Buzz - Jstor

• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.

• Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.

• Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum

  Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

• A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies

  Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.

• Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital

  Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users.

• E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK

  Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities.

• RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use

  Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006

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

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• EuroCAMP 2005

  Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Net Effects

  Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• 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.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• JSTOR Usage

  Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• JSTOR

  Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Interface: Hymns Ancient and Modern

  Lyndon Pugh talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI) Content Working Group.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• Net Gains for Digital Researchers

  Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.