SE ARCH ENGINES

Should you start with a search engine? If you're looking for a very specific piece of information, then probably you should, but you'll need to use them with care. Triple check facts!

(If you're not exactly sure what you want, but are looking for information in a subject area, try the hubs/gateways/portals further on, which are more likely to lead to selected quality resources. But if you've just been given a few words and have only the vaguest idea of what they're about, then Google could set you on the road).

Try starting with one of these search engines, which are clear and uncluttered:

· Google ² rules. Fast, big, and clever at prioritising, especially organisations. Brilliant, but it won't accept wildcards, and naturally finds far too many sites. It very kindly corrects obvious mistakes for you (though you sometimes wish it wouldn't) and often suggests alternative spellings. Use "inverted commas" round phrases or part of a sentence to reduce hits dramatically. Discover other searching techniques on the advanced search. But triangulate the facts.

For more on Google, scroll down a page or so.

· Openfind ¹ is bigger than Google, but you will get plenty of duplication. On this test version its results are rougher. Altering the setup, eg for languages, makes a huge difference to retrieval. Good features include the date of the pages traced, and the ability to order by date, although there are many disappointing dead links.

· Vivisimo ¹ - its clusters might save hours.

· Ixquick ¹ rarely fails, and just offers you a modest number of sites.

· The BBC search ¹ is excellent - hardly surprising, as it's pretty much Google with a UK bias.

Next best:

· Fast, or Alltheweb ¹¹, is big and fast, and now has some good advanced features ¹⁰, with various filters and date restriction options.

· Alta Vista ¹ Its relevancy seems to have improved.

· Overture¹⁰ is a "pay-for-performance" search engine.

· Among other search engines improving in the race to catch Google is Teoma¹.

· There are some good advice pages around to help make the most of engines like these. Look, for instance, at the sites listed under "Study Skills ". Greg Notess has very thorough analysis on Search Engine Showdown¹⁰. The University of Berkeley has this page of advice ¹⁰ leading to interesting pages discussing metasearch engines etc. Sheila Webber's thorough survey ¹⁰ of such sites from December 1999 has been taken down - the link is to the Wayback archive, and the links it provides are therefore even older. Lots more below .

· Something different from Kartoo¹⁰, a multisearch engine that displays its results in diagrammatic form. Here's advice on using it¹⁰. Takes some getting used to, and its sudden popularity may mean you have problems using it.

· Fancy, and possible very useful, stuff from Google. Webquotes ¹² adds comments from up to 3 other websites to each of 10 results of your search. A brilliant use of web as a citation tool, this may give you better site selection advice than the usual Google fragments, but only if it can trace links. You might decide that the citing page looks more useful than the result of your search. Because it gives so few results, Webquotes depends on your search strategy accuracy.

· And Google Viewer ¹² scrolls each result past you one by one, with a split screen showing you part of each web page in turn, which can be a help in spotting the page you're after. The default time for each result is 5 seconds but you can make it faster or slower. Takes some getting used to. If you start panicking, there's a Google home link at bottom right.

· IT Assist¹¹, a great Australian site of IT tips, gives more advanced advice for searching Google¹¹. Google's own advanced search operators page¹.

· Netcraft ¹ will search for letters and words in the addresses of 27.5 million sites.

· Site disappeared? Dead link? Try the Internet Archive's Wayback machine ¹. It's brilliant - just remember that there are usually valid reasons that the page has been taken down - like it's out of date!

· More on How to Search here .

To avoid any American sites, try these:

British search engines and directories

· Abacho uk ¹⁰, Lycos ¹⁰, or Mirago ¹⁰ are recommended; other possibilities are Uk index ¹⁰, Ukplus ² or UK Directory¹⁰. BBC search¹⁰ offers a UK only button - but as far as I can see this is based on "uk" appearing in the address - and there are plenty of excellent .com British sites.

· You could use Altavista ¹ or Google and enter “domain:uk” as well as your search, but this technique will weed out anything without "uk" in the address - see above. If you want to try it, though, this list of country domain names ¹² will enable you to specify sites anywhere.

· There’s a discussion of UK search engines here ¹⁰ by Phil Bradley but he doesn’t consider Mirago and it's getting rather dated (October 2000).

For Europe try Big search Europe ¹⁰. With Abacho¹⁰, you choose from 8 specific countries; with Euroseek¹⁰, there are many more. Ixquick¹⁰ offers versions in 10 other european languages and Turkish. But since the demise of Euroferret, none seem to allow a search for all Europe and nothing else.

The 3D model search engine¹² is something quite different, produced at Princeton. It's a shape retrieval search engine and you can draw an outline in two planes for it to search. Intriguing and possibly of great use to designers.

Several sites provide indexes to search engines arranged by continent and country, or by subject. There’s this page ¹¹ of searchenginewatch, Big search engine watch ¹⁰, and Search engine colossus ¹⁰. Searchengineguide ¹⁰ also offers this subject arrangement Search engines worldwide ¹⁰ offers you 167 different countries' search engines. And if search engines of France is what you need, there's a useful Freepint thread, especially Wim Wylin's contribution¹⁰.

To follow Ixquick¹ and Vivisimo¹, here are more metasearch engines:

· Metacrawler ¹⁰ - gets the vote from Searchday, which is high praise.

· Infonetware WebSearch ¹⁰This is very like Vivisimo, with topics down the side. Results are excellent, although oddly the url doesn't appear - a key piece of data in assessing a site. It also seems a little temperamental. If it proves reliable, I'd recommend it.

· Queryserver ¹⁰- another good service that takes care to remove duplicates.

· metaeureka ¹¹scores fairly well all round.

· Dogpile ¹⁰- a long-time favourite. Groups results by search engine, though.

· ProFusion ¹⁰ - a tendency to duplication is the drawback.

· SurfWax ¹² - an increasingly-recommended engine

· 1Banana ¹² - quick, effective, and includes Google. Results by search engine which leads to duplication, although it illuminates each engine's performance.

· There's a (Sept 2002) survey of metasearch engines on SearchDay¹⁰ which makes interesting reading.

· Different engines can give wildly different results from the same search. If you want to find more, there are meta search engines index pages, such as the above-mentioned Searchenginewatch¹⁰ (“metacrawlers”).

· Findspot ¹⁰has some advice about different meta- and search engines. See also:

WEB SEARCHING INSTRUCTION (for internet tips, click here ; advice on using other applications, click here )

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite ² (VTS) is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. Originally aimed at HE, it now has a suite of FE tutorials on the following subjects: hospitality, leisure sport & recreation, art design & media, business studies, construction, engineering, hairdressing & beauty, health & social care, ICT, performing arts, travel and tourism.

If you want to see all the links suggested without working through the tutorial, then click on the Links Basket on the left-hand orange section, and click on the link that will appear offering to show all available links.

The HE tutorials (same link) cover engineering, humanities, social sciences, business, law, science, maths, English.

· This handy table¹⁰ from UNN compares features on 6 leading search engines.

· Debbie Flanagan lists a number of free tutorials ¹⁰ on the internet; and here's her own ¹⁰.

· The BBC has the improving webwise page ¹⁰.

· Tilburg University has this good tutorial¹⁰.

· In-depth & scarcely-visited material on internet use, RBL, research strategy from Queen’s University Ontario ¹⁰. Highly recommended with good tips. It leads straight to

· Sink or Swim¹⁰, a thorough 19-page course on internet search tools & techniques.

· TONIC¹⁰ is a course of instruction on using the Internet from Netskills. It's free, but you register. The idea is that you can then pick up where you left off (it's 2 hours in total).

· (Ann Arbor's training site¹ has excellent manuals, plus some links to more web tutorials - scroll down.) Keeps vanishing - let's hope it'll reappear.

· Superpages Internet Learning Tutor¹ offers real-world tasks to train you in using the web.

· The definitive explanation of boolean searching¹⁰ comes from Albany University Library, as part of their excellent in-depth tutorials on the internet¹⁰. Kudos to Laura Cohen.

· Excellent advice on search techniques is at Search Engine Watch ¹⁰, which also offers thorough mailserve newsletters.

· Berkeley’s Beyond the web ¹⁰ gets you to analyse your strategy in searching the internet; it also has a well-annotated list of important directories etc.

· Windweaver ¹ offers this advice - dated 1^st Jan 2000. It's sound stuff, but there's no mention of Google, which took over the world shortly afterwards.

· More tutorial-type sites for using the internet: Pandia goalgetter ¹⁰; Imaginary Landscape¹; Bare Bones².

· Some glossaries, with advice, of search terms and jargon: Berkeley¹² - thorough, recommended; Cadenza¹²; Search engine watch¹²; Searchengineshowdown¹² (both brief); Search tools¹².

· A special internet edition of the Que book "Using the Internet"¹⁰, dating from 1998, looks at the use of various tools. Not an easy read, and 4 years old. Back then, Alta Vista ruled. But it will be of use for reference purposes.

· Analysis of Search Engines by Greg Notess ¹⁰. The features page ¹⁰ will tell you, for instance, which search engines offer searching by date limits, and which offer field searching, truncation, etc.

· Understanding and comparing web search tools ² - 2 year-old page from Karen Campbell.

· A 1999 discussion of search engines from the NEC Research Institute ¹⁰.

· This LSE guide to Internet Explorer ¹⁰ shows how the browser can be used effectively.

Of course, you should be aware of the issues discussed under Plagiarism and Evaluation .

· Site disappeared? Dead link? Try the Internet Archive's Wayback machine ¹². It's brilliant - just remember that there are usually valid reasons that the page has been taken down - like it's out of date!

· If you are interested in the preservation of digital information and concerned about the transience of, well, all this, try the Digital Preservation Coalition¹. Their handbook¹⁰ is online.

· dspace² is a newly developed digital repository at MIT.

· The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography² provides links to works about efforts to publish electronically. There's a very useful weblog. Open Access is an important theme.

The Deep, or "Invisible" Web.

· For a discussion of this and some ideas for searching it, try this page from Albany¹⁰, or Fagan Finder¹⁰, or Tilburg University¹⁰. Quigo¹⁰ is recommended as a search tool.

· This site¹⁰ accompanies a book by Freepint's Chris Sherman and Gary Price on the Invisible web. Gary's Direct Search ¹⁰ may help uncover material - there's a top 80 "best of the invisible web" version¹¹, or you could try Complete Planet¹⁰.

HUBS, GATEWAYS, PORTALS, VIRTUAL LIBRARIES & DIRECTORIES (not exactly the same thing, but the idea is the same)

(nb - click here for a selection of subject directories suitable for FE )

These provide links to other selected sites – or to other links directories. Most search & multi-search engines also have comprehensive directories. The usual way to search them is by using structured menus, but remember that similar subjects can turn up along very different branches. Better ones allow you to choose different arrangements or maps, or to search the whole thing, and will also be thoroughly cross-referenced.

I've put many gateway sites under specific subject areas as well.

· RDN ¹² (Resource Discovery Network). The portals for some subject areas still remain to be launched.

· Routes² (Resources for Open University TEachers and Students)

· Pinakes ¹⁰Heriot-Watt’s gateway to gateways is a key page. The places it leads to are fairly high-powered. Tip - don't use the subject drop-down list except to check what headings are available - it's much quicker to scroll down.

· Bubl ² - a reliable and comprehensive facility aimed at HE, and well-organised - you can access the links in a variety of ways, including Dewey. Unusually and very helpfully, it features a "last checked" date. Bubl contains about 11,000 resources.

· Niss ¹⁰a comprehensive subject directory arranged by UDC or alphabetically. Its index page gives you the main gateway links. It's slow and looks old-fashioned, but it is good.

· Several of the main hubs listed under Pinakes (BIOME ¹⁰, EEVL ²,HUMBUL ¹⁰, PSIGate¹⁰, SOSIG¹⁰) cooperate with the Resource Discovery Network to give this resource finder database ¹⁰(either use the directory or the search box - "inverted commas" help). (The RDN's Subject Portal Project ¹ aims to change these hubs into portals.)

· RDN's "Behind the Headlines"² offers ready-made searches for newsworthy topics, such as (in Feb 2003) Child labour, Peanut allergy, Alzheimers, Racism, housing. Slightly older topics like Child social care, nanotechnology, refugee detention, voting age, BNP have been archived (link top right).

· Among links pages to hubs, London Guildhall's deliberations ¹⁰ looks useful.

· The Open Directory Project ² (also known as ODP and dmoz). A superb attempt to rationalise the internet, it bears a strong resemblance to the directories for Google and Yahoo. The number of links approaches the 4 million mark.

· Yahoo ¹⁰.

· California's Infomine¹ has 40,000 resources, with good annotations.

· Internet public library ² American site, useful.

· Then there is the (also US-oriented) Librarians' Index to the Internet ¹; the "New this week" may be worth a browse.

· Suite101's Best of the web ¹ is another impressive directory, with a Dewey arrangement.

· Genius find ¹⁰ is useful and seems up-to-date.

· Academic Info ⁸is another thorough directory site, rather anxiously seeking donations.

· You could also try Worldjump ¹⁰.

· Most university libraries have thorough subject guides to the internet. Among the best: UWE¹⁰; Napier¹⁰ or this subject directory¹⁰(use the internet launchpad in the subject guide); Sheffield Hallam ¹. I'm analysing these at the moment to try and pinpoint the most useful.

· All those involved in teaching HE might find The Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) ¹⁰worth checking for their subject area. There are now 24 subject centres including Art, design & communication; Built Environment; Business; Economics; Education; Engineering; English; Health Sciences & practice; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism; Information and Computer Sciences; Languages; Law; Performing Arts; Psychology; Sociology; Social Policy.

· There is also an LTSN generic centre ⁷which covers aspects of learning and teaching that cross subject boundaries and has a good educational glossary. It includes a report on the role of ICT in widening participation ¹¹, a series of starter guides¹¹ addressing issues for new lecturers and learning technologists on how to use existing tools within their roles, and many other reports (check under "e-Learning resources"). Imminent are "Guides for Learning Technologists" and 14 case studies looking at learning environments and pedagogy (LEAP).

· Continuing the HE theme, the Centre for the Development of Learning and Teaching (CDLT) at St. Martin's College has an impressive clutch of external links.¹¹ Several are recommended on this page, and I have started checking out the others.

· University of Plymouth has launched the Gateway to Study for Foundation Degree students.² It includes sections on work placement and a limited range of subject resources. There are 10 study skills leaflets ².

· Renardus⁷is an interesting new gateway to selected European internet resources. It offers a 2D navigation overview of subjects (an eye appears when you reach a certain stage of the menu). In the form of a fan, this allows you to see at a glance which subject areas have links (look for the blue text). Fairly abstruse stuff when you reach it.

· AECPortico⁹ claims a place among leading hubs - it offers architecture, construction, engineering, environment, planning.

· The Scout Report ¹ (from University of Wisconsin) had, sadly, to narrow its range in May 2001, but is still strong on sciences and engineering. Here's the archive index ¹. And here's a link ¹ if you're curious about the business and economics, and humanities & social science areas that are still archived from before May 2001.

Many universities have at least one smart person who has compiled a prodigious links page.

· At The Univ California at Santa Barbara it's Alan Liu who has created Voice of the Shuttle ², an extraordinary links site specialising in the humanities.

· Jim Martindale's Reference Desk⁸is at University of California Irvine. Vast, and a little perplexing at first. A strong scientific bias, but still wide-ranging.

· Other good "individual" links sites: Rafael Granados has a single page links site ⁷; Andrew Moore⁷(best known for his English pages); Piero Scaruffi ¹ (rather a lot of his personal ratings)

· Wolverhampton Web Library ⁸ is variable and has Midland tendencies, but it is arranged by Dewey and neatly indented– just ignore the commercial sites & the inevitable dead links.

· British Library Specialist information services ¹⁰provide free online information about recent publications in 9 subject areas.

· About.com ¹ is one of the best gateways around - you're almost certain to find something new.

· Others worth trying are 1Do3 ¹⁰, and the US-oriented Look Smart ¹. ISEDB has a list of 32 general directories².

· WWW Virtual Library¹ Its academic content is patchy – but you’ll probably find something interesting.

· Easysearcher ¹acts as a subject directory giving you drop-down lists of selected sites - ignore its misleading claim to be a compilation of search engines.

· Intindex ¹ Styled as a reference shelf, it's a fairly limited selection, neatly presented.

· Digital Libraries¹ - a useful Freepint guide by Anjlee Bhatt.

· OAIster ¹¹, from the Open Archives Initiative, is a remarkable newly-launched (July 2002) database of over 500,000 digital resources from 89 collections. Search results tend to be mostly American, but the project includes collections from the UK, Europe and Asia.

· The Scholarly Societies Project ¹ provides links to over 2500; here's the subject index.¹

· The Super Searchers Web Page⁷is "a growing collection of links to subject-specific Web resources recommended by the world’s leading online searchers". Super Searchers Go to the Source⁷, for instance, is Risa Sacks list of top resources, including nearly 150 web sites, for primary researchers. Some are familiar, many are very American, some won't be free, but it's still an interesting list. Alas, it's not annotated, so you just have to dip in.

· The US Bureau of National Affairs has a webwatch¹² area that acts as a directory concentrating on these areas: safety and terrorism, environmental subjects, sciences and technology, IT.

WEB SUBJECT GUIDES SUITABLE FOR FE

· Our Devon College Libraries Quilt site ¹ has subject pages indexed here.

· The Ferl Web Site ¹, offering reviews, case studies, lesson plans and other assistance on ILT for the post-compulsory sector. It has this good subject directory of learning and teaching resources ¹.

· The JISC RSC has just put an excellent set of subject guides ²online. As these links can be a bit temperamental, here another JISC's region's set of links to the same guides¹⁰.

· Two colleges with excellent weblink subject directories: Ealing, Hammersmith & W London ² and Sheffield ¹².

· The BBC Colleges site ¹ and Learning for Adults¹ are worth checking.

· The RDN¹² is worth another reminder here.

· The Guardian's excellent weekly "on the web "² feature selects a few key internet resources for secondary education on a wide range of subjects. They're neatly indexed here as part of learn.co.uk. But why aren't they dated? A topic shown as "new" in July 2002 appeared in the paper in October 2001.

· Spartacus¹¹, though mainly concerned with history, offers a well-organised and thoroughly-annotated web directory ¹¹ centering on secondary education.

· Standards for education's Linkbank ²is a leader in the field of educational link sites.

· Cambridge Regional College uses its Heritage system as the basis for many of these learning centres¹⁰, with subject-arranged links.

· At level 2, Schoolzone¹ may have suitable resources. Here's the search page for the 40,000 sites¹ they have indexed, and you can search for Post-16. Alas, I hit plenty of dead links.

· The Teacher Resource Exchange¹⁰ is "a database of resources and activities designed to help teachers develop and share ideas for good practice". You can select by age group: so far, 106 resources are indexed under "post-16". But you'll need to unzip the downloads.

· LSDA's National Resource Databank ¹⁰ (part of the Vocational Learning Support Programme) contains teaching and learning, and staff development materials "meeting the agency benchmark criteria". The T&L materials are arranged by programme area, subdivided by level. The SD materials include a number of ppt presentations.

· World Lecture Hall ¹⁰ “contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials” – almost all American, but worth checking your own area.

· Dushkin Online¹⁰ is a site for American college students; there are some clever features. You can match a course against the news database, for instance, and bring up topical articles - except they are US papers. Worth exploring, though.

· The Digital Equity Portal¹² is also American, and is aimed at school and college level, and both students and teachers. Perhaps comparable to FERL, it has reports, resources and advice as well as more conventional subject site links.

· Here I will put other links sites that looked good as I was passing, even if they don't sound it!: Thinkquest²; Education Index¹² (very upbeat US directory) Heathridge Primary School, Australia¹⁰

REVISION SITES (SEE ALSO SPECIFIC SUBJECTS)

^·S-Cool!¹⁰

· Revise.it¹⁰

· Bitesize¹¹

· learn.co.uk ¹

“RECOMMENDED SITES”

Most search engines etc have lists of top sites; here is an especially interesting such list, although the contents tend to be random:

· Exploratorium ¹⁰ It classifies its past tips by subject so forming a useful directory, although some older links don't go anywhere much.

IMAGES AND PICTURES - finding and using (for analysis, scroll down)

There are now plenty of good quality images free on the net - see some of the sites listed under Art and similar headings, for instance - particularly the Visual Arts Data Service¹⁰. Some other specific subject areas are covered below. But first, general issues.

· Excellent advice on searching for images on the internet ² comes from the London Institute, together with a list of links to free sources ².

· Good transatlantic advice on finding and using images from Boston University ¹⁰, including advice on html tags for inserting images.

· Another advice page is at University of Salford ¹⁰.

· The Visual Arts Data Service is responsible for putting " Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice"¹⁰ by Catherine Grout, Phill Purdy, and Janine Rymer on the internet. This covers copyright as well as technical issues and standards.

· Copyright is also covered by DACS ¹⁰.

· Tasi, The Technical Advisory Service for Images¹⁰ "has been set up to provide advice and guidance to the Further and Higher Education community on the issues of creating, delivering and using digital images together with managing digitisation projects". In February 2003, it published a Review of image search engines².

Searching for individual images

· Google's image tab¹ is probably going to give you most results. I'd recommend Altavista ² as well (you should get fewer banners & useless adjuncts), but remember you need + to force an AND search - and you can use the wildcard to expand results. Either way, prepare for fairly impressive results. Some links lead you astray, however, and there will be duplication. Bear in mind that these search engines detect relevant pictures through captions and surrounding text, etc - you'll probably find other images through a normal web search if you persevere.

· Search 22² searches 22 image search engines - but you choose which one. It's an interesting and fast way of comparing them. It includes the above two and:

· Picsearch² is recommended by the TASI review. It's very fast. I found it tricky to pinpoint obscure subjects, but it's good for specific terms.

Some Image Libraries

· STOCK.XCHNG² - free high quality stock photography aimed at graphic designers. Either scroll down under menu + image categories (I love the pavements!) or use search. If you find images you like, you can search for others by their uploader². The home page has links to other sites.

· Corbis ² is a commercial site. Good quality, but largest resolution images are heavily watermarked.

· Webshots ² - huge database of poster type images - this is the search screen.

· Freefoto² - straightforward and easy to use. Good for transport.

· Imageafter² - small and classy, for art use. Uses specific categories.

· Eyewire ², which includes moving pix, and Ditto.com ² are also worth trying.

· Freeimages² - modest in size, but easily searchable.

· Time Life Photo Sight ². Fast site. Some classic pictures, and photo essays (eg My Lai, Hiroshima) are the highlights.

Some image links sites

· This image archive ² from South Bank University has many tempting links.

· BJP has an impressive list of stock library links²though you must click each link to see the annotation.

· TASI has a searchable collection of Image Sites ². Well worth a try, but somewhat idiosyncratic search results, and not all indexed sites actually contain images. It could do with a complete listing. Their Feb 2003 review² lists many of the principal sites.

· Photographiclibraries.com ² has comprehensive links on all aspects of photographic images. Try the stock libraries link, which leads to over 60 links.

· This Omniseek page ¹⁰ gives links to lots of stock photographers.

· Try Voice of the Shuttle ² too.

· UC Berkeley's Image finder ² offers several search engines to various US collections.

Some more subject-specific image sites:

· Heritage Image Partnership² - a sizeable database of images of UK historical interest, "distilled from the vast collections of our partners such as the British Library, Guildhall and the Science Museum" - also the PRO.

· The Nature Picture Library ² has thousands of good quality images - albeit with watermarks and names across. Good for wildlife and landscapes.

· The HELIX collection at DMU ¹⁰ (mentioned by the LI) contains collections of social history photos and Professor Hoskins' collection of slides (mostly of Dartmoor and Leicestershire). You need to be at an academic uk site. If you are asked for a password, contact me on x6369 or in the HE area or by email dharper. Please note that these images are NOT to be stored on a server - disk or print-out is fine.

· Here is a links page to copyright-free images of various sorts: Essex County, California ¹⁰.

· A modest collection of copyright-free images ² is on the FERL site - the best feature is a wide range of health and safety signs.

· The Amazing Picture Machine ¹⁰ and Pics4Learning¹⁰ are educational sources.

· Good set of agriculture and food-oriented images at USDA¹⁰.

· This article reviews, with links, many good science image sites ¹⁰ - including agriculture, geology, health & medicine.

· Graphics.com has this gallery of examples of Photoshop images¹⁰.

· iF - International Forum Design - has a picture library¹ covering a range of categories of products.

Graphics, Typography & Clip art

· Graphics ring ¹⁰.

· ABC Typography ² may not be written in perfect English but is a good virtual museum of typefaces.

· Fonts available from Microsoft¹⁰.

· Cheryl’s Image gallery ¹⁰.

· Here is a site for clipart, graphics and animation links¹⁰.

· The Iconoweb¹¹ has a large icon library.

· Webcam directories include: EarthCam ²; Leonard's Camworld ²; but Google's¹ is probably the tops.

Analysing images

See also ART and its associated sections, especially PHOTOGRAPHY ; also CULTURE.

· Voice of the Shuttle offers these links on the analysis of the visual image¹⁰.

· Australian art academic Ross Woodrow has " Analysis of Visual Images¹⁰" with sections on ideology, photography and semiotics. However, the site has many references to books to which you may not have access.

EVALUATION (see also WEB ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY , FINALLY)

How good are websites, once you've found them? Obviously the ones that answer your need are the best, but how reliable are they? After all, am I qualified to write this? Anybody can put information on a Homestead site. Here's "Journalistic Mistakes Made, Internet Not to Blame"¹⁰.

Recency - the better sites often tell you when a page was last updated. If not, try entering javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the address box and pressing return. Trouble is, this often tells you what the time is now, so it's not entirely reliable.

Here's a list of sites about evaluating websites from the National Association for Managers of Student Services in colleges ¹⁰which I copied in full before NAMMS shifted its focus away from resources for students. (Support4learning has this page¹⁰, which should be more up-to-date - I've not yet compared the two):

I'm putting stars by the ones that look best.

General evaluation sites (see also WEB ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY)

· Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources¹⁰ - from VT university libraries, includes internet & print resources & useful listservs (June 1999)

· Bruce Leland's Web¹⁰ - includes sections on evaluating web sources, evaluation guide, plagiarism & the web (adapted for the 1998 Computers & Writing Conference)

· Conferencing on the web¹⁰ - choosing & evaluating conferencing software, reviews & articles, including links to educational conferencing & moderating online discussions

· Discovery School - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators¹ - guides for teachers in schools (elementary, middle, secondary levels (US), including surveys, articles, links to other sites

· *Evaluating Information Found on the Internet ¹- (part of Use it from Sheridan libraries at JHU - credit Elizabeth E Kirk) basic criteria for evaluating all forms of information & how they apply to the Internet, including authorship, publishing body, point of view or bias, referral to other sources, verifiability, currency & documenting electronic sources

· Evaluating Internet Research Resources ¹⁰ - comprehensive advice on information evaluation, including the CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support). Although dated 1997, still perfectly valid.

· Evaluation of information sources ² - large list of internet links to sources , at all levels, including evaluating for study and research, evaluating for specific sectors. It's part of the WWW Virtual Library, updated regularly and a key resource.

· Evaluation of online resources ¹ - basic guidelines, includes more links to evaluation sites, from University of Wisconsin (US site)

· How to Critically Analyse Information Sources ¹⁰ - initial appraisal & content analysis

· Information Quality WWW Virtual Library ¹⁰ - key site for links to quality, evaluation & maintenance of "factual/scholarly" networked information systems, including e-publishing, guidelines & standards, ethics & netiquette and more

· E-Publishing & Information Quality ¹⁰ - links to academic articles on electronic publishing & information, from the World Wide Web Virtual Library

· Information Quality & Standards Truisms - detailed suggestions for designing & maintaining Intranet as well as Internet sites (another section of the WWW Virtual Library)

· Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) - The Internet Content Rating Association is an international, independent organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open & objective labelling of content. The Internet Content Rating Association does not rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA system. ICRA makes no value judgement about sites.

· *Internet Detective⁹ from SOSIG - excellent interactive tutorial on evaluating information for individuals & organisations, uses cookies & includes refresher quizzes & a bibliography, from Netskills

· Quality Information Checklist - UK guide to checking information quality for young people plus teacher's guide

· Resource Selection and Information Evaluation - checking availability, location, accuracy & reliability (1997)

· Ten Cs for Evaluating Internet Resources¹ - content, credibility, critical thinking, copyright, citation, continuity, censorship, connectivity, comparability, context - also from Univ Wisconsin.

· Thinking Critically about WWW resources - key site with clear bullet points on range of site criteria including equal opportunities issues

· Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources¹⁰ - similar advice related to research based resources

· Web Accessibility Initiative - international guidelines, news, resources

· Web Page Evaluation Criteria - scoring system for ranking web sites with detailed checklists

· Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet - basic principles & links to further advice & theories

Other recommended pages:

· from Oakton Community College. Climb the page for its own checklist.

· from Virginia Tech .

· Checklist from Virtual Chase¹.

· Powerpoint presentation from Texas College of Education.

· A much simpler site is Quick: clearly-explained, it asks you 8 simple questions to evaluate the quality of information found on internet sites - although it sometimes seems to be confused between "sites" and "pages", and doesn't cover design issues at all.

· This site at New Mexico State University suggest evaluation criteria for websites ¹⁰, and will sharpen up the way you look at the internet. Some links are thought-provoking; some plain odd. You need your wits about you - but then you do anyway when searching the internet.

· You'll find this spoof article ¹⁰ on AIDS comes up quite often.

· The Virtual Training Suite's tutorials¹⁰ consider these issues thoroughly.

· Follow this link to sites that consider the importance of web design for disability .

· I've jotted some personal considerations about the design of websites I admire here .

· A plug for Ariadne, an electronic journal that keeps abreast of developments in digital information. It's aimed at information professionals.

USING THE INTERNET AND ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS / TUTORIALS

By which I mean keeping track of sites, tips on looking at pages, etc. For info on search techniques, go here . For other applications advice like Word, go here - but some of this section applies to Word too!

Text too small? Click on View at the top of the screen, textsize, and select larger or largest.

Keeping track of sites - some of these are limited by the nature of the student login:

History. Click on the history browser button for access to the pages you've looked at. This won't help on student logins unless it's a site you've already used in the same session.

Links. Keep a document like this on Word. To make a hyperlink to an internet page you have open, highlight on your Word document the title of the page you want to link to, or the words that describe it, and click on the insert / edit hyperlink button - or use Ctrl-K.

Toggle back (either Alt-Tab, a brilliantly useful technique for switching applications, or click on the application bar) to the internet page, and highlight the address at the top. Save this by either clicking edit - copy, or use Ctrl-C. When you revert to the Word document, the link may already be there - if not, click either edit - paste, or the paste button, or use Ctrl-V. Ok this, and your highlighted text should turn into a hyperlink. Test it (you will probably need to save the document first). You can then call up your saved document next time you log in. The task of keeping your links up-to-date is made easier by the availability of free link checkers like the wonderful Xenu¹⁰, which has just told me (21^st October) that I've got 2513 links on this page, 92% of them working - and told me which aren't.

Icons.

To give yourself quick access to a valued web page, right-click on an area of emptyish screen so that you get a drop-down list in which the words "Create shortcut" are in black. Left-click "Create shortcut" and acknowledge the message. There will be an icon on your desktop.

You now have three slight problems.

1. The name of the icon is probably meaningless;

2. You will soon have hundreds of icons all over your desktop and spilling off the screen;

3. It's quite possible that the icon links to a part of the screen rather than the whole page.

Solve all these by keeping instant access to your desktop available. If you tend to have numerous applications on the go simultaneously this can be difficult. So, create a button in your shortcut toolbar - right click in it, choose customize, choose the buttons tab, select Add Folder, and the Desktop could well be the first choice - just click to add. Now when you create a shortcut, click your desktop button, locate the new icon, and deal with the three issues above as follows:

1. Change the wording under the icon to something that tells you where it leads (click and F2, or double-click and rename)

2. Check the pathway it contains matches the URL on the page it came from. You can copy the address box and replace the URL (Right-click the icon, Properties, Web Document tab). But BEWARE - if you're deep-linking, or have migrated from another site, the address box may show a quite different address. If in doubt, check the property of the page you're linking to, or go back from it and copy the shortcut. It's also a good idea to check the icon by trying it out.

3. Store it somewhere useful. . You may already have a folder you can put the icon in. If not, create a new folder (Right-click on the empty desktop, choose, new, folder, and give it a name). Drag the icon into it. Now open your bit of the F drive, or your floppy, and drag the folder into that.

When you click on an icon, the application will over-ride a web application already open. To select which one you want to over-ride, drag the icon over the application bar in question, hold it there and then, when it opens, drag it up to the address box (don't let go till then!). Or use Ctrl-N to open a new window to over-ride.

Favourites. When in an internet page, click on the favourites button on the browser bar, then click ADD and give it a suitable name if necessary. Backflip ¹ is a site that will organise your favourites and make them available to others on the internet. It's free to register, but has been getting bad reports lately.

Dead links and no forwarding address. If Google can't help, try the Internet Archive's Wayback machine ⁸

Random internet keyboard tips: On the internet, how about Alt-D or F6 (cursor jumps to address line) or Backspace (= Alt-back cursor) for the previous page. More here ⁹. But it doesn't have * {insert text} {RETURN} which is how you start a list of bullet points without handling the mouse.

Deep linking. If you're Danish, what you're reading is illegal. Here's why ⁷. Paul Pedley's Jan 2003 Freepint article¹is sober stuff. Here's a very positive attitude: "deep linking is good linking"⁷, from Jakob Nielsen, and this Freepint posting². As Chris Sherman says⁷, "If you don't want your content linked, why did you put it online in the first place?" Banning deep linking also mean that the deep web is going to remain largely untouched by most users. And deep linking is critical to the thinking of the important JISC/RDN Subject Portal Project, as this article⁸explains.

Searching within a site.

The search facility on large sites is often needed to try and find useful pages, but some are almost useless. Often, Google can be used more effectively. Enter in Google's search box site:homepageURL together with a search term or two.

· An excellent site for rather more technical advice on using the internet is Stuart Cliffe's 365-alive¹, which includes First Aid, Survival and anti-spamming.

USING APPLICATIONS - TUTORIALS, GUIDANCE (Some also under COMPUTERS ) - including some Word tips. (click here for Internet tips; and here for Internet searching advice)

A selection of sites that I've found useful or been impressed by. They offer

Tips, advice, guidance often on a wide range of applications that may include MS Office, adobe, front page, dreamweaver, etc:

· Catalyst

· CERN ² (which has some NICE powerpoint presentations),

· Texas College of Education (for web pages and powerpoint)

· Drew University⁷(excellent suite covering Windows, XPOffice, Corel Suite, Web & Graphics)

· Ann Arbor's training handouts¹ eg Advanced Word pt 1¹⁰; part 2¹⁰ look helpful.

· Microsoft itself⁷- its tips and support pages often appear in searches, so why not search the whole site? Or try the search box on this MS Office home page⁷. What's frustrating is that MS is obviously going to show you lots of features that appear on recent versions of their applications, and the explanations often require you to have a thorough understanding of features.

Sonia Coleman has gathered PowerPoint tips here⁷.

Office tips from RD Net⁹.

Some nice Word tips (some of which I've not tried, others I've added to) collected by Tony Kerr in the Magpie section of See-Saw #3⁷:

· SHIFT+F5 jumps to the last three places in the document where you made edits.

· SHIFT+F3 changes highlighted text to capitals > lower case > title case then back again.

