Buzz - Google Search
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Book Review: Information 2.0
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.
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Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design
Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.
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Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. -
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. -
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. -
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. -
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. -
Search Engines: Google Still Growing
Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good. -
Custom-built Search Engines
Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines. -
Googlepository and the University Library
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. -
Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?
Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant. -
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. -
Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments
Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google. -
Search Engines: Using the Right Search Engine at the Right Time
Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use depending on what you need to find.. -
Looking for a Google Box?
Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance. -
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?' -
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. -
Public Libraries: The Changing Face of the Public Library
Penny Garrod looks at developments in Hampshire and comments on the shape of things to come. -
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. -
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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Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. -
Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities
Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities. -
Software Review: C4U
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. -
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. -
Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. -
Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.