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The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford) is a university in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group, the G5, the League of European Research Universities, and the International Alliance of Research Universities. It is also a core member of the Europaeum and forms part of the 'Golden Triangle' of British universities (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Oxford)
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Z39.50 for All |
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
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 |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
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. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme |
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
What's in Humbul for Further Education? |
Randy Metcalfe provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective |
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site? |
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. |
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Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers. |
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Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages |
Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages. |
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Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points |
Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites. |
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Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways |
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. |
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Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing? |
Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one. |
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Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future |
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. |
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Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop |
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." |
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Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies |
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. |
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Waking Up in the British Library |
Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
VITAL services? Evaluating IT access in Public Libraries |
Project officer Juliet Eve discusses the value and impact of end-user IT services in public libraries. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals |
Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski |
John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project |
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
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. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data |
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
UK Reading Experience Database |
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons |
Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources |
Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Towards a Typology for Portals |
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment? |
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online |
Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond' |
Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates |
Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative |
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
The Second Life of UK Academics |
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