· To change text size quickly - select the text , then CTRL ] will make it grow one point at a time, and CTRL [ will shrink it.

· Fit those two or three extra lines on your page - use the Shrink to Fit icon in Print Preview.

· ALT+Tab will cycle quickly between all the open windows. (And ALT+F6 will toggle between the various screens in that particular application - very useful in Word.)

· To select a sentence, CTRL+click anywhere in it.

· Turn on Show Paragraph Marks with Tools > Options > View. Then you can see what's going on in your document. (Better still, use the Paragraph Mark on the Standard toolbar.)

· Now you can see what's going on (see previous tip) you can copy all the formatting of a paragraph by just copying its Paragraph Mark (highlight it > CTRL+C > go where you want > CTRL+V

· undo, undo, redo, redo - use the drop-down boxes beside Word's Undo and Redo buttons to see a whole list of changes you've made - and can undo en masse if you drag across the list and highlight all the changes you want to make (or un-make, if you follow me). (He could also have mentioned Ctrl-Z for Undo).

More functions:

· Ctrl+S is well known for saving; but maybe F12 for "save as" is not so familiar.

· F11 picks out your hypertext, link by link. More keyboard shortcuts here ⁹. And I'm putting a longer sheet together - ask me if you want a copy.

· File management, backups, and how to avoid disaster. Some very sensible advice on IT Assist¹¹.

· If you're always spelling a particular word wrong, try using the Autocorrect on Word (Tools > Autocorrect).

· Keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator¹.

· If you have very long urls you want to shorten (making them suitable for the body of emails, for instance), try one of the services on notlong ², such as Snurl² (though I have had aberrations with this). The obvious drawback is that you lose the clues contained within urls as to their destination.

REFERENCE (for specific Countries other than UK, try PLACES )

· Bartleby ¹ offers versions of several basic reference books online, such as the Columbia encyclopedia, thesauri, quotations, guides to English usage, gazetteers and dictionaries, but many are older editions with electronic features.

· Refdesk ¹ has a big library of reference links.

· So does the rather neater Xrefer¹, offering free access to 40 titles.

· Knowplay ¹ - instant lookups, like a minimalist AskJeeves version of Refdesk.

· Encyclopedia Britannica ¹- brief introductory sections only these days - not really worth bothering about. Use the Columbia on Bartleby.

· Or try Wikipedia ² - an open content encyclopedia.

· The US Information Please ¹ almanac.

· Biographical Dictionary ¹⁰ – briefest of notes on 28,000 people.

· More biography links at Aslib's Freebizinfo¹⁰.

Dictionaries (see also LANGUAGE )

· The following sites may be rendered obsolete by Google's Glossary¹², which seems simple and superb - but will only recognise letters, not numbers.

· Onelook ² has 731 dictionaries, and will search them all at once. When you have the results of your search, just click on the word you've searched for to be linked to the definition on that particular website.

· Xrefer ¹ provides a depth index to 50 subject dictionaries ¹, covering all major subject areas, and unlike Onelook it will show you the context after your initial search.

· Yourdictionary ¹⁰ can't search all its 1800 dictionaries for you - you have to choose them one by one. But the site is still worth bookmarking. It has a long list of "Specialty" Dictionaries and glossaries ¹ - well over 200 links on all subjects (note - some of the links don't work well, so you either have to click twice on the contents list, or scroll down to find the heading). Your dictionary also has a full range of links to language-oriented dictionaries, including acronyms, synonyms etc, and all languages. There are about 10 translation services¹², and 3 language identifiers ¹.. Other items include language puzzles and crosswords, and the most worthy feature is the Endangered Language Repository ¹: Just for good measure there is also a list of 19 other sites which are similar ¹ to yourdictionary:

· Frank Dietz has links to over 2200 glossaries¹². He begins with a subject arrangement of monolingual English glossaries.

· Webref¹ specialises in the sciences but has some social science and art glossaries.

· The Calculators On-Line Center⁸has links to nearly 16,000 online calculators for science, maths, and engineering.

· iTools⁸ has selected various language & other reference tools.

· Look up the meaning of English (or American, rather) words at http://www.dict.org/¹.

· For a calendar for any year, use Whitaker's Almanack (on the shelves at 052) or type "perpetual calendar" into Google - there are loads.

REFERENCE: DIRECTORIES (see TRANSPORT for travel timetables)

· Tagish has a thorough Directory of Information Sources in the UK ¹⁰ (& beyond) including local & central government authorities, healthcare, universities.

· Not yet as thorough is Uni-net's “Public services”¹⁰; it aims “to list any services that may be of assistance to anyone in the community “, and that includes embassies, legal, health, education.

· Bubl has an even-wider directory of UK organisations and institutions.¹⁰

· You must now register to use the Royal Mail site ² to find postcodes (use the tab) f or a n y address in the UK (oddity – if you enter a road name and town, the order of presentation is eg “3a”; “The Hall”; “3”; “4” – rather than all numbers together). It will give the address if you enter the postcode.

· Once you’ve got a postcode, Maporama ⁹, Multimap ¹²or Streetmap ⁸will give you a street map showing its location. If you want a website rather than a map, try putting the postcode into Google; it often works for organisations and companies.

· Postcode map ¹⁰ of country (UK).

· Search BT phone books ⁹ or British yellow pages ¹⁰. Or try UkPhoneBook⁷, which includes postcode and has fields for websites, emails and mobiles - though I've yet to find any.

· Telephone directories around the world on Infobel ¹, a sometimes reluctant site.

· Here ¹⁰ is a list of postal reference sources worldwide.

· Upmystreet ¹⁰ will produce a directory of information based on your postcode.

REFERENCE: STATISTICS

Most sites are under the relevant subject areas below. But here are one or two crucial sources:

· The site map page ² of the National Statistics site², and the "compendia and reference" section of its online products page ¹⁰; both give direct links to many free sources.

This page provides web versions of datasets from selected publications ¹, such as the Annual Abstract of Statistics and many health and population statistics.

· Census Information Gateway ¹, including this links page¹.

Among other items you can get from the NS site:

· Social Trends ¹, referred to frequently below. From this page you can access the last 3 editions. You can download sets of data into Excel - look for the icons beside the tables and graphs.

· Regional Trends¹ This includes basic data for European regions. Again, the last 3 years' editions are available.

^·UK2003: the official yearbook ¹- and the previous three years.

· SLIM has a neat set of key links¹⁰ to sites with statistics on education, employment, skills, and labour market research.

· The Economic and Social Data Service² (ESDS) is a new (Jan 2003) national data archiving and dissemination service. As one of its collaborators, the UK Data Archive¹¹ promotes the distribution of digital data on the humanities and social sciences.

· OffStats¹, at the University of Auckland, gives access to Official Statistics by country, region or topic.

· The University of Michigan's statistical resources on the web¹ are accessible through 24 broad headings or a side panel of over 250 more detailed topics. Even though it is inevitably dominated by US statistics, this is still a remarkable library.

· Statistics.com¹ is a useful site, again mainly devoted to USA statistics.

· Robert Niles page on finding stats ¹ on the net is a lot more concise - again, it's US-oriented.

· Basic world statistics - try Geohive ⁸ or Stefan Helder's World Gazetteer⁸. (More gazetteers under PLACES ).

· National statistics sites or official figures in English for the following countries:

· Germany ¹.

· Spain⁹.

· For an archive of older UK statistics, there is the UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)⁹.

"How things work" and advice sites

· How Stuff works ¹ explains technology & science and answers questions; plenty of graphics.

· How things work ¹ does the same – but it’s all text.

· eHow ⁹ seems quite good too – we found roasting peppers but not driving space shuttles.

Referencing

A search on Google for harvard referencing ac.uk should find plenty of guidance. If you're on an HE programme at SDC you should check what the University of Plymouth guidelines are for your area.

The key thing is, use the same system consistently throughout each separate assignment.

· This University of Plymouth page² gives key links to their own standards for Harvard referencing, for Human Sciences, Humanities, and Arts & Education. Different departments use different standards!

To find the title of internet pages - right-click on an empty part of the page in question, and left-click properties - the given title is at the top. If you used a search engine like Google, that will give the same title.

Specific subject areas

Most of the sites I’m adding to this list are themselves links and gateways to yet further sites.

· For fuller, more structured subject directories try some of the sites above, eg our Devon College Libraries Quilt site¹, one created at Hammersmith College ² – and a good one at Sheffield.²

Or try the academic gateway sites above.

COMPUTERS & IT ( see also ILT; WEB DESIGN) Scroll down for sub-headings: Dictionaries, Tips & tutorials; Computer industry; Law; Internet.

· EEVL hosts the official Computing gateway¹¹. EEVL has recently published a booklet: Internet Resources for Computing¹¹. For probably too much advice on how to search EEVL, there's this article by Roddy MacLeod².

· Another good gateway is the relevant part of EELS ⁹.

· The RDN VTS tutorial on ICT ¹¹ is recommended.

· This Tagish links page is to organisations concerned with the running of the internet - architecture, standards, protocols, Ips, URLs etc.

· Computer Hardware links¹⁰ from Chris Hare.

· Good level 3 resources from Barry Thomas¹⁰. Use the web resources tab - or others if you like.

· About.com ² is helpful.

· ComputerScienceWeb ¹ offers some free full-text journals - although not everything on offer turns out to be accessible.

· More academic material is available from cogprints computer science page ¹.

· Micros & Primary Education ⁷aimed at effective teaching with ICT for primary teachers.

· CFET (Computers for Teachers in FE) - these materials offer advice to teachers on using IT and creating web pages.

· Jagdish Gangolly's accounting course at Albany has useful-looking texts.¹⁰

· Scholarly societies in computing science - try these links.

· Innovations in Teaching And Learning in Information & Computer Sciences⁹ (ITALICS) is a peer-reviewed Web journal from the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences. Just two issues so far on aspects of IT for academics.

· This Russian site⁸ has links to lots of somewhat dated texts - useful for reference.

· Angela Sasse's site¹⁰ has some interesting resources tucked away.

· Hojmark.net¹² provides links to networking sites.

· Nigel Leeming's Software Architecture¹ is online.

Online dictionaries of computer terms

· This A level Revise computing site might be useful. It has a thorough, but somewhat cumbersome, glossary.

· Having trouble? Smart computing might help.

· Don't understand a computer term? Whatis?com ² is an excellent computer glossary with cross-links; try the recently-added words page, including this week's top 20 terms ².

· The Computer Society has this Compilation of Software Engineering Terms.¹⁰

· Streettech ¹⁰ has a good glossary of IT slang and jargon.

· Case Western¹ has a straightforward list of internet terms.

· There are lots more online dictionaries here ⁹ (scroll down or persevere with the index), and Frank Dietz also has an impressive collection of links¹².

Tips and tutorial sites

· Try these tutorials for advice on using MS and other applications

· HTML goodies¹⁰ may provide tutorial support.

· Would you rather use the keyboard than your mouse? Me too. This article lists keyboard shortcuts you can use with Windows ⁸

· and Learn 2 Type might help your keyboarding skills.

· Some good Word tips ² hosted by MSN.

· Advanced Excel advice ¹² from Pearson Software Consulting.

· Problems with opening files? This page ¹² from Stack.com has tips on dealing with different file extensions. If it's not there, it must surely be on this mega list¹² from Filext.

· MVPS² is a collection of advanced advice pages.

· More tutorials and advice suggestions under "Using Applications ".

Computer developments and industry news

· Computer Weekly's CW360¹, Vnunet ² , CNET ², Xenky² and Internet.com ¹(which hosts the excellent Cyberatlas) are websites giving up-to-date information about the industry, or opinions and discussion about the way IT is heading.

· Morgan Stanley's report The Technology Primer⁸ analyses the potential for in the new technology industries, with bullet points and graphics. It's aimed at the investment market, but there are detailed considerations of key aspects of IT.

· Voice of the Shuttle's cyberculture page.

Computer law, security etc

· Computer law - Staffordshire University has a thorough, fairly concise (well, 5 pages) overview of the various acts that affect computer use.

· This long links page from Terry Street on e-law and government, is, at over 18 months old, only here in the hope that it will soon be updated.

· Page of links on Copyright & the internet.

· Virus myths and hoaxes: Vmyths & Hoaxbusters are useful sites.

· Web attack.com advises you about internet security for your site.

About the Net (SEE ALSO eCommerce )

· Sheffield College has this excellent section of links² on accessibility, teaching and learning, retrieval …

· The Internet Guide¹² is a straightforward introduction, with simple explanations.

· News about the internet at Wired¹⁰.

· Stephen Arnold's site AIT¹⁰ is for those seriously interested in the dynamics of internet content.

· The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues by Hal Varian, hasn't been updated for some time, but links may still be valid.

· Likewise, this thorough-looking Internet Studies¹⁰ page was last updated in July 2001.

· NewMediaStudies considers the internet as a phenomenon in itself.

· Campaign for Digital Rights⁷(UK) and Digitalspeech⁷(USA) stand up for freedom of communication in the digital age. Issues to think about.

· High tech humour from Valley of the Geeks¹⁰.

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

· (Systems Analysis websites links page¹⁰.)

· Tim Hutchings¹⁰ at the University of Glamorgan has his (rather old) lecture notes online. Still, they may give useful introductions to Information systems in Business, SSADM ¹⁰ (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology), Systems analysis, etc.

· Good page from Albany's¹⁰ Jagdish S. Gangolly, for an accounting course.

· Tynemouth College has these links¹.

WEB DESIGN (Big overlap with New media , Evaluation , and just about everywhere else)

I've no business recommending technical sites on this, although there are some no-nonsense sites aimed at users, like Use-it. What follows are just a few sites that seem relevant to courses at SDC, particularly those in the education, media production and artistic areas, and including those to do with putting images on the web.

· London Institute webguide² is a good place to start looking for links.

· The Open University's NCT / TQEF Web Resources area ¹ - from a site that seems to practice what it preaches.

· Builder.com has this web design library¹ of resources and short-cuts.

· Web design and HTML links ¹ from the IANR in Nebraska.

· Nicholas Iuppa provides these links to key sites² within the companion website to his book (in stock).

· Dey Alexander's paper "Human factors and usability in web design : An introductory article on human factors in design".¹

· Digital Foundry¹ Thorough advice on different formats - gif, photoshop, paintshop pro, animation.

· Macromedia Dreamweaver - a site that includes downloadable tutorials,

· IBM's web design guidelines⁸ are comprehensive - and in very small text!

· Two, presumably congruent versions, of what the government thinks: Guidelines for UK Government websites: Illustrated handbook for web management teams⁷is probably the more useful, with a fair amount of introductory techincal detail on CSS, XML etc, while Quality Framework for UK Government Website Design ¹¹is aimed at government managers.

· Keith Instone's Usable Web⁸ is a directory on the subject.

· Webmasterworld² has news and discussion for the web professional.

· If you're seriously into the literature of web design guidelines, this paper by French and Belgian writers called "A Framework for Organizing Web Usability Guidelines"⁸ will be valuable.

DIGITAL ART (SEE ALSO IMAGES , Web Design, above, and Art subjects below)

· London Institute webguide to digital art ².

· University of Plymouth has this links page of creative digital arts resources ¹¹, including links to sites for typography, 3D, etc.

· Digital Art Resources for Education (DARE)¹¹ has links to experimental work.

ART (scroll down for further sub-headings, or click here on ART HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE , DESIGN, GRAPHIC DESIGN , CRAFTS , PHOTOGRAPHY , DIGITAL ART)

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Art, Design and Media.¹¹

· Adam ¹⁰ - Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue aimed at HE.

· The London Institute has an impressive range of web guides to most areas of the arts and design; they’re all linked here ². Among the useful specific guides: Public Art², Contemporary Art², Digital Art ²; others are under their respective headings.

· University of Plymouth has this links page of creative digital arts resources ¹¹.

· Plymouth College of Art & Design has put together this page of links¹.

· Among many authoritative pages of web reference site links: Virginia Tech ⁹; California State Polytechnic University ⁹ (Bruce Emerton), Napier¹⁰

· Arts Council site ², including some important downloadable documents here ².

· Some South West Arts sites: South West Arts¹¹; Public Arts South west¹¹; Equata¹¹ (promoting interests of those with disabilities in SW Arts).

· The National Disability Arts Forum’s¹¹ mission is to create equality of opportunity for disabled people in all aspects of the arts. There are free downloads of access symbols, and many interesting features, including Disabled artists and their work.

· ArtSigns² is the online British Sign Language glossary for Art and design, and shows, for any of the 1200 terms defined, a video sequence of the signs.

· Practical advice about the realities of being an artist are on Anweb ¹⁰ - careers information, professional development, business info and contacts.

· University of Plymouth Arts and Education Harvard referencing advice ².

· CULTIVATE¹¹ is a European Cultural Heritage Network - "a single point of information to the European Commission's cultural heritage research activities". It offers CULTIVATE Interactive¹¹, a web magazine devoted to the digital promotion of culture through the internet, software, etc.

· In addition to giving abstracts of recent reports on funding, employment, attendance etc, the Cultural Trends website gives free access to pre-1995 statistical reports - very generous! This page is probably the most useful (though red and white on black is difficult), as it groups documents chronologically by subject area.

· The Institute of Art and Law's site contains information on cultural property and other legal issues such as fraud and theft.

· Latest arts news & links to regional sites from the Regional Arts Boards.

· The Subject Centre for Art, Design & Communication ⁹ (ADC) is part of the Learning & Teaching Support Network (LTSN).

· You'll find links to arts funding sites at British Arts.

· British Arts also has many other useful sections on galleries (actual and virtual), organisations, competitions, artists' sites….

· The government's culture site has this page of suggestions ². I'm not sure about magenta on pink for readability.

· Artlex⁹ is a visual arts dictionary offering definitions for more than 3,200 art terms, providing links to cross-reference, to give more detail, and to lead to actual images on other sites.

· Superb quality distinguishes the images at Carole Gerten's cgfa ¹⁰. That link is to the English mirror; the site's actually Danish¹.

· Artnet ² has at least 3 good features - a large collection of well-illustrated articles and reviews (going back to 1996) that's worth searching, some info from the Grove Dictionary of Art⁹ including a useful index of styles and movements⁹ (alas the full entries require a large subscription) and a full-looking list of artists, with biographies etc.

· The Artcyclopedia ² is an excellent directory to artists and their works on the web.

· Artzine is an e-journal on art and technology, with useful short bullet point items on art movements. Here are details of its 3rd (Spring 2002) issue ⁹ (conceptual art), 2nd (Aut 2001)⁹ (Abstract Expressionism);1st (Spring '01)⁹, (surrealism). There's also an excellent list of other art e-journals ⁹.

· The Web Gallery of Art ¹⁰ is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 9,200 reproductions.

· The Axis website ¹⁰ features over 15,000 examples of the work of 3,800 contemporary artists - "the largest interactive database of contemporary British artists/makers on the internet".

· FineArt forum resource directory ¹⁰ Claims to have 1000 links, and is angled towards technology and art. There's a useful What's New section to give you a flavour, but the search isn't currently (Oct 2002) working.

· Collage ⁹ is a rather good image database containing 20,000 works from the London Guildhall. It features very interesting search possibilities - this advanced search⁹, by colour, or shape or texture⁹ (having conducted a search), and by categories, of which these abstract ideas⁹ offer a distinctive approach.

· ArtandCulture.com ² - "the interconnected guide to all the arts".

· Joconde ², part of the impressive French government cultural site, has about 16,000 art images in its database of 130,000 art works from public collections. Choose "recherches" to search - either "guidee" (click on the text, not the pictures, and then for artists bear in mind that the choices given are merely the first name on each index page) or "experte" - which might be easier.

· Nicholas Pioch's WebMuseum ² doesn't seem to have been updated since 1996, but it's still there, with numerous mirror sites, offering brief biogs and excellent reproductions of artworks.

· Other databases to explore include Artguide ¹⁰ (featuring 1900 artists);Artists-org ⁹ (contemporary & C20), Artmagick (painting C19-C20, and a preoccupation with literary / mythological themes), Internet art resources (emphasis on contemporary exhibitions and working artists), Artchive ⁹, Art in context¹ (tasteful but slow), My studios ² (women in art, and my haus are the best parts), Olga's gallery ² (8,000 works of art - only up to Cubism), the Image Library (the full magnify gives a good size), Wisconsin School of Art ⁹, Worldwide Arts Resources⁹, AICT (Art Images for College Teachers¹⁰ - thinly populated), AskArt¹⁰ (27,000 American artists). This Artzine links page ² may also be useful.

· AccessArt's¹ educational resources consist of online workshops on a wide range of arts subjects, and for a variety of ages and levels.

· Issues of the excellent [a·n] MAGAZINE¹¹ can be read online.

· Thoughtful essays characterise Artlies¹². There are features on Whitfield Lovell, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Smithson, Tom Lea, Claus Oldenburg, John Calaway, Cameron Schoepp, and Anselm Kiefer, plus reviews and an archive.

· Arts Journal¹ is a "daily digest of arts, culture and ideas" with news items gathered from a huge range of sources.

· The Art Renewal Center ⁹ claims, tautologically I think, to be the largest on-line Museum on the internet. It's also fervently anti-modernist. So you can forget the twentieth century; the epitome was reached at the end of the 19^th. The quality of images is inferior to cgfa.

· Nineteeth-Century Art Worldwide ⁹ takes a more academic approach to the C19. So far, there are the articles from one issue of its journal online, with subjects including trompe l'oeil, Topographical Aesthetic in French Tourism and Landscape, Braun, In Praise of Motherhood, Cossacks..

· There may not be many pictures on this Univ Southern California site (that's the address for the artists index) but, by using the magnify glass, you do get an impressive size of image.

· One goal of the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is "build a searchable on-line archive of digital resources ". Here’s the link to the catalogue ⁸. It has become a major collection of images. Try searching for poster* or letter* for some excellent graphic art.

· The Image Library offers links to images for this range of different styles ¹⁰. Use "full magnify" for a good size image.

· Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin – 150,000 images from the Australian National University. It says the zoom won’t work outside the ANU, but you can increase from thumbnail to something useful.

· Artsource¹ is a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture, oriented to the USA.

· Absolute Arts ² carries an archive of reviews of major exhibitions worldwide going back to July 1999.

· As you'd expect, Voice of the Shuttle has a mammoth arts links page¹.

· Plenty of links at Art on the web .

· The Perspective Unit has some thoughtful items "on the history, theory and applications of perspective, projection methods and spatial concepts",

· N Paradoxa is an on-line International Feminist Art Journal.

· This digital arts links page is from the London Institute.

· Some internet art sites: Franklin furnace, Immersence, e-2.org, art-heads.

Most museums and art galleries now have worthwhile websites.

· The Tate site ¹¹ is excellent, and appears to have more images (11,500 of them, generally the older works) on the internet than on the walls of its various galleries. Of course, you might end up in the mongrel site ¹¹.

· The Walker Art Center ¹¹, Minneapolis, has a classy and progressive web site – these are the highlights.

· The Art Institute of Chicago - just one example of superb art sources on the net.

· Metropolitan Museum of Art¹² has many features, including 9 artists (among them Kiefer, Abakanowich, Bolaji Campbell, Tiffany).

· On a much more modest scale, but a good site, I think, Wolverhampton arts & museums service ¹¹ has nice touches - sit and watch the images come and go.

· The Gallery Channel¹ has a database of exhibitions worldwide, with a good search facility. Recommended. The search results would benefit from showing dates, though.

· Many modern artists have their own sites, eg Richard Long, David Mach, the Boyle Family (a very slow site, but rewarding), Layla Curtis¹⁰ (she of the dismembered maps).

· The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation site contains many of the artist's images.

· Art dictionaries online.

(Robert Atkins not only wrote the distinctive culture-bite works "Art spoke" and "Art speak", but also edits Talk back, an online journal about art and American culture.)

· A collaborative site for artists: Artsforge.

· Among degree shows on the internet: Univ Westminster's School of communication and creative industries , and three on the VADS site - scroll down to POSSE.

· www.giverny.org The French village celebrates Monet & other features.

· Worldwide Books specialises in selling art books, especially catalogues, and may be a help in tracking down titles.

ART HISTORY

· Mother ¹⁰, at Univ Michigan, looks a good links site.

· Chris Witcombe's art history resources on the web ¹⁰.

· Essential Art History text of Essential Art History by Paul Duro & Michael Greenhalgh, arranged as an alphabetical reference source.

· The Getty Vocabulary Databases include ULAN, with the briefest details of 200,000 artists, and the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), a structured vocabulary for describing and indexing the visual arts and architecture.

· At the risk of being thought trivial, I think you should know about these twin sites, the Gallery of the Unidentifiable, and the Museum of Depressionist Art. Quite diverting. Just don't quote from them in essays.

· Voice of the Shuttle .

· The British Academy portal ⁸ may be worth keeping an eye on.

· Digital Egypt for Universities⁹ is an impressive site including many images

· More links at Univ Arizona¹¹ , Cecil County¹², Maryland, and WCSU¹²

(The Parthenet History of Art links through subject headings, highly recommended. Links to some excellent gallery sites are included. It's disappeared in 2002 - just hoping it might reappear somewhere)The Wayback archive link ¹ allows you to make some connections via the main page.

SCULPTURE see ART above, but here is a specialist site:

Thais, which has "1200 years of Italian sculpture⁹".

ARCHITECTURE (see also PLANNING - if that link's not working, try ENGINEERING and page down a bit)

· RIBANET’s links ⁹ are comprehensive, covering building, planning, history etc.

· RIBA also has this excellent gateway site ⁹. A glance at the " new since last update" section will show you how fast it's growing.

· Sapling¹⁰ is a gateway covering architecture, planning and landscape information.

· Napier University¹⁰ internet launchpad for Architecture.

· AECPortico⁹ claims a place among leading hubs - it offers architecture, construction, engineering, environment, planning.

· Architecture and Building is a major gateway site at Univ of Nevada Las Vegas' Architecture page.

· Academic Info is especially strong on architecture links. Try the digital library for images.

· Great Buildings is an impressive collection of pictures and plans, though not every building listed has them online.

· Images of England is building a digital library of photographs of England's 370,000 Listed Buildings. Althought there is an enormous amount already on, coverage of the country is variable. You can carry out free quick searches without registering, but the maximum number of results allowed is 50, so you may need to be more specific than for, instance, just Teignbridge. Torquay has 449 buildings described, but none yet have images. Registering is free to carry out more advanced searches; you can then conduct searches by building material (over 200 categories including bamboo, zinc, gorse, clunch and daub).

· The US equivalent is HABS.

· The Pevsner Looking at Buildings ¹ site provides an introduction to British architecture, a reference page (with a useful illustrated glossary, interlinked timeline and architects' index), and the beginnings of detailed analyses of particular towns. Manchester (walks, topics, buildings) has an excellent section. For other towns, the number of buildings featured is gradually growing - Bristol has the Arnolfini plus other C19 buildings, while Leeds has just City Square and London only St. Pancras. Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield are also there. It's confusing at first - you need to spend some time finding and trying out links, which are not very prominent. There are some good external links.

· The Twentieth Century Society²has an archive of its Buildings of the Month - currently (Feb 03) 16, including Coventry Cathedral, offices like Birmingham Post and Mail and houses like Miramonte in New Malden.

· Superb coverage of Edinburgh's architecture¹.

· Archéire² is an excellent site for Irish architecture, with a thorough illustrated database of the Buildings of Ireland, for instance.

· Archizine¹⁰ is an excellent Australian online journal, although regrettably without a search mechanism for its archives. Full of well-documented and interesting links, it provides a route into Architectural Record ¹, which has building types analyses¹ archived - you'll need to register.

· A comprehensive list of architecture journals² available completely or partially on the net is provided by the Brandenburg University of Technology.

· Thais has a good architecture section⁹.

· Archiseek⁹ is a interesting site with a variety of resources including discussion "forums", some architecture guides and a growing directory - try the exhibits page.

· The your dictionary online links for terms and definitions gives 14 online dictionaries.

· Architronic ⁹ is "a scholarly refereed journal, exploring the new ranges of architectural communication available through digital media". Online issues from 1992-1999. More text than illustration.

· You may think recommending " Asia's Most advanced & Top-Rated Building Industry Portal" is odd, but Buildzone does look a useful links site.

· Voice of the Shuttle has plenty of links.

· Architecture links from Artsource, from BUBL – and master architects links from Yahoo.

· Archinet has reviews of some new buildings and links to firm's sites.

· The London Institute has this page of architecture and interior design links ¹¹.

· ID Students can access and search Technical Indexes at this address. Username: devoncollege; password: south.

· Taylor & Francis’ Ergonomics and Human Factors arena site – the links tab is probably the most useful bit.

· This set of links is on the Society of Architectural Historians website.

· Domus ’¹ site has details of some back issues.

· Cupola is an "eclectic collection of historic architecture, … picturesque landscapes, …, autocad resources, and of course, cupolas".

· Should you be after some photographs of classic cafes, this is your site.

· Some of these precedent studies of individual buildings from Hong Kong University look impressive.

· Hermann Kuhn's site offers pages of links to Le Corbusier ¹, Walter Gropius⁸, Peter Behrens⁸ & Mies van der Rohe⁸. Although it's mostly in German, the many links to illustrations of their work are fairly self-explanatory.

· Asian Historical Architecture¹.

· For marine and coastal architecture, try the links at IDAD¹.

· More links pages from educational institutions: University of Michigan.

· Architectural Practices' websites include: Rockwell Group¹¹

INTERIOR DESIGN

Check out the links above under ARCHITECTURE and below under DESIGN. See also PLANNING , ART and CONSTRUCTION . Here are some more specific sites:

· RIBA's directory list ¹⁰ for "Design, Interiors, Art" - part of a major links page for Architectural subjects.

· Usernomics¹ is a gateway with sites relating to workplace design. Good reference pages include Human Factors¹, Efficacy of Ergonomics, and User Interface Design.

· Ergoweb¹⁰ has resources relating to ergonomics.

· Sapling¹⁰ is a gateway covering architecture, planning and landscape information. A search for "interior design" led to:

· e-interiors¹⁰ - an excellent product database on a developing site.

· University of Plymouth has this links page of creative digital arts resources¹¹, with links for Perspective.

DESIGN (some sites repeated from the Art section above) see also GRAPHIC DESIGN , INTERIOR DESIGN

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Art, Design and Media.⁹

· The Design trust has its Business start-up guide freely available on the internet. There are valuable links to websites in the information resources section at the end.

· The Subject Centre for Art, Design & Communication (ADC) is part of the Learning & Teaching Support Network (LTSN).

· Adam ¹⁰Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue aimed at HE.

· The London Institute has an impressive range of web guides to most areas of the arts and design; they’re all linked here². There are specific guides for Green Design² and Industrial and Product Design¹¹, as well as other specific areas, for which I've given links under the appropriate headings.

· Voice of the Shuttle's design links.

· Napier University¹⁰ internet launchpad for Design.

· Design council home page.

· Design council archive¹: a list of holdings at the design council archive at Brighton Univ. that’s gradually being improved.

· Design Addict's index page.

· Open Here's Design page⁹ has links to many progressive new media design sites.

· The Penrose International Directory of Design gives many commercial links; I've found it possible to reach detailed entries free although there is a prominent invitation to subscribe.

· DTI's Design Policy Unit site, with links to main organisations.

· Serial design has these links, including this list of design museums.

· University of Plymouth has this links page of creative digital arts resources¹¹.

· This digital arts links page is from the London Institute.

· Designing Britain 1945 - 1975:² the Visual Experience of Post-War Society, consists of 7 e-learning modules: Exhibiting Britain, The new jewellery, From solving problems to selling product, The student response bank, Art for social spaces, Oral testimony and the interpretation of the crafts, Fabrics forming society. Each module includes text pages on different topics, and an image archive - but several of these seem reluctant to work.

· Another plug for Princeton's shape retrieval search engine that finds 3D models.¹²

· An attractive set of essays by Quentin Roper on the history of industrial design is at Q design.

· Design Language etc¹ features some interesting pages on theory and analysis of product design froma personal point of view.

· Dey Alexander's paper "Human factors and usability in web design : An introductory article on human factors in design". includes illustrations of poor design in the environment - not as technical as it sounds.¹

· Bad design features misleading signs and instructions.

· iF - International Forum Design - the organisation makes awards to products which are illustrated in its picture library.

· As an example of what the Deep Web offers, here's Penny Sparke's address on Design and culture.

· In the area of Design and Technology, the British Standards Education⁹ site may be useful.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

· The London Institute has an impressive web guide¹¹.

· Upper&Lower Case ’s¹⁰ website is easier to read than the paper journal – much less graphic! Part of ITC's typography site.

· Symbols.com is a wonderful encyclopedia of graphic symbols - more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.

· The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over 7,000 US and Canadian advertisements between 1911 and 1955 for these products: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

· The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, although searching for them can be a bit time-consuming.

· More up-to-date is Design & Art Direction's awards page featuring on-line videos of winning adverts. The site also hosts the gettyone bloodbank, a showcase of creative talent. You need to register but it's straightforward. Five artists are highlighted, or you can search the "new blood" database (the top corpuscle). When you select an artist, maximise the window and scroll along to the right to see stills and background information. But that's about as far as it goes - no animation on this part of the site.

· Ad videos can also be found at ads.com.

· If you want a glossary of printing and related terms, Only Ink on Paper has this list, which isn't linked to the Your Dictionary list of printing glossaries (scroll down), or the art and graphics list.

· Many of the online images accessible through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) are graphic. Here’s the link to the catalogue search ¹⁰. Those you can view include unusual film posters, and photographs taken in the late 1920s of the blackboard lettering of Edward Johnston (search VADS for "Johnston"). But, as suggested above, the most comprehensive results are usually obtained by searching VADS using a wildcard, eg for poster* or letter*.

· Perhaps this obscurity should be in media. Dr. Seuss went to war:a catalog of political cartoons (1941-3).

DESIGN THEORY & RESEARCH

· The Design Research Society¹.

· Here are links to the papers from the 1997 European Academy of Design Conference in Stockholm, and the 1999 EAD conference (Design Cultures) held in Sheffield.

· Be Radical. Look at Adbusters. It's more exciting than those papers I've just mentioned.

PHOTOGRAPHY

· The London Institute webguide¹¹ is a good links page.

· The British Journal of Photography has a prodigious links library². The UK photo collections section alone runs to over 480 links. The only drawback is that you must click to see the annotation.

· 100 collections, forming part of the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House ⁹ are available, including Lewis Hine, Moholy-Nagy, Atget, Cameron… Also a fascinating collection of stereo images , if you can cross your eyes to bring the images together, and some fine lantern slides on the pre-cinema page .

· Careers information from the BIPP – the full text of the booklet “Working with light”¹¹ is on the net.

· Masters of photography gives some examples or the work of the best known.

· Black and White World is frustratingly slow in places, but this vault of their top ten links looks invaluable. Here are Jan 2001's and May 2001's list , which aren't linked on the vault. Elsewhere on the site, you should find helpful technical information.

· Staffordshire University hosts IRIS, the Women's Photography Project. Be patient; the images of artists' work can be slow loading.

· Among other sites: Zone zero; Amphoto. New York Institute of Photography.

· photo.net is an online learning community of people improving their photography expertise, and it looks potentially useful.

· If you're new to digital cameras, this BECTA information sheet ² might be a good introduction.

· This "Digital Cameras Enhance Education" website from Keith Lightbody is Australian but it is more up-to-date and detailed.

· Jeff Curto's Photography classes⁹ website has some useful items tucked away, including course handouts in pdf.

