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The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a 'red brick' university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group. The university was formed in 2004 by the dissolution of the Victoria University of Manchester (which was commonly known as the University of Manchester) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and the immediate formation of a single institution inaugurated on 1 October. The University of Manchester and the constituent former institutions combined have 25 Nobel Laureates among their past and present students and staff, the third highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom (after Cambridge and Oxford). Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff - Andre Geim (Physics, 2010), Kostya Novoselov (Physics, 2010), Sir John Sulston (Physiology and Medicine, 2002) and Joseph Stiglitz (Economics, 2001). (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Manchester)
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2005, issue44, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2007, issue50, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2008, issue55, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2008, issue56, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010, issue62, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 1998, issue14, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
Online Information 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS |
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank |
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start |
Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Print Journals: Fit for the Future? |
Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Project Patron |
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
Putting the UK on the Map |
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
RDN Timeline |
Debra Hiom provides a timeline of the RDN's development, which accompanies her main article. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences |
Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP |
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum |
Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
The Future Is Hybrid: Manchester |
Jim Strom and others provide streaming video of some of the sessions from 'The Future is Hybrid' day in Manchester held in February 2001. |
March 2001, issue27, event report |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up' |
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009 |
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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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 |
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 |
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery |
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. |
October 2009, issue61, 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 |
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA) |
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
View from the Hill: Mark Clark |
Mark Clark risks the longer view. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings |
Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. |
