Organisation - Arl
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IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.
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Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment
Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship
Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
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. -
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. -
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. -
eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance. -
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. -
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. -
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. -
E-Books for Students: EBONI
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. -
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR. -
Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?
Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services -
Clifford Lynch in Interview
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. -
Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. -
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. -
Interface
John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa. -
Mailbase Reviewed
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.