Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 66, March 2000 (Section C)
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Implementation Newsletter (e-journal)
http://www.la-hq.org.uk/hot_news/in01.html
This will interest those in the Library Association, and the Institute of Information Scientists. "Both the IIS and the LA have now voted in principle to create a single unified organization."
http://www.ifi.co.uk/
A very interesting environmental information service.
http://www.informationmatrix.com/
"The goal is to provide a single location on the Internet for prospective and current users of IT products and services to research, find, and compare ALL choices available to them in today's vast IT market. It is impossible for even the most well informed of IT consumers to know all of the possible choices that might be available in the market to help them."
INO: National Optics Institute
http://www.ino.qc.ca
Not mentioned before, INO is Canada's largest optics and photonics R&D centre and one of the most important in North America.
International journal of Computer-Integrated Design and Construction
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/cidac/
International journal of Computer-Integrated Design and Construction is a new peer-reviewed journal which is published quarterly in both print and electronic (on-line) formats by SETO, London, UK.
International Journal of Construction Information Technology
http://www.salford.ac.uk/survey/ijcit/
"The Journal aims to provide researchers in academic institutions, as well as professionals in private practice and commercial organisations, with high quality technical papers on current developments in the rapidly changing environment of Information Technology in the Construction Industry on a Worldwide basis."
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (e-journal)
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/
Number 25 Winter 2000, is now available.
Janet User Group for Libraries: JUGL
http://bubl.ac.uk/org/JUGL/
JUGL Supports Library and Information Professionals in the Use and Development of Electronic Networking for Information Provision. The February Update newsletter is now available from this site.
http://www.jfgrecruitment.co.uk/
Especially automotive and manufacturing sectors throughout the U.K.
http://www.jobpilot.co.uk/
"Jobs & Adverts is Europe's largest commercial Internet job advertising site. with over 43068 jobs worldwide."
Keeping your research up to date - Current Awareness Services
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/aware/index.html
An excellent set of links for those who want to keep up with new articles, new full-text documents, new books, new preprints, news, etc etc. Compiled by Alison McNab, Loughborough University.
http://luna.bton.ac.uk/~kes2000/
30, 31 August, 1 September 2000 University of Brighton, UK.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/libsci/films/introduction.html
An Annotated Filmography, Maintained by Martin Raish, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/
You can subscribe to a mailing list for daily updates.
http://www.lwsias.org/
"LWSIAS aims to provide an 'all inclusive' program of courses and activities that enable a student to explore the limits of the digital world."
Materials Science & Engineering Educational Software: MATTER
http://www.matter.org.uk/
Aims to "produce quality interactive educational software resources, relevant to the education needs of students and the didactic requirements of teachers. Our software is designed to complement existing teaching and learning method; not to replace whole courses, but to provide an alternative presentation of key topics, especially of difficult to grasp concepts."
http://www.metor.com/
The new gate to hundreds of searchable information sources.
http://www.museumnetwork.com/
"MuseumNetwork.com is a unique online offering. It gives consumers the reach of the Internet to visit museums and other cultural institutions throughout the world."
http://www.mybytes.com/
US site. "...the Web's first personalized, full-service Internet hub for college students. mybytes.com provides students, faculty, and college administrators access to an unparalleled scope of powerful online services. These services include comprehensive academic resources, community building capabilities, communications tools, lifestyle services, original content, news and entertainment information, e-commerce and many other capabilities within a personalized, interactive Web community dedicated to protecting user privacy."
http://www.nafta.hr/
"Nafta journal, being published monthly continuously for 50 years, is a journal in which scientific, professional and informative papers from petroleum exploration, production, processing, petrochemistry, economy in petroleum industry, and wide range of other fields, such as ecology, standardization etc, are published."
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage: NINCH
http://www-ninch.cni.org/
"The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment."
National Radiological Protection Board
http://www.nrpb.org.uk/
The statutory functions of NRPB under the Act are
by means of research and otherwise, to advance the acquisition of knowledge about the protection of mankind from radiation hazards, and
to provide information and advice to persons (including Government Departments) with responsibilities in the United Kingdom in relation to the protection from radiation hazards either of the community as a whole or of particular sections of the community.
http://www.nclis.gov/info/ntis/ntis.html
The fate of National Technical Information Service holdings is discussed here.
http://www.onelook.com/
One Look Dictionaries searches some hundreds of general and specialist dictionaries.
http://www.parityinternet.com/
Web site design company.
http://www.osti.gov/preprints/
"Department of Energy's PrePRINT Network is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. Such disciplines include the great bulk of physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine."
"The PrePRINT Network provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), the Network is a "one-stop shopping" site for preprints in science and technology. Preprints in the areas of physics, materials, chemistry, mathematics, biology, environmental sciences and other areas related to DOE's research interests are accessible through the Network."
