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Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software is intangible, meaning it "cannot be touched (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Software)
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Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library |
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid |
Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Aerade |
John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
After eLib |
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning |
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Agora: From Information Maze to Market |
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective |
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Allerton 1996 |
Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
Alta Vista Vs. Lycos |
Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |
An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan |
Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
An Introduction to Web Services |
Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia |
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
Another Piece of Cake? |
Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas |
Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Architects of the Information Age |
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come? |
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs? |
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
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. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Around the Table – Engineering |
Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository |
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects |
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop |
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45 |
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
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. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload |
Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm |
Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
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. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
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, issue10, feature article |
Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio |
Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999. |
June 1999, issue20, event report |
BIOME |
Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
June 2000, issue24, regular column |
BIOME News |
Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
Biz/Ed Bulletin |
Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics |
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know? |
Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Blogging from the Backroom |
Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls |
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. |
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Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper |
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. |