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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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OMNI Seminar |
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. |
January 1997, issue7, event report |
Mind the Gap! |
Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Creating Models for Electronic Citations |
Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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 |
A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site |
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Networking Moving Images |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Promoting the Internet to Staff at a UK University |
Paul Hollands is the human part of a project to promote the use of Internet based information services among teaching and research staff at the university; in his own words, this is how the project has progressed to date. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
IPL: The Internet Public Library |
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Public Libraries, Public Support? the Mission Behind Buildings, Books and Bytes |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Biz/ed |
Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
ESPERE |
Dee Wood reports on the Electronic Submission and Peer Review Project. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Data Archive at the University of Essex |
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core |
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. |
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Handling MARC With PERL |
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. |
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The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative |
The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Life After the Millenium Bid |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme |
After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Web Access for the Disabled |
Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins |
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web |
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Down Your Way: Durham |
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
View from the Hill |
John MacColl quizzes John Kelleher of the Tavistock Institute about the E-word. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Around the Table: Health and Medicine - What Can Medics Get Out of the Internet? |
Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Interface: Les Carr Interview |
Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Sideline: Nick Hornby Made Me Do It.. |
In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Here, Sarah Ashton has fun with public transport as she tries to reach Cranfield with increasing desperation... |
January 1997, issue7, odds and ends |
