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The Satire in Film website has been produced to accompany an introductory course in satire in films at Miami University run by Professor Richard Erlich. The website contains information about the course, materials, readings and films. Under readings, one can view short bibliographies and information on the following films; Slaughterhouse Five, Starship Troopers, 1984, Brave New World, Jowett on Gattaca and Fight Club. The section films has a list of films and general information covering cast lists and comments and questions to encourage further research. Films include: Excalibur, Month Python and the holy grail and South Park. There is a useful set of links. It looks like the website has not been updated recently but it would still be useful to film students with an interest on satire. http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/satire/Added: 2009-07-04Transforming Community Services is part of the NHS Next Stage Review, aimed at improving primary care and community health services and bringing health care closer to patient's homes. The Department of Health website provides information and documents on related policies, projects and initiatives. These include a quality framework and transformational guides for areas of service such as children's services, long term and end of life care, health and inequalities and care closer to home. There is also guidance for managers and commissioners and on the pricing of community services and information management models. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Primarycare/TCS/index.htmAdded: 2009-07-04 -
03 Jul 2009 23:50
This is a section of the AAPHERD website devoted to The National Girls and Women in Sports Day; this began in 1987 as a day to remember Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman for her athletic achievements and her work to assure equality for women's sports. Hyman died of Marfan's Syndrome in 1986 while competing in a volleyball tournament in Japan. Since that time, NGWSD has evolved into a day to acknowledge the past and recognize current sports achievements, the positive influence of sports participation, and the continuing struggle for equality and access for women in sports. This website provides a history and timeline of significant events, details of significant individuals and their contributions, information on how to help promote women's sports and advice for organising events as well as a calendar of NGWSD events. http://www.aahperd.org/ngwsdcentral/Added: 2009-07-03The website of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) provides information about this organisation, which exists to promote research, teaching, and discussion of issues in the philosophy of science. The Association was founded in 1934, and holds a major conference every two years, details of which are given on the website. The site also offers: membership information; notices about opportunities in the field for graduate students; announcements; and details of the PSA Women's Caucus. Additionally, there are sections devoted to two PSA publications: an electronic archive of PSA newsletters going back to 1995, and the editorial pages of Philosophy of Science, the official journal of the PSA. http://philsci.org/Added: 2009-07-03The Minnesota Archaeological Researches in the Western Peloponnesos (MARWP) project has focused on three areas of Greece: Messene; Pylos; and Morea. The website publishes the preliminary reports and some methodological papers on GIS. There is an interactive map of the Peloponnese that allows to zoom in at village level. The Pylos Digital Archive had to be a collection of images of the Mycenaean palace at Pylos, but it appears abandoned with just a few detailed maps. Students in particular may find this website useful. http://marwp.cla.umn.edu/marwp/Added: 2009-07-03Pamflet Magazine is the weblog version of paper zine Pamflet, a "post-everything London girl-zine" which was established in 2005. Topics discussed and critiqued by Pamflet are specifcally girl and woman-orientated, and include media representations of women and girls, feminism, the politics of gender, women's literature, popular culture including music and fashion. http://pamfletzine.blogspot.com/Added: 2009-07-03The Clinical Decision-Making Desktop Library for Dentistry is produced by staff from the Dental Library of the University of Toronto and the Harry R. Abbott Memorial Library. The aim of the resource is to assist the user with clinical-decision-making studies in dentistry and sections of this reference tool cover evidence-based dentistry (and evidence-based medicine), key databases, links to relevant internet resources and organisations, software, and other tools and tutorials. The section called Resources by subject covers 15 subject areas within dentistry and for each subject area there are resources such as systematic reviews and clinical articles. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/index.cfm?guide=cdmAdded: 2009-07-03The history of the Cavendish Laboratory (formerly the Laboratory of Physics) at the University of Cambridge and of the physics discoveries made there since its foundation in 1874 is described in this website, which forms part of the Cavendish Laboratory Educational Outreach website. It includes a virtual tour of the laboratory including historical instrumentation (Quicktime player required), a description of the laboratory's history, details of current research and biographies of key figures. http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphys/Added: 2009-07-03This article, first published in Skeptic Magazine, presents a review of the book 'Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology'. The book is edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose. In this review, Robert Kurzban attempts to defened evolutionary psychology from charges of genetic determinism, panadaptationism, unfalsifiable hypotheses, proximate explanations, and politicisation. The article should be useful for students and teachers. http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.htmlAdded: 2009-07-03This video is presented by Jill Boyte and hosted by the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference website. In it, the neuroscientist considers the effect of a stroke on her own speech, motion, and self-awareness. It is 19 minutes in length and requires the Adobe Flash plug-in. It should be useful for researchers, students and teachers. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insighAdded: 2009-07-03A resource produced by NHS Choices, a comprehensive online public information service provided by the NHS. This resource contains a large collection of videos which provide insights into the patient experience. This particular category covers real life stories of people and overviews given by GPs and health professionals in relation to alcohol, smoking and drugs. Areas covered include liver health, saying no to drugs, alcohol misuse, substance abuse, lung cancer awareness, stopping smoking and many more. http://www.nhs.uk/video/Pages/medialibrary.aspx?Tag=Alcohol%2c+smoking%2c+drugsAdded: 2009-07-03From the CBC website, this article details what it believes to be some pundits of the most notorious drug cases in sport in recent times. These include: East German athletes and government sponsored cheating; 1983 Pan Am Games: Dawn of drug testing; The U.S. Track & Field cover-ups; Canada's shame: Ben Johnson; Last to first: Irish swimmer Michelle Smith; Fake dynasty: Chinese swim team; Tour de France: Whatever it takes; Baseball: Home runs in bulk; Cross country skiing and doping: a Nordic tradition; Nandrolone goes for the Grand Slam. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/drugs/stories/top10.htmlAdded: 2009-07-03artcornwall.org is an online journal for contemporary art and artists in and near Cornwall. The website has feature articles, reviews and profiles, and will accept submissions by email. One section contains interviews with creatives in either transcript form, audio recordings or films, which require Flash plug-in to be viewed. There is also a 'Web projects' space, which is an online exhibition space featuring the site-specific or internet-based work of selected Cornwall-based artists. A 'Gazeteer' on the website features an interactive map of Cornwall with information about artists, activities and history of each area. Other content on the website includes a forum for registered users, an archive of past content and a links page of artists groups and organisations in Cornwall. http://www.artcornwall.org/Added: 2009-07-03The bristol-aber-cardiff website is hosted by Stanford University's Humanities Lab, which collects and disseminates activities from this AHRC-funded Landscape and Environment Network (2006-2008), and brings together University of Bristol, University of Wales Aberystwyth and University of West of England. There are brief introductions to the key themes of the research in the short texts on Performativity and on Emptiness. The website is intended as a "working project space rather than a dissemination tool for finished work" and includes outlines of conferences, seminars and workshops, as well projects from smaller working groups and final reports on the programme (reports are downloadable as PDF files). The website also has research outputs from the project and these are in a wide range of forms including text, images, audio and video. A separate 'Vancouver Research' section follows the work of Angela Piccini, one of the key researchers in the project, as she is resident at the University of British Columbia during 2009. There are also links to relevant websites, a bibliography and other recommended source material and a profile or external link for each of the people involved in the project. http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/materialworld/Added: 2009-07-03This publication from NHS Education for Scotland (NES) aims to support a learning culture by providing these generic guiding principles for individuals and groups supporting learning in the workplace. The guidance was developed by representatives from professions and staff groups across NES and was based on experience combined with evidence and learning resources already in existence. Information is included on the rationale and drivers for the guidance. The guiding principles are appropriate to all healthcare professions and care was taken to ensure that they link with the relevant NHS Knowledge and Skills core and specific domains. There are six guiding principles each of which has supporting statements to assist with interpretation and contextualisation and examples of useful resources, and it is emphasised that the principles need to be interpreted by individuals and organisations in their own context. An example case study illustrates the implementation of the principles. NES published this guidance in December 2008. http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/documents/publications/classa/181208_supporting_learnAdded: 2009-07-03artartart is a quarterly online publication about contemporary art from Matt Roberts Arts, an organisation based in London. The website has a number of feature illustrated articles in full, as well as selected reviews. There is also information about the artist currently selected for a live art commission. The magazine accepts submissions for content, comments and feedback as well as proposals, contact details are available on the website. Full versions of the magazines can be downloaded as PDF files; each magazine offers interviews, articles and reviews, which relate to a specific theme or issue and also includes a list of upcoming residencies, prizes and opportunities for artists to apply for. http://www.artartartgallery.com/Added: 2009-07-03The PhilPapers website offers a freely accessible extensive directory of philosophy articles and books. At time of writing, the database had over 190,000 entries, and was steadily growing. The vast majority of the articles listed are available online, as are a smaller proportion of the books. PhilPapers differs from some other bibliographic databases in that in addition to indexing the contents of almost 200 philosophy journals and thousands of books, it also includes entries for works made available via philosophers' own home pages or online archives. The database can be browsed by category or searched (although the search function is a little idiosyncratic), and users have the option of limiting their searches to show only works which are available online free of charge. The site aims to be comprehensive, but is still a comparatively young venture (launched early in 2009), and coverage of more recent material is currently better than that of older publications. Users are invited to contribute (this requires free registration) by submitting new entries, categorising articles, or uploading bibliographies. The site also hosts a collection of philosophical discussion forums. Although still in development, this is a valuable resource for philosophers. PhilPapers receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of their Information Environment Programme. http://philpapers.org/Added: 2009-07-03Reading for Philosophical Inquiry is a useful online open source introductory philosophy textbook from Lander University. The book consists of a selection of excerpts from important works of philosophy, accompanied by an introduction and study notes. The work begins by discussing the nature of philosophy, and moves on to consider philosophy of religion, ethics, and metaphysics and epistemology. Featured authors include: Plato; Aquinas; Hume; Kant; Nietzsche; Mill; Bertrand Russell; and William James. Each section is available in three formats: HTML; PDF; and MP3 files created using speech synthesis software. The book is made available for use under a GDFL licence, full details of which are given on the site, and forms part of a wider collection of introductory philosophy resources on the Lander University website. http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/introbook-links.htmlAdded: 2009-07-03The website of the International Association for Scottish Philosophy provides information about this organisation, which exists to facilitate and encourage study of the Scottish philosophical tradition. The Association does not organise its own events, but instead promotes conferences and other societies which may be of interest to those with an interest in this area: lists of relevant events and bodies and available on the site. Details of how to join the Association (which is free) are also provided. Additionally, the website offers a historical survey of Scottish philosophy, plus short articles about major Scottish philosophers (including David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith) and about the impact of Scottish philosophy around the world. The site also gives information about the Journal of Scottish Philosophy, including an opportunity to read and participate in online discussion of a featured article. http://www.scottishphilosophy.org/Added: 2009-07-03This is the website of the Aaaron Siskind Foundation, the estate of the photographer and educator who bequeathed that "his estate become a resource that would support contemporary photography and reward and encourage excellence in its practitioners". Since his death in 1991, the foundation has been awarding cash grants and supporting contemporary photography through events, collaborations and projects. The website has information about Aaron Siskind, including a chronology, images of his works and details of exhibitions. Books about Siskind can also be purchased on the website. There is also information about the foundation and its aims. Details of the Individual Photographer's Fellowship (IPF) can be found on the website along with guidelines of how to apply (PDF file), an online application and profiles of previous recipients of the prize. http://www.aaronsiskind.org/Added: 2009-07-03The website of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association contains information about all aspects of wheelchair sport. It includes information about the Association, classifications, forthcoming events, results of past events, and articles. There are sections devoted to all the different individual sport and links to local branches of the Association and other governing bodies of sport. Individuals can also submit contributions for consideration. http://www.cwsa.ca/home.htmlAdded: 2009-07-03The Manchester Architecture and Design Festival's website, (which requires Flash plug-in), acts as a hub for all the festival activities, and provides annotated links to the websites of the organisations and individuals involved. The festival is a collaboration between Manchester Society of Architects, Centre for the Urban Built Environment (CUBE), Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Student Society of Architecture and RIBA North West. The website is in the form of an online calender on which interactive dates give details of events taking place, with external links to the relevant venue, event or organisation. The full list of events for the festival, as well as the poster and flyer can be downloaded as PDF files. http://www.madf.co.uk/Added: 2009-07-03Book/Shelf is an online version of, and companion to, the exhibition, held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, from 26 March to 7 July 2008. The exhibition takes work from MoMA's collection and library, which are "rich in works by artists who tackle the idea of books by stretching the conventions of the medium", and shows exhibits of modern art in the shape of books. The website, which requires Flash plug-in 8.0 or higher, presents highlights of the work including photography, film printing, assemblage, drawing, and sound recording. The works can be arranged by thumbnail view or by artists' names. There are also website credits and a 'checklist'; a PDF document with a list, images where available, and details of each work in the exhibition. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/bookshelf/Added: 2009-07-03This is the online companion to the exhibition 'Typebound', curated by Craig Saper and Theo Lotzheld, which was held at the University of Central Florida Art Gallery from 27 January to 6 March 2009. Typebound's two parts; 'The Book's Bound' and 'Socio-Poetics of Typewriting' is an exhibiton of artists' book works where "two of the books most fundamental elements - its bindings and its type - are separated and examined for creative possibilities as they are freed of their basic, traditional functions." The works shown were from the Florida Collections and The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry respectively. The website has an introduction to the concept behind the exhibition and the catalogue can be downloaded in full, including a few essays and a number of illustrations. Essays can be downloaded (also as PDF files) independently of the catalogue and there is also a link to images of the exhibition on Flickr. http://www.readies.org/typebound/Added: 2009-07-03This is the website for Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), a private foundation founded by Norway's Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001 that aims to "develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene." OCA has various functions: organising residency programmes for international artists in Norway; providing support for Norwegian artists abroad; and producing and promoting seminars, exhibitions, and publications. OCA award funding for projects or exhibitions that promote Norwegian art and artists internationally. Guidelines and an application form for these awards can be found on the website. There are details of Programmes in Norway, with profiles of artists-in-residence and information about host venues. There is also information about the Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art 2006 and its previous recipients as well as the OCA's resource room, which can be visited by appointment. 'Programmes Abroad' similarly has information about residency programmes, Norway's presence at Biennials and their experimental platform [OCA, NY] in New York. The 'Public Platform' section of the website has details of exhibitions, events and seminars organised by OCA. Users can view press releases on the website, an online newsletter and the 'Semesterplan', an online calendar outlining all upcoming and past events. http://www.oca.no/Added: 2009-07-03Available in English and Romanian, this is the website of the Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art, which began in 2005, and which was next held in 2006 and then bi-annually since then. The biennale is organised by Pavilion Magazine and aims to bring "together an international vision of art and cross-cultural exchange with a commitment to the community involvement and the enrichment of Bucharest's cultural resources." The website has information about the upcoming biennale, with some information about the event and concept behind it. Venues, participants, parallel events and publications are all listed on the website when announced. In 'History' there are complete websites available to view of all the past biennales. Other content on the website includes practical information for visitors, links to partner organisations and a blog from Pavilion Magazine. http://bucharestbiennale.org/Added: 2009-07-03This is the website of Kaleidoscope, a publishing house based in Milan that publishes the free contemporary art magazine Kaleidoscope, runs a project space exhibiting contemporary art, and that also develops an "editorial production of catalogues and monographs, academic texts, artists' books and limited editions". The website is in both English and Italian and has information about the magazine, its contributors and details of how to subscribe. Users can register to download a full-text version of the magazine and back issues for free. Kaleidoscope are currently developing an online catalogue of publications and information about exhibitions in their project space. 'Backstage' is the Kaleidoscope blog where news and developments are posted and the 'Guestroom' sees a new guest blogger each month. Users can post their own articles, reviews, ideas and comments on the 'inbox' section and the best submissions will be published on the website. http://thekaleidoscope.eu/Added: 2009-07-03This is the website of Air de Paris, a gallery in Paris that shows contemporary art. The website has information about current and forthcoming exhibitions and there is also an archive called 'remember' of past exhibitions and events at Air de Paris. Random Gallery is a store front gallery space in Paris and a collaboration between Air de Paris and Praz-Delavallade, another Paris-based gallery. There is a link to the Random Gallery website, which acts as an online archive of all exhibitions held there. 'Silver Space' is a curious section of the website that appears to be a space for online works, the 'Lovely Planet' section has a broad selection of links to the websites of galleries and artists around the world. 'Les Chocolats' is entirely in French and gives blog-type updates, although these only cover 2000 - 2002. There is also an extensive list of artists on the website, each with a page about their work and images, many also with link to external websites. The majority of the website is in both English and French, although some sections are only French. http://airdeparis.com/Added: 2009-07-03Clancco (Clandestine Construction Company International) is the website of Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, an artist, writer and legal practitioner based in Brooklyn, New York. Clancco aims to "distinguish itself from other art practices, artistic and legal institutions and organizations, websites, and blogs by focusing on a rigorous study of the effects of law on cultural production and reception". The front page has news updates, links to relevant organisations and online resources as well as a contact form. The other content on the website is organised in three main sections: art and law; projects; and writings and interviews. 'Projects' shows works by the artist, 'Art and Law' has blog entries pertaining to law, with links to external websites where possible. 'Writings and Interviews' has articles, interviews and comment by the artist as well as other writers. Comments can be left on all areas of the website. http://www.clancco.com/Added: 2009-07-03Inter-Disciplinary.Net's Persons hub is an online resource for exploring what it means to be a person, and how persons stand in relation to one another. The hub is home to a number of discrete (and quite diverse) projects: Forgiveness; Hope; The Patient; Ethics in Everyday Life; Persons, Intimacy and Love; and Persons and Animals. Project archives are available for each of these (though at time of review some of these were still under construction), plus details of past and forthcoming conferences and other project activities. The projects bring together academics from a range of disciplines, including: metaphysics; social and medical ethics; and philosophy of love and sex. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/Added: 2009-07-03Inter-Disciplinary.Net's Transformations hub is an online resource for exploring aspects of human nature that are in flux. The hub is home to a number of discrete (and quite diverse) projects: Ethics and Public Life; Culture, Politics, Aesthetics; Intellectuals, Knowledge, Power; Sexualities; The Erotic; and Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime, and Ethics. Project archives are available for each of these (though at time of review, in some cases these were still under construction), plus details of past and forthcoming conferences and other project activities. The projects bring together academics from a range of disciplines, including: ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of love and sex; and cultural studies. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/Added: 2009-07-03This is the new website (for 2009) for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, previously part of the Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London website. The Jerwood Drawing Prize was established in 1994 by Anita Taylor and Paul Thomas, and, originally based in Cheltenham, it is now hosted by Drawing Projects UK and is organised in association with Wimbledon College of Art and The Centre for Drawing at the University of the Arts London. The website has general information about the prize as well as details of how to enter and submission dates and venues. There is a time line for submissions and exhibitions and a Frequently Asked Questions section. When admissions are open, users can register and pay to enter online and there are also PDF versions of the entry form and labels in order to enter by post. http://www.jerwooddrawingprize.org/Added: 2009-07-03This is the website of Mongrel Foundation, a visual art collective with five core member artists, based in Dublin, Ireland. The collective was formed in order to "investigate how a number of artists with differing methodologies approach a set of preconditions collectively". The website documents the various projects instigated by the group, with descriptions, images and in some cases, short films that require QuickTime viewer. There is also a page dedicated to each of the artists in the group, with an online portfolio of their work, a CV and an artist's statement. A news section reports on the group's activities, with links to external websites where relevant and there is a links section with the websites on of various galleries, publications and organisations. http://www.mongrelfoundation.com/Added: 2009-07-03This section of the Harvard Art Museum's website is dedicated to provenance research, based on the works in their collection that were acquired in or after 1933, or made in or before 1945. The staff at Harvard Art Museum have committed to "examine the provenance of works in their collections to determine whether they may have been subject to looting or other improper transactions". The website has an explanation of what provenance means and also looks at the scope of research relevant to the museum. There are reports on the progress of this research as well as recent findings published on the website. As the number of works being investigated is over 5,000, the entire list can be searched alphabetically or by keyword. There is a bibliography section and website links on provenance research as well as a list of publications containing images of works for the Harvard Art Museum's collection. http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/provenance/Added: 2009-07-03Philosopher's Digest is an online service which offers reviews of current philosophy articles. Its aim is to provide scholars with an easier way to stay abreast of the philosophical literature, while at the same time encouraging (and providing a forum for) discussion. Founded early in 2009, the site has a pool of reviewers who commit to providing three to four reviews a year. The reviews are quite substantial (indeed, at around 700 to 1000 words each, they are longer than many book reviews published in journals), offering a precis of the argument, and sometimes also criticism or response. Other users of the site are encouraged to add their thoughts using the comment function, although at time of review this feature did not appear to be particularly widely used. The site is well presented and easy to navigate: one can search, or browse by journal title or keyword. RSS feeds of the site content are available. http://www.philosophersdigest.com/Added: 2009-07-03This website is devoted to the life and work of the 19th century Portuguese poet, Antero Quental, and is designed by CITI (Interactive Research Technologies Centre), of Universidade Nova de Lisbon. The site introduces the poet and his work in his own historical, literary and cultural contexts: it introduces his poetry; his critical work; his engagement with contemporary notions such as socialism; it provides analysis of his work from an aesthetic perspective while supporting these comments and analyses in a scholarly yet easily accessible manner. A particularly long section is devoted to his sonnets. The site is complemented by a bibliography of the poet's work and also a thorough bibliograpy of secondary sources. This resource is recommended to pupils and students attempting to familiarize themselves with 19th century Portuguese poetry in its particular contexts. http://www.citi.pt/cultura/literatura/poesia/quental/Added: 2009-07-03The Association of Portuguese Linguists is a professional association that promotes the study of linguistics, creates opportunities for professional discussion for its members, and formulates and establishes research questions and directions. Its membership consists of linguists from lusophone countries from all over the world. The society organises annual conferences (programme included from 2003 onwards); provides a bibliography of members' publications; carries calls for papers in the field of linguistics; and has its own bulletin, access to which is obtainable by free subscription. The site also has a good collection of links of e-libraries and sites related to Portuguese linguistics. This website is carefully maintained and updated, and provides a comprehensive picture of current linguistic research in Portugal, which then serves linguistic research elsewhere as well. http://www.apl.org.pt/index.phpAdded: 2009-07-03This is the online version of the exhibition 'Trying to Cope with Things that aren't Human', curated by Ian Brown and shown at David Cunningham Projects in San Francisco and AirSpace Gallery in Stoke on Trent during 2009. The exhibition looks at work dealing with the relationship between the natural world and the human condition and includes eleven international artists. The website introduces the exhibition and there is a section with descriptions and images of the works that each of the artists contributed. A publication to accompany the exhibition is available, with further, printed works. Links to the artists' websites, and those of related organisations, can be found on the website along with exhibition venues and dates. http://www.thingsthatarenthuman.com/Added: 2009-07-03Worldwidereview is an online platform for reviews of art and culture worldwide. Worldwidereview accepts open submissions and also has regular reviewers. Users can review any exhibitions or events. There is a focus on contemporary art, although reviews of every kind are to be found here, as the founders of the website invite users to 'review your world'. Every week Worldwidereview selects ten reviews for their front page and by registering on the website users will receive regular updates. The website has reviews and press releases listed by date added, although there is also a keyword search facility. A classics section picks out the best reviews from different years and an archive is currently under construction. http://www.worldwidereview.com/Added: 2009-07-03This website publishes the preliminary report on the second season of the 'Körös culture environment, settlement and subsistence' interdisciplinary archaeological project at Ecsegfalva, County Békés, Hungary - an important site for early Neolithic Körös culture (c. 6000-5500 BCE). The illustrated and referenced report provides some initial information that may be useful primarily to researchers. A key objective of the project has been to investigate in detail the local setting, including the water regime and vegetation in an attempt to recover new evidence for the character and duration of settlement and to examine the range and balance of both domesticated and wild resources.The 'Islands in a Common Sea, Isles of Scilly' archaeological project website publishes some images and reports from the survey of the islands carried out by a team of British archaeologists lead by Dr Jacqui Mulville. The survey gathered environmental information as well as archaeological data. The extensive 2006 report is available in PDF format with a summary of the methodology, updated results, colour pictures and references. Both researchers and students interested in the archaeology of the Isles of Scilly will find this website useful. -
