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May 2013

  1. Biographicon

    The Biographicon is the place for everyone's biography.


  2. BookSurge

    BookSurge offers complete publishing, inventory-free fulfillment and online distribution services for independent publishing. BookSurge was launched in 2000 by a small group of writers dedicated to creating opportunities for authors to not only publish their work, but to also retain their content rights and sales profits.


  3. CarersConnect

    We are a new carers website. We are focusing primarily on improving the social life of the carer and the professional engaged in the Care Sector as we know their domestic situation can often be socially isolating. We also deal with other aspects of being a carer and a professional within the care sector.


  4. Complete works of Charles Darwin online

    Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history.


  5. Digital Bibliography & Library Project: DBLP

    The DBLP server provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Initially the server was focused on DataBase systems and Logic Programming (DBLP), now it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science. You may now read "DBLP" as "Digital Bibliography & Library Project".


  6. ESDU Engineer

    ESDU's engineering design and research quarterly newsletter.


  7. Eventseer

    Eventseer has gone through a major upgrade. Eventseer provides a way to keep track of upcoming academic events.


  8. Formula Student

    Formula Student is about building future engineering talent by designing and producing a single-seater racing car, not just in design and manufacture, but in many of the management, marketing and people skills so vital in the modern world, across all sectors of employment.


  9. JustFreeBooks

    JustFreeBooks search the content of more than 450 web sites, including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and archive.org. With JustFreeBooks you can find public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more.


  10. RefAware

    A web based current awareness service designed to provide researchers and other members of the academic community with immediate access to new research and publications in their field - all within hours of being posted online.


  11. Researcher ID

    ResearcherID is a website where invited researchers can register for a unique researcher ID number. At this site, users can: Update their profile information; Build their publication list using Web of Science search services or uploading a file; Select to make their profile public or private. Registered as well as non-registered users can search the Researcher Registry to view profiles and find potential collaborators.


  12. UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology

    The UKRC provides a central point of information and advice for industry, academia, professional institutes, education and research councils and for women entering, returning and progressing in SET careers.


  13. Universal Digital Library

    The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is our expectation that the collection will grow to 10 Million books. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or socioeconomic background.


  14. Web's best free stuff

    Useful list, from InfoWorld.


  15. Archinect

    The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.


  16. Big Science Read

    The Big Science Read campaign invites you to explore, re-discover and get excited about science-themed books and hopes to stimulate public debate of current issues relating to scientific and technological advances. We've put together a suggested reading list of contemporary popular science and fiction titles to get you started and there are plenty more recommendations of seminal science reads and other resources to be found here.


  17. CISnet

    MIT Press CISnet brings together many of the MIT Press recent and classic titles in computer and information science in a fully searchable online library.


  18. Copyright Toolkit

    There are many legal textbooks on the subject of intellectual property, or, more specifically, copyright. Briefing documents have also been produced which aim to make senior university managers and others in the field of education aware of the need to manage copyright so as to reduce institutional liability. This toolkit is not aimed specifically at these audiences. Instead, it provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal.


  19. ISIG Video Archive

    LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group has relaunched its video library of visiting speakers, talks by about 50 leading academics in the social sciences and management. There is also an attached blog to discuss the content of the videos.


  20. JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online

    JAIRO is a service providing the capability of cross-searching academic information stored in Japanese Institutional Repositories. content includes journal articles, theses and dissertations, learning materials, technical reports, departmental research bulletins, research reports, etc. More than 500,000 items are indexed.


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