E Books --Free and Chained

Online Books

Bartleby: Geart Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/

Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm

Free Tech Books
http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/

Medical Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

Free PDF eBooks Archive
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/

Read Print
http://www.readprint.com/

WikiBooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

DLIST
[http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/]

Ebook4free.net
[http://www.ebooks4free.net]

Free-Books.org
[http://www.free-books.org]

Free-ebooks.net
[http://www.free-ebooks.net/]

Project Gutenberg
[http://www.gutenberg.org/]

1. E-Books in Public Domain

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. The collection of more than 15000 eBooks
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction)
http://www.authorama.com/

Bartleby.com provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc
http://www.bartleby.com

Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 20000 e-books on different subjects
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/


The eScholarship Editions collection of University of California includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/

1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic fiction, major authors
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

MIT OpenCourseWare a site fr 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html


2,500 National Academy science, engineering, and health of USA texts free online
http://www.nap.edu

Internet Public Library of University of Michigan has about 20000 e-books on variety of subjects
http://ww.ipl.org/div/books/

Read Print site is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics
http://www.readprint.com/

Oxford Text Archive from OU 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, China site]
http://www.ulib.org.cn

Million Book Project [Digital Library of India
http://www.dli.ernet.in/aui

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, U.S. site
http://www.ulib.org

Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort 160 works in Tamil script
http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/

World eBook Library comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references. 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html


A site which provides comprehensive web links on Best free Digital Libraries – Australia; Best free Digital Libraries – World; Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English; World - Other Languages, Regional and National; Individual Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

http://goidirectory.nic.in/
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/titles.html
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm

100 libraries across the globe

with the help of following link one can visit the top 100 libraries with the blink of finger---
http://www.100toplibrarysites.com/

Univerisities Alert

To get the list of UGC recognized and fake Universities, please open the follow link---------

http://www.skuniversity.org/Other/List%20of%20UGC%20Recognised%20Universities.asp
http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html

Wolfram Alpha

A new Search Engine is going to launch , somewhere in May 2009 , introduced on March 5, 2009. It is based on mathmatical algorithm s and heuristics. This search engine will give you the right answer for a qustion not a amount of pages which contains single words or combinaitons of words.

Before this itwas realised that Google is failed to respond the factual questions and to solve the problem, developer of "Mathmatica" and "NKS" Ed Tech's Scientist Stephen Wolfram stands up on March 5, 2009 with new search engine "Wolfram Alpha" and going to be launched in May 2009.

In order to provide the answers of factual qustions they tried to implement methods and models. algorithms and explicity curate all data to make it computable, e.g. if any user want to know the number of neutrons in helium atom , he will get the exact answer in natural language.

As per the version of its creators, this is a system that computes the answers to the questions by using the buil in models of field of knowledge, compelte with data and algorithm , which represents real knowledge.

In simpler term we can say that this could be a global store of information that understand and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

"With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything, as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could arise from simple rules," Stephen wrote in a blog posting.
Wolfram explained that, with a mixture of Mathematica and NKS automation, and expert human help, he has been able to create a system that "knows a lot, and can figure a lot out".
He added that thanks to "algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and some serious theoretical breakthroughs", the system also understands natural human language when used to ask it questions.
Wolfram Alpha is due for launch in May, and will be a simple web site with a single input field.

For more references--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6keS_4TbaWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhLsQPHNas

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6211533256004887264

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wolfram-alpha-googles-replacement-for-factual-questions/

http://www.twine.com/item/122mz8lz9-4c/wolfram-alpha-is-coming-and-it-could-be-as-important-as-google

http://www.techtree.com/India/Future_Watch/Wolfram_AlphaGives_Answers_Directly_Unlike_Google/551-101638-505.html

http://www.webvoyager.net/tag/wolfarm-alpha/

Google Squared

May12, 2009 was the historical moment in Google history, when at searchology event, launched a new searching tool named Google Squared. This is the best effort in web 3.0 and semantic seacrh.
It is the effort of structuring the unstructred data on web pages and in process they extract data from the web pages and presents the search results as squares in an online spreadsheet format.
The San Francisco Chronicle described the feature in a bit more detai that it compiles details from several Web pages and organizes them into a table on a single page, with multiple columns like a spread sheet.
One of the features announced today is called Search Options, which is a collection of tools designed to let users better "slice and dice" their search results so they can manipulate the information they're getting. Mayer said the tools should help people who struggle with what exactly what query they should pose.
"Let's say you are looking for forum discussions about a specific product, but are most interested in ones that have taken place more recently," she wrote. "That's not an easy query to formulate, but with Search Options you can search for the product's name, apply the option to filter out anything but forum sites, and then apply an option to only see results from the past week."
One Search Options tool is geared toward giving users more information when they do a search. For instance, instead of just getting results in text form, they could have the search engine return images as well.
Google acknowledged that this was still very much a “labs” feature that was imperfect at best. However, between Wolfram Alpha, Google’s efforts in semantic search, and a host of competitors that will be popping up in this field, we may very well be on the edge of Search 3.0. This is good news for our students, teachers, and library scientists struggling to help our students get the information they want from the billions of pages of junk (and millions of pages of interest) floating around the web.

In that same layer Google also is adding more information to its results snippets -- those little pieces of text that tell you about the site that's been pulled up. If you're searching for a hotel, for example, the snippet won't just tell you the name of the hotel and where it is -- now it could tell you its price range, number of stars in customer reviews and the number of reviews listed.
Google Squared still needs a lot of improvement, which is why it's being released to Labs. It collects the information by looking for structures that seem to imply facts. The squares are built out based on high probability of facts.
There will be concerns over Google providing this data on its own by grabbing data and serving it up without sending searchers to the sites that provided the info.

For more reading following links may be helpful ------

Screenshots of Google Squared

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-12-n39.html

YouTube-Google Squared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2onuEXThPs

Will Google Squared make GOOG a better research tool
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2543

More Search Options and other updates from our searchology event

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html

Elsevier launches German language version of clinical reference tool MD Consult

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of DoctorConsult (http://www.doctorconsult.de), the German language version of its professional clinical reference tool, MD Consult. The move is part of Elsevier’s expanded efforts to provide interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new markets in Europe. The launch of DoctorConsult is seen to make Elsevier the first multi-lingual professional clinical reference product provider.The customised products are seen to meet the cultural needs of users who do not speak English as a first language, and address specific medical practice needs within different countries. The Internet-based products provide users with a full range of medical information covering a variety of clinical needs. In one integrated interface, users can now access evidence-based immediately actionable 'quick answers' (i.e. Elsevier's FirstConsult) as well as background references such as books and full text journal articles suitable for more in-depth research. Additional localised versions of MD Consult are in development for Italy, France and Spain.The Consult suite of multilingual reference products is one of several solutions being developed to meet local reference, point-of-care, workflow and decision support needs. Additional solutions in development include Clinical Decision Support; guidelines and best practice information delivered when and where they are most useful at the point of care; leveraging of patient data to pinpoint the most needed information for a given clinical task; drug information and safety checking, also linked to patient data when possible; seamless content integration with Electronic Health Records, including info buttons and alerts; payer services; retrospective analytics for identifying performance gaps and outliers; and tools to influence provider behaviour.According to Elsevier, the company is well positioned to replicate its success in the US in other markets as well. The company further noted that European e-health markets and Elsevier's positions within them are at an earlier stage of development than in the US. While market dynamics are different, key underlying market forces are similar to those in the US, particularly the drive to contain costs and improve outcomes, and the rapid increase in Internet usage by healthcare practitioners.

