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Something to think about, which of these have already disappeared in Japan? Get this to me in the next 12 hours for bonus points:
Ten things mobiles have made, or will make, obsolete
By Andrew Lim on Saturday, 21st November 2009

The history of mobile phone technology reads like the plot from Highlander. A variety of standalone devices have been decapitated and absorbed into increasingly complex handsets. To highlight how powerful mobile phones have become, here's a list of things that the mobile phone has made, or will make, obsolete. As Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez would say, "In the end, there can be only one".

Phone boxes - Before mobile phones existed these charming, although often smelly, communication booths were very popular. The first classic red phone box was introduced in the 1920s and today phone boxes offer a variety of services including web access. The introduction of mass-market mobile phones though has meant that phone boxes are almost completely pointless.

Wristwatches - Want to know what time it is? Most people have given up on wearing a watch and simply use their mobile phone's clock. It's not just about checking the time though. Wearing a cool watch used to be much more of fashion statement or a way for people to show off how affluent they were, but today phones have taken over those roles to a great extent.

Bedside alarm clocks - It's unlikely that mobile phone manufacturers realised how successful the alarm clock feature would be. Our anecdotal evidence suggests that most of our friends use their mobile phone as their daily alarm clock. One look on Google and you can see how popular iPhone alarm apps are. We think that standalone bedside alarm clocks' days are over.

MP3 players - There was a time when you'd struggle to fit all your contacts on your mobile's memory, let alone your music. There was even a time when mobile phones didn't have 3.5mm headphone jacks but fortunately those days are over. As more and more phones offer everything that standalone MP3 players offer it's becoming less necessary to own two separate devices.

Landline home phones - The landline telephone was developed in the 19th century but only became a common household object in the 20th century. Similar to phone boxes, mobile phones have meant there's practically no need to own a home phone. While people tend to need a landline connection for web access, we think the days of landline home phones will come to an end soon.

Compact digital cameras - Early camera phones where painfully bad but strong sales proved that there was a demand for them. Over time phone camera technology has hugely improved and phones such as the Nokia N82, produce pictures worthy of printing. Big DSLRs will always be better than camera phones but the gap between compact cameras and camera phones is getting smaller and smaller.

Netbooks - Nokia once tried to instigate a new term, asking people to refer to some of its handsets as 'multimedia computers'. At the time it seemed a bit over the top but today that term seems fitting and it's foreseeable that all our mobile computing needs will be met by phones. There are still good reasons to own a netbook but it won't take long for mobile phones to catch up.

Handheld games consoles - The iPhone has pushed mobile gaming further than any other mobile manufacturer to date. Certain iPhone games are as good as games on the Nintendo DS or PSP. The main advantage of mobile phones over dedicated gaming devices is their ability to connect to mobile networks, allowing gamers to play multiplayer games wherever they are.

Paper - What do maps, dictionaries and novels have in common? They're all printed on paper and they can be heavy, expensive and difficult to access. Mobile phones and e-readers offer digital access to traditionally paper-based content. Digital publishing is a way for millions of people to access information without needing to go to a library, and it makes sense that mobile phones will act as great reading devices.

Thinking – OK, we're exaggerating a bit by saying that mobile phones will make thinking obsolete but they do take out a lot of the hard work. Whether it's using GPS to figure out where you are or looking something up on your mobile's web browser, life is definitely a lot easier than it used to be. Until your battery goes flat, of course.

Reminder to bring your Mosaic book to class next week. And I'm sorry but although I told you that I would check your blogs this weekend, I will not do it until next weekend as originally scheduled. Sorry about that.

Here is one source for data info from Europe mostly. You can see how daunting that can be. It's not easy to be well informed.
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ISSUE 177- CONTENTS

1. COMMENT
Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS
Random quotes


2. A-Z NEW AND NOTABLE WEB SITES
Information and reviews of new and notable Web sites


3. NICE WEBSITE(S)
This month: ResearchScope, and Welsh Repository Network


4. BLOGORAMA AND TWITTERSPHERE
Selected interesting blogs, Twitter items, RSS feeds and news items


5. GET A LIFE! LEISURE TIME
After hours


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1. COMMENT
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Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS

Over 30,000 people subscribe to the free email version of this Newsletter. Very many thanks go to FUMSI http://www.fumsi.com/ who sponsor this newsletter. FUMSI publishes articles, tools, and a monthly magazine, to give you practical help with information skills.

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Random quotes
"Although academics seem to want to benefit from open access, they do not want to have to go to the trouble of depositing their papers in repositories"
David Stuart, in: Web 2.0 fails to excite today's researchers. Research Information, October/November 2009, pp16-17
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=236

‘There are challenges for libraries because you can see some institutions thinking at some stage – can we do without libraries all together. Is it just to buy licences so users can access work online?" Ian Chowcat, quoted in Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technology
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/edgelessuniversity.aspx

"The annual revenues generated from English-language STM journal publishing are estimated at about $8 billion in 2008, up by 6-7% compared to 2007, within a broader STM publishing market worth some $16 billion." ..."There were about 25,400 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals in early 2009, collectively publishing about 1.5 million articles a year."
http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf
STM Report

"The granting system turns young scientists into bureaucrats and then betrays them"
Lawrence PA (2009) Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research. PLoS Biol 7(9).
http://bit.ly/cZCWP

"Open Access is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community"
Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary, JISC.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/openaccesscontributions.aspx
Open Access for UK Research: JISC's Contributions

"Open Access rewards not only researchers and universities but also the UK economy as a whole. As a knowledge economy, the effectiveness of the UK's research community - and the dissemination of that research - is essential to its success"
Neil Jacobs, JISC IE programme manager, Innovation Group
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/openaccesscontributions.aspx
Open Access for UK Research: JISC's Contributions

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/


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10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents
http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/10-websites-to-help-you-keep-up-to-date-with-scholarly-journal-contents/
From our spineless? blog.

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AcaWiki
http://acawiki.org/Home
AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online.

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Act Now
http://www.actnow.org.uk/
Training providers, specialising in Data Protection, Freedom of Information, Surveillance Law (RIPA) and Records Management.

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AIP UniPHY
http://www.aipuniphy.org/
A networking platform for physical science researchers.
”The site allows physicists, engineers, and other scientists to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts and to identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations.”

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Association for Road Traffic Safety and Management: ARTSM
http://www.artsm.org.uk/
ARTSM is an informed and influential force in the Highways and Transportation area. The Association seeks to benefit Members through its representative role thus seeking to influence technological developments to improve standards in traffic engineering and operations.

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Awareness Watch Newsletter
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/10/awareness-watch-newsletter-v7n11.html
The November 2009 V7N11 issue is available. This month's featured report is highlighting Research Resources.

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Best Practices for Publishing Journal Articles
http://www.nfais.org/files/file/Best_Practices_Final_Public.pdf
From National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™)

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BookAse.com
http://www.bookase.com/
Book price comparison site for new and used books.

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Boolify
http://www.boolify.org/
A search engine that illustrates the logic of searches.

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Broadband Suppliers.
http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/
Independent broadband comparison site.

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ChemXSeer
http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/
ChemXSeer is an integrated digital library and database allowing for intelligent search of documents in the chemistry domain and data obtained from chemical kinetics.

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DesignCharts
http://www.designcharts.com/
Examples of web design

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Dimensions
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/dimensions/
Launched in October 2009, Dimensions is the electronic magazine of the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada.

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eCollegeFinder
http://www.ecollegefinder.org/
eCollegeFinder simplifies the process of finding the right distance learning program for you.

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EDem10 2010 Conference
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem
4th International Conference on eDemocracy 2010, Danube-University Krems, 06.05.2010 - 07.05.2010.

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Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technology
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/edgelessuniversity.aspx
A report.
British Universities have world-class reputations and they are vital to our social and economic future. But they are in a tight spot. The huge public investment that sustained much of the sector is in jeopardy and the current way of working is not sustainable. Some are predicting the end of the university as we have known it.

The Edgeless University argues that this can be a moment of rebirth for universities. Technology is changing universities as they become just one source among many for ideas, knowledge and innovation. But online tools and open access also offer the means for their survival. Their expertise and value is needed more than ever to validate and support learning and research.

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Edina Newsline
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline14-3/index.html
The September issue is available, with news about Digimap, SUNCAT, etc

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eLearning Africa 2010 Call for Papers
http://www.elearning-africa.com/
eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that next year’s conference, the fifth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Zambia. From May 26th–28th, 2010, the Continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Lusaka.

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Engineering dictionary
http://dictionary.babylon.com/science/engineering
This Engineering dictionary compendium offers you dictionaries and glossaries with detailed explanations and definitions of terms, phrases, acronyms and abbreviations related to Engineering.

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Engineering Education 2010
http://www.ee2010.info/
EE 2010, 6 - 8 July 2010, Aston University
This international conference will provide a platform to consider how universities can inspire the next generation of engineers.

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EU Bookshop
http://bookshop.europa.eu/eubookshop/index.action?request_locale=EN
EU Bookshop is an online service giving access to publications from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. In addition to the online bookshop, this service will offer an online catalogue and archive of all EU publications.
EU Bookshop will allow users to search for EU publications, order them and where possible, download copies.

The online EU Bookshop catalogue contains publications issued in the past three years. Earlier publications can be found in the archive. Please note that some older publications are not yet in the archive as it is still under construction.
The EU Bookshop is managed by the Publications Office.

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European Countries
http://www.aneki.com/europe.html
Information and statistics, and you can generate a side-by-side comparison of any two European countries as well as comparative ranking lists.

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European Textile Network
http://www.etn-net.org/
The Network consists of three independent organisations that work in close coordination.

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Federated Access and Service Providers
http://access.jiscinvolve.org/federated-access-and-publishers/
A list of publishers that JISC is currently in discussions with regarding federated access management and their known status

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Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information'
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/4294
An article in FUMSI, by Karen Lawrence Öqvist.

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Highland Cycle Campaign
http://www.highlandcyclecampaign.org.uk/
The Highland Cycle Campaign is a voluntary organisation working to encourage people to cycle by providing an attractive cycling environment.

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Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
Can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and solutions.

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TIOBE Programming Community index
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month.

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IETE Journal of Research
http://www.jr.ietejournals.org/
IETE Journal of Research is Bimonthly; Covers research / academic oriented papers based on original work and technology reviews on emerging topics. It reports fundamental and applied research work being undertaken in the country in the areas of interest. Published for the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).

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Info4study
http://www.info4study.co.uk/
Aimed at students and practitioners of construction subjects such as architecture and building services. Guides towards useful information on the internet.

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Institutional Repository Bibliography
http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
The Institutional Repository Bibliography (IRB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories.

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International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation
http://www.inderscience.com/ijedpo
A new journal from Inderscience. The objective of IJEDPO is to contribute to the technical advancement of the field of experimental design and process optimisation by publishing papers that emphasise the practical applicability of new techniques and instructive examples of existing techniques by establishing active channels of communication between researchers and practitioners.

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International Journal of Process Systems Engineering
http://www.inderscience.com/ijpse
A new journal from Inderscience. IJPSE is primarily intended as a journal of record for new developments in the application of process and product lifecycle, computing and systems technology to production processes (nuclear, energy, chemical, pharmaceutical, discrete manufacturing, and other types of production processes).

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International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing
http://www.inderscience.com/ijrapidm
A new journal from Inderscience.
IJRapidM is intended to provide a common resource for the dissemination and publication of research results and application descriptions that deals with the advancement of RRM, especially engineering design and rapid manufacturing in an integrated form.

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JISC Open Access
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/openaccess
The work of JISC in the area of Open Access.

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Journal of Petroleum and Gas Engineering
http://www.academicjournals.org/JPGE/
Open Access journal.

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Latin America News
http://www.lanewsupdate.com/
A news aggregator edited by a human and covering all types of news about Latin America.

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Lightwave
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/lw/
Free subscriptions to qualifying individuals. Lightwave, a monthly international magazine, focuses on fiber optics and optoelectronics, and the technologies driving the growth, convergence and improved performance of telephony, computer communications and video.

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Loore
http://www.loore.com/
The Loore project is involved in search of people within social networks and directories

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Making Scotland – Edinburgh Lectures
http://www.edinburghlectures.org/
The Edinburgh Lectures presents a wide-range of thought-provoking, challenging and inspiring talks.

The theme for 2009/10 is ‘Making Scotland’, which embraces a number of notable anniversaries. They include the 10th anniversary of Devolution, 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Birth, the centenary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Edinburgh as well as the 150th anniversary of David Livingstone’s discovery of what we now know as Malawi and its strong connections to Scotland.

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Math Overflow
http://mathoverflow.net/
A place to ask questions about Mathematics

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Medknow Publications and Media
http://www.medknow.com/
A publisher of STM journals - 90+ mostly Open Access (immediate free access to the full text of articles ) journals from eight countries. The majority of these journals are published on behalf of a scholarly society.

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Mimas
http://mimas.ac.uk/
Mimas has a new website.
”As a nationally designated data centre, we host a significant number of the UK's research information assets – and build applications to help people make the most of this rich resource.”

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MolecularMovies.org
http://www.molecularmovies.com/showcase/index.html
A portal to cell and molecular animation.

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MyNetResearch
http://www.mynetresearch.com/
“Purpose is to assist you in maximizing your research productivity through global collaborations. We all have outstanding colleagues, yet have felt the disappointment of these colleagues not sharing our research interests and passions.”

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Nature Communications
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/marketing/index.html
Nature Communications invites submissions of original research papers in all areas of the natural sciences. This multidisciplinary, online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will publish its first articles in April 2010..

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NeuroNetwork.
http://theneuronetwork.com/
The NeuroNetwork is a multidimensional professional networking site devoted to those working, studying, or simply interested in the study of the brain.

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Online Information 2009
http://www.online-information.co.uk/index.html
Online Information and IMS together create the largest event dedicated to the information industry.

Consisting of an exhibition delivering over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries, a conference and a show floor seminar programme, the event provides an annual meeting place for the global information industry.

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Open Access
http://www.openaccess.nl/
The Open Access website provides structured information about Open Access to research results and the advantages that Open Access has. This site is published by SURF, the higher education and research partnership for network services and ICT in the Netherlands

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OpenDataNI
http://www.opendatani.info/
The purpose of OpenDataNI is to increase public access to information and data produced by Northern Ireland government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs).

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Oxford Handbooks Online
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com
The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion now available online.

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PressDisplay
http://www.pressdisplay.com/
Newspapers from around the world.

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Process Engineering
http://techxtra.tradepub.com/free/peng/
Free magazine subscription to qualifying individuals.
Process Engineering offers practical advice from qualified engineers and scientists on the technical and management challenges faced by engineers in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil/gas, food processing, rubber/plastics and utilities sectors.

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Pubget
http://pubget.com/search
Pubget is a search engine for life-science PDFs.

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Rejecta Mathematica
http://math.rejecta.org/
Rejecta Mathematica is a real open access online journal publishing only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in the mathematical sciences.

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ResearchScope
http://researchscope.net/
A searchable index of Open Access research in Ireland.

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Scala
http://www.scala-lang.org/
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.

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Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment: STIMULATE
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate10/index.html
An International Training Program on "INFORMATION".
Brussels, Belgium, for 3 months, October-November-December in 2010. This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree (Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and documentation centres, and libraries, including of course university libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.

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SciLink
http://www.scilink.com/
SciLink is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.

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ScoreInTheBox
http://www.scoreinthebox.com/
Type in a domain name and find out how a website scores. ScoreInTheBox uses a unique formula consists of variables, such as PageRank, backlinks and popularity to calculate a score for each website entered.

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Scottish Health Information Network: SHINE
http://www.shinelib.org.uk/
Aim of the Association:To ensure the best possible access to the knowledge base of health care through supporting activities and developments in library and information services in Scotland.

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Search engine marketing
http://www.iabuk.net/en/1/searchenginemarketing.html
This resource, created by the IAB's Search Council contains best practice information for all basic and advanced search marketing techniques.

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Tenders ZEAL
http://www.tenderszeal.com/
Tenders ZEAL is an International Tender Notices Resource and the best place for Global Tender Notices, International Projects Information, Procurement Forecast, RFP's, RFQ's, EOI, RFI, Pre-Qualification and Contract Awards issued from various governments, corporate, private and public organizations all over the world

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The BookServer
http://www.archive.org/bookserver
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet.

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Transport Association
http://www.transportassociation.org.uk/
The Transport Association consists of around 60 haulage companies, providing a nationwide network of 4,000 vehicles and 150 sites.

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Tutorialsphere
http://www.tutorialsphere.com/
“Tutorialsphere is yet another tutorial index website, some might say. However, we want to differentiate it from other similar sites by trying to present the information (i.e. the tutorials) in a very easy and natural way for the user, without crowding the pages excessively with ads and with a clean and simple user interface. We want to make it simple for people to find the tutorial they need without too much hassle, as well as easily submit their own tutorials.”

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Using Information to Drive Business Processes: A Case Study
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/4201
An article in FUMSI by Gillian Paterson.

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ViXra
http://vixra.org/
ViXra is an open repository for new scientific articles.
ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service owned by Cornell University. It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University's policy of endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider inappropriate.

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WebPA
http://www.webpa.ac.uk/
WebPA is an open source online peer assessment tool that enables every team member to recognise individual contributions to group work.

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Welsh Repository Network
http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/
The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) is a collaborative venture between the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Wales to establish, develop and populate a network of interoperable institutional repositories. The vision that underpins the network is to facilitate and encourage the sharing of resources across the principality and to maximise the impact of Welsh research across the globe.

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WetCanvas
http://www.wetcanvas.com/
Art forum

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Woopid
http://www.woopid.com/
“Watch free technology training videos! Get help and answer your computer and gadget questions with thousands of video tutorials for PCs, Macs, and tons of different applications.”

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WorldWideLearn.com
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/
Learn more about online degree programs from WorldWideLearn.com, a directory of education.


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3. NICE WEB SITE
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In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will often be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After lengthy discussions we 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.

ResearchScope
http://researchscope.net/
A search engine that enables you to search for Open Access research content from ten scholarly repositories in Ireland. The full text of all items is freely available.

Welsh Repository Network
http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/en/search.html
This site enables you to do similar for Welsh research content

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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items, and Twitter items and feeds

You already know what blogs are, but for more information about RSS see the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html

The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss

To add this RSS feed to any feedreader, go to: http://tinyurl.com/39sg5j
Portfolio.com feeds
http://www.portfolio.com/rss/

Tenders From United Kingdom
http://www.tenderszeal.com/rssfeed/xml/united-kingdom.rss
From Tenders ZEAL

Nuts and Bolts
http://apscilibrarian.wordpress.com/
An Engineering Librarian Recommends…

RSS Educational videos
http://www.feedforall.com/rss-videos.htm

A Potted Guide to RSS
http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/74499/A-Potted-Guide-to-RSS

NASA RSS feeds
http://www.nasa.gov/rss/

Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

the physics arXiv blog
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/

100 Best Professors Who Blog
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/12/100-best-professors-who-blog/
From: Online College

From a distance
http://cicsdir.blogspot.com/

Twitter

CrowdEye
http://www.crowdeye.com/
Interesting Twitter search engine.

LearnHub
http://twitter.com/learnhub
Social Learning Network

oneforty
http://www.oneforty.com/
A Twitter outfitter, with tons of resources for all things Twitter.
Currently tracking 1709 apps that make Twitter even better.

TweepSearch - Twitter profile and bio search
http://tweepsearch.com/
Seems to work quite well

Tweet2Scotland
http://twitter.com/Tweet2Scotland
Tweeting news about Scotland to Scotland

HWUSA President
http://twitter.com/HWUSASIMON

Telegraph Twitter Feeds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/4437400/Telegraph-Twitter-feeds-The-latest-news-reviews-and-pictures-straight-to-Twitter.html

Twitter Groups: Edubloggers
http://twittgroups.com/group/edublogger

UCD Library
http://twitter.com/UCDLibrary

LISResearch
http://twitter.com/LISResearch
LIS Research Coalition

Tweetwell
http://twitter.com/tweetwell
Tips on tweeting well

Useful Twitter searches
http://www.batesinfo.com/Writing/Archive/Archive/useful.html

PowerPoint Twitter Tools
http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/
These flash-based tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.

We are social
http://twitter.com/wearesocial

Twittering the student experience http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/10/twittering-student-experience.html

Facet Publishing
http://twitter.com/facetpublishing

infobunny
http://twitter.com/infobunny
A Twitter 'A' Lister. Also, one day, her paintings may be worth a fortune.


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5. GET A LIFE! - LEISURE TIME
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Bikeability
http://www.bikeability.org.uk/

National Cycling Academy
http://www.ncagb.co.uk/

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