Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 61, October 1999 (Section B)
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NEW WEB SITES: A - H
http://www.1stheadlines.com/
Excellent compilation of news items, with links to the original source. Mostly from the USA, but some from other countries.
3rd International Conference for Chemical Information Users
http://chemweb.com/conference/manchester.html
The third conference in this successful series will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre on 16-17 November 1999. The Conference is being sponsored jointly by the CSA and the RSC Chemical Information Group.
http://www.abraxas.co.uk/
"We offer a range of services unparalleled - from the management of IT graduate recruitment for major companies - to the supply of top ranking IT experts to many of the world's highest performing organisations."
http://www.aqinc.com/
Absolute Quality Inc. is the world's largest provider of testing and technical support for entertainment and edutainment software. AQ has a testing and support facility in Glasgow.
Academy of Construction Adjudicators: ACA
http://www.aca-online.co.uk/
"The mandatory requirement for adjudication as a dispute resolution procedure available to parties to a construction contract imposed by the new Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 will create a demand for properly trained adjudicators having a diversity of trade, technical, professional and legal backgrounds in the construction industry.
The Academy of Construction Adjudicators was formed with the objective of meeting this demand by providing the parties to a dispute with a first class adjudication service whenever they require it. Fully trained adjudicators, from various backgrounds and with a wide choice of expertise will be included on the Academy's Register of Adjudicators to cover England, Wales and Scotland, and Northern Ireland."
http://www.aeroseek.com/
Aviation search engine and directory.
http://www.afd.co.uk/
"AFD Postcode(r) products use data from the Electoral Roll, Business Databases, the Royal Mail and United States Postal Service to deliver accurate, up-to-date British and USA Addresses on your PC, Unix system, TCP/IP Network or the Internet."
Anders Glaser Wills (recruitment)
http://www.andersglaserwills.com/
A leading Human Resource Consultancy for the construction, property and engineering industries.
Archeire - Irish Architecture Online
http://www.archeire.com/
Archéire [derived from architecture - eireann] is a collection of web sites focused on architecture in Ireland. It is intended to heighten awareness, and to foster debate both within Ireland and internationally. It is a diverse, growing collection of sites, with emphasis ranging from history and preservation to current architectural developments and issues.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/
"Ariadne magazine is aimed at both librarians and information science professionals in academic libraries, and also to interested lay people in the UK Higher Education community. Its principal geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide."
Several interesting articles in this issue.
Association of American Publishers: AAP
http://www.publishers.org/home/
"The Association of American Publishers (AAP), with some 200 members located throughout the United States, is the principal trade association of the book publishing industry. "
http://www.nzedsoft.com/
AudioGraph, mentioned in issue 50 of this Newsletter, has now been released as a fully supported product. The following is taken from a press release.
NZEdSoft (New Zealand Educational Software) is pleased to announce the launch of its AudioGraph tools, a suite of multimedia educational software. These tools have the potential to make multimedia authoring as simple as writing a word processor document and will make the world-wide web and multimedia accessible to any teacher or lecturer who has acquired a basic computer literacy.
Imagine being able to record the material you would normally present to your class and then automatically create web pages that students can view and hear using a standard web browser. An experienced user can prepare a multi-media web lecture with the use of the AudioGraph in not much more time than it would take to deliver the material to a class. Once recorded, however, it can be put on CD ROM or on a web server and can be viewed at any time and at any place by your students. personal, non-commercial use.
NZEdSoft is a fully commercial unit associated with Massey University and has been established to support, promote and sell the AudioGraph Tools.
http://users.newscientist.net/bar.schedule/
Bar Schedule for Excel 97 is a spreadsheet for the scheduling of steel for the reinforcement of concrete. The spreadsheet has been developed to comply with BS 4466 : 1989 and Amendment No. 1 published 28 February 1990.
The aim of the spreadsheet is to reduce the time taken to produce a bar schedule, eliminate arithmetical errors, reduce scheduling errors and increase compliance with the BSI specified format for bar scheduling.
http://www.bookxchange.co.uk/
bookXchange is a service which is intended to be used by students at the universities of Leeds. This doesn't mean that non students can't use it. It is open to all.
Bright Recruitment (recruitment)
http://www.brightrecruitment.co.uk/
Bright Recruitment are a recruitment company that handle positions across the board; permanent positions, contract emloyment and temporary vacancies in the major sectors including I.T.,Technical & Engineering, Human resources, Marketing, General Management and Secretarial & Administration.
British Educational Communications and Technologu Agency: BECTA
http://www.becta.org.uk/
Not new, but not mentioned before, Becta's remit is to ensure that technology supports the DfEE's drive to raise educational standards, and in particular to provide the professional expertise the DfEE requires to support the future development of the National Grid for Learning.
http://www.britishlibrary.net/
British Library Net is believed to be the first Internet access service provided by a public sector body in the UK. Services include:
Local call access from anywhere in the UK
24hr, 7 days a week technical support by telephone
ISDN and V90 56k PSTN access
Free CD-ROM with Internet software suite including Web Browser and fully functional Email client
Free Web space for non commercial use
In addition, British Library Net will be devoted to the information needs of the serious Internet user, with:
Direct access to OPAC 97
Direct links to all British Library Web services
Downloadable images from the Library's Picture Library
Developed in conjunction with Easynet.
http://www.building.co.uk/
"Building is the construction industry's oldest and best read magazine."
