Issue 37

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

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

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

• Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available

  Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.

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

  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

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

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

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

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

• 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.

• Public Libraries

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

• Planet SOSIG

  Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences.

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• News from BIOME

  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.

• Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!

  Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

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

• ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

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

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

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

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

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

• Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World

  Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington.

• OpenURL Meeting

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

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Joining Up the Dots

  Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.

• Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian

  Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.