Buzz - Content Provider
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The RSP Goes 'Back to School'
Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland. -
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation
Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. -
Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals
Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.
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Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. -
5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. -
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. -
The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter
Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London. -
View from the Hill: Anne Dixon
Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon -
Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. -
NewsAgent for Librarians
Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community. -
Are They Being Served?
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.