Table of contents: issue42

Planet-SOSIG

editor — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

Vision of Britain

A new Web site allowing free public access to an unrivalled collection of British historic maps, statistics and stories went live in October 2004. By keying in a postcode or place name, or clicking on a map, users can call up a wealth of information on any locality.

EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque

editor — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

If the title of this column caused you to anticipate a new blockbuster featuring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, then I apologise. It's far more interesting than that!

Four Search Engines

Four new search engines from EEVL make it possible to search the content of over 250 free full-text ejournals in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines (EESE) are divided according to subject content.

News from BIOME

editor — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

BIOME Hot Topics

BIOME "Hot Topics" are proving extremely popular with lots of positive feedback. We have received suggestions for particular areas of interest and recent themes have included breast cancer, AIDS, and pet ownership. So check out the new topics at Hot Topics [1].

BIOME Mailing List

Are you interested in finding out more about BIOME? Join the BIOME JISCmail to keep up to date with developments [2].

Search Engines: No Longer about Search

editor — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?'

2004 was a particularly interesting year for Internet search; we saw a lot of new search engines appearing on the scene, a number of purchases and a lot of innovations, particularly in the last quarter, with Microsoft bringing out its Beta MSN Search [1], Google doubling the size of its index [2], releasing Google Scholar [3] and Google Suggest [4].