Overview of content related to 'open access'

Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.

R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006.

Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies.

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project.

Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists.