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ICT-WEB Alert

December 2012

  1. Repositories Support Project

    The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a major JISC initiative to support the development and growth of the UK repositories network.


  2. Scholaepedia

    A free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.


  3. Chipwrapper

    This is a collection of resources for searching UK newspapers on the internet. In this Beta phase, the first tool is a Google Custom Search Engine across nine of the UK's leading national newspapers - The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.


  4. 2collab

    From Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information. This is an online platform for scientific collaboration, which supports researchers by working as a community to filter information and enhance information literacy.


  5. AlphaGalileo eNews

    AlphaGalileo is the online news centre for European research in science, medicine, technology, the arts, humanities and social sciences. The service is provided by the independent not-for-profit company, AlphaGalileo Foundation.


  6. Connexions

    Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.


  7. DigiCult

    The DigiCult website is now available through the ICT portal, the new FP7 web presence of the European Commission, "Information Society and Media".


  8. eEarth

    An Interactive Open Access Journal of the Earth Sciences.


  9. Engineering Pathway

    Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology and engineering technology, for use by K-12 and university educators and students. It is part of the engineering education "wing" of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).


  10. Informit

    “Informit is the premier source of online Australasian scholarly research. Informit offers a wide range of databases and full content publications that deliver the majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products: Informit Media, Informit Indexes, Informit Plus Text and Informit e-Library.”


  11. LibrarySpot

    A free virtual library resource centre for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.


  12. Top 100 European Universities - Leiden Ranking

    “The Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, is currently developing a new ranking system entirely based on its own bibliometric indicators.


  13. Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

    The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) the largest public research body in Spain.


  14. 10 Universities Offering Free Science Courses Online

    From the Education Portal. Some of the world's most prestigious universities now offer free science courses online.


  15. AgriSeek

    AgriSeek combines a worldwide news service with an interactive business directory and international online job market focusing on agriculture and related fields.


  16. British National Space Centre: BNSC

    The British National Space Centre (BNSC) partnership is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space. This site explains what they do and how it affects you.


  17. Rural Innovation Systems

    This information portal presents free Internet information on the innovation systems approach to rural development, including newsletters, discussion groups, websites, databases, and directories.


  18. Searchforvideo.

    Searchforvideo.com is a video search engine which has been online for over 2 years now and which searches video clips from thousands of content sources.


  19. Agrifeeds

    Agrifeeds is the new service realized to provide an aggregated view of news and events in the area of agriculture, harvested from several sources, and an easy way to customise and re-use the aggregated information. This is a subscription-based service from the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI).


  20. Easy Calculation.com

    Free online mathematics tools.


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