INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER

The free, monthly, newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists and social scientists.

Latest issue: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn169/irn169.html

Edited by:
Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk ),
Catherine Ure.and Marion Kennedy

Heriot-Watt University Library
ISSN: 1361-9381

Web: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

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Marion, Catherine and myself hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a guid New Year. We look forward to your visits in 2009, the European Year of Innovation and Creativity.

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Random quotes
"Today, scientists, like others, expect to find their news on the web in real time. They don't want to wait six months before getting it in a paper format." Michelle Perry, The Appliance of Science: Web 2.0 IWR December 2008, p. 37
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2231892/applicance-science-web

"[Twitter is] yet another contribution to information overload, employed by people who believe that their mid-morning beverage choice should be shared with the world." Tom Sutcliffe: Twittering on is not the way to provide news, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/thomas-sutcliffe/tom-sutcliffe-twittering-on-is-not-the-way-to-provide-news-1047115.html

[Hmm - I'm now Twittering at http://twitter.com/libram ]

News items of interest.
Scholarly journals - new free service makes keeping up-to-date easy
Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs  - Journal Tables of Contents Service.
Press release: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/scholarly-journals-new-free-service-makes-keeping-up-to-date-easy/

Five million articles online at HighWire
HighWire Press have reached a significant milestone with the posting of the five millionth article on its e-publishing platform.
From: UKSG Serials e-News http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=2345&Pid=10&Zid=4232&issueno=185

Scotland's universities classed as world leaders in research
Scottish Funding Council
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/news/sfc/2008/sfcpr3908/sfcpr3908.html

RAE 2008:The Results
Times Higher Education
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404786

Journal subscriptions at risk as weak pound hits library budgets
Times Higher Education
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404810&c=1

Heriot Watt is now fully compliant with the latest Eduroam/Janet Roaming standards.
http://www.hw.ac.uk/uics/eduroam.html

Emerald partners with COPE
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce its partnership with COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics) from 01 January 2009.
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/about/news/story.htm?PHPSESSID=9gmeq8mlmon3kg0uns7mo2b2v7&id=99

Information Overload Now $900 Billion Cost to U.S. Economy
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=51989
From: EContent

For more news items in business information products we recommend VIP: http://www.vivavip.com/

For news from Heriot-Watt University Library, see the spineless? blog.
http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ 

między innymi/ Auswahl:

TimeMaps Atlas of World History
http://www.worldhistory.timemaps.com/
TimeMaps Atlas of World History is a world history website based around a map that can be navigated geographically or chronologically to show each and every nation rise and fall, starting at 3500 BC.

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Versita
http://www.versita.com/
"Our ambition and goal is to become the leading science publisher in Central and Eastern Europe. We publish science journals based in Central and Eastern Europe. Most of them are co-published with Springer and distributed worldwide by Springer."

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Central and Eastern European Online Library: CEEOL
http://www.ceeol.com/
C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 341 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

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Digital student
http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent
Technology in further and higher education. A JISC supplement to guardian.co.uk

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Information and Computer Sciences Newsletter
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/news/newsletter/iscnl_issue12.pdf
Issue 12, December 2008 - is available from the Subject Centre for Information & Computer Sciences.

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Information: Interactions and Impact (i3)
http://www.i3conference2009.org.uk/
Advance Notification of the Conference to be held at The Department of Information Management, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. 22-25 June 2009

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Institute of Community Cohesion
http://www.cohesioninstitute.org.uk/
"The Institute of Community Cohesion was established in 2005 to provide a new approach to race, diversity and multiculturalism. Our work focuses on building positive and harmonious community relations, using applied research to constantly develop practice and to build capacity of all the agencies and individuals involved."

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International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems: IJAMechS
http://www.inderscience.com/ijamechs
A new journal from Inderscience.
The intention of IJAMechS is to provide an international forum to report current development from interdisciplinary theoretical studies, computational algorithm development, and applications of mechatronic systems. It particularly welcomes those emerging methodologies and techniques which bridge theoretical studies and applications in all mechatronic systems. Novel quantitative engineering and science studies may also be considered.

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International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning: IJCELL
https://w5.hkuspace.hku.hk/journal/index.php/ijcell
The inaugural issue is available. The International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (IJCELL) is published in both English and Traditional Chinese versions, twice a year in November and May, by the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong. It is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a platform for reporting innovative work and research in continuing education and lifelong learning, especially research that includes the interaction of theory, practice and technology.

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International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics: IJSTL
http://www.inderscience.com/ijstl
A new journal. IJSTL is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on all methodological aspects in the field of shipping and transport logistics, particularly those that require empirical or mathematical analysis with managerial implications. IJSTL is dedicated to publishing original, high-quality and methodologically rigorous research papers that address significant management issues pertinent to shipping and transport logistics. IJSTL also publishes informative and critical book reviews of newly published books with scholarly and practical contributions that advance the state-of-the-art of the theory and practice of shipping and transport logistics.

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International Staff
http://www.internationalstaff.org/
The website for international staff moving to UK universities.

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