Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary |
Date published |
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| Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10 |
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. |
July 1997
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| Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture? |
Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture. |
July 1997
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| Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score? |
Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning. |
July 1997
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| Dublin Core Management |
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. |
July 1997
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| Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea? |
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. |
July 1997
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| Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library |
In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne. |
July 1997
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| Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement |
Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator. |
July 1997
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| Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research |
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. |
July 1997
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| Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society |
Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution. |
July 1997
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| Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning |
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. |
July 1997
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| Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works? |
Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology |
July 1997
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| ACORN Implemented |
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. |
July 1997
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| Education-Line |
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. |
July 1997
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| ERCOMS |
The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project. |
July 1997
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| A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
July 1997
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| NISS: National Information Services and Systems |
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians |
July 1997
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| BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
July 1997
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| The Library Association Web Site |
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. |
July 1997
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| r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe |
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. |
July 1997
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| Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK |
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). |
July 1997
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