Overview of content related to 'research'
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Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, usually using a scientific method. The primary purpose for basic research (as opposed to applied research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Research)
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Minotaur |
Gordon Brewer re-examines the "convergence of services" issue. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Planet SOSIG |
Lesly Huxley writes about a new Internet service for social scientists. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Elvis Is Alive and Well and Selling Library Management Systems in Kansas City |
Sarah Ormes reports from the American Public Library Association conference in Missouri. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
Hacking the Net |
David Nicholas looks at the Internet phenomenon from the point of view of the Media. |
July 1998, issue16, feature article |
Supporting Learners at a Distance |
Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access. |
July 1998, issue16, feature article |
Down Your Way |
Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Metadata Corner |
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Planet SOSIG |
Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner |
Sally Criddle reports on Resurrection: a new life for powerful public libraries. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Search Engines Corner |
Dave Beckett discusses the best of the search engine features. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
View from the Hill: Birkbeck |
Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Information Landscapes |
Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998. |
July 1998, issue16, event report |
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium |
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. |
July 1998, issue16, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 1998, issue16, news and events |
SKIP: Skills for New Information Professionals |
Penny Garrod reviews the Skills for new Information Professionals project |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17 |
Lyndon Pugh presents the editorial from issue 17 of Ariadne's print version. |
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Why Give It Away? |
David Haynes, Elizabeth Lyon and David Streatfield explore the mysteries of devolved budgeting. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations |
Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
A New Publication for a New Challenge |
John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
VERITY |
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. |
September 1998, issue17, project update |
Down Your Way |
Kathryn Arnold on the electronic university and the virtual campus. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum |
Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography |
Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
View from the Hill: Mark Clark |
Mark Clark risks the longer view. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management |
Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
What Are Document Management Systems? |
Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
ALA '98 |
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
UKOLUG |
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
Information Ecosystems |
John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
September 1998, issue17, news and events |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18 |
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. |
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DiLIS |
Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
eLib: How Was It for You? |
John Kirriemuir reviews the eLib programme |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Hybrid Libraries |
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Knowledge Management |
Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case |
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services |
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
JSTOR |
Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
