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• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• Open Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovation

  Paula Callan, Stephanie Bradbury, Sarah Brown, Philippa Broadley, Emma Nelms and Christopher Hart report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.

• JABES 2013

  Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.

• The Wellcome Library, Digital

  Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• Book Review: Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services

  Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

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

• Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs

  Theo Andrew presents new data on the cost of Gold OA publishing at the University of Edinburgh.

• Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs

  Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.

• 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.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• Seb Schmoller Replies

  Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.

• The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent

  Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.

• Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management

  Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.

• Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries

  Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.

• Launching a New Community-owned Content Service

  Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.

• Making the Most of a Conference

  Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project.

• Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal

  Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.

• Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System

  Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.

• Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath

  Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.

• Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford

  Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.

• eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments

  Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011.

• The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade

  Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture

  Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.

• Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade

  Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield.

• Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment

  Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP).

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

  Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

• 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event

  Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.

• Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries

  Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm

  Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms.

• FRBR in Practice

  Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit.

• Book Review: Approximately 97 Things

  Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea.

• The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum

  Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010.

• Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services

  Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators

  Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

  Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York.

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability

  Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship

  Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content.

• Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access

  Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• 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.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms

  Francis Cave, Brian Green and David Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries and other licensees.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• 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.

• JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Digital Policy Management Workshop

  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.

• 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.

• Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres

  Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

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

• Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process

  Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.

• Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication

  Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication.

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 44: One Day We All Learn the Hard Way

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 44.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool

  Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• 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.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• National Library Goes Local

  Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005

  Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

• 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.

• Looking for a Google Box?

  Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance.

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• 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.

• Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues

  Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• 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.

• 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.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon

  Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

• Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project

  Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.

• 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.

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

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

• OpenURL Meeting

  Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• EEVL: Search Me!

  Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• Oxford Reference Online

  A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

• Minotaur: A Comparison of Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online

  Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

  Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

• 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 the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• Public Libraries: Lights Out and Silver Boots on

  Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet.

• The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model

  John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

• After eLib

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

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• CLUMPS in the Real World

  Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• What Is Apache?

  Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.

• BIDS Begets Ingenta

  The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered.

• 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

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• 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.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

  Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.

• View from the Hill

  Lyndon Pugh interviews Anne Mumford, head of JISC ASSIST.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

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

• Consortium and Site Licensing

  Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• BULISC '97

  John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

• Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now?

  Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• Edbank

  Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.

• Libtech '97

  Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

  John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine

  Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

• View from the Hill: Anne Dixon

  Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• Public Libraries Corner

  In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries.

• Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet

  Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

• The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)

  In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

• Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF

  Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme

  After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen.

• Print Journals: Fit for the Future?

  Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate.

• Copyright Battles: The Shetland News

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• Intranets

  Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.

• OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human

  Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

• Copyright Info on the Net

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues.

• HELIX

  Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme.

• OMNI-corner: Patient Information on the Web – Doctor on Your Desktop?

  Sue Welsh, the OMNI maintainer, examines the perils of using the Internet as a substitute for your local family practitioner.

• View from the Hill: Internet Cafes

  John MacColl orders lunch with a portion of e-mail.

• Are They Being Served?

  Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of.

• ELVIRA

  Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.

• From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS

  Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.

• Meta Detectors

  Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.

• Copyright Corner

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

• Interface

  Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills.

• Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm

  Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.