Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 66, March 2000 (Section B)

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NEW WEB SITES: A - H

About.com

http://www.about.com/

Network of sites lead by expert guides. Includes useful portal-like subjects under Education.

Access Excellence

http://www.accessexcellence.org/

Not new, but not mentioned before. Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.

AEC Software Library

http://software.forAEC.com/

"This site features a comprehensive searchable library of software and on-line calculators for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)."

Agency Central (recruitment)

http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/

A recruitment agency directory with links to millions of live vacancies world wide. Visitors can also add their CV on-line for agencies to view at their leisure.

Agribiz

http://www.agribiz.com/

A free information resource for the global agricultural community.

All About Value-at-Risk

http://www.gloriamundi.org/

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a tool for measuring financial risk used by major bank and non-bank financial institutions and many non-financial firms. This is the main page for a collection of resources about Value at Risk.

Aslib Social Science Information Group and Network

http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/other_sites/aliss/

Updated Web site which reflects recent changes in organisation.

Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry: AIOPI

http://www.aiopi.org.uk/

The association was formed in 1974 and now represents over 500 members who work in a variety of pharmaceutical information management roles, such as medical information, scientific research information, pharmacovigilance and business information.

Australia's Science Future

http://www.science.org.au/future/

This symposium is presented as part of National Science Week and the Australian Science Festival.

Wednesday and Thursday, 3-4 May 2000, Becker House (the Dome), Gordon Street, Canberra.

Bdinews (e-journal)

http://www.bdinews.co.uk

bdinews is a news and information service for the Beverage and Drinks Industries, aimed at those involved in the commercial, technical, production and marketing sectors of the Trade.

At the heart of the site is the bdi journal, which has been reporting on trade, technical and marketing developments in the brewing and allied industries for over 130 years. This leading English-language monthly trade magazine is distributed to over 100 countries. Readership includes senior management in brewing, distilling, cidermaking, soft drinks and wine.

Best of the Bots: News Bots

http://www.botspot.com/dailybot/newsbot.html

A review of News Bots. News Bots search the websites of newspapers, magazines, and e-zines to find articles that are of specific interest to you.

Beyond DiscoveryTM

http://www4.nas.edu/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf

"Beyond DiscoveryTM: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a project of the National Academy of Sciences. It is a series of case studies that identify and trace origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each case study reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."

Bookmark-it, The environmental bookshop

http://www.bookmark-it.co.uk/

An online discount environmental bookstore, with discounts from around 35-40 of the main academic publishers.

books24x7

http://books24x7.com/

You can get a free, 7-day trial here to read the full text of computer books from the major publishers (MIT Press, O'Reilly, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley, etc).

BugTracker, and e-watchers

http://www.bugtracker.com/opensource/

A free bugtracking tool (for opensource/freesoftware projects). Also, from the same people, is a new web monitoring offer, e-watchers service. For £240 per year, e-watchers will look at your site every three minutes. If your site is down, the service will call a mobile or telephone number that you nominate.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/esl/dictionary/

From CUP. You may choose from the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.

Cnet Download.com

http://download.cnet.com/

Downloads for PC, Mac, Linux, Windows CE, PalmPilot, etc.

Computer Magazine Cover CD

http://www.covercd.co.uk/

"Find out all about the top UK computer magazine cover discs. What free software is on offer? What restrictions apply? Is it worth installing?"

Construction-Directory.com

http://www.construction-directory.com/

"...the Internet one stop for buyers and surveyors across the U.K"

ContractorGuide

http://www.ContractorGuide.com/

US service. "ContractorGuide is a free service to help you find contractors, suppliers and manufacturers on the Internet. Our database contains more than 960,000 listings nationwide so that our easy-to-use search engine can quickly retrieve the information you need."

Cooperative Research Centres: CRC

http://www.isr.gov.au/crc/index.html

Australian site.

Core77 Design Magazine (e-journal)

http://www.core77.com/

An industrial design magazine.

CUMICAD

http://itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/cumincad/

"CUMICAD stores a cumulative index of the papers published at conferences organised by ACADIA, CAADRIA, ECAADE, CAAD Futures and others. This is work in progress but with over 1700 entries (Jan, 1999) it is becoming a useful resource."

Datalake

http://www.datalake.com/

Not mentioned since issue 7 of this newsletter, Datalake has developed considerably.

" Datalake allows you to search for universities and colleges worldwide via its Learning stream. Increasingly, this is possible by subject, department, faculty and course. Useful to students and widely used by them, Datalake is also a resource for locating wider research expertise for a variety of applications." There are lots of interesting features at this site.

db-Qual

http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/ciqm/db_qual/dbQ_Top.htm

The January 2000 issue of db-Qual is now available.

Department for Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment: DHFETE

http://www.deni.gov.uk/_DHFETE/index.htm

DENI is now the Department for Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment (DHFETE). This is a temporary Web site.

Didakt

http://www.erasmus.org.uk/

Timetabling software.

Digital Asset Management III

http://www.annenberg.edu/DAM/

The Annenberg Center for Communication's third annual Digital Asset Management Conference: The Art and Commerce of Digital Media, will be held in London, England, March 5 -7, 2000

Digitised European Periodicals: DIEPER

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/dieper/

"Partners from ten European countries have joined to build a virtual network and a central access point to make accessible periodicals that have been retrospectively digitised in Europe or anywhere else in the world. "

direct search

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm

"direct search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and Infoseek. While general search tools are essential for retrieval of Internet materials many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not easily searchable via these tools."

Eco-design Training for Manufacturing, Use and "end of life" for SMEs: ETMUEL

http://www.cfsd.org.uk/nepd/etmuel/checklist.htm

"The Centre for Sustainable Design (www.cfsd.org.uk) has received funding via the Adapt programme of the European Social Fund (ESF) to develop a two year training programme focusing on the implementation of environmental considerations in product development and design (eco-design) in the electronics sector."

eFunda

http://www.efunda.com/

eFunda stands for engineering fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online engineering community to provide one stop shopping for engineering professionals who need a variety of information to solve complex design problems in a timely fashion.

Environment Business JobLink

http://www.joblink.co.uk/

"The lead service for anyone considering a job change. Updated twice weekly from over 30 publications, and from the specialist recruitment agencies, Joblink provides a comprehensive listing of all relevant vacancies."

EnVironmental Education Online: EVEN

http://eastlib.east.asu.edu/Reference/even/

"EVEN was created to help faculty and students understand the environmental literature, appreciate the scholarly communication of original research, become comfortable with how libraries organize information related to the environment, and to serve as a springboard for finding international environmental information quickly and efficiently."

ETDEWEB

http://www.etde.org/ETDEWEB/

ETDEWEB includes information on the environmental impact of energy production and use, including climate change; energy R&D; energy policy; nuclear, coal, hydrocarbon and renewable energy technologies and much, much more.

"Explore the growing collection (early 1995 forward) of over 600,000 bibliographic records with more than 3.5 million downloadable full text pages now available at your fingertips." Requires registration.

European Information Network in Scotland

http://www.europe.org.uk/info/scotland/

"These webpages are designed to help you find out who to contact if you have a question concerning what is happening in Scotland in relation to Europe, and to suggest other useful links. Whether your interest is in: education, business, R&D, rural affairs, jobs, general European policy and programmes or public information - these pages are a gateway to finding out more."

Federal Information Sources

http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/gov5.html

A good set of links to US Federal resources.

Fourth International Conference on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/school4m/news/mpsva.html

5-7 September 2000

University of Nottingham, UK. Final Call for Papers.

Gauge & Tool Makers Association: GTMA

http://www.gtma.co.uk/

Geotechnical Engineering State of the Art Web Resources

http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/smadi

A Geotechnical Engineering directory on the web.

German Resources Project: Digital Libraries Working Group

http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/german/digilibrary.html

"The Digital Libraries Working Group encourages and fosters the digitization of important research-oriented materials to be made broadly available to the world via the Internet. Among this group's tasks are to assist in the funding and completion of such digital collections, while agreeing on standards for interoperability, metadata, and identifying useful items/collections."

GLAS @ccess!

http://www.aslib.co.uk/info/catalogue.html

The catalogue of the Aslib Information Resource Centre. From here you can search the library's collection of books, thesauri and classification schemes. You can also find details of interesting articles relating to information management, knowledge management, information science, librarianship and more.

Graham & Whiteside

http://www.graham-whiteside.com/

Graham & Whiteside, part of the Gale Group, is a leading international publisher of global company and professional information.

Guide to the Aquatic Science Literature

http://libraries.maine.edu/orosec/guides/aquatic.htm

This guide to aquatic science resources is focused on selected information sources found in Fogler Library, University of Maine, and those resources found on the Internet.

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