Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Saturday, April 29, 2006  Informatica Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics http://ai.ijs.si/informatica/ Informatica is an international refereed journal with its base in Europe. It has entered its 30th year of publication. It publishes papers addressing all issues of interests to computer professionals: from scientific and technical to educational, commercial and industrial. It also publishes critical examinations of existing publications, news about major practical achievements and innovations in the computer and information industry, as well as conference announcements and reports. Informatica publishes research papers which have been accepted by at least two referees outside the author's country. Papers are typically published in less than half a year after the final version in the correct form is received. Acceptance rate is roughly 50%. Informatica has been established in 1977 as one of the primary research publications of the South Central Europe. It was published by the Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, now the capital of Slovenia. Beginning with volume 17, Informatica became a fully international journal publishing papers in English only. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Chinese-Forums.com Chinese-forums.com http://www.chinese-forums.com/ Chinese-forums.com is an online community of people with an interest in Chinese language and culture. You will need to register to post, subscribe to topics and hide adverts. If you are looking for something specific, please try the search function. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Journal of Academic Legal Studies http://www.joals.org/index.php/current The Journal of Academic Legal Studies (JOALS) is a new, free access online journal initiated by the Centre for Applied Linguistics of the University of Hannover. It aims to provide young legal scholars with an entry point into the world of academic publishing, applying a rigid peer-review system whilst acknowledging that high quality academic work can be produced by undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars alike. For each issue of the journal, which shall appear regularly in both a Spring and a Fall issue, with the possibility of special issues on particularly interesting points of law, it is intended to achieve a combination of articles from established scholars and young academics as well as professionals and young lawyers. The University of Hannover is actively seeking to involve other universities, especially in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and the United States, in this project. Contributions are currently solicited, ranging from full articles to book reviews of interesting works of legal literature. Although an international focus in encouraged, it is not a requirement for consideration. Furthermore, reviewers are actively sought by the Journal, to help choose the contributions which will most advance debate in their respective fields. This will be added to Legal Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Symbols.com http://www.symbols.com/ Symbols.com contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. You can start exploring this world of symbols by several means: a) Use the Graphic Index to search for the meaning or history of a sign, b) Use the Word Index to find a sign with a certain meaning, and c) Check out a random sign if you feel adventurous. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 28, 2006  Google.org Google.org – The Philanthropic Arm of Google http://www.google.org/ Google.org includes the work of the Google Foundation, some of Google's own projects using Google talent, technology and other resources, as well as partnerships and contributions to for-profit and non-profit entities. While they continue to define the goals, priorities and approach for Google.org, they will focus on several areas including global poverty, energy and the environment. The Google Foundation has made some initial commitments, which include: a) Acumen Fund: a non-profit venture fund that invests in market-based solutions to global poverty. The Fund supports entrepreneurial approaches to developing affordable goods and services for the 4 billion people in the world who live on less than $4 a day; b) TechnoServe: helps budding entrepreneurs turn good business ideas into thriving enterprises. With funding from the Google Foundation, they are launching a Business Plan Competition and an Entrepreneurship Development Program in Ghana; c) Water Research: The Google Foundation plans to support research in western Kenya to identify ways to prevent child deaths caused by poor water quality and to better understand what works in rural water supply. The research is being conducted by Alix Zwane and Edward Miguel of UC Berkeley and Michael Kremer of Harvard University; and d) PlanetRead: an organization seeking to improve literacy in India using same-language subtitling. By adding subtitles to films and videos of popular folk songs, PlanetRead gives people who have low literacy skills regular reading practice. As it expands, this approach has the potential to reach hundreds of millions of people. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Gather http://www.gather.com/ Gather is a place where you can share the things that matter to you with the people that matter to you, too. You can connect around a Supreme Court nominee, an Umbrian chicken recipe, a new album by Aimee Mann, or your child's soccer game. You can share your thoughts with the entire world, or exchange ideas, photography, audio (even podcasts), or video with just your friends, your family, or your work colleagues. You can connect with your book club, your PTA, your management team, or your committee to elect a new great leader in town on Gather. They will give you a place where your group can share information with one another or with the world. And the dreaded question: how much does it cost? How about if they pay you for a change? No, really, no kidding. You will be creating great content on Gather, for audiences large and small. Some of the things you contribute might be brilliant, novel, and interesting to a lot of people. Some might bring people from around the web to try Gather for the first time. That creates real value for other Gather users and they want to reward you for doing it. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Critical Learning Critical Learning http://critical-learning.co.uk/ This web site is intended to provide a focus for critical studies in learning, particularly in Higher Education. It is hosted by a team of academic researchers at the London Metropolitan University and welcomes contributions from anyone involved in the critical study of learning. On the site you will find static web pages and resources, a weblog for announcements and sharing websites, conference details etc and a wiki site which we use for development of our ideas - please join them on their interactive pages. This will be added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Webaroo - Search Unplugged http://webaroo.com/ Webaroo is the leading provider of offline Web technology. The Webaroo software and service provides fast, free and ubiquitous web search experiences on mobile phones, PDAs and laptops with no connection at all. They aim to give people the convenience and selection offline they are used to getting online. Real web pages and relevant results; the information and answers people want, wherever they are. Founded in 2004 by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs, the company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with offices in Santa Clara (California), Mumbai (India) and New Delhi (India). They like big ideas and started out by asking ourselves if they could put the entire web on a hard drive. Today they are excited to offer people the ability to select and save web content they'd like to search and browse unplugged. Stay tuned for more from them! This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 27, 2006  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V4N5 May 2006 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V4N5 May 2006 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V4N5.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The May 2006 V4N5 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 31 page .pdf document (588KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Biotechnology Resources on the Internet including related resources and sites. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The article review covers In Google We Trust: Information Integrity In the Digital Age by Lee Shaker.   ©2006 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 8:57 AM  Windows Live Academic http://academic.live.com/ Windows Live Academic is now in beta. They currently index content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer. Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search and provide access to subscription content for their members. Access restricted resources include subscription services or premium peer-reviewed journals. You may be able to access restricted content through your library or institution. They have built several features designed to help you rapidly find the content you are searching for including abstract previews via our preview pane, sort and group by capability, and citation export. This will be added to Academic Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  BioABACUS BioABACUS http://darwin.nmsu.edu/~molbio/bioABACUShome.htm BioABACUS is a searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms in Biotechnology that contains terms in such categories as: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Computers and Internet, Diseases, Grants, Journals, Laboratories, Medicine, Molecular Biology/Genetics, Neuroscience, Other Organizations, Professional Societies and US Government. The data provided include the name of the term, its meaning, the category in which it is mostly used and, when available, a link in which additional information for the term can be found. This has been added to Biotechnology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol http://research.microsoft.com/URLTracer/ When a user visits a Web site, her browser may be instructed to visit other third-party domains without her knowledge. Some of these third-party domains raise security, privacy, and safety concerns. The Strider URL Tracer, available for download, is a tool that reveals these third-party domains, and it includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting. The tool also enables parents to block typo-squatting domains that serve adult ads on typos of children's Web sites. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  ClickCaster ClickCaster http://www.clickcaster.com/ ClickCaster is made up of a team of about a dozen people with a wide range of skills and over 100 years of deep experience in entertainment, marketing, technology, finance, IT, operations, design and development. They are dedicated to creating the best turnkey podcasting experience available on the planet. They are currently in public beta, working on cool new features all the time. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 26, 2006  XML Sitemap Generator XML Sitemap Generator http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ If you own or maintain a website or intend to own one, wouldn't it be great if you get frequent visitors who find satisfaction in getting exactly the information they need from your page? While that satisfaction largely depends on the contents of your website, how you get to be accessed by website users is the most critical factor of website development. For if your website can't be reached universally, you defeat the very purpose of the internet: that is, to make information available to any website user from across the world. How you get to be accessed is actually a matter of presentation style, organization, and most importantly, how fast and extensive search engines get to lead users to your website. Unless your pages are indexed in the search engines they can't send you the free visitors you are all looking for. Fortunately, the search engines want your content too and there are a number of ways you can help them, which they encourage you to do - by creating sitemaps of your website. Sitemaps created for the various search engines will enable these search engines' spiders to crawl faster, more systematically, and more extensively into your website's pages. By doing so, you get the maximum exposure you can. Such exposure will boost your pride in having your pages viewed, read, and used by more and more visitors the way you intended them to. On the financial aspect, the more visitors your website gets, the higher your website's potential advertising value. Now with the vast expansion of websites on the internet, it has become necessary to create different types of sitemaps, each having its own complexity in setting up. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/ The goal of the Technical Committee on Digital Libraries is to promote research in the theory and practice of all aspects of Collective Memories, i.e. the fields of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums, and Digital Archives of all kinds. Thus, a wide range of Collective Memories and their technology are covered in their Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, and they encourage everybody who is interested in these subjects, may they be applied to culture, corporate life, government or private life. A discussion forum is provided both by a newsletter as well as by a Bulletin. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways Project (EMP) http://www.empproject.com The Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways database (EMP) is a comprehensive electronic source of biochemical data. It covers all aspects of enzymology and metabolism and represents the whole factual content of original journal publications. The database format has about 300 subject fields to encode the following categories: Entry identification Bibliographic description Biological source Host Biochemical genetics Cell cultivation conditions Metabolism Enzyme and reaction Enzyme assay and purification Enzyme kinetics Enzyme regulation Enzyme modification Enzyme structure Equilibrium and thermodynamics Physical chemistry and spectral properties Immunochemistry Common fields This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijge The IJGE, a peer-reviewed international journal, proposes and fosters discussion on all aspects of Green Economics. It contributes to international research and practice in Green Economics with the aim of encouraging economic change and the positioning of Green Economics at the centre of the Economics disciplines. Green Economic theories and policies, tools, instruments and metrics are developed with the aim of offering practical and theoretical solutions and proposals to facilitate a change to the current economic models for the benefit of the widest number of people and the planet as a whole. IJGE focuses particularly on resource management, on meeting peoples¹ needs and the impact and effects of international trends and how to increase social justice. The objectives of IJGE are to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions concerned with the running, involvement and impact of the economy on all sections of society. It aims to bridge the gap between academic economic theory and the literature and suggestions for the implementation of modern concepts in the political economy and the general economic debate, structures of political power and public discussion. The development of an alternative view in contrast to the traditional normatively biased view of economics is the prime objective. The study of Green Economics naturally has to be very multi and interdisciplinary in nature, as the problems it addresses are partly social in aspect and causes, partly scientific in technical development, partly environmental as this is a fundamental limit to all human activity and partly economic and historical in how the current situations have evolved. Green Economics is also particularly influenced by developments in ethical thinking and values and in anthropology in its explanations of past and future trends. The scope of IJGE includes examining, critiquing and analysing the activities of corporations with particular reference to the localisation/globalisation debate and making suggestions for change in practise and general function and approach. IJGE takes an international perspective, as modern economies are interdependent and internationally linked; the Green Economics discipline has therefore to be international in scope and in the solutions it proposes. The advisory board and activities are international in nature and the main management board consists of German, English, Brazilian and US personnel, with branches in Brazil and the US. The advisory board consists of a host of academics and practitioners, government members, policy makers and campaigners from round the world in order to meet the demands and the wide scope of the subject. This will be added to Business Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 25, 2006  RefScout® - Keeps Track of Your References RefScout® - Weekly Scientific Reference Mailing Service http://www.refscout.com/ RefScout® is a weekly, scientific reference mailing service. Would you like to be updated every week on the emerging literature in your field? Simply enter key words, and RefScout® does the work for you! RefScout® is licensee of the National Library of Medicine NLM and will screen MEDLINE data provided by NLM covering life and medical sciences for the key words or the combination of key words you specified. RefScout® will automatically update you with any abstract that has come up during the last seven days - every week and for free! RefScout® reference mailing service helps you to: a) Keep up with the overwhelming amount of literature produced every week, b) Save hours of precious time, and c) Be more productive . This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Electronic Journal of Biotechnology Electronic Journal of Biotechnology http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/ Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, is a free international scientific electronic journal, published only in electronic format, that publishes gratuitously papers from all areas related to Biotechnology. It covers from molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational applications, biotechnology industry, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology has been published since April 1998. This has been added to Biotechnology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Foreignword.com - The Language Site: Online dictionaries and Free Translation Tools http://www.foreignword.com/ Foreignword.com and Foreignword.biz are dedicated to the world of languages and translation and more specifically to all the new possibilities brought about in this area by computers and the Internet. On-line dictionaries and glossaries, translation tools, translation memories, machine translation, etc. Their pages address both the professional translator as well as the casual user ready to try the new linguistic technologies which will shape the future of the translation business. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  netfilter.org http://www.netfilter.org/ netfilter.org is home to the software of the packet filtering framework inside theLinux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel series. Software commonly associated with netfilter.org is iptables. Software inside this framework enables packet filtering, network address [and port] translation (NA[P]T) and other packet mangling. It is the re-designed and heavily improved successor of the previous Linux 2.2.x ipchains and Linux 2.0.x ipfwadm systems. netfilter is a set of hooks inside the Linux kernel that allows kernel modules to register callback functions with the network stack. A registered callback function is then called back for every packet that traverses the respective hook within the network stack. iptables is a generic table structure for the definition of rulesets. Each rule within an IP table consists of a number of classifiers (iptables matches) and one connected action (iptables target). etfilter, ip_tables, connection tracking (ip_conntrack, nf_conntrack) and the NAT subsystem together build the major parts of the framework. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 24, 2006  May 2006 Zillman Column - Business Intelligence Resources May 2006 Zillman Column - Business Intelligence Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/BIResources May06 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The May 2006 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Business Intelligence Resources. This May 2006 column is a comprehensive list of business intelligence resources and sites on the Internet. Download this excellent 25 page free .pdf (827KB) column today and learn about the many business intelligence resources available on the Internet! A must read for all business owners and entrepreneurs to stay ahead of your competition!! © 2006 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 11:56 AM  Zfone - Secure Voice Over IP Zfone - Secure Voice Over IP http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html Zfone is a new product that takes a new approach to make a secure telephone for the Internet. Zfone lets you whisper in someone's ear, even if their ear is a thousand miles away. Zfone uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which is better than the other approaches to secure VoIP, because it achieves security without reliance on a PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the email encryption world. It also does not rely on SIP signaling for the key management, and in fact does not rely on any servers at all. It performs its key agreements and key management in a purely peer-to-peer manner over the RTP packet stream. It interoperates with any standard SIP phone, but naturally only encrypts the call if you are calling another ZRTP client. This new protocol has been submitted to the IETF as a proposal for a public standard, to enable interoperability of SIP endpoints from different vendors. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:19 AM  Visual Communication http://vcj.sagepub.com/ Visual Communication provides an international forum for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines. Its broad coverage includes: a) still and moving images; b) graphic design and typography; visual phenomena such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction; c) the built and landscaped environment; and d) the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound and action. The aims of the journal are to: * critically investigate how the social world is constructed, represented and contested in visual discourse * examine the use of the visual in a range of sociological, anthropological, historical and scientific research areas * explore the structures and histories of the languages and technologies of visual communication, and their relation to those of other modes of communication * describe and contextualize (socially, culturally and historically) the use of these visual languages and technologies in visual and multimodal genres, texts and communicative events * searche for ways of expanding the resources of visual communication and their uses Journal issues will include academic papers, visual essays, short reflective papers by practitioners on aspects of their work, reviews - including books, magazines, films, CD-ROMs, websites, exhibitions and artefacts - covering what's going on in the field of visual communication. Visual Communication brings together articles form several disciplines including: anthropology, communication studies, discourse studies and semiotics, media and cultural studies, sociology, disciplines dealing with history, theory and practice of visual design. posted by Marcus | 4:13 AM  Small http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/107640323 Micro and Nano: No small Matter. Science at the nano and micro scale is currently receiving enormous wordwide interest. Small provides the very best forum for experimental and theoretical studies of fundamental and applied interdisciplinary research at these dimensions. Read an attractive mix of peer-reviewed Communications, Reviews, Concepts, Highlights, Essays, and Full Papers. small is the new international source for important primary and secondary information on interdisciplinary science and technology in the micro and nano arena. * small brings you an attractive mix of peer-reviewed Communications, Essays, Reviews, Concepts, Full Papers, and Highlights * small presents not only the very best studies in nanoscience and nanotechnology, but also contains topquality contributions concerning studies at larger length scales, where miniaturization leads to novel and important properties and capabilities * small is the ideal forum for presenting your very best experimental and heoretical studies of fundamental and applied research in biology, medicine, chemistry, materials science, physics, and engineering at the micro and nano scales * small provides you with outstanding research that focuses on the development of synthetic methods, the consequences of miniaturization, the design of novel and functional materials, systems, and devices, and their analysis by a variety of techniques * small is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board that comprises many of the leading players in both industry and academia, and includes Nobel Laureates among the esteemed Honorary Board posted by Marcus | 4:08 AM  Research Journal of International Studies http://www.eurojournals.com/international_studies.htm Research Journal of International Studies seeks to acquaint a broad audience of readers with the best research being done in the variety of intellectual traditions included under the rubric of international studies. Therefore, the editors welcome all submissions addressing this community's theoretical, empirical, and normative concerns. First preference will be given to articles that address and contribute to important disciplinary and interdisciplinary questions and controversies. The journal publishes original research articles on a wide range of issues and problems of contemporary relevance in the broad field of international studies. Research Journal of International Studies is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Articles available in PDF format. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM Saturday, April 22, 2006  PopUrls PopUrls - Popular URLs to the Latest Web Buzz http://www.PopUrls.com/ A really neat site that monitors many of the very popular URLs on the web for the latest happenings and buzz. A must bookmark if you arer into the latest happenings on the Internet. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 PM  Oltiby - Reverse Online Auctions Oltiby - Reverse Auction Marketplace http://www.oltiby.com/ Reverse Online Auctions look like a gold bullet that cuts costs quickly using e-auctioning tools. Reverse auctions are fixed-duration bidding events hosted by a single buyer, in which multiple suppliers compete for business. This method of online auctioning is an ideal way for buyers to buy at lower cost any type of product. Why use higher price driven auctioning process to get what you want. Here the first time buyer set the rules: you decide of what product you want, what is the maximum price, how you want the product shipped to you and you also choose how to pay for the product. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Informnation Blog. posted by Marcus | 9:31 AM  Tropical Science http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/112094332 Tropical Science is an internationally recognized journal, published quarterly, which aims to disseminate scientific, technological and economic information of practical value to those concerned with the development of renewable natural resources in the developing world. The scope of the journal extends from the preharvest and planning aspects of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries to the postharvest sector of plant and animal production. Tropical Science welcomes research papers covering original work that has good potential for practical application; development reports describing the application of science, technology and economics in developing countries, where there has been some novelty of approach and the findings may be of wider interest and benefit. Accounts of multi-disciplinary development projects in the field are especially welcome. Also, reviews are sometimes accepted, but they must concern a major developmental problem and it is advisable for prospective authors to send an outline of the proposed review to the Editor. Tropical Science is a major source of information and ideas and is an important medium for publishing findings of value to communities within the spheres of science, technology and economics as applied to the development of renewable resources in the tropics and sub-tropics. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Molecular Breeding: New Strategies in Plant Improvement http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=100317 Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer. All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, pathology, plant breeding, and ecology among others. Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, papers describing novel methods and review papers. All submission will be subject to peer review ensuring the highest possible scientific quality standards. Molecular Breeding core areas: a) Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits; b) Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, etc.; and c) Manuscripts submitted to Molecular Breeding will focus on applications but we will also accept fundamental science papers as long as they are of direct relevance to crop plants and not model systems. Molecular Breeding also welcomes relevant articles addressing intellectual property issues, regulation and public attitudes to plant biotechnology and also significant technology advances in applied plant molecular biology and (trans)gene expression technology. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  The Dictionary of Sustainable Management Dictionary of Sustainable Management http://www.sustainabilitydictionary.com/ This Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an open dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. It is a project of the Presidio School of Management. The purpose of this effort is to help people better understand how sustainability concepts are creating new understandings in the worlds of business, government, and society. The dictionary is open in that anyone can comment on any definition. Periodically, the creators of the dictionary may compound comments into new editions. This aill be added to Business Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 21, 2006  Information Foraging and Extraction Techniques Information Foraging and Extraction Techniques for Internet-Based Literature and Data by John J. Hannon http://www.asceditor.usm.edu/ASC%202006%20CD/2006pro/2006/CEGE03_Hannon06_7900.htm A excellent paper by John J. Hannon on information foraging and extraction techniques that will be presented at the ASC Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado April 20 - 22, 2006. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM  ComparisonEngines http://www.comparisonengines.com/ ComparisonEngines is the guide to the world of online shopping comparison engines. Through interviews with key players, guest commentary, case studies, analysis of news and events, and comparisons of features, readers will gain an in depth understanding of online comparison engines, a rapidly growing facet of online shopping. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:14 AM  African Study Monographs African Study Monographs http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/contents_e.htm African Study Monographs is a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes academic articles in all fields of African studies. The journal will emphasize monographs, but brief communications are also published. Although this journal is primarily for original papers, review articles and book reviews are also published. African Study Monographs is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus | 4:08 AM  I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society http://is-journal.org/ I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society is an interdisciplinary journal of research and commentary concentrating on the intersection of law, policy, and information technology. I/S represents a one-of-a-kind partnership between one of America's leading law schools, the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, and the nation's foremost public policy school focused on information technology, Carnegie Mellon University's H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. This will be added to Legal Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:04 AM Thursday, April 20, 2006  TRAC Immigration http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/ TRAC's Immigration Project is a unique new multi-year effort to systematically go after very detailed information from the government, check it for accuracy and completeness and then make it available in an understandable way to the American people, Congress, immigration groups and others. The project is supported by the JEHT Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Syracuse University. The most visible aspect of the project is this site, which is very much a work in progress. It now includes: 1. Separate clearly written reports on important immigration matters — administrative enforcement, criminal enforcement, staffing, etc. 2. A just-developed special TRAC tool that provides one-click access to the very latest monthly data on the criminal enforcement of the immigration laws, along with a clear explanatory text. 3. An extensive library of reports on immigration matters by the GAO, CRS and inspectors general. 