Contents Page for Issue 3

Welcome to issue 3 of Ariadne on the Web, the World Wide Web version of the magazine for the discerning UK Library and Information professional. If this is your first time within the confines of Ariadne, you are well advised to visit the section giving information all about Ariadne before proceeding further.

All other issues are als o still available and linked from the back issues section.

• The editorial for this issue of Ariadne.

The main articles, reviews and features from this issue of Ariadne.

• Electronic Journals, evolutionary niches - Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal.
• AC/DC - Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.
• Meta Detectors - Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.
• Mailbase reviewed - Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.
• Link: A new beginning for BUBL - Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of "daughter of BUBL".
• Short loan projects - John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections.
• Mailing lists and eLib - we point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other eLib mailing lists currently in public use.

In this and every issue, we illuminate a selection of Electronic Libraries Programme projects.

• ROADS - Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services.
• ADAM - Information Gateway to resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media.
• Sociological Research Online - a Web-based journal for the Social Sciences.
• FIDDO - Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options.
• Internet Archaeology - Using the combination of multimedia and networking for innovative ways of presenting an archaeology journal.

Learn more about the Web and the Net.

• Netskills Corner - Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a "smiley" for "green with envy"?).
• From the trenches - Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.
• URL monitoring software and services - Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

Reports from attendees and speakers at conferences and events.

• ELVIRA - Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.
• New Text Search Engines - Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval.
• UC and R Study Conference - Jim Huntingford listens to the "access verses holdings" debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference.
• COPAC - The CURL OPAC launch in Manchester, described by Andrew Cooper.
• Netskills - Walter Scales from the Netskills project describes the trials and tribulations of putting together and presenting a Netskills talk.

Interviews, views and reviews

• Interface - George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant, is interviewed.
• View from the Hill - Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet.
• Wire - Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.
• Down your way - Alison Kilgour checks out the networking facilities in the Library of York University.
• Copyright Corner - Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of.
• Public Libraries Corner - Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain.
• Minotaur - Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school.
• Sideline - Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer.
• Burnside Writes - John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net.
• Checkout - reviews of books and Web sites.

Some bits and pieces to keep you informed, and help you relax.

• News - news about the eLib programme and Library and Information Science things in general.
• Correspondence - the letters page; contribute!
• Downtime - the Caption Competition and Cartoon.
• Coming in Issue 4...a few of the features you can expect to see in issue 4 of Ariadne on the Web.
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