Product Development & Management Association: PDMA
http://www.pdma.org/
For those with a professional interest in product innovation and new product development.
http://www.publishers.org.uk
"The Publishers Association is the focal point for all book, journal and electronic publishers in the UK; it is where publishers come together to identify and discuss the main issues facing their industry and where the policies are developed that drive the PA's campaigns to ensure a secure trading environment for our industry."
http://www.quiver.com/
Quiver's goal is to deliver better search results by combining the knowledge of thousands - and ultimately millions - of Internet users. From a recent press release:
"Quiver is a new way to find the best sites on the web - sites chosen by Quiver users and rated on how many users have the site bookmarked. Using our browser companion, the Qbar, members anonymously donate their bookmarks to the Quiver human-powered directory and help it grow, quickly find sites that interest them from their browser, better manage their bookmarks, share bookmarks with friends easily, and access bookmarks from a personal Quiver page on the web."
Resource Guide for the Social Sciences
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/subject/socsci/resource_publications.html
A JISC publication.
http://www.renardus.org
"Project Reynard proposes to develop synergies in the area of mediated resource discovery on the web. It proposes to achieve this by building a European broker-service based on national initiatives. These initiatives aim to coordinate scattered efforts of resource selection, description, subject- and content-indexing at a national level. They entail closer cooperation between academic subject gateway services and nationally coordinated resource disclosure activities."
http://www.rswww.com/
Rswww.com the industrial products company, have just launched InfoZone, a new technical area which includes a Data Library of over 20,000 data sheets, an E-Tools section of tables and charts, etc., and a links section. Registration is required.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/scot.html
Edited by novelist and critic Andrew Crumey
http://www.searchmil.com/
900,000 military pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
Signal Transduction Knowledge Management (e-journal)
http://www.stke.org/
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press.
http://www.sitescope.co.uk/
Sitescope is an Internet property and environmental information service.
http://www.snoopa.com/
A search engine.
South East Environmental Business Association: SEEBA
http://www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba/
Covers producer responsibility.
http://www.thetech.org/nmot/search.cfm?kiosk=Off&st=showall
"Every year the U.S. Department of Commerce recognizes American Innovators with the National Medal of Technology. The Medal rewards and supports the American spirit of innovation, which the department believes is the heart of the country's economic strength. For more about the medal, see about the Medal."
Survey on Scientific Publishing in Construction Management and Construction Information Technology
http://itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/survey/
"Scientific publishing is today at a crossroads between a century-old paper based publication practice and the exciting new possibilities offered by the World Wide Web. The aim of this survey is to collect empiric data from readers of scholarly journals and conference proceedings, as part of a study looking at the current situation of scientific publishing in the domains of construction information technology and construction management & economics. It will take you approximately 15 minutes to fill in this form and it includes questions concerning:" The results of the survey will be presented as part of a conference paper at the CIB W78 conference on Construction Information Technology 2000 in Reykjavik in June 2000, and will also be publicly available on the net.
The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association: CEPA
http://www.cepa.com/index.html
"The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) is the voice of Canada's major transmission pipeline companies. "
http://www.theitportal.com/
An IT portal aimed at professionals.
http://www.togglebot.com/
A search engine.
http://www.topozone.com/
"The TopoZone is the Web's center for topographic map users and outdoor recreation enthusiasts. We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States. If you're looking for maps that don't leave big blank spaces between the highways, welcome!"
http://www.tradstatweb.com/
From dailog.com. TradStat gives you statistics detailing 90% of world trade at the touch of a button.
TransAtlantic Information Exchange Service: TIES Workshop programme
http://www.tiesweb.org/divers/workshop/programme.html
"The mission of the Transatlantic Information Exchange Service (TIES) is to strengthen the transatlantic partnership by promoting dialogue between individuals on a people-to-people level. " TIES WORKSHOP in Paris (April 6-7, 2000): "Is The Internet Civil Society's Best Friend? A Transatlantic Perspective"
http://ichmt.me.metu.edu.tr/upcoming-meetings/Turbine-2000/announce.html
An international symposium on developments in Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems, to take place in Cesme, Turkey, in August 2000.
http://www.ukitdirectory.co.uk/
"Most organisations in the IT industry have made significant investment in developing web-sites to promote their businesses. This works well once the customer has been given the web address but it can be very difficult to track down new suppliers or partners. The UKIT Directory is an independent listing of UK IT product and service providers."
http://www.elphin.com/products/urlmenu/
"URLMenu 99 is a Windows 95/98/NT application for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera users. It has two main features - access to your bookmarks from a tray icon, and automatic launching of URLs from any piece of text! Plus a bunch of other things to make life easier"
http://www.voa.gov.uk/
"The Valuation Office is an Executive Agency of the Inland Revenue. Employing around 4,000 staff, we have a network of offices throughout England, Wales and Scotland providing a local service."
http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/
"WebSerch, the Web Research Resource, is designed to aid librarians, information professionals and the search enthusiast in the evaluation and selection of information retrieval tools and information sources, and equip the information seeker for the search process."
http://www.welshbusinessonline.org/
"Welsh Business Online is an information service especially for companies in Wales. We offer access to a wide range of information on business issues, an internet gateway service and topical electronic discussion fora."
http://www.worldskip.com/
Country information. Well set out, and very useful.
http://www.ee.co.za/
Web Site for the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Community of Southern Africa.
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