Issue 3

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 3

  John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne.

• Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib

  We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.

• Electronic Journals, Evolutionary Niches

  Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal.

• AC/DC

  Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.

• Meta Detectors

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

• Mailbase Reviewed

  Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.

• Link: A New Beginning for BUBL

  Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.

• Short Loan Projects

  John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections.

• ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services

  Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences

  Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums.

• FIDDO: Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options

  Anne Morris, project manager, describes a project from the Supporting Studies area of the eLib programme.

• Internet Archaeology

  Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).

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

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

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

  Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

• ELVIRA

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

• Anoraks and cardigans (2): New Text Search Engines, Bath, April 1996

  Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval.

• UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?

  Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference.

• CURL OPAC launch

  Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester.

• Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview

  An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant.

• View from the Hill: Rob Ainsley

  Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet.

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• Copyright Corner

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

• Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries

  Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain.

• Minotaur (Sceptics Column)

  Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school.

• Sideline

  Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net.

• Downtime

  Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition.