Ariadne Issue 5 now out

[John Kirriemuir]

"New Ariadne, new danger"
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/issue5/


In this, the early autumn (less than 100 days till Christmas :-) edition 
(number 5) of Ariadne, there are around 50 articles/features, including...

# Main articles on:
* JISC's new 5 year strategy
* How Croatia is implementing IT and networks in libraries since the war
* PICK: a much respected subject gateway/index for the Library and
Information Science community
* BIDS through the Web:  some details of the forthcoming Web version of
BIDS
* Web4Lib: a popular discussion forum for libraries implementing/grappling
with the Web
* Subject Tree's: building indexes of Internet resources at Exeter
University
* Putting the UK on the map: the history behind the most popular way of
locating UK academic Web sites
* UKERNA training: an introduction to UKERNA training courses

# eLib project submissions/reports from NewsAgent for Librarians, HELIX,
SKIP, Open Journals and Formations. In this last one, some of the issues
involving adding value to a pre-prints service by using groupware such as
Lotus Notes are discussed.

# Conference reports from UKOLOG and Libtech '96

# A new section on Web-based journals for the LIS community. For this
issue, we present detailed descriptions from the editors/publishers of 5
of these journals, namely D-Lib, Cause/Effect, the Katharine Sharp Review,
the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship and Provenance.

# Regular columns include, amongst other items:
* Copyright corner: Charles Oppenheim reviews a large batch of Web sites
dedicated to legal information
* Public Libraries corner: the integration of public libraries and
"Cybercafe's"
* British Library corner
* Web searching corner: a look at InfoSeek, a search engine which dwarfs
Alta Vista in terms of index size
* OMNI corner: the perils of using the Internet as a reliable doctor
substitue
* Around the Table: a review of science and engineering Web sites.
* Interface: project EARL

# Forthcoming events, which contain brief notes on forthcoming books and
conferences.

# Research elsewhere, which includes descriptions of:
* The European Libraries Programme
* The Internation Institute for Electronic Library Research
* Open Peer Review and Augmentation: a peek at the Journal of Interactive
Media in Education, and a discussion of some of the issues behind the
approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly reviews
* DESIRE - a European project for network-based information resource
discovery

# More technical articles, including:
* Notes on making Web based forms more secure
* Designing the structure of your Web server directories
* Metadata for the Masses - implementing Dublin Core

...and several more articles, clippings and features, plus (of course)
the cartoon, caption competition (win a fluffy toy!) and the regular
digital libraries/elib project news update.

Happy reading...


John Kirriemuir      Tel: 01225 826580       Fax: 01225 826838
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