The Art and Craft of Portalage: Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 35

ePrints UK: Developing a national e-prints archive: Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service.
Syndicated content: it's more than just some file formats: Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice.
Access Management, the Key to a Portal: Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and supporting real-world annotation: Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment.
'What features in a Portal?': Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.
"Apart from the weather, I think it’s a good idea": Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals: Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal.
Mandated online RAE CVs linked to university eprint archives: enhancing UK research impact and assessment: Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

Which Way Now? The future of UK public libraries: In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future".
Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses: Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government.
Free full-text e-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine: Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.
Search Engines: Many movements in mere months: Phil Bradley looks at various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene of the search engine.

Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture For Web Site Development: Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites: Brian Kelly uses the WayBack Machine to report on the history of UK University Web sites.

Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the information landscape: Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003 .
DELOS CEE Event: Current trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe: Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003.
JISC 2003 Conference report: Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and the role of the JISC in its implementation.

The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High Tech Reference Desk: [Irene E. McDermott]. Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide to the Internet.
"Do we want to keep our newspapers?": [Ed. by David McKitterick]. Book review by Penny Garrod.
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