Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 53, February 1999 (Section D)

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New Lists

LII New This Week Mailing List (Librarian' Index to the Internet)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/mailinglist.html

A current awareness service for keeping track of great new Web sites. You get a list of the best ten to twenty Web sites added to the LII each week. LII New This Week is distributed each Monday to a mailing list that receives only this publication.

TO SUBSCRIBE: Send the message
subscribe liiweek yourFirstname yourLastname
to listproc@sunsite.berkeley.edu

Mantex Newsletter

http://www.mantex.co.uk

From Clifton Press comes a free email newsletter which gives details of new developments in computer-based learning programs, writing software, web design, language issues, book reviews, plus regular features on free software programs, newsletters, mailing lists, and web sites of interest to writers, teachers, and students.

sln

A listserve for UK school librarians - sln (school librarian's network). Membership is open to all intersted parties.

To subscribe, send the message
subscribe sln firstname lastname
to sln@egroups.com

ukvrforum

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/ukvrforum/

DTI funded list for academics, researchers, vendors & users interested in Virtual Reality. The list will cover a range of activities forming part of the DTI's VR Awareness Programme, including focus on the creation of case study material covering a range of successful VR applications.

cti-comp-www

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/cti-comp-www/

This list will enable further discussion to take place among delegates who attended a workshop on the Effective Use of the WWW in the teaching of Computing in November 1998, which focused on the effective use of the WWW in the teaching of computing.

chest-linux

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/chest-linux/

This list has been set up to inform UK Academic Institutions of CHEST Agreements and offers which support the Linux operating system. Other related information may also be posted if it is considered of interest to UK HE/FE sites.

simple-interfacing

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/simple-interfacing/

Originally for the discussion and sharing of ideas for experiments to teach interfacing in CAC (Computer Aided Chemistry) but applies to any 'simple' interfacing (from robots to laboratory equipment, or capturing the output from an analyser). This list will contain a lot of technical information.

ed-dev-resnet

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/ed-dev-resnet/

This list serves the Educational Development Research Network set up by SEDA and SRHE. We welcome contributions from Higher Education teachers, developers, researchers and policy makers who are interested in the practice, research and policy of staff and educational development.

advisory-group-on-research

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/advisory-group-on-research/

Group of academics advising Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research on research issues.

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In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, I sometimes come across Web sites which I feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month I 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 I 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.

Internet Learning Materials for MBA Students

http://www.bized.ac.uk/fme/

Catherine Sladen edited these learning materials, which were funded by the Foundation for Management Education, and are available in print as a clearly set-out book, and also at this Web site.

In the Preface, the funders state that "We believe that the rapid growth of the Internet, and of the materials available online, offers the opportunity to make higher education more widely available and to enhance the learning experience of us all. We have therefore funded the production and distribution of this set of materials by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at Bristol University. It is specifically aimed at MBA students and their teachers, but undoubtedly could and we hope will have wider application."

This is a guide to high quality Internet materials and sites that can be used by both students and staff to support MBA studies and contains sections written by experts in their respective academic fields. Each author has written an introduction to his section which highlights why he uses the Internet and sets the scene for the sections to come. The materials are grouped under six main subject headings/chapters, each of which forms a component of most MBA programmes. The sections are Accounting and Finance, Business Economics, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Operations Management, and Strategy.

Every Business School in the UK has been sent one copy of a printed double-sided, 'reference' version, and one copy of a single-sided, "photo-copyable" version of this booklet. Everything contained in the printed version is available at this site, along with links to the resources described.

Altogether a nice Web site.

Roddy MacLeod

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The Internet in Print

Futur@ Business: The magazine for small & homebased business

Publisher: Futur@ Business Publishing, 27 Collingwood Rd., Redland, Bristol, BS6 6PD
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: £24 (cover price £2.45)
Email: fb@lineone.net

This new magazine aims to inform the small business community, especially those who work from home, and should be of interest to the growing number of teleworkers and homeworkers, as well as the self employed. As such, it is not an Internet magazine per se, but as the @ in the title indicates, it is especially concerned with information technology, and nowadays that means it will include a fair proportion of Internet-related topics.

Futur@ Business is a colourful magazine. In fact, it is so colourful that some of the text, which is printed on multi-coloured backgrounds, is a little difficult to read. The layout is creative, featuring different column widths and graphics in unusual positions. Most homebased businesspeople need to be pretty canny with their money, and the reviews of gadgets and toys contained in the magazine's Innovator section could therefore be a lot more critical. The sections of Futur@ Business which contain material about the Internet are well written and avoid unnecessary jargon. The November issue included a clear introduction to the Web written by two directors of Citi pages UK. Hopefully, future issues will contain similar articles.

Physics Today

Publisher: American Institute of Physics, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: $69 (non-member individuals)
ISSN: 0031-9228
Email: ptwww@aip.org
Web: http://www.aip.org/pt/

For some time now, each issue of Physics Today has carried a Web Watch section.

Information World Review

Publisher: Learned Information Europe Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5BE
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: £33
Email: iwr@learned.co.uk
Web: http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwr/

This is a new address from the one given in issue 37 of Internet Resources Newsletter. Use this site to access material from the latest issue. You can also register for full online access to all issues since September 1996, which will be available soon. The Internet Developments page, written by Virginia Morrow is available online.

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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Network News

BIDS News Bulletins

http://www.bids.ac.uk/Tfedocs/news.html

BIDS is a UK provider of networked information services for higher education and research.

Scandinavian University Press joins ingentaJournals

Journals from Scandinavian University Press are now available online via the ingentaJournals service. UK Higher Education users can access this service at www.bids.ac.uk; other users can access at www.ingenta.com. Scandinavian University Press is Scandinavia's leading publisher of scholarly and scientific journals and books. More than 20 biomedical journals are available initially, including:
Acta Paediatrica
Blood Pressure
European Journal of Surgery
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

ATHENS and the change of usernames. Please note that old, original BIDS style usernames of the form: Ixxxyyy (where xxx denotes your site, eg, IHWCHE) are no longer be accepted by the ATHENS authentication system. They must be replaced with the new ATHENS style usernames (which can be from 6 to 20 characters). If you are still using an old style username, you should look out for announcements from your local support service to tell you what your new usernames will be and how to collect them. Members of Heriot-Watt University can find details at our Athens Authentication Service pages.

NISS News

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:

http://www.niss.ac.uk/welcome/whatsnew.html

BUBL News

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:

http://bubl.ac.uk/news/

EEVL News

The latest Additions and Updates to EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library), The Gateway to UK Engineering Information on the Internet, are available at:

http://www.eevl.ac.uk:4321/whatsnew/

SOSIG News

The latest additions to SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) are available at:

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html

EDINA Newsline

The latest issue of Edina (Edinburgh Data & INformation Access) Newsline can be found at:

http://edina.ed.ac.uk/newsline/

CHEST News

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:

http://www.chest.ac.uk/news.html

MIDAS News

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:

http://midas.ac.uk/news.html

New on RUDI

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:

http://rudi.herts.ac.uk/new.html

OMNI News

UK's independent gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources. The latest sites added to OMNI can be found at:

http://roads.nott.ac.uk/whatsnew/whats-new-uk.html
And:
http://roads.nott.ac.uk/whatsnew/whats-new-world.html

What's new on Eldis

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:

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm

Netskills News

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:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/publicity/updates/

What's New on Biz/ed

Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.

Biz/ed was recently reorganised site to make it easier to find information.

http://www.bized.ac.uk/homeinfo/whatsnew.htm

AHDS Newsletter

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.

http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newslind.html

Mailbase News

Mailbase provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community.

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/news/

Data Archive news

The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally.

http://dawww.essex.ac.uk/news/

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Recent Internet Books in Heriot-Watt University Library

001.6441 WIL
Wilde's WWW: Technical foundations of the World Wide Web 
by Erik Wilde, Springer, 1999

A complete list of new books added to Heriot-Watt University Library is available from the Library News page.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/news/news.html

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Get a life ! Leisure Time

City Art Centre

http://www.cac.org.uk/

Scotland's leading emporium of the visual arts.

Glasgow's Web Camera

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/html/about/wcindex.htm

View George Square from Glasgow City Chambers in real time.

John Muir Trust

http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/jmt/ http://www.thefield.co.uk

Wild places for nature and people.

The Field Magazine

http://www.thefield.co.uk

The world's oldest country magazine.

Fire Island Club

http://www.fireisland.org.uk

Albannach Guided Walking and Wildlife Holidays

http://www.scotland-info.co.uk/albannach.htm

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STOP PRESS! RICS Library Direct; Research Index; and Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, now available to members of Heriot-Watt University

The following networked services are now available to members of Heriot-Watt University:

RICS Library Direct provides Internet access to the RICS Library catalogue. It indexes over 65,000 items held in the Library, including books, RICS publications and guidance notes, articles, law cases, video and audio tapes, property market reports, and statutory publications.

Research Index is a database that indexes the news, views and comments on industries and companies worldwide, as reported in the UK national press and a range of quality business magazines. Every significant daily and Sunday newspaper, business magazine and periodical is indexed.

The Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers are now available via ingentaJournals. This includes:
J of Power & Energy (Part A)
J of Engineering Manufacture (B)
J of Mechanical Engineering Science (C)
J of Automobile Engineering (D)
J of Process Mechanical Engineering (E)
J of Rail and Rapid Transit (F)
J of Aerospace Engineering (G)
J of Engineering in Medicine (H)
J of Systems & Control Engineering (I)
J of Engineering Tribology (J)

End of Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 53 - February 1999

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