Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years.
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Issue 71, July 2013, tooled up
Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Sally Rumsey and Neil Jefferies explain the context and the decisions guiding the development of DataFinder, a data catalogue for the University of Oxford.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Hugh Murphy reviews a collection of essays which charts the development and impact of the physical library space and its use in our digital world.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Lizz Jennings reviews a concise and practical guide to marketing library e-resources which offers the busy professional a structured approach to planning a successful campaign.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools.
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Issue 71, July 2013, event report
Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Leigh Garrett, Marie-Therese Gramstadt, Carlos Silva and Anne Spalding describe the exploration of the importance and nature of research data in the visual arts and requirements for their appropriate curation and preservation.
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Issue 71, July 2013, tooled up
Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape.
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Issue 71, July 2013, event report
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today.
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Issue 71, July 2013, review
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Brian Kelly, Jonathan Hassell, David Sloan, Dominik Lukeš, E A Draffan and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that rather than having a universal standard for Web accessibility, standardisation of Web accessibility practices and policies needs to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the local context.
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Issue 71, July 2013, feature article
Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.
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Issue 71, July 2013, event report
Ryan Burns reports on a one-day symposium on tablet computers, e-readers and other new media objects held at the University of Sussex on 10 April 2013.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services.
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Issue 69, July 2012, tooled up
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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