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    April-May, 2008

    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.

     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, Engineering and Architecture
 Electronic Journals
  • Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction
    An alternative to traditional student induction, combining an engaging narrative with a series of challenges and a social networking platform.

  • Ask a Philosopher
    A service offered by Pathways to Philosophy, a distance learning project run by the International Society for Philosophers.

  • Canada Year Book Historical Collection
    One hundred years worth of the annual "Canada Year Book".

  • CNKI databases
    Access to several large bibliographic databases from China, including the China Academic Journals Full-text Database.

  • Education Podcast Network
    A range of podcast programming that may be useful to teachers looking for content.

  • ELI Discovery Tool: Net Generation Workshop Guide
    An action-oriented, modifiable resource for faculty development and other instructional uses.

  • Fliiby
    A file uploading, categorisation, sharing and aggregation service.

  • Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
    A digital archive, created by the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Initiative.

  • GeoSearch News
    Allows users to find news by clicking locations on an interactive map.

  • Ibiblio
    A "collections of collections" with links to sites in arts and recreation, geography, history, natural science, and philosophy, along with other subjects.

  • Open Science Directory
    The Directory provides free access to approximately 13,000 scientific journals, including open access journals and sources such as BioMed Central and PubMed Central.

  • ScienceWatch.com
    A free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis from Thomson Scientific.

  • The Visual Dictionary
    The site provides annotated images that identify each part of a given item, such as a car or a musical instrument.

  • Visuwords™
    Online graphical dictionary.

  • WikiPatents
    The WikiPatents Community contributes to the US patent system by reviewing issued patents and pending patent applications.

  • writewith
    Shared writing tool for groups.

  • A Database
    An open-source research engine and digital archive for contemporary visual culture.

  • Aluka
    An international, collaborative initiative to build and maintain a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

  • Architecture Media
    Architecture Media titles include: Architecture Australia; Houses; Houses Style; Architectural Product News; Artichoke; Landscape Architecture Australia; and Selector.com Much of the content is freely available online.

  • Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
    An open course offered by MIT's Sloan School of Management.

  • IGLOO
    An Open Access repository of freely available resources and documents gathered worldwide by the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

  • Keotag
    A search tool that can search for tags across 14 different sites such as Delicious and Newsvine.

  • Kosovo: Guardian Special Report
    Information and thoughtful commentary on this country after its declaration of independence from Serbia.

  • Listing of educational widgets
    A gallery of widgets, web services, and web applications of interest to educators.

  • National Geographic: History
    The National Geographic Society's history site has video clips, short interviews, and interactive maps, and is updated frequently.

  • Peer Review in Scholarly Journals - perspective of the scholarly community: an international study
    The aim of this research is to measure the attitudes and behaviour of the academic community with regard to peer review.

  • Social Watch
    An international network of citizens' groups concerned with the "fulfillment of internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality."

  • Taking Back Our Fiscal Future
    The long-term fiscal outlook for the United States is the subject of this paper released by The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation in April 2008.

  • World Food Situation
    Rigorously researched information on the state of food and agricultural production across the world.

Sources

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

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