The Internet has definitively occupied a place in our lives, and search engines now carry out the function previously reserved for telephone books and dictionaries. Orientation and research are essential for getting the best out of the Internet, and so starting this month news@fmul is bringing a new initiative to the “Opens Space” section.

In each issue we will be divulging some Internet pages or blogs that seem to us to have academic or scientific value worthy of being included on everyone’s navigation favourites list. We are inviting all our readers to send suggestions to news@fm.ul.pt Blogs are personal pages which are easy to create, regularly updated and set out in reverse chronological order; that is, starting with the latest post. The word blog is the contraction of “Web log”. You can easily create your own blog on: http://www.blogger.com/ 

– A page that contains direct access to all types of Internet sites, ranging from newspapers, banks, jobs, government institutions, telephone lists, etc, .… is the site portal on: http://www.portal-sites.net/

– The UNESCO World Digital Library has maps, texts, photos, recordings and films from all times, and explains, in seven languages, the cultural jewels and relics from all the libraries on the planet. It does not contain current documents, but those with heritage value, which allow one to better appreciate and get to know the world’s cultures in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. There are online documents in over fifty languages.
Consult it on: http://www.wdl.org/pt (directly in Portuguese)

– The World Health organisation, a page that is an obligatory visit, with reportages, data and statistics about the most important issues happening on the planet in the field of health.
Consult it on: http://www.who.int/en

Carlos André
Editorial Team news@fmul
carlos.andre@campus.ul.pt