email: dmag@onlineinc.com
Web:
http://www.onlineinc.com/database
Database is one of the most informative publications available for those with an interest in the online world. I receive the tables of contents of a number of publications, including Database, through the UnCover Reveal service (to which Heriot-Watt has a site licence), and I never fail to check through the Database list, often acquiring the hardcopy. Subtitled 'The magazine of electronic research & resources', Database keeps its readers up-to-date with the latest news about online databases, Internet databases, and CD-ROM databases. It regularly features items about search engines, news sources, and various reference guides such as the Gale Directories. In addition, each issue contains a column by Greg R Notess, entitled 'On the Net' which looks at Internet resources on various themes. Database focuses on the IS scene, and is a very useful source of current information.
Publisher: Bowker-Saur, Maypole House, Maypole Road, East Grinstead,
West Sussex, RH19 1HH, UK.
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: World exc.
US £255 / US $454
ISSN: 0961-7612
Email:
marketing@bowker-saur.co.uk
Web:
http://www.bowker-saur.com/service/news/imnews.htmlhttp://www.infotoday.com
First reported in issue 23 of the Internet Resources Newsletter, Information Management Report has been acquired by Bowker-Saur. According to the Web site, features in 1998 will cover: Knowledge management, intranets and business communication, copyright and legal issues, disaster management, data warehousing, teleworking, and change management.
Publisher: Bowker-Saur, Maypole House, Maypole Road, East Grinstead,
West Sussex, RH19 1HH, UK.
Frequency: Quarterly
Subscription: £92
(EC and Rest of World, $164 USA only)
ISSN: 0266-6669
Email:
lis@bowker-saur.com
Web: http://www.bowker-saur.co.uk/service/
This print journal, which is available to subscribers in full text through BIPEx (Bowker Information Professionals' Exchange), features a Webwatch column edited by Chris Addison from the European Centre for Development Polocy Management (ECDPM). Addison is also co-author of A 'Web Without Frontiers': Building European Partnerships on the Internet. Information Development places special emphasis on the information needs and problems of Developing Countries.
Publisher: Learned Information Europe Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill,
Oxford, OX1 5BE, UK.
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: £40
ISSN:
1463-1822
Email: customerservice@learned.co.uk
Web:
http://www.knowledge-management.co.uk
'Kowledge management' is a current buzz word in the business and information world, so what is it? According to the Knowledge Management Web site, which quotes the Research Centre, Cranfield School of Management, knowledge management is "the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination and utilisation of knowledge to fulfil organisational objectibes". Knowledge Manegement is a new journal (the inaugural issue appeared in April 1998) for knowledge professionals, information professionals, IT managers and management consultants, and it aims to give practical advice about the implementation of knowledge management policies and procedures within their organisations or their clients' organisations.
Is knowledge management librarianship in new shiny clothes? How much is knowledge management an extension of the corporate information strategy concept? I will leave the answers to those questions to students of information science who will no doubt be set similar topics to discuss as part of their courses over the coming months. What I will say is that there are parts of Knowledge Management (the journal) which are familiar to library professionals. It is published by Learned Information, who produce various other titles which have featured in the Internet Resources Newsletter. It is supported by Aslib, the Association for Information Management, and it carries adverts for the Dialog Corporation, which is well known in the information world as a supplier of bibliographic online databases and full text databases, Anbar (who publish databases, management and engineering journals), and TFPL (recruitment specialists for information professionals). But both Knowledge Management (the journal) and knowledge management (the concept) go further than traditional librarianship by being involved not only with information management, but also its vigorous exploitation and practical implementation, especially within the business world. Perhaps the current pupularity of knowledge management (the concept) means that the business world is finally waking up to the fact that information is a very important commodity and can be used to competitive advantage.
Knowledge Management effectively 'talks up' the knowledge management concept by offering news items about the growing market for KN software (which is expected to exceed $150 million in 1998). It also details case studies of the implementation of knowledge management, and contains articles about the need to change corporate cultures to recognise the importance of information management. In addition, the importance of the Internet, intranets, extranets, IT in general, and networked information as part of the knowledge management process, permeates its pages.
At £40, a subscription to Knowledge Management is not expensive. As well as an insight into one of today's hot topics, this journal also features a Site Watch section, with brief reviews of relevant Internet resources such as The Knowledge Manager, KD Mine: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources Index, and the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.
Publisher: Centaur Newsletters, 50 Poland St, London, W1V 4AX, UK.
Frequency:
Weekly
Subscription: £164
ISSN: 1364-7776
Email:
mikeb@centaur.co.uk
Web: http://www.nma.co.uk/
I thought that NewMediaAge looked familiar in some way, and eventually found the reason, which is that it incorporates Internet for Business, reviewed in issue 21 of Internet Resources Newsletter. It also incorporates Internet in Practice, which I did not see when it existed separately.
NewMediaAge is published weekly, and each A4 size issue consists of 24 or so pages containing quite a lot of industry news, short features, interviews, and regular columns aimed at those in industry and business who are interested in the latest in electronic media, the Internet, online commerce, WebTV, marketing, and other related current topics. It makes for very interesting reading as it reports, for example, on who is doing what in the world of Internet advertising, and it also gives background information on the latest 'hot' topics such as portals. What is a portal? NewMediaAge describes a portal as 'a collection of services, content and links accessible on a single, usually customised, Web page intended to serve as the default page for as many Net users as possible'. They are currently all the rage, with a great deal of effort being put into developing such sites as the Netscape Netcenter, and MSN UK. NewMediaAge is an excellent source of up-to-date information for those involved in any media business. The New Media Channel Web site is also impressive in terms of its design and content.