· The Cicada photography resource , featuring the zone system, is worth keeping an eye on.

· The courses and books on this Digital photography page look basic but helpful. And the links are sure to lead you somewhere interesting - such as Better Photo.com¹.

· Photographiclibraries.com ² has comprehensive links on all aspects of photographic images.

· Many Photoshop links here.

· (More advanced stuff on the tech specs at Jay Stoegbauer Studios.)

· You could try exploring Suite101.com for more.

· Robert Leggat's A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s is on the internet.

· De Montfort Uni's Photography on the web site includes student work - go via Up and coming to Portfolio and archive.

· Corbis provides a nice calendar of Ansel Adams¹.

· Online dictionaries - 9 of them.

· Want more? - just try Voice of the Shuttle.

CRAFTS - Scroll down or click here for links on Jewellery and metalwork , Ceramics, and Textiles .

· Crafts Council ¹⁰. You can look at the contents of back issues of Crafts magazine, although not for the most recent.

· For links to organisations in specific craft areas, try Google's crafts directory. Choose the topic, and "organisations" should be an available option. Yahoo does things differently, and puts its crafts organisations higher up the tree structure.

· Designing Britain 1945 - 1975:²the Visual Experience of Post-War Society, includes theses modules: The new jewellery, From solving problems to selling product, The student response bank, Oral testimony and the interpretation of the crafts, Fabrics forming society. Each module includes text pages on different topics, and an image archive - but several of these seem reluctant to work.

· NEVAC - National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts.¹¹

· Founders Of The Arts & Crafts Movement 1870 – 1900 ¹⁰.

· Arts & Crafts Movement.¹

· Online dictionaries.

· Devon Guild of Craftsmen ¹⁰.

· Craft Research¹ is an international network to promote research in craft design and the applied arts.

Jewellery, metalwork

· London Institute webguide ¹¹.

· Tara Maginnis has this comprehensive list of jewellery links ¹⁰.

· Modern Silver magazine has its illustrated articles available; here's the search, or you can browse down the library for features on jewellery, metalwork. If you click on articles , there's currently (Jun 02) an article on "wearable art" (part 2!).

· It sounds coy and much of it is about selling, but Family Jools contains links to some worthwhile jewellery sites.

· Metalsmiths are listed on Metalcyberspace , together with links if available - but very few are.

Ceramics

· You can read Edmund de Waal's Ceramic History online¹⁰ at the excellent Rufford Ceramic Centre ¹⁰ which also has a glossary, profiles of nearly 200 artists, essays, good links, interactive tours, create your own pot..

· Ceramics in Society is a newly-subscribed library journal; its website ⁹ includes a ceramics web directory⁹.

· London Institute webuide¹¹.

· The Studio Potter¹ offers a variety of articles and a gallery of illustrations.

· Some of the techniques features on Pottery Making Illustrated¹ have slides sequences.

· Clayzee is a crafts links site.

· Ceramic Search is about technical clay art issues.

· Critical Ceramics¹ has many illustrated articles. You'll need the search box, as the articles index isn't terribly helpful.

· Other links possibilities for ceramics include David Hewitt, and the Ceramic collection & archive in Aberystwyth.

· The PMC guild specialises in Precious metal clay.

· Potters.org is a forum for comments about all aspects of pottery. The link is to the subject page.

Textiles

Some strong links sites - must be all those interweaving threads.

· Gutman library textile links ¹⁰.

· Paivi Suomi's All Fiber Arts¹⁰ site - plenty tucked away here.

· Textile arts net ¹⁰.

· London Institute webguide¹¹.

· (Textiles through time¹¹, from Marsha White. Another (?temporarily?) vanished site)

· The Art Of Textiles⁹ is part of the Thais site. It's easy to miss the obscure headings in dark green on black - they cover Byzantine, Muslim, Italian and French textiles, and lead to some excellent enlargeable images, with accompanying text in English and Italian.

· Telos has this growing page of links ¹⁰ to specialist textile art websites.

· Here’s the site map for Levi’s site, inc history of jeans / denim.

· Wonderful stitches is a web site of resources for stitchery enthusiasts .

· The Quilt Channel.

· Careers in textiles.

FASHION AND COSTUME

· The Costumer's manifesto ⁹ is a fantastic links site. Just the modest "Accessories "⁹ button takes you to a cornucopia of links on jewellery, shoes, bags, etc. Costume history⁹ is another winner. Tara Maginnis is the person to thank.

· The Costume Gallery⁸.

· Julie Zetterberg Sardo's excellent Costume Page⁹ carries links on costume history, ethnic, folk and theatrical, and making and wearing.

· Online Costuming Sources at the Costume Site⁹.

· The London Institute has an impressive web guide ¹¹ - also one to footwear¹¹, with handbags.

· The alternative fashion links on Angel of Fashion ⁹ show why monitoring internet abuse is so difficult!

· University of British Columbia Library Web resources in costume ⁹ link to these and some other sites.

· Some Vintage Images (1795-1959)⁹ from Jennie Chancey's Sense and Sensibility site.

· Elizabethan Costume ² - interesting links.

· A thoughtful paper on the relationship between costume design and fashion⁹ by Karen Davis.

· UCLAN's fashion links⁹ - ignore the online databases which require subscription.

· Sixties fashion page ⁹ from Sixties City.

PERFORMING ARTS / THEATRE see also Literature

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· Many of the Arts Council's downloadable documents ² are very relevant in this area - several of them address disability and diversity issues².

· The Voluntary Arts Network - there are downloadable briefings, and recent editions of its newsletter are on the site.

· The website behind Mailout , the magazine for participatory and community arts development, include an excellent index to back issues, and there are valuable links on disability, funding, etc.

· South West Arts site, inc details of lottery funding.

· The excellent What's on Stage has information about productions, and will take you to theatre websites, such as the Northcott.

· British Council's Theatre and dance section provides a general introduction to how the arts are organised in Britain.

· You'll find links to arts funding sites on UK fundraising ¹², and at British Arts.

· For news, the Arts Journal¹⁰ offers a "Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism", with an emphasis on the Performing Arts.

· Look at the right-hand side of the home page of British Arts for performing arts links.

· In addition to giving abstracts of recent reports, the Cultural Trends website gives free access to pre-1995 statistical reports.

· Metier⁸ is involved in arts and entertainment training; here's its links section ⁸.

· Arts4schools ¹⁰is an expanding site with a big brief - co-ordinating arts organisations, access to materials, raising the profile of arts education and networking. The "Resources" content is variable: in "Featured topics", Measure for Measure has interviews with directors and actors in a variety of performances; Bouncers has exercises and John Godber's comments;Top Girls has fairly conventional notes; some other items are a bit thin. The Brecht¹⁰section looks helpful. There are links to other sites about specific plays and musical works. A site to watch.

· Ken Taylor's Drama in Education site⁹ at Middlesex University. Plenty to explore. The drama links are tucked away with other headings on the left.

· The Guardian's July 2000 "on the web" feature on Drama education sites⁹ can still be found online, and many of the links remain live.

· So far I've found the Performing Arts Data Service ⁸site a bit frustrating - catalogues of collections containing tempting-looking resources you can't get into, although the links directories under each subject area are well worth checking. However, one good resource you can use is " Guide to Good Practice - Creating Digital Performance Resources "⁸. This includes items on creating a multimedia research tool for King Lear, IT and the audio-visual theatre, and internt-based live performance work. You have to use the "next" arm of the rather crummy signpost to move through the pages of each item.

· Ken McCoy at Stetson University has a comprehensive page he modestly calls "a brief guide to internet resources in theatre & performance studies ", and it looks as if it's kept up-to-date.

· Centre for Performance Research ⁹ Links from Aberystwyth Univ of Wales.

· The archive & database materials on UK Theatre web may prove useful.

· Lycos has a good directory² on the subject.

· Another good links site: at Leeds University .

· Theatre History sites on the internet¹⁰.

· And the companion website ¹⁰ to Brockett's History for the theatre has this digital bibliography¹⁰.

· Shakespeare's Globe Research Database ⁹, formerly part of the Globe online. Fascinating Research Bulletins are available.

· Currency Press has some educational resources free online - of interest to those studying Australian theatre.

· Creative drama com is a good education site with classrooms ideas, theatre games,etc

· Jon Primrose of Exeter University has developed this theatre glossary , and theatrecrafts , (the site it forms part of) looks as if it will become a good source of practical stage information. Steven Brown's listenhear ² has some technical links, and the phone numbers of just about every UK theatre.

· Society of British Theatre Designers , & Association of British Theatre Technicians sites.

· Theatre-link.com Theatre links.

· (WOW - magazine of links on theatre from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology ¹.)

· The Applied & Interactive Theatre Guide is a resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional. There are good links pages.

· The latest issues of The Drama Review are free full-text on the internet. Fall 2001 issue at http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/DRAM/45_3/contents.html Summer: http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/DRAM/45_2/contents.html Spring: http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/DRAM/45_1/contents.html

· Anatoly Antohin's vTheatre site is atrociously-designed and thoroughly maddening as a result, but I provide a link to it in case you find something helpful on it. He obviously enjoys working on it.

· In-yer-face theatre is Aleks Sierz' site analysing the provocative playwrights of the 1990s - we also have the book.

· Formaat - Theatre of the Oppressed¹⁰ is a Dutch site with an English version. Its online magazine, Under Pressure, appear quarterly. The Applied & Interactive Theatre Guide has this page of similar groups.

· Specimen pages of the book "How Plays are Made" by Stuart Griffiths can be downloaded here.

· Steven Connor is building an archive of texts and images on ventroloquism¹.

· The Dramatherapy Network , founded by Dr Sue Jennings, is a site based around her Rowan Studios. It's one of a number of links on this page of creative arts therapies links .

DANCE

· Jon Wright and Amy Reusch's Dance Links site¹⁰.

· Here’s Voice of the Shuttle’s music & dance page of links – you’ll find Dance near the bottom, but many links are dead.

· The same applies to many other interesting-looking sites like the INBA (Mexico) dance links pages (don't worry - they are mostly in English), The Mystical world wide web and cyber-dance (3500 links – some of them will lead somewhere!).

· An obscure bookmark - Movement Analysis, A Commentary Bibliography.

· 21st century dance summarises dance's current position in this country, and sets out a vision for dance in the 21st century. You can download a summary here ² , along with some other relevant documents, from the Arts Council site.

· This curious glossary of dance terms ¹ seems all mixed up with ads for Amazon - but the info's there, mostly down the left-hand side.

CYBERCULTURE

· Voice of the Shuttle's links ⁸ are probably to place to start and finish.

· By comparison, this Yahoo menu ⁸ looks rather brief.

· There's not an enormous amount at The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies ⁸ yet either.

· Martin Dodge's Atlas of Cyberculture¹¹ gathers together attempts to visualize the nature of the internet and other cyberspaces. It includes some conventional map types (eg weather), and is a useful source for illustrating contrasting methods of mapping. The what's new tab gives a fascinating overview.

· This seems a good place for a link on free speech in the digital age.

MEDIA (See also FILM , TELEVISION , NEWS , CULTURAL STUDIES , NEW MEDIA, WEB DESIGN , MARKETING & ADVERTISING )

As you'd expect, plenty of stuff out there.

· Steve Baker's media studies website¹⁰ for A level students is very good.

· MCS, The Media and Communications Studies Site at Aberystwyth ¹⁰ (pronounced 'mix') is Daniel Chandler's gateway to Web resources for the study of media and communication. "Constructivism at work" appears on each excellent page.

· Matthew Parrott's media studies site ² is now part of UCLES, aimed at the OCR syllabus. Its media resources page looks promising.

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Art, Design and Media.¹⁰

· David Gauntlett's NewMediaStudies¹⁰ considers the internet as a phenomenon in itself. We have his "web.studies" in stock in the library.

· Your life is not long enough to explore more than a fraction of Voice of the Shuttle ¹⁰; the media are effortlessly swept up in its prodigious grasp.

· The Centre for Communication, Culture and Media Studies, at Coventry University, has some media links pages ¹⁰.

· Scroll down Napier's Design internet launch pad¹⁰ for links on media subjects.

· Another possibility is Bagsofmedia⁹.

· MediaEd:The UK media education website.

· The Community Media Association's website ¹⁰ has a strong political stance with a library of information sheets, reports and policy papers, plus news, information, services and a gateway to community media organisations. This page's links ¹⁰ "contain all the information you need for producing and publishing on the internet".

· The Media guardian ¹ includes a daily survey of top TV ratings (TV Overnights), and news items for sectors like new media and press.

· If you need to keep abreast of world media stories, the Arts Journal Media section¹ will be useful.

· Undercurrents ¹⁰ is a radical activist media site including alternative news videos.

· Campaign for Digital Rights ¹⁰ (UK) and Digitalspeech ¹⁰ (USA) stand up for freedom of communication in the digital age. Important issues that need your support. Mediaweek , now with a big archive of articles going back 2 years. News about the industry but not a lot of depth.

· The Media Awareness Network ¹⁰ is a Canadian site that considers all aspects of the media in relation to children. Here is its statistics page, and statistics hotlinks; these sources are applicable beyond the young, but do concentrate on Canada.

· Some politically relevant links here from the Political Studies Association , esp at the bottom - "media related sites".

· The companion website to Turow's "Media today"¹⁰ has an extensive list of links to media organisations, mainly USA.

· Other good links sites on media studies include Anne Armstrong's at Ursula Frayne College.

· Oneword is the first digital radio station, dedicated to the spoken word.

· Voices from the Archives¹ is part of the BBC Four site and features the recorded voices of over 100 writers, musicians, artists and other cultural celebrities from Bobby Moore to Mike Leigh.

· BroadbandBananas¹⁰ is the World's premiere networking organisation for the Interactive TV and Broadband industries.

· Media Online Focus comes from the British Universities Film & Video Council, which also hosts the BUFVC Television Index (soon to be replaced by "TRILT").

· Two other useful BUFVC services are:

· The Moving Image Gateway ² is a guide to websites that relate to moving images and sound, and offer access to video and similar resources. It's well-annotated and the 4 main subject areas are Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, and Bio-Medical; each has a website of the month.

· The Researcher's Guide Online ¹², a database guide to collections, archives and sources of information in the media, with weblinks and contact details. If you're undertaking serious research into any aspect of the media, you'll need to have a look at this.

· The Moving Image Society (also BKSTS )¹⁰ has lots of careers information about film and broadcasting, and some useful articles.

· A list of media production company websites ¹⁰ is on the Open Directory, and on Google.

· KnowledgeOnline² is really a database of media contacts, for which you can easily register. It does have a Knowhow section, with bits of technical information such as film and video weights, BBFC classifications, film footage tables, location and associated travel info, including a code of practice for for filming in public places in London.

· TVLinks¹¹ is a prodigious film and TV links page on the Timelapse site. Unfortunately, the entries aren't annotated. There are useful glossaries, such as this Medialink page¹¹.

· In addition to abstracts of recent reports, the Cultural Trends website gives free access to pre-1995 statistical reports. Just as well, as the library copies have been thrown away.

· Advertising statistics and information at Pearl & Dean.

· Subvertise⁹ is an anti-consumerism site taking a radical look at adverts - some colourful examples of subtlely, and not-so-subtlely, altered ads.

· The Hoot keeps watch over media on the Indian subcontinent.

· The Maastricht McLuhan Institute⁹ (MMI) is the European Centre for Digital Culture, Knowledge Organisation and Learning Technology. Among its resources are articles⁹ considering the use of new media in different contexts.

Main UK broadcasting organisations

· "About the BBC" has this site index ⁹ - scrolling down the Corporate Information headings will give you information about its structure and organisation. Documents and policy includes recent annual reports, programme guidelines, future of BBC.

· The Independent Television Commission (ITC) site .

· Radio Authority⁹

· Broadcasting Standards Commission.

· Skillset is the new Sector Skills Council for Broadcast, Film, Video & Interactive Media, and will be useful for information about the industry and for careers The links page already looks packed.

· The European Audiovisual Observatory's¹¹ data may be useful. There are legal links under each sector of the media, followed by general data, including some statistics, and more specific information.

New media (see also Web Design)

· University of Plymouth has this links page of creative digital arts resources¹².

· David Gauntlett's NewMediaStudies¹⁰ considers the internet as a phenomenon in itself. We have his "web.studies" in stock in the library.

· The London Institute's web guide to digital art¹²

· Inter communication is "a journal exploring rhe frontiers of art and technology".

· Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss ¹² (CRUMB) at Sunderland

FILM

One of the best subject areas on the internet.

· Internetmovie database ² (IMDB) – a brilliant place for finding out details about films, and finding all the films associated with a particular person - or even location.

· Movie review Query Engine ² is an excellent film review search engine covering dozens of sources, mostly freely available.

· Among many good sites for reviews is FilmJournal². Its coverage is recent - back to 1997, as far as I can tell. As with IMDB, there's cross-referencing between names.

· For other film review sites, try cinema-sites.

· The British Films Catalogue ² gives details of recent British movies.

· IMDB boasts almost 35000 shorts; but one it didn’t have that I was searching for was on the Film Centre 's UK short film database, with a mere 3500 titles.

· As you'd expect, the British Film Institute⁹ has an excellent site.

· The Film Council¹¹ exists to nurture the British film industry, and funds training. Its Research and Statistics Unit provides rather brief data about sectors of the film industry from its 2001 report, published in April 2002 but just put online in November.

· The Cinema Connection is a strong links site.

· Screen Daily¹¹ is a movie industry news service.

· For independent films, try Indiewire - but it's a bit slow.

· The Greatest Films – don’t go here for the obscure stuff – or the recent. It specialises in various lists of … you got it.

· The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture currently has virtual exhibitions on Hitchcock, D.W.Griffith & Houdini - I like the images of books, postcards, posters etc you can click on, which make use of the collection's resources.

· Some extraordinary early German film posters are at the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection⁸. Try searching just for posters under template, and then scrolling down for German titles; much of the rest of the collection isn't online. Or use the VADS search⁸ for "poster*" .

· eXposure is "the internet resource for young film-makers", and includes an "eejit's guide".

· Script-o-rama ¹²has many movie & TV scripts, drafts and transcripts (for the difference, read the lowdown) and I cannot overstate its brilliance. But there are easier sites to use.

· Movie-page¹² and Zzippeddskripptzz are other script possibilities.

· Film Monthly has some interesting reviews of film noir, horror etc.

· Don’t forget Voice of the Shuttle - the links never stop. More modestly, the CCCS links ⁷.

· The Netribution UK Film Funding Guide 2001-2002 is a thorough on-line guide to funding sources, with details of schemes on local, regional, national and international scales.

· Film-philosophy is "A journal and discussion salon promoting a philosophical review of cinema and film studies". Five annual volumes so far, all fascinating, discuss things like diegesis, utopia, and porn - oh, and September 11^th.

· The British Board of Film Classification gives guidelines about film content, and you can search for individual films.

· Carlton Screen Advertising² site has some statistical info about UK cinema admissions, Box Office, revenue, profile etc, plus little "Case studies" (of 10 ads) which plug the usefulness of cinema advertising.

TELEVISION - first, you should look at MEDIA , but there are these:

· The ITC site¹¹. New on 26.11.02: their Review of the Programme Supply market¹¹

· The TV/Radio tab from the MCS .

· Bournemouth Media School have just published (21^st Nov) Future Reflections: 4 scenarios for TV in 2012¹¹.

· Epguides¹² - that's as in episode guides, and, predictably, US TV episodes. Still, an interesting site. It includes a list of all South Bank Shows¹², for instance.

· Off the telly has been described as "self-important" but may have some useful reviews and essays; I enjoyed the Adam and Joe review in "Did you see".

· Among telly addicts sites, TV Cream might give worthwhile information.

· Definitive UK Sitcom List Not pretty, but comprehensive.

· This Freepint feature article¹² looks at archive and cult TV.

VIDEO & ANIMATION

· London Institute webguide¹¹ is an excellent starting point.

· An interesting experimental animators' links site .

· Animation World Network¹⁰

MUSIC

· Voice of the Shuttle’s music & dance page of links

· British Council's music section provides a general introduction to how the arts are organised in Britain.

· The Blue Highway – a Blues History site, with 2 fine pages of links.

NEWS (see also MEDIA)

(Most search engines & directories have news services)

· For the very latest news breaking, try one of the following:

· BBC ¹¹ - should be the best, and probably is. Thorough stories with links.

· But Google News ² has now arrived - and it looks good. Chris Sherman explains how good¹⁰. Main trouble is its US orientation; it could do with a UK button, and any UK stories featured on the top page tend to be the sensational ones. But the search is excellent (you may need to select "Sort by date"), and it includes the Herald Express & Exeter Express.

· Daypop ²is a current events search engine, which trawls the "living web" ie, newspapers, magazines and weblogs. You'll probably want to change to date order, so that the most recent stories come first. Anything cached over a week is discarded. But as the 10,500 sites searched include the Guardian/Observer, you will track down older stories housed in their special reports section.

· The World News Network¹ is another news service to reckon with.

· The redesigned Newsnow ² is updated every five minutes.

· Rocketnews ¹ - another excellent service (with a marketing bias), as is:

· Newisfree ⁸. And, in view of its brush with Danish law, here's a boost for Newsbooster.

· Infonetware⁸ offers a news multi search engine

· John Garside's Feb 2002 Freepint article "Searching for 'The Daily Me'"² lists most of these and other good news sources and discusses RSS and customisation. But Google News came later.

· Infotrac's Custom newspaper file, featuring most of the UK's national, and several of its local newspapers, can be reached here: http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/sdc_jisc ²

· We now have access to the Guardian archive 1990-today ¹¹.

· Here’s the Guardian ’s² own site, with articles going back to September 1998 in the archive.

· The Independent site – with articles going back to Oct 1999.

· Times ²

· Evening Standard ².

· CNN¹ - news +.

· Online Newspapers around the world #1 ²Part of Internet Public Library. Test: Morocco has 5.

· Online Newspapers around the world #2 ²The Webwombat with 3400 papers - much bigger! Test: Morocco has 21. Recommended.

Online Newspapers around the world #3 "Ultimate collection of News Links" – claims 10,000 - I estimate 7,000, but: test: Morocco has 0.!

· Editor & Publisher is a weekly magazine covering the newspaper industry in North America. Its mediainfo links page is under reconstruction.

· Temple University has this page of news links.

· Hammersmith’s useful links page of news sites is recommended.

· Zen has a condensed links page which you might find handy.

· More and more topical news journals are available on the internet, such as Time magazine.

· For studying journalism, this CCCS web links page⁷looks helpful, and J-Net¹⁰ is another thorough news service helpfully leaning towards journalism.

WEBLOGS

· For an introduction to the phenomenon, try this Search Day article², with links to some directories, and Rebecca Blood's Sept 2000 article².

HUMANITIES & CULTURAL STUDIES

· Voice of the Shuttle is a mammoth Humanities directory from UCSB, but there are quite a lot of dead links.

· Humbul is a major Humanities gateway - a bit heavyweight. It hosts the RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorials on internet skills.

· London Institute webguide¹¹ has good links.

· The British Academy portal⁸covers languages and linguistics, history, the classics, history of art, law and the social sciences.

· By way of complete contrast, Sarah J. Zupko's excellent Popcultures ¹⁰ might help you make sense of modern cultural trends. There's a large library of articles on a range of subjects, many gathered from the long listing of journals and archives. Pop Matters¹⁰ is its associated "magazine of global culture" with a strong music leaning. The links section is strong, although links to some of the weirder sites like altculture¹⁰ seem to have gone.

· Bad subjects ¹, another casualty from Popcultures, is subtitled "Political Education for Everyday Life".

· The Blackwell Cultural Studies ¹² Resources site is a useful gateway.

· The Centre for Communication, Culture and Media Studies, at Coventry University, has a worthwhile resources area with website links⁷.

· Although it's an awkward site to use at first, Cultsock is worth pursuing as a dictionary / encylopedia of cultural ideas, references and terms - plenty of media references. Whichever route you take in, you seem to get the same A-Z subject index to look up. If you'd rather have names, try this link.

· Steven Connor's home page¹ has links to many of his online papers on a wide variety of themes, including the senses (especially sound), religion, family. "The Shakes", for instance, explores body shaking, convulsion and its significance, and the Shakers and Quakers.

· A page of links, tentatively-offered, to culturally-significant terms and people, from the Pratt Institute.

· Punk - the No Future website has gone a bit quiet since its September 2001 festival and conference (abstracts of papers here²), but it still has an excellent links page².

· Punk77¹ has a complete history UK punk rock.

AMERICAN STUDIES

By and large, I've filed suitable sites under the subject - like history. There are probably millions of sites that could go into this category - these are some on which I've found interesting material.

· American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items.

· The University of Michigan hosts OAIster⁸ , a remarkable "collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone." There are theses, pictures, videos, audio, from a wide range of US collections. You may well "unearth pearls", but will need to be patient, as files are often large.

· American Passages is an online book of America's history, with useful links.

· Harlem Renaissance is a useful American black studies site.

· American Studies Home page and Links site at University of Virginia.

· NAID (North American Integration Data). A California site dealing with the interedependence of USA and Mexico - among other things. Interesting maps are among things that can be tracked down.

· Africana "gateway to the black world" covers a wide range of black issues, mainly relating to the USA.

· American Experience is built around the US TV documentary series. It includes Fatal Flood, a site devoted to the 1927 Mississippi flood and its effects.

· Because the "What's New" section of Librarians' Index to the Internet⁷seems to offer many sites of this type, the site itself looks like a good searching point.

· Birdonawire's page ¹⁰ of grouped, but completely unannotated, links might reveal some handy sites.

PHILOSOPHY

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills.

· Try Hippias, with recommended site links and a search engine.

· John Sutton's homepage may lead you to some reliable links, and Rafael Granados has several links ⁷.

· Research articles at cogprints².

· Some cultural theorists and contemporary philosophers links.

· Thoemmes Press History of Ideas links.

ETHICS & THIRD WORLD(This section to be developed)

· Laurence Hinman's Ethics Updates¹⁰ include recommended video resources.

· Compassion in World Farming⁷ is an animal welfare organisation; the reports⁷ are downloadable.

· Voices of the Poor⁹ is a World Bank study in which poor people world-wide describe their ideas of wellbeing and illbeing. Crying Out for Change⁹ , is one of the reports available online.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES / DIVERSITY/ MULTICULTURALISM RESOURCES (This section to be developed) (see also DISABILITY , DISABILITY AND EDUCATION, and specific areas where equal opps is an issue, eg SPORT)

· Africana "gateway to the black world" covers a wide range of black issues, mainly relating to the USA.

· The Devon County page on Dealing with Racism.

· Channel4's gateway to websites about black and Asian history⁹ across the British Isles.

· How the CRE sees the responsibility of further & higher education institutions towards racial discrimination¹.

LANGUAGES – see also News and DICTIONARIES

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills. Be patient - slow to load.

· The Yamada Guides ¹ are incredible, whether you want links for French, Inuit, Klingon or any other language.

· ITools has selected various language reference tools⁸– thesaurus, dictionaries etc.

· Cambridge ELT offers a one-stop search of 5 language dictionaries .

· I Love Languages ¹ brings together 2000 weblinks.

· Serious stuff from cogprints on linguistics - some 200 searchable articles.

· Promising language links here from PES - anything that recommends only Ixquick as a search engine is worth a second look.

· Here are free on-line dictionaries - English to and from 16 languages - but not German!.

· Frank Dietz has links to over 2200 online glossaries¹².

· OneLook indexes 2468713 words in 619 on-line dictionaries but still can't find petrichor.

· Leo¹² is recommended as a German Dictionay.

· More language and translation tools and links from Trans-k¹².

· Here's Le Monde Diplomatique ¹ in French - and in English¹. Some articles freely accessible, some not.

· French resources links page from Aston.

· Bonjour.com⁸ offers free French lessons.

· Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) - home page. They have a useful set of Information Sheets¹², arranged here by subject.

· Language Learning & Technology is an online journal - the link's to the May 2002 issue, and here is the topic index to the archived issues ² (currently 15, back to 1997).

· Omniglot¹: a thorough yet clear guide to the alphabets, writing systems and logographic systems of the world, ancient and modern, with good links.

Translation services:

· Free Translation ¹² seems a goodish service, better than

· Altavista's Babelfish ¹ sort of copes with English to and from French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian. But I still recommend that you read this dire warning !²

· Here's Google's translate service¹⁰.

· "Your dictionary" offers at least 10 translation services ¹⁰.

· Others to try: Intertran 2000¹⁰.

· A 12-minute video in German about forest work⁸with lots of health and safety information and chain saw action.

EFL

Help! Several key sites seem to have disappeared in the last few months.

· Internet TESL journal ¹⁰, For Teachers of English as a Second Language, with a prodigious number of links.

· Abrexa offers these links¹².

· Hammersmith has these links¹².

· The English section of I Love Languages¹ with over 200 resource links.

· Perhaps some of Phil Davies' links¹⁰ can produce the goods.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE, including Words and Sayings

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills.²

· Among English educational websites for teachers are Andrew Moore's Teaching Resource Site⁷; The Word Zone¹⁰ (A level pages down at moment - recheck): Harry Dodd's English Teaching in the United Kingdom⁷; Teachit ² and the English companion ². FRET's² resources are mostly by subscription but there are free samples.

· EnglishPage.com ² offers free online lessons in English.

· Word Spy ⁸ looks at new and changed words and phrases. Start browsing, and your conversation will never be the same again.

· Equally fascinating is Michael Quinion's World Wide Words ², which looks at international English, including weird and topical words, turns of phrase…

· John Burkardt has some interesting pages on his wordplay ² site, such as equivocal words ² - with a list of same spelling, different sound, different meaning words (sewer, polish, etc) - and multinyms ².

· An astonishing collection of links to sites of this sort is provided by Judi Wolinsky's site, also called wordplay⁸.

· Jeff Miller offers pages of word oddities¹.

· Excellent Online etymological dictionary², courtesy of Douglas Harper. If you want word origins and derivations, it's a little more user-friendly than Chambers or the Shorter OED.

· De Proverbio ¹⁰ is an on-line journal of proverb studies and collections. I'm not sure how easy it is to find proverbs on this new version of the site.

· The Phrase Finder² has the meaning and origin of over 1000 phrases, saying, cliches, quotes.. There's a helpful discussion forum. I think it is more authoritative than the following.

· The origin of 1700 "sayings and everyday expressions" can be found here ⁸ - although the information may be incorrect in some cases. 500 more from James Briggs.

· Nigel Rees' Quote Unquote website.

· Plain Text¹² champions clear writing for business.

· Bartleby offers versions of several basic reference books online, such as thesauri, guides to English usage and dictionaries, but many are older editions with electronic features. So, you search Roget's thesaurus in vain for "television"!

· Univ Kent has a good web resources page² for its English language unit.

LITERATURE & see also POETRY and DRAMA

· Bubl has some good links.

· So, of course, does the amazing Voice of the Shuttle .

· Humbul hosts the Virtual training suite's Internet tutorial for English⁸- hence, one of the slower ones!.

· Shakespeare Complete text with GLOSSARY links.

· The RSC Education “Measure for Measure”¹⁰pack has turned up on arts4schools¹⁰.

· This Guardian article ¹ by Emma Gibson from May 2000 suggests several web links on Shakespeare.

· For Shakespeare obsessives, the Google usegroup ²has 78,000 threads. Search for "Macbeth" and cut it down to over 5,000.

· The authors' calendar on Pegasos, a Finnish site has handy biographies of many major writers.

· Anne (Apple Annie) Armstrong's Virtual Classroom has good literature links pages although some links are mixed up.

· A thorough guide to American literature is provided by Donna Campbell¹².

· Book reviews - the Complete Review does a thorough job on a rather idiosyncratic choice of over 800 titles and provides a list of links to other review sites . Salon (link to archives) provides some thoughtful reviews to modern bestsellers. You'll also find reviews at most of the bookselling sites. And judicious use of Google may find you reviews on the New Statesman and NYT sites that reach beyond searchable archives.

· Pink Monkey is a favourite crib source. Barron's Book Notes could be another. More authoritative are Shirley Galloway's clutch of essays, which include Bleak House, Swift, Woolf, Eliot, Imperialism, Conrad, Marlow & Mrs. Moore.

Full-text works of literature

Some of these sites are breathtaking:

· Bibliomania ⁷ has full-text poetry, novels and non-fiction, "about 2000 classic texts". I usually search this first, certainly for C19 English texts. For a start, it offers that all-important global search facility, useful if you are searching for distinctive text words.

· Luminarium is an enormous database of English literature texts from medieval to seventeenth century.

· The University of Virginia's e-book library , which is depth-indexed, acts as a concordance to 51,000 texts of older literature (the most recent I've traced are from the 1920s). American literature dominates, but you'll find Beatrix Potter and H.G.Wells. Try browsing by author, or searching for a word. Addictive - use with caution.
Project Gutenberg ⁷ contains the full downloadable text of the complete works of hundreds of authors in the public domain (i.e. - died over 50 years ago).

· Mastertexts has about 200 titles. It has one big advantage - speed.

· The Literature Network offers a similar number.

· The online books page ¹¹ AT University of Pennsylvania lists over 17,000 texts, mostly older American, and not all literary. There are some good quality illustrations. Browse here by subject.

· (Concordances of great books - use the global word search to pick out references to a single word in over 1000 books.)

· Other sites worth trying: Page by page books¹², (Bootleg books).

· Bartleby.com⁷ has about 300 titles online, including some reference works.

Miscellaneous writing-related sites

· Here’s a good links page ¹ of writers – I detect an emphasis on children’s authors, but there are plenty of others.

· AKA is a site of author's pseudonyms.

· Harlem Renaissance is a useful American black studies site.

· Booker Prize winners & shortlists are listed here¹⁰.

· Laurie Mann's Awardweb sets out to cover the whole world of literary awards.

· Postcolonial Studies site.

· For Contemporary writing, try Jacket magazine.

· Locus⁸ is a site devoted to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, with a comprehensive index to SF⁸.

POETRY

· The Poetry Society site - lots of advice and information. So too at the excellent BBC site.¹

· New poems every day - Britain: Poems on the underground can be found here¹⁰, with an adjoining archive of poems old and new.

· New poems every day - America: Poetry Daily has an archive that goes back a year - that's 365 contemporary poems, mostly American.

· The Electronic Poetry Center seems to be the giant of the e-poetry world.

· There are plenty of other links sites to poetry; here's a selection: Plagiarist.com; Jan Strever at Spokane (mainly trad); Ralph Howard; Academy of American Poets; A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry; Poets' Corner ² (the name is a clue- we're talking tradition here, mainly); this Guardian page; and there's Luminarium, with all of Milton, Donne, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc

· The British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832 Project⁸ at University of California has put many poems online.

· There are plenty of on-line magazines with poetry in, such as the Atlantic Monthly's Atlantic Unbound poetry pages. Find loads at Poetry-kit's e-zines page. Stride is an Exeter one.

· Sonnet Central.

· Anne Armstrong has a good page of links on major poets.

If that's not enough poetry for you, find it on the shelves at 821, 811, 808.1 and so on.

· BUBL . BUBL has catalogued useful online resources about Education by Dewey classification number. Invaluable.

· The NFER¹⁰ offers a very comprehensive links page¹⁰. Its Eurydice¹⁰ network collects information about education in the UK; hence these factfiles ¹¹ with diagrams, and this glossary of educational terms ¹¹ and abbreviations list¹⁰.

· Statistics about further education¹⁰ available free from the DFES, as part of this education and training theme¹⁰.

· Yahoo's Education categories. American bias, but worth persevering with.

