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Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

These days zoologists view with increasing alarm the disappearance of species in this world, to the point where they fear their extinction will predate their discovery. This is no less true for linguists who are witnessing the same phenomenon in terms of dying languages and dialects. A parallel therefore can be drawn with the situation as detailed by Deborah Anderson.

Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff

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Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.

With the rapid uptake of digital media changing the way scholarly communication is perceived, we are in a privileged position to be part of a movement whose decisions now will help to decide ultimately future courses of action. A number of strategies have recently emerged to facilitate greatly enhanced access to traditional scholarly content, e.g. open access journals and institutional repositories.

Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available

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Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.

The huge growth in Internet resources to support learning, teaching and research can make the business of finding high-quality relevant resources both time-consuming and frustrating. JISC Resource Guides, and a dedicated team of Resource Guide Advisers across seven subject areas direct researchers in UK Higher Education to a selection of key, high-quality resources.

Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

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Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

Subject Gateways act as a main point of access to high-quality resources on the Web. They are resource discovery guides that provide links to information resources which can be whole Web sites, organisational home pages and other collections or services, themed around a specific subject, such as the physical sciences or humanities. At their core is a catalogue of rich metadata records that describe Internet resources - subject specialists identify and select the resources and create the descriptions.

Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

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Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

"I suspect that more words are being published about the ebook phenomenon in print than have actually been placed into ebooks so far." [1]

Towards a Typology for Portals

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Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

Regular readers of Ariadne and related publications possibly feel more than a little overwhelmed by the current deluge of portal-related literature; a deluge for which my colleagues and I on the PORTAL Project [1] must of course accept some responsibility.

DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

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William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

DAEDALUS [1] is a three-year JISC-funded project under the FAIR Programme [2] which will build a network of open access digital collections at the University of Glasgow. These collections will enable us to unlock access to a wide range of our institutional scholarly output. This output includes not only published and peer-reviewed papers but also administrative documents, research finding aids, pre-prints and theses.

Public Libraries

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Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

Question: How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: Er,.. Change?

News from BIOME

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Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

BIOME is currently participating in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those being created by our cognate Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Subject Centres. The partners in the project are the Resource Description Network (RDN) Hubs BIOME and ALTIS and five LTSN centres: Bioscience; Health Sciences and Practice; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism; Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine; and Psychology.

Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

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Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

The UK Web Focus post was established by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [1] to advise the UK Higher Education Committee on Web developments. The post is based at UKOLN and located at the University of Bath. As post-holder I began work on 1 November 1996.

ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

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Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

ECDL2003 was the seventh in the annual series of European Digital Library conferences, this year hosted in Trondheim, Norway. The unusual move from September to August does not carry through to next year's conference at the University of Bath, UK, which returns to the 'normal' September slot (12-16 September).

ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

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Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.

On 21 August 2003, the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives [1] [2] was held in Trondheim, Norway in association with the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) [3]. This event was the third in a series of annual workshops that have been held in association with the ECDL conferences held in Darmstadt [4] and Rome [5].

OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

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Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

Welcome and Introduction

Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath

Delegates were welcomed and reminded that this was the fourth and final in a series of workshops which have been organised by the Open Archives Forum Project. Rachel Heery explained that the project was a supporting action funded by the European Commission to bring together EU researchers and implementers working in the area of open access to archives.

Newsline: News You Can Use

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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Reveal

[September 2003]

The Reveal Web site, launched on 16 September 2003, brings together information about services and resources for visually impaired people from organisations across the United Kingdom. Reveal is an information resource where you will be able to find books in Braille and Moon, audio books and digital talking books, tactile diagrams and other accessible format materials, find out who produces, loans or sells accessible materials, and find information about the different accessible materials.