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ICT-WEB Alert

March 2013

  1. CourseSmart

    CourseSmart LLC is a new venture founded and supported by five higher education textbook publishers. Our mission is to improve teaching and learning by providing instructors and students better exposure and access to digital course materials.


  2. Croquet

    Croquet is a powerful open source software technology that, in the form of the Croquet Software Developer's Kit (Croquet SDK), can be used by experienced software developers to create and deploy deeply collaborative multi-user online vitual world applications on and across multiple operating systems and devices.


  3. Engineering Conferences Online

    Engineering Conferences Online (ECO) is dedicated to publishing conference proceedings online. ECO promotes the dissemination of important engineering research that would normally be very difficult, or impossible, to locate. Papers are generally available free of charge on an open access basis thereby assisting the dissemination of this important research information. All content can be fully referenced using DOIs and the site offers comprehensive search functionality.


  4. Edinburgh Research Partnerships in Engineering and Mathematics - ERPem

    Edinburgh Research Partnerships in Engineering and Mathematics. ERPem has six Joint Research Institutes (JRIs) dedicated to world-class research, innovation and education in engineering and mathematical science. ERPem is a consortium involving the universities of the City of Edinburgh.


  5. euroCRIS

    euroCRIS is a not-for-profit association and aims to be the internationally recognised point of reference for all matters relating to Current Research Information Systems (CRIS).


  6. Freebookcentre.net

    Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of free online technical books. These Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more.


  7. India Environment Portal

    National Portal on the Environment.


  8. How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content

    A white paper, written by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The research was jointed funded by Annual Reviews, PNAS, MetaPress, and Nature Publishing Group.


  9. Information Overload Research Group

    "We work together to build awareness of the world's greatest challenge to productivity, conduct research, help define best practices, contribute to the creation of solutions, share information and resources, offer guidance and facilitation, and help make the business case for fighting information overload."


  10. Information Skills Community of Practice: ISCOP

    ISCOP is the Information Skills Community Of Practice and is supported through the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) Project. ISCOP brings together people who share a passion for the advancement of information literacy.


  11. Mind the skills gap - Information-handling training for researchers

    The Research Information Network's (RIN) report, Mind the Skills Gap: Information-handling training for researchers (July 2008) finds that training for researchers on information seeking and management is uncoordinated and generally not based on any systematic assessment of needs.


  12. nanoHUB

    The nanoHUB is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1300 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices. The nanoHUB also provides collaboration environment via Workspaces, Online meetings and User groups.


  13. Network World

    Network World is the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for Network and IT Executives. With an editorial focus on delivering news, opinion and analytical tools for key decision makers who architect, deploy and manage business solutions - Network World offers a unique and powerful combination of audiences and resources across Online, Print and Events to meet your marketing objectives.


  14. open-science

    Relatively low-volume email list for the open science community.


  15. OPML Compendium

    OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language. This page is a companion to The RSS Compendium.


  16. Patents.com

    Patents.com provides one of the most comprehensive free patent search sites on the web.


  17. search.optics.org

    search.optics.org is a powerful search tool that only returns results from websites that have been selected for their optics content - which means that you can pinpoint relevant information more quickly than ever before.


  18. UPSpace

    The open access digital research repository of the University of Pretoria.


  19. USC Digital Archive

    The USC Digital Archive helps to fulfil the mission of the USC Libraries to select, collect, preserve and make accessible high quality digital images of unique materials with metadata to support research, and provides a "gateway" to resources on Los Angeles and Southern California.


  20. Walter Scott Digital Archive

    The Walter Scott Digital Archive is an Edinburgh University Library online resource created in the Special Collections Division. It is designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections.


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