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Internet Librarian International Conference 2014
Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.
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The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland
Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.
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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.
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Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.
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10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
Beyond the PDF
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. -
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10)
Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010. -
Intute Reflections at the End of an Era
Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. -
Book Review: Supporting Research Students
Brian Whalley reviews a work which helps Library and Information Science Staff at Higher Education Institutions to support their research students. -
Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions
Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator. -
Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum
Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. -
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. -
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. -
Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context
Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector. -
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. -
To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. -
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions. -
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
Book Review: The University of Google
Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come. -
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. -
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. -
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. -
DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. -
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. -
Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition
Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort. -
CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League
Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006. -
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. -
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. -
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. -
Serving Services in Web 2.0
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. -
Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice
Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years. -
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. -
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. -
A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories
Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. -
Building the Info Grid
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. -
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. -
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. -
United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005
Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. -
Search Engines: No Longer about Search
Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?'