Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary | Date published |
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| Book Review: Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources |
Lizz Jennings reviews a concise and practical guide to marketing library e-resources which offers the busy professional a structured approach to planning a successful campaign. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: University Libraries and Space in the Digital World |
Hugh Murphy reviews a collection of essays which charts the development and impact of the physical library space and its use in our digital world. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: The New Digital Scholar - Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students |
Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: Crisis Information Management |
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: Information Consulting - Guide to good practice |
Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants. |
July 2013
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| Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments |
Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces. |
July 2013
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 70 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70. |
November 2012
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| Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs |
Theo Andrew presents new data on the cost of Gold OA publishing at the University of Edinburgh. |
November 2012
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| Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management |
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management. |
November 2012
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| The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata |
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface. |
November 2012
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| 'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language |
Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources. |
November 2012
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| Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
November 2012
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| The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent |
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts. |
November 2012
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| SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP |
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service. |
November 2012
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| Seb Schmoller Replies |
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning. |
November 2012
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| 21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia |
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work. |
November 2012
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| Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012
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| Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals |
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant. |
November 2012
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| 23rd International CODATA Conference |
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012. |
November 2012
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