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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Editorial Introduction to Issue 3 |
John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne. |
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Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib |
We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Electronic Journals, Evolutionary Niches |
Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
AC/DC |
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Meta Detectors |
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Mailbase Reviewed |
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Short Loan Projects |
John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services |
Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media |
Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
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 |
FIDDO: Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options |
Anne Morris, project manager, describes a project from the Supporting Studies area of the eLib programme. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
Internet Archaeology |
Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
ELVIRA |
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Anoraks and cardigans (2): New Text Search Engines, Bath, April 1996 |
Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility? |
Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
CURL OPAC launch |
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Netskills |
Walter Scales from the Netskills project describes the trials and tribulations of putting together and presenting a Netskills talk |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview |
An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed |
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries |
Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