· Northern Ireland Network for Education could be an excellent source of NC materials and links from KS1 to 16-19.

· Here is the official National curriculum site ¹⁰.

· learn.co.uk ¹is the Guardian's learning site, and

· 4 Learning⁸is Channel 4's. They're both excellent.

· Learning alive ² is the former eduweb; aimed at schools, it’s still worth checking, although it's not an easy homepage to use.

· UK Education Guide² is a rather busy site with links to the above and many more.

· This excellent British Council site, Education UK², should help in tracking down courses.

ILT & ONLINE RESOURCES

· The Distributed and Electronic Learning Group⁷ (DELG), set up by the LSC, aims to provide "a co-ordinated strategy for securing delivery of new forms of learning, specifically the innovative use of information technology". Its final report can be read here¹⁰.

· Creating online learning materials: a good practice guide for colleges is the 2^nd edition of the comprehensive guide on planning, designing, and trialling ILT projects. It's also in the library in pamphlet form.

· CFET (Computers for Teachers in FE) - these materials offer practical help to teachers on using IT and creating web pages.

· 11 issues of Active Learning⁷, an online journal promoting educational innovation and good practice in the use of learning technologies, are still accessible. They go back a bit; Issue 2, on Using the Internet for teaching , dates from July 1995, and "The Learning technology Lifecycle" (Issue 11), is December 1999.

· The BEATL Staff Handbook⁷ offers useful guidance to academics, managers and support staff on improving practice in the use of learning technologies - not just applicable to Built Environment courses at which the project was aimed.

· LSDA's National Resource Databank¹⁰ contains teaching and learning, and staff development materials "meeting the agency benchmark criteria". The T&L materials are arranged by programme area, subdivided by level. The SD materials include a number of ppt presentations.

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills.

· JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)² promotes the use of IT in HE and FE; it has collections of electronic resources (most available free). Its services relate to MLEs, learning resources, security and other ILT issues. It also controls JANET, the Joint Academic Network, through UKERNA (United Kingdom Education & Research Networking Association).

· The JISC South West Regional Support Centre

· BECTA The site for ICT and education. A lot of information is tucked away – here's the site map . These information sheets² are useful. Examples include Special education info sheets , and an excellent guide to Managed Learning Environments – here’s the sensitive chart . The excellent subject directory has moved to:

· The Ferl Web Site, offering reviews, case studies, lesson plans and other assistance on ILT for the post-compulsory sector. It has this good subject directory of learning and teaching resources .

· NILTA and AOC are working together in ILT - their joint strategy is contained in A national strategic plan for information and learning technologies (ILT) - 2002/03¹.

· BECTA is one of the bodies responsible for Learning in the 21st century

· The vision and practice of e-learning in local authorities⁹, a July 2002 report.

· The National Learning Network ². Free downloadable resources (you must register) that can be put onto VLEs, guaranteed to meet standards. Here at SDC, they are all downloaded and many are on Learnwise - ask in Learning Resources.

· National Grid for Learning and its virtual teacher centre.

· TechLearn² aims to exploit new technologies for learning and teaching. There are two pages of links to presentations - one² and presentations-two². The search facility may throw up some helpful papers. There are recent reports on interactive whiteboards, videoconferencing, broadband & PDAs

· INSPIRAL⁷(INveStigating Portals for Information Resources And Learning) was a JISCproject examining issues that surround linking virtual learning environments (VLEs) and digital libraries. The final report and discussion list remain on the net.

· These TLTP projects include innovative teaching methods with video, IT etc.

· The MMI has these articles dating from the mid-1990s on IT, new media and education⁹, such as "Why Computers are transforming the Meaning of Education⁹".

· Sheffield College has this excellent section of links² on accessibility, teaching and learning, retrieval …

· Spartacus has these well-annotated links on ICT ¹¹for schools.

· Micros & Primary Education ⁷aimed at effective teaching with ICT for primary teachers.

· Stephen Downes ² is a US online learning expert; his site carries a (daily!) newsletter² full of new developments, and he maintains an impressive, if unannotated, links page².

· RM's 1998 paper on the total cost of IT ownership.

EDUCATION AS A SUBJECT

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills.

· Mirandanet offers this very good links page¹.

· The SCRE has this list of education journal links , some of them with free full-text.

· Education-line ² is a very valuable service, giving full-text conference and working papers, reports, policy and discussion documents and early research, from The British Education Index. You'll get more hits if you search the index (19 hits for "dyslexia") rather than the thesaurus (2 hits for "dyslexia"). Use the advanced search for combining terms. The value lies in its updatedness - it's mostly 1998 onwards, so what there is, is on current topics. There's also a chronological listing of educational conferences with links.

Among documents indexed by Education-online:

· Curriculum Change: a study of the implementation of GNVQs¹¹ (Jeremy Highams' Sept 2002 paper to BERA - or there is the longer version for the post-14 group¹¹)

· Education online is among the links at this American Educational Research Association¹² page to well over 100 freely accessible online Electronic Journals in the Field of Education

· History of Education site.

· The Scottish Council for Research in Education has its research reports available to download¹².

· ERIC¹ is an American education database. ERIC digests are indexed here¹.

· Our subscription to the Times Higher Education Supplement ¹ means that we have free access to the archive. Click on "subscriber login", then put in subscription ref: 203493, password: SDCTQ25BY

· The Centre for Educational Sociology summarises its key research findings in briefings ² (albeit with a Scottish bias) which are available in pdf format.

· The Thematic Network of Teacher Education (TNTEE) has free full-text publications & journal articles.

· Triangle ¹ offer free full-text access to some of its on-line education journals, including International Studies in Sociology of Education¹, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood¹,Education and Ageing ¹and Technology, Pedagogy and Education¹ (formerly Journ al of IT in FE).

EDUCATIONAL ORGANISATIONS (see also ILT , QUALITY AND ASSESSMENT , DFES )

· CESI links area for post-16.¹⁰ These are the headings: Learning + Skills Council: key information;Jobcentre Plus programmes and contracts;Modern Apprenticeships; Connexions service (including EMAs); Individual Learning Accounts; Basic Skills; Key Skills; Standards & quality improvement; Skills & workforce development; National Learning Targets; New Deal; European Social Fund - co-financing.

· The June 2002 Consultation Document "Success For All: Reforming Further Education and Training ", the analysis of responses¹ to it, and the green paper on 14-19: extending opportunities, raising standards ⁹.

· One of the most thorough sets of links must be this NFER page¹².

· The Learning and Skills development agency ⁸ (LSDA) site, replacing FEDA, contains the full text of many publications, including several issues of the journal College Research. Many FEDA publications are available on the LSDA site - if you still have the old address but have trouble locating them, you can substitute lsda.org for feda.ac. in the address, and put /files in between uk and /pdf. It works!

· OFSTED has the FE inspection reports from April 2001 accessible from this reports page ¹². Perhaps even more importantly, it has Inspecting post-16 with guidance on self-evaluation (32 subject areas - search publication for " Inspecting post-16 " ), the Common Inspection Framework¹¹, and the Handbook for Inspecting colleges¹¹.

· The Learning & Skills Council ¹¹. - this CESI page is a handy set of links¹⁰. The LSC still carries an archive of FEFC inspection reports and publications. If you can't trace something, but still have the old FEFC address, try changing "fefc.ac" to "lscdata.gov" - this actually works!

· Most of the key quality documents relating to FE are available through the RQA site¹¹ (this publication page¹² is useful - many items are from LSDA) which also has these links¹¹.

· SLIM¹¹ (Skills and Learning Intelligence Module) has published "Skills issues in the South-West - the SW in figures 2002"¹⁰, which considers the levels of skills in the region, demand and supply, training, and the labour market. Tables and graphs listed at the end are accessible as Excel documents.

· The South West Regional Assembly has published "Who owns the Learning and Skills Agenda?"(2002) ⁹.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication ⁷; chapter 5 covers education.

· HERO is "the official gateway site to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations", and has a neat sensitive map.

· But Wolverhampton's sensitive map of UK higher education institutions ¹¹ has got more on it, even if it's a bit untidier, and it has an incomplete one of Further Education colleges ¹¹ (SDC isn't on it, but the substitute list of colleges has been replaced by this JISC RSC list⁷ which completely omits the south-west!).

· Never mind, our RSC has this map of SW colleges ² - no longer interactive, but there's a full set of links underneath.

· The TES is working on a definitive FE colleges links list⁷. Bubl's⁷ got one as well.

· Here’s the USA equivalent from College search².

· For Learning in Europe, see the Europe section and the links I've copied from "passport to mobility". Other international links a bit further down.

· I suppose the virtual 6th form list will eventually have links.

· Niss⁸ (leads to many organisations’ sites)

· NILTA - National Info & Learning Technologies Assoc

· FENC

· The Marchmont Observatory ⁹ "exists to capture the knowledge of a learning network ", working alongside the UFI; its national partners are Univ Exeter (where it's based), the TUC and the OU. A main theme is the dissemination of good practice, and there is a searchable database. But it's quite a big site and needs a site search tool.

· The General Teaching Council site has some good research reports tucked away - not very easy to trace. They include "Raising standards through classroom assessment" (we have "Inside the black box" in the library), and the use of ICT.

· Advisory Centre For Education

· University of Plymouth ¹

· University of Exeter

· UCAS site.

International

· The International Centre for Distance Learning features a database of providers and a literature database.

Here is a list of university sites worldwide.

· UNEVOC⁹ (International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training) is "dedicated to developing and improving technical and vocational education and training in UNESCO's Member States".

· WCCES⁹ (World Council of Comparative Education Societies)

· Why are some HE sites used more than others? The HEINUS project ² is attempting to find out.

DFES / DFEE

· To find stuff on the DFEE / DFES site, use the search box on the home page ¹²; you may then get a fuller search screen to help you. You can treat this like Google - check the "all words" box and put in several to reduce hits. If you use the "Publications" button, you have to start classifying what you're looking for.

· DfES Learning and Skills Gateway¹⁰.

· Adult Learners' Gateway¹⁰.

· The Lifelong Learning website ². A catalogue of pilots² is available.

· Many of the DFES's statistical publications are available on-line - this is the site map ¹, and the subject index page¹, or you may prefer this index page ¹ which features the latest data.

· DfES NVQ section¹¹.

· Research brief 191 "Informal learning and widening participation"¹² by Jim Cullen of the Tavistock Institute.

· The old HEQE is superseded by HEFCE's Innovations site¹⁰ which coordinates projects on preparing students for the world of work.

· UK Government thinking may centre on the DFES, but the Policy Library's¹⁰ database contains a number of policy papers on education from various influential organisations such as think tanks.

Among other official documents:

· National Audit Office: Improving student achievement in Higher Education¹¹.

QUALITY AND ASSESSMENT, EXAM BOARDS ETC.

· QCA ⁹ - Some of its documents can be downloaded, such as "Managing curriculum 2000", and "GCSE, GCE, VCE & GNVQ code of practice 2001/2"

· QCA Curriculum and assessment page¹⁰; 14-19 page¹⁰.

· QAA - Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, including Subject Review Reports. Here's the link to the index of Plymouth's.

· Edexcel ¹⁰

· OCR ¹ (Oxford, Cambridge & RSA Exams) homepage.

· AQA website (for former SEG, NEAB, C&G)

· City and Guilds ¹

· Ofsted

· Standards site

· AEV (Assessment, Examination & Verification).

· Exam results: Edexcel's final stats¹¹ distinguish types of institution. The BBC has a comprehensive set¹¹ (scroll down). The JCGQ¹¹.

· Exam results for Devon Schools¹¹.

PLAGIARISM

· The JISC Plagiarism site ¹² - and the JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service .²

· Plagiarism: A Good Practice Guide A collaborative paper from JISC and Oxford Brookes.

· Some useful links¹⁰ at LTSS. Many, though, lead to commercial software.

· The Learning and Teaching Support Network business site has a new paper on plagiarism ¹⁰ in Management Education, and this discusses a range of issues and lists various programmes.

· The Academic Integrity page² on Ethics Updates is also relevant.

· A neat little warning page at Bangor.

COPYRIGHT

· The Patent Office Copyright section ⁸ is an excellent place to start looking for the facts - and the rest of the site⁸for information on trade marks, designs ands patents.

· The Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance area of CILIP has some detailed information.

· The main copyright body for colleges is the CLA¹¹. FE support materials are here¹¹. "All licences which expire on 31 July 2002 will continue in effect until further notice." This page on internet copyright makes sober reading. LACA promotes a somewhat different view.

· Page of links on Copyright & the internet dating from June 2001.

· For copyright in the arts and media, Design and Artists Copyright Society Limited is the main authority.

· A useful VADS document " Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice"⁸ .

· Here is a thoughful article on new media and copyright from Kim Veltman.

EARLY YEARS (see also CHILDREN )

· QCA Early Years Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage⁹ (May 2000).

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (Usually still classified under "Special Educational Needs")

· The new Special Educational Needs code of practice is available online.

· SEMERC has many information resources.

· Linkbank's² page of links.

· TechDis ¹ supports the further and higher education community in all aspects of technology and disabilities and/or learning difficulties. The Resources section contains items on SENDA & IT.

CORE CURRICULUM / BASIC SKILLS / SKILLS FOR LIFE (checked 20 Jun 02)

· The essential documents can be downloaded from this Basic Skills Agency page.

· Or from this publications page at Read Write plus , which is the Dfes website for Skills for Life.

· Download "Delivering Skills for Life". Download the National Strategy. Or here.

· CESI has this links page⁹ to key documents.

· Edexcel provide a neat resume¹⁰ of "Skills for Life: The LSC Adult Literacy and Numeracy Delivery Plan". And here's the AVA briefing.

KEY SKILLS

· Key sites include: Key skills support programme¹⁰; DFES; QCA (&, separately, its KS for developing employability); Edexcel¹⁰; AQA ¹²; City & Guilds; ASDAN.

· Key skills in Context ¹⁰; activities are provided which match the core skills against 4 themes: Europe, Food, Money management, News.

· Key Skills Policy and practice - questions answered.²

· Support4learning has these links to resources.

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY see also ILT

· By summarising their report "Exploring e-learning"⁹, the IES provides a handy guide to its pros and cons for the firm.

TRAINING (see also Employment & Management)

· The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion is a key website for training issues, with some of the most useful links pages around - use the headings on the modestly-placed blue band on the right. And since the site search is powered by Google, valuable documents can be tracked down relatively quickly.

· The FENTO (Further Education National Training Organisation) website contains many documents in the form of consultation papers, guidelines, standards documents, reports, newsletters etc, such as the Standards for teaching & supporting learning in FE.

· And here are the other NTOs., such as the e-skills NTO.

· The Sector Skills Development Agency ¹⁰underpins the new SSC network. Download its published documents here. There are 5 trailblazers.

· Skillsbase: the skills and labour market information website.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication ¹: chapter 5 includes training statistics.

· Modern Apprenticeships - essential links page from CESI.¹⁰

· If you’re after some basic practical skills (such as using chopsticks, burping a baby, ironing a shirt,…) try learn2com ², the “ability utility”.

· The European Training Village ¹ is "Europe's virtual community for vocational education and training professionals". Among online texts is The need for competences due to the increasing use of information and communication technologies ¹, a review by Boreham and Lammont, identifies the ICT skills gap, considers aspects like teleworking and homeworking, and uses words like "informatisation".

· By summarising their 2001 report "Exploring e-learning"⁹, the IES provides a handy guide to its pros and cons for the firm.

STUDY SKILLS

· Referencing and citing works - there are 2 leaflets on the college intranet, on citing references , & listing info sources.

The following Universities have comprehensive study skills sites available to all. Bear in mind that some details refer to their own libraries and aren't universal, and that there will be some links that can only be used their own students.

· University of Plymouth Study Skills ¹² (aimed at FD) - similar to their Learning Skills leaflets ¹¹ and covering a broad range of topics:

1. Starting Out in Higher Education

2. Getting Organised

3. Learning from Lectures and Seminars

4. Reading Skills

5. Note-taking and Note-making Techniques

6. Planning and Writing Essays

7. Writing Reports

8. Giving Presentations

9. Revising for Exams and Tests

10. Links to useful learning skills sites

· University of the West of England Finding Information Tutorial⁹.

· Heriot Watt Finding information on your subject ⁹.

· University of Glasgow Library skills tutorials ¹².

· South Bank University Study Skills Survival Guide 2000

· University of Southampton Study Skills Website ¹⁰

· University of Sunderland Study Skills guide²

· Support4learning's Study skills & learning support page .

· The University of Iowa offers Karla's guide to internet citation - 13 links.

· Advice to students on plagiarism can be found at Northwestern University.

· Advice on quoting and copyright – try "The copyright website", and this links page from the interesting Thinkquest ².

· Here's a links page to US study skills sites² - a good variety of different skills.

· St.Thomas' Uni at St. Paul, Minnesota has a thorough page of study guides ², neatly arranged by topic, including learning with others, project skills…

· If you're looking for internet searching skills, remember the RDN Virtual Training Suite⁹, and other sites here

SOCIAL SCIENCES

· A variety of Internet tutorials for HE ¹⁰ are on offer at the RDN.

· SOSIG ¹⁰ is THE social science gateway

· Regard ², run by the Economic & Social Research Council ², is at advanced level, providing an index to research papers.

· This Anthony Giddens page at the LSE² includes some useful links to his papers on, for instance, globalisation and society and his 1999 Reith lectures on the subject.

· Here's the previously mentioned Blackwell Cultural Studies ¹ Resources site.

· Free resources for methods in evaluation and social research from this site.

· University of California, San Diego's "Data on the Net" site has links to 750 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data and the like. Links are well-annotated.

SOCIOLOGY

· The RDN tutorial on internet skills¹, aimed at HE. It's hosted by SOSIG, which has a significant sociology gateway¹⁰.

· Chris Livesey's Sociology central ¹⁰ is a useful starting place, aimed at A-level. In particular, browse the on-line resources and the links, which include plenty of study skills suggestions.

· Aimed at university level (and with some links specific to the campus), Kirstyn Radford's University of York links site¹⁰ is worth bearing in mind.

· Jay Coakley has a good recent page on social control, justice and transformation, structure, institutions, knowledge, concepts, culture, ideology, interaction¹.

· SociologyOnline¹⁰ is strong on post-modernism, globalization, criminology.

· I found the Giddens page via this Blackwell's links page ¹, which is worth exploring. Here are the links for social theory¹.

· Polity¹⁰ also has a good links website built around key sociological themes.

· NelsonThornes Social issues site¹⁰ discusses social policy and welfare issues, and now features full-text articles by leading academics, such as "Sociological Theory and Disability" by Rob Creasy as well as helpful links.

· The National Centre for Social Research¹ produces a variety of surveys (detailed on this useful publications list¹), and has resumes of each recent edition of British Social Attitudes. Here are quite detailed resumes of the chapters of the 17th ed. 2000-1: Focusing on diversity¹.

· The Centre for Educational Sociology summarises its key research findings in briefings² (albeit with a Scottish bias) which are available in pdf format.

· The first 11 issues of Sociological Research Online (1996-8)¹⁰ are free on the internet. With later issues there's some doubt; some are subscription only, but others can be accessed unexpectedly, so try. It publishes " publishes high quality applied sociology" – fairly advanced but less theoretical than:

· The Electronic Journal of Sociology¹⁰ - can be accessed free; its content is heavyweight and theoretical.

· The Prelim Summary Archive, a collection of student summaries of seminal works can be found at the University of Chicago. Topics include classical theory, gender and family, social change, culture… - they date from 1997 onwards, and there's another set from 94-5.

· Commission for Racial Equality.

· Here's a page reviewing the major sociology textbooks ¹⁰ (dated 6^th April 2001).

· Links pages that might lead somewhere useful: Bryn Hafren School.

Social Statistics.

· The National Statistics¹ site is invaluable. Among the major sources available free are Social Trends, Family Spending, Living in Britain and Regional Trends, all accessible from the Virtual Bookshelf page¹, mostly in the Social & Welfare section.

· These indicators are available for each local authority: Claimant Count; Deprivation; Earnings; Employment; Formation Rates; GVA (GDP); Qualifications; Survival Rates ; Unemployment as part of the Business Competitiveness Indicators - South West Page²; Other regions.²

COMMUNITY ISSUES, EXCLUSION & REGENERATION see also UNEMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY and SOCIAL WORK, SOCIAL SERVICES and VOLUNTARY SERVICE - and PLANNING

· Community Education Development Centre site¹

· renewal.net¹¹ is for anyone already involved in neighbourhood renewal or wanting to get involved. It includes how to guides, case studies, project summaries and much more.

· Support4learning's community development, regeneration links page ⁹.

· The Joseph Rowntree Foundation site ⁹'s findings, reports, and press releases will be of interest - for example, this paper on "Developing effective community involvement strategies".

· The Government's Urban Policy Unit² - this page gives links to the areas of responsibility.

· The Association of Town Centre Management¹² site covers practical urban problems in the UK.

· "On the waterfront" is an on-line magazine on waterfronts, public art, urban development and civic participation, with articles on regeneration issues. Many of them reflect the fact that it orginates in Barcelona, but Cardiff, Chesterfield and Hamburg are typical of other places mentioned.

· Also on the arts theme, Art for Social Spaces : Public Sculpture and Urban Regeneration in Post-war Britain² is one of the Designing Britain modules. Good case studies, text pages etc, but the image archive doesn't work.

· E-enabling the Voluntary and Community Sectors is an online November 2001 report on taking advantage of ICT.

· Demonstrating the helpfulness of the internet in shrinking the world, this paper by Ann Bridgwood of the Arts Council explains "Social Inclusion: policy and research in the arts" to a New Zealand audience.

· The Cabinet Office's Social Exclusion Unit ². Its more recent reports, including those on runaways, neighbourhood renewal and reducing re-offending, can be downloaded.

· The Office for Public Management¹² site has a flashy intro. It offers downloadable papers including: Managing for Social Result, and several on Social Exclusion.

· English Partnerships ⁹ is the national force for regeneration and development.

FUNDRAISING, GRANTS (for charities see Social Work and scroll down)

· The Institute of Fundraising's¹ excellent information section contains forms and agreements, charities and the law, statistical information, costs of fundraising, and plenty of links to related sites.

· UK fundraising ¹ has links to some grant-making organisations and advice sites.

· Grants online ⁹ , which gives information on financial resources and other assistance available to support the development and regeneration of local economies and communities, is now subscription-based although you can use the search to glean hints.

· The Community Fund¹ (disdvantaged, charities, voluntary) and the New Opportunities Fund ¹ (health, education and environment projects) are Lottery Distributors created to award grants in the areas described. They will merge.

· Grants for Business - try j4b².

WOMEN’S & GENDER ISSUES

· Joan Korenman has a major gateway site with 600 links.

· SOSIG has this links area , including links to full-text government documents, and also hosts the RDN internet skills tutorial for women's studies ¹.

· Taking a world development view, a list of gender issues sites, and the research area "Women and the internet" are both provided by ELDIS (hosted by the Institute of Development Studies).

· Internet Women's History Sourcebook is extremely impressive.

· Lesley Hall's site considers the history and culture of feminism and sexuality.

· The Center for Women and Information Technology ² is comprehensive.

· Feminist.com is an on-line women's community started in 1995.

· The Feminist Majority Foundation website.

· Isis⁷ is another impressive international feminist organisation, based in the Philippines, with an excellent website. Much of the high quality content of its tri-annual magazine, Women in action⁷, can be read online. There's also We⁷, a weekly newsletter of high pertinence.The site has a tremendous subject-arranged and annotated web resource list⁷.

· The website for Status of Women Canada⁹ contains an impressive amount of literature, such as these documents and videos on Gender-Based Analysis⁹.

· Links from the University of Nevada on architecture / planning.

· A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for women's studies

PSYCHOLOGY

· SOSIG Psychology Gateway ¹⁰ provides access to psychology resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised. SOSIG also hosts the RDN internet skills tutorial for psychology¹⁰.

· Psych Web¹⁰ has a megalist¹⁰ of psychology-related resources, full-length classics, & lots of other resources.

· Although called an "Encyclopedia of Psychology "¹⁰, this site from Jacksonville State University is a database offering over 2000 links to a variety of articles and organisations.

· Psycoloquy ² is an archive that will lead you to Cogprints, a full-text archive. Here's the psychology subject index ¹, with 108 articles on developmental. If that's not working, try searching here¹⁰.

· Exploratorium ’s⁸ top sites in this area.

· Hammersmith's ¹⁰ links page.

· Psychological Science on the Net⁹ is an excellent collection of resources.

· PsychScholar⁹ is John Krantz' site at Hanover College. It includes this index to Electronic Journals⁹.

· The University of Plymouth SALMON ¹⁰ site has advanced course materials on the biological bases of behaviour, evolutionary psychology and other areas.

· Mark Lauder's Psychology site¹⁰.

· Phil Banyard has a page ¹ of Psychology links, and here's his home page¹ with some more connections and a bluffer's guide to passing A level.

· King Alfred's CHE links pages ¹⁰.

· Psychology dictionaries online: Your Dictionary's Online dictionary links¹⁰. One it doesn't give is PsyBox¹⁰.

· John Sutton of Macquarie Univ rightly points out that there's a lot of weird stuff around; here are his cautiously recommended links for cognitive science and philosophy.

· One entire book on the net is the Biology of Mind by Bownds ².

· Thoemmes Press has extracts from Wozniak's Classics in Psychology, 1855–1914: Historical Essays available online.

· The Phobia list is what you'd expect; this one's alphabetical by the name of the phobia, this one's by subject. The most abstruse I've found are a fear of chins and of wax statues.

· Psychology dictionaries online: Your Dictionary's Online dictionary links¹⁰. One it doesn't give is PsyBox¹⁰.

LAW

· SOSIG's "Teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for lawyers ¹, and the SOSIG Law Gateway⁹ providing guidance and access to global legal information resources on the Internet.

· Access to Law¹¹ is a really excellent guide to online resources, although it includes paid services we don't subscribe to.

· Acts of parliament from 1988 onwards are now available, and Statutory Instruments from 1987.

· Some key older acts can be found on the excellent Swarb.co.uk ⁸, which also has some access to key case law.

· British and Irish Legal Information Institute or BAILII - 17 databases give access to almost all freely available legal material.

· Delia Venables' Legal Resources site⁸has four areas - individuals, lawyers, companies, and students⁸- and they can have free access to her internet newsletter.

· Asif Tufal's Law Teacher.net¹⁰. As FERL says: Free lecture notes, case notes, statutes and web resources for use on AS/A Level Law (OCR and AQA specifications) and ILEx Part II (professional) courses. Also useful for LLB, BA and CPE courses. Subjects covered: English Legal System, Contract Law, Criminal Law and Tort Law.

· LAWLINKS ⁹ Legal information on the internet from Sarah Carter – (some links only available to UKC users). If you are confused by the initials of law reports references, the same site's list of legal abbreviations¹¹ is also recommended.

· Sarah Carter has also produced A Guide to the UK Legal System¹, a straightforward outline that includes key information links.

· University of Bristol –“a set of jumping-off points for legal research”.

· The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies has this resources⁸ page, plus this Eagle-I⁸ law links page, although many are only accessible through the IALS itself.

· British Academy law portal ⁹.

· House of Lords Judgments delivered since 14 November 1996 – and Public Bills⁹

· Lord Chancellor’s Dept ⁹ This WILL one day include a statute law database!

· Sir Robin Auld's Review of the Criminal Courts 2001.

· Information on sentencing from Six Pump Court¹².

· There are copious links on the Cyber Law Centre.

· Global Legal Information Network¹⁰ (GLIN)

· The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux ² website carries news, briefings, press releases and various reports. You can search, or use the social policy page² to browse many of these.

· The Web Journal of Current Legal Issues is available full-text.

· Free legal information and advice websites, often providing useful summmaries in answer to queries, include Compact law, LAW on the WEB (in danger of submerging under Ally McBeal references), Free Lawyer, and Lawsolve .

· Just ask is the Community Legal Service website – you can search for advice links.

· Infolaw ² has free access to some of its databases and information pages, including useful specialist links, although full access costs.

· The Magistrates Association¹² has information on the working of the courts.

European and World Law

· The EUR-Lex portal ², a 'one-stop shop' for European Union law, opened in June 2001.

· For International and Global issues, either ASIL ⁸ or the World Justice Information Network (WJIN)⁸ may be good starting points.

· Although LLRX⁹ is based in the USA, the advice it offers for searching the internet has universal applications, and not just for law professionals.

CRIME

· Some details of the British Crime Survey 2000, plus research links, are here.

· Chapter 9 of Social Trends 2002 is relevant.

ETHICAL ISSUES

· Corporate Watch

· Ethical Consumer

CONSUMER ISSUES

· The Competition Commission (replaced the MMC).

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (see also Medical , Social work , Welfare , Children , Community issues & Unemployment)

· The new (June 2002) VTS tutorial on internet skills for Health & Social Care ¹², for FE. There are also tutorials aimed at HE for those studying Allied Health, Social Policy, Social Research Methods, Social Statistics, and Social Work here ⁹.

· JISC has a resource guide for Life Sciences and Health Studies ¹².

· Crucially useful government statistics and information - the electronic versions of the ONS health and care publications , and the social and welfare publications.

· For instance, the August 2001 publication "Geographic variations in health", with maps, tables and graphs. Much of the data can be downloaded into Excel.

· Our Healthier Nation is a promising site. Professionals can find information through this gateway. Access to a good range of health-related databases is from this very clear page ¹.

· The Public Health Laboratory Service site¹ contains an enormous amount of information on infectious and communicable diseases in the UK.

· Use the thumbnail on the navigation pane to go to the relevant chapters of Social Trends 2002.

· Living in Britain, the report from the General Household Survey 1998, is available on the internet.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication⁷: chapter 7 "Living in the SW", has some relevant statistics.

· Healthinfo4u² is a health project run to give people access to information usually only available to health professionals. You order the articles and they are sent to you. There is also a link to the NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia² which contains fairly brief entries aimed at the lay person.

· Nmap⁹ (hosted by BIOME) is "Your guide to quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied health Professions".

· SOSIG has a Social Welfare section¹², with sub-sections such as Social services, and a What's new section.

· Implementing the 'Wider Public Health' Agenda - Evidence from Systematic Reviews of Research¹. The August 2000 report covers – cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke, accidents, mental health, education, social care and social welfare, and crime, drugs and alcohol.

· The Help for Health Trust site⁸includes a database of self-help and support organisations as well as NHS news.

· These British Library Specialist information services (providing free online information about recent publications) might be of interest:

· Social Policy Information Service

· Health Care Information Service ²

· Care and Health.com¹⁰ is for those involved in social work and care, and the health professions.

· Among BMJ books online: Qualitative Research In Health Care, 2nd ed, edited by Catherine Pope and Nicholas Mays ¹¹, with full index¹¹.

Health sites abound on the internet. The EU is concerned about the standards of them¹¹.

· An excellent-looking one is Health in Focus ¹⁰, intelligent, comprehensive and aimed at the ordinary person.

· Patient UK ² is a directory of UK health, disease and related websites.

· The National electronic Library for Health Programme ² (pilot site) is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, and forms part of the NHS on the internet ² site. The Official Documents site ² will also lead you to publications such as the NHS plan ², and the annual Health surveys. The intended site for patients and the public is NHS Direct Online ².

· The Health Development Agency ¹ has replace the Health Education Authority; the website includes HealthPromis, the National health promotion database ¹, plus others listed here¹. The same page has websites for educational use like Mind, Body and Soul (KS4). Issues of the magazine Health Development Today ¹ are online.

· Ethnic minority health needs at this government site ².

· A number of free publications can be downloaded here ², including "art for health" and "Coronary heart disease guidance" - use the links at the bottom for full lists.

· Bandolier¹: evidence-based health care, a print and internet journal.

· Worthwhile American sites to try are WebMD¹ and drkoop ². Go Ask Alice ² is Columbia Univ’s health education site. And Healthfinder ² is the US government’s site.

· Nelson Thornes publishers have a good website for Marsh’s “Social Policy and Welfare”¹ – one of the best features is this links page ¹.

· The EC has good sites on health: eg EC site map for public health ¹ & Smoking links page ².

· Sleep disorders site .²

· Drugscope ² has been formed by the merger of ISDD and SCODA. The excellent site contains Drugsearch ¹, with thorough descriptions of drugs and associated terms, a library of 80,000 abstracts, and a lot more.

· Drugscope also manages the Dept Health's Drug Education and Prevention Information Service¹, a site for those providing drug education and prevention for young people, their parents and carers.

· Also focussing on drugs, the National Treatment Agency¹ is from the NHS.

· This HDA page gives three more drugs sites¹.

· The website for the charity AVERT¹ has plenty of information about AIDS. It's a slow site.

· The Eating Disorders Association site has good introductory information.

· Anred¹ covers Anorexia and related eating disorders.

· Alan Hughes has a Homestead site with advice on NVQ care.

· Robert Gordon University has this page of information on social services and policy in Britain ⁹.

· The web site of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre ² has several reports available including Qualit y in Counselling in Primary Care, Health services for homes: a survey of access to health care by nursing and residential homes for older people in England¹², and Identifying predictors of high quality care in English general practice¹² among others.

Travel Health:

· MASTA (Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad) is particularly known for its information on health, and immunisations.

· The text of the book "International Travel & Health¹" is on the WHO site.

SOCIAL POLICY AND WELFARE

· Internet skills tutorial on Social Policy⁷ from VTS.

· Some good university sites on social policy: at Robert Gordon¹(Paul Spicker's online book giving a superb, clear analysis), and at Bath University⁹ (a virtual library that's a bit whizzy).

· NelsonThornes Social issues site¹ discusses social policy and welfare issues, and features full-text articles by leading academics as well as helpful links.

· One site to get you started on care for older people: the Centre for Policy on Ageing.

· And the University of Keele's Centre for Social Gerontology has these links.

NURSING

· The Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting internet skills tutorial⁹.

· Nursing and Midwifery Council¹⁰

· Nmap⁹ (hosted by BIOME) is "Your guide to quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied health Professions". It's a bit slow, but the excellent and full annotations may save time in selecting results.

· NursINFO ¹² from the NHS southwest, is divided into general, midwifery, mental health, elderly, community etc. - each section has a directory of training organisations and a selection of useful internet resources.

MEDICAL

· The Merck Manual ¹² is a thorough guide to diseases and disorders.

· BIOME² is "your guide to quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences". Within this gateway, OMNI covers health and medicine ². OMNI also hosts the VTS internet skills tutorial for Medicine¹. There's also MedHist ², a database of resources on medical history.

· Through the NeLH, The Cochrane Library ² is now freely available.

· (US) National Library of Medicine gateway¹ and homepage.

· PubMed¹ gives access to 12 million MEDLINE citations and abstracts.

· PubMed Central ¹ , on the other hand, gives full-text access to an archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences, with a number of medical journals.

· Bmj ² British Medical Journal on-line: full text from 1996.

· Among BMJ books available: Randomised Controlled Trials¹¹ (Jadad, 1998); Evidence Based Gastroenterology and Hepatology¹¹ (McDonald, 1998); updates to Evidence-based pediatrics & child health¹¹ (Moyer).

· Highwire¹ (Stanford University) offers free access to "250" sites, mostly in science and medicine, and searchable as a complete database.

· Hunter Health has this list of about 180 free on-line medical journals ¹, but you must search them separately.

· The NLM site hosts the Surgeon General's reports¹².

