Information Services & Gateways

Gateways to national and international information services and resources.

• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) was set up "to collect, describe, and preserve the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the humanities. It will encourage scholarly use of its collections and make information about them available through an on-line catalogue."
  
• An Australasian Higher Education Staff Developers'' Resource Page provides a gateway to various sites related to teaching and learning in higher education, including sites which provide online tutorials on the Internet and WWW. The site is maintained by Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
  
• Ask ERIC "is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world." ERIC stands for Educational Resources Information Center.
  
• Australian Libraries Gateway is an information gateway to library facilities in Australia.
  
• British Council: The Education Virtual Campus provides information about studying in Britain. Although targeted mainly at overseas students it should prove useful to local students and admissions staff as well. The site includes details about all British higher education and other tertiary institutions, about Britain, British education and so on.
  
• BUBL Information Service is a UK information service for the higher education community. Provides a gateway to a wide range of resources for higher education. Has a detailed search facility.
  
• Edinburgh Data and Information Access (EDINA) is a national data centre offering the UK higher education and research community network access to a library of data, information and research resources.
  
• Education Network Australia (EDNA) is a gateway to almost all the information you need about all levels of education in Australia.
  
• Education Index is a guide to education resources on the Web. Links to subject resources are fully annotated.
  
• escalate works with individuals and departments of Education and Continuing Education to promote networking, development and the achievement of high standards in Higher Education. It was set up in 2000 under the UK''s Learning and Teaching Support Network.
  
• Gateway for Research Supervision links to websites throughout the world which offer information and advice pertinent to the practice of research degree supervision. A comprehensive search facilty is provided.
  
• Horizon provides a forum that (1) explores the implications of a rapidly changing world on educational organizations and processes, and (2) examines ways in which we can make educational organizations and programs more effective. Horizon covers the whole spectrum of education with the emphasis on leadership and change.
  
• Humbul Humanities Hub is a gateway to a vast array of resources in the arts and humanities (a search facility is available).
  
• Information Resources is a gateway to HE resources compiled by the Board of Higher Education, Massachusetts, USA.
  
• Jiscmail provides a mailing list service (listserv) for the UK Higher Education community. It replaced the Mailbase service in November, 2000.
• Library OPACS in HE provides access to UK HE institutions'' online public access catalogues (OPAC)
  
• Library & Related Resources is a gateway to sites relevant to libraries, museums and centres of research compiled by the Library and Information Service at Exeter University, UK.
  
• Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS) is a national research support service in the UK specialising in on-line provision of strategic research and teaching datasets, key bibliographic information, software packages, specialist support and training, and large-scale computing resources for the UK academic community.
  
• National Information Services and Systems (NISS) operates within the UK education sector and provides online information services for the education and research community. NISS manages a substantional collection of information and information resources, as well as offering links to a wide range of information services on the Internet and other networks world-wide.
  
• National Online Public Access Catalogue (COPAC) "gives access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Most COPAC records represent books and periodicals (but not periodical contents). Other materials include videos, printed and recorded music, and electronic materials."
  
• The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) works "to identify, collect, and preserve high-quality, well-documented electronic texts and linguistic corpora in a variety of languages, which it then makes available to others." The archive has a fulltext search facility, comprehensive information on the creation and documentation of electronic texts as well as a software repository and an FAQ.
  
• Resource Discovery Network is a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. A set of free "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web for students, lecturers and researchers who want to learn what the Internet can offer in their subject at The RDN Virtual Training Suite.
  
• Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a UK site which helps you locate high quality sites on the Internet, which are relevant to social science education and research. There is a North American mirror site hosted by the University of Wisconsin
• Teaching Resource Exchange provides pointers to a web site, journal, organization, mailing list (listserv) or other resource to support teaching in a higher education setting.
  
• ultiBASE (University Learning and Teaching in Business, Art, Society and Education) is an Australian higher education service which " provides information in three ways by: 1) linking to existing knowledge on teaching and learning; 2) publishing new information and materials on teaching and learning; and 3) creating networking opportunities for academics interested in teaching and learning."
  
• World Lecture Hall contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.
  
• World Wide Web Virtual Library is a gateway to resources on the web run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who provide key links for particular areas of which they are expert. Information is catalogued by subject area and a keyword search facility is available. The site is mirrored at various locations.
  

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Last updated: 6 September 2002