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Editorials

An e-prints revolution? Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 31.

Main Articles


Setting up an institutional e-print archive: Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice.
Oxford puts its reference works online: Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference website.
The 'Distributed National Collection' Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: the Research Support Libraries Programme: Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the programme's objectives.
The Open Archives Forum: Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce this new project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe.
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services: Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.
The AIM25 project: Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.
eVALUEd: Becky Hartland-Fox and Pete Dalton on a project to develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation.

Regular Columns

News from the Resource Discovery Network: Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.
Planet SOSIG: Emma Place and Dave Boyd describe a new feature on SOSIG called 'Experts Choice', and report on upcoming events.
EEVL: Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal.
Search Engines: Phil Bradley's regular column.
Public Libraries: Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

Get Tooled-up

Web Focus: Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers.

Odds and Ends


Cartoon: The regular Malcolm Campbell cartoon.
The famous Ariadne Caption Competition.
Newsline: News you can use.
Building an electronic resource collection: a practical guide: book review by Penny Garrod.
The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online: book review by Pete Dowdell.
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