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ICT-WEB Alert

September 2012

  1. Focuss.eu

    A starting point for internet searches on development work and studies.


  2. FreePatentsOnline

    An online site for free patent searching. This site has been given a makeover.


  3. Issues in Science & Technology

    “Issues in Science & Technology is a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine. This includes policy for science (how we nurture the health of the research enterprise) and science for policy (how we use knowledge more effectively to achieve social goals), with emphasis on the latter.


  4. AssignmentEditor.com

    This site is used worldwide to navigate millions of destinations on the Internet each month. Our main users are the news decision makers of the world who decide what hundreds of millions of people see and read each day.


  5. Earth from Space

    Earth from Space - Site presents the NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 375,000 images. A clickable map allows you to view landscapes, hurricanes and weather, water habitats, and other geographic features.


  6. Earthquake Hazards Program

    This web site is provided by the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program as part of our effort to reduce earthquake hazard in the United States. We are part of the USGS Geologic Discipline and are the USGS component of the congressionally established, multi-agency National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).


  7. Online Writing Lab

    The Online Writing Lab: Purdue University - U.S. and International Newspaper Archives on the Internet


  8. InfoLit Global

    The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.



  9. Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation: ISSTI

    The Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), has been formed to bring together the interdisciplinary network of researchers working in these fields. The University of Edinburgh is a leading centre for such research.


  10. Light and Matter

    These physics textbooks are free in digital form. Light and Matter is also available in print.


  11. Patent Lens

    CAMBIA Patent Lens lets you search the full text of 7 million patents and patent applications from bulk data collected from WIPO, USPTO, EPO, IP Australia.


  12. Professional/Scholarly Publishing

    A Division of the Association of American Publishers - ”Members of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) publish, in print and electronic form, the vast majority of materials produced and used by scholars and professionals in science, medicine, technology, business, law, and the humanities.”


  13. Protopage

    “Protopage is your own personal page that you can use for quick access to everything on the web that you go to most. You can use it to:Read news from your favorite news sites and blogs; Keep bookmarks to your most frequently accessed web sites; Organize your day with to-do lists and sticky notes; Create web pages, group pages, and intranets; And much more!”


  14. THESEUS

    THESEUS is a research program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi), with the goal of developing a new Internet-based infrastructure in order to better use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet.


  15. Time Tracker

    Commercially available Time Tracker employee scheduling software, allows users to manage large and complex employee schedules. Time Tracker maintains schedules from the past, present and into the future.


  16. EngineeringSpecifier

    News for engineers.


  17. National Centre for e-Social Science: NCeSS

    The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to investigate how innovative and powerful computer-based infrastructure and tools developed over the past five years under the UK e-Science programme can benefit the social science research community. This infrastructure is commonly known as the 'Grid'.


  18. Open Research Online

    A repository of Open University research publications and other research outputs.


  19. Podanza

    “Podanza.com is a podcast search engine and directory. We aggregate audio and video podcasts from over 5,000 international producers including top radio, television, print and independent publishers.”


  20. Publishing Technology

    A leading provider of technologies and supporting services for the publishing industry.


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