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** NISS Advisor ** Contents * Computergram - Browse option
==================== * Noticeboard - Research vacancies
Issue 119 * New release of ATHENS
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27th April 1998
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** Computergram - Browse option
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Computergram is a daily news service covering the IT industry and as such
can be valuable to those involved in buying computing equipment and software
for their education institution. Access to the articles is via a free service
provided by NISS.
An option to browse the headlines from recent issues has been added
recently to the NISS Computergram Service at
http://www.niss.ac.uk/news/computergram.html
After selecting the browse link from the main Computergram page you will
be presented with a list of dates covering the most recent issues. Choose
any of the dates to view the headlines (with onward links to the article
itself) from that day's edition of the journal. A limited number of issues
are included on the browse interface, and the list is updated with each new
issue as soon as it becomes available.
This browse feature has been introduced to complement the existing search
tool, which lets you locate articles from the entire Computergram file,
covering material from 1994 to the present.
UK HE sites which have joined the relevant CHEST agreement (there is no
subscription fee, but sites must register first - see
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/computergram/contents.html) are entitled to
access the NISS Computergram Service.
** Noticeboard - Research vacancies
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A new page providing onward links to details about postgraduate research
studentships at UK HE sites has been added to the NISS Noticeboard at
http://www.niss.ac.uk/noticeboard/jobs/hepostgrad.html
The page aims to offer access to details about studentships included on Web
servers at HE sites throughout the country. It has only just been set up
and needs to grow ! So, if your site maintains a list of current studentship
vacancies please let the Noticeboard Editor know by sending an Email message
to [log in to unmask] - thank you.
** New release of ATHENS
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The latest release (3.1) of the ATHENS authentication system is due to be
brought into service on Tuesday 28th April 1998.
This release will include new features such as:
* a facility to move accounts between administrators
* facilities for sending email to users
* renaming groups (of users)
* an ability to modify expiry dates for accounts in a group
* control of access to resources for all accounts
* changing access to resources for a particular account
* provision of usage statistics
Details about these and other planned enhancements can be found on the
ATHENS Web pages at http://www.athens.ac.uk/info/enhancements.html
Current ATHENS Administrators should find that these enhancements meet a
number of the requests and suggestions they have raised regarding the
operation of the system.
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