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This resource is the data component of a project funded by a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board between 1999 and 2001. The project was designed to examine Lower Palaeolithic technology and raw material and to use the findings to discuss aspects of population ecology during the period. The time range is from 1.5Myr to 300Kyr and includes material from Africa, Europe and the Near East. The database contains 10668 digitised images of 3556 bifaces, as well as information on provenience, raw material and standard measurements. The database is fully searchable online and results can be exported to a comma separated value (.csv) text file for download. There is also extensive documentation on the projects aims and methodology together with detailed site descriptions of the eighteen sites examined worldwide. All images are presented in the jpeg format and are thumbnailed by each of the entries in the query results list. When a full record is selected, three images (front, side and rear) are presented for each full record. The full record details are extensive but field explanations can be accessed easily from within each record. The site is easily navigable through the standard ADS interface and users are required to accept the ADS terms and conditions prior to accessing the resource. Navigation between search results and full records is simple and the full record details for each biface are arranged in an uncomplicated fashion. The resource requires little browser technology although JavaScript must be enabled in order to view the images. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?bifacesAdded: 2009-07-03Published in the USA by Alexander Street Press the In the First Person (FIRP) website is a free service providing an index to over 3,500 collections in the English language from around the globe. Using a keyword search facility this resource enables the user to access over 650,000 pages of full-text narratives from over 15,000 individuals. Covering key historical events over the past 500 years, from the Protestant Reformation, 1500-1650 to September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, the main focus of the resource is from an American perspective, though major events in world history are covered. These include the English Civil War, the American Civil War, the First World War, and the Second World War, and the events are listed with clear indication of how many texts are available (sometimes hundreds), as well as a few audio recordings and even video for a small minority of events. Further the index provides access to thousands of diaries, letters, and oral history entries. The resource provides a basic Quick Search function, along with the ability to search via a "Search Collections" and "Search Documents" function. Boolean operators are able to be used in these sections (for example, AND, OR, NOT). A "Table of Contents" section enables user to browse search via: respositories; date; collections; places; documents; all subjects; and historical events. A statement of copyright indicates how these files may be used, and their is a clear editorial policy. According to the website 'approximately 25% of the index points to materials that are in copyright. These materials can be purchased as a subscription.' http://www.inthefirstperson.com/Added: 2009-07-02The Worlds of Late Antiquity website is the home page for 'miscellaneous materials relating to the culture of the Mediterranean world', covering the period from 200 to 700 CE. Topics include the life and works of Saint Augustine, Cassiodorus' Variae, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Pope Gregory the Great, Junillus/Junilius (quaestor under Justinian c.AD 541-9, who composed the Instituta regularia divinae legis in AD 542), Aelius Donatus (the mid 4th century grammarian who was the teacher of Jerome), and Cosmas Indicopleustes (a 6th century Alexandrian merchant who eventually became a monk, and who wrote the Christian Topography, based on his travels). All of the sections are composed by James O'Donnell of Georgetown University, primarily for a course he taught in 1995 (the exception to the above is the section on Cosmas, which is by Andrew Weisner also of the University of Pennsylvania). The site focuses on particular works by the aforementioned ancient writers, making the texts available on the net. For instance, Gregory the Great's 'Moralia in Iob' consists of the first five volumes of this book of which the first book is available in HTML format with clickable footnotes, while the remaining four are on ASCII format without footnotes. The Christian Topography of Comas is based upon McCrindles' (1887) translation, using Winstedt's (1909) edition of the Greek text. Generously, O'Donnell includes (a complete edition) of his own book on Cassiodorus, written in 1979, which is now out of print. http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/wola.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02The website of IPPAR offers introduction to the work of the organisation, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Portugal. Its two main areas of work are: heritage recovery and improvement; and the protection of built heritage. Its area extends to the whole of mainland Portugal, but makes no reference to architectural heritage on other locations. The site's search functions allow searches for these buidings according to classification; the nature of the monument; category; and location. Its separate section lists monuments and areas of Portugal included in World Heritage, including areas in Madeira and the Azores as well. The site also introduces printed publications that describe and show the built cultural heritage of the country. This site is particularly useful for students of Portuguese and European cultural history, architectural history and art history, as well as students of museum and tourism studies. http://www.ippar.pt/pls/dippar/ippar_home/Added: 2009-07-02The website of the Latin American travelogues digital collection, part of the Brown University Library's collection, aims to show the richness of travelogues written about trips to Latin America between the 16th and the 18th centuries. The site intends to gather material covering trips to the entirety of the continent. However, at the time of cataloguing, only the trips taken to Brazil are listed. The primary texts, originally published in Britain and North-America, are digitally photographed, bibliographically accurately described, and accompanied by undergraduate essays to illustrate student engagement with these texts. The addition of further itineraries and texts will prove the usefulness of this resource. Its current form shows the richness of travel material and also the pedagogical potential embedded in a unique collection of archival material. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/travelogues/Added: 2009-07-02This website publishes the preliminary report on the second season of the "Körös culture environment, settlement and subsistence" interdisciplinary project at Ecsegfalva, County Békés, Hungary. The illustrated and referenced report provides some initial information that may be useful primarily to researchers. A key objective of the project has been to investigate in detail the local setting, including the water regime and vegetation in an attempt to recover new evidence for the character and duration of settlement and to examine the range and balance of both domesticated and wild resources. http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/archaeology/reports/koros/Added: 2009-07-02The "Islands in a Common Sea, Isles of Scilly" archaeological project website publishes some images and reports from the survey of the islands carried out by a team of British archaeologists lead by Dr Jacqui Mulville. The survey gathered environmental information as well as archaeological data. The extensive 2006 report is available in PDF format with a summary of the methodology, updated results, colour pictures and references. Both researchers and students interested in the archaeology of the Isles of Scilly will find this website useful. http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/archaeology/projects/scilly/Added: 2009-07-02This Web page gives free access to 15 full-text back issues of the academic journal Chinese Science (1975-1998). This English-language journal was edited from U.S. universities and published articles examining aspects of the history of science, technology and medicine in China. Issues have tables of contents and articles are freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'Craft and Ritual in Traditional Chinese Carpentry'; 'Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan'; 'Silk Weaving in Ancient China: From Geometric Figures to Patterns of Pictorial Likeness'; and 'The Evolution and Decline of the Ancient Chinese Practice of Watching for the Ethers', among many others. This will be an interesting collection for anyone interested in Chinese history, and for those interested more generally in the history of science and technology. The journal also had a few articles on science under communist rule in the 20th century. http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/ans/eastm/back/csbigcont.htmAdded: 2009-07-02The International Association for Obsidian Studies (IAOS) Bulletin is a free and full-text newsletter published since 1989 available in PDF format. It provides regular news about the association including membership; information on worldwide events and conferences focusing on the study of ancient obsidian, including calls for papers; and illustrated and referenced papers. Updated instructions for submitting new papers can be found on the latest issue of the Bulletin. Most of the academic papers require some knowledge of the scientific techniques employed to be understood and are therefore aimed at the research community. http://members.peak.org/~obsidian/bulletin.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02'Loops: writing music' is a commercial British print magazine featuring quality writing about popular music. The first issue was launched in July 2009, and the website contains many substantial free extracts from articles contained in the first issue. Among these are Nick Kent on the music of Nick Drake, interviews conducted by Jon Savage for his book England's Dreaming, Geeta Dayal on Brian Eno and cooking, and Maggoty Lamb on the death of the British music press, among others. The website contains details of this twice-yearly magazine, a list of stockists including the Amazon UK listing for Loops, Loops events in 2009, and contact details. This will be a useful publication for academics researching aspects of popular music, and who are seeking suitable publishers. http://www.loopsjournal.com/Added: 2009-07-02This blog is hosted by the US-based Experimental Philosophy society. The blog is written by many contributors drawn from academic philosophy. Articles emphasise the empiricial investigation of philosophical ideas. An archive is provided, as well as links to further resources. The blog should be useful for students, teachers and students. http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/Added: 2009-07-02This radio radio programme, produced by Australian broadcaster ABC, is a documentary comprising interviews with participants of the original Stanley Milgram experiment on obedience. The presenter of the programme is Brent Clough. It is 54 minutes in length and presented in MP3 format. The programme should be useful for students and teachers. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/radioeye/stories/2008/2358103.htmAdded: 2009-07-02This site forms part of the University of California eScholarship editions. It provides free access to the book Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory by Robert Paul Resch,. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. The 443 page book aims to demonstrate the the ongoing value of Althusser's social theory of Marxism and its challenge to contemporary post-Marxist and postmodern social theories. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3n39n8x3/Added: 2009-07-02The EU diplomacy papers are a collection of working papers published by the College of Europe. They cover issues relating to the interdisciplinary study of the European Unions external relations and external aspects of EU internal policies. It is possible to access the full text of all papers published since 2006. Key topics are EU foreign policy and EU relations with specific regions of the world such as Iran. Some materials are offered in French only. http://www.coleurop.be/template.asp?pagename=EUDPAdded: 2009-07-02This blog is maintained by David Andress, Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, England. It was created to support his project of writing an Oxford History of Modern Europe covering France from 1763 to 1848. It provides postings on his work in progress and aims to elicit critical comment and debate on the issues from the online academic community. The site includes draft chapters and outlines. Topics covered include French political history, the history of the monarchy in France, political transitions, wars in Europe and the French Revolution of 1789 and its social, economic and political impact. http://andress1789.wordpress.com/Added: 2009-07-02This online and print magazine is published in the United States. It aims to foster relations among psychotherapists and explore issues related to psychotherapy. The magazine also provides links to courses, community sites, and upcoming conferences and symposia. It should be useful for psychotherapists, teachers and students. http://www.psychotherapynetworker.orgAdded: 2009-07-02This site is maintained by the Children & Families of the Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW). It provides free access to a searchable database of over 55,000 records of British POWs from World War Two. Holdings are taken from records of the National Archives at Kew, England. Individual records include name, service rank, camp and some medical details. COFEPOW are also adding liberation questionnaires to the site. These were completed upon liberation by British servicemen who were captured and held as Prisoners of war by the Japanese. Copyright and technical details are provided on the website. http://www.cofepowdb.org.uk/cdb2/Index.jspAdded: 2009-07-02This site provides free access to the full text of a report of the International Election Observation Mission of the The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) to the 2009 elections in Indonesia. The 72 page report provides a critical assessment of the conduct of the elections. It includes discussion of the state of democracy in Indonesia, the Indonesian electoral system and the counting process. It includes an example of a ballot paper. http://www.anfrel.org/report/indonesia/2009/Indonesia_General_Election_2009.pdfAdded: 2009-07-02This site was created by Mary Smith and Barbara Freer, descendants of Dick Williams, Jr a World War II prisoner of war. It provides information on Stalag Luft I, an allied airmen prisoner of war camp located in Barth, Germany. The website provides free access to oral history accounts, plus digitised letters, poetry, POW newspapers and other camp memorabilia, offering an insight into the personal lives and daily experiences of the men housed there. Other features of the site include a roll-call of all the POWs biographical information on the German guards and interrogators, research guides and an online collection of photographs taken by Heinrich Haslob which show images of the camp buildings, prisoners and some escape tunnels. http://www.merkki.com/Added: 2009-07-02This is the official website of the International Political Science Association research committee RC 41 Geopolitics. It was founded in the 1990s and focuses upon issues relating to geopolitics and political behaviour and foreign policy. Its website provides information on its aims, membership and activities. It includes updates about conferences, research and publications. http://rc41.ipsa.org/Added: 2009-07-02This site is maintained by the BBC Panorama programme. It provides free access to information from the leading Panorama documentary series which focuses upon political issues, social welfare and social policy in the UK. It includes access to some programme transcripts, plus links to film clips and full versions of more recent programmes ( generally those dating from 2007 onwards) some of which can be viewed on demand in full via the BBC iplayer service. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/default.stmAdded: 2009-07-02This site provides free access to the full text of a book edited by Paul K. Davis, Kim Cragin which was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and published by RAND in 2009 ISBN 978-0-8330-4706-9. The 542 page book provides a comprehensive survey of social science literature relating to terrorism. Topics covered include the causes of terrorism, why people become terrorists, how terrorists generate support (including coverage of radicalisation processes), the economics of terrorism and counterterrorism, and how social science knowledge and theories can help guide counterterrorist strategies. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG849.pdfAdded: 2009-07-02Ask Scotland is a free online enquiry service provided by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), in collaboration with OCLC, and local authority partners in Scotland. It offers members of the public the chance to submit reference enquiries and questions about Scotland, its history, politics and culture to specialist teams of reference librarians. Answers are usually received in 2 working days. http://scone.strath.ac.uk/ask/index.cfmAdded: 2009-07-02This blog is maintained by the Public Petitions Committee of the Scottish Parliament. It provides information for the public on how to get involved in politics by petitioning the Scottish Parliament. This includes coverage of e-government projects and the e-petitions process. It also includes news updates and links to information, facts and on-line videos about Scottish Parliamentary business. Archives are available from 2009 onwards. http://scottishparliamentpetitions.blogspot.com/Added: 2009-07-02This publication from UNEP, FAO and the UN Forum on Forests, graphically presents an examination of the problems and challenges of global deforestation, particularly in relation to climate change. It "serves as an advocacy tool to promote conservation and sustainable management of the worlds forests". The graphs, illustrations, tables and maps provided here help to illustrate issues as diverse as clearing forests for biofuels, sustainable livelihoods, forest protection, the importance of rainforests, boreal forests, fire, and certification. The 40-page document was issued in 2008. http://www.grida.no/_res/site/file/publications/vital_forest_graphics.pdfAdded: 2009-07-02Hors champ is an online international film and media magazine published in French. It is based in Canada. Full text content is available free on the website; users can also register to receive notification of each new edition. There are two main sections: Cinema, and Media and Society. Cinema includes interviews with film directors, film reviews and reports on the film industry. Media and society includes articles about television, sport and its portrayal, or politics in the news. There are events listings for Canadian film. Although international in scope, Hors champ is a good source of information about francophone and especially Canadian film. (It is the sister magazine to Offscreen, although not a direct translation of it). http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/Added: 2009-07-02Orthodontics on the Web is an educational resource produced by Dr Ross Hobson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University. The site provides a number of overviews of orthodontics and orthodontic techniques and includes lectures, clinical tips and clinical aids, how to present cases, and examples of case presentations. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/dental/ortho/Added: 2009-07-02This is the website of the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption, a specialist sub-group of the International Political Science Association. It provides information on the aims, membership and current research interests of the group. It includes lists of relevant papers and conferences. Topics covered include the role of money in politics; comparative and historical studies of political corruption, political donations and the funding of political parties. http://rc20.ipsa.org/Added: 2009-07-02This site was created by the BBC to provide coverage of the 10th anniversary of Scottish devolution. It includes timelines of key events, news stories and analysis of the history and political impact of the creation of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood House. The site also includes film clips of interviews with leading players. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/scotland/2009/devolution_decade/Added: 2009-07-02One of a series of practical resources from the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), this 8-page document outlines how farms can improve the growing of cereal crops by using quality standard compost produced to BSI standard PAS100. It describes the importance of organic matter in soils and the potential nutrient supply from composts, and presents the evidence from long-term trials of compost on cereals. http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/W568Cerealswebmar09.24a7014d.6777.pdfAdded: 2009-07-02The online journal 'Revista de história, cultura e arte' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute of History and Postgraduate Studies of the Federal University of Uberlândia twice a year, carrying articles and book reviews in the field of history, literary and cultural history of Brazil and Europe. Topics are varied in range, including essays on 19th century French symbolist poetry and Brazilian photography. One major section in each issue is devoted to 'History, art and image', while another major section carries scholarly articles, and finally, each issue publishes book reviews. The online version started in 2004 (vol. 6, no. 9); and each essay and the preceding abstract is freely available in the public domain. The site contains search functions, enabling searches for author, title, edition and keywords in the abstracts and the full text. Information about the submission and peer-review process as well as the electronic archiving process is also available. http://www.artcultura.ppghis.inhis.ufu.br/Added: 2009-07-02Península is an online scholarly periodical published by the Facutly of Arts of the Universidade do Porto in Portugal. It was launched in 2003 as an annual publication (starting with issue 0), and its issues publish scholarship in the field of history and literary history in the Iberian peninsula, with an emphasis on the period until 1800. The themes are wide-ranging: Issue 0, for instance, covers subject as the representation of Portuguese princes and princesses in 15th-century Spanish literature; and the origins of Coimbra University; volume 3 carries an article tracing the history of Don Quijote in Portuguese literature. All the articles are freely downloadable in a pdf format, and most are preceded by abstracts. The site can be searched via the general digital library search page of the university. This site is particularly interesting for hispanic and Portuguese scholars of history and literary history for its intriguing articles. http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id04id12&sum=simAdded: 2009-07-02This site provides free access to the full text of report number 09/103 by John Dodgson which was published by the RAC Foundation in June 2009. The 32 page report provides an economic evaluation of the cost-benefit of public funding of surface transport schemes by the Uk government. These include road, motorway and railway projects. The report concludes that it is more beneficial for the government to invest money in road and highways expansion, rather than public transport. http://www.racfoundation.org/files/Main%20Report%20-%20Rates%20of%20Return%20on%Added: 2009-07-02ARBORtrack is a geographic information software system for tree management, which was designed by and for vegetation managers. It integrates vegetation management information, allowing users to control groups or individual trees. The site gives details of the ARBORtrack products available. Users can download the user manual, technical documentation and an interactive demonstration of the software. There are also contact details for current users across Britain, details of how to register the software product and news items. http://www.arbortrack.com/Added: 2009-07-02A brief introduction is provided to the wave theory of sound and to the historical development of this theory. The text comprises excerpts from Chapter 1 of "Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications" by Allan D. Pierce, published by the Acoustical Society of America. http://asa.aip.org/pierce.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02This brief introduction to the science of acoustics is provided by the Acoustics Laboratory at Kettering University, USA. A link to an acoustics FAQ is also available. http://www.kettering.edu/acad/scimath/physics/acoustics/whatis.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02Introductory notes on waves, acoustics and vibration are provided by Dr James B. Calvert, Associate Professor Emeritus of Engineering, University of Denver. The notes cover: simple harmonic motion, sound waves, acoustic radiation, pipes and resonators, anomalous sound propagation, diffraction, waves in three dimensions, vibrations of air columns and stretched strings, vibrations of flat things, waves in solids, surface waves on liquids and musical scales. http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/waves/wavhom.htmAdded: 2009-07-02This is the English introduction page to an online library of around 100 rare books from the late 15th through the early 19th century. These books have been scanned from the Special Subject Collection in Art History the University Library of Heidelberg in Germany, and from selected other libraries, and are all about either architecture or garden design. It is not immediately clear how to access the complete titles list from the page - a visitor must click on the link "From our own collection", and the list is then rather unhelpfully given A-Z by author only (and usually with no dates indicated). The books to be found in this manner are either French or German, and many can also be downloaded as a PDF file. There are also search functions built into the Web page for each book. For those who can only read English, there are also English books to be found via the alternative 'Other libraries offers' link - here users will find a small number of digital version of rare books from London publishers including: William Halfpenny's 'Useful Architecture' (1760); William Pain's 'Pain's British Palladio' (1788); John Plaw's 'Sketches for country houses, villas, and rural dwellings' (1800); Humprey Repton's 'Sketches and hints on landscape gardening' (1794); and Robert Adams' 'Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia' (1764). Books accessed from 'Other libraries' seem to be provided as image scans only - text cannot be copied and the books cannot be downloaded as a PDF. http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/archiAdded: 2009-07-02This website is devoted to the major British poet Charles Tomlinson (born 1927), and is published by Sylvia Paul. It is subtitled as 'Resources for students, readers and scholars on the English poet, essayist and artist'. This large free website has materials such as a short biography of the poet, details of translations, readings and audio recordings, lectures, news on the poet's legacy, a bibliography, and interviews. Charles Tomlinson's 'New Collected Poems' will be published by Oxford Poets in July 2009. http://www3.sympatico.ca/sylvia.paul/CharlesTomlinson_index.htmAdded: 2009-07-02This is the official website of the American Portuguese Studies Association, an organisation devoted to foster connections between Portuguese scholars and educators in the United States and beyond. The Association, founded in 1996, aims at promoting and disseminating Portuguese-related subjects. The site contains information about the Association, including membership, constitution and committee details, and also offers job-listings. It also allows access to its online, peer-reviewed annual journal 'ellipsis' (launched in 2003). 'ellipsis' covers literary and linguistic subjects from Portuguese-speaking countries and diasporas in English and Portuguese. The site provides access to bibliographic details and abstracts for issues from 2006 onwards. It also provides information about the editorial and advisory board, subscription information, and the submission process. This site is particularly recommended to students and researchers of literary and linguistic subjects in higher education. Finally, it allows to access the programme of the 2008 conference held in São Paulo on the work of Machado de Assis. The site is intended to provide information for the general audience but it also addresses the academic readership by providing conference and job information. http://www.umassd.edu/apsa/Added: 2009-07-02Opticon 1826 is an full-text postgraduate ejournal, published from University College London. At July 2009 there are six issues online, freely offering editorials as HTML files and articles as PDF files. Creative work, commentaries, and research notes are also published. There is no statement of scope, but judging by the first six issues the journal mixes literary and film analysis with examinations of the ethics inherent in biomedical technology, third-world development, and the contemporary workplace. Example article titles of interest to those in the humanities include: 'Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust'; 'Its all about the Money? Issues for the Regulation of Genetic Testing'; 'A Spectral Turn around Venice: following in the footsteps of John Ruskin'; 'Monstrosity, Anxiety and the Real: Representations of the Victorian Metropolis in David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man'; 'Scopic Regime and Organised Walking: A Typological Study on the Modern Museum'; and 'Multilingual London and its Literatures', among others. There are details of the editors and Editorial Board, the faculty reviewers, and the submissions process. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/opticon1826/currentissueAdded: 2009-07-02A collection of sample chapters from graduate textbooks on physics has been made available by Cambridge University Press. The chapters can be downloaded as PDF files and are from books covering a wide range of physics topics. For each sample chapter there is also a link to a page containing bibliographic information about the textbook from which it is taken, along with price and ordering information. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/browse/browse_samples.asp?subjectid=346Added: 2009-07-02This is the online fulltext edition of the first English translation of The Lusiad, the Portuguese national poem written by Luis de Camõens. The translation was made by William Julius Mickle in 1776, and this digitised transcription was based on the 1877 edition of the poem. The site contains the transcription of the complete 1877 edition, including the 1877 preface by the editor. It also contains the preliminary material added to the 1776 edition by Mickle, including the biography of the poet, Mickle's introduction to the poem and his historical essay. The transcribed text of the poem marks the pagination of the 1877 edition, and it also provides textual footnotes. This site is particularly useful for students of Portuguese literary studies, translation studies, and Victorian and reception studies. Readers should be aware that the title of the site uses the 19th century English spelling of the author's name (Camõens), in contrast with the current use which follows the correct spelling in Portuguese (Camões). http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/Added: 2009-07-02Dialang is a website designed for self-testing in a wide range of European languages including: Danish; Dutch; English; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Icelandic; Irish; Italian; Norwegian; Portuguese; Spanish; Swedish. The areas of self-testing include reading; writing; listening; grammar; vocabulary. The site does not issue certificates, but it offers professionally validated self-testing. Its levels place the user on the Council of Europe approved language scale.The user will need to dowload the software for the testing. The testing takes about 50 minutes, and offers to give an accurate picture of the learner's linguistic competence. The site offers a mailing list and also a space for user comments. This site is a potentially interesting tool in foreign language instruction as it allows the learner to participate in objective testing, developed with the support of the European Commission. http://www.dialang.org/portuguese/index.htmAdded: 2009-07-02This website is addressed to the examination of the life and work of the greatest living Portuguese poet, Eugénio de Andrade. The site is designed by the Centro de Investigação para Tecnologias Interactivas (Research Centre for Interactive Technologies), University of Lisbon. The site offers an introduction to Andrade's biography, literary and cultural contexts, displays several poems, produces publication history, and finally provides a detailad bibliography of the poet's work, and also a detailed secondary bibliography to facilitate further research. This website is particularly useful for general readership, and pupils and students with an interest to gain primary familiarity with the author's work. http://www.citi.pt/cultura/literatura/poesia/e_andrade/index.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02This is the website of the Bulletin of the Portuguese-Japanese studies, a scholarly periodical published by the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, with an annual or biannual frequency. The periodical was launched in 2000, and its presence reflects an increasing interest in comparative cultural and historical studies, and also in an investigation of Portugal's historic relations to the Far East. Its contributors are internationally acknowledged historians. All the issues are fully and freely downloadable from the website in html and pdf formats. This resource is particularly useful for historians of Portuguese colonization, maritime voyages, and also for theoretician of the East-West relations. http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/src/inicio/HomRevRed.jsp?iCveEntRev=361Added: 2009-07-02'Portuguese Studies' is the leading English-language journal devoted to the literature, culture and history of Portugal, Brazil and the rest of the lusophone world. It is published by the Modern Humanities Research Assocation. It was first launched in 1985 as an annual publication, and it became a biannual publication in 2006. The periodical publishes articles, essays, translations and previously unpublished texts, and its authors also include senior members of the international research community. Its topics are truly interdisciplinary within the field of humanities, including topics ranging from Portuguese monasticity to the perception of the Portuguese in India. Some of its issues are focused on one particular theme, such as vol 24, n. 2 (2008), which was entirely devoted to Pessoa. The website allows to browse the contents pages of the digitised issues, and the abstracts are also free to view when exist. This periodical is particularly important to scholars of Portuguese, Brazilian and related disciplines in the humantities, as it publishes wide-ranging and high-standard research. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/pstAdded: 2009-07-02This is the site of the Fr. António Vieira Chair of the Pontifica Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, which was established in 1984 with a truly interdisciplinary and comparative purpose. It hosts a range of comparative reserach projects in the humanities: canons and margins in Portuguese and Brazilian literature; continuity and discontinuity in Brazilian and Portuguese literature; aspects of Portuguese in its different stages; the role of intellectuals in modern and postmodern society; literature and urban experience. Significantly, the centre also publishes two online scholarly journals: Revista semear; and Revista gândara. The latter periodical has only had one issue in the time of the publication, but the former one has had a long run since its first issue in 1994. Each of its annual issues is themed around an important literary issue (rather than author); including issues of contemporary literature or literature of modernism. Gil Vicente and Eça de Queiróz loom large in the articles, which are freely downloadable in a html format. This website is particularly important for advanced scholars of Brazilian and Portuguese literature. http://www.letras.puc-rio.br/catedra/revista/index.htmlAdded: 2009-07-02Crítica na rede is an electronic journal in the field of philosophy published only in an electronic format by the Universidade do Ouro Preto in Brazil. It is a monthly publication that covers many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of science, language, philosophy of the mind, political philosophy and and other areas. Each issue contains a column devoted to book reviews in the above field. Particularly interesting is its blog column, which primarily contains short reviews on books and reflections on them. It also has a section ('hermes') which contains bulletin-board style messages which have some reference to the teaching of philosophy. This online journal is a particularly good example of one that is not derivative of a printed publication, and which takes advantage of the opportunities offered by an eletronic publication. Its immediacy and modernity manages to make an abstract subject appealing to the undergraduate audience with a command of Portuguese. http://criticanarede.com/Added: 2009-07-02 -
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Textos e pretextos is a literary journal published by the Cam&otlde;es Institute, Lisbon, with the aim of providing an outlet for academic criticism on the most important characters of Lusophone authors. First launched in 2002, it has brought out bi-annual volumes focusing upon either individual authors or important theoretical concepts. No 2 (2003) focuses on the concept of the mirror, while no 7 (2005) discusses the work fo Chico Buarque. Each issue assits study by a detailed bibliography, and the articles can be downloaded in pdf form. The periodical appears to have ceased publication in 2006, but the issues published offer an important contribution to the study of contemporary and recent authors and cultural phenomena. http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/bdc/revistas/textosepretextos/Added: 2009-07-02'Liberating modernism, degenerate art, or subversive reeducation? The impact of jazz on European culture' is the only English-language essay available at the full-text German ejournal 'Electronic Journal Literatur Primaer'. This substantial 12,000-word essay is by Berndt Ostendorf of the Amerika Institut at Munich, and examines the entry of jazz into Europe as a... "radical break concerning the rules of performance and habits of reception in Western musical culture". Ostendorf provides a detailed survey of the reception of jazz from the arrival of the American Expeditionary forces during the First World War, through to the role of jazz and jazz radio in German reeducation after 1945. This is a useful free primer for those seeking scholarly material on the cultural reception of jazz in Europe during the 20th century. http://www.ejournal.at/Essay/impact.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01Strikewise is a computerised blowfly strike prediction system based on temperature and rainfall records and an understanding of fly and sheep biology, to forecast the patterns of flystrike. This website provides information about blowflies, and blowfly control, and presents a series of maps illustrating strike risk patterns throughout the UK. Strikewise was developed by the Veterinary Parasitology and Ecology department at the University of Bristol. http://www.strikewise.com/index.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01The Committee on Electronic Information Communication (CEIC) was set up to advise the International Mathematical Union (IMU) on electronic matters. The Committee's website provides details of its activities, news and full text publications. http://www.ceic.math.ca/Added: 2009-07-01Tables of contents and abstracts are available from this subscription-based journal published quarterly by Springer US which focuses on the areas of applied probability that emphasise methodology and computing. The full-text is available to subscribers while an online sample copy and a number of popular articles are available for free, all as PDF files. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/11009Added: 2009-07-01Tables of contents and abstracts are available from this subscription-based journal published monthly by Springer which focuses on mathematical optimisation techniques and their applications to science and engineering. The full-text is available to subscribers, while an online sample copy and a number of popular articles are available for free, all as PDF files. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. http://www.springer.com/math/journal/10957Added: 2009-07-01This is the website of the Manitoba Aboriginal Sport and Recreation Council (MASRC). The site contains information regarding MASRC's history, operations, and programmes (including the Manitoba Indigenous Summer Games), services and partnerships. It lists staff, members of the board of directors and officials. Details of awards and news items are also included. http://www.masrc.com/Added: 2009-07-01REVER is a scholarly periodical in the discipline of religious studies published by the Pontifica Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil, that aims to introduce comtemporary scholarlship in the field of theology. The periodical first came out in 2001 as a quarterly, and each of its issues is available in a full-text, pdf or html format, precceded by an abstract.Each issue carries a thematic core: issue 1. in 2006 focused on sexuality and religion,while issue 1, 2008 provided a comparison between Brazil and Japan. This periodical is of particular importance to students of theology and religious studies, as well as cultural and intellectual historians. http://www.pucsp.br/rever/Added: 2009-07-01This is the website for the digitised version of the bi-weekly periodical Portugália: revista de cultura, tradição e renovação nacional, published between Ocober 1925 and March 1925. Despite its very short life (altogether 6 issues came out), the periodical is of immense significance in the history of Portuguese literature and culture, as it actively engaged with the modernisation of the country, and also with issues of national identity, the role of the Jewry in the history of Portugal, as part of the complex issues related to modernity, history and tradition. The site displays all the issues published. The documents are available in jpeg and pdf format. This digitisation is part of the Portuguese National Library's general project of digitising important documents, and this website is particularly useful for researchers of Portuguese cultural and history as it makes a rare document publicly available. http://purl.pt/283Added: 2009-07-01This is the website for the digitised version of the bi-weekly periodical Cancioneiro de musicas populares, published between 1893 and 1899. The periodical is of immense significance in the history of Portuguese music and in the history of collecting the national musical heritage, as it gathers together songs, serenades, dances, patriotic songs, national songs of religious origin, including music and verse. The site contains all the five volumes published including all the fascicles (1-75). The documents are available in jpeg and pdf format. This digitisation is part of the Portuguese National Library's general project of digitising important documents, and this website is particularly useful for researchers of Portuguese music and national cultural history as it makes a rare document publicly available. http://purl.pt/742Added: 2009-07-01Added: 2009-07-01This is the site of Manuel Viegas Guerreiro Centre of Portuguese Folk Traditions, a scholarly research centre focusing on the subject of the title. The centre was first set up by Lisbon University in 1993, and its aim is to host research project in the rich field of Portuguese folklore, give home to research collections, organise their digitisation, and to act as a general focus for folklore related research and its wide range of ramifications. The projects under the time of cataloguing are interdisciplinary in nature, and focus on the intersections of folklore, national mythology and language. The site also allows access to the online magazine Revista Lusitana, which carrries articles and reviews. Revista Lusitana was first published in 1981 on an annual basis, and all of its numbers are available in pdf format until 1989. For subsequent issues, the site carries abstracts only (pdf). The periodical appears to have ceased publication in 2005. The site also provides information about other (printed) publications in the field of folklore. This site is particularly interesting for researchers of folklore, popular culture and cultural studies in general, as its coverage includes not only Portugal, but also the rest of the lusophone world. http://www.fl.ul.pt/unidades/centros/ctp/eng_ver/index_eng.htmAdded: 2009-07-01The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection has been created by the Chicago Historical Society and is made freely available on their website. The Haymarket Affair refers to the violent confrontation between protestors supporting striking workers and the police which took place in Chicago's Haymarket Square in May 1886. The protestors were convicted after a bomb was thrown and several police killed. This site provides access to primary source materials relating to the trial including an outline of proceedings, transcripts of witness testimony and cross examination, exhibits, photographs and other published materials and manuscripts. The site also gives background information to the Haymarket Affair, a chronology of events and guidance to the collection. Documents can be viewed in HTML with links to digital images of the original primary materials. http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01The Journal of Intercollegiate Sport (JIS) acts as a forum for research specifically addressing sport in college and university settings. This is an interdisciplinary journal first published in 2008, which contains articles from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional fields on all factors affecting intercollegiate sport. They are meant to challenge current views and practices maintaining an informative rather than editorial focus. It is published twice a year and provides coverage of the NCAA annual colloquium. Selected topics from the colloquium are presented, followed by a pro and con article on each topic. The JIS includes a detailed bibliography of resources available to researchers interested in intercollegiate sport. The website also provides information for authors on submitting manuscripts, details of the contents of current and past issues, tables of contents and abstracts. http://www.humankinetics.com/JIS/journalAbout.cfmAdded: 2009-07-01This 124-page Code of Good Agricultural Practice (COGAP) revises and consolidates the three former separate codes for water, soil and air. It explains the major statutory duties on farmers and land managers in relation to environmental protection, and provides best practice advice on preventing pollution and protecting natural resources, whilst allowing economic farming ventures to continue. The eight sections cover issues such as the use of fertilisers and pesticides, buildings, storage facilities and handling areas, waste management and water use. There is an extensive list of references (many to online resources), and a glossary of terms. The code was published in 2009. http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment/cogap/pdf/cogap090202.pdfAdded: 2009-07-01This extension publication from Oregon State University Extension Service focuses on how to estimate the plant available nitrogen (PAN) provided by the application of manure. The publication has two main parts: a worksheet for calculating available nutrients supplied by manure application, and an outline of management practices that increase crop N utilization. http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/EM/EM8954-E.pdfAdded: 2009-07-01This is an interactive website for Giambattista Nolli's famous 1748 map of Rome, said to be... "widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important historical documents of the city ever created". The website was created by the University of Oregon, and features six full-text scholarly essays on aspects of the map, as well as a Flash-based interactive Nolli Map Engine, enabling a viewer to zoom into fine details on the map, and to filter the map by types of features. Essays include: 'The Forgotten Landscape of Rome: The Disabitato'; 'The Walls of Rome'; 'Rioni: The Districts of Rome'; 'The Nolli Map as Artifact'; and 'The Nolli Map and Urban Theory'. This may be a useful tool for those interested in the history or Rome, or in antiquarian cartographic approaches and techniques. http://nolli.uoregon.edu/Added: 2009-07-01This bibliographic resource covers transportation research information and provides access to information held on Research in Progress (RiP); Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT); Research Needs Statements (RNS); TRB Publications Index; and Climate Change research at TRB.TRISworld is available to TRB sponsors only. There are references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings and journal articles. http://tris.trb.org/