Science.gov

• Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to 1,850+ scientific Websites.
  Science.gov 5.0 provides the ultimate science search through a variety of features and abilities, including:
  Accessing over 36 databases and 200 million pages of science information via one query
  Clustering of results by subtopics or dates to help you target your search .
• Wikipedia results related to your search terms
  Eureka News results related to your search terms
  Mark & send option for emailing results to friends and colleagues
  More science sources for a more thorough search
  Enhanced information related to your real-time search
  New look and feel
  Updated Alerts service
• 
  The content for Science.gov is contributed by participating agencies, which are listed below, committed to serving the information needs of the science-attentive citizen, including science professionals, students and teachers, and the business community. Many of these agencies are members of CENDI, which provides administrative support and coordination for science.gov.
• 
  Participating Agencies
  The following 17 scientific and technical organizations from 13 federal agencies contribute to science.gov.
  1. Department of Agriculture
  National Agricultural LibraryUnited States Forest Service
  2. Department of Commerce
  National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNational Technical Information Service
  3. Department of Defense
  Defense Technical Information Center
  4. Department of Education
  National Library of Education
  5. Department of Energy
  Office of Scientific and Technical Information
  6. Department of Health and Human Services
  Food and Drug AdministrationNational Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine
  7. Department of Interior
  United States Geological Survey National Biological Information Infrastructure
  8. Environmental Protection Agency
  Office of Environmental Information Office of Research and Development
  9. Library of Congress
  10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  Scientific and Technical Information Program
  11. National Science Foundation
  12. United States Government Printing Office
  With additional support from the National Archives and Records Administration
  Science.gov and the Science.gov Alliance were formed in response to the April 2001 workshop, "Strengthening the Public Information Infrastructure for Science."
• 
  The Web page search function is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the "Explore Selected Science Websites by Topic" portion of the site is maintained by the CENDI Secretariat. The Science.gov Website is hosted by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which also supplies the site's "deep Web search" capability.
• 
  History
  Science.gov 1.0 was launched in December 2002, providing for the first time wide public access and a unified search of the government's vast stores of scientific and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 17 U.S. government science organizations within 13 Federal agencies. These agencies form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance.
  In May 2004 Version 2.0 was launched, introducing real-time relevancy ranking to government science retrieval. This technology, funded by the Department of Energy, helps citizens sort through the government's reservoirs of research and return results most likely to meet individual needs. An advanced search capability and other enhancements were added.
  A free and convenient "Alert" service was released in February 2005, allowing citizens to receive e-mail alerts about the most current science developments in their areas of interest. Up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources can be delivered. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited.
  Science.gov 3.0 took relevancy ranked search to a higher level of precision. Launched in November 2005, Version 3.0 provided more refined search queries of federal science databases. In addition, greatly enhanced fielded searching and the extensive Boolean capabilities offer new search options for Science.gov users.
  In February 2007, Science.gov 4.0 was launched, which allowed even further refinement of search queries. For the first time, patrons could search within their original results. In addition, the relevancy ranking algorithms became more sophisticated, providing ranking of the entire full text of documents on sites where searchable full text resides. Date of the document was priority-weighted for ranking purposes. A new feature allows patrons to share search results via e-mail with colleagues and friends.
  Science.gov 5.0 was launched in September 2008 and boasts several new and innovative features. Clustering, the grouping of results into meaningful topics, helps guide patrons to desired information. Science.gov results have also been enhanced by the addition of Wikipedia topics and EurekAlert items related to the search. Additionally, selected results can be emailed to colleagues and friends, and the overall look and feel has been updated.
• 
  This weblink explore selected science websites by following topics:
  1. Agriculture & Food ( http://www.science.gov/browse/w_105.htm)
  Food Safety, Gardening, Pesticides, Veterinary Science ...
  2. Applied Science & Technologies (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_113.htm)
  Biotechnology, Electronics, Engineering, Transport ...
  3. Astronomy & Space (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_110.htm)
  Exploration, Planets, Space Technologies ...
  4. Biology & Nature (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_115.htm)
  Animals & Plants, Ecology, Genetics, Pest Control ...
  5. Computers & Communication (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_117.htm)
  Networks, Hardware, Software ...
  6. Earth & Ocean Sciences (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_119.htm)
  Land, Maps, Natural Disasters, Oceans, Weather ...
  7. Energy & Energy Conservation (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_121.htm)
  Energy Use, Fossil Fuel, Solar, Wind ...
  8. Environment & Environmental Quality (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_123.htm)
  Air/Water/Noise Quality, Cleanup, Climate Change ...
  9. Health & Medicine (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_127.htm)
  Disease, Health Care, Nutrition, Mental Health ...
  10. Math, Physics, & Chemistry (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_129.htm)
  Astrophysics, Chemicals, Mathematical Modeling ...
  11. Natural Resources & Conservation (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_131.htm)
  Ecosystems, Energy Resources, Forest Science, Mining ...
  12. Science Education (http://www.science.gov/browse/w_133.htm)
  Homework Help, Teaching Aids, Science Internships ...
  
  
  
  
  

ALA and Conferences

American Library Association (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
ALA is the oldest association set up in US by lighting trailblazer like Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi Cutter, Samuel S Green, Melwil Dewey, Fred B. Perkins and Thomas W. Bicknell in Philadelphia in 1879. The membership of this association is open to all LIS Professional as well as institutions. It has eleven division which deals in academic, school, or public libraries, technical or reference services, and library administration. Members may also join any of seventeen round tables that are grouped around more specific and issues than the broader set of ALA divisions.
Conferences
The ALA is made up of its 11 divisions and 15 offices hold number of conferences throughout the year. Out of that two ALA-wide ones are the ALA Annual Conference and the ALA Midwinter meeting. Midwinter is typically more focused on internal organization business, while ALA Annual is focused around exhibits and presentations. The Annual conference is generally held in June, and Midwinter is typically held in January. ALA Annual is notable for being one of the largest professional conferences in existence, typically drawing over 25,000 attendees. Navigation of following link may help anyone to trace out the detail and up-to-date information about forthcoming conference, events, meetings and other relevant news.
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
This link provide the following information---------
1. 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting Information
This link provides the retro news about the Midwinter Meeting information held on Jan 11-16, 2008 at phildelphia.
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2008/home.cfm
2. 2008 ALA Annual Conference Information
This is the link which throws light on the conference held in Aneheim , CA, from June 26-July 2, 2008.
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/home.cfm
3. Future dates of Midwinter Meetings and Annual Conferences
A forthcoming chronological list of Midwinter Meetings and Conferences, will be held during 2009 to 2014 can be found on following link—
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
4. Past Midwinter Meetings and Annual Conferences
The complete information about conferences held the time slot of 2000 to 2008 is can be view at following link—
http://www.ala.org/ala/confservices/pastconferencesb/pastconferences.cfm
5. ALA Chapter, Division and Affiliate Conference Calendar
This link can be easily award the most sought after link among Library Professionals and Knowledge Managers to get the advance information about events and conferences to be held in 2008 to 2019---
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/chapters/planningcalendar/planningcalendar.cfm
6. Upcoming conferences and events by sponsoring unit
This weblink is the good source of information about upcoming conferences and events sponsored by illustratious forums, institutes, divisions and offices of ALA-----------
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/upcomingconferences/sponsgroup.cfm
7. Upcoming conferences and events in chronological order
This is as astonishing bouquet of 37 flowers, where each flower has like a marigold of web links of conferences and events which would be organized time to time by ALA and its eleven division and fifteen offices----
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/upcomingconferences/date.cfm
8. Business Meetings held outside of Midwinter and Annual Conferences
This page is restricted to its members only, and they can register their meeting, outside the Midwinter and Annual Conference either by face to face or by synchronize internet chat-----
http://www.ala.org/meetings/form.cfm
9. Past Conferences and the other events
It is nice collection of roundabout 41 web links of retro conferences and events organized by time to time—
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/past_conferences.cfm?s=21
10. etnoMetric presentation on Conference Hall Traffic Patterns
Conference Hall Traffic Pattern is the study presented in Midwinter 2008 meeting at Philadelphia. These studies analyzed the attendee behavior, including traffic pattern, use of common areas, and level of engagement with exhibitors. This has a power point presentation but restricted for members only------------
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/ethnometricsecure.cfm

UKeiG Courses, News and Events

UK einformation Group UKeiG is a respected and well-established body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. It has individual and corporate members across all key UK sectors: government, legal, business and commerce, science, technology and healthcare, higher and further education, and the public sector, funded was founded in 1978 as UKOLUG - the UK Online User Group. It changed its name to the UK eInformation Group in 2004 to reflect changes in technology and the wider activities in which the Group is now involved.

Goals and objectives
.Stimulate communication and the exchange of knowledge about electronic information
.Disseminate high quality advice, information and publications about e-industry news and developments
.Raise awareness of existing and new technologies that retrieve, manage and process electronic information
.Support continuing professional development by delivering a high quality portfolio of practical and affordable training programmes and seminars
.Encourage innovation in electronic information retrieval, management and processing
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/index.html

Training courses 2008/2009
Event
Date
Location
Understanding metadata and controlled vocabularies - the key to integrated networking.
Thursday, 3rd July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

SharePoint for Intranets and Web Sites.

Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Understanding metadata and controlled vocabularies - the key to integrated networking.
Tuesday, 29th July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
UKeiG Intranets Forum: Drop in session
Thursday, 25th September 2-5pm
Imperial College London

Intranet Governance
Thursday 9th October 2008
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Engaging with the environment: finding quality eInformation resources
Wednesday, 5th November 2008
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Biomedical Information
Wednesday, 26th November 2008
Kings College, London. Guys Campus
UKeiG Intranets Forum
Friday 12th December, 2.30-4.30pm
Environment Agency, Bristol

Innovations in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 State of the Art Conference
Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th June 2009
Manchester Conference Centre

Online Information 2007
Presentation - Searching without Google: alternative tools for more expert searching.
This is a powerful presentation of 46 power point slides where one find full features of 11 search engine other than Google.

(Presentation - Tricks and tips for better web search.
This is an excellent presentation of 38 Power Point slides, gives the standard features of search engine, issues and flair for searching. One must have a look at once

Events
2008 Sakai Community Conference
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France1-3 July 2008
The Sakai Foundation has announced that the 2008 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Paris, France. The dates will be Tuesday-Thursday, 1-3 July, with pre-conference sessions and activities On Monday, 30 June. All meetings and conference sessions will be held at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. The Sakai technical demonstrations will take place on Wednesday evening, 2 July 2008, at the Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Centre, which is located nearby.
https://sakai.educonference.com/conferences/

JISC/CNI 2008
The JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User ExperienceHastings Europa Hotel, Belfast10-11 July

Following the success of previous conferences held in Brighton and York, The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are proud to announce the 7th International Meeting which will be held at the Europa Hastings Hotel, Belfast, on 10 and 11 July 2008.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 (IWMW 2008)
IWMW 2008: "The Great Debate"
University of Aberdeen
22-24 July 2008
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/

The Red Island Repository Institute Fedora-focused Workshop
Red Island Repository Institute: 1st Fedora Summer InstitutePrince Edward Island, Canada11-15 August 2008http://vre.upei.ca/riri/

Aarhus, Denmark18 September 2008

http://www.lsi.uned.es/IACH2008/
Organised in conjunction with the 12th European Conference On Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008)
The Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 will bring together academics carrying out research in the area of information access and practitioners working in the cultural heritage field. The goal of the workshop is promoting exchange of ideas concerning creation, curation, storage, retrieval and use of cultural heritage information. In particular, the workshop will focus on the question of how the keepers of cultural heritage resources can improve information access by applying information technology and principles currently being developed in the area of information access.
http://www.ecdl2008.org

DCC Digital Curation 101
DCC Digital Curation 101 Training Programme6-10 October 2008

The National e-Science Centre13-15 South College StreetEdinburghEH8 9AA http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/digital-curation-101-2008/

4th International Digital Curation Conference
4th International Digital Curation Conference:"Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?"

Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1-3 December 2008

In partnership with the National e-Science Centre they are holding 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/

Online Educa Berlin 2008
Online Educa Berlin 2008:14th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and TrainingHotel InterContinental Berlin, Budapester Str. 2, D-10787 Berlin, Germany3-5 December 2008
Online Educa Berlin 2008 welcomes Michael Wesch as a keynote speaker. The event is the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors and will take place from December 3 - 5 at the Hotel InterContinential in Berlin.
http://www.online-educa.com/

Links to World Wide Web Resources

Absoft is basically a software company which succefully involving in solving the software solutions for many educational and institutional organisations. As they claim, that since 2002 with the help of Indian and International partners, they are the leaders in Library and School Management solutions. Apart for developing the tailored software for eminent educational and professionals institutes this web links also host a web links for countless reference sources with the help of link”LINKS”. Here 388 web links are categorised in following way-
1. Library and Information News letter and other resources —112
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#1
This is a gateway of library and information science world, where 112 links are there to find the Lis information. These links are in following format-
1. News letters
2. Scholarly and Academic Journals
3. Web pages of National Libraries Across the world
4. Online version of International level Library Associations
5. Library Bulletin published by eminent Universities libraries
6. Links to Bibliographies
7. Publisher’s Journals and Newsletters
8. Collection of Current Awareness web links
9. Libraries Web pages
10. Links to Librarian’s job opportunities
11. Scholarly and literary Magazines
12. Archives of Digital Libraries etc.

2. Journals on General Education --199
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#2
This is a list of 199 web links of free online journals. These journals represent the cross area of universe of knowledge. Early child care information, Organizational Learning and Leadership, Education, Teaching, E learning, Engineering Education, Information Technology and Disability, Career and Technology, Industrial Teaching Education, are some of proud members of journals are waiting for exploring by the end user.

