Keeping up-to-date with new Web sites


The Internet can be useful for maintaining current awareness within a particular subject field. The following sites help in keeping up-to-date in the respective field.

Scout Report for Social Sciences - http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/mirrors/scout/report/socsci/metapage/index.html

A very useful, regularly updated, additional source of information for current resources from the Scout Report. These include: full-text papers and articles; government and think-tank policy papers; statistics; tables of contents for new journals; forthcoming conferences announcements; publisher's sites and details on both employment and funding opportunities. There is also a full set of links to all other areas of the Scout Report project.

The monthly Internet resources newsletter - http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html

Produced by Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

Subject-wise Internet Resource Guides:Clearing House - http://www.clearinghouse.net/

Sources organised under broad subject categories - Look under desired subject.

Internet magazine - http://www.emap.com/internet/

Has information on new sites.

BUBL LINK Updates - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html

Recent Additions to the Catalogue of Internet Resources

What's new on Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/new/ Infomine - http://lib-www.ucr.edu/sshinfo.html

What's new page

Librarians' Index to the Internet and Librarians' Index to the Internet -

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/

Netsurfer Digest - http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/

Free weekly email newsletter

Freepint - http://www.freepint.co.uk/

Free fortnightly email newsletter on new sites

UK Politics (BBC) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/default.html

Offers news stories and analyses from BBC correspondents. It also includes special reports on key political issues such as election campaigns, political conferences and international summits. Additional features are an A-Z glossary of political terms and links to information about the British parliament and BBC political programmes.


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