Ariadne 35 is now available at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/
Articles in this issue -
*ePrints UK: Developing a national e-prints archive: Ruth Martin describes
the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical
issues that must be addressed for the project to deliver a national e-prints
service.
*Syndicated content: it's more than just some file formats: Paul Miller on
issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to
portals or other web sites, with some guidelines for good practice.
*Access Management, the Key to a Portal: Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser
report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.
*Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and supporting real-world
annotation: Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of
annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the
subject-gateway environment.
*'What features in a Portal?': Geoff Butters analyses the features found in
various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features
for the JISC Subject Portals.
*"Apart from the weather, I think it's a good idea": Stakeholder
Requirements for Institutional Portals: Liz Pearce takes a look at recent
research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might
want from an institutional portal.
*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.
*Which Way Now? The future of UK public libraries: In the first of a series
of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting
UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS
report "Framework for the future".
*Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses: Alejandro
Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and
LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs
presents a new course for social researchers in Government.
*Free full-text e-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine:
Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the
area of e-journals.
*Search Engines: Many movements in mere months: Phil Bradley looks at
various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene
of the search engine.
*Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture For Web Site Development: Brian Kelly
outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web
sites.
*WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites: Brian Kelly uses the
WayBack Machine to report on the history of UK University Web sites.
*Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the information landscape:
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description
projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003 .
*DELOS CEE Event: Current trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern
Europe: Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun,
Poland, 3-4 February 2003.
*JISC 2003 Conference report: Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State
Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and
the role of the JISC in its implementation.
Plus two book reviews:
*The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High Tech
Reference Desk: [Irene E. McDermott]. Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide
to the Internet.
*"Do we want to keep our newspapers?": [Ed. by David McKitterick]. Book
review by Penny Garrod.
And our regular Newsline column.
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