· Medical, Pharmacy, Psychiatry, Dental, Veterinary Journals from Priory Lodge Education ⁹ - some good free stuff here.

· SEEK¹² (Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge) gives links to the latest news sources¹².

· MedicineNet is a “network of (American) doctors who produce comprehensive, up-to-date health information for the public”.

· Medscape ¹ is an information bank with 48 topic areas. You should be able to register free.

· Medweb is another gateway, at Emory University. Just check out the new sites for a sobering insight into the expansion of the internet - they added 41 on 17^th February 2001 (but only 30 in the first week of July - so perhaps a plateau is in sight).

· Patient UK provides well-organized links to information about health issues.

· St. James' Hospital, Dublin, provides this links page⁹.

· "Poisons, Potions and Toxins - Toxicology Sources on the Web" by Teresa Loughbrough ² - a Freepint article from Feb 2003.

· Meningitis Research Fdntn.

· British Epilepsy Association site.

· Here's a site providing useful information about anaphylaxis.

· Among sites useful for researching ME/CFS, the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation¹² is a good source of information.

· First aid, etc: self-care at WhatshouldIdo.com looks useful.

· St Loye's has a list of occupational therapy links, including companion websites for books, lots of local sites, disability, and health.

PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOTHERAPY, MENTAL HEALTH

· emental-health.com¹ offers free registration to access " information, news and discussions relevant to schizophrenia and related psychoses, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, depression and bipolar disorder".

· National Register of Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists (NRHP) homepage

· Psychiatry page from Priory has some good material.

· Sheffield's Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies has papers and books on-line.

· Mind's site includes free on-line publications. There's a piggy-bank for donations.

· The Mental Health Foundation⁸ also has a good site, with excellent search and a what's new section. So far, resources on their subsidiary Mental Health in Later Life website⁸ are confined to dementia.

· A hyper guide to the Mental Health Act.

· Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health website.

· Mind Out for Mental Health⁸campaigns against stigma and discrimination surrounding Mental Health, in the workplace and society.

· Mental Help Net¹⁰

STRESS

· International Stress Management Association has numerous articles from "Stress News" available free online, and a good links page

· The Health & Safety Executive has these useful resources on work-related stress.

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

· Try one of the VTS of internet skills tutorials¹⁰ such as the RDN Internet tutorial on Allied Health ¹⁰.

· The Wellcome Trust has a good page of recommended resources for Alternative Medicine ¹⁰.

· Catherine Zollman And Andrew Vickers series of articles In The BMJ called ABC Of Complementary Medicine ¹⁰ covers a range of therapies - and here's a list of its collection of other articles ¹.

· The Alternative Medicine Foundation ⁹ features Herbmed, - a large interactive, evidence-based herbal formulary, and an excellent set of resource guides, on various therapies, Tibetan and Ayurveda, and diseases inc cancer, auto-immune, cardiovascular.

· Patient UK's Complementary medicine page ⁹.

· The Alternative Medicine Centre ¹ looks a better-than-average site.

· The University of Pittsburgh hosts this Alternative Medicine Homepage ⁹, with database access ⁹.

· Medline Plus alternative medicine gateway¹.

· The (US) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ⁹, with access to the CRISP database of abstracts.

· MedWebPlus has this section on alternative and complementary medicine².

· Holistic healing web page ⁹ has articles, documents and case histories. To reach its large gateway links page, make sure you scroll down to the link index.

· The British Holistic Medical Association⁹ has one or two older articles from its newsletter online, but its main point is the comprehensive links section.

· It's probably useful to be aware of arguments against CAM; this article⁹ from physicist Robert Park is an example, on the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal site⁹.

· Complementary Therapies in Mental Health⁸: a Mental Health Foundation briefing.

· Medscape (for which you need to register) has an alternative medicine topic centre .

THERE ARE NOW LOTS OF CAM LINK PAGES ON THE NET: HERE'S A SELECTION.

· Open Directory links ; Family Medicine; Health Care Information Resources;

· Devon doctor Michael Dixon wrote this (June 2001) Observer article on integrating complementary medicine into the NHS .

· The Boiron⁹ site has information about Homeopathy.

· These homeopathy articles and some of these homeopathy journals can be read online.

· The British Homoeopathic Library⁹ has an online database giving abstracts of documents.

· Aromacaring¹ covers Aromatherapy and special needs. Here's a list of consultation and treatment record forms.¹

· Jane Ellwood's section of the Aromacaring site¹ has useful resources.

· The British Medical Acupuncture Society's Web Site has some useful articles ("resources and links").

· The Association of Reflexologists website ¹⁰ has selected articles from its journal Reflexions¹⁰, and research links.

· The Reflexology Research Project claims to be the best reflexology site on the net.

· Here is the text of a paper by Kevin Clark at Missouri Western: an examination of dietary influences on delinquency.¹

Palliative Care

· Australia's Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education¹ site - limited online resources, but these links¹ may be helpful.

Dramatherapy:

Check out the links at the end of performing arts .

· The National Network for the Arts in Health⁹ website is modest but interesting.

HAIR, BEAUTY & COSMETOLOGY

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Hairdressing and Beauty¹⁰

· Hairdressing and Beauty Industry Authority ¹⁰ (HABIA) is the NTO.

· Try the London Institute web guide for cosmetic science ¹¹, or its health & beauty ¹¹ guide, which includes hair and make-up .

· A JISC internet guide to hairdressing with links ¹².

· The Hammersmith links page is quite thorough.

· Bradford College has these links¹⁰.

· Good and bad salon practices are illustrated in these FERL images² (scroll down a little).

· The treatments section of the BABTAC site¹¹ (British Association of Beauty Therapy & Cosmetology) looks useful.

· Professional Beauty¹¹ has a similar "Treatments Explained" section but it doesn't look as thorough.

· Cosmetics Unmasked¹² is a website to accompany the book by Steve and Gina Antczak. It includes a directory of the ingredients that go into cosmetic products, and the latest news.

· Here's the Guild of Professional Beauty Therapists.

· About.com's beauty page² is better than most and has links on cosmetics history.

· The mammoth links directory⁹ on the US commercial site Cache Beauty supply has an extraordinary way of ensuring you don't have to scroll down the index pages, but it's a little hard to use.

· For historical research, The Ad*Access Project has images and database information for over 7,000 US and Canadian advertisements between 1911 and 1955, and specialises in Beauty and Hygiene products.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH / SAFETY

· The Health & Safety Executive site contains the text of HSC/HSE leaflets relating to hazards at work .

· The TUC Health and Safety index page.

· Links page at London Hazards Centre .

· Rospa ’s site has plenty of info about safety and accident prevention.

· National Safety Council¹² has useful topic areas, including falls.

· Health and Safety images and signs ² are available on the FERL site.

· Free Advice Sheets about aspects of personal safety ¹⁰ are available on The Suzy Lamplugh Trust website, including advice for drivers, joggers, cyclists, clubbers, those using mobile phones, taxis, transport, internet, etc.

· The Transport & General Workers' Union's Safety Rep’s Handbook is here.¹⁰

· Edinburgh Univ has a really excellent Occupational & Environmental Health links page ⁸ with educational materials, policy, organisations, food health …

· Chartered Institute of Environmental Health¹ - a rather proper & dull site, with full text of things like: briefing note on licensing of food premises (under policy statements).

· The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety has information useful on this side of the Atlantic, on diseases, hazards, and PPE for instance in its Q&A section.

· Also Canadian, and for completists, the Internet Safety Resource¹¹ has 1900 webpages indexed - but I find it a bit hard to search. However, a search for uk threw up quite a useful-looking list.

· The definitive on-line text for display screen equipment safety must be VDU work and the hazards to health from the above-mentioned London Hazards Centre (which has all its publications on-line), but also useful might be the HSE's Working with VDUs.

· RSI-UK is principally a mailserve, but with some links⁸ on Repetitive Strain Injury.

· This article about RSI by Vivienne Sales⁸, ostensibly aimed at librarians and computer workers, actually contains many links on RSI in sports, gardening, and hobbies

HIV/AIDS

· Aidsmap ⁹ is a well-designed site – try the site map.

· National HIV Prevention Information Service .

· Devon’s list ¹ of organisations that can help.

· See also the health education sites above.

SOCIAL WORK, SOCIAL SERVICES and VOLUNTARY SERVICE/CHARITIES see also COMMUNITY ISSUES, EXCLUSION & REGENERATION

· SOSIG offers a tutorial on using the internet for social workers; it includes this basket of web links.

· The Social Care Institute for Excellence¹⁰ (SCIE) has replaced the National Institute for Social Work.

· The Electronic Library for Social Care ¹⁰ is a significant development for social work research still in its early days, with access to CareData (Abstracts and full text of social care literature).

· For advanced work, the Economic and Social Research Council¹¹ has resources online. Regard¹¹ acts as an index. The Economic and Social Data Service² (ESDS) is a new (Jan 2003) national data archiving and dissemination service.

· Community Care ⁹ magazine allows access to much of its past content.

· Care and Health.com¹⁰ is for those involved in social work and care, and the health professions. The Learning Watch, updated by Mike George, is designed to keep everyone up-to-date with new new research, guidance and training materials.

· Devon County Council Social services homepage ⁹, with links to several useful online leaflets. It has an excellent section for the new Supporting People⁹ intiative.

· The NCVO ¹ (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

· The impressive VolResource, "the place to visit for UK voluntary and community sector information", has a good links area ¹. Scroll down for its directory links.

· The SCVO¹ has a large information section.

· Volunteer Development England¹ includes a list of all volunteer bureaux.

· The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux⁹ website carries news, briefings, press releases and various reports. You can search, or use the social policy page⁹ to browse many of these.

· The Australian Institute of Family Studies¹⁰ may not sound very relevant, but it does have a good deal of material accessible online.

· Charities Direct have a superb database¹ to search for charities.

· Charitynet ⁹, from the Charities Aid Foundation, is another good place for comprehensive links to charities.

· The Charity Commission's register ¹¹ doesn't unfortunately, contain links to any of the185,000 listed charities' own sites, though there are email addresses. Here are some other lists of links to charities websites; the OMNI site ⁹; BUBL¹⁰; and the Association of Charitable Foundations ⁹.

HOUSING

· The Centre for Housing Policy at University of York describes areas of its research.

· Chapter 10 of Social Trends 2002 may give useful statistics.

· Housing links page

· Chartered Inst of Housing ² - its links are one of the more useful features.

· Housingnet

· For homelessness issues, Groundswell ² is a worthwhile site with useful links.

· Crisis, the charity working with the homeless, has its free publications available to download.

· Houseweb has advice for buying, selling and mortgages, and statistics eg on house prices.

· Upmystreet is good for detailed information on specific places.

· Homesight's¹⁰ UK page may provide useful links to housing organisations.

· This links list from Lemonaid² covers any organisation that might relate to mortgage problems.

CHILDREN

· QCA Early Years Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage ⁹ (May 2000).

· The Children's House ² provides links to sites associated with children. Here is the "Early Childhood Floor"².

· The associated Australian Institute of Family Studies has an impressive links page ² and access to much online material about the family.

· The WHO child adolescent health & development site ² has data and statistics.

· The National Children's Bureau site ² includes some downloadable resources, among them the 43-page document "Best play "¹⁰, and the Early Childhood Forum's Consultation Response - Better Beginnings: Improving quality and Increasing Provision in Early Year Education and Childcare ¹⁰. Within the site is the Children's Play and Information Service (CPIS)², a specialist information resource providing information on many aspects of children's play, focusing on the ages 5-14 years. There are factsheets on playgrounds.

· The 1998 Green Paper: ‘Meeting the Childcare Challenge’, and DFES reports and good practice guides on early years and childcare services and partnerships, are available here².

· The University of Maine's ECEOL-L website¹⁰ provides links to information about a range of early childhood issues - slow to load.

· National Network for Child Care: the USA organisation's site has on-line resources, such as this page of links to papers on health and safety (lots on playground safety even if the legal aspects are American), plus pages of links to info on development, education, care.

· The Child Poverty Action Group ² site contains its briefings and press releases, plus parts of its publications, including major articles from its journal "Poverty"².

· Young Minds⁸ is the children's mental health charity. Publications⁸ can be downloaded.

· Children and Young People ¹⁰ is a (non-peer-reviewed) online journal published by the Social Education Trust which has straightforward articles on issues about residential care practice. It will probably baffle you at first - to get the actual content of each monthly issue, you need to click on the "Webmag" tab.

· Institute of Child Health Internet Resources^{1 .}

· The companion website for Helen Bee's Developing Child¹ features links and questions.

· The BBC¹ Parenting site has a thorough list of support organisations¹⁰.

· The American parenthoodweb may be worth a look.

· Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood ¹ is a new online, fully-refereed, free-access, international research journal.

· Papers by Bob Holman, Sir William Utting and Roy Parker from the 1998 NISW conference, are in Reshaping Child Care Practice¹⁰ available free full-text on the Electronic Library for Social Care¹⁰.

· Texts of DCC leaflet on adoption/fostering¹, & Child Protection - what can I do?¹.

· Here’s the website for the British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering¹².

· Guidance on setting up day care, nursery and childminding facilities is provided here .

· The Background reading ² on the Health for All Children site might be useful, and some of the links look quite distinctive.

· There are lots of online publications on the UNICEF website, including a short version of The State of the World’s Children 2001, together with interactive maps and a photo essay.

· NSPCC site.

· Among University web subject guides, John Moore's University¹⁰ seems among the best.

DISABILITY (bullets checked Jun 2002) (see also DISABILITY AND EDUCATION (for SENDA), WEB ACCESSIBILITY)

· Government’s Disability site .

· 2003 is European Year of People with Disabilities¹ (EYPD).

· Disability Rights Commission. An important site for legislation. There's an excellent and well-annotated links page to organisations, and briefings with statistical information.

· Jenny Jacklin takes a critical look at the Disability Discrimination Act .

· Disability net information service (Youreable.com) - mainstream consumer site.

· SOSIG has a useful but unwisely-titled "disabled people¹²" page.

· Jim Lubin's links site².

· Ricability has reports on equipment for disability¹¹. Very practical, they look at the choice of products available, including walking frames, domestic applicances, mobility, communication etc.

· The Scottish Sensory Centre online documents discuss practical professional issues; try following links here for further online material.

· Centre for accessible environments : discusses " how the built environment can best be made or modified to achieve inclusion by design". There are design sheets on ramps, and on steps and stairs.

(Disability Access Rights Advice Service. )

Hearing-impairment (checked Jun 2002)

· Centre for Deaf Studies ¹ is, resource-wise, a disappointing site (the Deaf Studies info page is the best bit) but there are links, although strangely not to either of these 2 sites:

· Deafsign has developed fast - it has clever language translators into sign language etc, and items on deaf awareness and education.

· The National Deaf Children's Society has plenty of information. Many of their publications , such as Quality Standards, can be downloaded free.

Other specific impairments (but try the DRC links page) (checked Jun 2002)

· RNIB - Royal National Institute of the Blind.

· a2I¹¹ offers a transcription service for the visually-impaired. On its links page, it has started a directory of restaurants offering braille and large print menus.

· National Autistic Society home page, probably the best place to start for information on autism & Asperger's Syndrome.

· The Sussex Autistic Community Trust⁷ also has an informative site.

· John Wobus' autism-resources site .

· Sense (National Deafblind Rubella Association)

· Jooly's Joint (Multiple Sclerosis)

DISABILITY AND EDUCATION (see below for web accessibility) (checked Jun 2002)

· FERL has a Students with Disabilities Focus Area.¹²

· JISC has a comprehensive page on Disability Legislation and its Effect on Information Services in Further and Higher Education ².

· The NCT / TQEF page of links to key sites on education accessibility.

· The DFES document "Finding Out About People’s Disability: A Good Practice Guide for Further and Higher Education Institutions"

· The AOC toolkit¹⁰.

· The SENDA Draft Code of Practice for post-16 ⁸ educational institutions explains their new duties from September 2002 in the provision of post-16 education and related services for disabled people and students and runs to 80 pages.

· Accessible Curricula: Good Practice for All by Carol Doyle and Karen Robson, jointly published by UWIC Learning & Teaching Support Unit, LTSN Generic Centre and TechDis, is avialable free online. From the preface: " Using this Book will assist you in producing 'barrier-free' course materials and to deliver them appropriately". Here's an alternate location in case the UWIC server goes down.

· Plymouth Uni hosts the SWANDS publication "Senda Compliance in Higher Education"¹¹, a guidance and audit tool.

· National Disability Team is concerned with disability provision in HE. Good links again.

WEB ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY (see also EVALUATION , where there are links to sites that consider all aspects of web design)

· The Open University's NCT / TQEF has this list of links which includes key sites on this. And the Accessibility page explains how the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund's site has been designed to enhance accessibility, with advice for manipulating the site that is transferable elsewhere.

· TechDis is the JISC site supporting all aspects of technology and disability or learning difficulties.

· JISC now has this Advice and Guidance: Accessibility² page, with access to a pdf download.

· The Web Accessibility Initiative . The site contains guidelines and checklists.

· Support4learning's links on web design.

· Another links list on Accessible Web Page Design ² - key list of links & resources to ensure good practice including sites for testing & for graphics.

· The E Access bulletin considers all aspects of access to IT.

· AbilityHub¹⁰ is an American site which looks at assistive technology.

· Is your web site suitable and accessible for those with visual impairment? Here are the RNIB's guidelines ². They make good sense for all users.

· Bobby ² is a tool for Web page authors. It will help them identify changes to their pages needed so users with disabilities can more easily use their Web pages. It had quite a few comments to make about the RNIB guidelines page!

· Ariadne has these relevant articles:

The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people;

GOVERNMENT

· Government Information Service ¹⁰The "Opengov" site is "The easy way to government information and services online". The "What's new" tabs down on the left shows just how fast official info is pouring onto the web. Quick Find ¹ gives you the main directories and topics (scroll down).

· The Office of the e-Envoy is leading the drive to get the UK online.

· Here is Parliament's web service ⁹, including access to select committees and Hansard⁹ back to Nov 1988.

· YouGov.com "intends to promote open government ". You can fill in questionnaires about issues presented by leading journalists.

^·The Government News Service¹, and Wired-gov¹ both bring you the latest news items from government departments. The latter, which arranges items by department, also offers an alerting service.

· Policy library¹⁰ is a directory of British policy and research organisations. Search the database to trace papers produced. Here's a list of UK think tanks¹⁰.

· PolicyBrief⁹ offers a public policy briefing service to the products of think tanks. A fair proportion come from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

· Inforoute will provide direct access to the Government's Information Asset Register - here's the pilot site.

· Office for National Statistics website ⁹ inc info about Census 2001¹⁰. Here's a crucial page of links to electronic versions of their products ¹⁰ - what's available free varies between departments, but it's well worth exploring, and keeping an eye on. Among the valuable sources on there is UK2002: the official yearbook⁹ (formerly Britain: an official yearbook).

· This links page ⁹ might also be a useful shortcut to government online statistics.

· The Official Documents website ¹ provides access to much material published in 2002 by the Stationery Office, including Command Papers and select committee reports. For archive material from 1994-2001, this is the site.

· House of Commons home page with access to research series, Hansard etc.

· No.10 Downing St site - the PM's site.²

· Foreign & Commonwealth Office¹ –inc travel requirements.

· http://www.europa.eu.int/index.htm .

· Website locator for UN system of organizations .

POLITICS

· The Political Studies Association website .

· Richard Kimber (Univ Keele) has a Political Science Resources web page.¹

· Tutor2U's directory has this politics¹⁰ section, with ppt presentations, or you may prefer the power search¹⁰ to specify level, etc. Tip - if you're having problems moving through the presentations, scroll right to find the little arrows, as clicking doesn't always seem to work.

· This is the BOLA politics links page ².

· Policy Studies Institute Including press releases with useful outlines of research findings.

· The Minority Rights Group’s links page has a good list of international human rights organisations, under links.

· Vincent Ferraro has copious links to document, texts and sources on politics inc US foreign policy , think tanks, theorists ….

Routledge has some promising-looking links.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (see also PUBLIC SERVICES , COMMUNITY)

· Tagish⁹ has a comprehensive list of links to local authorities

· The government's own page ⁹ of links to local government-related sites.

· The Political Studies Association website links ⁹ is less mammoth.

· Info4local¹¹ deserves a much wider audience than the local authorities it's aimed at. It's a great source of information about the latest government news, press releases and publications that affect the UK.

· Public net's¹² up-to-date news service is not dissimilar to the above but covers a wider range of services. The site also has features on various aspects of the public services.

· If you're confused about the geographical boundaries of local authorities, then Oultwood's index map⁹ may help.

· The Local Government Association¹². There's an enormous amount on this site, much of it accessible without membership or registration. Try What's New for a flavour of the latest contents. They've just (Christmas 2002) put up a brief history timeline.

· UK2002: the official yearbook ⁹.

BUSINESS & FINANCE (see also BUSINESS DIRECTORIES )

· BizEd ¹ (also described under Economics ) is the place to start for resources for business education. There are downloadable learning and teaching resources, a very comprehensive internet catalogue ⁹, a superb glossary with diagram bank and acronyms, and frequent additions. You can develop data skills using TimeWeb¹². There's a clearly-organised section about the TUC¹⁰.

· BizEd also hosts the internet skills tutorials for the RDN: The internet business manager² is an in-depth tutorial aimed at HE students, while the Internet for Business Studies⁹ is aimed at FE.

· Just Business⁹exists to provide information and activities about global and ethical issues for students and teachers of Business Studies and Economics. It's a bit slow. Recent articles include Trade Unions in the global economy, and international debt.

· BOLA ⁹ – Business Open Learning Archive from Brunel University – helpful notes on a whole range of subjects including study skills, research methods, HRM… The pages are slow to load, and the information is brief, but it is usually to-the-point and worthwhile.

· Tutor2U ¹⁰ has resources on business management including accounting, marketing, HRM, with ppt presentations. Use the power search¹⁰ to specify level and resource type. Tip - if you're having problems moving through the presentations, scroll right to find the little arrows, as clicking the slides doesn't always seem to work.

· Bob Tapp's site¹¹. Click on "Let me in". Plenty of resources, clearly-arranged. Here's a link to his recommended websites area¹¹.

· Business: The Ultimate Resource¹² is both a reference book (650 Oversize on the 4^th floor) and a website. Click UK, and then, to access the information, login is rbarrington@southdevon.ac.uk and password is handy. There's a prodigious amount of information within, including a wealth of website links¹² (a predominance of USA) under a full A-Z range of subject headings.

· For the latest uk news, try Bnet's¹² headlines.

· HNC-Business¹² has resources for each core unit.

· Aslib's Freebizinfo¹⁰ is a good source of reference links for business.

· The British Library have revamped their Business Sources On The Net¹¹ facility. It's now become quite a substantial web directory.

· Heriot Watt's How to find Business Information ¹⁰ is a thorough guide.

· Three impressive university links sites: Cranfield¹⁰, Surrey¹⁰ and Sheffield Hallam¹⁰. Bear in mind that some links are exclusively for use on their campuses.

· Mary Ellen Bates' Global Business⁹ has 216 links, arranged by type (hence 161 are "research/information sources" arranged alphabetically); her "Business" page⁹ has just 101. Some are general, some are fee-based, some just leads to book titles etc, but there's a lot to explore if you've got the time.

· Amanda Capo Rossello has a thorough list of research tool links related to business valuation¹, although they are unannotated.

· Karen Blakeman's RBA (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) page of key sites ¹⁰.

· Business2.0 ¹⁰ is a "hand-picked directory of the best business links", and a large US digital library, with this acronym / glossary page with links below.

· SOSIG's business gateway¹⁰.

· Rod Bustos' Business resources on the Internet⁷ at Georgia State Uni.

· Comprehensive links at allsearchengines ¹².

· The Institute of Financial Services 'Supersite'¹⁰ online directory.

· Wachovia provides 4 glossaries of financial terms¹².

· FT.com's TotalSearch ¹ "gives you access to more than 10 million free newspaper and magazine articles alongside results culled from leading online news sources". Try the global archive ¹. But there are the inevitable dead-ends when you reach a site that requires payment, eg. Les Echos.

· Bpubs ¹ is a useful database of articles from free online journals. For instance, it led me to this page of links on global economic and business data.

· BEST (Business Education Support Team)¹⁰ is the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) business site. Aimed at teachers and lecturers, it includes a new paper on plagiarism ¹⁰.

· If you are researching business, this page of abstracts of papers from the Policy Library¹⁰ might be valuable.

· Annual Reports - try this Yahoo directory².

· OGC, the Office of Government Commerce site¹, offers business advice including this Best Practice and Operational Guidance publications page. Following links further past Business Change Support and Guidance takes you to, for instance, the Successful Delivery Toolkit. There's also a paper analysing the importance of business contingency plans post-Sept 11^th and Millennium Bug.

· European statistics at Univ Mannheim site.

· OECD site¹has statistics from its member countries.

· Eurostat home page Strathclyde Business School Promising looking links page.

· "France - Business and Economics Sources on the Web"² - a comprehensive Freepint article with many sites described in detail.

· South Bank Uni’s business & management page.

· Global Edge Resource desk ¹ Global Business Knowledge from Michigan State University. This page of statistical sources¹ is especially impressive.

· Dismal Scientist ². Up-to-date economic analysis of the real world.

· Some useful links from the excellent Heathridge Primary School¹⁰ in Australia.

· Bplans.com⁸is a website providing free, and quite detailed, sample business plans for a wide range of enterprises, although to download or edit them you need Business Plan Pro, and they are rather American. Included are Health & Beauty, Health Fitness, Tennis shop, Restaurants, Travel Agency, (Pet) photography....

· LemonAid have their Business Builder plan² available to download and you can register for free passwords. However, it does need 8mb of disk space, so SDC students may be struggling.

· Want anything to do with the history of money? Search the local links here.

· Exchange rate service¹⁰ from PACIFIC.

· The EC one stop internet shop for business offers advice on the single market.

· Although aimed at consumers and business, the Financial Info Net Directory may be worth a look.

· Investopedia is a startingly-bad name for a site, but its "university"¹² offers some easy-going tutorials on aspects of investment banking, stocks and shares, monety markets etc.

· The service sector's importance to the UK economy is detailed in this ONS on-line publication.

· These Research Factsheets from the British Library are a bit limited, but do lead to some links for the following sectors: Lighting, Organic Food, Promotional Merchandise & Incentives, Records (I think they mean music and so on), Toys and games.

· Euromonitor⁸offers Executive summaries of its very specific reports. Keynote's are rather briefer summaries ⁸.

· Morgan Stanley has a lengthy report online, The Technology Primer⁸ ,analysing the potential for recovery and growth in the technology industries, with bullet points and graphics. It's aimed at the investment market, but there are detailed considerations of key aspects of IT. Electronics, internet, imaging technology, software….

· How are Business using IT? Reports like this⁹ from the DTI might be helpful.

· For cultural business etiquette world-wide, the Wall Street Journal⁸recommends some sites. It thinks Executive Planet⁸is the pick.

· This Business Etiquette¹ site also provides links.

· The British Retail Consortium⁹ offers some statistics and other information.

· Di-net¹ is the DTI's Retail and Distributive Industries News site.

ACCOUNTING

· The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales¹⁰ has a useful-looking library and information service.

· Accounting Web doesn't offer you much unless you register, which is free. Although it's likely that many of the resources are more suitable for the USA, you may find something useful, such as disaster recovery planning.

· Karl is a comprehensive database of websites of interest to auditors.

MARKETING & ADVERTISING (see also MEDIA , and E-COMMERCE / INTERNET MARKETING below)

· Tutor2U's resources including marketing, with ppt presentations. Use the power search¹⁰ to specify level and resource type. Tip - if you're having problems moving through the presentations, scroll right to find the little arrows, as clicking the slides doesn't always seem to work.

· South Bank Univ’s links page on marketing.

· Phil Bradley has a page on market research and the internet which is also a useful directory to other business studies sites.

· Aslib's Freebizinfo has these links¹⁰.

· BISNIS¹⁰ "is the U.S. Government's primary market information center for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States".

· Advertising statistics and information at Pearl & Dean.

· Superbrands¹¹ is an interesting, rather flashy site, featuring about 100 consumer superbrands¹¹ and about 50 businesses¹¹ (these links cut straight to the case studies). A fine distinction - Kuoni's under the former, and Easyjet under the latter. There's a neat set of pages for each on history, promotion, brand value, etc, with a link to the firm's website. The book is in the library.

· Other sites on branding and advertising can be found at Allaboutbranding¹¹ although many are subscription-based, especially for the detailed articles.

· This 1997 Aaker article, on Dimensions of Brand personality¹ is available though.

· Design & Art Direction's awards page includes on-line videos of winning adverts.

· Subvertise⁹ is an anti-consumerism site taking a radical look at adverts - some colourful examples of subtlely, and not-so-subtlely, altered ads.

· Similarly, Valley of the Geeks offers the banner ads¹⁰ you'd like to see.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE/ INTERNET MARKETING (which overlaps with the above)

· Ukonlineforbusiness¹² is a government website bringing together advice and information

· ebizsearch¹ is a search engine dedicated to e-business, that leads to the most frequently-cited articles.

· The Electronic Commerce Directive⁸ came into force on 21^st August 2002.

· PriceWaterhouseCooper compiled the 165-page pdf report "E-commerce Impact study: retail overview"¹² for the DTI in July 2002.

· Nanyang University's e-commerce links.

· (The e-commerce times has global news.)

· The ecommerce guidebook has a tutorial explaining the system.

· The e-commerce guide⁸ is a "webopedia" offering definitions of terms.

· Nielsen offers some key internet usage¹⁰ stats, and a newsletter with pdf press release links - here's 1st October 2002's description of the global web audience¹⁰.

· For market research information on the internet, Cyberatlas¹is particularly recommended by experts, with its Stats toolbox of internet usage and online populations; also try NUA ¹, or Internet Indicators⁸, Statmarket¹⁰. Pew Internet⁸might also be useful, with its analysis of American online habits.

· This (Singapore) Nanyang University page has comprehensive links on internet marketing.

· Ralph Wilson's Web Marketing and e-Commerce site has one of those busy, messy front pages. There's so much going on that I can't believe there isn't something useful.

· Daniel Chandler takes a media approach to aspects of online marketing and lists some useful links after quoting Greg Myers (links to chapters from his book Ad Worlds) and Chuck Anderson (check out his Big Lie site, with snippets from chapters of the book of that name).

· Freepint thread ⁸ on the subject of internet marketing.

· Sites like Traffick are fully immersed in the world of Internet marketing.

· Links to sites on good and bad web design are in various locations on this page, but here's a concise overview of what the web marketer should consider in their website⁸ from SMM, whose other newsletters⁸may also be interesting.

· While the Industry Standard magazine costs money, its site still has plenty of info about e business.

· Environmental Impacts of the Emerging Digital Economy: The E-for-Environment E-Commerce?⁹ is a seminar paper offering a distinctive take on the subject.

BUSINESS DIRECTORIES & FIRMS

· Try Aslib's Freebizinfo¹⁰.

· Kompass² has put its huge business directory database on the net.

· Scoot Business finder directory – but see also BT.⁹

· CountyWeb⁹ is a useful service.

· Uk business park ¹⁰ will find news items about British companies, or business sectors.

· Hoovers online will give you outline financial info about companies and a “capsule” outlining the company’s performance among much else – but some information is for members only.

· Synchronic.info¹⁰ gives some useful potted histories of British companies. A strange site, which can be tricky to use. Try the "UK Companies" link first - the index has no links on it, but will guide you to parents etc. Alternatively, a lot of it is indexed on Google.

· CAROL¹² provides access to a selection of UK and European companies' reports and data, on (free) registration.

· For USA Company Reports, try Report Gallery¹².

· US only - on Altavista¹, “Company factsheet” links appear underneath search results.

· Yellow pages. A-Z of business types leads to UK web search & that could lead far eg

· ProsOnline some business links.

· Biz is a dedicated UK Business-to-Business information resource.

· UK Trade Associations ¹⁰ database, courtesy of TANC, and the Trade Association forum database⁸.

· Euro Pages⁸, the European Business Directory.

· For inside information on USA businesses, use EDGAR (resource of the Securities and Exchange Commission) where their filings are available.

· Indexa⁸is suggested as the equivalent for France.

· Many threads on Freepint ⁹relate to tracking down firms; this Sept 2002 article by Helen Clegg looks at internet access to rankings of the top firms⁹.

· SCORE¹² has further information about tracking down reports.

SELF-EMPLOYMENT & SMALL BUSINESSES

· Business Link ¹¹ is operated by the government's Small Business Service. The site map and the search facility reveal a lot of advice. The Devon and Cornwall site has this business start-up guide ¹¹ - use the headings on the left, by the way. It covers a lot of ground at a fairly basic level, and would be a useful check-list.

· Ukonline has launched "Starting Up in Business"¹¹

· The RBA site has this page of links on Support for SME's¹⁰.

Recommended sites include:

· British Franchise Association ¹⁰ Carries useful information on franchising your business¹⁰.

· Start In Business¹⁰

· Inland Revenue - Starting in business

MANAGEMENT

· Tutor2U has resources on business management including accounting, marketing, HRM, with ppt presentations. Use the power search¹⁰ to specify level and resource type. Tip - if you're having problems moving through the presentations, scroll right to find the little arrows, as clicking the slides doesn't always seem to work.

· BOLA⁹ – Business Open Learning Archive from Brunel University – helpful notes on a whole range of subjects including HRM… The pages are slow to load, and the information is brief, but it is usually to-the-point and worthwhile.

· Investors in People ² site – the Research and Development page has downloadable research reports and studies, and the library has a good set of case studies.

· Konobear¹¹ has resources on HRM, Organisational Behaviour and Training.

· The Work Foundation (formerly part of the Industrial Society). The site includes a resume of the isociety project on the impact of IT.

· The Strategy Club¹⁰ looks like a good source of information on strategic management issues. It includes links to textbooks' companion websites among the "excellent strategic planning websites".

· Business Link ¹ is a website of the National Business Advice Service, for small businesses.

· e-reward¹ is the "online guide to reward management" - free registration gives you access to the features, the reward guides such as performance-related pay, and the guru guides, but only to abstracts of the research reports.

· IFCI Risk watch (link is to the site map) has the most important official documents in the area of financial risk management.

· The CIMA site (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants). Some of the items in the knowledge bank can be accessed free.

· HR Zone²'s resources on human resources management are only accessible when you've registered, but it is free.

· A fine links site of internet resources relevant to Human Resource Management ¹⁰ from NTU.

· The same University has one or two links to Quality Management sites¹⁰.

EMPLOYMENT & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

· The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion ² is a key website for training issues, with some of the most useful links pages around. - use the menu topics on the left. And since the site search is powered by Google, valuable documents can be tracked down relatively quickly.

· SLIM¹⁰ (Skills and Learning Intelligence Module) has a superb links section ², including a neat set of key links¹⁰ to statistics on employment, skills, and labour market research.

· Chapter 4 of Social Trends 2002 has useful statistics. See Social Statistics as well

· The New Earning Survey 2002¹⁰ was published on 17^th October.

· The local LSC has this Devon & Cornwall Employer Survey 2001¹.

· EMPLOYMENT Initiative Including INTEGRA, YOUTHSTART, NOW …

· The National Institute of Economic and Social Research ¹⁰ hosts data from
the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey ¹⁰; features include a A Bibliography of Research based on the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Series¹⁰, and : "The 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey "¹.

· The Institute for Employment Studies is a policy research organisation - its press releases and resumés of research give useful information.

