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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) support United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: JISC)
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Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide |
Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it. |
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Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection |
Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners. |
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Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors |
Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid |
Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Planet-SOSIG |
Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite. |
January 2005, issue42, regular column |
EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque |
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. |
January 2005, issue42, regular column |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
January 2005, issue42, regular column |
Looking for a Google Box? |
Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance. |
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Shibboleth Installation Workshop |
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
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 |
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre |
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2005, issue42, news and events |
Book Review: How to Find Information |
Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition. |
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Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41. |
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The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
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 |
Planet-SOSIG |
Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences. |
October 2004, issue41, regular column |
EEVL News: EEVL Update |
Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service. |
October 2004, issue41, regular column |
Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings |
Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. |
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Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA |
Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles. |
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The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 |
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality |
Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability |
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5 |
David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. |
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Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally |
Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
July 2004, issue40, regular column |
PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing |
Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference |
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2004, issue40, news and events |
Book Review: Information Architecture - Designing Information Environments for Purpose |
John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole. |
