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ICT-WEB Alert

August 2014

  1. Institution of Engineering and Technology

    A new institution formed in spring 2006 by the coming together of the IEE and IIE. Aims to serve a global community engaged in engineering and technology, providing a knowledge network accessible whenever or wherever you choose.


  2. Mailbase

    Mailbase is a national service, providing electronic discussion lists and information sharing facilities for all sectors.


  3. PerX Pilot

    This is a pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource discovery in engineering. It has been created to investigate practical management and maintenance issues, and is not a fully-supported service. However, it is freely available for use by anyone, and PerX would very much appreciate feedback and opinions.


  4. PRONOM

    PRONOM is an on-line information system about data file formats and their supporting software products. Originally developed to support the accession and long-term preservation of electronic records held by the National Archives, PRONOM is now being made available as a resource for anyone requiring access to this type of information.


  5. TechXtra

    TechXtra is a suite of ten freely available services which simplify access to a multitude of different types of technology information from a host of different sources. TechXtra facilitates immediate access to the freely available full-text content of hundreds of thousands of eprints, technical reports, theses, articles, news items, job announcements and more. In cases where the full-text is not freely available, TechXtra provides links to venders for pay-per-view options.


  6. TelecomSpace

    This website contains Information, Tutorials, Whitepapers, News, Latest trends in telecommunications, wireless, mobile, cellular, technologies: GSM, CDMA, SS7, 3G, UMTS, Applications, wireless networks, MVNO, VoIP, SIP, H.323, MGCP, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, Mobile TV.


  7. Windows Live Academic

    Windows Live Academic is now in beta. It currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer.


  8. Wwwtools for education

    wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web. Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching and learning.


  9. Zetoc RSS

    Zetoc RSS enables you to set up RSS feeds for journals in Zetoc. An RSS button is provided for each individual journal.


  10. TechEssence

    The essenec of technology for library decision-makers. Roy Tennant started TechEssence to address the need for simple, easy to understand information about information technology. He is lucky to be joined by a stellar cast of individuals who contribute their unique perspectives on technology and its appropriate place in library service.


  11. Education Podcast Network

    The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.


  12. DiSCS-UK

    This website is an online database of potential suppliers of ICT and digitisation resources for the cultural and heritage sector. NEMLAC in partnership with the regional agency One NorthEast have developed this digital and IT knowledge resource - a one stop shop for sector professionals. Benefits include the better use of existing digital resources within the sector, the sharing of knowledge and the engagement with technical experts from outside the sector.


  13. Adelphi Charter

    The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property responds to one of the most profound challenges of the 21st century.How to ensure that everyone has access to ideas and knowledge, and that intellectual property laws do not become too restrictive. The Charter sets out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to apply a new public interest test.


  14. Congoo

    Congoo's mission is to provide information seekers with free access to the Web's most valuable and credible information. Congoo is not for everyone, however. Congoo's technology creates a free bridge that spans the divide between expensive information services available to large corporations and the mass of information available on the free Web.


  15. Freeform Construction

    Freeform Construction is a truly adventurous and far-reaching new construction method which will change the very future of building and construction as we know it. It will revolutionise the way we build, it will enhance existing construction processes and bring about new capabilities for the construction process, and it will allow us to build in ways which simply weren't possible before. Freeform Construction is about 'printing' buildings, as if you were printing this page.


  16. QUOSA

    QUOSA boosts the efficiency and power of literature search for both academic and commercial life science researchers.


  17. Qwika

    Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims are to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.


  18. SearchEdu

    A specialty search engine which searches university and education websites.


  19. Semefab

    Semefab is a semiconductor manufacturing organization with a long and successful track record of developing and supplying silicon based semiconductor processing technologies and products to the open market.


  20. HighBeam Research Engine

    Search our extensive archive of more than 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years. The HighBeam Research Engine offers more than 1.5 million full-text articles to individual researchers for free and adds extensive premium reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University Press and The Washington Post.


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