Overview of content related to 'resource discovery'

Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment.

Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.

Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007.

Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010.

Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.

Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

Donald Mackay gives an overview of BIOME, the hub for the health and life sciences in the context of its services for Further Education.

Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project.