RDN Virtual Training Suite

RDN (Resource Discovery Network) Virtual Training Suite is a set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills. Work in your own time at your own pace - no one is monitoring you! There are quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. There's a tutorial for most of the subjects taught in universities and colleges.

Some of the most popular tutorials are,

• Information and Communication Technology
• Aviator
• Civil Engineer
• Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineer
• Chemist
• Agriculture, Food and Forestry
• Allied Health
• Politician
• Bioresearcher
• Health and Safety

The content of tutorials within the Virtual Training Suite has been authored by a distributed team of experts based in more than 40 universities, colleges, museums and research institutes across the UK.

Open Access Journals in Library and Information Science

There are lot of open access journals available in the field of Library and Information Science. Here, I have listed some of the important open access journals in LIS.

1. Ariadne
2. Australian Academic and Research Libraries
3. Biomedical Digital Libraries
4. The Bonefolder, an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist
5. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
6. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
7. Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal
8. Cybermetrics: international journal of scientometrics, informetrics, and bibliometrics
9. D-Lib Magazine
10. The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
11. First Monday
12. High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine
13. Information Bulletin for Librarians
14. Information Research: an international electronic journal
15. Information Technology and Disabilities
16. The International Journal of Digital Contents
17. International Review of Information Ethics
18. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship: a quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries
19. IT&Society
20. Journal of Digital Information
21. Journal of Electronic Publishing
22. Journal of Medical Internet Research
23. Journal of the Medical Library Association
24. Library Philosophy and Practice
25. Libres: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal
26. School Library Media Research
27. SIMILE
28. Technology Electronic Reviews, TER
29. Webology

Humbul Humanities Hub : peer-reviewed open access electronic journals

There are lot of open access science journals available, which remain free for the reader but peer-reviewed for the author. But did you you know there are a growing number of freely available, peer-reviewed online journals in the humanities? A JISC-funded service is helping to promote access to quality assured e-journals across all humanities subjects. More than 100 journals for those studying a wide variety of disciplines - including languages, religion, classics, archaeology and history - are now freely available online in one place from Humbul, a hub of the Resource Discovery Network. Each journal has been reviewed by a subject expert including information about the editor, publisher and language of the journal, and of course with a link to the journal's location on the Web.

See here for more details about Humbul, and its electronic journal collection.