· For Trade Unions on the internet, this Freepint article¹² from May 2002 makes a useful introduction.

· If you want links on Industrial Relations, Trade Unions ⁹ & Labour History, try this site at the University of Amsterdam which looks excellent.

· Here's a list of trade union links ⁹ from XPDNC.

UNEMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY see also COMMUNITY ISSUES, EXCLUSION & REGENERATION

· The Centre For Economic and Social Inclusion ¹⁰ was formed in June 2001 by the merger of two well-established organisations: Unemployment Unit & Youthaid and Centre for Social Inclusion. It publishes the New Deal Handbook ¹⁰, now available free on the internet. It is also a key internet site for training issues. The search facility is excellent.

· Recent statistics on benefits, allowances, etc are on the Dept for Work and Pensions site¹. Here's their statistical summary for December 2002¹.

CAREERS, JOB-SEEKING (see also specific subjects), GAP YEAR & STUDENT LIFE

· Support4learning ⁹ offers resources for advisers and students on careers, community, counselling, education, money, and health, including this links page on job search resources ⁹, and strategies ⁹. The sites it links to should have useful free information and advice on CVs, interview dressing, self-assessment, vacancies ………..

· Student Counselling in UK Universities¹ is a site set up by the Heads of University Counselling Services.

· This Student Benefits guide¹⁰ by Nail Bateman is clearly laid out.

· Trotman's Careers Portal ¹⁰ site has many links in its directory, and quite a well-arranged series of advice pages.

· Springboard⁹ is a clearly-organised site offering plenty of concise information and advice on careers and education for 16-18 year-olds, even if you don't register.

· Freepint has this tips article by Veronica Bezear "Job Hunting Resources On The Web".¹¹

· Studentzone⁸runs parallel to NISS, offering a wide range of information and advice on careers, health, academic subjects, travel etc, but is slow to deliver.

· ISCO Careerscope¹⁰ is another useful careers site.

· The DfES has these useful links for Job seekers¹⁰.

· The Sector Skills Development Agency underpins the new SSC network. The 5 trailblazer SSCs are linked on this page - those of particular interest will be Skillset (for Broadcast, Film, Video & Interactive Media, and a good site) Skillfast-Uk (Apparel, Footwear and Textiles - under construction but some careers links) and Lantra (Environmental and Land-based Sector - very dull so far).

· The Connexions ¹⁰ service on the DFES site is is the government's new support service for all young people aged 13 - 19 .

· BBC Careers page.

· The University of Northumbria has this links database to careers sites.

· Choosing a university?

· UCAS¹⁰ (not as easy a site to use as it should be - you can only search for courses).

· The Guardian University 2000 ⁹ page has links to rating tables - look for your subject areas and "all institutions".

· The QAA subject reviews might be worth checking.

· Here are Red Mole's student ratings . What is going on in Newport?

· Then there's HEFCE's Performance Indicators.

· For access to university sites you probably can't beat HERO.

· But this sensitive map at Wolverhampton is another useful route, especially if you want to see where institutions are located.

· Universitiesnet ¹ aims to provide the complete student guide to university - I found it a bit thin but its links might refer you on usefully.

· Confused about the UCAS tariff points? The Careers Portal site has a Tariff Points Calculator ¹.

· The Gap Year Website ¹⁰ - this is the best place to start; it's linked to the guidebook we have in the library. It's a slow site, but full of sound information.Treat Gapyear.com with a bit more caution - it looks rather American and commercial, but there are lots of links.

· Whilst you're at college, you may need the help of Student find, for discounts and deals.

· StudentUK¹⁰ is an improved site - it now has a search facility.

· I'm unable to trace a site that brings together all the University open days for 2002-3.

YOUTH

National Youth Agency

ECONOMICS (see below for Economic data )

· Internet skills tutorial from the RDN VTS.

· The excellent WWW virtual library economics section ⁹ looks slightly daunting. But click on one of the broad headings and you will reach links that have helpful annotations.

· Tutor2U's directory has this economics¹⁰ section, with ppt presentations, or you may prefer the power search¹⁰ to specify level, etc. Tip - if you're having problems moving through the presentations, scroll right to find the little arrows, as clicking the slides doesn't always seem to work.

· BizEd’s site at Bristol is a “unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers”. The BizEd Virtual Economy ⁹ allows you to tinker with the economy, or use the library for basic information about economic theory. The online data ⁹ sets allow different UK info to be obtained. There's also the Cameron Balloons virtual factory⁹, and virtual Zambia ⁹.

· The NIESR press releases¹⁰ give economic forecasts, GDP estimates and papers on the business cycle.

· NetEc is an economics gateway leading to the very full, indeed mind-blowing WebEc .

· Dismal Scientist seems a really good site even if it is American – good links area too.

· Also providing a good introduction to USA economics is about.com ².

· In its Country Briefings⁹, The Economist provides articles on economic and political structure, forecasts, factsheets, and a small downloadable Excel spreadsheets of key economic data (10 items, 4 years) for each country. Many other items require a login - ask the Business learning centre assistant, as access is restricted.

· Barclays have business reviews and industry & economic reports accessible from these links - Economic reports page ¹ , and general briefings and business publications¹ (this link via epolitix). The country reports seem to be lost at the moment.

· Here is a selection of article abstracts from Economic Trends .

· Latest UK National Accounts downloadable here¹⁰.

· ( Back issues of the useful twice-yearly journal "British Economy Survey" are freely available - although Autumn 2000 wasn't working when I tried, Spring 2001 was, with articles on " E-Business and human resource management", Japan, and several articles connected to transport issues.

· Economics & Business Education Association.¹

· The RGS links page has an impressive list of economics sites.

· Glasgow University's "Government and the Economy" online course handbook has many recent links to documents.

· David Smith's EconomicsUK has various articles and continually-updated headlines.

· Working Papers in Economics contains over 50000 papers and articles, "many free".

· Journals Indexed in EconLit.

· Dr. Yardeni’s economics network ¹ has comprehensive sets of charts and graphs showing trends, with the emphasis on the US.

· The definitive site on the global financial crisis¹ is from US adviser Nouriel Roubini.

· Access to the writings of Paul Krugman.

· Another links page.

· For articles on the Economics of the Internet, try Roy Davies' page at Exeter.

ECONOMIC DATA (for sites devoted to data on specific countries, see PLACES )

· Bized's data page ⁹ provides some essential links (including some of the following sites), not forgetting the guide to free data⁹.

· Links from WebEc's Economic Data section⁹.

· OffStats ⁹, at the University of Auckland, gives access to Official Statistics by country, region or topic.

· For the UK, the National Statistics Virtual bookshelf - economy section¹⁰ is a good starting-place, leading you to the full text of the blue book, for instance. Check out the sections on "commerce, energy and industry", and "labour market" (including earnings) as well. The Economy theme page ¹⁰gives access to more detailed statistics.

· For instance, here's the 14th August 2002 issue of Labour Market Statistics for the South-west⁹, with figures up to June.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication ⁷ with economic data.

· The specialist character of the economy of the South-west and other regions is described in this DTI report on Business Clusters⁷. For figures of the "high spots" in the south-west, go to page 7 of this chapter⁷.

· The South West Of England Regional Development Agency ⁹ - you can download its publications. They've recently (June 2002) published a State of the Region report⁷, although the above two sources are probably more detailed.

· Another approach is to download (links on lower bookmarks) or view the figures in Table 10 of Commerce, Energy and Industry: Size Analysis of United Kingdom Businesses: Data for 2002 ⁷, which give the number of business within each local authority for each industrial sector. Other tables give the relative size of these.

· University of Michigan's statistical resources on the web - economics page.

· European statistics at Univ Mannheim site¹⁰.

· Statistics at OECD site .²

· Eurostat home page ¹⁰

· Penn World Tables¹⁰

· CHASS data centre¹⁰ at University of Toronto.

· Plenty of trade statistics from the International Trade Centre . The site also features an intriguing database of internet resources which can be searched by country or product.

ECONOMIC HISTORY see also ECONOMICS

· Web Ec¹⁰ has some serious links. (It's mirrored here¹⁰).

· Historical statistics links & other history links from the Netherlands Economic History Archive.

PUBLIC SERVICES, including ARMED FORCES, EMERGENCY SERVICES, CITIZENSHIP (see also LOCAL GOVERNMENT , COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION, LAW , POLITICS)

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorials on internet skills¹² - the most useful may be the tutorial for Leisure, Sport & Recreation.

· This Quickfind page¹² on the Open Gov site will help you go to the website of any official public body.

· The Centre for Public Services¹² is an independent organisation committed to the provision of good quality public services. It has news, briefings and other publications, many of them available online.

· The Home Office site¹² is full of information on crime and law and order, community policy, immigration, race relations, etc.

· Public net's¹² best features are probably its up-to-date news items and features on various aspects of the public services.

· The Cabinet Office report on Effective Leadership In Delivering Public Services¹² can be accessed here.

· Ministry of Defence¹² site, providing links to the world's armed forces sites, and providing this directory of links to allied organisations¹².

Main armed forces sites:

· the Army¹², and its Terms of Service¹².

· Royal Navy¹².

· RAF¹² and its careers site¹².

· ArmedForces¹² gives an overview of the 3 services and the management of defence.

· DASA (The Defence Analytical Services Agency) gives statistical information about UK Defence¹.

· This Emergency Services website¹² has a recruitment section that requires registration. It also has sections on all the services, with news coverage, history and other features.

· Government Emergency services¹² page.

· Police services site¹². For recruitment information, you select a regional constabulary. Here's the Job Description for Devon Community Constable¹².

· Ambulance section¹² of the Emergency Services site, which gives some pay details for different grades. This recruitment¹² page of the London Ambulance website gives some job details, and there's more on the training page.

· Fire Service: The London brigade¹² has a good site, with this page about becoming a firefighter¹², and useful links¹² to government and other sites, such as Devon Fire and Rescue¹².

· Prison Service¹² - duties of Prison Officer¹², and other recruitment links¹².

· Coastguard section¹² of the Emergency services website.

· Customs and Excise¹².

· Common Purpose¹, which organises leadership programmes, hosts websites promoting citizenship, including Justdosomething¹. This looks a bit superficial but gives useful overviews of "how society works" and "the law and you".

· Community Service Volunteers¹².

· Citizen Foundation website¹².

TRANSPORT

· Chapter 12 of Social Trends 2002 gives relevant statistics.

· 13 Personal Travel Factsheets¹ published by the Department for Transport

· Transport Trends 2002¹ has an overview of last 20 years.

· Tripscope² aims to provide travel and transport information for those with disabilities, but its site mainly leads you to their phone number or email.

· "Port" is the National Maritime Museum's online catalogue of maritime related Internet resources, and there are a lot of interesting links.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication⁷, with a chapter on transport.

· Robert Reynolds has a site devoted to urban transport systems, mainly subways.

· Paper by Per Hulten on Sustainable Transport¹.

· The Railway Forum ² provides a voice for the whole railway industry. Its publications promoting investment can be found online, and there's a brief hist ory.

· For transport images, Freefoto² is worth a try.

Practical and timetable information

· Public Transport Information acts as a welcome one-stop site for all travel and timetables in the UK. The interactive (and oddly-shaped) map works fabulously well - you just ought to be able to access it directly from the home page. As it is, choose a mode of transport first, or search the gazetteer.

· If you're travelling in London, tfl⁹ will be useful.

· Railtrack ² timetable enquiries

· The German railways site ² (covers all of northern Europe plus Italy). Alas, it no longer seems to have an English version. Von and Nach = From and To. Suchen = search. Torre to Bari - 7 changes, 30 hours, full details. (Railtrack thought I meant Barnham.)

· List of train operating companies

· a2btravel looks very comprehensive – links to most European rail timetables & world airlines, for instance.

· Airwise Airports & air travel

· Deckchair will look for the cheapest flights.

· This concierge page will clarify city transfers for 188 airports worldwide.

· National Express for bus & coach travel.

· The Internet Ferry Guide has links to every major ferry service in the world.

TRAVEL & TOURISM - Go down a page or two for TOURISM STATISTICS .

· The RDN's Virtual Training Suite tutorial for Travel and Tourism ².

· JISC has this useful Travel and Tourism Resource Guide for FE⁹, dating from June 2002.

· UWIC (Cardiff) hosts one of the best link / gateway⁹ pages.

· John Beech's Travel & Tourism Homepage ⁹ - links pages that are slow but worth checking.

· Altis ⁹ will be an important guide to internet resources in the future.

· SPRIG has a useful introductory page (dated April 2001) on "How to Find Out"².

· University of Central Lancashire: Tourism & Leisure Management Resources: subject guide¹ - scroll down past the databases.

· Rene Waksberg's Tourism Research Links ⁹ - not, as it says, intended for travellers.

· Tourism Education⁹ is a gateway site with links grouped under the headings in the left-hand frame. Use Disciplines⁹ to see suggested sites under headings like Politics, Environment, Law, Psychology, Sport Tourism, etc. Components⁹ has headings for sites dealing with transport, attractions, operations etc. Other headings are for secondary sources like bibliographies.

· Among other strong links sites worth checking: Bolton Institute⁹

· STAR ¹ (Statistics on tourism and research ) is the official website of the UK Tourism Research Liaison group, and is the place to start for TOURISM STATISTICS .

· The World Travel & Tourism Council ¹ homepage has news items on trends.

· At the World Tourism Organization site⁹ there are pretty graphs and maps, although the freebies only represents a fraction of their data - you pay for access to the database. Projects pages, such as ecotourism, and ethics, may be of interest.

· Travel Mole¹ provides the latest industry news.

· Tours.com² is a global directory of vacation packages - a big database of links to operators.

· The International Ecotourism Society is celebrating the International Year of Ecotourism 2002 on its soothingly green site. Other ecotourism sites are linked to this ETC page⁹.

· Marine Ecotourism for the Atlantic Area ¹⁰ is part of Tourism-Research.org, and has reports online such as "Planning for Marine Ecotourism in the EU Atlantic Area: Good Practice Guidance" and- Genuinely Sustainable Marine Ecotourism in the EU Atlantic Area: A Blueprint for Responsible Marketing"

· Another part of Tourism-Research.org is the Bristol Group for Tourism Research¹⁰ - they have some full-text research papers¹⁰ including "Managing Visitor Impacts at Scottish Visitor Attractions" and a couple on marine ecotourism.

· Tourism-Research.org and the Waksberg site are part of a Tourism Research Webring¹⁰. Some other interesting-looking sites include Tamara Ratz (Hungary).

· The EU tourism section⁷and its links to official tourist organisations. Among papers available is “EU Support for Tourism Enterprises and Tourism Destinations: an Internet Guide”.⁷(2002)

· Antor (Association of National Tourist Offices) links page ¹ - aimed at travel industry.

· BTA site inc careers pages but more use to tourist than student. However, the interactive map is excellent and leads to accommodation, attractions and events.

· The English Tourism Council's website ¹⁰ . There's a lot there, including Wisegrowth, devoted to sustainable tourism in England, but it should be easier to navigate.

· "The Sustainable Growth of Tourism to Britain"¹⁰ is a September 2001 official report.

· Insights, which we subscribe to - the index is downloadable¹⁰.

· The official site for statistics and research is Star Uk ¹.

· The TravelEngland site is aimed at visiting tourists.

· The National Statistics website has these free statistical documents .

· South west tourism includes items on quality, and statistics including 1999 facts.

· The CLIMATE section has two reports on how climate change may affect tourism in the south-west.

· Devon has a site guide for its tourism pages ¹. Here's the Devon May 2002 Action plan¹.

· Three documents on Torbay's tourism and policy ² can be downloaded here.

· The US National Tour Association² site has a number of niche market reports and marketing plans² for download, including religious, baby boomer, and sports markets.

· Cultural Heritage Tourism Marketing and Group Tour Marketing is one of the links pages on Museum Marketing Tips' links section².

· People and the planet has this page on ecotourism .

· Perhaps that cheap flight isn't so cheap. The challenging Choose climate site will tell you exactly what your flight is costing the planet.

· Tourism: Industry as a partner for sustainable development¹⁰ is a 2002 report from the WTTC.

· The International Centre for Responsible Tourism¹⁰ has a library of reports on sustainable tourism around the globe, although some are reluctant to open.

· Jerome L. McElroy's 1998 paper "Problems for managing sustainable tourism in small islands"¹⁰. Some other papers available from his home page.¹⁰

· The Association of independent tour operators lists many small firms.

· Bized's virtual tour of Zambia has this section related to tourism in the country.

· The virtual tourist ¹⁰ is a bit slow to load.

· Tourism and more from Peter Tarlow is concerned with security, crime, fraud, and terrorism, and offers tourism facts, and tidbits.

· Columbus' site has its publications available online: World Travel Guide (with links to many travel and catering sites), Tourist attractions of the world (scope for debate about what's in and what's not), World City Guide (around 100);

· World Association of Travel Agencies ¹⁰ - basic travel info about countries.

· 4travel2.com ² is a (rather slow) links site to world travel - part of the 4anything network.

· Europe-today provides commercial information on holidays.

· If you travel ¹ offers specialist advice for sport-oriented holiday-makers, including skiers.

· MASTA (Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad) is particularly known for its information on health, and immunisations.

· The text of the book "International Travel & Health", including this country list of vaccination certificate requirements , is on the WHO site.

Travel / transport / timetable information is under the Transport section

· This Guardian page¹⁰ indexes Ros Taylor's travel website reviews (scroll down a little for the A-Z listings). It will be a little slow, and there will be pop-ups.

· Planeta.com ¹ is an ecotourism site for Latin America. It's a bigger site than it may look, with a big database to search - here's the 2002 index¹. As an example of what it offers, here's the Exploring Ecotourism resource guide¹, which is being constructed.

· Another example from Aberystwyth: an illustrated paper on geographical aspects of tourism in Malta .

· Springboard UK is a national organisation dedicated to promoting career opportunities within hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism.

· Jon Pyburn's web pages¹⁰ on travel geography, tourism development, ecotourism, attractions, destinations, & AVCE material.

For some links to places, go to PLACES.

TOURISM STATISTICS (some overlap with above section)

· The STAR ¹ site: here's the useful site map ¹, and it's worth checking the "What's new"¹ feature frequently. Tourism facts ¹ has a clickable map of UK regions as well as various themed reports. Useful resources ¹ are grouped by subject. A rather tricky site for deep linking - you may have to find your own way. And persevere with these links - it's temperamental as well. Try trimming the address.

· TIPS¹⁰ - the Tourism Industry Professionals Site. You will need to register (free). There are some up-to-date statistics for inbound tourism, and the International Passenger Survey, offering statistics for inbound tourists from 1996-2001.

· South-west Tourism⁸ .

· Star Key facts for South West ².

· This Devon County Tourism Trends page ¹ may advertise Tourism Trends in Devon 2001 ¹ - but it's actually 2000. There are links to tables ¹¹, and comments about 1999 v 2000). Also in printed form at 338.47914235 Red Ref.

· Some Torbay statistics here ².

· Scotland. http://www.scotexchange.net/ is the official forum. Click on "Know your market" for much statistical information.

For older statistics, Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 covers up to 1997 only, inc football attendance etc.: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/sas/sa15-00.htm

· Welsh Tourist Board¹.

· For other regions and Northern Ireland, use the ETC links above.

· The Government statistical site contains datasets, fairly small tables of statistical information. You can reach these in different ways:

· This dataset ² page from which you can choose a theme.

· One of the themes on offer is "transport, travel and tourism" and this gives about 150 datasets, some of which you can download in excel. Other datasets can be produced on screen - scroll down to use the links. Most of these are to do with road traffic and transport, such as airport activity.

· This link should give you a range of dataset options including a drop-down list for "Transport, travel and Tourism "².

Among those that are to do with tourism:

· Holidays abroad: by age and destination, 1999: Social Trends Dataset ⁹

· Holidays taken by Great Britain residents: (a spreadsheet) by number taken per year 1971-1998⁹

The datasets can also be reached from the online products pages ². Social trends, for instance, can be downloaded in its huge entirety (often freezing your computer), and beneath the link for that is a dataset link.

The online product page is divided by themes such as:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/OnlineProducts/#transport

and this leads to:

· Overseas travel and tourism (MQ6)⁹, a quarterly monitor with the following features:

Only split into 4 groups N.America, EEC, other W Europe, rest of world- annually from 1986, quarterly from 1998, for following categories:

Visits to and from the UK by overseas residents and visits abroad by UK residents.
Overseas earnings and expenditure.
Visitor nights in the UK by overseas residents and abroad by UK residents.
Number of visits to the UK by overseas residents by main purpose of visit and area of residence by mode of transport used.
Number of overseas visits to the UK by country of residence and by mode of travel.
Overnight visits to the regions of the UK by main area of residence.
Number of visits abroad by UK residents by main purpose of visit and area visited by mode of travel.
Number of visits abroad by UK residents by main country visited and by mode of travel.
Monthly data on overseas visitors to the UK, visits abroad by UK

· Overseas Travel & tourism to June 2002 ⁹ (publ Aug 2002)

Other titles in the transport ⁹ section:

· Review of the National Travel Survey (National Statistics Quality Review No.3)

· Road Accidents Scotland, 1998

· Scottish Transport Statistics, No 18, 1999 Edition

· Travel Trends - A report on the International Passenger Survey

Shows trends over 20 years (1980-2000) in visits to and from UK, but not by country, only by 4 broad regions.

European tourism statistics

· Eurostat. Try searching here⁹ - you can ignore the registration and, even if some material has to be purchased, still get useful data such as:

· Stability of tourism flows in EU⁹ - for 2001.

All the "Statistics in Focus" series, for instance, is free online even though priced in print, whereas the "Detailed Tables" resources must be purchased.

· European Travel Commission⁹ carries links to different countries' statistics including ETC members⁹ (16 countries).

World statistics

· World Tourism Organization⁹

WTO Facts and figures page ²; the Tourism Highlights 2002 ² have international tourist arrivals & receipts for major countries.

· The World Travel & Tourism Council ¹ hosts Tourism Satellite Account Reports¹ for each region¹ and country, which forecast annual trends and look at past predictions. This link will download the UK 2002 report ¹.

· For advanced research, the massive United Nations site can be searched⁹.

Electronic journal databases

· Infotrac ²Try the One File database. Among the 3000+ FULL-TEXT journals indexed are:

TTI Country Reports (also in library); Travel Weekly; Journal of Travel Research; etc.

Search results are sorted by recency. The following search: touris* AND statistic* brought over 1800 hits. Add in a country to thin it down, or specify "refereed" journals.

Gateway sites, where someone has selected useful websites and arranged them.

· UWIC (Cardiff) - statistics section⁹ of its excellent gateway page.

· University of Central Lancashire: Tourism & Leisure Management Resources: subject guide ¹ includes many of the sites listed here: scroll down.

Tourist statistics for other specific countries

· Tourism Education lists some links to different countries⁹ on its Market Research page.

· The Northern Ireland Tourist Board also has links to overseas tourist statistics sites⁹, but some are out-of-date.

Among sites links that I've checked recently:

· Spain: http://www.ine.es/espcif/espcifin/turi01in.pdf ⁹

· Austria: http://tourmis.wu.edu/index_e.html¹¹

· Canada (culture, leisure & travel¹⁰)

· Singapore http://www.cybrary.com.sg/pages/tourinfo.html ⁹

· Thailand http://www.tat.or.th/stat/⁹

Research Organisations

· Travel and Tourism Research Association ⁹.

· Tourism and Travel Research Institute⁹ (Nottingham University). Another useful set of Discussion papers⁹, including research on China, Indonesia, Spain, France, foot-and-mouth, Complaints and modelling research techniques.

Guidance sites

· Virtual Training Suite⁸ on Travel & tourism.

· Altis⁹ - should be something soon!

LEISURE (see also above, especially SPORT , and HERITAGE/MUSEUMS - also TOURISM )

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Leisure, Sport & Recreation.⁹

· National Trust.

· The Countryside Agency ⁸ has replaced the Countyside Commission. The State of the Countryside report for the South West is available on Adobe Acrobat, and includes maps showing deprivation, remoteness, the Countryside Character areas, and other statistics and maps on the region.

· John Beech's Leisure links site.

· Countryside Recreation⁹, the journal of the Countryside Recreation Network, has articles accessible on the web. The Aut/Winter 2001 edition looked at the effect of foot and mouth.

· Ramblers' Association.

· Some Japanese leisure statistics.

· The Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport is a 1996 list of bibliographies - the links lead to references only, but might be worth following up.

· Springboard UK is a national organisation dedicated to promoting career opportunities within hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism.

· Altis⁹ will be an important internet resource in the future - from Autumn 2002?

· Infotrac¹ offers full-text of the refereed Journal of Leisure Research, among others

· Among other strong links sites worth checking: Bolton Institute⁹.

HERITAGE and MUSEUMS (see also art galleries under ART )

· The Government’s 24 Hour Museum ¹ is “the UK gateway to museums, galleries and heritage attractions”.

· Resource offers an incomplete version of Cornucopia¹, a thorough guide to the collections held in UK museums (but it includes the South-West), and Museum Learning Online: guidelines for good practice¹.

· National Trust.

· National Museum of Science & Industry.

· The Association for Heritage Interpretation⁸ site offers some of its older journal articles - including equal opps issues and multimedia interpretation. It also has a links page to heritage interpretation sites ⁸, including a tiny selection of sites that "interpret" a place or collection.

· The MDA site features resources such as online fact sheets and the publication Building Digital Content: A Study in the Selection, Presentation and Use of Museum Web Content for Schools¹⁰

· Museums around the world – myriad links here.

· This Museums of the USA² site is unparalleled.

· Museum Stuff¹¹ bulges with information.

· John Beech's Heritage links page,

· Altis will be an important internet resource in the future, but the database is already searchable.

· Museum Marketing Tips². There are articles on leisure marketing and publicity, mainly from a US perspective, plus over 200 "motivational quotes", and a comprehensive links section.

· In addition to giving abstracts of recent reports, the Cultural Trends website gives free access to pre-1995 statistical reports.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION / SPORT see also LEISURE and WATER SPORTS

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for Leisure, Sport & Recreation.¹²

· Sport England ² (previously known as the English Sports Council) has a gateway database of links ¹⁰, and several free downloads ¹⁰ of resources on best value, planning and developing sport and recreation. The site also provides information about lottery funding .¹⁰

· The Government's strategy, 'A Sporting Future For All' (April 2000), "The Government's Plan for Sport", (March 2001) and its annual report 2002 are on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport website. All are reached from the sport index page ², including the Dec 2002 publication"Game Plan: a strategy for delivering Government's sport and physical activity objectives".¹²

· Among other things, this contains a diagram of the interaction between the UK organisations responsible for sport¹², and a checklist of the current functions of key bodies².

· Virtual sports library ¹⁰ links site with useful links to similar sites ¹⁰, and this list of UK sites.

· Altis ¹⁰ will be launched in March 2003, but you can search it now.

· This JISC RSC list of sports websites ¹⁰ is helpful.

· Among other strong links sites worth checking: Bolton Institute⁹

· Sportszine is a dedicated sport search engine.

· SportQuest ², from the Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre, is a good starting point for specific sports (eg over 40 sites about curling!) or issues related to sports fitness, statistics etc.

· There are lots of good links sites, including:

· This Scholarly Sport Sites subject directory at University of Calgary;

· This Swansea University page has good links.

· Bolton Institute⁹

· Sheffield College¹²

· Taylor & Francis' sport and leisure studies arena;

· Sheffield College's⁹ clearly-annotated links.

· The EU site's Sport section, with various pieces of information.

· Infotrac¹ offers full-text of these refereed journals: Biomechanics, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Sports Sciences, Sport, JOPERD, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and Journal of Sport Behavior, among others

· The Australian Institute of Sport¹has much useful information. The search¹ link is a bit hidden.

· Human Kinetics has an A-level PE online study guide².

Sports Science (For more medical information, try also MEDICAL )

· Sportscience¹² contains advanced information on medicine, nutrition, performance.

· Peak Performance Online ¹ is “a sport science website devoted to improving stamina, strength, fitness and treatment of sports injury”. There are 750 articles in the library.

· Coventry University has good sport science ¹² pages.

· Nat. Sports medicine institute ¹².

· Sports Coach ¹² has a wealth of information on fitness and health matters.

· The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online¹² offers articles on exercise.

· Univ Exeter Children’s Health & Exercise Research centre ¹².

· The Hosford muscle tables ² have info about human skeletal muscles.

· Some Physics of sport sites: Enloe High School⁹; Mindy Guttman⁹; Exploratorium⁹. And the physics of rowing⁹.

Social & Psychological

· Jay Coakley's Sport in Society website ¹ can be recommended. Links lead from each chapter out into the internet, on, for instance, gender issues in sport¹. The book's in the library.

· Psychology Science on the Net has this excellent page of links on sports psychology⁹.

· Amoebaweb has these links on sport psychology.

· A useful list of websites about sexual harassment and gender issues in sport is in Volkwein-Caplan's book on the subject. Among key sites are this page on the Feminist Majority Foundation website (which also has a section on disability) and Silent Edge (skating - but more).

Outdoors & Recreation

· GORP (Great Outdoors Recreation Pages) outdoor activities with US bias.

· The Outdoor Resources Net acts as a gateway to Gorp and other, mainly American sites, but it's a bit greedy on the screen space it takes up - not much room left.

· Blue Dome, the "ultimate activity site".

· For Sports History, try the BSSH site².

· Countryside Recreation⁹, the journal of the Countryside Recreation Network, has articles accessible on the web.

Specific sports

Climbing

· British Mountaineering Council includes information sheets.

· ukclimbing.com says it is "the best place to climb on the web" - it may be right. There is an excellent links page.

Football

· The Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research ⁸ . This has some excellent resources, such as fact sheets⁸ on hooliganism, black and women players, racism, stadia, economics, supporters, refereeing, TV, FIFA.

· Football Unites, Racism Divides ² is a splendid site. There are links to relevant news items, and online resource² links (best to use the search box).

· The English Football Archive¹² has plenty of information.

· Institute of Football Studies⁸ - last updated 1997.

· Scottish Football Museum - the world's first, it claims.

· Recommended ski sites include 1ski ¹ and goski .

WATER SPORTS

· Blue Moment ⁹ looks like a very comprehensive directory of web sites for sail cruising. It hosts the Code of Practice for Small Sailing Vessels ⁹.

· Royal Yachting Association (RYA)

· Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

· British Waterways¹ - a considerable site covering 2000 miles of canals and navigable rivers, their facilities, traditions and heritage, restoration and wildlife.

· Association of Inland Navigation Authorities covers most the rest in less detail, referring the user on to other sites.

· UK Rivers Guidebook⁸.Mark Rainsley's site describes whitewater possibilities throughout the country.

· South West Lakes Trust http://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/, with interactive map of lakes.

· Yachting & Boating World¹⁰

· Tide Tables for Torbay, Dartmouth, Portland, Lizard, and selected other locations (actually intended for climbers, these give tide times for several months' ahead).

· Jim Martindale's Reference Desk has these links on Maritime ⁸matters.

· Official Web Site of the British Canoe Union ⁸, with a newly-updated 16-page booklet information for students and researchers⁸, and the South-West branch site⁸.

· For water-based activities, here's a gallery of knots, with animated instructions for tying them.

· The IDAD (Institute of Destination Architects & Designers) site has a large links database for architecture, tourism, marine sports, "waterscapes" and "hydroscapes", hospitality, even geography and science, for the ecological and environmental links. Headings include aquarium architecture and health & safety. Clicking on library leads to e-journals, user groups, and printed resources; there are bibliographies for coasts, design, marinas etc. The industry link leads to a list of organisations, and classified leads to a directory of travel and hospitality firms. The hyperlink studio on the right of the site's homepage is a links directory leading you to associated sites, many American; as it's not annotated, the results can be unexpected. Similarly, the "World..." headings in the global resources box take you to other selected sites. Elsewhere, the site has one or two pages on theme parks, coastal zones as destinations, mega floats - look down the left-hand black column.

· www.ukdiving.co.uk ⁸ will interest divers.

· Powerboat racing links from UK MotorSport.

· The IKO Intl. Kiteboarding Organization ² site includes a useful manual, while the BKSA (British Kite Surfing Association)² has instructor details.

· Torbay's Marine Services², with details of harbour management, charges, etc.

· Some details about Teignmouth port⁸.

PLACES – just a small selection

· Worldjump ⁸, Portals of the World⁸ (incomplete and better on obscurer countries), World Factbook (basic facts courtesy CIA) and the Yahoo country directory offer comprehensive country-by-country menus. You could also use sites like Geohive⁸, Freepint country portal², GeographyIQ¹²(after all, what is geography but just facts about places!) or Stefan Helder's World Gazetteer⁸. Aneki⁸ gives world rankings.

Many of the search engines will offer a similar country index feature.

· To locate places, try one of these gazetteers, or the MAPS sites, or, of course, a search engine.

· for the UK, The Gazetteer of British Place Names¹⁰

· for the world, the brilliant Calle.com² ("2.88 million"), the very good Getty Thesaurus ² ("1 million +"). (And the very complicated GeoNET Name Server² - "5.37 million" - zipped downloads for each country). Ok, Getty has global search while Calle & GeoNET don't, so you're stuck if you don't know which country to search in. Google might help though.

· Oddens has an excellent search facility for gazetteers².

· The Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory will take you to the official travel sites.

· Geographia ⁸ takes a rather selective approach to countries and towns, from the traveller's point of view.

· WhatsonWhen ⁸ aims to link you to events taking place worldwide.

· Terraserver ¹, with aerial photographs of the USA only.

· Images of places on ipicture¹² – and a useful travel website, but currently restructuring.

· Jim Berryman's photos around the world .

· If you're really travelling, you might find this links page useful.

· Rough guides.

· Lonely planet guides this link takes you to the choice of destination page.

Specific parts of the world, a completely random selection. I'm beginning to rely on the Guardian's suggestions.

· Britannia.com ¹ is a travel gateway to the UK for Americans. Popups and National Geographic-style articles - plenty of both.

· West Country Tourist Board ⁸ see also LOCAL.

· Explore London⁸ has superbly interactive maps and 200 panoramic photos;

· Virtual London ⁸ is full of more conventional information.

· Wales on the web ¹is a major new gateway for all things Welsh.

Europe

· France's Pages Jaunes offer Les Photos de Villes⁸ - over 2 million photographs of streets in 9 of the 13 largest French towns (including Paris, Lille, Nice) with interactive maps.

· French travel sites includes France.Keys⁸.

· For Brittany, try this (in French) or the Bretagne.vacances links¹.

· Here are some walks in Paris - mostly in French.

· Belgium¹ – good links page.

· Finland ⁸- tourist board.

· Balkans - thorough overview of political, economic, cultural sites by Sam Vaknin at Freepint⁸.

· Hungary ⁸ - The "Hungarian Home Page".

· A lovely site of Hungarian images ².

· This University of Swansea page has myriad links on Spain and Spanish culture.

· Greece – Here's a links page ¹⁰. The Guardian travel section pondered Greek sites¹⁰ last February, and rated David Webb's chatty Missouri-based site¹⁰, a nice combination of informed fact, advice, pictures, useful links, and reminiscence.

Infoxenios ¹⁰ remains very hit and miss - mostly miss.

· Armenia.

Africa

· Egypt

· South Africa net

Asia

· India¹⁰ - courtesy of Guardian.

· China - A University of Michigan links page. And this Nov 2002 Freepint article on Teaching in China¹¹ could be really useful.

· Japanese Tourist Board ; Guardian Japan¹⁰.

Americas

· National Library of Canada has a major links feature.

· Click on the tour America map to find travel sites for any USA state.

· Latin America links site from New Mexico State University

Australasia

· Go Australia ¹ (part of about.com) is one way in to the sub-continent.

MAPS AND ATLASES

If you're not sure where you're going, the internet can help.

· The reliable Multimap ¹⁰takes you to street name level at 1:10,000 (there are 9 scale levels), and will respond to postcodes alone. The size of the map is quite generous but you can't increase it as you can with Mappy. It also, surprisingly, gives you 1:50,000 OS maps (asking for 1:25,000 also gives you 1:50,000, just blown up a bit!).

· Maporama ⁹shows house numbers and one-way streets. There are 12 scales available. Like Multimap, it'll tell you what the weather's like. Possible drawbacks are that, being French, it defaults to France so you will need to select UK to start with, and the default initial map is at quite a small scale, so for most purposes you'll need to increase it. The map size is quite small as well!

· Also French is Mappy ¹, which again has house numbers and one-way streets, but it has only 7 scale levels and won't accept UK postcodes. Choose "Imprimer" for a bigger map to print.

· MSN's map service¹ is extremely fast, a big plus, and you can do all your searching from the one screen. There are 3 map sizes. But no one way streets or house numbers.

· Streetmap 's okay too, and by searching for place you automatically get a 1:50,000 OS map at an even more generous screen size.

· Mapblast ⁹ has some house numbers and one-way streets, but is untidy at the largest scale.

· Mapquest , used by Yahoo, is an alternative. (Tip for Britain – enter just “Uk” in country under Map Search (lower left) – nothing else – and then start zooming in when the country appears. Or, Try this link ).

· Cnet has a page which searches a number of these map services for you.

· For serious maps, with contours and things, the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection ¹ at the University of Texas is the place to start. You might also like to try this UNLV list (mainly US maps).

· The Ordnance Survey site ⁹, with some useful information on modern cartographical methods, now offers Get-a-map¹⁰, which gives you the whole of Britain at 1:50,000.

· If you want more detailed OS maps, check out Magic ¹⁰(England only)for 1:10,000, and the Countryside Agency's open country mapping programme ¹⁰ for 1:25000 (that's England - some regions only so far. Here's Wales¹⁰). But note that they are base maps, uncoloured or coloured for different purposes than navigation, and often watermarked, making them less useful than the real thing.

· The USA now has a superb service, thanks to maps.com. Its topozone ⁹ facility gives you USGS maps from 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 down to 1:25,000 - contours and all. But if you want street names don't bother with it.

· Well-served countries in Europe are Norway, whose RGIS Statens Kartverk ⁸ is potentially very rewarding, if rather difficult to control at first, and the Netherlands, with Lokatienet ⁹ (on its "classic" site; the main page goes to the usual street maps).

· These links to official gazetteer sites⁸, interesting in themselves and intended for use in standardising placenames, are often associated with maps. But some countries, like Finland, only allow you in if your domain is appropriate.

· Enter a postcode and Get mapping produces aerial photos. It wants £19.95 for a decent version.

· Atlases - well, in my opinion you're better off going to the library atlas stand. Some of the most attractive maps on the internet are to be found on the National Geographic ⁸ site, but the scales are mostly minute. You could also try the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection¹, or World.atlas.com⁸, as well as the various world country directories under PLACES. Other links pages for map sites include KWSnet¹.

Interactive UK Maps on specific subjects:

· For environmental subjects see Magic⁸, What's in Your Backyard ¹ and the Countryside Agency's open country mapping programme⁹ (explained fully under ENVIRONMENT ).

· For neighbourhood statistical maps of population and deprivation, with ward boundaries, use NESS ⁸.

Historical maps:

· Try Old-maps¹ for detailed Victorian OS maps of UK.

LOCAL

· The DCC website ¹⁰is very good. Here is the county in figures, and the main Facts and Figures ¹page. This page¹⁰ shows the boundaries of the various diustrict councils within the county

· The deprivation indices for Torbay ², showing Tormohun as the most deprived ward in 4 of the 5 measures.

· Torbay ² Council site and the Public library catalogue ².

· Herald Express ¹ now has a considerable archive.

· Genuki Devon Although intended as genealogical site, this gives access to loads of Devon information on all subjects.

· Totnes Image Bank¹ offers some good historical photos.

· Dartington Hall Trust.

· Dartmoor National Park Authority ⁹ DNPA home page.

· Exeter Council site.

· Northcott Theatre.

· Plymouth Council site.

· Local Friends of the Earth site.

· Devon Life’s site has some info about many places in Devon.

· South West Of England Regional Development Agency - you can download its publications. They've recently (June 2002) published a State of the Region report⁷

· The South West of England website⁹ is a joint venture from SWRDA, SW tourism and the SW Regional Assembly⁹. So far, the more specific websites remain more useful.

· The South-west in figures is an online government publication⁷.

· Here is the south-west chapter of Biffa's 1997 publication on waste disposal in UK.

· Devon and Cornwall Constabulary¹⁰ .

· The HELIX collection at DMU⁷ contains collections of social history photos and Professor Hoskins' collection of slides (mostly of Dartmoor and Leicestershire). You need to be at an academic uk site. If you are asked for a password, contact me on x6369 or in the HE area or by email dharper. Please note that these images are NOT to be stored on a server - disk or print-out is fine.

GEOGRAPHY (see also PLACES )

· Geography World¹² has thousands of links.

· Georesources¹ features links arranged by age group, virtual fieldwork, outline maps, weather data, images and photos.

· The WWW Virtual Library Geography links page ².

· The crucially useful government statistics and information - the electronic versions of the ONS publications page has Social Trends, Regional Trends and loads more. More specific is the August 2001 publication "Geographic variations in health", with maps, tables and graphs. Much of the data can be downloaded into Excel.

· Geography and National Statistics is part of the ONS site that describes the ways different departments divide Britain up. There is a useful beginner's guide, and some excellent maps, including local authority districts, and health authorities. There's also a link to Stat map web which discussing the mapping of statistics.

· The companion website to (the American) Knox and Marston's Human Geography leads to somewhat esoteric links arranged under each chapter - look for "additional internet resources".

· OS¹⁰ has teaching resources mainly for primary & secondary.

· Should you want outline maps of the continents, the site accompanying Pulsipher's "World Regional Geography" has them in pdf format - and there are thematic overlays.

· Alan Parkinson at King's Lynn has created Geography pages¹¹, with an excellent links page¹¹. Here is the page for AS/A2 Physical Geography¹¹.

· Geo-images Project² at Berkeley has geographical photos - many of the American West, but also Morocco, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Arabia. More coming!

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

· West’s Geology Directory is a fine site featuring many geological fieldguides, strong on the Dorset coast and leading everywhere. Scroll down a little for the excellent index.

· The Geological Society ¹ has a really good site offering plenty of up-to-date news coverage, plus some teaching resources² (scroll down for excellent offsite resources links) such as this field guide to the Gower⁹. There's also a valuable external links⁹ page, and the acronym guide⁹ offers more links to scientific organisations.

· VolcanoWorld’s alphabetical index.

· The British Geological Survey site is not thrilling but tells you what they do.

· Here's the US Geological Survey The most recent world earthquakes are listed - 18 in the last 3 days when I looked.

· Houghton Mifflin offers a geology link page¹.

· W.H.Freeman's on-line website to accompany Stanley's "Earth system history" offers plenty of scope including useful links for each chapter.

· This review article with links to many good science image sites includes geology.

· Miscellaneous Physical Geography links pages: Ian Keirle.

WEATHER & CLIMATE

There are lots of weather links, from search engines and ISPs.

· Met Office .

· Plenty of choice for UK forecasts from Great Weather.²

· Accuweather² – US based, but choose from hundreds of cities round the world.

· The most comprehensive set of links for meteorology comes from the British Atmospheric Data centre. They’ll lead you to almost 1000 sites, each with a pretty flag denoting nationality: for instance, the British Tornado and Storm Research Association with some extreme weather info, classification of hailstones, etc.

· Perhaps not surprisingly, extreme weather is a popular internet subject, at least in the USA. Try these links at Colorado's CTSPR¹; or there are these storm chasing links ² from Yahoo. Discovery Channel has Hyper Hurricanes¹.

· WorldClimate has lots of statistics.

· UKCIP (UK Climate Impacts Programme)² offers information about research into climate change, and scenarios, with a regional arrangement. The summary report "Warming to the idea: Meeting the challenge of climate change in the South West" (Jan 2003) can be downloaded.

· Centre for Climate Change Impact Forecasting (C-CLIF).²Their 1999 report Climate Change and the South West of England² covers impact on the environment, economy, health & demography, tourism and leisure, coast and fisheries, utilities, business and agriculture.

HISTORY

· Internet skills tutorial ¹² from the RDN VTS.

· The Internet History Sourcebooks ⁸ are an impressive set of links pages from Paul Halsall. You'll most likely need the Modern History section ¹¹ (post-medieval). Its twentieth century page ¹² gives links to the Russian Revolution, Nazism, Cold War, etc. Use the menus if possible (or Edit-Find), as the search facilities are irritatingly difficult.

· History On-Line ¹²is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, and has useful links, although there's no search facility at the moment.

· Spartacus¹¹- try not to be put off by the gloomy index page. Scroll down for the web directory, a well-organised and thoroughly-annotated links site. Most subject areas are grouped by age range. Alternatively use the deep red column on the left for copious links to topic texts, all cross-referenced.

· The Bodleian has a very authoritative list of all the major portals¹².

· The LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology¹¹; the History ¹² bit of it.

· Roy Wolfe at Reading University has this page of links⁹.

· Trinity & All Saints history links page ¹².

· The History Data Service ¹¹ "collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching". Much of its activity is concerned with the use of Geographuical Information systems (GIS) in historical research.

· Here's the History Classroom ¹¹, aimed at A level and GCSE.

· And here’s the Cambridge Univ links page.¹⁰

· University of California Press¹ has put 350 titles freely online, and is strong on history. Here's the subject listing¹. When you get to a list of titles, the word "public" in green indicates which titles are freely available. You can click on "show only public titles" if you prefer. You might prefer to use this advanced search page¹, where you can specify public books only, and subject headings only.

· History Today ¹⁰has a good site with searchable archive - & their own list of recommended history websites ² which are probably a lot more useful than the Cambridge list.

· History Review ² 's site will not let you access most articles, apart from the useful "History on the Web" series, which includes 2 links review items on German history - early ², and late ².

· Also very impressive is the links site at Rutgers University , which goes beyond mere history to law, government, social sciences …

· Access History is an online journal from the University of Queensland aimed at undergraduates.

· Blackwell's history resource page has some interesting-looking links.

· For GCSE level, the Schoolzone has gathered these links.

· Best of History websites ² is a thoroughly-annotated guide.

· The Cold War International History Project ¹² contains thousands of documents - try the search box. It's one of the links from Paul Halsall's cold war section.

· Vincent Ferraro has copious links to documents on US foreign policy ².

· The World History Archives ¹² contain mainly recent articles rather than original source documents, and much of it is to do with the way history is being created today.

· Richard Jensen has an impressive guide to history on the internet ¹¹, including these links on American Political History.

· The BBC History site¹² is extensive. Among many excellent areas, the First World War ¹² has debates, articles, animated map etc; Holocaust¹².

· Whowhatwhen¹ is an interesting-looking site of interactive timelines. It's very American in content.

· Other links pages include: Dennis Boals . Glasgow University.

· Of Eric Mayer's online lectures⁷, The Information Age and World History Since 1500 are likely to be the most useful to you.

· The Victorian Web ¹¹ is a thorough site on the C19; this link is to the social history area ¹¹, with links to sanitation, medicine etc. Major political speeches are also covered.

· There's also the Victoria Research Web ¹¹, which advises on how to research the period.

· Dictionary of Victorian London¹¹.

· This LSE archive on Charles Booth¹ includes searchable online versions of his C19 coloured maps of classifications of London poverty, side-by-side with a current A-Z map if you wish, plus digitised versions of police notebooks (use JPEG link).

· Peter Higginbotham's Workhouse site¹² gives information about the Poor Laws.

· The Public Record Office ¹²has the 1901 census back online (payment required for details), and it gives some access to National Archives in the interesting virtual museum⁸, with main, Millenium and icon galleries. Rest your cursor on the images to follow a menu.

· A2A ⁸ is a database contains catalogues of archives held across England.

· Some of the TLTP History courseware consortium materials are now hosted by Trinity & All Saints, Leeds. Here's "Cotton, Lancashire and the Industrial Revolution "¹⁰and Greasley's British Industry 1700-1992¹⁰, with most of its text crossed through.

· The Mary Evans Picture Library ¹⁰ is exclusively devoted to history. You now have to register to search it. A search for "factories" found excellent pictures.

· American Passages is an online book of America's history, with useful links.

· The HELIX collection at DMU⁸ contains collections of social history photos and Professor Hoskins' collection of slides (mostly of Dartmoor and Leicestershire). You need to be at an academic uk site. If you are asked for a password, contact me on x6369 or in the HE area or by email dharper. Please note that these images are NOT to be stored on a server - disk or print-out is fine.

· Sixties City⁹ may provide useful information about that decade, or links to it.

· If Usenet messages are the new historical documents, then Google's collection of key events of the last 20 years⁸ might be an important source.

· Historical Atlas of Europe - Christos Nussl's maps⁹ for the turn of each century from AD 0 have just been updated to 2000.

· Family History - Genuki ².

· Cyndi Howells runs the fullest genealogy links site around, Cyndi's list¹¹.

· Search Systems¹ also has many links useful for genealogy work - UK page¹.

· Archaeology – here’s the Time Team site,¹⁰ History online's links ², and Stone Pages, a site on megaliths ² with a mammoth links page to other archaeological web sites.

· Ancient History & Classical Studies - Just to keep tabs on things, in case, here's a links page from Reading on the Aegean & E. Med, 3000-1000BC.

· Digital Egypt for Universities⁹ is an impressive site including many images

· Seven ancient wonders site¹.

EUROPE see also BUSINESS

· A good new approach to the European Union is this BizEd page ², providing a summary of all key institutions, some questions to answer, and some data presented in graphic form.

· Official Europa site ⁷ in English, and the European Commission homepage⁷,

· The best search facility ⁷, and publications page ⁷

· European Commission’s British website ¹. Some free publications can be downloaded in adobe format from this catalogue page ⁷, but fewer, I think, than the EU site itself.

· Much of Eurotext ¹ is now by subscription, but its hot links ¹ look a useful way of researching the EU itself.

· One alternative route is through KnowEurope's Web Directory ⁷, currently available free.

· Here's the link to the booklet "How does the EU work? ", now only available over the net. Europe in ten points might be a useful introductory guide. Here are the commissioners.

· These EIA Quick Guides⁷ include useful advice for tracking down information. Here too is the EIA's links page⁷, another possible route in.

· Comprehensive-looking links to eu institutions.

· Europe online info on countries.

· There are free downloads and Key indicators provided by Eurostat .

· Funding from the European Union.

· Euroguide⁸ and EuroInternet⁸ attempt to act as search engines to sites about the European Union.

· The EUR-Lex portal ², a 'one-stop shop' for European Union law, opened in June 2001.

Here are the links accompanying the booklet "Passport to mobility", about education and learning across Europe:

· Dialogue with citizens: This site provides a variety of information for workers or students wishing to visit another Member State.http://citizens.eu.int http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/citizens/en/inter.htm

· Education and Culture DG: The site of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture contains information on the Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Youth programmes as well as on the recognition of academic and professional qualifications. http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm

· Eurodesk: This offers information on education, training, youth policy and the participation of young people in European-wide activities. http://www.eurodesk.org

· EURES: The EURES (European employment services) net-work provides considerable information on finding work abroad, living and working conditions in 17 European Economic Area countries, and situations vacant. More than 500 ‘Eurocounsellors’, representing public employment agencies, trade unions and employers’ organisations provide information, advice and guidance for those seeking work or staff in other parts of Europe. These Eurocounsellors also attempt to identify and eliminate obstacles to mobility. This network is coordinated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs. http://europa.eu.int/jobs/eures

· Euroguidance and Estia provide information designed to promote trainee mobility; this covers such aspects as training schemes, legal formalities, living conditions, and the recognition of qualifications. www.euroguidance.org.uk www.estia.educ.goteborg.se

· Europe Direct: This service is designed to help answer questions on the European Union. It is possible to consult the ‘customised’ website for practical information on such matters as travel, employment and study opportunities. A free-call number is also available. In addition, Europe Direct legal experts can advise individuals facing problems with regard to the exercise of their rights.http://www.europa.eu.int/europedirect/

· Moving in Europe:This site was set up on behalf of young volunteers from all the EU Member States and the countries of central and eastern Europe. It provides information on legal and administrative aspects of mobility, with particular reference to the right of residence, taxation and social security systems. http://www.sosforevs.org ¹

The EURO

· The Euro Essentials page about the changeover.

· http://www.euro.gov.uk/ Govt advice to firms on the euro.

· www.euro.fgov.be/ includes currency converter.

HOSPITALITY (See also below for more on CATERING and FOOD)

· The Internet for Hospitality & Catering ¹⁰ is one of the Resource Discovery Network's new Internet tutorials aimed at FE. It's a worthwhile and up-to-date resource for all levels.

· Resource Guide for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism². This JISC site lists gateways, reference sources, data services including statistcs, maps and news, and support services.

· Ehotelier ¹⁰ - a stunning site, including a massive list of links to hotel chains ¹⁰, an impressive list of wine sites¹⁰, marketing, magazines etc

· The Hospitality Training Foundation¹⁰ covers industry manpower issues such as Modern Apprenticeships, Sector Skills Council news. The website offers some report summaries free (such as the Labour Market Review 2000), and some in full; this link's to the page that lists them¹⁰.

· The British Hospitality Association website includes a thorough list of relevant organisations on its links page¹⁰.

· Altis ¹⁰ is the eagerly-awaited RDN guide to Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism, and will be launched in March 2003. Meanwhile you can search its database for recommended sites.

· For the moment, the Learning and Teaching Support Network at Brookes ¹¹ may help. Here's the Hospitality links page.

· Cornell School of Hotel Administration has this library of Hospitality Links¹⁰.

· Hospitality net ¹ offers summaries of significant reports, together with news items and articles; for instance, here's Larry Chervenak's June 10^th 2002 article: 30 Years in Hospitality Technology., and the November 2002 hotel benchmark summary from Deloitte and Touche¹. Try News and Consultants' reports for the latest additions.

· Here's a links page at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ¹⁰ - obviously American but there are some promising links.

· Some links ¹⁰ on the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International.

· There are 41 HCIMA technical briefs¹⁰ on the Henley College site, covering many catering safety and green issues.

· Here’s a Tourism and Hospitality Bibliography .

· Caterer.com, a site for jobs and recruitment, has a link to the Caterer magazine site. Caterer and Hotelkeeper directory is online ¹⁰, and the weblinks page on the same site ¹⁰ is useful. You might need facts and figures on top firms¹⁰. Another link is to recent reports statistics.

· Electronic journals via Infotrac ¹.

· Some free abstracts from the Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research.

· Springboard UK is a national organisation dedicated to promoting career opportunities within hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism.

· British Association of Conference Destinations includes a Venue Location Service on its website.

· Venuefinder’s advanced search allows you to choose conference venues using criteria such as types of equipment available as well as other facilities, location etc.

· The British Association of Hospitality Accountants ² isn't giving much away, but here at least is their topical article ² - in June 2002, a brief look at criteria for selecting hospitality accounting software.

FOOD SUBJECTS

· The National Food Survey 2000 (& the previous 3 years )¹⁰ is on the DEFRA site¹⁰ Here's their food and drink home page¹⁰, and a Statistics page¹⁰.

· The Food Standards Agency , and the Food Industry Regulations.

· Food Safety Today¹, Food Law Today² , Nutrition and Functional Foods Network² and Foodlineweb ² are services from Leatherhead Food International. The first three in particular will provide a good deal of free information.

· David Jukes has this page of links on Food Law.

· Some key legislation links¹⁰ here as well on the CCFRA site.

· Foodlink¹² is a straightforward guide to food safety issues.

· The Institute of Food Research site has information sheets on safety, quality, health and innovations, science briefs on research, and news releases, plus some hosted websites of significance. (October 02 - taking forever to load)

· Oregon State University's Food Resource ¹ is a leading source of information on food subjects.

· The Arbor Nutrition Guide ¹¹ is slow but leads to many useful sites.

· Tufts University rates nutrition pages on the web.

· British Nutrition Foundation ⁷ - plenty of basic information under Nutrition facts and News.

· Brroks-Cole has these textbooks with online student resources¹¹.

· Institute of Food Science & Technology⁷ -" the independent incorporated professional qualifying body for food scientists and technologists".

· Chartered Institute of Environmental Health¹² has food safety information.

· The University of Nevada at Las Vegas has these food resource links .

· Organic Food Industry links on this page from the British Library.

· The Children's Services section at Morris County Library, New Jersey doesn't sound a likely place for some key sites about gastronomy and food history, but it has several meticulously-researched pages with links to other sites: Food History, with agriculture, inventions, prices, brand names; Culinary Timeline - social history of cuisine; and Food Timeline - foodstuffs. All brilliant. Credit to Lynne Olver.

· (Eatethnic is a useful “cultural nutrition” links site run by Four Winds Food Specialists.)

· RecipeSource!¹¹ is a searchable online archive of recipes (=SOAR) - over 60,000 of them.

· www.fromages.com all about French cheese.

· Soil Association homepage ⁹ for organic food issues, GM, etc., with a database of over 400 resources.

· Vegetarian page of the Environmental directory.

· Quite a few journals offer abstracts rather than full-text eg Journal of Nutrition

· The Food Ethics Council¹¹You can get an outline of their recent reports including “Novel foods” and “Drug use in farm animals”.

· British Nutrition Foundation website, with news and facts.

· The Food and Drink Federation site¹ covers the UK industry.

CATERING (see also HOSPITALITY and FOOD)

· BUBL links to online food resources catalogued by Dewey classification number.

· Culinary Network Many online resources for chefs at Chefnet.

· Online Chef¹¹ is a long-established site with sections on Equipping a kitchen¹¹, and Getting started¹¹ - this includes "Setting up a work area", "Using a knife", and "Sanitation".

· Here is the companion website to Shock and Stefanelli's "On-premise catering", hosted by UNLV.

· Foodnet . Again, many links to online resources for food professionals, including foodchat (“An a la carte restaurant is a piece of cake compared to airline catering”).

· Joshua Cohen's Macrothesaurus¹ has impressive links.

· French Gastronomy¹ - contains links to info about wines, etiquette, French products, Parisian restaurants etc.

· Some conversions from British to American cooking , including vocabulary.

Flight Catering

· The International Flight Catering Association ¹⁰

Cruise industry

· Cruiseholiday.info¹⁰, operated by Ryedale Travel, has information about, and links to, cruise lines and ships.

· Cruise Ship Center ² has profiles of ships, info about the industry, sample menus.

· Travel Center cruises – links to many cruise ship sites.

· The International Council of Cruise Lines¹⁰ (ICCL) site is worth browsing. Links to members sites and plenty on the contribution of the industry to the US economy.

Hotels

· Hotelbook, Expedia and Hotelguide¹ have world hotel-finding databases.

· AA hotels page ¹¹ - the consortium link¹¹ may be useful.

Drinks

· Webtender site, with the Bartender's Handbook, containing instructions for setting up and stocking a bar, with recipes for cocktails, information about measurements, types of glasses.

· BDI News is a news service for the Beverage and Drinks Industries.

· Impressive wine sites links page¹ from Macrothesaurus. For other beverage links, try exploring this page¹.

· This Freepint posting² suggests numerous sources for finding wine producers.

· Here's a site from Jeroen van Craaikamp, someone who knows a great deal about Champagne .

MATHS

· This helpful Spartacus page ¹¹describes over 30 sites at a range of levels.

· Math Forum ¹¹ – explore the Internet for maths sites.

· Some Maths revision sites: Matthew Pinkney's¹¹. Check out also the maths areas of the revision sites here.

· MathGate is a higher education maths gateway.

· Florida State University has on-line resources including these links for all levels. They’ll lead you to, for instance, Vienna University ’s Mathsline.

· (GCSE help ).Might be relaunched.

· The Calculators On-Line Center⁸ has links to nearly 16,000 online calculators; part II covers maths.

· Canadian teacher Jill Britton ² has some good topic pages, and links to some good sites ² for symmetry, tesselations, kaleidoscopes, and the art of M.C. Escher ².

· Mainly aimed at higher levels, the official gateway for Maths is Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library¹ (EEVL). EEVL has recently published a booklet: Internet Resources for Maths ^1.For probably too much advice on how to search EEVL, there's this article by Roddy MacLeod².

· It's well over the top, but the American Mathematical Society has this page of links to research books available online.

STATISTICAL / QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY

· Statistics Every Writer Should Know - Idiot's guide to stats by Robert Niles. He'd be grateful if you gave him $5. If he helps you through your QM module, perhaps you should.

· The Calculators On-Line Center⁸ has links to nearly 16,000 online calculators; part II covers statistics.

SCIENCE

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite¹⁰ has several tutorials for Science subjects; BIOME hosts the Life Sciences ones, including Nature, Nursing, Vet, Allied Health etc; PSIgate has the physical sciences.

· JISC has a resource guide for Life Sciences and Health Studies¹⁰.

· The Ulysses search page¹, from Greece's Institute of Physical Chemistry, gives a wide range of links to science search engines - the subject choice includes health, engineering, food and agriculture - and the less interesting "infodirectories", which look like lists of conventional search engines.

· The Open Directory Project Science section ¹⁰ can be remarkably fruitful.

· The New Scientist has a good directory of sites⁹ - use categories on the left, index on the right. Doesn't make up for the fact that its archive is no longer freely available.

· The Nuffield 'Science for Public Understanding' site ², tying in with the AS course. Worth exploring - try News for some leads, as it’s not clear where the useful info is. For instance, Paul Bowers Isaacson has this pdf file of advice on researching SPU on the net ².

· This UNESCO links page contains some good sites.

· Jim Martindale's Reference Desk⁸at University of California Irvine is a vast directory with a strong scientific bias.

· The Exploratorium's recommended science sites⁸.

· SciCentral ¹⁰ is now part of SciQuest.

· Sciencenet⁷is aimed at the intelligent lay person. The searching mechanism works well; it's also worth browsing by subject heading⁷ . And here's a link to the new news, plus archive links ⁷, listing cutting edge news stories from the research front.

· Science news update service from Nature⁷, and Nature Insights⁹, useful sets of articles including Food & the Future, RNA, Neurobiological Systems, Ultracold Matter, The Heart, Malaria, Diabetes, Stem Cells, Molecular Sensing, Cancer, Aids, Complex Systems, Astrobiology, Biocatalysis, Ageing and Aptosis. One or two require (free) registration.

· Webref¹ has dictionaries and glossaries for the sciences.

· The RDN resource finder's "Behind the Headlines"¹⁰ offers ready-made searches leading to recommended pages for a number of recent news items, many of them with a scientific theme, such as gene therapy and malaria genome (October 2002). For earlier items such as black holes, stem cells, young smokers and legionnaire's disease, you'll have to search the resource base.

· UK Centre for Materials Education has an excellent website.

· Nat. Museum of Science & Industry The front page leads you to the Science Museum, the National Museum for Photography, Film & Television, & The National Railway Museum.

· The Scout Report (from University of Wisconsin) “is published every Friday and provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet”. It's strong on sciences and engineering - worth dipping into in case there’s a new item in your area. Here's the archive index.

· Nobel Foundation site ⁹.

· The Association for Science Education¹ is redeveloping its links pages ¹ .

· How big do you want a links site to be? Here is Voice of the Shuttle’s science, technology and culture page.

· Highwire's list of links to the 21 Largest Free Full-Text Science Archives ¹⁰may be too much to cope with.

· Much more tamely, Scirus¹ is a science search engine run by publishers Elsevier. It works well, but many of the articles it will tempt you with will not be accessible in full-text.

· The Calculators On-Line Center⁸ has links to nearly 16,000 online calculators; part III covers science.

· This article reviews, with links, many good science image sites.

· Nikon's site features interactive tutorials in microscopy .

Bad Science - Some site that reveal twaddle for what it is, debunk silliness and misleading information or promote things like logic and accuracy. (So as not to be a complete spoilsport, try the Miscellaneous section as an antidote).

· Bad Astronomy¹² - Phil Plait's excellent and thoughtful site.

· James Randi has a reputation for ruthlessness - so things like alternative medicine get short shrift, but this page on his site of skeptics' (sic) links¹² is still valuable.

· We have books by Ronald Story debunking UFO myths in the library. His website's a bit of a disappointment, though.

PHYSICS (see also Science above)

· Physics Web ² looks a good internet site, aimed at least at A-level and above.

· The IOP site ¹⁰ offers free access to the New Journal of Physics ² and the latest issue of other journals ², currently including many free issues.

· This UNESCO dictionary should be useful.

ASTRONOMY

· Heavens above is a really special practical astronomy site for satellites, shuttle, iridium flares, whole sky charts…

· Mars Exploration Program

· Here is the NASA collection of images of earth from spacecraft. NASA also funds the Astrophysics Data System

· University of Mississippi astronomy links¹¹.

· Bristol Uni's Astrophysics links page.

· Brookes-Cole astronomy resources¹¹.

· Phil Plait's informative Bad Astronomy¹².

CHEMISTRY (see also Science above)

· Avogadro is a chemistry site aimed at A level .

· Some other good sites are linked to this York Uni page.

· Here's the table of contents to an interesting UNESCO-funded Chemistry dictionary on an Australian site. You might want to try the prominent "useful websites" link as well.

· Thinkquest has this chemistry section², with this basic Chemistry tutor ².

· CHEMystery, a virtual chemistry textbook².

· Thermodynamics from Hull Uni.

· Chem4Kids is a more elementary American site.

BIOLOGY/ LIFE SCIENCES (see also Science above)

· Biology Browser¹² is an excellent gateway site.

· Peter Spark's The World Wide Web For A-Level Biologists⁹ is among the good set of links from the magazine Biological Sciences Review ⁹.

· These Brooks/Cole Biology¹¹ textbooks have some interactive student resources.

· Natural Selection is a gateway⁹ to quality, evaluated Internet resources in the natural world, part of BIOME and co-ordinated by The Natural History Museum . Use general terms to search and you should get a list of useful sites.

· The Scout Report issued a new Life Sciences links report in February 2002.

· At HE level, PubMed Central¹ is a free web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences.

· The Animal Omnibus¹¹ – masses of classified links to animal websites.

· Bio.com ¹ is for those working in the life sciences, in industry or research.

· The Dictionary of cell and molecular biology is online.

· The MIT Biology hypertext book ² could be helpful.

· Biozone sell biology resources but they have a really good links page, + some thorough reviews of textbooks.

· The Natural History Museum has "Exploring Biodiversity¹²", an interesting interactive site aimed at GCSE and A-level, which allows comparisons between postcodes.

· John Ross' human biology pages (here's the search page) are aimed at nurses but could be useful to all.

· The BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) site¹¹. Among its treasures are these downloadable resources¹¹,and web-based resources¹¹. Its research centres can be found from here¹¹.

· As part of their impressive WWW links section ², here are links to some other online resources ² at the BBSRC'S Rothamsted Research Centre site.

· The Wellcome Trust has these 6 leaflets on biotechnology⁹ & related topics for post-16, with teacher's notes etc, dating from 2000, and also downloadable Labnotes ⁹.

· "Practical Protocols" are lab technique guides in biotechnology compiled by the NCBE and the BBSRC, available in adobe format.

· The Good Zoo Guide Online aims to link to every zoo in the world but there's some way to go. Since I last looked, the number of links to French zoos has gone from 0 to 3, but only 1 of those has a link to the zoo's website - the rest are reviews. There are still only about 20 links for Britain out of the 80 or so zoos listed, many of which do have their own websites. You do better putting "zoo uk" in Google.

· Botanic Garden information system is a German site doing a similar job, and with plenty of links worldwide.

· More botanical sites⁹ from the RDN.

· Reticule has this flower identification guide⁹.

· The Postcode Plants Database¹² is a wonderful directory that tells you which plants are native to your postcode, and which are "garden-worthy". Many are illustrated.

· The Nuffield Council on Bioethics ¹ has full free on-line reports via its publications tab, for instance: Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues; plus the recommendations of others, and discussion papers.

· The advanced "Journal of Insect Science" is free online, thanks to SPARC¹.

· Thais has some good images of mainly Italian species, particularly on its entomology⁹ site.

· Opportunities in Marine Science (& Oceanography) is a careers page at Southampton Uni.

VETERINARY

· Vetgate ⁹, which offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering animal health. If you needed a reference text (aimed at the researcher) discussing the nutrient requirements of common laboratory species - rat, mouse, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, and vole, for instance, just click here.

· Vetgate also hosts the VTS internet skills tutorial ⁹.

· Vetscape ⁹ is "an Internet site for veterinary professionals". There is access to many online databases through the quick links.

· Vetweb ⁹, a free information service provided to members of the veterinary profession, veterinary nurses, students and practice managers

· Vetcentric⁹ with an encyclopedia of health advice⁹.

· Macrothesaurus¹ has excellent links pages on animals.

· The ASVIN project ⁹ is an investigation into ways in which information services for veterinary and animal health researchers can be developed, and has lists of resources.

· The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons⁹ (RCVS) website contains the online edition of the RCVS Guide to Professional Conduct⁹ which includes information on running a business⁹.

· Vet On-Line's professional pages⁹ - over 20 papers including two on care of small animals by Chris Strike. A third, on Feeding⁹, isn't listed.

· British Veterinary Nursing Association⁹.

· The American Animal Hospital Association operates healthy pet⁹.

· The Animal Health Trust has a page of scientific information⁹, mostly on horses, with some on dogs

· The (US) National Academy Press has several books on animal health free online, eg:

· Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals⁹ (1996)

· Amphibians: Guidelines for the Breeding, Care and Management of Laboratory Animals⁹ (1974) and

· Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals⁹ (rat, mouse, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, and vole)

· Institute of Animal Health - information on diseases of farm animals⁹.

· British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - factsheets on Pet Care⁹. Also good links⁹.

· The Institute Of Animal Technology website¹² has few resources but the links¹² might be useful.

· For tortoises and turtles, the World Chelonian Trust¹² has a useful site.

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

· The Environment Agency's website ¹ - includes "What's in your backyard?" with maps to show the state of things locally; enter a postcode or placename or click on the map, selecting data layers ¹ such as bathing waters, landfill sites, river quality, and flood risk areas.

· Magic⁸ is a mapping project led by DEFRA with other environmental government departments. You can create maps at almost any scale to show a wide range of features such as common land, scheduled monuments, national parks and nature reserves, and a wide range of other specific environmental classifications. Takes getting used to, but brilliant. It uses most OS scale maps, including 1:10000, but not 1:25000.

· The Countryside Agency is gradually unveiling draft maps ⁹ of registered common land and open country at 1:25000, and of a fairly generous size. As with MAGIC, the base maps are uncoloured. So far two of the 8 English regions have draft or provisional maps online: lower North-west (inc Merseyside, Manchester, Cheshire) and the South-East. Central Southern England arrives 3 September.

· For Wales, this is the draft mapping link⁹: the process is complete for the Berwyn mountains, and 4 other regions including Pembrokeshire, Merionydd and parts of SE Wales have draft maps.

