Welcome to the twelfth issue of Ariadne, the Web Version. Please note
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The editorials for issue 12 of Ariadne.
Web editorial: The Web editor, Philip
Hunter and Isobel Stark welcome you to their
first joint edition of Ariadne, the Web Version.
Print editorial: Lyndon
Pugh with the editorial from issue 12 of the print version.
The main articles from both the Web and print versions of
Ariadne.
JournalsOnline:
the online journal solution: Jane Henley and
Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service
and its commercial competitors. Are
print Journals Dinosaurs?: Tony Kidd wonders if he
and and his kind are palæontologists Old
Ghosts Rear Their Heads: Peter Brophy calls for
effect use of email. The
lesser of two EEVLs?: Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project
Manager (Information) describes future plans for EEVL.
Descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by
the project teams.
CINE:
Frances Blomeley describes the Cartoon Images for the
Network Education (CINE) eLib project. The
History of History: Stephen Smith explains the
background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. On
Demand Publishing in the Humanities: Phil Sykes
reports on the latest work in this eLib project.
Issues and resources of particular interest to librarians.
The glass of fashion and the mould of form ...: Annette
Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site. Dotting
the i: Walter Scales face to face with everyone's
favourite Education Gateway, NISS.
From each article, you can move back and forth between articles
written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.
Charles' Copyright Corner: Charles Oppenheim
answers your copyright queries.
Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library:
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific
Book, Dave Price.
Interface: Hymns ancient and modern: Lyndon Pugh
talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI)
Content Working Group
Metadata Corner: DC5: The search for Santa:
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report
from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki.
Minotaur: We must not be driven by IT: Ray Lester
says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy.
Netskills Corner: Justin
MacNeil reviews FrontPage '98 Beta.
Planet SOSIG: DESIRE: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing
Model: Lesly Huxley looks at the work of this
project.
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song : Lorcan Dempsey
writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's
Network
Search Engines Corner: Moving Up The Ranks: Tracey Stanley
looks at how search engines rank their results.
View from the Hill: David VandeLinde:
Isobel Stark interviewed Professor David VandeLinde about the
Dearing Report. Web
Focus corner: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges: Brian
Kelly describes the WebWatch project
Reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of
forthcoming conferences, are presented.
The
launch of History Isobel Stark reports on the
re-launch of IHR-Info as History. Consortium
and Site Licensing Jim Huntingford reports from
the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom
Serials Group.
The usual collection of the exotic and weird.
Newsline: news concerning the electronic library
field
Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
Caption Competition: The now infamous caption
competition - entries by January 1, 1998.
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of
interest.
Mail us!: Send us criticisms, comments, ideas for
reviews or features...
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