Buzz - Solaris

• 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.

• 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.

• Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library

  Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• Saving Energy in the Workplace

  Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace.

• Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management

  Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation.

• 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.

• DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service

  Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

  Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

• Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

  Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

• ACORN Implemented

  Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!

  Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).