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Copac is a union catalogue which provides free access to the merged online catalogues of many major university research libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus an increasing number of specialist libraries and the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. It has over 35 million records from over 50 libraries, representing a wide range of materials across all subject areas. Copac is freely available to all. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Copac)
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UK Reading Experience Database |
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
10 Years of Zetoc |
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come? |
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland |
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. |
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Projects Into Services: The UK Experience |
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century |
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation |
Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project |
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
MIMAS Ten Years on |
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats? |
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape |
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution? |
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Planet SOSIG |
Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project. |
July 2002, issue32, regular column |
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier' |
Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver |
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library |
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways |
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue? |
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us? |
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Clumps As Catalogues |
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue? |
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System |
Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system. |
June 1999, issue20, feature article |
JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community |
Alicia Wise discusses NESLI. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Hybrid Libraries |
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The Good, the Bad and the Useless |
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. |
July 1998, issue16, feature article |
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol |
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
An End User's View |
Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment) |
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). |
January 1998, issue13, project update |
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS |
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue |
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That! |
Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z). |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
CURL OPAC launch |
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