4. A plain English glossary of frequently used words and acronyms common to the immigration world. Currently available on TRAC's Immigration site are reports focusing on Border Patrol apprehensions along the border, Border Patrol staffing, criminal enforcement in the federal district courts and government inspections activities at the designated ports of entry. Additional reports and studies are under development on a range of subjects such as the granting of immigration benefits — green cards, naturalization, affirmative asylum, etc — and the workings of the immigration courts. These reports and the latest data obtained from the government will be posted to their site as the information is obtained from the various agencies, checked for accuracy and completeness and analyzed. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (AMRX) Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (AMRX) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amrx/ AMRX provides rapid publication of articles dealing with the uses of mathematics in all other areas of knowledge usually in the form of mathematical/computational models and algorithms. Theoretical articles with promising applications are also considered.. All articles are refereed and judged primarily on their utility. Issues are published as frequently as necessary. Applied Mathematics Research eXpress is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Krugle - Search Engine for Developers http://www.krugle.com/ Krugle helps you find the code you need and the related technical and licensing information to evaluate and use that code. And once you’ve found what you need, Krugle lets you save it and share it. The process of searching, evaluating and communicating are dramatically faster with Krugle. Krugle was designed by programmers, for programmers. As a result, it is much more than just a search engine for code. It’s a powerful tool designed to provide the critical information software developers need. Krugle's ability to find rich search on technical issues is perfect for any level within IT, from programmer to CIO. Unlike conventional search engines, Krugle is designed to locate code. Krugle supports code search by crawling, parsing and indexing code found in all open source repositories, as well as code that exists in archives, mailing lists, blogs, and web pages. And Krugle makes navigating code repositories easy. For example, you can quickly navigate downward (from “Apache” to “Tomcat”), or start with a single source file and then view it’s relationship to another file, to see how it’s used. This ability to interactively browse and explore code in a meaningful context provides a more informed view and reduces the time required to make good code decisions. Krugle also automatically generates API reports which clearly explain how one code component integrates with other components by showing a list of calls in a particular program. Today API documentation is a laborious process, done only after careful study of the entire code module. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Earth Tools http://www.earthtools.org/ Here's a collection of webservices for finding out geographical-related information. There are currently three services available for finding the time zone or local time, the sunrise and sunset times, and the elevation/height above sea level at a given latitude and longitude. The site was created and maintained by Jonathan Stott. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 19, 2006  Online Generators Online Generators http://uzful.org/generators_online/on_line_generators.php An excellent resource and listing of online generators that make exellent tools for online research and related activities. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  E-Access Bulletin E-access Bulletin http://www.headstar.com/eab/ E-access Bulletin is a free, independent monthly e-mail newsletter on information technology issues for people with visual impairment and blindness. The Bulletin covers everything from consumer electronics to the Internet, examining design and access issues and technical developments. E-access Bulletin is produced by Headstar, an innovative new media company specialising in electronic publishing, online events and research relating to the information society. The main sponsor of the Bulletin is the Royal National Institute for the Blind, is one of the United Kingdom's largest charities, helping all blind and partially sighted people in the UK - almost a million people. It exists to challenge the disabling effects of sight loss by providing information and practical services and products. This has been added to Accessibiity Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Comparison: Web Based Trackers Comparison: Web Based Trackers http://geekswithblogs.net/flanakin/articles/CompareWebTrackers.aspx Here's a review of known web-based tracker tools.... generic tools that can be used for anything (i.e. bug tracker, feature request tracker, and tech support/trouble ticket tracker). This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  World Journal of Agricultural Sciences http://www.idosi.org/agricutural%20science.htm Journal includes original research papers, review articles, technical reports and short communications in all aspects of Agriculture, Biological, Information, Health & Life Sciences, Zoology, Humanity, Social and Applied Sciences etc.. Manuscripts can be submitted on the understanding that the work is not previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. World Journal of Agricultural Sciences is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 18, 2006  ChinesePod - Learn Mandarin Chinese http://www.chinesepod.com/ ChinesePod is an on-demand training product that enables users to learn Chinese on their terms - when are where is most convenient for them. LISTEN to the free daily podcasts on your media device (iPod, MP3 player, phone, computer, etc). Use the PDF transcripts to PRACTICE what you heard with a teacher, friend or colleague. Then REVIEW the key vocabulary and grammar on the ChinesePod website to reinforce what you learned. With the empowering nature of podcasts, there is no longer a need for dry and depressing language tapes or inconvenient classroom lessons. ChinesePod combines the latest podcasting technology with a compelling communicative teaching method to bring you the world's first on-demand language training program. ChinesePod is a complete solution to learning to communicate in Mandarin Chinese. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  American Journal of Medical Quality http://ajm.sagepub.com/ The American Journal of Medical Quality is the official Journal of the American College of Medical Quality. The journal publishes original work in the entire field of quality measurement and improvement. The American Journal of Medical Quality is focused on keeping readers informed of the resources, processes, and perspectives contributing to health care services. This peer-reviewed journal presents a forum for the exchange of ideas, strategies, and methods in the delivery and management of health care. The journal publishes: * Research studies measuring quality in terms of productivity, cost, timeliness, and patient and employee satisfaction * Evaluations of the delivery and management of health care, including the results of surveys, research review papers, and book reviews * Timely reports on changes in the field of medical quality, utilization and risk management, clarified with graphs and tables * Content applicable to those practicing, conducting research, and teaching in the field of clinical quality improvement, as well as academics and other professionals connected to the health care system. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  KnowledgeBoard http://www.knowledgeboard.com/ KnowledgeBoard is an European Commission funded Special Support Action within the IST FP6 framework. KB is run by a team of partners with responsibilities for different aspects of the website and project. They are a self-moderating global community, thinking and collaborating on subjects around (but not limited to) Knowledge Management and Innovation in the worlds of business and academia. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  National Biological Information Infrastructure National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) http://www.nbii.gov The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. NBII partners and collaborators also work on new standards, tools, and technologies that make it easier to find, integrate, and apply biological resources information. Resource managers, scientists, educators, and the general public use the NBII to answer a wide range of questions related to the management, use, or conservation of this nation's biological resources. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 17, 2006  Resources for Accessible Web Development http://knowbility.org/air-interactive/?content=resources These resources will assist you in developing accessible web sites. Although these resources have been chosen with the AIR competitions in mind they will continue to provide you with valuable guidance in other projects as well. Nice site of accessible web resources! This has been aed to Accessibility Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Mayang's Free Texture Library Mayang's Free Texture Library http://www.mayang.com/textures/ Mayang's Free Texture Library offers over 3000 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures. If you need or have an interst in textures this is the database to visit and bookmark! This has been added to the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Wilbur Toolkit for Semantic Web Programming Wilbur Toolkit for Semantic Web Programming http://wilbur-rdf.sourceforge.net/ Wilbur is Nokia Research Center's toolkit for programming Semantic Web applications that use RDF (as well as XML and/or DAML+OIL), written in Common Lisp. It was developed by the Agent Technology group of Nokia Research Center. The work was supported in part by Nokia Mobile Phones (NMP) and Nokia Ventures Organization (NVO), as well as Nokia Venture Partners, LP. Wilbur is part of Nokia's Semantic Web activity (and in the broader sense part of Nokia's commitment to open standards). This has been added to the sematic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Producing Open Source Software http://producingoss.com/ Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. It is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it here. Producing Open Source Software is released under an open copyright that allows everyone to share and modify the book freely. The latest version is always here. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, April 15, 2006  Exploring Online Research Methods http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/site/home.htm Exploring Online Research Methods in a Virtual Training Environment is an ESRC funded project running from May 2004 to July 2006 under the [External Link - opens in a new window]Research Methods Training Programme. The project aims to enhance understanding of online research methods through the production and evaluation of a self-supporting online training package targeted at the social science community. Online research methods are computer-mediated methodological approaches to data collection which are facilitated in a 'virtual' environment. In simpler terms, online research methods are traditional methods of data collection adapted to use online. Therefore, research methods ranging from questionnaire surveys to participant observation have been adapted for online use through tools such as email, websites and various software packages. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 7:02 AM  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-archive&issn=1520-0426 Published monthly by the American Meteorological Society, the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology covers research describing instrumentation and methodologies used in atmospheric and oceanic research, including remote sensing instruments, measurements, validation, and data analysis techniques from satellites, aircraft, balloons, and surface-based platforms; in situ instruments, measurements, and methods for data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; and information systems and algorithms. The Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology prints three types of pieces. These are a) Articles - Full-length, up to 7500 words or 26 double-spaced pages of text (not including references, figure and table lists, and figures); b) Notes - Shorter articles, usually confined to a single subject. These are treated exactly the same as articles in the method of review and citation; and c) Comments and Reply Exchanges - Comments are written in response to a published article. The author of the article being commented upon always has the opportunity to write a reply. These exchanges are published together. posted by Marcus | 6:37 AM  Free-Ed.Net - Free Education On the Internet http://www.free-ed.net The mission of Free-Ed.Net is to provide quality distance education at no cost to the user. Free education is a dream whose time has come. Never in history has so much information and so many learning resources been so widely available at such a low cost. Free-Ed.Net is committed to providing an online "school" where users from around the world can study, take courses, and participate in online community activities at no cost. This enterprise requires them to build a new kind of learning model that takes into account the technological strengths of the Internet, information and computer technologies, and the needs of our users. ree-Ed.Net separates itself from other educational sites on the Internet by offering only the highest quality content that is available and by offering all content free of charge. Their users are global audience of students, teachers, homeschoolers, parents, laypersons, and anyone else who has an interest in continuing or supplementing their education. Students at formal educational institutions use their resources to supplement their studies and prepare for entrance exams. Teachers, homeschoolers, and parents use Free-Ed.Net as a source of study guides, learning materials, and teaching ideas. Others use their resource as a means of continuing their education and satisfying their own curiosity about the subjects that interest them. This will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 6:09 AM  FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawls and Safety Alerts Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html Recalls, Withdrawals and Alerts in the Last 60 Days ... This list includes the most significant product actions of the last 60 days, based on the extent of distribution and the degree of health risk. The recalls on the list are mainly Class I. A record of all recalls can be found in the FDA Enforcement Report. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 5:07 AM Friday, April 14, 2006  ExploreXY - Knowledge Discovery Vehicle (KDV™) http://www.ExploreXY.com/ Explore XY is a Knowledge Discovery Vehicle (KDV™). A KDV is a radical, patented desktop application that explores all the web’s pages to find any correlation between two subjects. It reads a URL/web page and reports back text and source links that are relevant to connecting the two subjects. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM  Google Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/ Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do -- all with one online calendar? Google thought so, too. With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online. You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too. You can set up automatic event reminders, including SMS notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation (IJPTI) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijpti IJPTI offers a scientific forum for dissemination of innovative researchfindings and industry best practices on postharvest handling techniques,agro-processing and marketing of food and biological products of plant andanimal origin. IJPTI will address scientific, engineering, technological,policy and developmental issues pertaining to postharvest management aimedat reducing the incidence of food losses, maintenance and assurance ofquality, safety and traceability of products. Particular emphasis will be given to postharvest innovation, thetransformation of knowledge and technologies into useful products andservices in agri-food/biological industries, as a key driver of economic growth and improved standards of living in rural-based economies. The objective of IJPTI is to establish an effective and timely channel for multidisciplinary communication between experts in academic and research institutions, practitioners and professionals working agriculture/horticulture and related industries, policy makers, government,and non-governmental agencies involved in postharvest technology andagro-industrial development. It also provides a forum to present and discuss best practices in postharvest technology as a strategy for linking farmers to markets using appropriate technologies for product quality maintenance, quantity conservation, value-addition and marketing. Special attention will be paid to research findings and innovative best practices which have practical application to reduce the incidence of losses, maintain product quality, extend shelf-life and enhance the marketing potential of fresh and processed food products. Industry practitioners, including rural development agencies, can show case successful postharvest technology interventions and their impacts in income generation, employment, poverty alleviation and improvement of food security in developing and transitional countries. Articles that demonstrate the economic and nutritional potential of underutilised and under exploited species (both plant and animal) and novel food process technologies to improve food value, enhance food security,reduce malnutrition and alleviate poverty are welcome. IJPTI will promote the adoption of improved postharvest techniques and procedures and a total systems approach as strategies for linking resource-poor farmers to markets based on the premise that knowledge sharing and innovation is a pillar for sustaining the livelihood of farmers and postharvest operators. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  HTML Source - HTML Tutorials HTML Source - HTML Tutorials http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/ If you are just starting your illustrious HTML career, have a leaf through the two Starting Off sections, if you want more specific tutorials check out the Lessons, and if you’re well-versed in the art of HTML you should read the Advanced stuff. You can also get technical with the Scripting tutorials. Finally, the HTML Reference charts and whatnot are in a table further down this page. If you want to find a certain tutorial fast, use the Search box at the top there. The site is being added to constantly and offers a wealth of information and tips on each topic. You can find a list of all the stuff in the full index, and you can keep up to date on the site's progress over in the updates, should you be so inclined. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 13, 2006  Ext2 IFS For Windows Ext2 IFS For Windows http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer. The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" software is freeware. If you currently have Windows running and you realize that you need some files for your work which you have stored on an Ext2 volume of your Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux! Furthermore, Windows will now be able to handle floppy disks which have been formatted with an Ext2 file system. Linux Ext3 volumes can also be accessed. To do that, please read the FAQ section. This has been added to the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Research on Language and Social Interaction http://www.leaonline.com/loi/rlsi Research on Language and Social Interaction is a multidisciplinary journal committed to publishing outstanding research focused on the organization and dynamics of language and embodied conduct as vehicles of social interaction. Studies of casual conversation, institutional settings, interaction mediated by computer and other new technologies, and research on interaction across cultures and languages are within the journal's purview. Research may involve the close analysis interaction based on interview and observational data, collected in the laboratory or the field. Diverse approaches to the study of interaction are encouraged, including, but not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and observational and ethnographic studies. Quantitative research on such naturally occurring interaction can also be appropriate. Papers that review and schematize existing research and theory or propose solutions to existing methodological or theoretical problems are also welcome. ISSN: 0835-1813 posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  SlickDeals SlickDeals - Your Daily Source for the BEST Deals on the Net http://www.slickdeals.net/ The most frequently updated and complete deal site on the web! They provide you with the day's hottest deals every day. They also have over 800 coupons for all your favorite online stores. Browse around and you're bound to save more than a few bucks! This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Updated: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-primer-20060327/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060327/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060327/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060327/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060327/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ The Web Services Description Working Group has updated three Candidate Recommendations for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2: Adjuncts." Comments are welcome through 1 July. WSDL "RDF Mapping" and "SOAP 1.1 Binding" are updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Ideas Futures Prediction Markets Systems http://sourceforge.net/projects/ideafutures/ A web-based prediction market (Idea Futures) system. In prediction markets, the commodities traded are claims about future events; the market price gives a consensus probability about the event's likelihood of coming true. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  International Journal of Internet Science http://www.ijis.net/ The International Journal of Internet Science is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal for the publication of research articles about empirical findings, methodology, and theory in the field of Internet Science. It provides an outlet for articles on the Internet as a medium of research and its implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society. This journal combines Internet Science with Open Access. Conduct your research on the Internet, study the Internet, and make the papers with your results freely available on the Internet via this journal. It welcomes articles on empirical findings, methodology, and theory in the field of Internet Science. Especially welcome is theory-guided empirical research. Some topics of interest for the readership of IJIS are: * Methodological issues in Internet surveys * Methodological issues in Internet-based experiments * The Internet and social networks (online and/or offline) * Problems of cooperation and trust in online interaction * Online groups, online communities, and virtual teams * Social and psychological impact of the Internet * The digital divide * The Internet and organizations * The Internet, science, and academic communication * Knowledge exchange and knowledge management in online settings * E-Learning and i-learning * E-Health and i-health * E-Government, e-Voting, and e-Democracy * Computer-mediated communication * Sampling approaches with the help of the Internet posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  International Journal of Intellectual Property, Law, Economy and Management International Journal of Intellectual Property: Law, Economy and Management http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ijip/_vols The purpose of the Intellectual Property Rights System is to promote the creation and dissemination of knowledge. It is the fundamental infrastructure of the knowledge-based society. It should contribute to the expansion of our understanding of the world surrounding us, and to the promotion of the welfare of the people throughout the world. The purpose of this journal is essentially the same. This journal has been started to promote the creation and dissemination of the knowledge concerning the Intellectual Property Rights System. The IPR system grants exclusive rights in order to fulfill its goal. It should be designed and enforced wisely. In order to do so, we need to exchange ideals and deepen our understanding.. Because of the nature of the issues involved, it is inevitable that the journal will become multidisciplinary. Our hope is that this journal will provide the forum for legal scholars, economists, management theorists, scientists, engineers, and people for other disciplines to exchange their ideas and views on Intellectual Property Rights System. International Journal of Intellectual Property: Law, Economy and Management is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. This will be added to Legal Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  i4d (Information For Development)Magazine http://www.i4donline.net/ The i4d (Information For Development) print magazine is one its kind, and is intended to provide a much-needed platform for exchange of information, ideas, opinions and experiences, both inside and outside the Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) sector. While several electronic publications do currently exist, i4d is perhaps the first that addresses the need by utilizing the strength and potential of the print media. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 11, 2006  CrowdIQ - Information Futures Markets http://www.CrowdIQ.com/ CrowdIQ aims to fill a niche where information markets are created and managed by the users themselves. CrowdIQ allows you to make your own market and create your own contracts so that you can directly leverage the intelligence of the crowd. Rather than the contract content coming from the market owners, CrowdIQ allows you to become the market owner so that you can produce and manage your own contract content. There is no software to purchase and download, no consulting services, and no technology commitment. So if you enjoy speculating on Apple products, you can now trade contracts on whether Apple will release an Intel based iMac in 2006 rather than simply debate on a messageboard. If you want to know what people think of your chances of getting accepted into business school, then create a personal market and invite your friends and colleagues to trade a contract on your future acceptance at Harvard, Wharton, and Stanford. CrowdIQ wants to make it simple to create a new account, create your market, and then create your own information contracts. Or if you find an existing market that is trading content which interests you, then join the crowd and trade. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Trials http://www.trialsjournal.com/ Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that will encompass all aspects of the performance and findings of randomized controlled trials. Trials will experiment with, and then refine, innovative approaches to improving communication about trials. They are keen to move beyond publishing traditional trial results articles (although these will be included). They believe this represents an exciting opportunity to advance the science and reporting of trials. Prior to 2006, Trials was published as Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (CCTCVM). All published CCTCVM articles are available via the Trials website and citations to CCTCVM article URLs will continue to be supported. The impact factor shown relates to articles published in CCTCVM during 2003-4. Making all its content open access and not retaining copyright, Trials offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible to trialists worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication among peers and society. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. To date, journals have focused on reporting the results of trials, with very little coverage of why and how they are conducted. Reports of trials have been restricted both by authors and editors - both parties often select only a subset of the outcomes measured, while the latter often impose word limits on the articles published making it difficult to communicate the lessons learnt from conducting the trial, let alone include adequate details of how the trial was conducted. The Internet offers both unlimited space and interactivity, and they are keen to harness these attributes. For instance, trialists will be able to provide the detail required to be a true scientific record and do more to make the article's message comprehensible to a variety of reader groups. They will also be able to communicate not only all outcome measures, as well as varying analyses and interpretations, but also in-depth descriptions of what they did and what they learnt. This sharing of direct experience is fundamental to improving the quality and conduct of trials worldwide. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Castpost - Broadcast Your Personal Video and Audio Clips http://www.castpost.com/ Castpost is a new web-based service that offers the easiest way to broadcast your personal video and audio clips. With Castpost, you can share your personal media – like a home movie, a reality TV show audition, a voicemail message, a weekly podcast show – with family, friends, and other folks. Your clip can be seen and heard both online and offline – from your Castpost account, from your existing Typepad or Blogger blog, from another website, or from a mobile media player like an iPod. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) http://www.dict.org/ The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. RFC 2229 describes the DICT client/server protocol. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 10, 2006  Meet With Approval - Arrange a Meeting or Event Meet With Approval - Arrange a Meeting or Event http://www.meetwithapproval.com/ Meet With Approval could not be simpler. Fill out the form which creates a meeting page. Your friends or colleagues are notified of the event. They visit the meeting page and help decide a good date. When you are all happy, Meet With Approval confirms the arrangement and you all meet up. Best of all it's free! This has ben added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Quantitative Marketing and Economics http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=111240 Quantitative Marketing and Economics publishes research in the intersection of Marketing, Economics and Statistics. Their focus is on important applied problems of relevance to marketing using a quantitative approach. They define marketing broadly as the study of the interface between firms, competitors and consumers. This includes but is not limited to consumer preferences, consumer demand and decision-making, strategic interaction of firms, pricing, promotion, targeting, product design/positioning, and channel issues. They embrace a wide variety of research methods including applied economic theory, econometrics and statistical methods. Empirical research using primary, secondary or experimental data is also encouraged. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Realtions Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Business Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Institute for Global Ethics Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/index.htm A number of organizations and think-tanks have taken on the most pressing questions of our day, but relatively few have addressed such quandaries as basic as “Are there a core of shared, moral values?” In 1990, the Institute for Global Ethics started with this crucial inquiry and expanded their scope to work towards understanding these values. From the homepage, visitors can read through their online resources, which include the Ethics Newsline (a weekly electronic newsletter), letters from their president, and a number of topical white papers. Some of these papers have rather compelling titles, such as “Ethics and the Learned Professions” and “Corporate Social Responsibility and Peacebuilding: A Case for Action in Israel and the Palestinian Territories”. Finally, users of the site may also wish to take a look at their calendar of upcoming seminars and lectures. [ From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) http://www.gbif.org/ Facilitating digitisation and global dissemination of primary biodiversity data, so that people from all countries can benefit from the use of the information, is the mission of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, April 08, 2006  Strategic Board on the Technology World Strategic Board - Monitors IT Related Blogs http://www.strategicboard.com/ Strategic Board is a Web 2.0 search engine that aggregates IT related RSS feeds. They automatically monitor and identify new IT related blogs. They currently track 20,687 technology blogs with 899,159 technology related posts indexed. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Biomarker Insights http://www.la-press.com/bmi.htm Biomarker INSIGHTS is a peer-reviewed, open-access research journal where those engaged in biomarker research can turn for rapid communication of the latest advances in the application of biomarkers toward the discovery of new knowledge, and toward the clinical translation of that knowledge to increase the efficacy of practicing clinicians. Papers submitted for review in Biomarkers should focus on the following areas: * Biomarkers as tools in decision making * Regulatory acceptance of biomarkers * Biomarker development and validation * Role of collaborations and consortia in biomarker advancement * The ³Economics² Behind Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenomics * Toxicity biomarkers, toxicogenomics * Biomarkers for early efficacy assessment * Genetic biomarkers; genomic biomarkers * Protein biomarkers * Metabolomic biomarkers * Pathway analysis * Biomarkers in clinical pharmacology * Biomarkers for clinical safety assessment * Clinical pharmacogenomics * Biomarkers to monitor and predict disease progression and response to therapy * Clinical validation of biomarkers * Patient selection * Biomarkers as surrogate end-points * Biomarkers as indications for drug therapy * Biomarker assay development and validation * Outcome diagnostics * Cancer diagnostics * Monitoring response to therapy * Discovery-to-Diagnostic translation * Clinical Proteomics: potential of proteomic technologies in diagnostics * Expression signatures as diagnostic/prognostic tools * Imaging biomarkers pharmacodiagnostics, companion diagnostics * Integration of biomarkers into clinical practice guidelines and clinical decision support systems * Integration of biomarkers into mathematical models and algorithms BIOMARKER INSIGHTS will publish: Original Research papers; Short Communications; Application Notes; Reviews; and Letters. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Box - Free Online Storage http://www.box.net/ Box.net was founded in the fall of 2004 by a group of Seattle entrepreneurs (now living in Berkeley, CA) who will stop at nothing to improve and expand consumer data storage. From the start, their intention has been to provide users with a low-cost, easy to use online storage solution. Box.net provides 24/7 support because they understand the importance of customer satisfaction. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Pedagogies: An International Journal http://www.leaonline.com/loi/ped Pedagogies: An International Journal brings together emergent and breaking work on all aspects of pedagogy: classroom teaching and learning in response to new communities and student bodies, curriculum and responses to new knowledge and changing disciplinarity, blends of traditional and new communications media in classrooms, and most importantly, how we might improve and renew the everyday work that teachers and students do in classrooms. Pedagogies is about change and innovation in the most common, typical, and central of educational processes: teaching and learning in classrooms. It will apply current theoretical and analytical research work to the question of how pedagogy is being transformed to make new knowledge, new expressive modes and, quite literally, new kinds of teachers and learners. The journal will feature quantitative and qualitative, disciplinary and transdisciplinary, empirical and theoretical work, and will include special editions on key developments in research on knowledge and pedagogy. It will do so in ways that model cosmopolitan flows of ideas and innovation‹from and across educational communities in North and South, East and West, seeking out the most innovative thinkers internationally, and creating international dialogues about teaching and learning. Authors will address issues of change and the need for practical programs of policy innovation, curriculum reform, and pedagogical action. Pedagogies aims to push the boundaries of theory and research‹to seek out new paradigms, models, and ways of framing education‹while at the same time keeping an eye squarely on that which matters: teaching and learning in classrooms. Articles will range from discussions, debates, and studies of the most tenacious and perennial educational problems‹such as teaching to diversity and the persistent educational arginalization of specific communities‹to those focusing on innovative engagements with new technologies and new forms of identity, new repertoires of teacher practice, and preparation of students for emergent forms of civic, workplace, and community life. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 07, 2006   State Cancer Profiles http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/index.html Dynamic views of cancer statistics for prioritizing cancer control in the nation, states and counties. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology http://www.occup-med.com/ Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology(JOMT) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers original research related to the field of occupational medicine and toxicology. JOMT is aimed at clinicians and researchers in the wide-ranging discipline of occupational medicine and toxicology. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of occupational diseases, injuries and disability; it also covers the promotion of health of workers, their families, and communities. In the era of heavy industries, occupational medicine was known as "industrial medicine" with a focus on acute medical care for injured employees. The complexity of modern industrial processes has changed the field and today the areas covered by occupational medicine include effects of atmospheric pollution, carcinogenesis, biological monitoring, ergonomics, epidemiology, product safety, and health promotion. The field of occupational medicine and toxicology is not static and the demand for studies addressing the large variety of current issues continues to grow. In view of this demand and the fact that the majority of occupational medicine and toxicology studies are currently published by journals of related fields such as pulmonary medicine, oncology or allergy, there is a need for a high-quality journal in this field. JOMT aims to provide this, with the important features of being an Open Access journal with an open peer review policy, and rapid publication process without major space limitations. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology considers the following types of articles: * Research: reports of data from original research. * Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of any subject within the scope of JOMT. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board. * Short reports: brief reports of data from original research. * Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. * Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. * Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. These should be limited to 1000 words in length. * Debate articles: present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical aspects. * Hypothesis: short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable. * Software articles: describe the source code for software applications, tools or algorithm implementations. * Study protocols: describe proposed or ongoing research, providing a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale, and methodology of the study. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Openomy - Online File System Openomy Online File System http://openomy.com/ Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organizes files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). You can choose to keep your files guarded by Openomy, or allow certain outside applications (of your choice) to do new and interesting things with your data. Currently, all storage is 1gb. The plan is to increase this in the future. Let us know what you think is fair. Openomy is completely free for now. In the future there will be an additional premium membership, in exchange for some nice extras. The APIs (i.e. creating applications) are also completely free to use, but a similar structure may one day appear as well. This would likely be limited to commercial applications. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM W3C Renews and Expands Web Services Activity http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ http://www.w3.org/2006/03/saws-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Web Services Activity through February 2008. The Activity has an Interest Group, a Coordination Group, and four Working Groups including the new Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group. Participation is open to W3C Members. "W3C is bringing communities together... to work on a standard solution for Web automation," said Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck), Chair of the SAWSDL Working Group. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 06, 2006  Population, Space and Place http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/106562735 Population, Space and Place aims to be the leading English-language research journal in the field of geographical population studies. It intends to: * Inform population researchers of the best theoretical and empirical research on topics related to population, space and place; * Promote and further enhance the international standing of population research through the exchange of views on what constitutes best research practice; * Facilitate debate on issues of policy relevance and encourage the widest possible discussion and dissemination of the applications of research on populations; * Review and evaluate the significance of recent research findings and provide an international platform where researchers can discuss the future course of population research; * Provide a forum for population researchers to assess and apply philosophical and methodological developments in the social and behavioural sciences; * Encourage quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to population research. The scope of the journal is international, covering developed and less developed countries and embracing all the main fields of interest in population studies, including: 1) Population and society * Fertility, mortality and migration, 2) Qantitative and qualitative methods of population analysis, 3) Ageing populations, 4)Census analysis, 5) Spatial demography, 6) Population policies, 7) Theory and population, 8) Population distribution and change, and 9) Population and development. The main content of each journal issue is research articles, but the journal also contains book reviews, and review articles commissioned by the editors which will report current debate or themes. The editors welcome contributions from researchers in all fields of population studies who are interested in geographical issues. Each volume will contain six issues. Papers will not normally be longer than 8,000 words. All research papers will be subject to peer review. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Keyboard Shortcuts for Special Characters Keyboard Shortcuts for Special Characters http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/keyboard_shortcuts.html A nice site that has all the keyboard shortcuts for the many special characters that are needed in writing research reports and white papers. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  AbbreviationZ AbbreviationZ http://www.stands4.com/index.asp AbbreviationZ is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. On a daily basis people are exposed to and baffled by new, ever-growing shorthand terms where occasionally a single term has several meanings and it is the context that determines how to interpret the utterances. In addition, one might need to have a list of acronyms or abbreviations that relates to a specific subject. It might be a student that looks for a list of terms in physiology, a businessman that needs to prepare a lecture on international business or a laboratory that would like to print an abbreviated form of the Periodic Table. AbbreviationZ answers those needs by supplying an extensive directory and a powerful search engine that provides comprehensive definition results for a specific term, grouped by categories. It also provides the ability to browse a list of terms that relates to a specific subject. AbbreviationZ holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Statutes at Large http://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. GPO Access contains the statutes enacted in the 108th Congress, first session, Volume 117, with future volumes to be added as they become available. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Every public and private law passed by Congress is published in the Statutes at Large in order of the date it was enacted into law. The laws are arranged by Public Law number and are cited by volume and page number. Also included in the United States Statutes at Large are concurrent resolutions, proclamations by the President, proposed and ratified amendments to the Constitution, and reorganization plans. Until 1948, treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate were also published in the Statutes at Large. This will be added to Legal Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 05, 2006  Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland http://www.theses.com/ A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716 with 484,007 theses in the current collection. This will be added to Academic Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Invertebrate Biology http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1077-8306&site=1 Among the oldest continuously published journals in the US, Invertebrate Biology presents research on the biology of invertebrate animals in all its aspects, including: * cell and molecular biology * ecology * physiology * genetics * phylogenetics and evolution * behavior and biomechanics * biogeography * development * reproduction and morphology * ultrastructure. Invertebrate Biology (IB) invites papers on all aspects of invertebrate biology: morphology and ultrastructure; genetics, phylogenetics, and evolution; physiology and ecology; neurobiology, behavior, and biomechanics; reproduction and development; cell and molecular biology‹and on all types of invertebrates: protozoan and metazoan, aquatic and terrestrial, free-living and symbiotic. Manuscripts submitted should present original research focused on understanding invertebrate organisms. IB also publishes review articles. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Interactive Architecture Interactive Architecture http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/ Interactive Architecture dot Org is a weblog about the emerging practice within architecture that aims to merge the digital virtual with tangible and physical spatial experience. Instead of defining a fixed architectural product it is an architecture in constant flux best suited to prototyping and semi-perminant installations. It is maintained by Ruairi Glynn, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Google Finance http://finance.google.com/ Google Finance is an early beta product that offers a broad range of information about North American stocks, mutual funds and public and private companies along with charts, news and fundamental financial data. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 04, 2006  Theology Digital Library Theology Digital Library http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/library/dig_index.phtml The Theology Digital Library provides access to texts on various aspects of Christian theology and study. The texts can be searched by course, author and/or title. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The American Presidency Project American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ The American Presidency Project is the only online resource providing without charge, the Public Papers of the presidents from Hoover to Clinton (1993-June 2000) & G.W. Bush (January -June 2001). This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Nanoparticle Information Library (NIL) http://www2a.cdc.gov/niosh-nil/ The Nanoparticle Information Library (NIL) is intended to help occupational health professionals, industrial users, worker groups, and researchers organize and share information on nanomaterials, including their health and safety-associated properties. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Current Legal Theory http://www.cirfid.unibo.it/cult/ Current Legal Theory (CuLT)-through 1999 a journal edited by Bert van Roermund of Tilburg University-is now also available as an updated online database that offers a full international bibliography (with more than 19,000 entries now on record) in the fields of jurisprudence, philosophy of law, and legal theory and covers all recent publications, not only in major languages, but in the lesser-known languages, too. The CuLT online database is edited by CIRSFID, Bologna University. This will be added to Legal Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 03, 2006  Marketing with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm This document has just been released by the PerX Project (a project funded by JISC, as part of the UK Digital Repositories Programme). It is an advocacy document, aimed at content providers of various kinds (for example - journal publishers, professional societies and database providers and owners) who may have descriptive data (metadata) available for the actual content they produce. It introduces the various benefits of sharing metadata, in standardised and reusable ways, with other websites. It explains how sharing metadata can result in increased exposure and visibility of the actual content, whether that content itself is freely available, available to subscribers, or available via pay-per-view. The document is intended primarily for a non-technical audience who may require an overview for decisions regarding the best means of exposing metadata. It may also be of interest to anyone with an interest in digital repositories. It looks at exposing metadata via harvesting (OAI Repositories, Static Repositories), via distributed searching (Z39.50, SRU/SRW, other emerging standards), and exposing content for syndication (RSS). It provides illustrative case studies and links to technical specifications which will provide useful starting points for those tasked with actually implementing the exposure of standardised metadata. Common questions are answered. If you wish to increase the visibility and exposure of your content in the online environment, then read this document! This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  International Mathematics Research Surveys International Mathematics Research Surveys (IMRS) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/imrs/ IMRS publishes extensive articles on the state of research in all parts of mathematics emphasizing trends and open problems. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics http://bfgp.oxfordjournals.org/ Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics is an international forum for researchers and educators in the life sciences and reviews the techniques, protocols and approaches in genome and proteome research. The journal aims to provide a centralised resource for researchers in the fields of genomics and proteomics as well as give guidance to scientists new to these areas. Papers range in scope and depth from the introductory level to specific details of protocols and analyses encompassing bacterial, plant, animal and human data. Detailed subject areas covered by the journal include: microarray technology, gene and protein expression profiling, differential display, electrophoresis, genotyping, transgenic systems, mutation screens, protein spectrometry, comparative genomics, phage display and combinatorial libraries. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  WikiMatrix WikiMatrix/Wiki Feature Comparison - Compare Them All http://www.wikimatrix.org/ WikiMatrix was created by the people of CosmoCode. The development of WikiMatrix has its origin in the well-known and popular wiki comparism page of Andreas Gohr, a member of the CosmoCode team. Compare the features of various popular Wiki engines in comfortable side-by-side tables. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, April 01, 2006  Chemical Suppliers Directory - The Directory of Companies Providing Products and Services for Drug Discovery Industry http://www.chemsuppliers.org/ Chemical Suppliers Directory is dedicated to provide its visitors with most comprehensive information about vendors of compounds, chemicals building blocks, compound libraries, custom synthesis, peptide synthesis, lead optimization, and services that support drug discovery in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The goal of this project is to create a common and freely accessible directory of chemical suppliers and database of chemicals for drug discovery industry over the internet. Any chemical supplier as well as academic laboratories around the world may share their information over the Internet through the Chemical Suppliers Directory. This means to enter your list of services and products into the Chemical Suppliers Directory. This service is free. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Australian Ejournal of Theology http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/ The Australian Ejournal of Theology (AEJT) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Ejournal sponsored by the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology within Australian Catholic University. It focuses on scholarly exchange within the Australian theological community. Its aim is to be both ecumenical and interdisciplinary. Scholarly contributions are welcomed from all relevant disciplines including the humanities, philosophy, arts, sciences, ethical and legal studies, sociology and history. AEJT Editorial Board welcomes suggestions for its editorial policy and for special issues of the journal. AEJT will be published online twice a year (in February and August). This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  A2A Database - Access To Archives A2A Database - Access To Archives http://www.a2a.org.uk/ The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally throughout England and dating from the eighth century to the present day. The A2A database was last updated in January 2006 and now contains 9.5 million records relating to 8.7 million items held in 396 record offices and other repositories. A2A does not yet offer a full description of all the archives in England, but it is regularly updated, so revisit often for newly-included catalogues! This will be added to Academic Resources 2006 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM New Report Shows Dramatic Changes in U.S. Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR2006030965PlusReport.htm The face of aging in the United States is changing dramatically -- and rapidly, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, commissioned by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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