Cambridge International Science Publishers: Catalogue of Publications 1999-2000
http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsci/ctlg.pdf
Catalogue of publications, in PDF format.
Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
http://www.cmpa.ca/
Includes a Webstand of Canadian Magazines.
http://www.rasnet.co.uk/
Capita RAS provides recruitment, consultancy and related services to government departments, executive agencies and other public sector bodies.
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
"...CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists! From this page, you can browse any of the 27,571 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites. This information is generated automatically from LISTSERV's LISTS database and is always up to date."
http://www.centrepointgroup.co.uk/
Centre Point specialises in providing temporary and permanent solutions to the banking and finance industry.
CIRCE: Community Information Research resourCE)
http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/circe/
The final report of CIRCE is available.
http://cit2000.rabygg.is/
International Conference, June 28 - 30, 2000 Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://www.civictrust.org.uk/
"The Civic Trust is Britain's leading charity devoted to enhancing the quality of life in Britain's cities, towns and villages: the places where people live, work, shop and relax."
Collaboration and Networking in European Science and Technology
http://www.spsg.org/eurocon/
A User Workshop of the ESRC European Context of UK Science Policy Programme Monday June 28 1999 Science Policy Support Group 1 Birdcage Walk London.
http://www.communityweb.org
New website to make the Internet work for the voluntary sector "Community Web is the new UK Internet gateway to community information. With a mission to facilitate social inclusion in an information society, the website has already become the first-choice portal on the World Wide Web for the voluntary sector."
Computer Museum History Center
http://www.computerhistory.org/
Archives and exhibits, hardware, software, audio clips, films, documentation, etc.
http://www.coyles.co.uk/
Contract and permanent staff, especially in construction.
Darlington College of Technology
http://www.darlington.ac.uk/
Edinburgh University Library Catalogue
http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/
It is also possible to telnet to catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk - log in as user "library". There is no password required. The eulib.ed.ac.uk telnet service has now been closed.
http://www.edsitement.neh.gov/
"Brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages."
http://educate.zzn.com/email/login/login.asp
A free email service.
http://www.EHSfreeware.com/
A free virtual library where today you will find on-line databases of information, downloadable software, and lots of other interesting resources related to the environment, health & safety.
http://www.sciencebase.com/
Mentioned in issue 41 of this Newsletter, this site now has its own domain name. Now includes features from industry experts and monthly news.
Environmental Media Services: EMS
http://www.ems.org/
"EMS is a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues. We build relationships with top scientists, physicians, and other experts to bring journalists the latest and most credible information. EMS was founded in 1994 by former Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated journalist Arlie Schardt. Schardt also headed the Environmental Defense Fund in the 1970s. EMS is a nonprofit funded by foundations and individuals working to improve public understanding of environmental and public health issues."
Extended Frankfurt Rights Information System: EFRI
http://frankfurt-virtual.pira.co.uk/
"The Extended Frankfurt Rights Information System (EFRIS) project proposes to build upon the powerful market branding of the Frankfurt Book Fair and extend its usefulness for both vendors and purchasers. EFRIS will provide an online service that caters for a wide user base of rights owners and users. The Rights Catalogue will enable rights owners to keep their rights information up to date and make this information available to other users in a timely manner. In addition, an on-demand CD-ROM service will be established to provide specified sub-sets of rights data, for example, all entries with Spanish rights available, electronic rights etc."
http://fossick.com/
Fossick.com - the WebSearch Alliance Directory, is a selective collection of over 1,500 specialist search engines and topical guides. Excellent, well-designed site.
Further Education Development Agency: FEDA
http://www.feda.ac.uk/
Not mentioned before, the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) is an independent organisation, established in April 1995 to provide services to further education which promote quality, lead curriculum design and development, and enhance effective governance and management.
FEDA provides a comprehensive training and conference programme for college personnel as well as managing a wide range of research and development projects and activities, working closely with the FE sector and other key education and training organisations.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/
All about palmtops, etc.
http://www.geocomm.com/
GIS, Mapping, and related industry news, Web resources, and search engine.
http://www.hants.org.uk/
Hampshire County Council's web. Award winning Web site, with an amazing 700,000+ pages!
HAWK: knowledge based open publication model for intelligent media services
http://www.hyperstudio.ch/hawk/
"The Hawk project will pilot an open model for knowledge publishing that enables publishers to exploit the information they hold to produce intelligent custom-tailored multimedia publications for the internet and other media."
Herefordshire Group Training Association
http://www.hgta.org/main.html
Delivers a comprehensive training advisory service and has its own training provision for Management Development, Engineering/Technology, Business Administration and Safety/Legislative.
http://www.highbury.ac.uk/mainindex.html
Vocational courses.
HRDC Interactive Training Inventory
http://209.47.1.53:9010/iti/owa/users.opening_screen
A Canadian database listing education and training information.
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