Table of contents: issue44

Planet-SOSIG

editor — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.

Academics Look to Improve Their Internet Research Skills

Over 130 academics, librarians and researchers attended the SOSIG "Social Science Online" seminars this year, which aimed to help staff develop their Internet research skills and look at ways of teaching these skills to students.

EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips

editor — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL.

EEVL Xtra - In a Nutshell

EEVL Xtra [1] is an exciting new, free service which helps people find articles, books, the best Web sites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.

News from BIOME

editor — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

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

BIOME Resource Booklets

New editions of the popular (and free) BIOME booklets, "Internet Resources for Healthcare and Medicine" and "Internet Resources for Animal Health" are now available. The BIOME team have fully revised the content and produced the booklets, for the first time, in full-colour with a more professional design.

Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments

editor — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google.

If, like me, you spend a lot of your time looking at search engines and search engine technology, you like a little variety in your life. It's always fun to look at new search engines and to see what is happening in the industry. However, while all roads may well lead to Rome, all discussions on search engines eventually return to Google; there is no getting away from the fact that Google is doing more in the search engine industry than anyone else. As a result I'm just going to bite the bullet and spend this column talking about Google-related issues.