3. Indian Mission and Embassies abroad----------30
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#3
Here one can find a link of Indian High Commission and Counselee in 30 following countries—
1. Madrid 11. Nepal 21. Buenos Aires
2. Budapest 12. Peru 22. Brunel Darussalam
3. Mexico 13. Jakarta 23. Frankfurt
4. Qatar 14. Bratislava 24. London
5. Washington Dc 15. Kuwait 25. Brazil
6. Hong Kong 16. Abu Dhabi 26. Beijing
7. New York 17. Kathmandu 27. Ottawa
8. Bonn 18. Croatia 28. Tehran
9. Bangkok 19. Moscow
10. Sanfransisco 20. Bahrain

4. Science and Technology------27
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#4
In this link a list of 27 organizations is there, who are well known in Science and Technology field

5. Trade and Investment related bodies in India.------20
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#5
This link provide the vital clue of fluctuation of share market, Decision and Policies regarding leather Export Bank of India, Directive Policies of Export Import Bank of India, Ministry of Commerce, BSE, NSE, Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association etc. It has list of 20 links to serve the purpose.

57 Useful Google Tools You’ve Never Heard Of

Newstin is a global social news paltform published fron Czech Republic, where Christina Laun has listed 57 tools available in Google for different purposes. In the words of this scholar mostly peoples use Google surf for number of reason like, to check their mail, as search engine, as social networking sites , etc. But very few have knowledge of whole list of Google products in all.
To make them aware Christian Laun has tried to summarise the Googel products in following manner-

1. Must Haves
i. Reader
ii. iGoogle
iii. Picasa
iv. Docs
v. Notebook
vi. Desktop

2. Maps and Travels
vii. Ride Finder
viii. Transit
ix. Mars
x. Sky
xi. Earth

3. Web Browsing and Development
xii. Sketchup
xiii. Checkout
xiv. Web Accelarator
xv. Feed Burner
xvi. Web History
xvii. Base
xviii. Co-up
xix. App Engine
xx. Website Optimizer
xxi. Browser Sync
xxii. Click to call
xxiii. Page Creator

4. Social Networking and Communication
xxiv. Orkut
xxv. Android
xxvi. Send to phone
xxvii. Shared Stuff
xxviii. Talk
xxix. Dodgeball
xxx. Friend Connect
xxxi. GrandCentral
xxxii. Sites

5. Custom Search Tools
xxxiii. Scholars
xxxiv. Patent Search
xxxv. Sets
xxxvi. Catalogues
xxxvii. Search By Number
xxxviii. Accessible
xxxix. Trends
xl. Book Search
xli. News Archive Search
xlii. Special Search

6. Miscellaneous Google Tools
xliii. Google Pack
xliv. Gadgets
xlv. Pinyin IME
xlvi. Image label
xlvii. Code Search
xlviii. Alerts
xlix. Apps
l. GOOG-411
li. Google Mobilizer
lii. Gears

7. Third Party Tool
liii. Simply Google
liv. Googlematic
lv. Goofresh
lvi. Cooking With Google
lvii. Babelplex

Source: http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/18/57-useful-google-tools-youve-never-heard-of/

Online E-News Resources

Columbia University

Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting path breaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

http://www.columbia.edu/

Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries has a nice composition of 25 Columbia University and affiliated libraries access the rich array of both traditional and electronic information services. A click of mouse can open the 500+ databases, 45,000 e-journals, 50,000 e-books and 645,000 e-images which are safely stored in digital form.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

E-Resources
E-Resource is the link which explores the ocean of E-Resources. With the help of 13 web links it includes general resources like databases, journals, Books and special type of E-resources like E-Images, E-Music, and Numeric and Spatial data as Data/GIS etc. Apart of that some noteworthy resources also graced the link which can be listed as follows-
v Online Access to Columbia Dissertations , Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
v Selection of Columbia Digital Projects and Initiative
v Selected Virtual Exhibition catalogue
v Subject-focused guides to digital and print resources
v Internet Search tools like about.com, Yahoo, Google.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/

E-News
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/index.html
In the world of online news E-News, devised by Columbia University Library is an awesome work. It is graced by News resources like LexisNexis and Factiva and infinite links to local, National and International News resources. To facilitate News Safari this web link has following main links-
Search for News
This link gives the opportunity to a user to explore the news world in print as well as audio video form too.
1. News and Current Event Databases
It has 54 databases of newspaper and magazine articles, wire service news, and broadcast transcripts. Coverage varies by source. To access the database one
Has to have the University Ids.
http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ldpd/app/rti/results?hl=1&ps=1&sb=1&ss=1&qt=6&q=&hpp=100000&hk=-1&rt=nw
2. American Newspaper at Columbia
This is a comprehensive list of print and microfilm U.S newspapers from 1704 to the present available in the Columbia University Libraries and arranged by state and city of publication... Like Database it also has restricted access and demands UNIs.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/news.html
3. Internet Public Library
This is an open access Links to news sources and information by subject.
Compiled and maintained by the University Of Michigan School Of Information.
http://www.ipl.org/
4. Online News Sources
This is just not a simple link, but one can simple say it is an immeasurable ocean of news links to news sources worldwide. ABYZ has responsible for this laudable job.
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
5. News Magazines
Its a list of 145 online news magazines worldwide categorise in region like Africa (26), Asia/Oceania (26), Europe/Eurasia (22), Latin America (18), Middle East /North Africa (27), North America (26) and in language category only Spanish is there.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/magazines.html
6. Art and letter Daily
Its an daily edition published by The Chroncile of Higher Education in New York. This is an excellent source of news, information and administration news. It can be rewarded as BLIMFUL INFORMATION OCEAN. It has an array of varied links covers News papers, Book Reviews, Magazines, Weblogs, Radio News, Channel News , in other form every possible form and format in which any type of news across the world can appear, it is there in this link.
http://aldaily.com/

Broadcasting

In this category various audio and video news resources are given as follows-

1. Radio-Locator

It covers 3000 radio station working in US terrritory.

http://www.radio-locator.com/

2. Zap2it

This is an excellent index of US Television index.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,585%7C%7C%7C,00.html

3. Weather Channel

This is an excellent source to know the local weather of US at any time.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,585%7C%7C%7C,00.html

RSS News Feeds for Library and Inforamiton Science

Neurotransmitter.net is wellknown name in area of biomediacal information in fields such as neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychology. The director of Neurotransmitter.net, Shawn Thomas, holds a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology from Quincy University. Apart from News feeds for Neuroscience and Mental Health and Science and Heath it has RSS Feed for Library and Information Science and can be accesed by following link-
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/lis_news.php

It has following sublinks where one can search a list of magazine and blogs in library and inforamtion science field—

1.Scholarly Communication

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

2.D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/

3.Ariadne: A Web magazine on Internet issues for librarians and information specialists

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

4. Journal archive list

http://informationr.net/ir/

5. JoDI: Journal of Digital Information

http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

6. Library Journal News

http://www.libraryjournal.com/

7.Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/index.asp

8. AL Online News

http://www.ala.org/alonline

9. ALA Press Releases

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News

10. librarian.net

http://www.librarian.net/

11. U.S. Copyright Office: Website Updates

http://www.copyright.gov/

12. LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News

13. Library Stuff

http://www.librarystuff.net/

To view article description one can go at following link---
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/lis_news.php?catid=1

with the help of this link one can access direct article published on all above mentioned magzine and blogs.

News and Newspapers Online

http://library.uncg.edu/news/
The librararies of University of North Carolina at Greensboro has developed a web site for inline news and Newspapers.
It provides 3073 News links from following countries in which Online Newspapers are provided available on the globe-
1.USA and Canada
2. Latin America and Caribbean
3. Europe
4. Asia, Oceania and Antarctica
5. Africa.

With the help of following link, a user can search his required news link on the basis of language known to him or a word, phrase in several field.

1.Just the sites http://library.uncg.edu/news/nq-all.asp
This link provide all 3073 newspapers in alphabetical manner

2.Advanced Search http://library.uncg.edu/news/advsearch.asp
This link facilitate the user to search newapaper by lanuage and keyword.

3. Link to other News Reference sites http://library.uncg.edu/news/nq-link.asp
It has 17 links with compelte details like-Name of link, Detail or infotrmation which thse link are proidfing, Host Langyuage and date on lastupdation was done.

4.Talk to us. http://library.uncg.edu/news/sugg-newsite.asp
This link maintian a communication betwen a user and web site developer.
here they openly invite teh nomination for inclusion of any news link or resource and also suggesion to improve the web site.

A word aboutGreensboro, North Carolina, USA
Greenboro is a city in teh U.S. State of North Carolilna. Its is the third largest city by populationand alrgest city in Guliford City and sourrounding Piedment Triad Metropolitian region.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina