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LATEST NEWSLETTER AVEL Newsletter January 2002   IN THIS ISSUE: Welcome New Sites on AVEL AVEL's Best of the Best SciTech Newsletter Top New International Sites Feedback Subscription Information Newsletter Archive (view past newsletters)   WELCOME Happy New Year and Welcome to the first the edition of the AVEL newsletter for 2002. Each month we will bring you news about the latest engineering and IT resources on AVEL, the latest services and the latest news. Please note: All past AVEL Newsletters are now available in the AVEL Newsletter Archive. [top] NEW SITES ON AVEL We add sites to AVEL on a daily basis. We love to hear from you about new, quality sites you would like to see added, so contact us today. AVEL now contains over 3950 quality records. View the Latest Resources Added. [Top] AVEL's BEST OF THE BEST AVEL contains links to only quality websites. We handpick them so that you can save time searching. That said, sometimes we find sites that deserve a special mention. This month we focus some of the conferences coming up in the Australasian region in 2002. Pacific 2002 International Maritime Conference http://www.tourhosts.com.au/pacificimc/ Pacific 2002 International Maritime Conference will be held in January 2002 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. The conference is organised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, the Institution of Engineers Australia, and the Institute of Marine Engineers. The theme of this conference is ‘Maritime technology for the 21st century’. Asian Aerospace 2002 http://www.asianaerospace.com/ The Asian Aerospace 2002 exhibition will be held in Singapore from the 26th of February to the 3rd of March 2002. The exhibition will include manufacturers displays, static aircraft displays and flying displays. The Fourth International Conference on Distributed Communities on the Web http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dcw2002/ Distributed communities are self-configuring networks of mobile and fixed people, devices and applications. They facilitate not just mobility of content to members, but also mobility of context. The DCW conference series brings together researchers interested in the future development of electronic communities. The DCW 2002 conference will be hosted by the School of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, 3-5 April 2002. World Engineering Congress 2002 - Malaysia http://eng.upm.edu.my/wec2002/ The World Engineering Congress 2002 (WEC2002) will be held in Kuching, Malaysia from the 22nd to the 25th of July, 2002. The theme of the congress is ‘Engineering Innovation and Sustainability: Global Challenges and Issues’. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion on appropriate and innovative technology for development, in particular for the developing countries. The 6th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems http://pacis2002.org/ The Sixth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS-2002) will be held at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 2-4 September , 2002. Observing the recent rapid development and deployment of information technology and applications to business and communities, the theme of PACIS 2002 - "The Next e-What? for Business and Communities", is to explore the next technologies, theories, and practices. [Top] SciTech NEWSLETTER The latest edition of the SciTech newsletter (produced by United States-based National Science Foundation) is now available from the AVEL website. This month the newsletter looks at the top 10 break- throughs in Science during 2001 and offers you the chance to test your scientific knowledge with their "Science and Culture" quiz. [Top] Top New International Sites AVEL already brings you the best in Australasian Engineering and IT websites. Now, for the information of our regular newsletter subscribers, we are pleased to provide a glimpse of some of the top new international sites. (All sites supplied courtesy of the University of Queensland Library) Computing Reviews http://www.reviews.com/home.cfm Evaluations of the best in computing literature. MatWeb http://www.matweb.com/ A searchable database of more than 20,000 materials, including metals, plastics,ceramics and composites. Rocket News http://www.rocketnews.com/ Search alert for the latest online news about companies, industries, products, events and people. e-Polymers http://www.e-polymers.org/index.cfm A free, peer-reviewed online journal in the area of polymer science and engineering. [Top]   FEEDBACK AVEL appreciates getting your comments and suggestions. They help us design services that meet your needs and ensure that we maintain a portal of the highest quality resources. So, how can we make AVEL even better? Send your suggestions or comments to us at: avelinfo@library.uq.edu.au [top] SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION We appreciate your interest in AVEL. We also respect your internet privacy. Our list is private and confidential and will be used exclusively to keep you informed of what is going on at AVEL. 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