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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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration

  Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research.

• Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford

  James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Archive 2.0 As Community-centred Design

  Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson and Michael McLeod present a case example on building a digital archive with cultural and scholarly stakeholder groups - to provide a model for balancing stakeholder needs.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal

  Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.

• Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks

  Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• EEVL News: EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

  Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• Exposing Information Resources for E-learning

  Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• The Open Archives Forum

  Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe.

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.