With apologies for any cross-posting:
The Autumn Issue no.49 of Ariadne is now available:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
Main Articles in Issue 49:
*Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education:
Do We Care?
-Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits
of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these
licences are indeed a panacea.
*From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project
-SUZUKI Masako and SUGITA Shigeki describe Hokkaido
University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with
journal articles.
*Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an
Institutional Repository
-Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase
the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.
*e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
-Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies
and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.
*GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object
Repository and Portal
-Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and
Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and
peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.
*Wiki or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis
-Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these
days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.
*Video Streaming of Events
-Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of
video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.
*RDA: A New International Standard
-Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource
Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules (AACR).
*Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?
-Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition
and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.
Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
*DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
-Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell
report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.
*e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and other VREs for
the Social Sciences
-Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop
reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology
and applications.
*Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too..
-David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of
East Anglia, during September 2006.
*Workshop on e-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals
-Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day
workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006.
Ariadne Reviews:
*Essential Law for Information Professionals
-Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal
essentialism is enough for information professionals.
*Ambient Findability
-Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a
few rough edges.
*Teach Beyond Your Reach
-Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and
running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training
sessions and more.
- plus the Ariadne newsline of events and news items.
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