Here you will find a listing, compiled from various sources, of some of the new sites and tools available on the Web. The listings for each month are divided into categories.

Previous lists are also available. If you think any item should be available through the Library's catalogue, which will give more permanent access, please use the suggestion box below.

Reference Tools and Services | Social Sciences and Humanities | Biological and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Engineering | Electronic Journals

Reference Tools and Services

• Analysis of data on scholarly journals publishing
  A report from the Research Information Network.

  
  
  

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
  Includes more than 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

  
  
  

• Business Information Trends: Adding Value and Creating Customised Applications
  An article in FreePint.

  
  
  

• Copyright Toolbox
  Focuses on copyright management in higher education.

  
  
  

• Culture.info
  For users seeking cultural information on a particular topic.

  
  
  

• Digital Library of India
  Will include a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books mainly in indian languages.

  
  
  

• Documents Online: Domesday Book
  Survey of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in around 1085.

  
  
  

• Encyclopedia of Earth
  Free, fully searchable collection of articles.

  
  
  

• Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals
  Contains more than 4,500 current journals.

  
  
  

• Oak Law Report
  The report analyses the copyright legal framework needed to ensure open access to Australian research outputs.

  
  
  

• Open Access Central
  A group of sites including BioMed Central, Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central.

  
  
  

• OpenDOAR Search Repository Contents
  A trial search service for material held in open access repositories.

  
  
  

• Podcast Directory
  Tool for finding, listening to, and sharing podcasts.

  
  
  

• RAND Voices of Jihad Database
  A compilation of speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathisers.

Social Sciences and Humanities

• Archive of the Now
  Online and print repository of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts of innovative contemporary poetry in Britain.

  
  
  

• The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty
  The location of poverty across urban and rural areas in the United States.

  
  
  

• The Hostage Crisis in Iran (1979)
  Materials related to the taking of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

  
  
  

• New media laws and their impact on the bush
  From the Democratic Audit of Australia.

  
  
  

Biological and Health Sciences

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• Australia's climate is changing Australia: the state of Australia's water
  November 2006 report from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

  
  
  

• Bio-Farma
  An online resource for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and drug discovery industries.

  
  
  

• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin
  New online archive that will eventually contain all of Darwin's published work and related materials such as manuscripts.

  
  
  

• Defending Our Oceans: Whaling
  Background from Greenpeace about the impact of the whaling industry on whale populations and on the health of the oceans.

  
  
  

• Listen: Making Sense of Sound
  This set of online activities gives users the opportunity to listen closely to sounds of the natural world.

  
  
  

• Science Animations
  A clearinghouse for science animations from different institutions.
  
  
• Trip Database
  Open access resources for evidence-based medicine.

  
  
  

Physical Sciences and Engineering

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• BioWizard
  Research portal designed by scientists for the life science community.

  
  
  

• Chemistry Central
  New publisher on peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education
  Resources include lesson plans, scientific data, visualisations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips.

  
  
  

• Earth From Space
  Smithsonian site with information about and examples of satellite imagery.

  
  
  

• Progress in Informatics
  An interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners of informatics.

  
  
  

• Science Animations
  A clearinghouse for science animations from different institutions.

  
  
  

• World Wide Web Consortium
  The Consortium is concerned with developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

  
  
  

Electronic Journals

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• AutomatedBuildings.com
  New online magazine and web resource.

  
  
  

• CALL-EJ Online
  Open access, refereed professional journal on Computer-Assisted Language Learning and related fields.

  
  
  

• HFSP Journal
  Interdisciplinary basic research at the frontier of biology, using principles, strategies or technologies from quantitative disciplines.

  
  
  

• Information Technologies and International Development
  The journal is now open access, with all articles freely available.

  
  
  

• Nature Nanotechnology
  Nature Publishing Group's new journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology.

  
  
  

Previous listings

Lists for previous months, September, 2006 and October, 2006, are also available.

Sources

This listing is compiled monthly from a variety of sources, which generally includes the following -

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• FreePint
• Internet Research News (researchbuzz)
• Internet Resources Newsletter
• LIIWEEK from LIIWEEK from Librarians' Index to the Internet
• ResourceShelf
• Scout Report