Publisher: Haymarket Business Publications Ltd., 174 Hammersmith Road,
London W6 7JP, UK.
Frequency: Weekly
Subscription: £80 (students £45)
Marketing includes a New Media section, which gives brief reviews of new Web sites, plus news items.
If you know of other Internet journals or journals with regular significant sections about the Internet which have not been mentioned in The Internet in Print section, please let me know at: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk
Roddy MacLeod
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BIDS is a UK provider of networked information services for higher education and research. The Latest BIDS News Bulletin (Spring 1998) is available at:
URL: http://www.bids.ac.uk/news/spring98.html
A week-by-week listing of new information resources on the NISS (National Information Services and Systems) Information Gateway selected by experts in the subject area is available at:
URL: http://www.niss.ac.uk/welcome/whatsnew.html
BUBL has retained a strong library element, but now provides a subject-based service to the academic and research community more generally, this via the BUBL LINK Subject Tree. The latest news from BUBL is available at:
URL: http://bubl.ac.uk/news/
The latest Additions and Updates to EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library), The Gateway to UK Engineering Information on the Internet, are available at:
URL: http://www.eevl.ac.uk:4321/whatsnew/
The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at:
URL: http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html
The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at:
URL: http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/
CHEST aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the Education and Research Community at low prices and attractive licence terms. The latest news from CHEST is available at:
URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk/news.html
MIDAS (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services) is a National Datasets Service based at Manchester Computing and funded by JISC, the ESRC and the University of Manchester. It provides UK academics with online access to strategic datasets such as UK Population Censuses, large government and other surveys (including the GHS, LFS, FES, BHPS), macroeconomic time-series databanks, spatial data including satellite images and digital map data, and scientific databases including the Beilstein Crossfire System.
The latest news from MIDAS can be found at:
URL: http://midas.ac.uk/news.html
RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information) is a multimedia information resource for research and teaching in the field of urban design in the Western cultural context. The latest news from RUDI can be found at:
URL: http://rudi.herts.ac.uk/new.html
UK's independent gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources. The latest sites added to OMNI can be found at:
URL: http://roads.nott.ac.uk/whatsnew/whats-new-uk.html
And:
URL:
http://roads.nott.ac.uk/whatsnew/whats-new-world.html
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:
URL: http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm
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:
URL: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/publicity/updates/
Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.
URL: http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm
The latest issue of the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Newsletter can be found at the top of the newsletter index page at this site.
URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newslind.html
Mailbase provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.
URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/news/
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Information supplied by Bill Worthington, RUDI Project Manager.
Introduction
RUDI is a multimedia Internet resource for teaching, research and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines. Urban design in this context includes the physical design, management, planning and use of buildings and landscape in terms of their relationship to public and open space.
The service gathers and re-publishes multimedia material contributed by professional bodies, practitioners, academics and students. It also researches and creates new resources. Editorial policy focuses on examples of good practice in urban design, and aims to contribute to a better built environment.
The Collection
Much of the collection contains materials unique to RUDI. It contains documents that are reaching a public audience for the first time, as well as important works now out of print. These include:
There are approximately 1500 Web pages, including 4300 images, plus sound and animation sequences in RUDI (May 1998), and more are added every month.
Facilities
The collection is presented in a environment of participation where transient and topical data can be shared using the following facilities:
User Community
RUDI strives to maintain a community of participation in which users are also authors. Contributions have been received from the UK, USA, Australia, Hungary, Colombia and Brazil, and the collection also includes examples of practice or ideas from Russia, Spain and France. The continued material input of users is vital to RUDI, and it invites subject matter such as case studies, critiques, essays, film, stills, drawings etc. - on any format, that users would like to share with an international audience (more-->).
RUDI has supported many organisations as a forum for publicity and dissemination, and has gone further with some organisations to create their own web site, maintained as a distinct, yet integral part of the RUDI community (more-->). The RUDI system is host to Urban Design Group, the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) and Action for Market Towns.
By developing an unrivaled reference and a framework for exchange for its users, RUDI aims to become a one stop shop for urban design activity and information. Usage statistics show that the user community is responding and embracing this ideal (more-->).
RUDI Partners And Contacts
University of Hertfordshire
Contact: Dr. Bill Worthington, Project Manager, email:
W.J.Worthington@herts.ac.uk; tel: 01707 286077 (more-->).
Oxford Brookes University
Contact: Ms. Catherine Tranmer, Resource Editor, email:
ctranmer@brookes.ac.uk; tel: 01865 483139 (more-->).
RUDI Team, email: rudi@brookes.ac.uk; tel 01865 483602.
RUDI is funded by the Electronic Libraries programme (eLib) on behalf of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, with support from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre.
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507.2 ODO The Internet for scientists by Kevin O'Donnell and Larry Winger Harwood, 1997 658.05 STR Internet strategies: a corporate guide to exploiting the Internet by Dick Stroud Macmillan Business, 1998
A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is now available from the Library News page.
URL: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/news/news.html
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URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nunion/altpro/
The John Muir Trust was formed in 1983 to safeguard and conserve wild places and to increase awareness and understanding of the value of such places.
URL: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/jmt/
URL: http://www.sportsonline.co.uk/
URL: http://www.lta.org.uk/
This web site lists all the French camping sites with their classification,equipments, services and activities.
URL: http://www.campingfrance.com/uk/
Joining the YHA is a great way to travel and meet people, whether you are at home or abroad.
URL: http://www.yha.org.uk/
Theatre in the centre of Edinburgh.
URL: http://www.traverse.co.uk/
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