*Apologies for cross-posting*
Ariadne 31 (March/April issue) is available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/
Main articles:
*Setting up an institutional e-print archive: Stephen Pinfield, Mike
Gardner, and John MacColl .
*Oxford puts its reference works online: Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford
University Press reference website.
*The 'Distributed National Collection' Access, and Cross-sectoral
Collaboration: the Research Support Libraries Programme: Ronald Milne,
Director of the programme, with an overview of the programme's objectives.
*The Open Archives Forum: Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and
Peter Schirmbacher introduce this new project to promote the ideas of the
OAI in Europe.
*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.
*The AIM25 project: Robert Baxter, Frances Blomely and Rachel Kemsley
present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of
archives held in various London institutions.
*Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel Bridget Robinson and
Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.
*eVALUEd: Becky Hartland-Fox, Pete Dalton and Perry Barr on a project to
develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation.
Our regular columns include:
*News from the Resource Discovery Network: Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen
on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.
*Planet SOSIG: Emma Place and Dave Boyd describe a new feature on SOSIG
called 'Experts Choice', and report on upcoming events.
*EEVL: Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal.
*Search Engines: Phil Bradley's regular column.
*Public Libraries: Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public
Libraries Focus.
*Web Focus: Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his
regular column.
*Web Watch: Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web
servers.
Plus of course the regular Malcolm Campbell cartoon and the infamous Caption
Competition, Newsline, and two book reviews:
"Building an electronic resource collection: a practical guide": reviewed by
Penny Garrod, and "The Information Professional's Guide to Career
Development Online": reviewed by Pete Dowdell.
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