- Technology is Only Part of the Story
- Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further
Education: Do We Care?
- Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss
the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning
whether these licences are indeed a panacea.
- From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project
- SUZUKI Masako and SUGITA Shigeki describe
Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with
journal articles.
- Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an
Institutional Repository
- Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to
increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.
- e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
- Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies
and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.
- GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning
Object Repository and Portal
- Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical,
Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed
civil engineering Web portal.
- Wiki or Won’t He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis
- Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention
these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.
- Video Streaming of Events
- Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.
- RDA: A New International Standard
- Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code,
Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing
Rules (AACR).
- Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?
- Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition
and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.
- DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
- Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete
Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006,
the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications,
held 3 - 6 October 2006.
- e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and
other VREs for the Social Sciences
- Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael
Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments
in e-Collaboration technology and applications.
- Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too…
- David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia,
during September 2006.
- Workshop on e-Research, Digital Repositories
and Portals
- Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline
Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster
over 6-7 September 2006
- Newsline: News and events
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- Essential Law for Information Professionals
- Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether
legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.
- Ambient Findability
- Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite
a few rough edges.
- Teach Beyond Your Reach
- Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing
and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions
and more.
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