Overview of content related to 'research'

Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter.

Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.

OMNI's Sue Welsh looks at the sites which keep you up to date in health and medicine.

Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon

Sheona Farquhar gains an insight into the problems of the information-poor.

Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne issue 8.

Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia.

A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study.

Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design.

As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks.

Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

Cathy Murtha describes a simple, but effective, library enquiry system, of use to disabled and non-disabled people.

Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.

John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.