Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 61, October 1999 (Section D)

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New Lists

SEWER-LIST

The free Internet mailing list for sanitary and storm sewers is the SEWER-LIST. We also discuss WWTP's, detention basins, modeling software and related topics.

To join us, send an email to
listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu

In the Body of the email put the text
sub sewer-list YourFirstName YourLastName

CatchWord Announce

CatchWord Announce is the new broadcast list keeping you up to date with all the latest news from CatchWord, the online journals provider. Stay on top of our ever-growing list of electronic journals, find out about new services and hear about new publisher signings as they happen. The list is open to everyone. It is not a discussion list so traffic will be light. Postings will be brief and informative - an ideal way to stay in touch with what's happening at CatchWord without filling your inbox.

To subscribe send a blank email to announce-request@catchword.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject field.

UK_HC Mailing List

http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/hc/staff/uk_hc.htm

This is a new (September 1999) mailing list intended to foster multidisciplinary communication between UK health professionals. Membership is open to all health professionals working in the UK, and to those working in other countries with an interest in practice in the UK. Membership is only granted to health professionals.

wsscmanp

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

A list for discussion of best practices for community management of water supply and sanitation facilities in developing countries. Intended for HE academics and researchers, with input from practitioners, civil society organizations and sector professionals.

chaplaincy-spirituality-health

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/chaplaincy-spirituality-health/

A network for chaplains, educationalists and researchers to share information on education, training and research requirements and provision

am-political-marketing

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/am-political-marketing/

A Forum for all those engaged in political marketing research to share and communicate ideas, information, conference and event details. Political marketing as a topic includes lobbying, elections, referenda and campaign communicatio

economicdynamics

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

The goal of this list is to promote economic dynamics, especially dynamic general equilibrium modeling. It will feature a regular newsletter and conference announcements.

wdmc

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

A list for discussion of issues relating to water demand management and conservation policies and instruments, as well as plans to implement demand management and conservation strategies in developing countries. Intended for HE academics and others to enhance information exchange on the subject.

linguanet-forum

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/linguanet-forum/

The Lingu@NET forum is an e-mail discussion group for all those involved in language teaching and research. The aim of the forum is to enable discussion and information exchange on the subject of the teaching of modern foreign languages, primarily in schools and sixth forms in the UK.

lcnet

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

LCNET is a closed e-mail discussion group for all teachers in Language Colleges. We exchange information about teaching and learning languages, including ICT, international and cross-curricular aspect

dner-tech

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dner-tech/

List to discuss technical issues relating to the establishment of the Distributed National Electronic Resource. These issues should particularly relate to inter-operability matters. Other topics may be introduced later.

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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.

Time for a bit of blatant promotion. Normally, when choosing the Nice Web Site(s) of the month I select particularly useful and well-designed resources, and then briefly review them. This month's Nice Web Site was not chosen for the usual reasons, but rather because:

a) It features a free competition with some great prizes, and is aimed at academics.

b) Its a site with which I'm personally involved, and I hope that many of you will visit it.

EEVL Challenge

http://www.eevl.ac.uk/challenge/

The EEVL Challenge is a free competition which is open to all professional engineers, engineering students, academics and researchers in the UK. There are some excellent prizes on offer, including two top of the range 3Com Palm Pilots, a Cassiopeia E100 Colour Palm, £500 worth of Newnes Books, your own Web site professionally designed (worth £350), EEVL sweatshirts, and 100s of EEVL posters. It should only take about 5 or 10 minutes to complete the competition questions. As well as offering great prizes, the EEVL Challenge is designed to help entrants identify some of the best engineering resources available on the Internet. That can't be bad!

Several sponsors are helping the EEVL Challenge by contributing the prizes and distributing promotional material, thus reducing EEVL's overheads and making the whole exercise possible. The aims of the Challenge are to attract new users to the EEVL site, let them know about the various services on offer for those looking for engineering information on the Internet, and forge closer ties with the commercial and professional sponsors.

Good luck with the competition! If you would like some Challenge fliers to distribute, please email me: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk

Roddy MacLeod

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The Internet in Print

Webspace

Publisher: Forme Digital Media Ltd, Carlton Plaza, 111 Upper Richmond Rd, Putney, London SW15 2TJ
Frequency: Monthly
Subscription: £40

The subtitle of this colourful, relatively new title is "The magazine for the Internet entrepreneur". Throughout its pages there are plenty references to ecommerce, 'e-tailing' (a new word, as far as I am aware), and online transactions, but this is more than just another magazine which focuses on business aspects of the Internet.

As well as the usual news clips to be found in several similar publications, Webspace includes articles which I find very thought provoking. For example, having recently noticed the appearance of Midlothian On-line, a site which provides information to the local community, and also GetLocal.co.uk, I was interested in a brief item in the September issue of Webspace which emphasised the potential of the Web to deliver commercial information at a local level. The author of the article, Graeme Aymer, looked at possibilities of local selling based around estate agents sites. Another article in the September issue looked at how the Deckchair site has prospered after a shaky start, and how it attempts to gather together information from all the airlines to provide more coordinated access to travel information. The third article which interested me was the first in a two-part analysis of portals entitled 'Portal Combat'. A portal "is the place where users start - the first screen that they receive when they fire up their browser. This is usually based around a search engine - for example Yahoo! or Excite - and from there they go on to discover new sites and revisit old favourites, backed up with content from newspapers and other online information sources". Niche portals probably have a bright future on the Internet, and so I read with interest Neil Bennett's case study of what makes a good portal, how much effort is needed for a portal to succeed, and how quality of content is of great importance. I look forward to reading part two which will look at how to set up one's own portal.

Webspace is a very well-balanced magazine - not too technical, not too orientated to big, or small, business, and not overly focused on the purely eceonomic aspects of the Internet. As well as the interesting articles mentioned above, the September issue also featured other items about hiring new media staff, cyber-crime, the Ipswich Town FC's Web site, and the methodology of creating an ecommerce site, plus an article by Stuart Dredge on how Web designers should keep in mind the needs of the partially sighted when creating a new resource. Other sections covered new products (Web application servers, image preparation tools, secirity tools, and even software which helps you plan your online marketing campaigns). A brief directory and a glossary completed the issue.

Webspace is a good quality magazine, and one which I hope succeeds in a busy marketplace.

EContent

Publisher: Online Inc. · 213 Danbury Road · Wilton, CT 06897-4007 ·USA
Frequency: Bimonthly
Subscription: Foreign Airmail Introductory Offer, 6 issues at $90.00/year
Email: info@onlineinc.com
Web: http://www.ecmag.net/

"EContent (formerly DATABASE) magazine is written for the "hands on" searcher, managers of information facilities and others who use information technology. It provides practical, how-to advice on effective use of databases and systems, plus innovative tips and techniques, reviews, and product comparison. It covers databases in online, CD-ROM, disk, and tape formats, and resources on the Internet."

Cutting Tool Engineering

Publisher: CTE Publications Inc., 400 Skokie Blvd., Ste, 395, Northbrook, IL 60062-7903, USA
Frequency: 9 issues per year
Subscription: $30
ISSN: 0011-4189

This US trade publication has just started to feature an 'Advertorial' Web Page Preview section where the magazine's advertisers' Web sites are gathered together with added descriptions. Fifty-four sites were featured in the June issue.

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.

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/

More than 40 new engineering e-journals have been added to Engineering E-journal Search Engine: EESE !

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

See above under NISS News for details of changes to CHEST.

MIMAS News

MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, at the University of Manchester, to provide the following range of services to the academic community:

Flexible on-line access to strategic research and teaching datasets.
Access to key bibliographic information.
Access to specialist support and training.
Access to software packages and large-scale computing resources.

The latest news from MIMAS can be found at:

http://www.mimas.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://www.omni.ac.uk/newrecords/

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/news/

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

What's New on Biz/ed

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

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/

What's new on the TASI web site

TASI is a service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) set up to advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/new.html

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Recent Internet Books in Heriot-Watt University Library

Recent arrivals:

371.33 FRE
Internet based learning: an introduction and framework for higher education and business
edited by Deanie French, Charles Hale, Charles Johnson and Gerald Farr
Kogan Page, 1999

658.84 ELL
Marketing on the Internet 
by Jill H Ellsworth and Matthew V Ellsworth
Wiley, 1997

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

Rugby365

http://www.rugby365.com/

Rugby news, live coverage, etc.

GigSearch

http://www.GigSearch.co.uk/

Musicians, vocalists and crew members log details of their tastes in music, skills and their availability, and these details are matched against other GigSearch members with similar profiles. Members will then contact each other, and stardom is but a step away. Free site.

Eventselector

http://www.eventselector.co.uk/

An excellent what's on guide.

Event UK

http://www.eventuk.com/

Event UK is a Concert & Theatre ticket agency based in England with access to London shows & concerts.

Afterdark UK

http://www.leeds.ukshells.co.uk/afterdark/

UK club and pub review guide.

Living Planet

http://www.worldwildlife.org/lpb/

World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) new "Living Planet: Preserving Edens of the Earth" book.

INSTANT (e-journal)

http://www.caffeinescene.com/

Online edition of INSTANT, an Edinburgh-based 'cafe culture' publication which currently appears bi-monthly.

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STOP PRESS! Several new ASCE e-journals now available:

ASCE Journal Launchpad

Twenty-two of the twenty-seven American Society of Civil Engineers journals are now available online from the ASCE Journal Launchpad. These journals can be freely accessed by both subscribers and nonsubscribers until December 31, 1999. After that date, the service should remain available to member sof Heriot-Watt University. Newly available titles include:

Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management
Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction

STOP PRESS! CSA Datasets now available to members of Heriot-Watt University:

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet Database Service

Members of Heriot-Watt University now have access to the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet Database Service. This collection allows researchers to do in-depth literature searches across a wide range of topics, including biological sciences, aquatic sciences, engineering and technology, environmental sciences, materials science, and computer science. Coverage of some databases goes back to 1963, and some are also linked to databases of Internet resources. The entire collection consists of nearly 14 million records, with over 1 million new records being added each year. Athens usernames and passwords are needed to access these databases. More details are available from the links below.

CSA: Agricultural Science Databases

CSA: Aquatic Science Databases

CSA: Biological and Medical Science Databases

CSA: Computer Technology Databases

CSA: Engineering Specialities Databases

CSA: Environmental Science Databases

CSA: Marketing Research Databases

CSA: Materials Science Databases

CSA: Social Science Databases

End of Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 61 - October 1999

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