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Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions.
Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

In the Preprints/Grey Literature area, we have three projects:

Formations
Lead Site: University of Ulster
Contact: Nigel Gardner, Dan Fleming (dr.fleming@ulst.ac.uk)

Alta Vista Vs. Lycos

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.

Spotlight on BIDS

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people.

SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers.

SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country.

Down Your Way

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.

Minotaur

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In our regular sceptic's column, information nirvana in the form of the Net has not yet reached Ruth Jenkins.

Copyright Corner

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems.

The owner of a copyright has the right to prevent others from selling, hiring out or renting, copying it in any form, performing the work in public, broadcasting the work on radio or TV, or amending ("adapting") it. These acts are the so-called restricted acts. Anyone who does any of these acts without permission is deemed to have infringed the copyright and can be sued for damages. Infringement is subject to the requirement that either all the work, or at least a "substantial part" of the work was copied.

From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.

If you work in a library systems unit, it can sometimes be a bit depressing reading the computer press. At a time when budgets are often fixed or falling and the expectations of patrons and other library staff are constantly rising, the last thing that the system team need is for the latest and greatest operating systems and applications to arrive demanding the latest hardware if they are to be usable.

A Thread of Ariadnes

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne.