Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Even more Information Literacy tools from the UK

THE BEST OF THE WEB
The latest from the Resource Discovery Network
October 2004

We bring you a round-up of the latest news from all the Resource Discovery
Network services. HTML and colour PDF versions of the full newsletter are
available at http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/nl/oct2004/.

BOOK NOW: INTERNET RESEARCH SKILLS SEMINARS FROM SOSIG

A new Social Science Online seminar series has just been announced, building
on the successful events run last year by SOSIG, with a focus on Internet
research skills.

GET CREATIVE WITH ARTIFACT

Artifact is our guide to the best of the web in the arts and creative
industries and describes over 4,000 high quality web sites for architecture,
communications and media, design, fashion and beauty, performing arts and
visual arts.

BIOME PASSES 25,000 MARK

BIOME, the RDN's free service for accessing web resources in the Health and
Life Sciences, now contains details of well over 25,000 high quality
Internet resources.

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH

Humbul has produced its first subject booklet, Internet Resources for
English, which lists a wide range of useful online resources for English
Studies.

ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, SEARCH....

.... with Sport & Leisure Index, a searchable database of over 42,000
references to articles from journals and magazines covering the many
different aspects of sport, physical activity and leisure studies available
from Altis.


EXTENDING THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE FOR ADULT LEARNERS</span>

Five new tutorials are now being developed specifically with adult and
community learners in mind.

We hope you will find this information useful. Please let us know if you
have any questions or comments - we welcome your feedback.

Regards,
Alison.

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Alison Murphy, RDN Executive, MIMAS, Manchester Computing,
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

email: info@rdn.ac.uk
tel: 0161 275 0620
fax: 0161 275 6040

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