Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/193/author-info">debra hiom</a> 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. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/340/author-info">fytton rowland</a> Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/343/author-info">anne mumford</a> Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public who used those libraries really wanted. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/345/author-info">laura weiss</a> Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/346/author-info">catherine sladen</a> Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/351/author-info">anne mccombe</a> Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/353/author-info">bridget winstanley</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/352/author-info">denise lievesley</a> Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/355/author-info">mark gillet</a> Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</a> Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</a> The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/356/author-info">philip hunter</a> After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public libraries to the Internet, Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/245/author-info">sarah ormes</a> After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/220/author-info">charles oppenheim</a> John Burnside on pornography and the Internet. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/208/author-info">john burnside</a> Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/267/author-info">ian budden</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/360/author-info">les carr</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/281/author-info">steve hitchcock</a>