Resource Centre
ICT-WEB Alert

July 2014

  1. Calisphere,

    Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.


  2. Scholarpedia,

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


  3. Technovelgy,

    The creative ideas and inventions of science fiction writers.


  4. Web curator tool,

    The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations, and supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process.


  5. Copyright Toolbox,
    This copyright toolbox is a result of by SURF and the JISC funded research and activities and based upon the Zwolle conferences on Copyright management in higher education and the RoMEO research.


  6. Current Cites,
    A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list and is redistributed on other electronic fora.


  7. DOE Pulse,
    DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, National security and environmental quality missions. DOE Pulse is distributed twice each month. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories, and profiles of individual researchers.


  8. Engineering Subject Centre,
    The Engineering Subject Centre provides discipline based support to engineering departments and individual academics to provide the best possible higher education learning experience for all students. We also work with the wider engineering community to contribute to the long term health of the engineering profession.


  9. Podscope,
    Podscope search engine which you can search the spoken word for audio and video that interests.


  10. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography,
    This selective bibliography presents over 2,780 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.


  11. Scientific Tools for Python,
    SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular operating systems, are quick to install, and are free of charge. NumPy and SciPy are easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers.


  12. ToxSeek,
    ToxSeek is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different information resources on the World Wide Web. ToxSeek uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to retrieve, integrate, rank, and present search results as coherent and dynamic sets.


  13. Safety software directory,

    A searchable, on-line directory of software, web applications, and electronic resources for occupational health and safety. Each listing contains a brief description of each product and direct links to the developer's web site for additional company and product information..


  14. RDA: Resource Description and Access,
    RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media.


  15. Outbrain,
    we are doing the same for blog and article content on the web. Information overload is real and growing as the amount of content on the web grows exponentially. We are committed to helping readers of blogs and media sites find the best content that is most relevant to them on a personal basis. Search engines are wonderfully adept at helping people locate what they know they want. But how do you find amazing new content if you don't know it exists? That's the problem we are working hard to solve.


  16. Thesis Writing Specialist,
    Thesis Specialist has a number of efficient PhD writers who are willing to present personalized support to our valuable customers at affordable costs on thesis and dissertation writing. Our team is made up of a balanced combination of writers, university professors and scholars.


  17. WiderNet,
    Another mention of this very worthwhile initiative, which aims at improving digital communication for people in Developing Countries.


  18. 2.0 Websites Directory,
    2.0 Websites is a web directory for those interested in what’s available and happening in the Web 2.0 arena.


  19. CompWisdom,
    A computing search engine. The results you get contain real sentences, not just sites that contain keywords without any relevance.


  20. Association of European Science & Technology Professionals: ASTP,
    The Mission of ASTP is to professionalise and promote technology and knowledge transfer between the European science base and industry.


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