· The South West Environmental Observatory¹¹ has just recently published a State of the Environment report . - here's the contents page. There's a lot of information in here, and the report links, and main site links¹¹ may be useful too.

· The new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website ¹¹ is pulling together pages from MAFF and DETR on the environment here¹¹.

· Some of the best Environment Protection Statistics are gathered here on the DEFRA site. Data from the Digest can be downloaded in excel spreadsheets.

· The National Statistics online products page leads you to some other free data.

· And chapter 11 of Social Trends 2002 could be useful for stats.

· DEFRA has Public Attitudes to the environment¹⁰ - this page gives you links for the 1996 and 2002 surveys.

· The Web Directory is a virtual library with a leaning towards green subjects – looks promising.

· The Open Directory ² environment links page.

· This links page from University of Swansea is actually for the study of green issues relating to Germany, but, no matter, most of the many links are not that specific.

· Much of the content of the Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 10^th ed (2002)¹ is online and the same site has a links page²of Internet sources within the field of environment and development. Most of these are themselves links pages so this could lead you a long way.

· The United Nations Atlas of the Oceans is a site to return to; as yet some parts of the geography section are thin. But the "About" and "Uses" sections have plenty of information. This section on Ocean Issues is relevant to environmental studies.

· Some useful educational Coastal Environment links on this "On the web" feature. But click here for the Coastal Imaging lab as the direct Perranporth link doesn't work (the CIL also have 5 cameras at Teignmouth). To use their archives to see photos of coastal change, you'll need to register.

· Dart Estuary Environmental Management Plan site

· People & the planet is a site for environmental issues- possibly useful for level 2/3. Use left-hand column for topic areas, then use top of central column to browse within a topic - for each, there are news items, feature articles, facts and figures, links …. The items are fairly concise, and in some cases, such as eco-tourism, there are big gaps - a shame, because there is plenty on the internet on that subject.

· Text of Real World Resources Guide Mainly bibliographical but some statistics.

· Some alternative energy sites not in the Web Directory: British Wind Energy Association ; Energy Research Unit at Rutherford ; Geothermal Resources Council ; Who's who in renewable energy¹¹.

· National Air Quality Information Archive.² There's a sensitive map of regions, and plenty of pollution data.

· Association Of National Park Authorities¹²

· Woodland Trust site, inc lists of visitable local woods.

· Devon WildlifeTrust¹¹ homepage.

· Our South West is a Government site for everyone working towards a sustainable future for the South West of England. The Links page provides a comprehensive list of organisations, some regional, some national.

· (Waste.net⁷will be "a new gateway to information on waste-related research in the UK." Not a lot there yet, apart from a few links 22^nd July 2002.)

· WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) is a website with a really useful portal (this is the advanced search ⁷) leading to information on a range of other websites. This page explains⁷ .

· Waste Watch⁷- " Promoting action on waste reduction, reuse and recycling" There's some useful information and advice on what you can do to help

· Lets recycle.com⁷ offers up-to-date news on recycling and business.

· Here is the south-west chapter of Biffa's 1997 publication on waste disposal in UK.

· Choose climate is a challenging site that includes models linking climate, science and policy, and calculating the effect of an air flight on the planet.
Eco-action is a radical eco-activist site.

· Woodlander Internet publishing¹¹ includes Alphasearch¹¹, a database for UK forestry.

· Some forestry links , and an arboricultural mailing list⁸.

· Environmental Impacts of the Emerging Digital Economy: The E-for-Environment E-Commerce?⁹ by Sui and Rejeski looks at the positive and negative global impacts.

POPULATION

· The Population Reference Bureau is an excellent statistical site - many features on women, education, refugees, hunger across the world.

· Then there's the UN Population Fund, and

· 1998 World Population information from the US census office.

· World population statistics - try Geohive⁸ or Stefan Helder's World Gazetteer⁸.

· The UK Census 2001 - an ESRC/JISC programme¹ site, and the main National Statistics census page¹.

· Social Trends 2002 - it's all there.

· For the history of the UK census, try the article at the start (p16) of Social Trends 2002.

· Here are some links to serious government statistics, The South-west in figures is an online government publication⁷, with population figures.

· The Neighbourhood Statistics web site⁸ contains detailed maps of population and deprivation, with ward boundaries. Put in a postcode (first three digits is fine), click on a ward and on key statistics to get a range of data.

· The US Census Bureau¹² has just published a report on changes in America's population over the twentieth century. This Press Release¹² outlines the main findings and has links.

AGRICULTURE

The Internet For Agriculture Food And Forestry¹⁰ is the RDN Tutorial.
Agrifor¹⁰ is the RDN’s searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering agriculture, food and forestry.

AgNIC¹⁰ an American gateway to agricultural information, selected by the National Agricultural Library.
NovaGate¹⁰ gateway to selected Internet resources in forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and environmental sciences.
Agriculture Virtual Library¹⁰ a directory of agriculture-related Web sites and is searchable by keyword.
AGRIGATE¹⁰ an Australian Agriculture Information Gateway.

· The Government's new Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food¹², launched in December 2002, with links to other key documents.

· EU Agriculture home page². The EU's Agricultural News Digest² will keep you up-to-date on the latest European farming issues.

· The Macrothesaurus ¹ may be a useful links site.

· Not just cows is an agriculture links site – many not working on my last visit.

· The Ohio State University’s horticulture & crop science site ¹ has interesting features, such as the Webgarden.

· Soil Association homepage for organic farming and food.

· Good set of agriculture and food-oriented images at USDA.

· The reports⁷ of Compassion in World Farming⁷, on animal welfare issues, are downloadable

RELIGION

· World religions ¹ is a site aimed at Secondary Schools.

· The Catholic Encyclopedia.

· Shirley Galloway's essays include Death in Buddhism.

· Hitchcock's Bible Names².

· Crosstalk Bible Concordance², offering wildcard search.

ENGINEERING

· The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorial on internet skills for the Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineer.¹⁰

· The gateway for Engineering is Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library ¹⁰ (EEVL) This and other portals are discussed by Roddy MacLeod in a Freepint article ¹¹ from 2000. EEVL has recently published a booklet: Internet Resources for Engineering ^11.For probably too much advice on how to search EEVL, there's this article by Roddy MacLeod².

· Doctronics¹⁰ is a recommended site for electronics , including an on-line textbook on design electronics.

· Alex's Electronic Test Bench¹⁰ is " An Online Guide to Useful Electrical and Electronic Information", with a glossary and resource library of hyperlinks.

· The Open Directory Electronics Section⁸.

· The Calculators On-Line Center⁸ has links to nearly 16,000 online calculators; part IV covers engineering.

· For alternative sources of energy & environmental issues, see environment section.

· Design surfer ¹⁰ is an interesting site on design for engineers.

· The IEEE Virtual museum⁸describes the history of electricity in a fairly easy manner.

· Engines of our ingenuity ⁷ is, well, not quite weird enough. 1707 (and rising) little radio lectures, sporadically illustrated, by John Lienhard, from the Columbian steam engine (no 1) to Virtual Temples (no 1707), about inventions & the progress of technology; a touch of the James Burke.

· The archive index ¹⁰ to the Scout Report (which used to be strong on engineering) is still online.

· The Auto Industry website ⁷ - "We aim to provide the definitive, single point of reference on the web for the UK Auto Industry".

· The British Standards Institution offers limited amounts of information to the unregistered. Its education section⁹ may be of interest.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

· The International Telecommunication Union¹⁰.

· UTMS¹⁰ (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) site .

· Oftel¹¹ has various reports and surveys on telephone issues including mobile phones, broadband.

· Freepint article on the Future of Mobile Telephony¹² (May 2002).

BUILDING

· The RDN VTS¹⁰ has internet skills tutorials for Civil Engineers (HE) or Construction (FE). Both are highly recommended.

· Napier University¹⁰ internet launchpad for the Built Environment – a really excellent gateway site.

· Students can access and search Technical Indexes at this address¹⁰. For username and password, ask me or a member of learning resources staff. This leads to, among other things, the Construction Industry Service - be patient when searching and you will find valuable downloads, including British Standards.

· The Building Regulations¹ are on the internet, free at the DTLR site, along with other construction legislation¹⁰.

· This Abacus Construction Index¹¹ searches the Building Regs and other items in the ODPM Construction Legislation website.

· The Building Research Establishment¹ now charges for its insight online information service, but there are plenty of free resources; here's a projects page¹. There's a helpful a-z tab, or you can use the search facility, which categorises results into projects, services, etc.. As an example, here's a paper on Building facades maintenance - legal liability¹. Back issues of their magazine "Constructing the Future" (available in the library) can be accessed - I'm waiting for an online version of issue 15, which has an excellent links list.

· Govt’s construction sector unit home page (most of the former directorate)¹⁰

· CEBE (Centre for Education in the Built Environment)¹⁰ hosts the LTSN HE subject centre, with discipline- and issue-specific pages on work-based learning, VLEs, Assessment, and planning education, for instance.

· CITB¹⁰(Construction Industry Training Board).

· The Architects Homepage UK⁷, " an easy way into the web", certainly looks fruitful, and provides a search facility for the Construction Index⁷.

· Construction Resources on the Internet ¹⁰– a links site from The Construction Industry Computing Association¹⁰, which also hosts "Interesting web sites".

· AECPortico⁹ is a hub covering architecture, construction, engineering, environment, planning.

· Try these online resources at the Leicester School of Architecture¹⁰ at DMU. There's this index for some construction science technical pages, such as this one for brickwork.

· Hammersmith College has an good links page¹⁰.

· The HSE site has full text leaflets on hazards in the industry¹⁰. Here, for instance, are the links to woodworking safety leaflets.

· Green & environmentally-friendly building links page courtesy of the web directory.

· Sustainable Building Links¹⁰

· Collaborating for the Built Environment, known as Be ², is the largest independent construction supply chain body in the UK. Presentations from the 2002 conference² are available.

· Online Resources for the Construction Industry¹⁰ An American site, but with some useful-looking links.

· The Construction Industry Gateway¹⁰ - a searchable database mainly leading to firms' sites. (The RDN VTS link is out-of-date!)

· Tenlinks has the "Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory"¹⁰.

· The Directory of construction materials references¹⁰ is based in Hawaii and is USA-oriented.

· iF - International Forum Design - has a picture library¹ covering a range of categories of products including building components.

· UK Centre for Materials Education has an excellent website.

· The World Lecture Hall building section is mainly American too, but as an example, here is a good page of photos of arches from Kirk Martini.

· Skyscraper Page¹².

· An image resource⁸ for landscape architecture and related construction areas at University of Oregon.

· Centre for accessible environments “is committed to the provision of buildings and places which are accessible to all users, including disabled and older people, and to the enhancement of quality in design”.

· Uk Business park for construction firms news.

· British Gypsum's White Book⁷ (2001) is available on the net.

PLANNING (some links repeated from elsewhere)

· AECPortico⁹ - a hub covering various subjects including planning.

· Sapling¹⁰ is a gateway covering architecture, planning and landscape information.

· RIBANET’s links⁹ are comprehensive, covering building, planning, history etc.

· Nottingham University has a vast planning bibliography, which includes some web links. Here's part of the index¹⁰. And here's their thorough list of links¹⁰ to any organisation that could possibly be related to planning in some way.

· Urban Design¹ - some of these lectures and notes from DMU's Centre for Education Technology and Development are available online, including Garden Cities, Suburbs, the radiant City, Docklands, the Virtual City and Postmodern Hyperspace. On the same site is Coin Street Interactive¹, a case study in urban planning and development.

· Cyburbia¹⁰ is an American urban planning portal, covering "growth & sprawl", and architecture.

· New Urbanism¹² is "an international movement to reform the design of the built environment".

· Links from the University of Nevada on architecture / planning.

MEASURES, CONVERSIONS:

· ConvertIt.com¹ has a range of conversion and calculator links.

· Aquarius Soft Online Currency converter⁸ changes the result as you enter figures.

· Another Currency converter⁹ from xe.com. Its advantage over Aquarius is that it still carries pre-Euro currencies, in case your facts are a little dated. Its interactive version⁹ generates tables.

· Speck design conversion table site.

· Dictionary of units of measurement.

· International Clothing conversion charts¹.

· Some conversions from British to American cooking, including vocabulary.

LEARNING CENTRES

· Kevin Donovan's articles, including the first FEDA document from 2000, "Clicks and mortar: learning centres: locating learning & skills"⁸, and an overview of subsequent reports, are here on LSDA's learning technologies site⁸.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Some useful-looking batches of links on KM:

· York University⁹;

· ASLIB⁸ (albeit with some oddities on the links - some errors may be correctable, but some are just dead links);

· Resource Center⁸.

· There are many large websites devoted to KM issues. You can usually register free to access many resources. Three which are NOT US-based are Knowledge Associates² (recommended), David Gurteen's², and Knowledge Board².

INFORMATION STUDIES & LIBRARIANSHIP

· The Internet Library for Librarians may be worth checking: tip - ignore the search, just scroll down to the subject directory.

· The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals⁹ (including what was formerly The Library Association). This links page², which is still on the old LA site, is strong on the cross-over between information and education organisations.

· Information Research¹⁰ is a welcome and controversial online journal. It has this brilliant list of free e-journals¹⁰ in information studies.

· The Info Connect LIS Directory⁹ could be up with the other hubs, but it's a bit fiddly to use and is clearly aimed at librarians.

· Likewise, this excellent Canadian site, Mary Sue Stephenson's " Research Methods Resources on the WWW " ¹¹is aimed at library courses, but it is simply the best set of links on research methods I've seen anywhere. Her list of Questionnaire design sites¹¹, for instance, looks superb, and includes links to American Stat Society publications, for instance.

· Sheila Webber & Bill Johnston's Information Literacy site².

· Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian site is inspiring. She is already where most of us want to be in about three years.

· Ian Tilsted at Exeter has a strong site.

· E-LIS².

· WSE - a tentative suggestion for web research.

· This UKOLN page lists current and past projects.

· Newsletter / Mailserve / updating services for librarians (and anyone else hooked on information) include the addictive and superb Freepint⁹, Internet Resources Newsletter⁸ and Ariadne.

· Cataloguing links at academic.info⁸.

· Glossary of bibliographic information by language¹² - 12 of them. It forms part of a really thorough site on cataloguing from Newfoundland.

· Search Systems¹ brings together searchable public records databases worldwide, many of them free. This is the UK links page¹.

Information business sites

· Managing Information.com.

· Information Today⁹, which hosts Supersearchers⁹ (links and not just adverts for the books) and much more.

· Information World Review.

· Catalist - links to over 57000 public listservs.

· The MMI has these articles by Kim Veldman on IT and libraries⁹, mostly from 1995-99.

· Keep in touch with RSS (Rich Site Summary). I haven't sorted it out yet but I must. Here's a helpful article by Steven Cohen.

· ALPSP¹ hosts a glossary of acronyms of organisations and links to their websites, as well as hosting excellent presentations from seminars on scholarly publishing.

· SPARC¹ and SPARC Europe.

· OCLC has thorough section about the Dewey Decimal Classification⁹.

· Ian Winship's companion website to the book "Attracting, educating, and serving remote users through the web: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians" edited by Donnelyn Curtis.

Tracing details of traditional resources: print, audio-visual.

For books and journals, see below.

· For A-V try Hermes¹(database providing details for over 25,000 audio-visual programmes: films, videos, DVDs, slides, sound recordings, tape-slide packages, computer courseware and interactive multimedia), the BFI National Library¹, Shotlist⁸, AVP , Research Channel, Viewtech, EMA⁹(Australian, but a useful catalogue). A search on BUFVC's Moving Image Gateway¹ might help.

Library catalogues online

· Niss has a list of OPACs in British university libraries.¹

· COPAC3¹¹ searches the catalogues of many leading university libraries; although it's slow, it has become steadier over the last year.

· World indexes to online catalogues include: lib-web-cats² (Vanderbilt); Libdex²(18000 links) ; UNESCO² (9437); Libweb² (Berkeley - 6500).

· Search the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library¹⁰.

· BL provides access to European National Libraries at Gabriel⁸.

· Torbay Public Library - catalogue on internet².

· Devon County Library catalogue.²

· University of Plymouth Libertas catalogue².

· Here are some groups of links to art libraries: art library OPACs.; MMA.

· Some other library catalogues I use frequently: London Institute¹; LSE¹.

E-JOURNALS

· Thanks to JISC, who have arranged a package with Gale Infotrac, we have access to OneFile, a database of 3000 full-text electronic journals (plus another 3000 with abstracts or titles), and a newspaper file. Click on:

http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/sdc_jisc²

I can send you an xls subject listing of the full-text journals featured.

· The Electronic Journal Miner⁸will search or browse a wide range of online journals; you can select just the free ones and/or peer-reviewed titles. Based in Colorado, but not as parochial as that might sound.

· Hunter Health has this very helpful list of about 180 free on-line medical journals⁹

· Highwire¹ (Stanford University) also offers free access to "250" sites, mostly in science and medicine. Perhaps even more usefully, they have a list of links to the 17 Largest Free Full-Text Science Archives.⁹

· The Sociosite/ICAAP Journals Database provides access to independent scholarly on-line journals - currently 42 medical, and over 90 in the social sciences and humanities.

· The US National Library of Medicine's PubMed search page⁷ gives you mainly abstracts. If you're only after full-text, try PubMed Central¹, a free web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences, with a number of medical journals, and it's growing.

· Find articles¹ gives you free access to 300 titles; here's the subject index to titles. It's actually a mini-version of the infotrac database, and a bit more user-friendly.

· ResearchIndex¹, also known as Citeseer. "Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access". Quite so. Find the most frequently-referenced online scientific articles here.

· For a sober introduction to management issues in electronic journals, try "The Mixed Blessing Of Electronic Resources "⁷, or the excellent presentations for this ALPSP seminar titled "We can't go on like this: the future of journals"⁷.

Abstracts and indexes of journals

· Catchword can be used to monitor the contents of its many journals

· Uncover is a database of abstracts which is now part of Ingenta. You can use it to track down articles but I don't think you'll get full-text.

· Ebsco has an interesting list of URLs linking to the license information of journal publishers.

Lists of journals, with some links

· Joseph Jones ejournal site guide brings together many journal list sites

· New Jour has a mammoth 11,000 links to internet-available journals and newsletters - alas, there are many dead links.

· (Two lists of journal titles, both claiming 150,000, are Publist.com and Rowecom.)(neither work Oct 2002!)

· The Internet Public Library¹ may only offer 3,000, but they are all links to sites.

E-BOOKS

For older works out of copyright, the lists under LITERATURE are worth investigating.

· The online books page¹¹, a University of Pennsylvania digital library project, covers 17,000 out-of-copyright titles on all subjects.

E-BOOKS: MODERN TITLES

· University of California Press¹ has endeared itself to librarians worldwide by putting 350 titles freely online. Here's the subject listing¹. When you get to a list of titles, the word "public" in green indicates which titles are freely available. You can click on "show only public titles" if you prefer. The list is strong on humanities, culture and the arts. You might prefer to use this advanced search page¹, where you can specify public books only, and subject headings only.

· A comprehensive review of the e book situation as at July 2002 is provided by Donald Hawkins: Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated.⁸

· Kirsty Green (University of Surrey) compiled this Dec 2002 report "Testing the Viability of the Introduction of Electronic Books at UniS"² which lists many providers in appendix 1.

· eBooks-in-Print.com² is the " first commercially-neutral registry of electronic publications". So far, I've not traced much using it.

· Sites to watch: Diffusion; NetLibrary; Literature Online (LION), Safari¹, ebook locator¹; e-books.com².

A miscellaneous collection of interesting free e books that don't really fit elsewhere:

· Gambetta, Diego (1988) Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations¹⁰

· Kisho Kurokawa: The Philosophy of Symbiosis¹- a Japanese Architect discusses C21 culture, attempting a reworking of postmodernism.

PUBLISHERS

Lists of links to publishers:

· Northern Lights¹¹ - 7662 links. Please tell me if you find something bigger. Not surprisingly, it takes a little while to load.

· Acqweb - est 5000 links, no complete list, but accessible in alphabetic, subject and geographical categories. Aimed at librarians, it has helpful cross-references, which the others don't. Acqweb also offers these links to publishers links pages and major booksellers.

· Bookweb - over 650 links, rather faster, and it does have all the major UK firms.

· (Literary Marketplace¹¹ - over 4000 links, but only approachable by country (look for the Publishers heading on the left). Here's the start of the UK list of over 1100.) You now have to register to use this site, and you won't get the link, just postal addresses.

The companion website section below has some major publishers.

· A fairly reliable way to locate a publisher is to use Google, putting inverted commas around a name like "Harper Collins". Your target will usually be the first site up. If it's not in the first few, chances are that publisher doesn't have its own site.

· Beware publishers who have split limbs among different owners or sites, like Heinemann and Longman. If you're trying to trace a specific book, try putting in an author's name on Google as well. Bear in mind that you can spend ages using their search engines to no avail because some are unaware of many of their titles, particularly new ones - or you just happen to be looking at the wrong bit of their site, or the US version, or…

· I have got a folder of icons of publishers' websites, which I can pass on to you. It's currently got over 200 icons. Please ask if you want help.

· Literary agents² list, from The Writer's Handbook 2003.

· If you want the basic details of a book, it's often quicker to use:

BOOKSELLERS

· Try Amazon, or (SDC staff only) Dawson Enterbooks¹² - login and password are in the college news no 23 - use Ctrl-F to search for Dawson to get them, or ask me or the learning centres staff.

· If you want to buy a particular book, you can use the brilliant Bookbrain¹ to compare prices. It searches for your choice on 15 of the best online booksellers, including Waterstones, Blackwell's¹², The Book Place, Amazon¹², and Internet bookshop, tells you how long each will take, and arranges them by total price inc p&p. although its "premier sponsor", Smiths, does come first. You can then click on chosen booksellers to see further details. The disadvantage of Bookbrain is that you can only search by one of author, title, publisher or ISBN - not a combination.

· American equivalents of Bookbrain include isbn.nu² (slow to load) and Addall¹¹.

· Worldwide Books² specialises in art, especially catalogues.

· For Second-hand books, Abebooks⁹ (this is the UK site) is recommended, and the (US) Bookfinder.com² can help trace them.

MISCELLANEOUS

· Sites to track email addresses of people include Addresses.com², World email and Mail Search (Lycos). Here's a Dec 2002 Freepint thread¹².

· Or try some of these links from the Invisible Web.

· Cybercafes - find them using Cybercaptive², Cybercafes.com², or this Google directory².

· h2g2⁸, formerly one of the "net’s really miscellaneous sites", has gone mainstream and become part of the BBC. There's all sorts of information on it, in fact, it's now looking serious and organised.

· Easily Amused¹².

· There are probably some brilliantly witty sites out there, but the satire on The Onion⁸is consistently funny, even if the Americanese in which it is steeped will confuse you. A good British satirical site is idiotica.

· Finally, I can't resist mentioning Brainpop. As I don't have headphones, I've no idea what the cartoon movies sound like, but …they might be ok. I think they're for children - or are they? Anyway, lots of free educational animation that might appeal.

Companion websites - and publisher's subject sites*

While the e-book market stutters⁸, increasing numbers of complementary sites are being provided by publishers for printed textbooks. Sometimes the publisher mentions them on the book - sometimes not.

As new books arrive in stock, I am trying to check whether such websites exist, and then link them to the Heritage catalogue record. Some may just consist of sample chapters and illustrations. Here, for instance, is a link to "Mask Therapy in Facial Treatments", a chapter in Gerson's Standard Textbook for Professional Estheticians, taken from a list from Delmar.

Other publishers, such as Houghton Mifflin, will mostly only allow password access, although here is the learning centre associated with Dibb's "Marketing" from Houghton Mifflin.

But many provide freely-accessible extra material. For instance, this is what Nelson has to say about the website that accompanies the A-level text "Electronics Explained":

"you will find a variety of high-quality, extensively trialled practical worksheets to accompany the book …., written for the new Curriculum 2000 specifications…. the worksheets are in pdf format, and are arranged in sections corresponding to those in the book. For free access, click on the relevant section, then on the title of the worksheet to find the pdf file to download."

Such extra materials can often be used quite independently from the book. For instance, should you want outline maps of the continents, the site accompanying Pulsipher's "World Regional Geography" has them in pdf format - and there are thematic overlays. The animated population history maps are fun, and there are interactive exercises - although on my screen, the Black Sea and Cyprus weren't visible.

Again, because many of these websites include excellent links pages among their features, you could begin a major internet research project by using them. Brockett's "History of the theatre" (8th ed) website⁷ may not give you much of the text (although it does offer a correction and updating service), but the links page is considerable*.

How do you track down book websites? Sometimes a search engine will lead you there. A few academic sites provide links. St Loye's has this list of psychology textbook companion sites.

Some publishers bring all such sites together neatly on one page. The large Pearson group, for instance, links 600 via one page¹², which also features links to their " Online Course Content". You must, however, choose a subject, which might be awkward when you know the book you are looking for but can't see a subject that matches. Statistics, for example, comes under social science rather than maths.

One of Pearson's subsidiaries, Prentice-Hall¹, offers similar access to their titles, and allows author searching. But the sites accompanying Denis Keenan's law books¹, published by Pitman, can only be accessed from Pearson, although they are on Prentice-Hall's site. Another subsidiary, Addison-Wesley¹, seems to have websites that can't be accessed via Pearson. Many Longman subjects are also scattered through Pearson. Such are the pros and cons of virtual information.

However, at least there is some sort of central listing. For many British publishers, (Routledge, for instance), there seems no way of telling whether extra resources are available without hunting down each book on the website and checking. If so, using a www search engine will be as useful. With Cambridge University Press, you may be able to track down sample chapters by using this search page - try entering "pdf" and a subject or author.

Nelson Thornes mix ICT materials that relate to particular titles with those that are more general. Note also that this link is for secondary level material; their further education page offers mainly sample pages. Indeed, it's clear that, within any publisher's website, the amounts of extra material provided online can vary widely between subjects and levels; Heinemann is a case in point.

Pearson is one publisher with a list of forthcoming companion websites. This might be useful if you plan to use the electronic facilities on offer and want to see which forthcoming textbooks offer them.

Here are some links to publishers' companion website pages: (New!) means I've added it since the original version of this piece went into the college newsletter:

Addison-Wesley - + "places learning centers", much the same thing, and currently only on sciences.

Allyn & Bacon / Longman

Blackwell

Brooks/Cole¹¹ The homepage - you must follow the links under disciplines, and Psychology seems to be missing from the list. Choose "student resources" on the left to get a set of titles which offer interactive features.

Butterworth Heinemann¹¹ (New!) (currently mainly Engineering / Construction)

CQ Press (just 3 books on American politics)

Focal Press

Freeman's College and High school listings covering the sciences. (New!)

Harcourt - a mixed bag of links with book titles and subjects that lead to them. (New!)

Harcourt / Mosby / Churchill Livingstone /Saunders (Nursing/medical)

Heinemann secondary science

Houghton Mifflin -try your luck!

International Thomson ⁸

Longman ELT (other Longman subjects, like psychology, are under the Pearson empire, turning up under Allyn & Bacon, or Addison-Wesley Higher Education, even though they may be A-level)

Mcgraw-Hill Website gallery - much well above average, including psycafe.

Morgan Kaufmann (New!)

NelsonThornes - a tiny handful; ICT here. One to watch.

OUP¹¹

Palgrave / Macmillan

Pearson¹², including Addison-Wesley, Prentice-Hall, Longman, Allyn & Bacon. See under Prentice-Hall - you may be asked to login. Forthcoming Pearson companion sites.

Photoeducation, including some Focal Press books. (New!)

Polity Press (others are under Blackwell!)

Prentice-Hall¹⁰ - tough if you want sites to accompany Deitel's books.

Shelly Cashman (IT)

Springer (New!)

Wadsworth ebooks - also product tours (New!)

Wiley (UK) but not all subjects lead to cws. Some that do are computing, reference, & life science. Alternatively, try finding the book with this quick author index (US) and then checking if there are any "companion websites" boxes on the left. Although this helpful browsing page leads to more titles, I suspect it won't lead to many websites.

Authors have websites which back up their publications: for instance, Jim Burke, a California high school English teacher, has this site to support his books. The link for Springer above is actually to a collection of such sites.

* Publisher's subject sites

*Like many publishers, the firm that publishes Brockett, Allyn & Bacon, also provides "discipline supersites", although many are "in construction". Naturally, publishers use these as a platform to promote their products. Sometimes you get a few website links. Other, more useful examples, are:

Blackwell's Resource Centres for humanities and social science subjects - go to the foot of the page or use Ctrl-End to find these. I recommend the sociology site; there are others, such as politics or geography.

Brooks Cole - astronomy, biology and physics

International Thomson (eg this economics links page)

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - mainly medical, nursing, healthcare.

Routledge web arenas¹ - among the 28 available are Media & Cultural Studies, Sports & Leisure Studies , Gender, Business and Management.

FINALLY, - WHAT MAKES A NAVIGABLE WEBSITE?

(Apart, that is, from the criteria indicates under EVALUATION)

Plenty of sites have loads of good information hidden away – but hidden is often the operative word.

The best sites should have some or all of the following facilities prominently available on their home page, and ideally reachable from all pages:

Search - one that

· is user-friendly and combines sensitivity with recall;

· doesn’t force you to choose a subject category first;

· has a quickly-accessible help page – or, better still, points out a few obvious things beside the search box like whether you can use AND/OR operators and wildcards.

· uses Google or something on a par with it;

· doesn't take forever to tell you there's nothing to match your search

· improves on the sorry tale of this research¹. (Search Tools² is the site for web designers).

Site map - they need to convey the different levels within the site's hierarchy of

pages; here's why they don't get used¹;

A-Z index - containing alternative entry terms;

What’s New. When you’re faced with a huge site or giant databases, this feature

really helps get the flavour of what resources are available.

Oh – and of course they should be:

· Fast – or at least not painfully slow.

· Correctly spelt – or should that be spelled?

· Kept sufficiently up-to-date – this will vary, but there’s nothing worse than a links page where 7 out of 10 links are dead, or a site offering the very latest news on a topical subject that hasn’t been updated for 15 months.

· Not carried away with unhelpful technology. (No danger of that on this site).

Vincent Flanders demonstrates that you can learn good web design from the bad sites on Web Pages That Suck⁸. The "You think it sucks" section is hilarious. And for the definitive example of the use of technology to make life really difficult for the web user, which Flanders calls "Mystery Meat Navigation", try this extraordinary page from MOMA⁸. Flanders also hosts Fixing your web site⁸.

A different perspective comes from Jakob Nielsen's Use-it⁸, which concentrates on the information content of a good website - keyword: useability.

Gerry McGovern's site¹, particularly the newsletter "New Thinking", also takes a critical look at the value of website content.

The UK government⁷has set its own thorough and sensible standards.

NOTES:

(Entries in Italics – link not working last time I tried).

· Bullet points indicate areas checked after summer 2001. I'm now using ⁷ or ¹ etc in superscript to indicate the month (after June 2002) the link was last checked.

If you find any dead or moved links please let me know.

This is an uneven document at the moment, with some subjects under-represented. If you feel strongly that a particular area has no or few links, please let me know.

If you're really stuck you could ask a librarian; but then why not ask me? If you can't think why, click here¹.

Derek Harper

Academic Information Coordinator

South Devon College

Email dharper

X 6369

Richardson Ground Floor

26.2.03

WEB SEARCHING INSTRUCTION (for internet tips, click here; advice on using other applications, click here)

IMAGES AND PICTURES - finding and using (for analysis, scroll down)

Analysing images

REFERENCE (for specific Countries other than UK, try PLACES)

REFERENCE: DIRECTORIES (see TRANSPORT for travel timetables)

Specific subject areas

COMPUTERS & IT ( see also ILT; WEB DESIGN) Scroll down for sub-headings: Dictionaries, Tips & tutorials; Computer industry; Law; Internet.

· More academic material is available from cogprints computer science page1.

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

ART (scroll down for further sub-headings, or click here on ART HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, GRAPHIC DESIGN, CRAFTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL ART)

ART HISTORY

ARCHITECTURE (see also PLANNING - if that link's not working, try ENGINEERING and page down a bit)

CRAFTS - Scroll down or click here for links on Jewellery and metalwork, Ceramics, and Textiles.

MEDIA (See also FILM, TELEVISION, NEWS, CULTURAL STUDIES, NEW MEDIA, WEB DESIGN, MARKETING & ADVERTISING)

· Your life is not long enough to explore more than a fraction of Voice of the Shuttle10; the media are effortlessly swept up in its prodigious grasp.

TELEVISION - first, you should look at MEDIA, but there are these:

· Off the telly has been described as "self-important" but may have some useful reviews and essays; I enjoyed the Adam and Joe review in "Did you see".

MUSIC

NEWS (see also MEDIA)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE, including Words and Sayings

· NILTA and AOC are working together in ILT - their joint strategy is contained in A national strategic plan for information and learning technologies (ILT) - 2002/031.

ETHICAL ISSUES

CONSUMER ISSUES

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (see also Medical, Social work, Welfare, Children, Community issues & Unemployment)

NURSING

MEDICAL

HAIR, BEAUTY & COSMETOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH / SAFETY

· The Social Care Institute for Excellence10 (SCIE) has replaced the National Institute for Social Work.

· The SENDA Draft Code of Practice for post-168 educational institutions explains their new duties from September 2002 in the provision of post-16 education and related services for disabled people and students and runs to 80 pages.

GOVERNMENT

BUSINESS & FINANCE (see also BUSINESS DIRECTORIES)

MARKETING & ADVERTISING (see also MEDIA, and E-COMMERCE / INTERNET MARKETING below)

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE/ INTERNET MARKETING (which overlaps with the above)

MANAGEMENT

YOUTH

ECONOMICS (see below for Economic data)

WEATHER & CLIMATE

· The Open Directory Project Science section10 can be remarkably fruitful.

AGRICULTURE

BOOKSELLERS

WEB SEARCHING INSTRUCTION (for internet tips, click here ; advice on using other applications, click here )

REFERENCE (for specific Countries other than UK, try PLACES )

· More academic material is available from cogprints computer science page ¹.

ART (scroll down for further sub-headings, or click here on ART HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE , DESIGN, GRAPHIC DESIGN , CRAFTS , PHOTOGRAPHY , DIGITAL ART)

CRAFTS - Scroll down or click here for links on Jewellery and metalwork , Ceramics, and Textiles .

MEDIA (See also FILM , TELEVISION , NEWS , CULTURAL STUDIES , NEW MEDIA, WEB DESIGN , MARKETING & ADVERTISING )

· Your life is not long enough to explore more than a fraction of Voice of the Shuttle ¹⁰; the media are effortlessly swept up in its prodigious grasp.

TELEVISION - first, you should look at MEDIA , but there are these:

· NILTA and AOC are working together in ILT - their joint strategy is contained in A national strategic plan for information and learning technologies (ILT) - 2002/03¹.

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (see also Medical , Social work , Welfare , Children , Community issues & Unemployment)

· The Social Care Institute for Excellence¹⁰ (SCIE) has replaced the National Institute for Social Work.

· The SENDA Draft Code of Practice for post-16 ⁸ educational institutions explains their new duties from September 2002 in the provision of post-16 education and related services for disabled people and students and runs to 80 pages.

BUSINESS & FINANCE (see also BUSINESS DIRECTORIES )

MARKETING & ADVERTISING (see also MEDIA , and E-COMMERCE / INTERNET MARKETING below)

ECONOMICS (see below for Economic data )

· The Open Directory Project Science section ¹⁰ can be remarkably fruitful.