Information Online 2003
The ilanetweb development team joined with other library staff to represent the State Library of N.S.W at the Information Online 2003 conference at Darling Harbour last month. It was great to be able to meet our members and colleagues face to face. The conference was considered by all stakeholders to have been very successful, with more than 1200 delegates registering for the conference.
Chris Sherman, Associate Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com gave a presentation on the "invisible web" including an overview of search engine strategies.
Chris has placed many of his presentations at:
http://www.searchwise.net/writings.htm
And his PowerPoint presentation can be found at:
http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/online2003/conferencepapers/sherman.ppt
Dr Roger K Summitt, the founder of Dialog gave attendees the benefit of his vast experience working in the information provision business, and the local contribution was of a very high standard.
The Conference Papers are now available at the conference website.
http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/online2003/conferencepapers.html
Books 24x7 trial
The ilanetweb development team often come across services that we believe our members may find interesting but can't necessarily make available on a pay as you go basis. Books24x7 offers access to the full, unabridged contents of well over 2,600 technology titles and some 900 business titles. These titles are from more than 80 well recognised industry publishers, including John Wiley, Microsoft Press, Sybex, McGraw-Hill, Harvard Business School Publishing, HRD Press, Amacon, and the Center for Creative Leadership. With Books24x7, users can search across all titles or within a collection, a particular subject area, a results list or within a specific book.
Trials for interested parties are available from:
http://www.books24x7.com.au/ilanet/
The loss of Columbia
The official NASA site covering the investigation can be found at:
This web page, set up by contributors to the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup is an excellent ongoing record of the investigation as it proceeds.
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html
SPACE.com have a complete archive of stories and multimedia covering the event.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts107_storyarchive.html
An index of cartoons reflecting on the loss of Columbia and other major news stories can be found at MSN's slate site.
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/ShuttleColumbia/main.asp
More Invisible Web
Science.gov is "a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by 10 U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Science.gov brings together, through one interface, reliable resources selected by the respective agencies as important science information. Easy access options are provided through a search feature, an in-depth search feature for more detailed information, and a browse feature. Science.gov is the official FirstGov for Science Cross-Agency Portal." Science.gov was developed by an interagency working group of 14 scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major science agencies.
A recent addition to "Invisible Web" portals called IncyWincy:
http://incywincy.com/default?p=&adv=1
An excellent overview of the Invisible Web from the University of California, Berkeley Teaching Library Workshops
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
End Game in Iraq
A timeline of modern Iraq from its formation in 1920 and other excellent resources from the US public broadcaster PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/time1.html
The Australian Government's official position on Iraq, outlined on the Prime Minister's site, is that an invasion may be required to destroy "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
CBS marketwatch asserts that "Ousting Saddam could put U.S. oil giants in driver's seat". You may need to log on using the user ID
Secretary of State Colin Powell has been reported in the past referring to the architect of the current Iraq policy, Richard Perle, and his network as "the bombers." Salon has an interesting article about this armchair general, who has been advocating war with Iraq since 1996, written last September.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/09/05/perle/
There are many reasons cited for a invasion of Iraq but none seem persuasive in there own right. The following work by W Clark of the Independent Media Center asserts that flooding the world market with oil from Iraq is a desperate gamble to prevent economic collapse in the US.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/oil-o16_prn.shtml
The US Department of Defence is quite clear about the nature of the threat and have their own unique perspective on the issue.
Opendemocracy.net is a not for profit forum to promote freedom of speech that currently hosts excellent contributions on the Iraqi question. Judging from the submissions from Iraqi exiles it would not be surprising if the people of Iraq welcome the American forces.
Electronic Iraq is a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/index.shtml
These pictures from the Gulf are a grim reminder of the horror of War.
http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html
Quick Links
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has written an article on Intellectual property on the Internet: a survey of issues.
http://ecommerce.wipo.int/survey/html/index.html
From the National Archives comes a valuable resource for studying and researching 20th century Australian history.
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au
The financial collapse of Divine,the former owners of Rowecom, and the loss of prepaid library subscriptions will have far-reaching effects that could possibly change the face of publishing.
http://www.infotoday.com/it/feb03/hane1.htm
The people at the Scout Report now cover the Physical and Life Sciences.
http://scout.wisc.edu/nsdl-reports/phys-sci/current/
http://scout.wisc.edu/nsdl-reports/life-sci/current/
Wikipedia is an attempt to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopaedia. Written collaboratively by readers and with currently over one hundred thousand articles Wikipedia demonstrates the potential of the web to aggregate creative endeavour.
The article on the subject "U.S. plan to invade Iraq" demonstrates what has been achieved to date.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._plan_to_invade_Iraq
The Ohio Library Council has put together resources to teach the art of reference librarianship.
http://www.olc.org/orientation/index.html
A searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the history of medicine.
BBC monitoring for the week ahead:
http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/weekahead.shtml
NASA announces upcoming launches and other space related events including upcoming meteor storms.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar
Methane clouds have been discovered near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, resolving the debate as to whether clouds exist amid the haze of this moon's atmosphere.
http://atcaltech.caltech.edu/tech-today/subpage.tcl?story_id=7001
This "Showcase of Tasmanian poetry" contains passionate and moving words from the Apple Isle.
http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au/archives/vol-7/
Online access to over 55,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now mirrored locally at Sydney University.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/contents.html
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety provide free searching for titles in some of their important databases.
Comprehensive Computer Science
An annotated collection of links arranged by category from the University of Albany. Included are dictionaries, encyclopaedias, electronic journals, algorithm collections, associations, programming languages, courses and more.
http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm
Australian Agriculture Databases
ABOA, Streamline, ARRIP and Geosearch and other databases can now be accessed free online. You can search all these databases for relevance using the quickfinder function.
http://www.infoscan.com.au/contents/quickfinder.htm
All the databases are available from.
http://www.infoscan.com.au/contents/powersearch.htm
More information about agriculture resources can be found here.
http://www.developmentgateway.com.au/agriculture/ag_portals.html
Agrigate is designed as a subject gateway to selected, high quality information resources of interest to agriculture researchers in Australia.
ILANET-INFO
Training dates for Summer 2003 have been set in the use of ilanetweb, for more information see:
http://www.ilanet.net.au/member/?goto=/member/training.cfm
ilanetweb is a unique subscription based portal that gives members pay-as-you-go-access to a comprehensive suite of information sources and tools to help the information professional.
Information Request Management Tools:
A free ILL system for managing outgoing requests. Automated ILRS lookup. Resource Locator.
Database Services:
ABR (Australian Business Research(ASCOT) (ASIC corporate information) Informit Online (RMIT Publishing's Online Database Suite), Kinetica, News Store (Fairfax publications full text), NewsText (News Ltd Publications -full text inc. NZ), DataStar (web and Classic), Dialog (Classic, Classic Web,Select and Dialog1 ), EINS, Lexis-Nexis, OCLC FirstSearch, OVID Web, ProQuest & TradStat Web.
Document Delivery Servces:
CISTI, ABIX and Infotrieve.
You can sign up for a free trial of the service (please note our terms and conditions) at:
http://www.ilanet.net.au/guest.cfm?goto=/FREE/t2.cfm
Training is available in the use of ilanetweb, for more information see:
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