- Less Could Mean More
- Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act
on the FE and HE Sectors
- Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared
for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges
still lay ahead.
- Freedom of Information in University College Dublin 2001-4
- Rena Lohan outlines how access rights conferred by FOI
legislation have affected administrative operations in University College
Dublin.
- Advanced Collaboration with the Access Grid
- Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim
to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment.
- Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy
- Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source
software in UK Further and Higher Education.
- The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
- Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John
Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry
describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics.
- Tracing Help with Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues
- Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies
published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield
of respecting copyright.
- Making the Case for a Wiki
- Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment -
and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.
- A Librarian's Experience of e-Government
- Jane Inman describes the route she has taken as a librarian
through the expanding landscape of e-government and highlights the skills
librarians can bring to this arena.
- Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold
- Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude
Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.
- Planet-SOSIG
- Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision
of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to
the RDN Virtual Training Suite.
- EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque
- Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the
EEVL service.
- News from BIOME
- Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health
and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.
- Search Engines: No Longer About Search
- Phil Bradley asks ‘Is your choice of search engine based
on how good it is, or on what else you use?’
- Mozilla Firefox for Rapid Web Development and Testing
- Patrick Lauke takes a quick look at Firefox, the new browser
released by the Mozilla Foundation, and points out useful features and extensions
for Web developers.
- Looking for a Google Box?
- Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search
Appliance.
- Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking
at a Workshop
- Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used
to support note-taking at a workshop.
- Shibboleth Installation Workshop
- James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report
on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.
- Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues:
Resource Discovery for the 21st Century
- John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource
discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.
- Participate in Your Future: The IST2004 Event
- Gabriella Szabo reports on a three-day event addressing
European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the
Information Society held in The Hague.
- Freedom of Information and the Historian
- Stephen Twigge reports on a one-day conference on Freedom
of Information and the Historian jointly hosted by The National Archives and
the Institute of Historical Research.
- Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
- Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising
historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing
UK and the Royal Historical Society.
- Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange
Beasts
- Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email:
Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.
- A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects:
The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre
- Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National
eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004.
- Tap into Bath Takes Off
- Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising
collaborative effort.
- Newsline: News and events
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- How to Find Information
- Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers
wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition.
- Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
- Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software
licences will help him answer a few questions.
- Digital Libraries Policy, Planning and Practice
- Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the
state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication.
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