Added: 2009-07-01Rising East: Journal of East London Studies is a full-text ejournal, published by Lawrence & Wishart for the University of East London. At June 2009 there are five free issues online, with articles freely available as either HTML or PDF files. Tables of contents are also available for earlier issues (before Vol.3, No.2). Titles of freely available articles include: 'East London is no longer secular: religion as a source of social capital in the regeneration of East London'; 'Take a fresh look: community photography'; 'Shooting East London: an interview with filmmaker Ron Peck'; 'Vital arts: art and change in healthcare'; and 'Music at Blackheath Halls: providing a platform', among others. The website has details of the Editorial Board and a section giving guidelines for contributors. http://www.uel.ac.uk/rising-east/Added: 2009-07-01This site provides free access to a Public Accounts Select Committee report which was published as HC 97, session 2008-9 in June 2009. The 64 page report critically assesses standards in British government against a number of criteria. These include the performance of government officials and the civil service; the effectiveness of government processes; accountability of government; standards of transparency and political ethics in public life and the achievement of performance targets. Recommendations for future action are made. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubadm/97/97i.pdfAdded: 2009-07-01Stan Sykora provides this listing of over 600 mathematics textbooks with publication details. Links are provided to other book listings including free online mathematics books. http://www.ebyte.it/library/refs/Refs_Math_Books.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01The website of the Spanish historian Dr. Teresa de Castro offers electronic versions of some of her scholarly work on the history of food. Users may choose between navigating the site in English or Spanish, while her work may be in Spanish, English, or Italian. De Castro has published books and articles on the history of food in Spain (including Al-Andalus and Sefarad) and Australia. She has made available electronic versions of some of her books online: "Food mentality in Spain at the Renaissance"; "In the Christian Alhambra: Foods, Shops and Food Market"; and "Food Supply Policies in the Kingdom of Granada (1482-1510)". Some of her articles include: "The Introduction of Coffee and Coconut in Western Australia in 1869"; "Moriscos and Christians in Castile: The emergence of a Dietary Identity in Early Modern Times"; and "New Norcias Treasures (1884-1890)". This site will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of food, in particular in Spain and Australia. As the page is hosted by a free server, it carries some advertising. http://www.geocities.com/tdcastros/Historyserver/indexenglish.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01The website 'Sefarad' brings together a large number of resources about the culture and history of the Jewish-Spanish population. The history section analyses the evolution of the Jewish community in the Iberian peninsula since Antiquity to their expulsion in 1492. The decree by the 'Reyes Católicos' ordering the expulsion and some historical analyses of this event are also offered on the site. Introductory texts to Hebrew have been made available, along with audio files of a short story in 'ladino', the language of the Jewish-Spanish people, and songs. The 'curiosidades' section is a miscellanea of documents analysing the life and culture of the Jewish-Spanish community in the present time. This is a very good site which gives an overview of the crucial relationship there is between Jewish and Spanish history and society. http://sefarad.rediris.es/Added: 2009-07-01'Historia a debate' (History up for debate) is an international network of academic historians created to discuss the theory of history; historiography; and methodology. Although it is of an international nature, the group was created in Spain and the website is available in Spanish only. This should not deter those who don't speak Spanish as the group organises international conferences, and contributions are accepted in Spanish, English, and French. At the time of cataloguing, it was possible to access the list of contents and some abstracts for the conferences held in: 1993; 1999; and 2004. Some audio files and videos for past seminars are available on the site. The site also has a forum where historians from all over the world can contribute with their opinions on a wide variety of topics. There are several mailing lists, for which subscription is free. The site will be of interest to anyone interested in the theoretical aspect of writing history, be this within a Spanish, Latin-American or global framework. http://www.h-debate.com/Added: 2009-07-01The official webpage of the Spanish writer and journalist, Juan José Millás (1946-), is part of the culture portal, 'ClubCultura.com', by the retail chain Fnac. It includes bio-bibliographical information about the prolific writer, as well as an interview and a selection of texts. These include: a wide selection of articles from the book, 'Cuerpo y Prótesis' (originally published between 2004 and 2005); a large number of works which Millás labelled as 'Articuentos' (a new literary genre in-between journalism and literature); and poems from his work 'De corpore insepulto'. The site also has a very active forum, in which fans and critics of Millas may leave their comments. This site will appeal to those interested in Spanish contemporary literature and critical thought. http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/millas/Added: 2009-07-01This discussion paper, published by NHS Employers in June 2009, is intended to give employers a summary of the emerging issues around current nursing workforce developments. These include developments from the NHS Next Stage Review, the Modernising Nursing Careers initiative, the Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery and the work being done by the Nursing and Midwifery Council on pre-registration education which, along with other initiatives, are all acting as policy drivers for change. Within this context the document sets out seven areas for discussion and within each of these suggests key questions for employers. The discussion paper is part of NHS Employers ongoing programme of work relating to nursing workforce issues which is also outlined in the document. http://www.nhsemployers.org/Aboutus/Publications/Pages/TheRoleOfTheNurse.aspxAdded: 2009-07-01This site provides free access to the full text of European Parliament election briefing no.28 by Stijn van Kessel which was published by EPERN (European Parties Elections and Referendums Network) in June 2009. The 11 page paper provides an overview of the 2009 European elections in the Netherlands. It includes coverage of the context, the campaigns and analyses the Dutch results and voter turnout figures. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/documents/no_28_epern-ep09_-netherlands.pdfAdded: 2009-07-01'Videoele' is a website by the teacher of Spanish, Agustín Iruela, with videos for the teaching of Spanish as a second language. They are grouped in four levels according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages: A1; A2; B1; and B2. For each video there is the transcription, and for some there are also exercises (in .pdf format) accompanied by the solutions. Although there aren't exercises for all videos, the author is working towards making all of them available in the near future. Videos cover topics such as: the house; talking in the past; weather; and shopping. The site is an excellent tool for independent learning activities, but also as a complement to Spanish lessons. If the tutor has internet in the classroom, these may also be used as part of the lesson. Already grouped by levels, the videos are an invaluable resource for tutors and students alike. http://www.everyoneweb.es/videoeleAdded: 2009-07-01Produced by Dr. Gregory J. Warth, a US-based physician, this resource provides guidance on aspects of patient care, focusing on the nature of interpersonal relations, and on the art rather than the science of patient care. Topics covered include the desirable attitudinal characteristics of medical professionals, the importance and specific qualities of bedside manner, communication in health care, the teamwork involved in patient care, personality types of patients, some basic principles of medical ethics, risk management, some specific issues affecting healthcare professionals (especially in a US context), health care technology and patient care, the concept of whole patient care, medical practice models for the delivery of patient care, and the application of evidence based medicine to patient care. There is also a blog and links to relevant books and websites. http://www.art-of-patient-care.com/index.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS) is an imbalance or rocking or swaying sensation usually occurring for a prolonged period following exposure to motion. This is the website for a UK support group, part of the charity Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance, and it includes information about symptoms, diagnosis, causes, treatment, similar conditions, and links to further sources of information. http://www.mdds.org.uk/Added: 2009-07-01'Jardins et Sites Historiques' (Gardens at Historic Sites) is a full-text ebook edited by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), selecting from papers presented at their conferences from 1971 to 1989. The 370-page illustrated volume is freely available online as a 25Mb PDF file. Not all papers in the book are in English, but many are. Among the English articles are: 'Special problems connected with the conservation of gardens of historical interest in Japan'; 'Ornamental plants in 16th and 17th century gardens'; 'The Aleksandrovsky garden in Moscow, a masterpiece of the 19th century'; 'Eclecticism in American gardens, 1870-1930'; 'Economics of the eighteenth-century landscape park'; and 'The influence of freemasonry on the layout and design of gardens in the eighteenth century', among others. The PDF is a "hard scan" of a printed book and contains no OCR text to copy and paste. This will be a worthwhile ebook for those interested in garden history. http://www.international.icomos.org/publications/jscientifique1.htmAdded: 2009-07-01The Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory Programme was established in 2005 to monitor changes in agriculture and farming practice in England, as a result of the implementation of 2003 CAP reform. It aims to provide a baseline assessment of environmental impacts of agriculture, and observe and assess environmental changes. The programme is outlined at this section of the Defra website, and a number of statistical and methodological studies are available online here. These include such studies as a methodology for calculating soil nutrient balances, an analysis of the environmental impact of dairy farming, and the monitoring of uncropped land following the introduction of the 0% set-aside rate. https://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/ace/index.htmAdded: 2009-07-01The UK Climate Projections UKCP09 have developed out of the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), based on the needs of a wide range of public and commercial bodies for sound scientific projections of future climate change. This website features a series of key findings based on observed data, for mean summer and winter temperatures, and sea levels. The site also offers a collection of pre-prepared maps and graphs using a number of variables and emissions scenarios to predict future climate events. Users can also create their own maps or graphs using the data accessible from the site, and a full set of guidance pages is available to help users generate their own products. http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk/Added: 2009-07-01Dosta is part of a wider Council of Europe and European Commission programme. Meaning 'enough' in the Romani language, it aims to bring Roma people closer to non-Romany citizens in Europe. It is active in various European countries (including Bosnia, Montenegro, FYROM Madeconia) but could be relevant across Europe. There is a large amount of interesting background information about the origins and achievements of the Roma, and on their diversity, plus a list of some famous Roma. Details of Dosta's campaigns are given and methods of publicity. A selection of promotional materials can be downloaded. The website is available in English and other European languages. http://www.dosta.org/Added: 2009-07-01The European Commissions free Demography Report is published every two years. The 2008 version reports on the ageing society and changing family and households in the European Union countries. The report comes under the auspices of the European Social Fund (ESF). Its sub-title is 'Meeting social needs in an ageing society' and there are some interesting findings about fertility rates, life expectancy, migration, marriage and composition of households. The whole report can be read online, downloaded or printed out. It is in PDF and needs Adobe Acrobat software to access it. A short summary is available too. http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/esf/news/news/article_7348_en.htmAdded: 2009-07-01This website from the Food and Environment Research Agency FERA, presents all available data on pesticide use in Great Britain by commodity group, in grain and potato stores, and rodenticide use on arable farms. The site also provides summary statistics of pesticide use by substance and crop treated, and updated information on pesticide approvals. http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk/plants/pesticideUsage/Added: 2009-07-01Website of the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) a non-governmental organisation promoting environmental justice in Zimbabwe. The site gives information on the programmes of work ZELA is engaged on. These include environmental law reform and education, urban environment, transboundary natural resources management, land and communities and environmental legal compliance. A number of reports are provided on the site including a summary of the Environmental Management Act, a selection of articles from the Environmental Justice in Zimbabwe newsletter and a report on legislative environmental representation. The news section provides details of developments in environmental law in Zimbabwe. http://www.zela.org/index.aspAdded: 2009-07-01Website providing access to the law and legal information of Zimbabwe made freely available online by Aripano Infinity a web developer based in Harare in Zimbabwe. The site offers full text Zimbabwean legislation covering a range of subject areas including local government, administration of justice, civil law and procedure, citizenship and immigration, environment, agriculture, commerce and industry, telecommunications and health. Texts are provided in English and can be downloaded from the site in PDF. Judgements of the Supreme Court and High Court are available in full for the years 2003 to 2007. Contact details for lawyers, law firms and legal advice organisations in Zimbabwe are also given on the site. http://www.law.co.zw/Added: 2009-07-01A collection of resources, aimed at consumers, on adrenal gland cancer. Provided by MedlinePlus this resource provides information on diagnosis, clinical signs and symptoms, available treatments, and statistics. Resource types include videos, documents, fact sheets, guidelines, images, and a pre-formatted search on the topic with references and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine). http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/adrenalglandcancer.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01ANNO is a major project of the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) in association with a consortium of other Austrian collections. It provides free access to a growing collection of online newspapers published in Austria from the 17th-20th Centuries. These constitute a valuable source of material on Austrian economic, social and political history during this period as well as Austrian comment on world events including those relating to the political system and elections in Austria, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Habsburgs and Austrian involvement in the First World War . Titles include: Die Neue Zeitung 1907 - 1934; Die Hausfrau : Organ für die gesammten Frauen- Interessen sowie für die Interessen der Mitglieder des Ersten Wiener Consum-Verein (1877-1884). Copyright and technical information is provided on the website. All information is offered in German only. http://anno.onb.ac.at/Added: 2009-07-01This website is maintained by the UK Cabinet Office. It provides free access to the Uk's national cyber security strategy which was first published in 2009. This includes details of the creation of An Office of Cyber Security (OCS) and Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) . Topics covered encompass safety, security and resilience on the Internet. They include how to reduce the UK's vulnerability to cyber attack, how to gather intelligence on online risks and minimise the impact. Cyber security is defined to include computer viruses, online security. http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/cyber_security.aspxAdded: 2009-07-01A project maintained by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich which provides free access to a growing collection of key documents relating to the history of the Soviet Union in the 20th Century. They include materials relating to the Russian revolution and the fall of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917, the rise of the Communist State and Soviet Bloc, Stalin and the Cold War and the fall of Communism in the 1990s. Each entry is fully indexed with detailed annotations on the content and importance of the document and suggestions for further reading. All information is offered in German . http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/1000dok/start.htmlAdded: 2009-07-01This is the official website of Marina Warner, the novelist and expert on the cultural history of the fantastic. This substantial website offers full bibliographic details of publications, novels, exhibitions and other works, plus a C.V. and details of agents used. There is a listing of recent and forthcoming 2009/10 publications by Warner - although this list may not be as up-to-date it could be (at July 2009, the website was last updated in 2008). There are only six substantial extracts from novels, and no full-text essays or audio lectures are available. This website is a useful overview of the range of work produced by one of our most innovative and interesting independent cultural thinkers. http://www.marinawarner.com/Added: 2009-07-01Link TV is an online television station which seeks to present a different perspective on international news and current events from that commonly appearing in the mainstream American media. It is owned and operated by Link Media, Inc., a California non-profit corporation receiving funding from a number of foundations including: The Annenberg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sheirah Foundation, Open Society Institute. Programmes provide a global perspective on world events, giving voices to often under-represented communities and promoting cross-cultural dialogue. This section contains programmes relating to the disputed Iranian presidential elections in 2009. They include news bulletins showing violence, plus world news from the Middle East (from the Mosaic website) and the Al Jazeera English Bulletins. There are also blog postings on the role of social media in organising the protests. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. http://www.linktv.org/iranelectionAdded: 2009-07-01The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Media Library provides free and open use of all its audio and video content contained within the media library. Downloading, viewing, and audio instructions are provided and resources available include podcasts, videos, audio news releases, and public service announcements, on a collection of animal health/veterinary topics. http://www.avmamedia.org/Added: 2009-07-01This site provides access to the full text of the report published by the House of Commons Public Accounts select committee in June 2009, as HC 698 session 2009-10. The 20 page report provides an assessment of the financial management and performance of the EU. It covers efficiency, anti-fraud measures in EU accounting and future reforms required. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubacc/698/698.pdfAdded: 2009-07-01Produced in 2008 by Natural England, this 6 page publication is aimed at planners and developers and gives brief details of the procedures required to survey and protect water voles which were given some legal protection through the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and fully protected in April 2008. The leaflet is illustrated and suggests further reading. http://naturalengland.etraderstores.com/NaturalEnglandShop/Product.aspx?ProductIAdded: 2009-07-01 -
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This is the official website of the Sociedade portuguesa de estudos medievais (SPEM), which aims to promote research into Medieval Studies. The society is based in the University of Coimbra. It organizes talks and conferences and publicizes works relating to Medieval Studies. The website is an excellent starting point for getting up-to-date information on the state of research into Medieval Studies in Portugal. It contains information on the activities of the Society; events that may interest the members; and details of society membership and the committee. It lists previous talks and provides bibliographical details of members publications, as well as providing news of forthcoming talks and conferences. Its pages are regularly updated. The site also features a collection of links to other websites concerned with medieval studies research. http://www.uc.pt/spem/Added: 2009-07-01This website introduces the student to the work of Santos Carvalho, one of the most prominent visual artists of Portugal, whose work is both nationally and internationally highly regarded. Carvalho is a sculptor of primarily public sculptures, and his work is present in many public spaces in Portugal, including the Institute of Oncology in Coimbra. The site's gallery provides a display of Carvalho's figurative marbles available in museums, the section on public art shows his numerous public sculptures. Finally, his CV demonstrates the long list of national and international prizes the artist has been awarded. This site is particularly important for those interested in contemporary visual culture in Portugal, as many of these artworks are located at a great distance from each other. http://santoscarvalho.com.sapo.pt/Added: 2009-07-01The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) aims to promote Canada's exceptional forest policy and forest management practices around the world. This website provides information and statistics about Canada's forests, forest management and sustainable exploitation. There are resources on forest certification, paper and pulp products, and timber production. A search facility for the site is provided. This site is also available in French. http://www.fpac.ca/en/Added: 2009-06-30The Tropical Forest Research Centre (TFRC) is part of CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, based in Queensland, Australia. The website describes the main topics of research (ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, tropical savannas, global change, rainforest dynamics, and sustainable futures). Information is also given about partners and associated groups. Facilities at the research centre include the library and herbarium. Four pages of photos are displayed in the gallery and these may be used free of charge for educational use, with appropriate credit given. http://www.tfrc.csiro.au/Added: 2009-06-30The Bibliography of Japanese history up to 1912 is an online comprehensive bibliography of books, monographs and articles in English, French, German and Italian. The bibliography was compiled by Peter Kornicki, a well-known historian at the University of Cambridge, and is regularly updated. The compiler notes that he has included everything relevant he could find and inclusion therefore does not constitute recommendation; PhDs are generally not included. The site has an explanatory preface, a section on abbreviations and coverage, and another with bibliographies and general works. Other sections cover early historical periods: pre-Heian; Heian; and medieval. The later historical periods (Tokugawa and Meiji) are divided into sections on political history, social history, economic history and intellectual history; and the Meiji period also has sections on the Meiji Restoration and on military history and colonialism. Finally, there are sections on foreign relations 1200-1800 and 1800-1900. http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/jbib/Added: 2009-06-30The Translation Journal is a freely available online journal for and by translators, published since 1997, with articles in English and the other major European languages. Complete texts of all articles are available online, accessible by issue or via an index divided into topic areas that include: specific languages; translation theory; literary translation; translation history; interpreting; localisation; online resources; and book reviews. There is also a blog, as well as information on submitting papers and editorial policy. http://www.accurapid.com/journal/Added: 2009-06-30The North American Sartre Society is dedicated to supporting a comprehensive study of the french philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. The Society sponsors and organizes a periodic international conference, and publishes the journal, 'Sartre Studies International,' which is available free of charge to members. The Society provides membership information and invites any who are interested in Sartre to join the Society and to submit their work to be considered for conferences and/or the journal. Also provided on the site is the most recent edition of the NASS newsletter and information on past and future conferences. http://sartresociety.org/Added: 2009-06-30Revista Contingentia is a peer reviewed electronic journal edited by the German Department in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The journal, which began in 2006 and has published two editions a year ever since, focuses on literary and cultural studies related to Germany and Brazil as well as comparative analyses. Articles may be written in German or Portuguese. The issues devote separate sections to literature, linguistics, art, and book reviews. The articles can be downloaded in html or pdf format. Its search functions include author, title, abstract and full text searches. This periodical is a particularly good example for a truly comparative periodical with the well-defined focus of two different literatures and cultures, and can be of significant use to German, Portuguese and comparatist scholars. http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/contingentiaAdded: 2009-06-30'Alfa' is a scholarly review of linguistics published by the Lingustics Department of the Universidade Estadual do São Paulo, Brazil, carrying articles in a range of subfields of linguistics. The periodical was first launched in 1962, and it was its 2005 volume (vol. 49) that first became available online. Since then, the free, online publication of both of its annual issues has been uninterrupted. All of its articles are available in pdf format, and are written in Portuguese, although the contents page of each issue provides the English translation of the articles' titles. The articles are authored by an international body of scholars, and they take their subject matter from the widest range of linguistic issues, including a discussion of theoreticians like Saussure and Bakthin, but also questions pertaining to applied linguistics such as the role of games in language classrooms. The site also contains a search function enabling searches for volume, author and keyword. This website is particularly suited for researchers from any language background interested in theoretical linguistics, and its applied lingustics-related articles are particularly relevant to Portuguese linguists. http://www.alfa.ibilce.unesp.br/Added: 2009-06-30Babilónia is a free online scholarly journal published annually by the Study Centre for Languages and Cultures of the Universidade Lusófona based in Lisbon. The journal takes its subject matter from a range of humanities, especially from linguistics, but its main focus is literary translation and translated literature. It was first launched in 2001, and each of the issues carries translations, essays, examples of creative writing, and also an interview. The 2009 is a particularly important one focusing on issues of globalisation. Each of the annual volumes published since its launch is available on the site in pdf format, although the volumes require to be downloaded separately as there is no search function. This resource is particularly important for advanced researchers of Portuguese and European literature and translation studies. http://babilonia.ulusofona.pt/Added: 2009-06-30'Cadernos de história da educação' is an online scholarly journal published in Portuguese addressing itself to educational history in Brazil. It is published by the Educational History Unit of the Faculty of Education at the Universidade Federal da Uberlândia. It first came out in 2002, already in an electronic format in addition to the printed one. Its annual volumes originally focused upon the history of education in one particular state of Brazil, but later issues also embrace wider issues of underlying the local history of education: one of them is the discussion of the representations of Padre José Anchieta's role in history (vol.5). Articles about the connection between education and nationhood show that educational history is also part of general intellectual and cultural history (vol.7). All the issues and the related abstracts are available in pdf format, and the site is searchable for author, title, abstract and full text. This resource can be particularly useful for local, educational and cultural historians. http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/che/Added: 2009-06-30Ictus is a scholarly periodical edited by the Postgraduate Programme in Music of the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, launched in 1999. The aim of the periodical is to publish music-related scholarship. The periodical was initially published in annual volumes, but it became a biannual publication in 2006. Each of its issues is available in full-text version; the articles carry an abstract and are published in pdf format. Its contributors are international scholars, and the topics range from folk and popular music to classical music, and from Brazilian composers ( such as Villa-Lobos) to European ones (Bartók). The articles discuss instrumental and vocal music alike. The site allows searches for author, title, abstract, index terms and full text. This is particularly important resource for scholars of international and Brazilian music as its coverage is wide ranging, and its presentation makes it easy to navigate. http://www.ictus.ufba.br/Added: 2009-06-30Ideação is a scholarly e-journal published by the Centre of Education and Letters of the Universidade Unioeste in Brazil, focusing on education, letters and humanities. First lauched in 1999, it became online accessible journal from volume 5 (2003). The original annual publication became a biannual publication in 2006; and each article in these volume is available in pdf format. The issues are subdivided into different sections: articles, essays, interviews, reviews. They take their subject matter from a wide range of humanities, including literature (the fiction of Guimarães Rosa), issues of social exclusion in Brazil. Searche for author, title, abstract and full text are all possible. This journal could be an interesting resource for users in the field of general humanities and users with an interest in education in particular. http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/ideacaoAdded: 2009-06-30Labirintos is an electronic review published by the Universidade Federal de Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, whose objective is to publish studies on Portuguese literarture penned by Brazilian and foreign academics. It was first launched in 2007, it brings out two issues annually, and its issues are divided into essays and book reviews. In the first few years, it published essays on the classics of lusophone literature such as Lídia Jorge, José Saramago, and João Melo. Apart from the author-focused articles, it has published more comprehensive essays on literary-historical phenomena such as modernism, the representations of history, and national identity and fiction. The articles use pdf fromat. The site also contains useful information about the submission process, but its usefulness could be improved by the implementation of search functions. This is a useful site for the academic researchers of contemporary and previous lusophone literature. http://www.uefs.br/nep/labirintos/Added: 2009-06-30This is a section of the Library of Congress website devoted to the history Baseball within its America's Pastime Series. It provides details of research resources within the library including books, cards, other images and a timeline of landmarks and other significant events in the history of the sport. There is a section for teachers and a 'Did You Know' set of facts. http://www.loc.gov/topics/baseball/index.htmlAdded: 2009-06-30This is an online exhibition devoted to the history and role of baseball in American Society. There is information about the history of baseball, Jackie Robinson and famous pitchers. From the Library of Congress, the exhibition forms part of the America's Story from America's Library series. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jp/bballAdded: 2009-06-30This is the website of the Edo-Tokyo Museum (Edo Tokyo Hakubutsukan), which is dedicated to the history of the city of Tokyo, formerly known as Edo. The English, Chinese and Korean versions of the site provide fairly basic information about the museum and its permanent and current special exhibitions (although this last section is not always up to date). The Japanese version is much more comprehensive. It gives detailed information about past special exhibitions as well as about the permanent display and the library; the museum's research activities, including publications, are also described, as are the public talks and seminars hosted by the museum. There is also a page of links to the websites of other museums and research institutes. http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/Added: 2009-06-30Fauna and Flora in Illustrations : Natural History of the Edo Era is an online exhibition from the National Diet Library of Japan, accessible only in Japanese. The site is divided into four broad sections: an introduction to the materials in the exhibition; the development of natural history publications; the evolution of uniquely Japanese horticulture; and rare birds, strange animals and curious fish. Each section has enlargeable thumbnails of illustrations embedded in explanatory text. The introductory section describes some of the features of the illustrations and the books and other texts in which they appear, and each of the other sections is further broken down into various aspects of the topic it covers. Even for non-Japanese readers, the site is a valuable source of images of Japanese illustrations of the natural world during the Edo period (1603-1868). http://www.ndl.go.jp/nature/Added: 2009-06-30Nippon in the World is an online exhibition of historical materials and images from the National Diet Library, Japan, accessible in largely parallel Japanese and English versions. The site is divided into three broad sections: scenic mementos of Japan (paintings, illustrations, woodblock prints and photographs covering the 17th to early 20th centuries and by Japanese and foreign artists); a virtual recreation of the Japan pavilion at the Vienna International Exposition in 1873; and modern Japanese political history materials. The images in the first section depict the cities of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and Osaka; they can be searched by a combination of region, subject and period, and brief bibliographic data are provided when the thumbnails are enlarged. The second section presents a plan and photos of the Japan pavilion, as well as a comprehensive bibliography (Japanese only). Images of about 70 documents from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, selected from the Library's holdings and accompanied by brief descriptions, can be viewed in the third section; the Japanese version additionally has a catalogue of materials relating to the constitution. http://www.ndl.go.jp/site_nippon/e/default.htmlAdded: 2009-06-30This website provides access to four PDF files chronicling world history from '130,000 years ago to the eve of AD 2000'. The information itself is presented in a chronological fashion: a time-line of events runs through the text, with information on dates and on specific events of importance. The PDF files are quite large, numbering in the hundreds of pages. The four chapters, written by Dr Frank P. King are: Volume I: The Rise of Civilizations and Cultures; Volume II: Rennaisance to Revolution; Volume III: The Reach for Power; and Volume IV: The Century of Great Violence. This website will probably be of most use to early undergraduates who wish to gain a greater understanding of the significant events over a longer period of time. The information is accurate and informative, but there is not enough depth to entice more experienced or focused students. Nevertheless, a wide-ranging chronological history such as this is a valuable and useful resource for historians. http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/worldhistory/worldhistory.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Written in 2007 by P D Roberts and A S Pullin, this 76 page systematic review and published as number 11 in a series by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, examines the effectiveness of land-based schemes (incl. Agr-environment) at conserving farmland bird densities within the UK. The Arable Stewardship Pilot Scheme, Countryside Stewardship, Organic Cropping and Set-aside land-based schemes and Stubble and Wildbird Cover prescriptions were considered. The findings of the review support the effectiveness of these schemes, for maintaining higher densities of farmland bird species,especially during winter periods compared to conventional cropped fields. The summary, full review and protocol are available as PDFs. http://www.environmentalevidence.org/SR11.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Written in 2005 by P D Roberts and A S Pullin, this 43 page systematic review, published as number 5b in a series by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, examines biological control by natural enemies of common ragwort ( Senecio jacobaea). The authors evaluated the available evidence and found that Tyria jacobaeae (cinnabar moth) and Longitarsus jacobaeae (ragwort flea-beetle) when used together showed the greatest potential for effective control. The summary, full review, supplementary material and protocol are available as PDFs http://www.environmentalevidence.org/SR5b.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Written in 2004 by P D Roberts and A S Pullin, this 92 page systematic review, published as number 5a in a series by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, examines the effectiveness of herbicides in controlling ragwort(Senecio) species. The authors concluded that 2,4-D or MCPA provide effective control of S. jacobaea and that Asulam is more effective in controlling S aquaticus. They also recommended further randomised control trials, including methods of herbicide application. The summary, full review, supplementary material and protocol are avilable as PDFs. http://www.environmentalevidence.org/SR5a.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Written in 2004 by G B Stewart, C F Cole and A S Pullin, this 29 page systematic review, published as number 2 in a series by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence examines the effect of burning on the conservation value of heathland. Although burning is a popular management tool, its inappropriate use has been blamed for the recent decline in the conservation status of a quarter of upland Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The authors found some evidence that suggests that burning old stands can reduce diversity but recommended further research on a site specific basis. The summary, full review and supplementary material are available as PDFs. http://www.environmentalevidence.org/SR2.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Revision resources are provided for AS and A2 level physics covering resistance, Ohm's law, conductance, voltage-current graphs, combinations of resistors, resistivity and conductivity, internal resistance, electromotive force (emf) and potential difference. Sample questions and a revision summary are also available. The resource is part of the S-Cool website. http://www.s-cool.co.uk/alevel/physics/resistance.htmlAdded: 2009-06-30This website provides access to information on the 'interdisciplinary research network which has been set up in order to examine the ways in which the East German past has been and is being reconstructed and represented since the demise of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)'. The project centres around a number of events taking place in 2009 and 2010 in order to remember the GDR, and to develop our understanding of how East German history, society, culture and politics fit into place in a unified Germany. This website provides information on the project, along with information on a number of workshops and conferences. Users should note that, as of June 2009, some of the website (for example, information on the conference) is still under construction. http://afterthewall.bangor.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-30The website of Scottish CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research) introduces the work of the Centre, which was established in 1991. Scottish CILT (formerly at Stirling University) has been based at Strathclyde University since April 2009 and is funded by the Scottish Government. The Centre's work falls into three categories: providing information about languages for teachers, students, policy makers and opinion formers; promoting languages in Scotland; and carrying out research supporting the work of language teachers and other language professionals. The website provides a wide range of information not only about the Centres research and other activities and its publications, but also about languages in Scotland in general, including events, policy, statistics, other relevant organisations and news items. Scottish CILT is part of CILT UK, with sister organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/Added: 2009-06-30The Canadian Journal of Native Studies is a full-text ejournal published by the Society for the Advancement of Native Studies, and edited from the Department of Native Studies, Brandon University. At June 2009 there are around 50 issues online (1981 to 2005), with peer-reviewed articles freely offered as PDF files. The journal also publishes many book reviews. Many articles are only of interest to those investigating sociological and contemporary land-rights issues, but there are also many articles on artistic, cultural and historical topics. Example article titles include: 'Angels of Light: A Mi'kmaq Myth in a New Arche'; 'The Gros Ventre / Fall Indians In Historical and Archaeological Interpretation'; 'The Media, Aboriginal People and Common Sense'; 'The Hero's Journey In James Welch's Fools Crow and Traditional Pikuni Sacred Geography'; and 'A Measured Sovereignty: The Politics of Nation-Making in British Columbia', among others. A full-text search-engine is available via the external Indigenous Studies Portal. The website has full details of the editors, Editorial Board, subscription rates for the print edition, and submission information. http://www.brandonu.ca/library/CJNS/Added: 2009-06-30Dr. Juan Ramón de Arana has created a site for the Spanish novel 'Lazarillo de Tormes' with information about the work and self-check exercises. It will be useful for students looking for introductory materials to the novel and the literary genre of 'picaresca'. In addition to this, there is a short section on the authorship of the book and a general portrait of the 'pícaro'. A fragment of the text has been chosen for students to read (it is possible to hover the mouse over certain words to get more contemporary definitions in Spanish). After navigating the site, there is the possibility of completing the self-assessment quiz and activities. In terms of text content, the site is very limited, but it will be useful for a quick introduction to the text. Users should note that, at the time of cataloguing, the site was not functioning correctly with Mozilla Firefox. Navigation with Internet Explorer is recommended. http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/Self-Check/Lazarillo/lazaro.htmlAdded: 2009-06-30'DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History' is a full-text ejournal, edited from Florida State University. The editors are inclined to accept articles by... "astrononomers, physicists, mathematicians, & classicists - not historians". Published three times a year, at June 2009 the journal has 27 issues online. Issues usually offer between two and six articles, freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'The Babylonian Theory of the Planets'; 'The Southern Limit of the Ancient Star Catalog'; 'The Instuments Used by Hipparchos'; and 'Columbus's Landfall at Plana Keys', among others. The journal occasionaly collaborates with the The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy on special issues and articles on historical scientific hoaxes. The journal appears to have a special interest in papers on Hipparchos, ancient planetary observations, the maps of Ptolemy, and the early exploration of the polar regions. Three $1000 prizes are offered by the journal. http://www.dioi.org/Added: 2009-06-30'Universal Newsreels' is part of the Archive.org website, and the Web pages in this section gives free access to digitised versions of over 600 selected cinema newsreels produced by Universal between 1929 and 1967. Newsreels were news films shown in cinemas at a time before the widespread ownership of televisions. Users may browse by collection or by subject / keywords. Video may be freely downloaded in OGG Video, MPEG4, or MPEG2 formats, and downloading is not restricted only to those in the U.S.A. Films seems to have been selected because they show moments of great historic interest. Of interest to British visitors may be: 'Churchill Home-Coming' (1941); 'Jungle War In Burma' (1944); 'RAF Sinks Tirpitz' (1944); 'Beaten Nazis Sign Historic Surrender' (1945), among others. The newsreels have been placed in the public domain by Universal, and thus students looking for royalty free footage to use in learning film-editing or in arts projects may find reels such as 'Chimp into Space' (1961) especially useful. The entire collection of Universal Newsreels is held at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreelsAdded: 2009-06-30Reel Ireland is an organisation dedicated to... "touring Irish films worldwide". It is administered by the Irish Film Institute, and funded by Culture Ireland. This website was launched in 2008 and contains a useful and comprehensive 2009 Festival Calendar of film festivals around the world dedicated to Irish films. There is also a page featuring details of selected recent Irish films. Although rather limited in content, and not yet the "flagship global showcase for Irish film and film artists" claimed by the site, Reel Ireland provides a useful quick overview of recent Irish feature films and the festivals at which they can be seen. The website also has contact details for Reel Ireland. http://www.reelireland.ie/Added: 2009-06-30This site at University College Dublin uses the Jmol applet to allow the user to manipulate 3D structures of organic molecules and demonstrates key concepts in structure and bonding in organic chemistry. The site also showcases a variety of important organic compounds, such as biomolecules and pharmaceuticals, and illustrates their great diversity, and their importance in our lives. http://www.ucd.ie/chem/molvis/Added: 2009-06-30This website contains a list of the Taylor Institution Library's holdings of Portuguese archival material in the field of twentieth century Portuguese literature. The collection includes four documents by José Maria Ferreira de Castro and one letter by the Nobel Prize winner author José Saramago. The list of items is heavily annotated, including the authors' biographical details, the bibliographical and archival details of items (including language and the description of paper and typing), the letters' contents, and the Library's holdings information. This resource is particularly recommended for scholars interested in archival literary research in the field of twentieth century Portuguese literature. http:://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/mspor.htmAdded: 2009-06-30The online text Spanish and Portuguese monastic history: 600-1300 is the collection of thirteen essays by the American scholar Charles Julian Bishko on the topic of the title, specifically compiled for the online edition. All of the essays had been published earlier in printed form, primarily in periodicals between 1948-1984. Of the 13 essays, three tackle specifically Portuguese aspects of Iberian ecclesiastical history, whilst the others touch upon Portuguese dimensions in a wider context. The three essays concern Portuguese pactual monasticism, Henry of Portugal, and Cluniac priories in Portugal. The site provides the citation of the original publication. The transcriptions of the articles note the pagination of the original printed version, and also provide bibliographical and other notes. This site addresses the needs of historians of mediaeval Portugal and those of ecclesiastical historians, as it makes available scholarly articles that would othewise be difficult to obtain. http://libro.uca.edu/monastic/monastic.htmAdded: 2009-06-30Institute for Queer Theory (Intitut fur Queer Theory) is a German research institute based in Berlin, with a website available in English or German. The Institute was launched in 2006 and appears from its projects list to have a special interest in queer visual cultures and the political organisation of sexualities. The website is up-to-date at June 2009, and has details of... "research, teaching, public events and international exchange" activities, and details of Institute events in 2009 and 2010. A free email newsletter is available. The website appears to contain no full-text papers or reports, but does have two PDFs of transcribed interviews with Judith Butler (see Archiv / 2007 ) and some abstracts of papers given at events. http://www.queer-institut.de/projekte_e.htmlAdded: 2009-06-30This website describes an ongoing project which studies the premise that climatic adaptation can occur in one generation of Norway spruce, in response to climatic conditions during the sexual reproduction period. The site gives preliminary results from several concurrent investigations that use the same progenies from controlled crosses, but grown in different environments. Information is also given about the partners in the project who are university and government research departments in France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. http://www.adaptability.de/index1.htmAdded: 2009-06-30This database includes FAO contact details for officials (heads of forest services, global forest resources assessment focal points, and national forest programme focal points) and for individuals (panel of experts on forest genetic resources, forest health experts, and poplar and willow experts). The official contacts can be search by country. http://www.fao.org/forestry/networking/en/Added: 2009-06-30This website provides FAO's database of case studies of sustainable forest management (SFM). It can be search as a list (over 200 case studies) or by country. Each case study proves information in a standardised form on location, properties of the region and references, to enable a comparison between sites. The information takes account of the fact that the implementation of SFM can vary with culture, socio-economic scenarios, ecological settings, land-use history and overall objectives. http://www.fao.org/forestry/39135/en/Added: 2009-06-30The International Center for Sports Studies is a private foundation associated with the University of Neuchâtel. It was created in 1995 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The centre develops teaching activities, training, research, and services relating to the world of sport. The main fields of research cover law, sociology and the economy of sport. The website provides information about the organisation, its educational courses, current projects, past projects, scholarships, researchers, partnerships, consultancy services, publications, library services, conferences and links to sites of related interest. http://www.cies.chAdded: 2009-06-30This 4-page document on the use of lime for soil acidity management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension was revised in 2009. It discusses the need for lime, lime quality, lime application and economic considerations. Tables, images and graphs are included as well as a list of additional resources. http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1504/build/g1504.pdfAdded: 2009-06-30ChemSynthesis is a searchable database of chemical substances containing synthesis references and physical properties of substances compiled from 12 chemistry journals. The database can be browsed by journal title or searched by keyword. Users with Java and JavaScript-enabled browsers can search by chemical structure or sub-structure. http://www.chemsynthesis.com/Added: 2009-06-30This twelve page document published online by the Iowa State University Extension in 2005 provides information on feeding small grains to swine. Information given includes chapters on nutrient composition of small grains, bedding, challenges, barley, oats, rye and triticale. Colour pictures and tables are included throughout. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1994.pdfAdded: 2009-06-30The animal health section of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website provides access to authoritative resources and guidance on animal diseases and prevention and control measures. Of interest to veterinarians this resource includes information on disease by species, veterinary biologics, veterinarian accreditation, professional development training, monitoring and surveillance, Veterinary Services Process Streamlining (VSPS), APHIS laboratory services, and the animal health report. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/Added: 2009-06-30This 31-page document on pesticides and our future is authored by Mark E. Whalon and published online by the Pesticide Alternatives Laboratory. Chapters include information on pesticides, human health and exposure, pesticide safety, effects and economics of pesticides. Socio-psychological conclusions are included and a list of literature cited with some links is given. This document is supplemented by colour pictures, diagrams and graphs throughout. http://whalonlab.msu.edu/Policy/Presentations/fork_road.pdfAdded: 2009-06-30'Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science' is a full-text ejournal, published by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science in the U.S.A. Book reviews are freely available for download, as either colour or black & white PDF files. At June 2009 there are five volumes freely available, from 2004 to 2008, with all reviews written in English. Recently reviewed books include: 'Following Pausanias: The Quest for Greek Antiquity'; 'Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt'; 'Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany'; and 'The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture in the Greek and Latin Middle Ages', among others. Most books reviewed appear to be in English, but there are also a few written in other languages, such as 'Naturwissenschaften im Kulturvergleich: Europa-Islam-China'. Text may not be copied and pasted from the PDFs. This will be a useful journal for those seeking to keep pace with new books in the history of science and technology. http://www.ircps.org/publications/aestimatio/currvol.htmAdded: 2009-06-30This is the website of the Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, published by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, US. The journal is published annually by the Department, and it covers Latin-American studies from the perspective of humanities by invited contributors. Most articles concern themselves with Hispanic culture, while articles concernig Brazil focus primarily on Brazilian literature and cinema, as it is attested to by the 2008 issue specifically devoted to Brazilian matters. The articles are academic essays, and they are downloadable in html and pdf formats. There are wideranging search functions on the website: it is possible to search not only for author, title and date, but also for discipline, subject and approach. This site is particularly recommended to senior undergraduate students and research students interested in the literature, film and culture of Brazil. http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/spanport/ejournalAdded: 2009-06-30Text, Practice and Performance is a full-text graduate ejournal in Cultural Studies, peer-reviewed and edited from the Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. At June 2009 there are seven issues online, with articles freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'The Re-Location of the American Hero and Cultural Identity in 1970s Outlaw Movies'; 'Tracing Experimentalism in Brazilian Popular Music'; 'The Vampirization of Female Characters in Hitchcock's Vertigo'; 'Discourses of the Middle Eastern Musical Aesthetic in Israel'; and 'The Category of Cross-Dressing and Male Same-Sex Dancing in Texas, 1865-1880', among others. There are also book reviews and calls for papers. The website does not have details of named editors or an Editorial Board. There is an associated weblog. http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/tpp/Added: 2009-06-30From the Association of Travel Marketing Executives (ATME) website, this online magazine features a range of articles on current trends and handy tips for those working in travel marketing. Some of the topics covered in the articles include cruise vacations, Dubai, Mexico City, culinary tourism, marketing leadership and PR advice to travel marketers. http://www.atme.org/pubs/archives/77_235_1039.CFMAdded: 2009-06-30 -
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The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web) is an ambitious project initiated by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Russian Ministry for Communications, which aims to make available the full-text authoritative primary and secondary literature pertaining to selected 11th- 20th century Russian literature and folklore (currently with limited full-text content). A developing resource, FEB-web can be navigated by: time period; author name (via author index); title of work (via index of works); or searched by keyword. A reference section offers access to a broad selection of dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Each author or work entry links to all or some of the following: a description of the contents of the digital scholarly edition available on the site; full text versions of literary texts; full text versions of secondary literature about the text or author; a historical overview section; relevant dictionaries and encyclopaedia entries; bibliographies and indexes. Many of the works are available as PDFs or jpegs. The site is partially available in English, and not entirely intuitive to navigate a collapsible menu in the side bar eventually leads to the digitised texts. This resource will be of great use to students, teachers and researchers of Russian literature and folklore. http://www.feb-web.ru/Added: 2009-06-29This website provides listings of children's literature with details of the mathematics topics covered in the books and also indications of the US levels at which such topics are taught. A list of teacher's resources for using literature in the mathematics classroom is also provided. Lesson plans for using literature in middle and high school mathematics are also available. The site has been created by Elaine Young, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. http://sci.tamucc.edu/%7Eeyoung/literature.htmlAdded: 2009-06-29The text "Complex numbers and trigonometry" "presents an innovative introduction to trigonometry through the use of complex numbers." It is based upon the book "Functional Trigonometry" by Hillman and Alexanderson originally published by Allyn and Bacon in 1961. This 2005 Web edition of the text is available as an interactive version or as a PDF file and includes examples and exercises using a graphics calculator (HP 49G+). It was written by Abraham P. Hillman, University Of New Mexico, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Santa Clara University, and Mervin E. Newton, Thiel College. http://www.thiel.edu/mathproject/CNAT/Added: 2009-06-29The journal "L'Enseignement Mathématique" is an official publication of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. It is published twice yearly by the University of Geneva. The journal's website provides contents lists and access to full text from volume 1 (1899) up until five years ago via sealsportal. Access to the last five year's issues is restricted to subscribers. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. The website is available in English and French. Papers may be in English or French. http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/Added: 2009-06-29Published by the Nuffield Trust in May 2008, this is the last in a series commissioned to examine in depth the progress of and quality of care in the NHS over the ten year period from 1997. The first section of the report is a policy analysis for England in this period. A chapter provides an overview of the ten year period and also looks at specific areas where improvements in care have made a real difference such as in cancer and cardiovascular care. A further chapter considers the multiplicity of reforms and activities such as the development of NICE, National Service Frameworks and Public Service Agreement targets which the report argues do not necessarily cohere into an integrated programme. It discusses the clinical governance and regulation agendas and other initiatives such as payment reform and incentives, patient and public engagement and developments in commissioning. The report then describes a framework for refinement of these reforms into a more integrated quality strategy and presents a blueprint for action in the form of a National Quality Programme in the NHS in England. It describes the priorities for this programme and the basis for a three year strategy for 2009-12. The second section of the report is a chartbook of data analysed across six key domains effectiveness and appropriateness, access, capacity, safety, patient-centredness and equity. It focuses mainly on quality of care in England and on certain disease groups circulatory disease, cancer, diabetes, maternity services, trauma/emergency services and mental health. The report is available as one document and also in the individual sections and chapters with a separate executive summary. http://nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/detail.asp?id=0&PRid=389Added: 2009-06-29'Epigenetics and Chromatin is an open access, electronic-only journal publishing original, peer reviewed research articles on epigenetic inheritance and chromatin-based interactions. Epigenetics is concerned with heritable changes that do not change DNA sequences, but instead involve stable modifications of chromatin, DNA or protein conformation, and the journal includes both studies investigating epigenetic mechanisms and studies aimed at combating epigenetic-related diseases. Full-text articles are available freely to individuals and information is provided on the journal editorial board, instructions for authors, and the peer review process. Searchable archives are available from Volume 1(1) 2008. Registered users can sign up for Epigenetics and Chromatin article alerts. Published by BioMed Central Ltd. http://www.epigeneticsandchromatin.com/Added: 2009-06-29Arcade: Architecture and Design in the Northwest is a full-text online version of a print journal, published independently from Seattle in the U.S.A. At June 2009 there are 32 issues online, with articles in HTML format The journal critically covers a variety of issues in design and the built environment, and issues are themed. Example issue themes have included: 'Now and Next: Furniture and Product Horizons'; 'Drawing Imaginary Worlds'; 'Designing Cinema'; 'Flaneur: City Wanderer'; 'Seattle, Boomtown Politics and New Public Architecture'; and 'The Idea of Regionalism', among others. Articles are usually illustrated. The font size used is fashionably tiny, and some visitors may need to copy and paste articles into a Word document to enlarge the font for reading. This will be an interesting and stimulating magazine for those interested in seeing built design in a set of wider contexts. http://www.arcadejournal.com/Added: 2009-06-29This is the home website of Eddie Chambers, a writer and an independent curator / archivist. His website has full personal details, details of exhibitions curated, and details of his catalogue essays. The website also has some substantial extracts from his published articles, including: 'Black British Photography' (2007); and 'Handsworth Songs' (2006), among others. Visitors can also order paper copies of exhibition catalogues from the website, some of which are now likely to be increasingly rare, such as: 'Black People and The British Flag' (1993); and 'The ArtPack: A History of Black Artists in Britain' (1988), among others. This website will be a useful information source and contact point for those interested in black visual art in the UK since the 1970s. http://www.eddiechambers.com/Added: 2009-06-29'Not Just for Christmas: Consumption, Popular Culture and Religious Observance' is the project homepage of an AHRC-funded workshop. The work aims to study the ethical issues surrounding the usually intense consumer culture during Christmas time and the wider questions involved. This website contains links to resources like the events they organise; blogs and a discussion forum; a photo gallery; and links to relevant websites. The site will also incorporate working papers as the project progresses. A search engine is available. The project is led by Dr Damian Sutton of the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He is assisted by Dr Karen Wenell of the Centre for Faith, Culture and Education at the University of Glasgow. http://www.notjustforchristmas.org/Added: 2009-06-29Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University in 2008, the "Never Mind the Pussycat" website focuses on the early work of Edward Lear (1812-1888) as a natural history illustrator. Best remembered for his nonsense rhymes and sketches, Lear also produced "more than 300 landscape oil paintings, some 9,000 watercolors, hundreds of ornithological lithographs and natural history illustrations, five published travel journals, six unpublished manuscripts, a dozen published songs, and many thousands of letters". The website features examples of his illustrations of birds such as parrots (psittacidae), ravens, flamingoes, toucans, and owls, and also contains sections on Lear's professional relationships with John Gould (1804-1881) and the 13th Earl of Derby, Edward Smith Stanley (1775-1851), who was president of the Linnean and Zoological Societies. The resources area includes a brief bibliography. http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/lear/Added: 2009-06-29Published by Glasgow University Library's Special Collections, the Birds, Bees and Blooms website presents images and information from a selection of early ecology books that are in the university's collections. Ranging from the 15th to the 19th centuries, the website includes enlargeable images from: Art of falconry (manuscript) / Guillaume Tardif (France, c. 1494); De historia stirpium commentarii insignes / Leonhart Fuchs (Basel, 1542); Florilegium / Emanuel Sweerts (Amsterdam, 1614-1620); Micrographia / Robert Hooke (London, 1665); A natural history of birds / Eleazar Albin (London, 1731-1738); Hortus Cliffortianus / Carl von Linné (Amsterdam, 1737); Illustrations of natural history / Dru Drury (London, 1770-1773); An exposition of English insects / Moses Harris (London, 1782); Birds of America / John James Audubon (London, 1827-1838); A monograph of the testudinata / Thomas Bell (London, 1832-1836); A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast / Philip Henry Gosse (London, 1853); Origin of species by means of natural selection / Charles Darwin (London, 1859); and The birds of Great Britain / John Gould (London, 1861-1873). A selected bibliography is also available. This website provides a valuable introduction to some rare early natural history resources. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/ecology/Added: 2009-06-29'MOFA: magazine of performing arts' is a full-text refereed ejournal. MOFA is published in English by IATR, The Israeli Association for Theatre Research. At June 2009 there are two issues online, although the first issue seems to have consisted of only one article. Articles are presented in HTML. Example article titles, from an international range of contributors, include: 'A Confined Amorous Being: The Eastern Woman between Travel Literature and English Drama'; 'Queer in the Holy Land: Gay and Lesbian Cinema in Israel'; and 'Teaching, Acting and Directing In Israel', among others. The website has full details of the editors, Editorial and Advisory Boards, and details of how to submit an article. http://arts2.tau.ac.il/mofa/Added: 2009-06-29The Metaphysics of Science is the name of is a major three-year AHRC-funded project based in the UK, exploring how natural and obvious classifications can be fitted into a coherent and unified worldview. The project website has an overview of the project, its staff and researchers, aims and outcomes, and partners (the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, and Nottingham). There are details of five project workshops, most of the papers from a 2007 Birmingham conference titled 'Nature and its Classification: A Metaphysics of Science', and also details of the forthcoming conference 'Metaphysics of Science' to be held in September 2009. The website has many full-text papers, freely available for download as PDF files. These include: 'Natural Kinds: (Thick) Essentialism or Promiscuous Realism?'; 'Ayn Rand on Concepts'; 'Aristotle on the Ontological Basis of Zoological Classification'; and 'Natural kinds, Naturalistic Epistemology and Philosophical Method', among many others. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/metaphysicsofscience/index.htmlAdded: 2009-06-29'Untold London: discover the art of London's diverse communities' is a website showcasing the variety of exhibitions to be found in the capital. The website is served with content via the popular 24 Hour Museum web service, edited from the London Museums Hub, and funded by the Museums and Libraries Association. Untold London serves both as a listings and "What's On?" service, and a guide to collections and venues. At June 2009 the service was up-to-date, and delivered in English only. There is a sophisticated search facility, able to search for London exhibitions by ethnic group, nationality, or religious affiliation. The lesbian, bisexual and gay section is seemingly limited to just one page, and these groups do not feature on the otherwise sophisticated search options. Despite this limitation, Untold London is a polished and practical website for those seeking to discover the variety of cultural history exhibitions that London is able to offer. http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/Added: 2009-06-29This special supplement of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface (Vol. 5 Supplement 2 October 2008) is devoted to new techniques for the analysis of single cells and is available in full-text free of charge. Useful for researchers and students, it comprises seven peer reviewed articles by invited specialists. It is one of the 'Interface Focus' series of supplements to the 'Journal of the Royal Society Interface, which aim to cover particular research subjects at the interface between the physical and life sciences. The seven articles include an introduction and six papers covering advances which facilitate research in areas difficult to study using current high-throughput population averaging techniques (such as cellular heterogeneity and the study of rare cells); subjects covered include single-cell lysis, analysis of intracellular compounds in single cells and monitoring single-cell oxygen consumption rates in real time. Published and made available on the Web by Royal Society Publishing. http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/single-cell-analysis.xhtmlAdded: 2009-06-29This database provides details of rewilding projects in England, Scotland and Wales, listed alphabetically by project with a note of the project's County and main habitat type. It is compiled by Victoria Ward of the School of Geography, Leeds University for The Wildland Network, an organisation including professional ecologists, land managers, government and voluntary bodies and interested individuals that aims to promote appreciation and development of wildland in Britain. For each project, information is available on location, rewilding methods used and project management; many records also contain details such as funding sources, habitats present, target species, planned reintroductions and links to further information, although the level of detail varies between projects. This database was last updated in March 2007. http://www.wildland-network.org.uk/projects/wn_rewild_database.htmAdded: 2009-06-29This resource, produced by the journal 'Nature', highlights 15 examples illustrating the principle of evolution by natural selection taken from papers that have been published by Nature over the past decade, and is available in PDF (requires free-to-download Adobe Acrobat Reader) free of charge. It is written by editors from the journal, Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell, and is aimed at biologists and the general public wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by natural selection. The examples are arranged in the sections: gems from the fossil record; gems from habitats; and gems from molecular processes. Each example gives links to the abstracts (and sometimes the full-text) of the original articles discussed and provides a list of additional references and websites. Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited and made available on the Web by the Nature Publishing Group. http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29'South Bohemian Anglo-American Studies' is a full-text ejournal. Published entirely in English, the substantial first issue is formed from the proceedings of the 2006 conference Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature. Articles are freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'Make-belief and Dis-belief: Operations of Fantasy in Fairy Tales and Nonsense'; 'The Image of Children in the Novels and Short Stories by Graham Greene'; 'Death, Angels and Football: Blakes Visions and Almond's England'; and 'The Real and Imaginary City in the Works of Martin Amis and Ian McEwan', among others. This journal will be of interest to those researching the British fantasy tradition and the fantastic. http://www.pf.jcu.cz/stru/katedry/aj/sbaas01.phpAdded: 2009-06-29'Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics' is a full-text ejournal and associated conference, published annually from Estonia. The journal is published in English, jointly by the The Research Group of Cultural and Literary Theory, Estonian Literary Museum Institute of Art History, and the Estonian Semiotics Association (Estonian Academy of Arts). At June 2009 there are nine issues online, with eight of these freely offering full-text articles as PDF files. Among the articles are: 'Cultural Natural Signs: Conviviality, Conquest or Conception?'; 'Real Places and Countries in the Fairy Tale World'; 'Visual Post-Folklore in Post-Soviet Space-Time'; 'How Spatial is a Whale? Places and Processes in Zoomusicology', and 'Accidental Tours and Illegal Tour Guides: Taking the Textbook out of the Tour', among many others. Those interested in space/place - and its representations in literature, film and music - will find much of interest in this journal. http://www.eki.ee/km/place/Added: 2009-06-29Written by A Newton, G B Stewart, G Myers, S Lake, J Bullock and A S Pullin, this 34- page systematic review is no. 14 in a series published by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) in 2009. With the decline in 'traditional' use of lowland heathland and reversion back to scrub or woodland by natural succession, a critical review of the literature on various interventions was needed. The authors considered the impact of grazing, burning, cutting or no management and the effect of timing, extent, frequency, severity and nature of the grazing, burning and cutting. They concluded that grazing can be effective in increasing the ratio of graminoids to ericoids but there was little evidence on the relative impacts of the various interventions. It was recommended that more monitoring is conducted before and after interventions and further experimentation is needed. A summary, full review, supplementary material and protocol are avilable as PDFs. http://www.environmentalevidence.org/SR14.htmlAdded: 2009-06-29This is part of the Association of Travel Marketing Executives (ATME) website. It contains a Know-How section which covers articles and checklists that provide useful tips on a variety of topics which may be of interest to travel marketers; Research and Reports has white papers and industry analysis; Case Studies looks at well-known brands in the travel industry. http://www.atme.org/pubs/members/75_210_947.cfm?CFID=29866055&CFTOKEN=98917536Added: 2009-06-29The Equine Dictionary defines words and phrases that are often used when people talk or write about horses and equine terms. Produced and published online by the horse resource site Equusite, the dictionary can be browsed alphabetically. http://www.equusite.com/cgi-bin/dictionary/dictionary.cgiAdded: 2009-06-29This is the disease information section of the University of California Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. This section includes a collection of factsheets and brochures related to diseases of cattle, equine, poultry, small ruminants and swine. http://cahfs.ucdavis.edu/show.php?id=700Added: 2009-06-29This is a free online course made available on the Web by the American Sheep Industry Association. Primarily designed for sheep producers but also useful for students this course gives information on how to identify scrapie in sheep. Set out into five parts, including: what is scrapie, preventing scrapie, information on the US National eradication program, producer obligations and help with further assistance. The course takes about an hour to complete. http://sheepindustrynews.com/scrapie_guide/Added: 2009-06-29The official site of the Spanish film-maker Alex de la Iglesia has been developed as part of the culture portal 'ClubCultura.com'. In addition to a biography and information about his works, there are materials created by the film-maker himself, including a self-interview, and a blog. For each of his films, users will find synopses; some images; and crew and casts lists. In 2009, de la Iglesia published a fiction book, 'Los Payasos en la Lavadora', and some fragments from the first chapter have been made available. His two short movies ('Mirindas Asesinas' and 'Enigma en el Bosquecillo') can be viewed in full on the site. While an active forum brings fans of Alex de la Iglesia together, it is also possible to write an email to the film-maker himself. The site is available in English and Spanish. http://www.clubcultura.com/clubcine/clubcineastas/delaiglesia/Added: 2009-06-29An educational programme about type 2 diabetes, the National Diabetes Education Initiative is "designed for endocrinologists, diabetologists, cardiologists, primary care physicians and other health care professionals involved in the care and management of patients with type 2 diabetes". Issues addressed by the initiative include insulin resistance, epidemiology and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, associated complications, and treatment and prevention. The web site provides links to a variety of areas such as a slide library about type 2 diabetes and related topics, access to recent and archived articles, treatment guidelines incorporating information relating to children and adolescents, diagnosis of diabetes and care of diabetes. Access is provided to patient information leaflets and it is possible to download these. There is also information concerning clinical trials and a link to other resources. Some of the links on the home page are not yet active. http://www.ndei.org/Added: 2009-06-29Oklikni ulitsy Moskvy [Call out Moscow streets] is a project exploring the historical names and topography of Moscow, created by a professor of philology. The site consists of: a typographical dictionary of stream, river, pond, lake and ravine names; an anthology of poetry about Moscow arranged chronologically (1825-1999); academic articles and reports about Moscow names (including material relating to the post-Soviet revision of place names); imia-istoriia-kultura [name-history-culture], a section exploring the history of Moscow via place names; starinnye okrainye Moskvy [the old outskirts of Moscow], linking to historical overviews of old Moscow suburbs (with a clickable map). Four other sections explore inner areas of Moscow through topographical names: the old city and trading centre; inside the Boulevard Ring; inside the Garden Ring; beyond the Kamer-Kollezhskii val, all with a clickable map. This is an interesting resource for teachers and researchers of Russian history and culture, particularly those focusing on Moscow or toponymy. http://moscow.gramota.ru/Added: 2009-06-29This is the homepage of the Initiative on Religion and Politics which is based at Yale Divinity School. It was set up to enhance scholarly thought, debate and activitism on the place of religion in public life, both at national and international levels. This website contains their vision statements and details of past events (e.g. conferences; forums; exhibitions; and the screening of documentaries). It provides a section on 'Theological Reflections' from where viewers can access a small number of articles and sermons. Annotated links are also given to the homepages of a number of organizations. A search engine is available. The initiative is led by Dr. Melissa Matthes. http://www.yale.edu/religionandpolitics/Added: 2009-06-29Slovo: Towards a Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts is the website of an international project which aims to: increase cooperation between academic institutions studying medieval Slavic monastic culture; develop a website on Balkan literary heritage; create internationally agreed standards for the electronic publishing, description and encoding of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Pages on individual monasteries offer all or some of the following: an overview of monastery history; a description of manuscript collections and art treasures; a description of digitization efforts; links to manuscript descriptions; related links; bibliography; links to online articles or PDF files. Within the guidelines section is: an article on storing, publishing and researching Slavic manuscripts with computer technology, based on the work of the Repertorium Intitiative and the Slovo project; a how to encode Slavic manuscripts within Text Encoding Initiative guidelines; and further documents on character set standardization, XML and advanced encoding resources which will be of interest specifically for those involved in the electronic publishing of medieval manuscripts. The links to current manuscript projects under initiatives are of particular interest. This site will be of great use for researchers in the field of palaeoslavistics, and of significant interest to those researching medieval Slavic monastic culture. http://slovo-aso.cl.bas.bg/Added: 2009-06-29Repertorium workstation is a fabulous resource for researchers of medieval Slavic literature, language and culture, created by an international team of experts. The site allows researchers to search and compare the contents of over 100 manuscripts from archives in Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Britain, Romania, Greece and Italy. Users can: browse a list of manuscripts (with full descriptions) or the contents of individual manuscripts; click on any of the contents of a manuscript to bring up other manuscripts in which that text appears; construct a plectogram (a visual representation of the correspondences between selected manuscripts); search by repository information (country, archive etc.); browse by text (to identify all manuscripts in which a particular text appears); search by keyword from title or incipita. The site has clear and detailed user instructions, including how to configure browsers, and is designed to work with any standards-conformant software. Users may optionally over-ride the sites font selection. The texts themselves are not accessible or searchable, only the contents, but this is nevertheless an extremely valuable resource. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/mss/index.xmlAdded: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to a conference paper by Rhys Andrews, Jonathan Bradbury which was delivered at the 2009 Political Studies Association conference, Manchester, April 2009. The 16 page paper analyses trends in national identity in Wales since political devolution and the creation of a National Assembly for Wales. It also analyses the political pledges and messages used by political parties in relation to Welsh and British identity. http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2009/andrews.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to a conference paper by Rob Johns, James Mitchell, David Denver, Charles Pattie which was delivered at the 2009 Political Studies Association conference, Manchester, April 2009. The 18 page paper analyses the results of a 2007 survey of Scottish voters which showed that the stance of individual political parties towards constitutionalism was perceived to be a clear indicator of their policy and commitment to Scottish interests and had an influence on the choice of the voters. http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2009/johns.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to a conference paper by Margaret Arnott, Jenny Ozga which was delivered at the 2009 Political Studies Association conference, Manchester, April 2009. The 19 page paper analyses the connection between nationalism and public policy in post-devolution Scotland. In particular it focuses upon the education policies of the Scottish SNP (Scottish National Party) government. http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2009/arnott.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to a conference paper by Graham Walker which was delivered at the 2008 Political Studies Association conference. The 10 page paper analyses the history of devolution in the period 1945-1976. It focuses on the inter-relationship between the political history of devolution in Northern Ireland and Scotland, showing that the Scottish and Northern Ireland cases together drove the devolution debate. http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2008/walker.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to the full text of the report by the Home Affairs select committee which was published as HC 418 session 2008-9 in June 2009. The 117 page report considers the policing of the G20 political protests in 2009. Issues covered include 'llegations of police violence against protestors, the use of force ( including tasers) and crowd containment techniques. Recommendations for future reform of policing of protests are made. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmhaff/418/418.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29An excellent resource for anthropologists and researchers of East African colonial history. The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960 forms part of the collection of Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, NorthWestern University. The digital library provides free access to over 7,000 photographs assembled by the British collector Humphrey Winterton which document the life and development of the peoples and nations of East Africa during this period. They include photographs of native peoples and races; the travels of European explorers, traders and colonialists, the development of the British Empire and urbanisation. The database can be searched by keyword or browsed. The site also includes a classroom section with timelines of African history, and lesson plans. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. http://repository.library.northwestern.edu/winterton/Added: 2009-06-29COIs (Central Office of Information) News Distribution Service provides free access to news headlines and RSS feeds from over a 100 UK central government departments, agencies and public bodies. It therefore serves as a one stop shop, keeping researchers up to date with the latest press releases, official publications and statistics from the British government, covering all areas of domestic and foreign policy. http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Added: 2009-06-29Dissertation CIS is a catalogue of theses and dissertations maintained by the Scientific Association of the CIS. It seeks to highlight recent research from scholars in Russian speaking nations of Europe and Central Asia. It covers a wide range of subject areas from the life sciences and social sciences. These include politics, economics, psychology, history, philosophy, earth sciences and cultural sciences. There is a special emphasis on material produced by and about Eastern Europe, and post-communist nations, including Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact and eastern Bloc as well as the history of post-communist transition. The database can be searched in English. Individual records include titles and in most cases abstracts to abstracts (and/or introductions of approximately 25 pages). http://disseng.com/Added: 2009-06-29This is the website of the Lowdham Book Festival, first held in the year 2000, since when it has become Nottinghamshire's premier literary event. Located in and around the village of Lowdham, the event usually speads out over two weeks each year in June and attracts a number of big names in the world of literature. The final Saturday is usually given over to free events mostly by local authors and independent publishers. The organisers also host other events for example: 'Flicks in the Sticks' which brings cinema to rural areas; and a mini festival 'Winter Weekend' . The website has details of all these events and it is possible to download the festival brochure. There are links to the websites of local publishers and an impressive list of previous events and artists. http://www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk/Added: 2009-06-29This site provides guidance and access to legal history resources held in collections at the University of Melbourne. The site organises the resources into a number of themes including Law in Early Victoria, Law at the University of Melbourne, the Australian Federation, Judges, Lawyers and Professional Bodies, Victorian Law Firms and Law Reports and Trials. Background information is given on the various collections and references are given to archives and catalogues held by the University. There are references to materials concerned with legal teaching at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law including correspondence and other materials relating to academics who have worked in the Faculty. Archival records of Victorian judges and lawyers are included in the collections and contain case notes, trial notebooks, correspondence and diaries. There are references to law reports and trials held in the Rare Book Collection and a page of links is given to other legal history resources. http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/lrc/pub/lhro/Added: 2009-06-29Established in 2004, Veterinary Education Worldwide (ViEW) is an international association for veterinary education. ViEW aims to promote and support excellence in veterinary education at an international level.. The site provides information on membership, the ViEW constitution, and a listing of current members. Information on the international annual meetings from 2004 to the present are available, and any relevant recent news items. Links to further sources of information are provided. http://www.veteducation.org/Added: 2009-06-29The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online forms part of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections. It provides free access to a searchable database of several hundred transcripts of interviews with American Indians in Oklahoma which were conducted during the period 1967-1972. Interviewees include members of Indian tribes and cover the social, life, history and customs of Native Americans. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/duke/Added: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to the full text of European Parliament election briefing no.26 by Tapio Raunio which was published by EPERN (European Parties Elections and Referendums Network) in June 2009. The 9 page paper provides an overview of the 2009 European elections in Finland. It includes coverage of the context, the campaigns and analyses the Finnish results. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/documents/epern-ep09_-finland_ep.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29Launched in March 2009, this website features the first ever comprehensive report on bird populations in the United States. The US Fish and Wildlife Service coordinated the production of the report as part of the US North American Bird Conservation Initiative which incorporates several different organisations. The website includes a short video and much detailed background information about the report as well as a link to download the full document in PDF format. http://www.stateofthebirds.org/Added: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to the full text of European Parliament election briefing no.27 by Prof Roderick Pace which was published by EPERN (European Parties Elections and Referendums Network) in June 2009. The 12 page paper provides an overview of the 2009 European elections in Malta. It includes coverage of the context, the campaigns and analyses the Maltese results. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/documents/no_27_epernep2009malta.pdfAdded: 2009-06-29This is the website of The Literature Network which connects the literature community in each of the cities and counties of the East Midlands in the United Kingdom. The Literature Network "maintains information resources for the literature community, organises networking and consultation events, supports the work and projects of leading literature practitioners and champions the valuable role of literature as a participatory artform". The site has full-text articles; blogs; a calendar of events; news; and job opportunities. The Literature Network also showcases the work of creative writers in the East Midlands by publishing short stories and poetry. Sign-up to receive EMIT, the monthly e-mail newsletter for literature in the East Midlands. http://literaturenetwork.org/Added: 2009-06-29This site provides free access to all annual financial reports relating to HM Queen Elizabeth II, the royal household and the British royal family from 2004 to the present day. They include civil list expenditure, property services grant in aid, royal travel expenses. Each report includes breakdowns of income and expenditure by individual members of the royal household (including the Prince of Wales). The site includes explanations of the funding received from the state. http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/AnnualFinancialReports/AnnualfinanciaAdded: 2009-06-29Online guide providing a compilation of links to full text Cameroon legislation made freely available by Lexadin a legal technology service based in the Netherlands. Laws provided on the site are taken from a range of sources and are organised by subject including electoral law, administrative law, criminal law, commerce, company law, employment law, banking law, mining, communications and media and environmental law. There is also a full text copy of the Cameroon Constitution. Most of the texts linked to are in French. http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/oeur/lxwecmr.htmAdded: 2009-06-29 -
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This is the homepage of Yale Divinity School's Initiative in Religion, Science and Technology (IRST). Founded by Harold Attridge and Rebecca Chopp at the beginning of the 21st centery, IRST aims to study the relationship between religion and spirituality, with that of science and technology. This website contains a schedule of the events which they organise e.g. public lectures; symposia; conferences and working groups. It also contains annotated links to the homepages of relevant organizations. Viewers can access academic articles; papers; transcripts of lectures; and bibliographies from the annotated links which they provide to a list of publications in the area. Search engines are available. The initiative is jointly directed by Willis Jenkins and Denys Turner. http://www.yale.edu/religionandscience/Added: 2009-06-29The Blackwood's Magazine homepage is a website devoted to the history of the magazine, published from 1817 to 1980. The site is the work of Professor David Finkelstein of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and consists of: an essay entitled 'The Rise and Fall of the House of Blackwood's Magazine'; a bibliography of articles relating to the magazine and its authors published between 1850 and the present day; and a link to an online archive of Blackwood's Magazine issues from 1843 to 1963 hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. At the time of writing the link to a fourth resource (a study on the first hundred numbers of the magazine, by Philip Flynn of the University of Delware) was broken. 'The Rise and Fall of the House of Blackwood's Magazine' is an illustrated essay covering the history of the magazine, with particular emphasis on the first half of its existence, when it was a influential literary force. William Blackwood, the magazine's founder, his publishing house, and a number of the better known writers published by Blackwood's (including: Walter Scott; George Eliot; Anthony Trollope; and Joseph Conrad) are discussed authoritatively and clearly, and the essay is illustrated with numerous portraits. There are also links to short biographies of the less prominent writers mentioned, and relevant footnotes. Experts of 19th-century Scottish literature are likely to know most of the information already, but for both undergraduates and postgraduates seeking a thorough and reliable general discussion of Blackwood's Magazine, this resource has much to recommend it. http://www.qmu.ac.uk/mcs/mcc/Blackwoods/Added: 2009-06-28Tabula Rasa is a website providing "a compendium of material on a number of esoteric subjects" with an emphasis on the history of horror in Australia and beyond. The site covers a number of topics, including: 'Dark Ages'; 'horror on screen'; Australiana; comics; and role playing games, with special sections on Stephen King and Doctor Who. The site would interest those researching science fiction and horror literature, as well as those studying media and television. The horror section typifies the broad spectrum of articles on this site, covering topics such as: 'Sexuality in Horror'; 'Classic Monsters'; 'Horror in Music'; 'Vampire Cinema'; and 'Children's Horror'. The articles on the site are written by the site's editors, Kyla Ward and David Carroll (writers and artists in the horror genre among others) and although informal in tone are also informative. Aside from articles about horror authors and book and film reviews, the site also provides the text of interviews with authors such as: Neil Gaiman; Tanith Lee; and Richard Harland. http://www.tabula-rasa.infoAdded: 2009-06-28BWLET.net is a website offering a free database of Welsh literature in English translation. BWLET claims to be "first comprehensive listing of Welsh-English literary translation from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day". The database is searchable by: keyword; author; title; publisher; and date. Each entry gives bibliographic information about each translation, enabling students and researchers working on Welsh literature to more easily find relevant works. The website is well presented and easy to read and navigate. Background to the BWLET is given, in English and Welsh, together with a page of related links. http://www.bwlet.net/Added: 2009-06-28This website serves as a bulletin board for events and commentaries relating to Continental Philosophy. It is maintained by Farhang Erfani, an assistant professor of philosophy at the American University, in D.C. The materials, which comprise the main topics that fall within this branch of philosophy, are arranged in alphabetical order. There are also video recordings of lectures; and information about books; book reviews; and job vacancies. Viewers are allowed access to their monthly archives which date back to July 2006. The site also provides links to other blogs and the homepages of philosophical societies. A search engine is available. http://www.continental-philosophy.org/Added: 2009-06-28Places to Go, People to Be (PTGPTB) is a full-text online fan magazine for fans and designers of role-playing games. The contents consist of much that is of only fannish and game-designer interest, but there are also long and deeply informed articles on: 'The History of Role-Playing' (in nine parts); 'Law and Enforcement in Imaginary Realms'; and 'Gaming in Japan' (three parts, based on a field trip), and as such PTGPTB is a welcome addition to the sparse scholarly literature on role-playing games that has been written by players. At June 2009 the website has issues from 1998-2008, and articles are HTML form. There is an associated online Forum, and a French edition. http://ptgptb.org/Added: 2009-06-28'Ethics.be' is a website which aims to serve as Belgian's main reference point on news and research relating to ethics. Accessible in English and Dutch, the site provides access to resources like news; opinion statements (on issues like euthanasia, death, cloning, abortion and human experimentation); past and forthcoming conferences, lectures and symposiums; newsletters; and a discussion forum. It also contains information on recent publications and provides links to the homepages of its partner institutions. A search engine is available. http://www.ethics.be/Added: 2009-06-28The Western Association for Art Conservation newsletter is a full-text ejournal offering subsantial illustrated articles in conservation practice and practical science, along with book reviews and Association reports and news. At June 2009 there are about 70 issues freely available online, running from 1979 to 2001. Article titles include: 'The Archive of Techniques and Working materials Used by Contemporary Artists'; 'The Feasibility of Ultrasonic Misting as an Inpainting Technique'; 'An Introduction to the Forms and Materials Used in Animation Art'; 'A Brief History of Aluminum Stearate as a Component of Paint'; and 'Modern Techniques for the Nondestructive Examination of Musical Instruments', among many others. Articles are usually illustrated and have tables, formulae, and graphs. This will be a useful bank of technical articles for those involved with the conservation of art and cultural artifacts. An author and titles index is available, but no search box. For full-text search, users can search Google for: keyword site:cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/ http://cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/Added: 2009-06-28Latin American Theatre Review is a full-text ejournal. The website of the Latin American Theatre Review offers free access to full-text back-issues from 1967-2004, and thereafter abstracts or more recent articles. The journal is published twice each year, from the University of Kansas in the U.S.A. Articles are freely available as PDF files, and articles are either in Spanish or English. Example full-text article titles are: 'The House of Pretension: Space and Performance in Miguel Pinero's Theatre'; 'When Noah Meets Mitch: The Medieval Mysteries in Contemporary Honduras'; and 'Humor and National Catharsis in Roberto Cossa's El saludador', among many others. The journal also publishes book reviews, theatre reviews, and occasional bibliographies. This will be an important publication for those interested in the strong and continuing theatrical tradition in Latin America. The website has details of the Editor, and Editorial Board. https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/Added: 2009-06-28The Designalyze website is a blog by Zach and Jennifer Downey, a digital design specialist, and an architectural designer respectively, focusing particularly on digital design methods and programmes. At the right hand of the scroll down blog is a list of categories, including 3d modelling, tutorials and various design software programmes. There is also a forum for users to discuss various design software packages. The site is regularly updated and easy to use. http://www.designalyze.com/Added: 2009-06-28The Live Architecture Network website provides information about this organisation, which sets up interdisciplinary collaborations enabled by digital design and fabrication, in order to explore architectural development. From the homepage, a visitor to the site can look at LAN's projects, workshops, teaching and research, which is largely concerned with parametric design. The projects page contains a mixture of collaborative projects that LAN have been involved in with professional or academic partners, and a site visitor can click on these to go to a page explaining each one in more detail. The workshops page contains upcoming and past events arranged by the LAN team, and these take place all over the world. Student projects from the LAN parametric design studios at various architecture schools can be found on the "teaching" page. At the bottom of the homepage is a link to "LaN Connections / Links", which students might find particularly useful, with a large range of external links to architecture and parametric design resources. http://www.livearchitecture.net/Added: 2009-06-28The Tomorrow's Thoughts Today website is a growing collection of research into urban themes and projects that have an unconventional or fantastical element to them. This research is carried out by Darryl Chen and Liam Young, architects who work as independent designers, critics and tutors. The homepage is divided into three categories: fast thoughts; medium thoughts and slow thoughts. The fast thoughts column contains information about events, past and upcoming, while the slow thoughts column talks about ongoing design projects, amongst other things. These three columns can be instantly searched and narrowed down to a chosen topic by clicking on the categories highlighted yellow at the top of the page, which include "cities", "tourism" and "sustainability". This is one of the more unusual architecture blogs available on the web, and the articles are full of references to a broad range of interesting architectural projects and themes, current and historical, which makes the site highly informative. http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/Added: 2009-06-28This is the website of the Emergent Design Group, part of the Department of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. EDG comprises of researchers from a number of fields including architecture, media arts and sciences, artificial intelligence, computer science and engineering. Their design research focuses on advanced materials and fabrication technology. By clicking on "studio" at the top of the main page, and then selecting different units from the scroll down menu at the bottom of the screen, images of student projects can be viewed with explanatory descriptions. In the same way, research projects can be accessed by clicking "research". Several windows pop up whilst navigating through the site: there are separate windows for the project images and the text describing them, which is something to be aware of. However, the presentation of the site is of a high standard. http://web.mit.edu/arch/edg/Added: 2009-06-28The Famous Architects website, part of the Modern Architecture and Design News website, is a large collection of biographies of famous architects. Arranged by name alphabetically, the site is very easy to navigate and browse through. Each architect can be clicked on for a more detailed biographical article. Each one of these articles contains a list of books about the architect for further reading, and a list of their major works, as well as their photograph. There are not links to other websites about the architects, there are no photographs of their buildings, and it is not made very clear who wrote the articles, so the facts should always be checked against another source. However, bibliographies are provided, and because of the simple nature of the searchable list of names, this is a useful resource to get overviews of the careers of a large number of well known architects. http://architect.architecture.sk/Added: 2009-06-28The Life Without Buildings website is a blog by American designer and writer Jimmy Stamp, providing information about "the built environment, with a penchant towards pop culture". The blog is regularly updated with a broad range of articles, current projects and news. The site takes the typical blog format of a scroll down column of articles, or the user can click on the headings of recent articles at the right hand side of the page, as well as being able to subscribe to email updates as the blog changes. http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/Added: 2009-06-28The Architecture: myninjaplease website is one of a group of websites by the Myninjaplease network, and is a blog about contemporary architectural projects written in a style that aims to be more accessible to people than the arguably contrived narrative style used by many architectural reporters. Archives of blog posts and a list of links to other architectural websites can be accessed from the menu at the right hand side of the page. At the immediate right of the scroll down blog are posts about current architectural news, and recent discoveries from the MNP team such as free software downloads or upcoming events. Blog posts are thorough with links to relevent companies and resources. http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/Added: 2009-06-28The Bird to the North website is a blog about current public space projects, events and competitions in New York City. The site is regularly updated, and archives of all posts since October 2004 can be accessed from the menu at the right hand side of the page. There is also an extensive list of links to other architectural websites. There are plenty of images which are of a high quality and resolution. http://northbird.blogspot.com/Added: 2009-06-28The Global Economic History Network (GEHN) working papers are selected full-text dissertations written as part of the Department of Economic History Masters Programme in Global History at the LSE in London. These papers date from 2004 to 2006 and may be freely downloaded in PDF format. Among the titles available are: 'East and West: Textiles and Fashion in Eurasia in the Early Modern Period'; 'The World Coffee Market in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, from Colonial to National Regimes'; and 'Wu-Wei in Europe. A Study of Eurasian Economic Thought', among others. In total there are 24 papers at June 2009. Those which merited a Distinction are marked with an asterisk. This may be an interesting resource for those investigating historical global systems. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/GEHN/GEHNworkingPapers.htmAdded: 2009-06-28The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) is a scholarly society broadly interested in science and representation. The SLSA hosts an annual conference in the U.S.A. and a European conference every other year. Membership is wide-ranging, covering... "sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists". At June 2009 the SLSA website contains the proceedings for the SLSA 2008 conference, including freely available full-text papers such as: 'Subversive Subjectivity in Battlestar Galactica'; 'The Semantics of Letter forms: Linguistic Variation and its Operative Artifacts'; and 'Code, code, on the wall... Spatial(re)Framings'. There are also details of earlier and forthcoming conferences. The next European conference will be in 2010 in Latvia, titled: 'Texture: Electronic Text + Textiles'. Also available on the website are details of the society journal Configurations, published commercially by Johns Hopkins University Press. http://www.litsciarts.org/Added: 2009-06-28This is the transcribed online edition of the second, final volume of Stanley G. Payne's A history of Spain and Portugal (1972). The volume covers the period from the eighteenth centrury to the Franco-era. The book was written for an undergraduate and academic audience as a textbook for Iberian history, with particular regard to the political, institutional, social and economic history of the region. Out of its thirteen chapters, four are specifically devoted to the history of Portugal, while the others discuss the Portuguese dimension when necessary. The site contains a table of contents, all the chapters including footnotes, bibliographies, illustrations and maps. The site also contains a search function, allowing to do full-text search on LIBRO (Library of Iberian resources online), the site that hosts the full-text transcription. The site is particularly recommended to undergraduate students and researchers as textbook and reference book. The first volume of the work is also available on LIBRO. http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/spainport2.htmAdded: 2009-06-28Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is a full-text ejournal. At May 2009 there are eight issues freely available online, offering articles a PDF files. The journal will be of most interest to those seeking to keep pace with the latest science that is being applied and developed for conservation - but there are also articles on digitisation, such as 'Paolo Bufalini and the classics: towards a digital edition of his Note-Book'. Much more general historical articles can also be found, such as: 'Sicily in D.H. Lawrences imagery'; and 'Political theology in Byzantium as seen by 20th century historians'. In addition to articles, there are also announcements. Although edited from Italy, the journal appears to publish only in English. http://conservation-science.cib.unibo.it/Added: 2009-06-28Standpoint is a substantial monthly cultural and political magazine published by the UK's Social Affairs Unit think-tank, under independent editorship. The print magazine is sold commercially in print form at newsagents, but it also makes all of its monthly content available for free online. At June 2009 there are 13 issues, all freely available online. Recent articles include: 'Give Us Poetic Justice' (Clive James on The Oxford Professorship of Poetry); 'Time to Abolish the Arts Council'; and 'Writers, Visible and Invisible' by Cynthia Ozick, among many others. There are also many book and arts reviews. The contents may be searched by keyword or phrase. The website has full details of the editors, and the Advisory Board. http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/magazine/Added: 2009-06-28Founded in 1917, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese promotes the study and teaching of these languages on the secondary and tertiary levels. Its extensive site provides information about the organisation (membership, officers), lists job postings, provides information about its annual conference, awards and scholarships. The site offers particularly important information about the organisation's publications ('Hispania;' 'Enlace;' the Association's newsletter; 'Portuguese Newsletter'); the heading 'teaching resources' introduces printed and online teaching material for language teachers. 'Hispania' is a particularly important resource: it is the official quarterly journal of AATSP, covering literature, language, theoretical and applied linguistics, and Luso-Brazilian world news. 'Hispania' can be reached by one further click, and its own site offers access to the contents page of the current issue, while issues over 5 years of age can be downloaded for free by a further click (http://www.cervantesvirtual.com). Issues less than 5 years are available from JSTOR. The organisation's newsletter, 'Enlace' is published four times annually, and each of the issues published since 2005 is downloadable for free. Finally, 'Portuguese Newsletter' is published twice a year, but that is not accessible online. This resource is particularly useful for students and teachers of Latin-American subjects as it provides guidance on teaching and also provides updates on current pedagogical issues. http://www.aatsp.org/Added: 2009-06-28This website is designed to provide study help to secondary school pupils in Brazil in a range of school subjects (Portuguese language, literature, sciences, Brazilian studies, history, visual arts), but the thorough and clear treatment of the material makes it suitable to more advanced users. Its Portuguese language addresses some common mistakes of language use (equally important for native speakers and more advanced learners), literature has full-text access to a number of poems with ample study notes,and introductory websites to Cecília Meireles, Clarice Lispector, and Guimarães Rosa. The history section offers information about the famous missionary Padre José de Anchieta. The section on arts introduces visual arts and the musician Cartola. This website is particularly useful for introductory or capsule cultural courses for undergraduate students. http://www.tvcultura.com.br/aloescola/linguaportuguesa/Added: 2009-06-28This website, under the auspices of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, offers a comprehensive reference source to world literature, with particular emphasis on Brazilian literature. Its separate headings include: academies and associations, research sources, archives and libraries, bibliographies, virtual libraries and portals, online learning, dictionaries, writers and essayists, educational and research institutions, bookshops and editorial offices, prizes and competitions, electronic periodicals. Academies and associations offers an annotated list of these institutions from around the world, research sources also has a list of international research institutions and literary organisations. Particularly relevant is the section on writers and essayists as it treats Brazilian authors separately from international ones, and provides short biographies and information links to many authors, including contemporaries. The section on virtual libraries is a particularly rich annotated up-todate list of major and less well known websites carrying full-text international literary works, and several Brazilian works can therefore be found there. The website's major shortcoming is that no cross-searches can be performed, therefore, it is difficullt to search for nation- or language specific material. Nevertheless, the site is a particularly useful source for the starting point of any research on contemporary and modern Brazilian literature. http://www.bibvirtuais.ufrj.br/literatura/Added: 2009-06-28The Burle Marx Brazilian music collection of the University of Akron Bierce Library focuses on the scores, manuscripts and recordings of the works of classical Brazilian composers, from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The site offers an introduction to Brazilian music, a detailed bibliography of music (divided up into the categories of general, art, folk and popular music); and also a list of music-related web links. The other section of the site focuses on the description of the collection, offering a listing of composers with biographies, and access to the catalogue of the scores, books and recordings. Another section indicates that Burle Marx's papers are scheduled to arrrive in the future, and their catalogue will be a useful addition to the collection and to the website. This site is a particularly useful source for those with a particular interest in a range of Brazilian music. http://www3.uakron.edu/bmca/Added: 2009-06-28Studies in Latin-American popular culture is an English-language journal published by the University of Arizona, carrying scholarly articles in the field of the title, with an emphasis on Hispanic countries.The website contains the titles of articles published in each of the annual issues of the magazine. The articles include essays, interviews and book reviews and review articles, covering primarily contemporary cultural phenomena. The magazine was launched in 1982, and it enjoyed an uninterrupted run until 2008 when, due to funding difficulties, its publication was suspended. This site is particularly useful for students of popular culture for the identification of potentially interesting articles in difficult area of research. http://www.coh.arizona.edu/slapc/Added: 2009-06-28The Luso-Brazilian Review is an interdisciplinary online academic journal that publishes scholarly articles about lusophone cultures in the field of literature, history and social sciences. It is published bi-annually, each issue carries scholarly articles and book reviews in English or Portuguese. The journal has also had several themed special issue e.g. issue 38.2 celebrated the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. The website provides free access to the titles and abstracts in each issue since the 2002 issue (vol. 39, n. 2), while the pdf version of the full text is available to fee-paying subscribers only. A range of search functions (author, title and date) enable complex searches.The site also carries detailed information about submission and subscription. The site is particularly recommended to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. http://lbr.uwpress.org/Added: 2009-06-28Lucida is a small group of university and independent researchers who are investigating gender and videogames. The website offers a collection of free papers and interviews, in PDF format. The collective was formed in Los Angeles in 2005. The website offers a variety of free texts, mostly in PDF format. Among the article titles are: 'A Game of One's Own: Towards a New Gendered Poetics of Digital Space'; 'Playing Dress-Up: Costumes, roleplay and imagination'; 'An Interview with Ludica: Bringing Fresh Perspectives to the Video Game Industry'; and 'Play Belongs to Everybody: An Interview with the Ludica Collective'. There is also a group bibliography (2005-) and a Lucida weblog. This will be a useful resource for those seeking free texts on videogames and gender, especially girls and games. http://www.ludica.org.uk/Added: 2009-06-28'Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting The Past on The Web' (2005) is a free ebook, published online by the Center for History and New Media. The book is cleanly designed in HTML, and is easy to navigate. Chapters include: 'Designing for the History Web'; 'Building an Audience'; 'Collecting History Online'; 'Owning the Past?' and 'Preserving Digital History', among others. A 355-page print version of the book (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) is also available for purchase, if required. The authors are Daniel J. Cohen of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University. This will be a useful book for anyone undertaking a history project with an online component. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/Added: 2009-06-28'England: the other within' is the website of major research project on English artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum. This comprehensive free website has full details of the collections - along with photographs, object biographies, and a series of short interpretive essays. Essay titles include: 'What is an English object?'; 'Calendar-related artefacts'; 'Death-related artefacts'; 'English folklorists'; 'Pitt Rivers and archaeology in England'; and 'Technologies and materials', among others. There is also an essay on the statistical analysis of the collection, 'Introduction to the analysis of the English collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum'. The databases can also be searched. This polished and richly illustrated website forms part of a major ESRC-funded 'The Other Within' research project (2006-2009), examining 44,015 objects and 6,593 photographs in the collection. http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-28This is a free online archive of the UK magazine 'Gay Left', which ran from 1975 until 1980 and was edited from London. It is now of historical interest, and each issue has been scanned and placed online. Issues can be freely downloaded as PDF files, and these contain OCR text that can be copied and pasted. The journal regularly carried essays and reviews by notable names such as Richard Dyer, Jeffrey Weeks, Emmanuel Cooper, Ann Oakley, and Simon Watney, among others. Jeffrey Weeks has written a special new overview essay for the website archive. The archive and new essay will be of interest to those researching radical politics and sexuality in the UK during the late 1970s. http://www.gayleft1970s.org/Added: 2009-06-28The Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations is a scholarly and scientific Mongolian organisation which works with UNESCO, the Dept. of Education, Culture and Science of Mongolia, and the Chinese authorities, among others. At June 2009 the Institute has been established for ten years, and it organises projects, expeditions, conferences, summer schools, and issues publications to do with Mongolian life, culture and history. The website has details of all these, along with full details of the members and governing body of the Institute. Among the publications are the English encyclopaedia 'History and Culture of the Mongols' (2006) and the book 'The Inner Sense and Understanding of the Nomadic People's Musical Psychology' (2006). Among the accounts of projects are details of a major 'Heritage of the Mongolian Long Folk Song' (2008-2010) ethnographic song-gathering project. This will be a vital contact point for anyone interested in the cultures and languages of Central Asian nomadic peoples. http://www.nomadic.mn/Added: 2009-06-28'Todoele' is a portal for teachers of Spanish offering a vast array of pedagogical resources. Contents are mostly developed by other teachers, hence becoming an excellent place for the exchange of activities; news; and any other relevant information. The webpage is divided into several sections presented in a tabular form, including: classroom materials; professional associations; scholarships; Spanish departments and other educational institutions; and new publications. Since the section for classroom materials takes some resources directly from other websites, this helps tutors to locate relevant activities otherwise dispersed across the internet. Theoretical pedagogical studies; information about future conferences and seminars; blogs by other teachers and links to groups in social networks are also offered on the site. 'Todoele' represents an invaluable resource for any teacher of Spanish. http://www.todoele.net/Added: 2009-06-28This is the homepage of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research (IJCR) which is based in San Francisco, USA. It is an independent non-profit think-tank which looks at a wide range of issues concerning the Jewish community. This website, which informs visitors about their current and past projects, allows them to read the reports published on these without charge. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to access the reports. The site also enables access to the IJCR Quad - their quarterly publication; press releases; audio and video recordings of interviews; news and academic articles; and contains links to relevant recent developments. A search engine is available. The institute is presided over by Dr Gary A. Tobin, a senior fellow with the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. http://www.jewishresearch.org/Added: 2009-06-28This Web page gives access to the free full-text proceedings of the 2005 conference 'Joining Forces: international conference on design research'. The conference was held at the University of Art & Design, Helsinki, and the website offers around 90 papers. Papers are freely available in PDF format. Titles include: 'Just Using the Electronic Daily Objects: new technologies and/or/for the users'; 'Developing local artisans by design'; 'Producing and distributing an innovative product'; and 'Initiating artificial life', among many others. The conference was a pre-congress conference to the major ERA05 World Design Congress in 2005. This will be a useful resource for those interested in design research, designer training, and design-led marketing. http://www.uiah.fi/joiningforces/papers.htmlAdded: 2009-06-28The portal for the Najerilla valley in La Rioja (Spain) offers a wide variety of resources for the study of its history and society. Although the site may appear a bit cramped in the first impression, this should not deter users from browsing the vast array of materials available. These include information about principal economic activities in the region, such as the production of wine, but also many more overviews of other activities and places, including: the history of the production of coal in the area; Romanesque paintings in the Basilica of Virgen de los Arcos; the valley in the Medieval period; and folklore and dance. The site also hosts the virtual library Miguel de Berceo, featuring works and studies on the Spanish poet; and the portal for the well-known pilgrimage route 'Camino de Santiago' (The Way of St James) with a high number of articles, legends and practical information. The site will be of interest for anyone interested in the rich history of the region, especially for the medieval period and traditional economic activities. http://www.vallenajerilla.com/Added: 2009-06-28The website by the Spanish Medieval historian F. Javier Villalba Ruiz de Toledo offers complementary materials for his lectures, which may be of interest to other lecturers and students of European and Spanish medieval history. The site provides historical texts; maps; and a bibliography (although at the time of cataloguing the latter was not available). The texts section includes fragments from a wide variety of historical sources, covering topics such as: Al-Andalus; feudalism; Christian Spain; the fight for the 'Dominium mundi'; and feudal monarchies. The author has also made available very useful historical maps such as: Europe by the end of the 5th century; Islam in times of Mohammed; England by the beginning of the 10th century; and the First Crusade. Users should note that all materials are in Spanish only. http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/filoyletras/javr/Added: 2009-06-28'Michael Spain' is an online catalogue of electronic resources from museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from Spain. Although it lacks a search facility, browsing through the different categories is very easy. Collections are organised according to: subject; spatial coverage; historical period; institution type; and audience. The site covers all subjects within the humanities; social sciences; law; and media studies. Interestingly, despite being a catalogue of Spanish resources, it also provides links from Spanish institutions which may be related with any other part of the world. The portal is part of the European project Michael and it has been created with the collaboration of the Spanish National Library. The resources available will be of interest to both students and lecturers of Spanish studies, but also those interested in topics which for some reason have a connection with Spain. http://www.michael-culture.es/Added: 2009-06-28The 'Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos' is the scholarly publication by the Canadian Association of Hispanists. It publishes research articles and book reviews on any aspect of Spanish and Latin American studies: literature; cinema; cultural history; language; philosophy; and cultural studies. The editors accept contributions in Spanish, English and French, and the site gives access to the list of contents and abstracts for all current and back issues up to 2001. Some examples of articles published by the journal are: "Constructing the Desappearing [sic] Self: Unamuno, Carmen Martín Gaite and the Quicksands of History"; "Talk, Small and Not So Small: The Power of Gossip in Claríns La Regenta"; "New Media and Democracy in Spain: Culture and the Mediated Politics of March 11-14, 2004". At the time of cataloguing editors have opened a public debate on publication policies, and open access to all contents of the journal might be granted in the near future. http://www.ach.lit.ulaval.ca//RCEH/Added: 2009-06-28'Tejuelo' is a peer-reviewed journal of Spanish language, literature and education edited by teachers from the Secondary School of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Extremadura, Spain) in collaboration with the University of Extremadura. It is published three times a year, and all full-text contents for current and back issues can be accessed for free on the site. It publishes articles, book reviews, and news related with education and/or Spanish language and literature. The language of the publication is Spanish, but abstracts are also provided in English for most articles. Some recent articles include: "Some didactic suggestions on the Spanish theatre of the 18th century"; "Fiction and reality in Manuel Tamayo y Bauss' Un Drama Nuevo: towards a new conception of the human being"; and "Laísmo in Miguel Delibes Cinco horas con Mario (1966): Background for foreign students trained in correct Spanish". Although Tejuelo will be of interest to researchers of Spanish literature, it is stimulating that most contributions link it with the pedagogy of Spanish language. http://iesgtballester.juntaextremadura.net/web/profesores/tejuelo/Added: 2009-06-28Yasnaya Polyana is the website of the Tolstoy Estate Museum, which preserves the country estate of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy as it was in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. The most useful material can be found under Museum: an interactive map offers details about the estate and grounds with citations from Tolstoy and photographs; collections (fondy) provides a detailed overview of the house museum and other items of interest; academic work links to museum publications and conferences. A gallery of photos includes images of Tolstoy and the contemporary estate. Details of forthcoming events and conferences organised by the museum can be found under News and Events. Conception discusses the museums structure and development. There is also a page of information for tourists. Some pages are available in English and German. The site will be of interest to teachers and students of Russian literature and culture, and of limited use to researchers. http://www.yasnayapolyana.ru/Added: 2009-06-28Russkoe literaturnoe nasledie on-line provides access to the full text of: the ninety volume edition of Tolstoys complete works which includes drafts, letters and diaries; dissertations on Tolstoy from the Russian State Library; plus scanned manuscripts family photographs and a bibliography of the contents of Tolstoys personal library, preserved at Yasnaya Polyana. A collaboration between the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum and the Russian State Library, the site allows users to search both institutions catalogues and the full text materials simultaneously. Photographs and digitised manuscripts (including drawings and letters) may be browsed in the photo gallery section, but the manuscripts are too small to work from. An elegant timeline offers a brief, illustrated overview of Tolstoys life. This resource will be of use to researchers, students and teachers of Russian literature and culture. http://tolstoy-nasledie.rsl.ruAdded: 2009-06-28Narodnyi katalog pravoslavnoi arkhitektury is a user-generated content project aiming to collate and catalogue photographs of all the Orthodox churches, monasteries, chapels, belltowers and cathedrals in Russia. The site holds over 60,000 images, searchable by: keyword; geographical location (including Belarus); building type; construction date; architect; or a combination thereof. The catalogue can be browsed by: geographical location (oblast; region; town); diocese; participant (contributing photographers). There is also a links page and a forum. Many photos are accompanied by entries about the history of the building with citation references; others simply have an address, and sometimes details of how to get there or a link to the parish website. This site will be of most use to researchers and teachers of Russian religious architecture, culture and history. http://sobory.ru/Added: 2009-06-28This website on 'Information Systems Ethics' was founded and edited by Dr David Vance; and is hosted by the Mississippi State University. It contains information and links to numerous resources on computer and information ethics (cyberethics). The latter include: articles; virtual libraries; bibliographies; ethical guidelines; case studies; online sample syllabi; class materials; and papers. Together, they cover a wide range of moral issues posed by new information technology like privacy, identity and security. Links are also provided to the homepages of relevant organizations; discussion forums; and conferences. http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/Added: 2009-06-28This is the website of a 2009 Cambridge University Press book on search design, possibly one of the most critical design issues of our age. 'Search User Interfaces' is freely available online in full-text form. The book by Marti Hearst examines the design of search interfaces across a range of platforms and delivery methods. Chapters include: 'Design of Search User Interfaces'; 'Evaluation of Search User Interfaces'; 'Presentation of Search Results'; 'Information Visualization for Search Interfaces'; and 'Emerging Trends in Search Interfaces', among others. At June 2009, it is reported that the book will be available in print form in September 2009. This ebook will be useful for interface designers, web designers, designers of library systems, and those aiming to build robust methods of data-mining in the digital humanities, among others. http://searchuserinterfaces.com/Added: 2009-06-28 -
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FlowTV is an online ejournal developed by the University of Texas at Austin as... "a critical forum on television and media culture". Content is freely available and, although presented in a magazine-like format, is organised into volumes as in a traditional journal. Over 100 issues are available. Articles are presented as HMTL pages. A randomly chosen back-issue from 2005 revealed articles such as: 'Who Wants to be a Crorepati?: Global Television and Local Genres in India'; 'Why Media Scholars Should Write Corporate Histories'; and 'Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)' about post-2000 American TV sci-fi series. Articles may be commented on by readers. The website has details of the submission process, but seemingly has no details of an Editorial Board. There is also an RSS newsfeed. http://flowtv.org/Added: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of deep vein thrombosis which can be related to long distance travel is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/dvt_advice_for_travellersAdded: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of penile erectile dysfunction is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2011. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/erectile_dysfunctionAdded: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of feverish children is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2008 and a revision is planned for 2011. http://cks.library.nhs.uk/feverish_children_managementAdded: 2009-06-27This is the project homepage of 'From Hijab to Jilbab, the Half-Generational Shift: Being Muslim in a British Multicultural Society', a one-year research based at the School of Education, University of Nottingham. It receives funding from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Research Programme and is led by Dr Kaye Haw, a Principal Research Fellow at the school. The work aims to study the changes that have taken place over time for Muslims living in a British multicultural society. The researchers hope to use the results to challenge the stereotypes that have developed and to open up the channel of communication between those from different backgrounds and generations. They aim to produce a DVD about life in a multicultural society. This homepage invites participation from those affected by the issues discussed, and contains a search engine and a downloadable copy of the project leaflet. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/projects/kfh-hijab-to-jilbab/Added: 2009-06-27This Web page on the website of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) offers an index of the scholarly articles appearing in the ABAA's Newsletter. Articles are freely available in HTML format. Example titles include: 'The Cartographic Impact of MacDonald Gills Wonderground Map of 1913'; 'A Collectors Primer to the Wonders of Fore-edge Painting'; 'The Radical Novel: 1900-1954'; 'Books on the Blues'; 'Early Southeast Asian Geographic Thought'; 'Collecting Movie Source Books'; and 'Earnest Lives and Fearless Words: The Literature and Ideals of the Women's Rights Movement', among many others. In total there are some 80 articles available, which will be of interest to bibliophiles and to some types of librarians. http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/newsall.htmlAdded: 2009-06-27'The Arts in Society' was an arts journal published by the University of Wisconsin. This full-text online archive offers free access to the complete run of the publication, with issues dating from 1958 until 1976. The journal... "discusses, interprets, and illustrates the various roles of the arts in contemporary society". Special themed issues include: "Arts and the Black Revolution (1968), Arts of Activism (1969), Women and the Arts (1974)", among others. A search-engine is provided for the searching the full text of all issues, although browsing by issue leads to scanned images of pages. Page images are shown at a readable size, and without watermarks. This will be a useful resource for those interested in the history of the counterculture and the arts in the U.S. The journal has been made available by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/ArtsSocAbout.htmlAdded: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of fungal nail infection (onychomycosis) is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://cks.library.nhs.uk/fungal_nail_infectionAdded: 2009-06-27Japan Review is a scholarly full-text refereed ejournal published in English by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. The journal covers Japanese culture and civilization and is published annually. At June 2009 there are 19 issues online (1990-2008), freely offering articles as PDF files. Example article include: 'Miyazaki Hayao's epic comic series Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind: an attempt at interpretation'; 'Beriberi, military medicine, and medical authority in prewar Japan'; and 'The Pillow Hook: The Pillow Book as an "open work"', among many others. Articles appear to be scans only, and do not seem to contain OCR text. This will be a useful resource for those interested in the study of Japan. http://shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/jpub/jr/year_view.php?lan=ENAdded: 2009-06-27This Web page of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities website gives access to the full-text proceedings of the annual conference, for the years 2004 to 2008. At June 2009 it appears that some of the papers for the 2009 conference are also online, in advance of the conference itself. Proceedings are offered as PDF files, usually with a single PDF collecting all the conference papers for that year. This means that Proceeding files are very large, and are usually over 70Mb. It is not immediately clear how to browse these very large PDFs once they are downloaded and opened - one usually has to go to the front page and click the button "Browse full text", rather than use the normal Acrobat sidebar index. Individual PDF papers from the 2003 conference are also available, although do not seem to be listed on the website - they can be found by searching Google for: keyword site:www.hichumanities.org/AHproceedings/ This is a rich resource, offering over 500 PDF articles and proceeding books, but one that is awkwardly and patchily presented to potential readers. http://www.hichumanities.org/proceedings_hum.htmAdded: 2009-06-27Portuguese language online is an excellent language learning tool for learners of Portuguese from post-beginner level and for linguists interested in the nature of Portuguese. It is hosted by Llas (Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies) and is aimed at undergraduate students. Its content is divided into four major units: it contains a section discussing the history, development and regional varieties of contemporary Portuguese, including a reference bibliography; another contains interactive language-teaching modules on a postbeginner level; the third major section contains a clearly structured description of Portuguese grammar, while the 'glossary of grammar terms' (under construction at the time of writing) promises to offer useful help to less experienced language learners. The content of the website is usefully supplemented with a list of online resources for language learning purposes. The combination of the thorough content and the clear presentation makes this website an indispensable tool for language learners and comparative linguists. http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb059Added: 2009-06-27The Latin-American Network Information Center is a comprehensive and authoritative site to provide guidance to the online resources available on Latin-American scholarship and studies. The Center is affiliated with the Lozango Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The site provides a structurally clearly organised access to websites concerned with Latin-America. Its subject directory contains over 12,000 links to different websites, and it can be browsed by country, subject and digital initiatives. LANIC also supports training intiatives in digital humanities. This site s a particularly useful as a starting point for those interested in Latin-American studies in a range of fields as it provides a very wide-ranging listing of authoritative sites in a very clear and structured manner. http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/brazil/Added: 2009-06-27International Journal of Internet Research Ethics is a full-text ejournal published from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At June 2009 there are two issue online, with articles freely available as PDF files. The journal will be useful for researchers in a variety of fields, as well as for philosophers considering ethics, research ethics, and online lives. Articles are freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'Playing a Good Game: Ethical Issues in Researching MMOGS and Virtual Worlds'; ' Emerging Legal Issues in the Collection and Dissemination of Internet-Sourced Research Data'; 'Data as Representation: Beyond Anonymity in e-Research Ethics'; and 'Creating a Web of Attribution in the Feminist Blogosphere', among others. The website has full details of the editors, Editorial Board, and the submission process. http://ijire.net/Added: 2009-06-27This website provides access to a range of digitised classical texts in Portuguese. Launched in 2004 as the initiative of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, it started with an initial holding of 500 texts, with the number continuously growing. The collection includes separate sections devoted to classical authors of Brazilian literature (Machado de Assis) and Portuguese literature (Fernando Pessoa); to translations of foreign classics into Portuguese (Shakespeare and Dante); and mp3 versions of Brazilian classical music. It also holds also full-text Brazilian publications about education. The literary sections of the website (not grouped according to genre) allow access to pdf versions of the authors' texts, and in some instance (Machado de Assis), the primary material is supplemented with biographical-historical material about the author, and also with extensive bibliographies including dissertations. The absence of a site map or contents listing make the site navigation difficult, although there are separate search functions for author, thesis and contents searches. This website is recommended for those interested in Brazilian and Portuguese literature and music, and for researchers of literary reception. http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.jspAdded: 2009-06-27'Demonic Texts and Textual Demons: the demonic tradition, the self, and popular fiction' is a free online ebook, by Frans Mayra. Mayra is Professor of Hypermedia at the University of Tampere in Finland. This book was originally published in 1999 by the Tampere University Press. It is presented online in English, and the Web page for it is cleanly and elegantly designed. Individual chapters are in PDF format. Chapter titles include: 'The Ancestry of the Demonic'; 'Demons of Horror: Intimations of an Inner Alien'; 'Mothering a Demon: Rosemarys Baby'; 'The Inarticulate Body: Demonic Conflicts in The Exorcist'; and 'Good at Being Evil: the Demons of The Vampire Chronicles', among others. http://www.uta.fi/~frans.mayra/Demon_2005/Added: 2009-06-27Atlantikos: a Journal of Transatlantic Scholarship is a full-text graduate ejournal, on the... "study of textual productions dating from the age of exploration to the present that originate in Europe, Africa, and the Americas". At June 2009 there are three issues online, edited from the Department of English at Michigan State University. Articles are freely available in PDF format. Example article titles include: 'Critical Anxiety: The Language of Ethnic Discourse'; 'Fictive Emigrants and America as Fiction'; and 'Surrounded by Atlantic Waters: The Irish Experience in Transatlantic Scholarship', among others. Book reviews are also published. The website has details of the editors, the Editorial Board, and the submission process. https://www.msu.edu/~atlantik/Added: 2009-06-27'Dig me out: discourses of popular music, gender and ethnicity' (2009) is a extensive online anthology of texts on popular music and cultural identity, predominantly 20th century music and musical performance. It appears to have originated as a DVD publication funded by Arteleku in the Basque Country of Spain. There are around 140 texts on the website, freely available in HTML or PDF format. Texts are in dual English and Spanish. Also available are MP4 audio files, and Quicktime video files. A few randomly selected test clicks revealed: 'Transfabulous, Border Fuckers and political queer performance - Jet Moon in conversation with Greg of No Borders London and Emine of Kaos GL Turkey' (PDF text and video); and 'Orlanding the Dominant: trip away to genderfuck' (PDF file). This will be a useful resource for those interested in popular music, performance, and identity. http://www.digmeout.org/Added: 2009-06-27Disability Studies Quarterly is a full-text ejournal on disability. The journal ranges across a variety of topics, but at June 2009 the latest issue appears to be a media studies special, with peer-reviewed articles such as: 'From Superman to Super Jesus: Constructions of Masculinity and Disability on the Silver Screen'; 'Women Wheelchair Athletes: Competing against Media Stereotypes'; and 'Gil Grissom and His Hidden Condition: Constructions of Hearing Loss and Deafness in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'. Articles are published in English and can be freely viewed as HTML pages, and at June 2009 there are 33 issues online. Issues are often themed, with themes such as: 'Poetry'; 'Disability Blogging'; 'Religion and Spirituality'; 'Disability Culture in Children's Literature'; 'Disability and Humor'; and 'Advertising and People with Disabilities', among others. The journal also publishes book reviews. The website has full details of the editor, editorial board, and submission process. http://www.dsq-sds.org/indexAdded: 2009-06-27Living Well with Dementia: a National Dementia Strategy was published by the Department of Health in February 2009 and is the first such strategy in the UK. It is intended to increase awareness of dementia, ensure early diagnosis and intervention and radically improve the quality of care, introducing dementia specialists into general hospitals and care home and mental health teams to assess patients. The web pages include links to the strategy document and information on commissioning, demonstrator sites and the Alzheimers Societys Worried About Your Memory? campaign. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Deliveringadultsocialcare/Olderpeople/NationaAdded: 2009-06-27The Cochrane Library has produced a series of podcasts providing audio summaries of some of the systematic reviews that are available from one of its regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Cochrane systematic reviews analyse what evidence is available from published research studies for or against the use of certain treatments and healthcare interventions and then provide recommendations on what is the most effective or appropriate. This podcast enables listeners to hear a short commentary about the evidence available for the use of enteral tube feeding for older people with dementia who are having problems eating. The Cochrane Library is made available by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit and independent body, making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare freely available. http://www.cochrane.org/podcasts/review_summaries/2009issue2/issue2_2009_dementiAdded: 2009-06-27The Faculty of Public Health (iwith the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and the NHS Confederation) published this handbook, in June 2009 to suggest how to integrate carbon-reduction measures into organisation-wide strategies and policies in the NHS and how individuals can act, looking at procurement, transport and buildings. Discusses the potential health benefits of changing behaviour in terms of the environment and personal behaviour. Provides checklists and case studies. The full document is available to download. http://www.fphm.org.uk/resources/sustainable_development/sustaining_a_healthy_fuAdded: 2009-06-27The International Information Network on New and Emerging Health Technologies (EuroScan) is a network of member agencies collaborating on the exchange of information on emerging new drugs, devices, procedures, programmes, and settings in health care and is hosted by the University of Birmingham. The website includes details of Euroscan's work, its outputs in terms of analysis, information exchange and terminology and information on its memnber organisations. http://www.euroscan.bham.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-27The National Horizon Scanning Centre, based at the University of Birmingham, aims to provide advanced warning of new and emerging health technologies that might have clinical or cost implications. Their horizon scanning activity can cover pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests and procedures, therapeutic interventions, rehabilitation and therapy, and public health. The main output is a series of technology briefing, under a range of clinical topics, which are available to download from the website. http://www.pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/horizon/Added: 2009-06-27Solovetskie ostrova informatsionnyi portal is a stylish resource focused on the history, geography and culture of Solovki, developed by a group of seafaring enthusiasts and historians who also run the Solovetsky seafaring museum (a subsection of the site) and publish the excellent annual Solovetskoe more. This latter is fully available on the site, and is browseable by section (White Sea seafaring practice; research and primary sources; poetry and prose; contemporary life on Solovki) or by issue. The site also offers: an interactive map of the islands significant sights (with historic and contemporary images and explanatory notes); information for travellers on climate, nature, hotels, pilgrim-related information, local festivals etc.; a historical overview and chronicle of significant events; a gallery of art and photography. A sophisticated search engine allows the user to select sections of the site and other online resources such as local newspapers. The resource has a good English language version of most pages (apart from Solovetskoe more contents) and will be of use to researchers, students and teachers of Russian history and culture. http://solovki.info/Added: 2009-06-27This is the homepage of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP). Set up in 1948, this non-governmental organization aims to foster professional relations among philosophers and philosophical societies around the world. It aims also to promote philosophical education and scholarly research. Memberships is open to national, regional, and international philosophical institutions. This website contains a list of existing members and their contact details. It also provides information about the federation's history; administrative structure; main activities; regulations; statutes and bye-laws. Access is given to their biannual newsletter since 1995. The Federation is presided over by William McBride of the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. http://www.fisp.org/Added: 2009-06-27This technology appraisal contains a series of documents on guidance to the NHS on the use of lenalidomide for the treatment of multiple myeloma in people who have received at least one prior therapy. It is produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Technology appraisals produced by NICE have been developed by a team of experts aiming to produce guidance for both the NHS and patients on medicines, medical equipment and clinical procedures based on evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness. Made available in June 2009, this appraisal includes practice guidelines, a patient-oriented information leaflet, and a quick reference guide. http://guidance.nice.org.uk/TA171Added: 2009-06-27This guideline offers best practice advice on the recognition and assessment of coeliac disease and the care of children and adults who are undergoing the diagnostic process for coeliac disease. Access is provided to key documents for this guideline including full guidelines, information for the public, and a quick reference guide. Published in May 2009 by the produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG86Added: 2009-06-27This clinical guideline is for the NHS on the management of people who have persistent non-specific low back pain. Access is provided to key documents for this guideline including full guidelines, information for the public, and a quick reference guide. Published in May 2009 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG88Added: 2009-06-27A collection of resources, aimed at consumers about cochlear implants. Links are provided to a wide range of resources from US government and other sources, including overviews, diagnosis and symptoms, pictures, photographs and videos, financial issues, journal articles, organisations and directories. MedlinePlus is provided by the US National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cochlearimplants.htmlAdded: 2009-06-27A collection of resources, aimed at consumers, about hearing aids. Links are provided to a wide range of resources from US government and other sources, including overviews, specific and related issues, pictures and photographs, financial issues, clinical trials, journal articles, directories and organisations. MedlinePlus is provided by the US National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hearingaids.htmlAdded: 2009-06-27A collection of resources, aimed at consumers, about platelet disorders. Links are provided to a wide range of resources from US government and other sources, including overviews, diagnosis, symptoms and treatment, clinical trials, journal articles, directories and organisations. MedlinePlus is provided by the US National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/plateletdisorders.htmlAdded: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England and it covers different clinical scenarios of ADHD, plus goals and outcome measures, background information, management issues and references. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder#Added: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of falls in older people is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/falls_risk_assessment#-371716Added: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of urinary incontinence in women is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/incontinence_urinary_in_women#Added: 2009-06-27This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of steroid-induced osteoporosis is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/osteoporosis_preventing_steroid_induced#Added: 2009-06-27This is the homepage of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility(CCSR) at DeMontfort University. It aims to bring greater awareness about the social and ethical implications of computing and related technologies to the public. It seeks to do this primarily through research, teaching and consultancy. This website contains information about the doctoral programme they offer and details about forthcoming conferences. It allows access to several multimedia items; the homepage of its journal; a column on computer ethics; and numerous academic articles on titles such as 'A moral approach to electronic patient records'; 'Computer ethics: its birth and its future'; 'Flourishing ethics'; 'Towards morally defensible e-government interactions with citizens'; and 'Information and integrity in the information age'. Search facilities are available. The centre is directed by Professor Simon Rogerson. http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-27This is the homepage of a research network project funded by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Research Programme. 'Young People and the Cultural Performance of Belief' is jointly convened by Gordon Lynch of Birkbeck College, and Simon Coleman and Abby Day of the University of Sussex. The work aims to deepen understanding of the concept of 'belief' in the context of contemporary religion and young people. Between May 2009 to January 2011, it proposes to organise discussion events and conferences where ideas could be shared and sharpened. This website contains background information about the project and details of events; and allows access to podcasts of seminars. It is hosted by the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, London. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs/research/belief_networkAdded: 2009-06-27The Cochrane Library has produced a series of podcasts providing audio summaries of some of the systematic reviews that are available from one of its regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Cochrane systematic reviews analyse what evidence is available from published research studies for or against the use of certain treatments and healthcare interventions and then provide recommendations on what is the most effective or appropriate. This podcast enables listeners to hear a short commentary about the evidence available for the use of surgical interventions for the treatment of obesity. The Cochrane Library is made available by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit and independent body, making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare freely available. http://www.cochrane.org/podcasts/review_summaries/2009issue2/issue2_2009_obesityAdded: 2009-06-27 -
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"The Mathematica Journal publishes articles and packages on all aspects of Mathematica and on related subjects." It is published quarterly by Wolfram Media, Inc. Tables of contents and abstracts are provided. Access to full text is available to subscribers. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. http://www.mathematica-journal.com/home/Added: 2009-06-26This website, from the State Library of New South Wales, Australia, provides a history of the first discover and exploration of Australia. Beginning with the biggest naval expedition into Pacific Waters, from Britain, in 1787, and known as the First Fleet, this attractively designed, easy to navigate, and simple to use website provides a wealth of information on the exploration, and discovery, of Australia. The website provides - with the use of Flash - a number of images and charts taken from the original voyages along with information on the images and material presented. Furthermore, there are links throughout to the State Library's catalogue to further enhance the user's research in this area. The information is split thematically, and includes: the First Fleet; Mutiny!; Flinder's Journey; Upon a Painted Ocean; and Voyages of the Rattlesnake. There are also links to more information. This is a highly useful, and user-friendly, website which will prove to be of great value to anyone interested in first contact with, and the exploration of, the Australian continent. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/terra_australis/indAdded: 2009-06-26The website presents online discussion of, and information, on cruise-liners. Although a little cluttered, the website is nevertheless easy to use with a 'current news' section (providing information and pictures on a wealth of topics relating to cruise-liners), a featured articles section (which provides a number of discussion points on literally hundreds of different cruise-liners) and an archive section (which provides access to the back-catalogue of essays and articles). Many, if not most, of the links available direct the user to a separate blog which includes information and pictures on the cruise-liners under discussion. There is also information on 'future ships' (i.e. ships which are currently under construction, or in the planning stages) and links to 'shipcams' which provides a number of links - some of which are now out of date - to cameras installed in various ships throughout the world. There is unfortunately no easy way to search or browse through the material available at present, but the wealth and amount of information is impressive. http://www.maritimematters.com/Added: 2009-06-26This extensive website provides an alphabetical list of members of the various royal households in Britain's past. More than that, however, the website provides a mini-biography of every one of the entries in the database. The website can be easily browsed (by name, title, place, event, note, succession, kinship) or searched by keyword. The years of birth and death, and any other relevant information, are given when known. Perhaps the greatest strength of this significant resource is the ability to view the family tree of any person in the database. This provides unparalleled ease-of-use when analysing the family history of the various royal households (including the households of the United Kingdom, of England, and of Scotland and there various connections throughout). The wealth of information provided may be a little too complex for users not familiar with the history of the United Kingdom, or the royal families, but this is nevertheless a hugely significant and valuable online resource. http://www.royalist.info/Added: 2009-06-26This website presents a wealth of information on over 300 churches and 100 churches primarily in Nottinghamshire. The site's aims are to: 'establish a database of information on the 300+ churches and 100+ former churches/sites and to provide internet web pages for wider circulation; help parishes appreciate their church buildings and provide booklets and information for visitors and tourists; provide historic information to Church Architects, Archaeologists and Conservators to enable them to make proposals on maintenance and improvement of our churches in a more informed way; promote church buildings as resources for schools and colleges; and to enable family historians to seek out information by ensuring that records are properly protected and preserved'. The website itself is very easy to navigate: each of the churches is listed alphabetically and clicking on any of the names takes the user to a separate page which details the information available. The information varies from church to church, with some including plans and drawings of the inside of the church, and others simply describing the church. This website is a huge undertaking and provides users with an excellent amount of information on Britain's churches. http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-26This excellent website provides access to discussion of the development of the church and state through the Reformation in the British Isles, along with discussion of the changes in the nature of both churches and palaces during this time. The easy-to-use website has several subject headings (church architecture; before the Reformation; the early palace of Westminster; shaping the modern church; and the later palace of Westminster). Each of these headings has various subsections which explain and discuss the topic at hand. There is a wealth of information available on this site, and it will be of particular use to undergraduate users starting research or study. Each heading mentioned above has an 'activity' to go along with it (which provides further information) and a quiz. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/church_state/Added: 2009-06-26Tables of contents and abstracts are available from this subscription-based journal, published by Springer, which focuses on applicable, discrete mathematics where the research reported also contains a significant algorithmic component. The full-text is available to subscribers. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. http://www.springer.com/math/journal/10852Added: 2009-06-26The SACNAS Biography Project provides profiles of scientists, mathematicians and engineers, written at middle school and high school levels for educators who are interested in teaching their students about the accomplishments of Chicano/Latino and Native American scientists. The profiles can be accessed by name, subject or ethnicity. Women scientists are listed separately. Links to related websites are provided. http://www.sacnas.org/biography/default.aspAdded: 2009-06-26The Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education is published bi-monthly by Springer Netherlands. It "is devoted to research that seeks to improve the education of mathematics teachers and develop teaching methods that better enable mathematics students to learn." The journal's website provides access to contents lists and abstracts. Access to full text is available to subscribers. Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber. http://www.springer.com/education/mathematics+education/journal/10857Added: 2009-06-26The full text of the book " The Principal Works of Simon Stevin", originally published by C.V. Swets and Zeitlinger, is made available from the digital repository of Delft University of Technology Library. The text of over 900 pages describes the work of this Dutch mathematician. http://www.library.tudelft.nl/digitresor/?bookname=Mathematics%20II%20AAdded: 2009-06-26The ESRC core funded Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), based at the University of Oxford, aims to study the relationship between migration and societal change in order to develop theory, inform public opinion and evaluate policy. The COMPAS website gives details of staff, partners and research projects, events and news, and publications including full-text working papers, and information about the journal Global Networks. http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-26The Commission for Rural Communities was established in April 2005, and became an independent body in October 2006 following the enactment of the NERC Act. The Commission's "role is to provide well-informed, independent advice to government and ensure that policies reflect the real needs of people living and working in rural England, with a particular focus on tackling disadvantage." Its three key functions are as rural advocate, expert adviser and independent watchdog for rural communities. It addresses issues such as housing, transport, access to services and rural economies through thematic studies, inquiries and evaluations. Users can also search the Rural Communities best practice database which shows how 5000 communities have been tackling issues like social exclusion, road safety and access to health care. The website details the latest work of the Commission, gives access to news, events and blogs, and access to Reports of the Rural Advocate. http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk/Added: 2009-06-26This is the homepage of the Research Center on Computing and Society which is based in the Philosophy Department at Southern Connecticut State University. It provides an extensive number of research, teaching and learning resources on Computing Ethics which can be accessed without charge. These include news articles and academic articles on topics like 'What is Computing Ethics?'; 'The Computer Revolution and Global Ethics'; and 'Ethics in the Information Age'. There are also the full-text of monographs on titles like 'Equity and Access to Computing Resources'; 'Computing Security'; 'Computing and Privacy'; and 'Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility'. The site provides links to multimedia materials and the homepages of relevant organizations. The center is directed by Terrell Ward Bynum, a professor of philosophy at the university. http://www.southernct.edu/organizations/rccs/Added: 2009-06-26This is the homepage of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. It was launched in 2005 to promote an appreciation of the role played by secular values and the process of secularization itself in modern society and culture. It engages primarily in academic research and curriculum development, and organises public events. Details of these activities are available from the site. This homepage also allows visitors to access numerous resources without charge. These include online version of books; reports; surveys; articles; speeches; pictures; course information; and press releases. The institute is directed by Barry A. Kosmin and receives funding from the Posen Foundation of Lucerne, Switzerland. http://www.trincoll.edu/secularisminstitute/Added: 2009-06-26Established in March 2005, 'Girls on Film' is a showcase for female artists across a wide range of disciplines, including filmmaking, music, visual art, photography, painting, dancing, acting and poetry. The website provides information about the network in addition to highlighting the latest events. Included on the website are in-depth profiles of some of the women involved in the network, a 'Frequently asked questions' section, which covers some of the issues involved in submitting work, and a news section covering the latest calls for submissions and related events. Other features of the website include a forums page (which can be read by anyone, but requires registration in order to leave comments); archives of postings; and information on how individuals and business can support the Girls on Film network. The website also provides access to a submission form (available in Word format) for artists who wish to submit work for inclusion in the network. http://www.girlsonfilmnetwork.org/Added: 2009-06-26This website provides an excellent yet thorough introduction to the life and work of the prominent 19th century Brazilian novelist, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908). The site was first started in 2007 by the Universidade Federal da Santa Catarina with a view to provide access to the work of the novelist with scholarly reliability. The site provides a detailed biography. It is followed by the digitised transcriptions of the author's work. The section 'Obras' (Works) divides up the digitised works according to genres, including prose, poetry and dramas, and also journalism, while deliberately leaving out work not meant for publication (personal letters). 'Obras' also provides listings according the titles in alphabetical order as well as dates of publication. The texts are transcriptions based on scholarly printed editions (explained in detail in the introduction), while the printed source text is always identified. Finally, images are also provided to illustrate the author's life and age. The search function allows the user to search the primary texts for words and phrases. This website is particularly useful for researchers being interested in the works written by Machado de Assis. Its particular value consists in providing online access to properly identified and edited primary texts and in the ability to provide overall verb and phrase searches. http://www.machadodeassis.ufsc.br/Added: 2009-06-26An extensive collection of patient information leaflets, arranged alphabetically, and produced by departments at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead. Many medical conditions, diagnostic and surgical procedures are covered, and contain practical information and advice for patients. The leaflets are in PDF format. http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=1&sel_left_nav=84&tab_id=446Added: 2009-06-26The Shea Ear Clinic is a major centre for the treatment of ear disorders, and is based in Memphis, Tennessee. The website describes the history and services offered by the Clinic. Treatments and proecdures explained in detail on the website are stapedectomy, tympanoplasty, inner ear perfusion, lidocaine (lignocaine) perfusion, cosmetic surgery, and Eustachian tuboplasty. Information about Meniere's disease, tinnitus, positional vertigo, sudden hearing loss and middle ear fluid is freely available on request. http://www.sheaclinic.com/Added: 2009-06-26An extensive collection of fact sheets, arranged alphabetically, on diseases and other health related subjects, produced by Bupa's health information team and reviewed by appropriate healthcare professionals. Many of the items are illustrated, in some cases with animations. http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/asp/your_health/factsheets/index.asp#sAdded: 2009-06-26This is the website of the Heitor Villa-Lobos Museum, based in Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to the musician generally considered to be the greatest Latin-American composer (1887-1959). The musician's biography (contextualised historically) and detailed introduction to his prolific output as a composer provide one significant section of the website. The second large section introduces the museum which was set up immediately after Villa-Lobos's death to preserve his heritage and popularise his work. The museum also works as a research institute and a catalyst of musical projects, and the site provides information on a range of projects about the composer, and also wider-ranging projects in the field of musical education. The ''database,' still under construction, promises to provide information about the museum's archives. Finally, a list of links is also added to help find further information about subjects related to the composer. This easily navigable and visually pleasing site is a particularly useful tool for the friends of Brazilian music, 20th century music, and researchers interested in 20th-century cultural history. The text of the site is available in Portuguese, Spanish and English. http://www.museuvillalobos.org.br/Added: 2009-06-26The (Inter) mission describes itself as "an online community for dancers, dance lovers, and people who support the dance community". The searchable website provides a number of resources for anyone interested in events in the dance community, including a selection of videos, dance-related events, blog postings and dance photographs. Other features include a discussion forum, dance news and a summary of the latest activity within the service. Although much of the content appears to have a US-bias, the service is informative to those with an interest in dance. User registration is necessary in order to gain full access to the service. http://intermission.ning.com/Added: 2009-06-26'Getintotheatre.org' is a resource which was developed as part of the Young People's Participatory Theatre project, managed and funded by Arts Council England. The aim of the website is to provide an information resource regarding the theatre industry, by covering career opportunities, work experience and training, and an overview of the huge variety of careers available within the industry. As such it is a useful resource for anyone wishing to enter the theatre industry, and contains sections on case studies of professionals working in theatre; an overview of the various careers available, covering technical, creative and management roles; information on current opportunities, qualifications, work experience and local information on regional events and opportunities. Other features of the website include a CV clinic, interactive quizzes, information on theatre companies throughout the UK, and a glossary of theatre-related terminology. There is also a question and answer section, and users can register with the site in order to gain full access to its resources. http://www.getintotheatre.org/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website for idill, an international competition for films of movement and dance. Produced in partnership with bodies Charleroi/Danses, La Gaite Lyrique, Sadler's Wells and Arte, the competition aims to showcase and reward cinematographic and audiovisual creativity which has movement and dance as its central theme. Prizes offered fall under the categories of musical creativity, an audience prize, prize for innovation and world outlook prize. The website provides full details of the competition, its aims and organising bodies, and provides access to PDF copies of entry forms and rules. http://www.idill.eu/en/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website for 'Alaska' magazine, a bi-annual publication which showcases the best of previously unpublished contemporary photography from both established photographers and up and coming talent. A print publication, each issue takes a different format, and aims to push the boundaries of traditional book binding and modern print technology. The website acts as an accompaniment to the printed version, providing a selection of images from each issue, in addition to details concerning the binding of the limited edition print format. The website also provides contact details for the journal, and information about the consultancy services offered by the journal, which includes advising corporate and private purchases of photographic art. There are also details of stockists of the magazine globally, and costings. It is possible to buy the journal online. http://www.alaskamagazine-online.com/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website of the Eric Gill Society, a resource for those interested in the work and history of artist and sculptor Eric Gill and the Guild of St. Joseph, founded in Ditchling, Sussex. The Society is in the process of being formed, and details of its aims and objectives are provided on the website. After initially training as an architect, Eric Gill studied stone masonry and calligraphy, eventually becoming a calligrapher, letter-cutter and monumental mason. The website provides a detailed biography of Gill, his life and work, and also the Guild of St. Joseph. Other features include a section showcasing photographs of Gill's work, including sculpture, drawings and typography, a discussion forum, a news section, and a section devoted to related web links, including links to museums and galleries housing significant collections of his work. http://www.ericgill.org.uk/Added: 2009-06-26This subject of this website is Margaret Armstrong, one of the first professional book designers in the United States. Working between 1890 and 1940, her work represents some of the best examples of the era of commercial bookbinding during the Arts and Crafts period in America. Created by Linda M. Wilson, the website provides an introduction to Margaret Armstrong and her work, through a biography and a resume of her professional life. The remaining sections are dedicated to her work in the fields of typography and book design, which include a gallery of her work, each entry consisting of images of the work in question, accompanied by explanatory notes. Also included in the website are a bibliography, and a short list of links to related sites. http://home.tiac.net/%7Elmwilson/Added: 2009-06-26'Bergmanorama' is a website dedicated to the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. Originally created in 1996, the site is available in both Swedish and English languages. Containing a wealth of information about Bergman, the website contains a comprehensive biography of his life and work, a chronological listing of his works (including feature films and short films, in addition to his work as a writer), and there is a section which details the individual actors who made up his repertory company. In addition, there are sections on his production team, photographic galleries featuring a number of film stills, and a selection of film clips, which include trailers and film scenes, in addition to clips from interviews and documentaries. Other features include a news section, a 'Frequently Asked Questions' section, a guestbook, and a discussion forum, contribution to which requires registration. http://bergmanorama.webs.com/Added: 2009-06-26This page is part of the World Youth Student & Educational Travel Confederation (WYSE). One of the features is the Youth Travel International Magazine, targeted at youth travel organisations and professionals worldwide. Twice a year, YTI Magazine is delivered to international youth hostels, travel agents, tour operators, language schools, cultural exchange programmes, au pair organisations and tourist boards. Past issues are also included. http://www.wysetc.org/Communications.aspx#PublicationsAdded: 2009-06-26This website provides free online access to what is claimed to be the largest collection of White Star and Titanic memorabilia in Europe. While the website has a large number of adverts throughout, the information found under the 'Our Collections' heading will be of significant value to those interested in the Titanic, or in White Star in general. This section of the website is split into a number of headings, including but not limited to: first class; second class; third class; fixtures and fittings; RMS Titanic; RMS Olympic; HMHS Britannic; fine art; books; newspapers; and uniforms. Each of these headings has a number of images. Unfortunately, the images cannot be increased in size - which is somewhat of a limitation in a site of this nature - and the pictures themselves are quite small. Nevertheless, this is a valuable resource relating to early twentieth-century cruise-liners and passenger transport. http://www.whitestarmemories.co.uk/Added: 2009-06-26This presentation was presented at the Backpacker Conference 2009; it has 25 slides showing trends and statistics following a study on the youth travel industry carried out by the WYSE Travel Confederation. Results from the research are given with a particular focus on the impact of the recession on student travel. A range of charts and graphs are used to highlight these results. (Click on the image to begin the presentation). http://www.wysetc.org/WYSETC_Backpacker.htmlAdded: 2009-06-26This page links to the 11 page PDF report (2009) published by the WYSE Travel Confederation. The report is the latest in a regular series contains covering the characteristics, motivations and needs of young travellers. Contents include a quick global overview of recent changes in market demand, product supply, and factors affecting business within the youth and student travel industry; an insight on how WYSE Travel Confederation members are responding to economic conditions and predictions; and an analysis from the wider travel industry. http://www.wysetc.org/Research.aspxAdded: 2009-06-26The World Youth Student & Educational (WYSE) Travel Confederation was founded in 2006 with the merger of the Federation of International Youth Travel Organisations (FIYTO) and the International Student Travel Confederation (ISTC). The Confederation aims to increase international understanding through the promotion of travel and educational opportunities for students and youth. The website contains a number of resources, including a magazine, reports and presentations. http://www.wysetc.org/Added: 2009-06-26This website gives access to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery’s world class collection of Pre-Raphaelite art. The collection has now been digitised (with funding from JISC) and this website provides access to over 2000 images of fine and decorative art objects which include “oil paintings, tapestries, drawings, sketchbooks, stained glass and related cartoons, to prints, illustrated books, watercolours, ceramics, and archive material”. This extensive and well designed resource can be searched and browsed. Images are well annotated (and link to related works) and allow the user to zoom in on details (this requires a Microsoft Silverlight plugin). The site encourages registration which allows users to add comments to images in the collection and compile personal collections, which can also be browsed by others. The website supplements its core image collection with a series of learning resources, covering topics including: ‘Edward Burne-Jones, Pygmalion Fashioning the Image, 1867’ and ‘Gender and Sexuality - Femmes Fatales’. Further external resources are suggested and the website includes a useful glossary. http://www.preraphaelites.org/Added: 2009-06-26This website, from the National History Education Clearinghouse, aims to bring together a number of resources on primarily American history in order to improve and encourage the teaching, and learning, of history (mainly in the American primary and secondary education systems). As well as a number of teaching aids (including information on professional development, teaching materials and hints-and-tips, and best practices) there are a number of articles available under the 'history content' section. This section provides access to essays on a number of topics - ranging from discussion of 'Manifest Destiny' and of Native American alliances during the Seven Years War/French and Indian War, to discussion of the American constitution and Boston Tea Party. While the website is very much aimed at younger users, the information provided is nonetheless accurate, interesting and will be a good starting-point for undergraduate students. http://teachinghistory.org/Added: 2009-06-26The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies within the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex is an interdisciplinary research centre which "brings together the traditions of psychoanalytic and Jungian interest within the University and the clinical experience of practitioners". There is online access to a list of publications, event information and links to related websites. http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/Added: 2009-06-26A site maintained by Jeremy Lavy, a consultant ENT surgeon in London. It is aimed at anyone interested in otosclerosis, a cause of deafness which affects up to 2 per cent of the population, and its surgical treatment by stapedectomy. The site explains deafness and its causes, describes how otosclerosis causes deafness and how it can be diagnosed, discusses how stapedectomy is performed, along with its risks and after-effects, and answers some frequently asked questions. Patient experiences are also presented. http://www.stapedectomy.co.uk/index.htmlAdded: 2009-06-26A site providing information about ear surgery, maintained by Dr. Mark Levenson of the Saratoga Ear and Sinus Surgery Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. Subjects covered include anatomy of the ear, cochlear implants, benign and malignant ear tumours, otosclerosis, otitis media, Meniere's syndrome, congenital atresia and microtia of the ear, performations and hearing loss, cholesteatoma, and details of otological surgical techniques including ear micro-surgery, laser ear surgery, stapedectomy, mastoidectomy and tympanoplasty. The content is extensively illustrated. http://www.earsurgery.org/site/Added: 2009-06-26The mission of the American Rhinologic Society is to "serve, represent and advance the science and ethical practice" of rhinology. Founded in 1954, it promotes excellence in patient care, research and education in rhinology and skull base disorders. The site includes access to the Society's newsletter (The Nose News), to a series of computer-generated, 3D images of nose and sinus anatomy, and to a range of illustrated patient information leaflets. Subjects covered include nasal endoscopy, sinusitis and sinus surgery, loss of sense of taste and smell, nasal polyps, septoplasty and septal surgery, snoring and nasal congestion, rhinoplasty, and upper respiratory infections. There is also a section for members only. http://www.american-rhinologic.org/index.phtmlAdded: 2009-06-26The Nose Clinic was founded in 1998 and is dedicated to expert specialisation in the management of nasal disorders and sinus conditions, and in functional and cosmetic surgery of the nose. The Nose Clinic is based at the Nuffield Hospital in Guildford, Surrey. The illustrated site covers many aspects of rhinology. It explains the anatomy and physiology of the nose and sinuses, describes conditions affecting these structures (nasal septum problems, weakness of the nasal tip, nasal polyps, rhinitis, sinusitis and rhinosinusitis), functional surgery (including septoplasty, septorhinoplasty, rhinoplasty, inferior turbinate reduction surgery, polypectomy, sinus surgery and balloon sinuplasty), and cosmetic nasal surgery (rhinoplasty). http://www.thenoseclinic.co.uk/Added: 2009-06-26The National Lichen Sclerosus Support Group (NLSSG) is a UK-based voluntary group with an interest in lichen sclerosus (sometimes spelled lichen sclerosis). Lichen sclerosus is an uncommmon, poorly recognised, chronic inflammatory disease, probably autoimmune in causation and aggravated by stress, which most commonly affects the anogenital area, generally in adult women. It is estimated that one in 300 people are affected, with 10,000 new cases annually in the UK. The website provides information on symptoms, diagnosis, and management, and links to related resources. http://www.lichensclerosus.org/index.htmlAdded: 2009-06-26The Coriell Cell Repositories, based in Camden, New Jersey, provide essential research reagents to the scientific community by establishing, verifying, maintaining and distributing cell cultures and DNA derived from cell cultures. These collections are supported by funds from the US National Institutes of Health and other foundations. The catalogue and collections are searchable and browsable by categories such as disease, family, gene variants and mutations, species and genotypes, and include material relevant to a wide variety of diseases, inluding Parkinsonism, autism, Alzheimer's Disease, diabetes, ageing and age-related eye disease, Huntington's disease, and epilepsy. http://ccr.coriell.org/Default.aspxAdded: 2009-06-26The Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States (MHAUS) is a not for profit association, founded in 1981, which advises on malignant hyperthermia and similar syndromes. It has over 2,000 members in North America. The site provides news and information about forthcoming events and about membership of the Association. A Media Resources section describes what malignant hyperthermia is, incidence and susceptibility to the condition, the drugs (succinylcholine and inhalation anaesthetics) triggering it, testing for the condition, and treatment. Press releases and a downloadable surgery video are also available. http://about.mhaus.org/index.cfmAdded: 2009-06-26The British Malignant Hyperthermia Association (BMHA) was founded in 1982, and aims to provide medical and social support to affected individuals, to provide relevant medical update, to publicise problems encountered by malignant hyperthermia subjects, and to raise funds for research into simpler testing. It is based at the Malignant Hyperthermia Unit at St. James Hospital, Leeds. The website includes background information and frequently asked questions about malignant hyperthermia, its causes, the relevance of genetic inheritance, clinical reactions during anaesthesia, treatment of a malignant hyperthermia reaction, screening for the condition, and conditions associated with it. Information about the history of the BMHA is given, there is a members area which includes access to a newsletter, and there are links to other relevant organisations. http://www.bmha.co.uk/index.htmlAdded: 2009-06-26The internet portal for Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536) by the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes offers information about the man and his work. Students of Spanish literature will find useful introductory materials to the author; biographical notes; and a historical chronology. However, both students and tutors may find useful the collection of fully digitised versions of editions of his work published between the 16th and 19th centuries. Electronic anthologies of his poetry also available provide quick access to some of his most important works. The portal also features images and the full-text content of scholarly studies on Garcilaso de la Vega. A comprehensive list of external online resources will be useful for those who want to further their knowledge of the Spanish poet. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/garcilaso/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website for the 'Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)', the trade association of independent producers and distributors of motion pictures and television programming worldwide. Formerly known as the American Film Marketing Association, the organisation now represents over 160 member companies from 22 countries, comprising independent production and distribution companies, television companies, and financial institutions engaged in film finance. IFTA's mission is to provide the independent film and television industry with quality market-oriented services and worldwide representation. The website provides full details of the organisation's aims and services, and includes detailed sections on current issues including film finance, security and anti-piracy. Other sections cover IFTA arbitration, the American Film Market, the IFTA Foundation, and an archive of press releases. http://www.afma.com/Added: 2009-06-26'Dance in video' is a subscription-only database from Alexander Street Press, providing access to around 250 dance productions and documentaries by influential dance figures of the 20th century. A wide range of dance genres are represented including ballet, jazz, Bhangra, ballroom, tap dancing and experimental dance. Dancers represented include Merce Cunningham, the Kirov Ballet and Agnes de Mille. Users can search the database by keyword, or can browse by dance genre, people, ensemble, role, venue or work. Users can then create playlists from their saved choices. The material covered in the database includes documentaries, editorial, general reference, instructional works, interviews, and performances. Access to the database is restricted to users whose institutions have a subscription to the service. http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website for journal 'Films in Review', the oldest film publication in the United States. Originally established in 1909, 'Films in Review' was the magazine of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, which reacted against censorship in films. The magazine faltered in recent years due to rising printing costs, and at present it exists only as an Internet resource. The website contains details about the origins of the magazine, details of its contributors, and regularly updated film reviews. Other categories of the website include archived editorials, the 'indie corner', articles on film festivals, obituaries, interviews and film awards. There are also sections on DVD and book reviews. The website is fully searchable and it is also possible to browse articles by author. The online archives date back to April 1999. The 'Films in Review' (FIR) vault contains articles from previous issues dating back fifty years. http://www.filmsinreview.com/Added: 2009-06-26This is the website for the 'English Youth Ballet', an organisation which presents full-length classical ballets in regional theatres throughout the UK, providing young dancers with the opportunity to perform within a professional setting. Founded in 1998, the English Youth Ballet uses 100 young dancers chosen by audition from a 100 mile radius of the theatre in the area. This allows the dancers to experience the full creative process from rehearsal to performance in ballets such as the Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. The website provides information about the company, with details about forthcoming productions, auditions and a gallery of photographs from recent performances. Other features of the website include a history of the company and a helpful page of hints and tips for young dancers, covering subjects including care of dancewear and injuries. http://www.englishyouthballet.co.uk/Added: 2009-06-26This document is one in a series of Farmnotes published by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia. Authored by Pauline Hoskin, Veterinary Officer, this document discusses health care of the farm dog. Topics discussed include vaccination, nutrition, worm control, fleas, ticks, snake bites, poisoning and dog welfare during the summer. This document has been written specifically for Western Australian conditions and was last reviewed in 2007. http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/content/aap/sl/sheepdogfarmnotAdded: 2009-06-26 -
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This evidence-based clinical guidance on the management of children presenting with a respiratory tract infection, coughing or chest signs is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2007 and a revision is planned for 2010 http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/cough_acute_with_chest_signs_in_childrenAdded: 2009-06-25This evidence-based clinical guidance on emergency contraception is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. A quick reference guide and patient information are also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2007 and a revision is planned for 2010. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/contraception_emergency#Added: 2009-06-25The Bibliothèque Humaniste (Humanist Library), at Sélestat in Alsace, France, is one of the great libraries of Europe. Their website provides information about and digital access to the Sélestat treasures, including: a special exhibition of bindings; ancient collections of the religious communities of its region, and 15th-16th century collections from the period during which the city was a leading centre of the Humanism movement in Europe. An online catalogue is available. Some manuscripts and documents have been digitised as images. Most well-known is the collection of Beatus Rhenanus; and an important collection of the music scores of Alsatian composers. Visitors are welcome and there is a blog-style page featuring news and job vacancies at the library. http://www.ville-selestat.fr/spip_bh/sommaire.phpAdded: 2009-06-25Founded in 1984, the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) is concerned with the economic analysis of law in Europe. Its website is hosted by York University and provides background information about EALE and details of current and previous conferences. The links section covers law and economics journals, other law and economics associations, graduate programs and vacant positions in the field. Full text working papers are made freely available on the site covering topics such as plea bargaining and prosecution, judicial procedure and economic growth and the economic effects of federalism and decentralisation. http://law.haifa.ac.il/eale/site/Added: 2009-06-25This report from FIBL describes how to set up an organic dwarf-tree orchard. It offers techniques that encourage tree growth and simplify maintenance. The document covers labour input requirements, orchard location, protection and trellising, hedges and intercropping, land preparation and planting. FiBL, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, is a multi-centre organisation sited in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, dedicated to research and consultancy on organic agriculture https://www.fibl.org/shop/pdf/mb-0008-dwarftree1.pdfAdded: 2009-06-25This report from FIBL describes how to maintain an organic dwarf-tree orchard. The document outlines a regular maintenance schedule, and provides guidance on fertilisation, tree row maintenance, pruning and managing fruiting branches, harvesting and storage. FiBL, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture is a multi-centre organisation sited in Switzerland, Germany and Austria dedicated to research and consultancy on organic agriculture. https://www.fibl.org/shop/pdf/mb-0009-dwarftree2.pdfAdded: 2009-06-25Created to celebrate two-hundred years of the foundation of the Italian Stock Exchange in 1808, the website "History Tour: Borsa Italiana" presents an interesting excursus through the history of the Milan-based financial institution. Three interconnected thematic sections enable users to access valuable resources and information on the history of the Italian Stock Exchange, from its inception to the present day. Each section includes reproductions of documents of relevance, which can be downloaded as PDF files. Additionally available are photographs and video clips, including, for example, a visit of Benito Mussolini to the newly-completed Stock Exchange building in 1932. The "Geographical Tour" section is dedicated to the numerous other Stock Exchanges which operated in different Italian cities, including Trieste. The Stock Exchange in Trieste was the earliest to be founded and would become part of the Italian system only following the annexation of the city to Italy in 1918. Several photographs on display show their premises in Rome, Florence, Venice and other locations. The "Thematic Tour" presents information on people who held various high-office during the period 1808 to 1991 and on the so-called "Palazzo Mezzanotte", the current building in Milan where the Stock Exchange is based. Additionally, the website makes available a bibliography, focussing on the history of the financial institution and a glossary of terminologies used. http://www.historytour.it/User Rating
Added: 2009-06-25This guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC) came into effect in June 2008 and replaces Seeking patients consent: the ethical considerations (1998). Although aimed at doctors specifically, it can be used by patients and the public to understand what to expect of their doctors. The guidance provides a framework for good practice and sets out the principles on which good clinical decision-making should be based. It emphasises a partnership approach stressing the importance of doctors actively engaging patients in discussions, and presents a basic model for shared decision-making where patients have the capacity to make decisions for themselves. A section of the document guidance on making decisions concentrates on decision-making in the context of investigations or treatment but underlines that the principles discussed can be applied more widely. It includes guidance on sharing information or reasons for not sharing, obstacles to sharing information, involving families and carers, discussing side effects and complications, and on making decisions. A further section looks at capacity issues and discusses the legal framework, how to maximise a patients ability to make decisions and making decisions when a patient lacks capacity. A downloadable copy of the complete guidance document is available in English and Welsh and there is also a browsable contents list enabling direct access to specific sections of the document. Doctors responsibilities to protect or disclose personal information are covered in a separate publication on confidentiality. http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/consent_guidance/index.aspAdded: 2009-06-25The Model Organisms Guide produced by the US National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) gives information on commonly used model organisms, and acts as a gateway to genomic resources such as sequence information and mapping both within and beyond the NCBI. The guide covers mammalian models (mouse and rat), the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana), and other non-mammalian models as follows: Archaea; microbes; Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly); malarial parasites, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; retroviruses; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast); Danio rerio; (the zebrafish) and the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Made available on the Web by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/model/Added: 2009-06-25This website offers a package of online learning resources based around the unique Laxton open field system. The farmland around the Nottinghamshire village of Laxton contains the sole surviving example of the communally-managed system of strip fields which was widespread in England before the enclosures of the 18th and 19th centuries. This resource, which updates older offline educational materials, is illustrated with reproductions of archive material, including estate maps, the records of manorial and ecclesiastical courts, photographs and census information. The resource is divided into three key themes: Landholding and enclosure, exploring the history and pattern of land ownership and examining the reasons for the survival of the open field system; Open field system and manorial court, illuminating the practice of farming the long narrow cultivated strips or ‘lands’, governed by the still extant manorial court; The Village Population, placing the village and its people in context. Additionally, it is supplemented by a glossary, timeline, further reading and advice on accessing catalogues of material useful for extended research on Laxton. There is also a useful teaching plan, aimed using the resource with key stage 3 school students. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/learning/laxton/Added: 2009-06-25Produced by the Archivio di Stato di Roma, the Imago II Project website is an excellent resource, providing access to digital reproductions of some of the most heavily-used and important fonds in the Archive. At time of review, eight fonds have been digitized, comprising: the Alessandrino land registry; the Urban land registry; the Gregorian land registry; the Old land registry maps; Parchments; Precious volumes; Notaries and Tesoreries. Explanatory texts introduce each fond, presenting a description of documents included, while a more general guide to the collection of the Archivio di Stato di Roma is available in PDF. Users can search or browse each fond. Digital facsimiles are of outstanding quality and images can be enlarged to enable better viewing. The Alessandrino land registry, for example, makes available a strong and rare collection of more than 400 aquarelle maps and fine images of the Roman countryside. The Gregorian land registry section presents a selection of reproductions of maps surveying the Papal States taken from the 1835 land registry of Pope Gregory XVI. It comprises in excess of 1.400 images. Free registration is required to access the database and the digital facsimiles. A short bibliography on the Project and its achievements is available for consultation. The website has been listed on the Unesco Archives Portal. http://www.cflr.beniculturali.it/Imago/index.htmlUser Rating
Added: 2009-06-25Scholiastae is a wiki which allows classical scholars to share their notes, or commentaries, on ancient texts. The site contains a selection of texts in ancient Greek and Latin formatted in such a way as to allow contributors to add their own explanatory comments on vocabulary, grammar, and interesting or obscure references. The very nature of this site means that it will evolve over time, but at the time of compiling this review texts available here included the following: the Greek Anthology; Herodotus; Homer (Iliad and Odyssey); Pindar; Sappho; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Caesar's Bellum Gallicum; and Cicero's Catilinarian I. As with any wiki, of course, the quality of the material is heavily dependant upon the calibre of the contributors, but this has the potential to be a useful tool for students and researchers of classical texts. http://www.scholiastae.org/Added: 2009-06-25The web site of the Neurosciences Institute, a not-for-profit body formed in 1981, which is an independent scientific research organisation dedicated to furthering knowledge of the biological bases of brain function and experimental neurobiology. Based at Rockefeller University, New York, it is the home of the Neurosciences Research Program, an initiative that brings leading scientists and academics together in the study of the brain. The web site has information about the Institute's conferences, workshops, symposia, and training courses as well as news, annual reports and its scientific research work programmes. http://www.nsi.eduAdded: 2009-06-25The Telamon Project is hosted by the department of Classics at St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia and aims to create an online digital library of the ancient Greek inscriptions found in Bulgaria. In total there are over 3,500 such inscriptions, dating from the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. Geographically the particular focus is on Roman Thrace, Philippopolis and Augusta Traiana. At the time of compiling this review only a very small proportion of the inscriptions was available on the website, but this is clearly an evolving resource. Users may search for inscriptions by number, findspot, date, text category and type of monument, and for each inscription the following information is provided: the original text; an English translation; important bibliography; textual apparatus and commentary; a photograph of the inscription. This resource is of particular interest for scholars whose work focuses on Greek epigraphy, as well as for people working with the digital humanities generally, especially those interested in encoding and resource-construction. http://www.telamon.proclassics.org/Added: 2009-06-25The web site of the Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery, part of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), the international not-for-profit research and development organisation specialising in evidence-based resources for healthcare professionals in nursing, midwifery, medicine, and allied health. Based at Thames Valley University, the Centre works with nurses and midwives from the acute and primary healthcare sectors to develop, implement and evaluate evidence to promote, support and sustain best practice. The web site contains information on training courses, recent research projects and access to JBI COnNECT, the online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in clinical decision-making. http://www.joannabriggs.tvu.ac.uk/joannabriggs/Added: 2009-06-25The Journal of Research Practice is a full-text peer-reviewed ejournal, freely available online. It aims to examine interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches in research and research design, and is edited from Athabasca University Press in Canada and Swinburne University of Technology in Malaysia. At June 2009 there are ten issues online from 2005-2009, offering articles in English as either HTML or PDF files. Example article titles include: 'Collaborative Research on Sustainability: Myths and Conundrums of Interdisciplinary Departments'; 'Exploring Space and Place With Walking Interviews'; 'Beyond the Archive: Cultural Memory in Dance and Theater'; and 'The Role of Documentation in Practice-Led Research', among many others. Abstracts are also available. The journal website has full details of the editors, Editorial Advisory Board, and the submission process. http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/indexAdded: 2009-06-25Reissued in May 2009, this 68 page document is published on the Web by the Health and Safety Executive. It provides a range of information designed to promote health and safety in the agricultural workplace. The first seven sections of the publication are aimed specifically at those responsible for managing health and safety in the workplace, including risk assessment, training and first aid. The remaining sections are relevant to anyone working on farms; chapters include, electricity, handling livestock, pesticide use, and manual handling. http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg427.pdfAdded: 2009-06-25This evidence-based clinical guidance on anticoagulant treatment is made available by the NHS funded resource, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS). the guideline explains what oral anticoagulant therapy such as warfarin is and what it is used for. The guidance is aimed at healthcare professionals working within the NHS in England. The guidance is available in full, or as a concise summary. Patient information is also provided. This guidance was last revised in 2009 and a revision is planned for 2012. http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/anticoagulation_oralAdded: 2009-06-25The Healthy Feet Project is a research project of the Bristol University Veterinary School (Lameness control programme). The aims of the project are to reduce lameness in dairy cattle on UK farms and encourage farmers, vets and advisors to work together. This website includes several tools and resources, including examples of lameness score videos, tools relating to herd mobility scores, guidance on prevention and control measures, available treatments, and documents on foot bathing, improving hygiene, and the types of foot problems causing lameness. A calendar of events is available. http://www.cattle-lameness.org.uk/Added: 2009-06-25This technical paper on swine dysentery eradication is authored by David Burch, BVetmed MRCVS, et al and made available on the Web by Octagon Services Ltd. The paper discusses the diminishing availability of therapeutic antibiotics, the appropriate eradication programme, choosing the right drug, colon contents concentrations, and sow medication programmes. http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/articles/SDeradication.htmAdded: 2009-06-25This Web page gives access to the full-text of 'Orient: Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan' (1960-2004), and despite the word 'report' in the title this is actually a substantial academic journal. Tables of contents, abstracts, and PDF files of articles are all freely available online. The journal was published in English, with occasional articles in German and French, and was devoted to reports and scholarly articles on archaeological and historical topics, with forays into linguistics. Example article titles include: 'Historical problems of the early Achaemenian period'; 'Hadiths as historical sources for a biography of the prophet'; 'A Japanese view of Lord Cromer's rule in Egypt'; and 'A Century of Turkish Studies in Japan', among many others. The latest issue available at 2009 is the 2004 issue, a special on the history of glass and glass-making. This will be a useful full-text resource for those engaged in the historical study of the Near East. The journal issues are held on the Japanese central online archive of ejournals (which is presented in English, but which otherwise contains only scientific journals), and as such the page does not have details of editors and Editorial Board - but these may be found by browsing the preface of recent issues or by searching Google. http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/english/jnltop_en.php?cdjournal=orient1960Added: 2009-06-25This eight page document published online by the Iowa State University Extension in 2003, provides information on soil quality in organic agriculture. Information given includes sections on what organic agriculture is, crop rotations and soil health. Colour pictures, graphs and tables are included as well as a full bibliography http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1882.pdfAdded: 2009-06-25Midland History is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the University of Birmingham in the British Isles. The journal offers a free sample issue from 1981 with full-text articles - but at June 2009 there are also over three hundred more articles to be found in free full-text form. These can be freely downloaded via the back issues section (click on the link "Existing Subscribers" / "Browse issues by year") which offers tables of contents for issues from 1973 to 2009, with some small gaps, and linked PDF articles. Example article titles available on the history of the English Midlands are: 'Birmingham Before the Bull Ring'; 'The Decline of the Coventry Car Industry 1945-1968'; 'Religion and Society in Stratford-Upon-Avon 1619-1638'; and 'Women and the Social Organisation of Work in the Staffordshire Pottery Industry 1900-1930', among many others. The website also has subscription details, and details of the editors and submission process. There are also details of an Essay Prize and a small Postgraduate Bursary. http://www.midlandhistory.bham.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-25This is the Web page for a free ebook version of Ronald Gross's 'The Independent Scholars Handbook'. The 300-page book is freely available online as a 17Mb PDF file, from the Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars and Simon Fraser University. This PDF is a scan of the second edition, as published in print form by Ten Speed Press in 1993. This book was written several years before the mass-market Internet began to revolutionise scholarship, and some sections have dated. Appendices such as 'Copyrighting Your Work' and 'University Presses in North America' are rather out-of-date in 2009. But in general it seems the main chapters were written so as not to date easily, and the book will still prove useful to contemporary independent or unemployed scholars. http://www.sfu.ca/independentscholars/isbook.htmAdded: 2009-06-25This is a website for Open University Podcasts, which at June 2009 is a new beta service from the Open University in the UK. The podcasts offer academic audio from various disciplines, including the arts and humanities, business and management, and languages. At June 2009 there are 32 podcasts for arts and humanities, on topics such as 'Composing with MIDI'; 'Culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire'; 'The history of the police control room, 1909-1970'; and 'Voice of Indian Song', among others. The sample podcast chosen was delivered in the Web browser as a 2 minutes 20 seconds Flash video, with a local copy able to be saved in MP4 format. The tested video image was about 400 pixels wide, and was nicely sharp and clear and without a watermark. This website would seem to be more of a 'bite-sized' bank of online video aimed at potential OU students, rather than a collection of more substantial and lengthy discussions of interest to scholars. It is however, interesting for the polished design, layout, and delivery of the online media, and as such it may serve as an exemplar for online outreach by other British universities. http://podcast.open.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-25This website provides free access to a wealth of official 18th Century British Parliamentary publications including parliamentary proceedings, reports, acts, bills and registers. These publications from the House of Commons (and the House of Lords 1688-1834) have been compiled from the collections of the University of Southampton, University of Cambridge and the British Library, and some digitisation has been funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme. These are drawn together in one index which complements materials from House of Commons Parliamentary papers 1801-1900 service; the EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1822-1901) service; BOPCRIS (a finding aid to British official publications 1688-1995); and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Access is restricted to members of UK FE and HE institutions who should login using their Athens or Shibboleth usernames. http://www.parl18c.soton.ac.uk/Added: 2009-06-25The Cabinet Papers website provides free access to recently digitised cabinet papers from 1915-1978. The digitisation funded via the JISC Digitisation Programme. The papers are organised into a diverse range of topics and introduced through historical essays. The website will be of interest to teachers and students who can search free-text or browse through the following sections. 'Themes' explore Britain's world relations, war and disintegration of empire, economic development and the government's approach to the challenges of society. Key topics include: the British Empire; decolonisation and the development of the Commonwealth; the development of the Welfare state and National Health Service; economic policy; diplomacy, foreign policy and British involvement in the First World War and Second World War. 'A-level studies' concentrates on: the Trade Union Movement; the General Strike; the Welfare State; and the National Health Service (NHS). Cabinet government is explained in another section; how it works, what record are kept, and the history and development of Cabinet government. Interactive 'Maps in Time' help you understand events in their geographical and political context, as the British Empire and the British government changed during the period 1900-2000. A software tool (The Writing Frame) is available to use which is designed to support students when using sources. The section 'All HE packages and A Level Studies' introduces a collection of carefully selected cabinet papers. Teachers' guides are provided to assist with classroom activties. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/Added: 2009-06-25This website provides free online access to a number of personal letters written by servicemen during wartime. At present, only American servicemen are included, but the wars range from the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. There are plans to increase the number of letters - with more being added on a regular basis - and to spread the coverage out to include America's primary allies through the twentieth century. The website is perhaps a little clumsily laid out, and there are too many adverts, but this does not detract from the value and wealth of resources available - and soon to be available - on this site. http://www.heroletters.com/Added: 2009-06-25This best practice statement was published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) in 2009. It combines two previously separate documents originally drafted by the National Association of Tissue Viability Nurses in Scotland (NATVNS) and endorsed by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS). The best practice statement covers: skin examination, assessment and care; risk assessment; significant contributing factors; assessment, grading and history; positioning; mattresses, chairs and cushions; promoting healing; wound cleansing; wound infection, prevention and control; debridement; managing bacterial colonisation and infection. http://www.tissueviabilityonline.com/view-tool?resid=226&from=/best-practice-staAdded: 2009-06-25This free educational blog is aimed at students who want to do more than just attend their basic lectures or lessons in French. It teaches more about France and French life. Each blog post talks about some interesting or fun aspect of French. For example, there are posts on French 'argot' or slang; posts about cultural events in France; interesting writers you may like to explore; or French musicians. Video clips are often included. Produced by a teaching company, Transparent Language, it is a quality blog which is well worth bookmarking and which could also give inspiration to teachers looking for further materials. The blog is written in English. http://www.transparent.com/french/Added: 2009-06-25Peptidome is a public repository for archiving and distributing tandem mass spectrometry peptide and protein identification data generated by the scientific community. A Peptidome record contains a description of the biological material being investigated, protocols used to generate the data, the peptides and proteins that were identified, and the original spectra used to make the identifications. Each record is assigned a unique and stable accession number that may be cited in a manuscript describing the data. Peptidome is not restricted to specific organisms, instruments or experiment types. In addition to data storage, web-based interfaces are available to help users query, browse and explore individual peptides, proteins, or entire studies. Made available on the Web by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/peptidome/Added: 2009-06-25Produced by the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Wales Smithsonian Cymru website is an online exhibition about the culture, history, and people of Wales that accompanies an annual international exposition of living cultural heritage on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., in 2009. Users will need video and audio plug-ins to view a number of resources on this site. The homepage contains a brief description about Wales past and present as well as links to the six sections of the site and some video footage of Wales and its people. The Smithsonian curator, Betty Belanus, offers a preview of the exhibition and a number of images, in the form of a slideshow, about the Welsh landscape, museums and cultural sites, food and in and around Cardiff. Indeed, there are slideshows and a number of facts about Wales called Did you know in every section. The sections include Heritage meets Innovation, a selection of topics about carpentry and stonework, energy, farming and textiles, and metalwork and slate, and, Language and Arts in Action looks at topics such as the Welsh language, poetry and storytelling and music and dance in Wales. In addition, there are insights into home and community life in contemporary Wales, the influence of Wales and its people on the world and working and playing outdoors in the mountains, rivers and coastline of Wales. This website provides excellent information for students in Welsh studies and is suitable for schoolteachers and children. http://www.festival.si.edu/2009/wales/Added: 2009-06-25The Tissue Viability website is owned and maintained by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS). This practice development resource was requested by the Scottish Government Health Directorate in May 2008, and is designed to help clinicians improve their care in the area of tissue viability. The resources include: a model of improvement which can help practitioners to make reliable and sustainable changes to their everyday practice; a toolkit containing tissue viability improvement resources and a best practice statement for the prevention and management of pressure ulcers. The website also covers: risk assessment; grading; care bundles; excoriation; wound assessment; pressure ulcer prevalence and further resources. http://www.tissueviabilityonline.com/Added: 2009-06-25This resource guide site includes links to non-profit organisations, government sites, academic sites, laboratories, equipment manufacturers, journals and articles.There are also links to other resource guide sites which cover similar topics. http://www.steelynx.net/tribology.html
Added: 2009-06-25Seans is the stylish and easy to navigate website of the Russian film magazine Seans [Screening], first issued in May 1990. A searchable archive of back copies allows the reader full access to some issues, and partial or no access to others. An alphabetical, illustrated list of contributing authors (such as the director Sergei Solovyev) offers short biographies and links to their contributions. A useful index of films links to articles in which the films are mentioned, and an index of names does the same. A books page lists publications by Seans, with brief descriptions of their contents and some links to chapters or articles therein. The site also has a blog, an RSS feed option and a page (Deti) detailing the life of a young autistic man for whom the magazine is raising money. The website is available in Russian only, but otherwise should be of interest to teachers and students of film studies as well as researchers focusing on Russian and Soviet cinema. http://seance.ru/Added: 2009-06-25This organisation site includes a blog and discussion forum covering aspects of radio communications, radar, navigation and remote sensing systems.
