Organisation - Oxford University Press
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Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.
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Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content.
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Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?
Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. -
E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK
Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem
Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation. -
Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals
Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005
Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. -
PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing
Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June. -
Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage?
Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Oxford Reference Online
A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell. -
Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online
Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. -
The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution
Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector. -
Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected
Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected. -
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online
Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online
Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict. -
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. -
D-Lib
William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research. -
Open Journals
Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing.