Ariadne 20 now available

[Phillip Hunter]

Ariadne Issue 20 now available at:

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue20/

Ariadne has a new interface: created to improve the appearance of Ariadne
both on screen and when printed. There are fewer buttons on the pages, but
you can still get around the magazine in the same way as before: the page
structures have been minimally modified to make the new appearance possible.

Issue 20 currently  includes:

**Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus,  recently returned from the WWW8 conference in
Toronto, and his report appears in this issue.

**Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington, 'Clumps in the Real World: What do
User's Need?'. Juliet and Jane take a close look at evaluation procedures
for the UK eLib Programme CLUMPS projects. This paper is based on a key
presentation at the CLUMPS day held in the British Library on the 22nd March
1999.

**Mick Ridley has contributed an article to this issue on his BOPAC system -
this is a practical Z39.50 project, originally funded by the British
Library, designed to investigate the problems of large and
complex retrievals from Z39.50 searches from multiple targets (Practical
Clumping).

**John Kirriemuir has contributed a revealing article on the state of
Internet access in the UK National Health Service. The OMNI survey is
informal, but may lead to a more substantial study in the future (OMNI
column).

**'Smart card people are happy people', an article in which Sally Rumsey
outlines Tolimac: a pilot electronic document delivery service at the
University of Surrey Library.

**Alan Newell explores technological solutions to support staff and students
at Higher Education institutions with disabilities;

**Elaine Blair describes Mailbase services, ten years on, as the
organisation prepares for the possibility of becoming a commercial
enterprise.

**Rebecca Linford (Web Editor), which gives a realistic picture of life
behind the scenes of an HE web service.

A number of the UK JISC supported subject gateways contribute reports:

**for Planet SOSIG, Karen Ford writes on 'The Resource Guide', which aims to
provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic
services;

**in EEVL Eye on Engineering , the EEVL Team explore patent information web
sites, the latest EEVL news, etc.;

**for Biz/Ed Bulletin, Chris Mitchell introduces the Advice and Answers
section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green
Resources on the Web for Economics and Business.

**In the new JISC Content column Alicia Wise describes the UK National
Electronic Site Licence Initiative;

** in JISC ASSIST, Jane Williams describes the nature and function of the
JISC awareness unit.

**The Public Libraries column features an exchange between Frank Webster and
Lorcan Dempsey, on modernisation, libraries and public policy, and whether
or not we have been down this road before.

**in ECMS, Pedro Isaias has contributed an article on Electronic Copyright
Management Systems.

**In Search Engines, Phil Bradley looks at the engines which can be used to
trace people rather than documents;

**in the  Mirror column, Sally Hadland writes about the new New National
Mirror Service (UK).

**The Unix Column this month features an article on 'chroot Sandbox'.
Written by Ian Peacock of Netcraft; it looks at the increasing concerns
about
security arising from the proliferation of network software, and explores
'restricted perspectives,' which might prove to be a practical antidote to
the problem.

**Brett Burridge (Windows NT Explorer) tells us about Active Server Pages
(ASP).

**Tracy Gardner reports on two IMS workshops held recently, and provides a
good analysis of what it all means.

**This issue's Metadata column is by Michael Day and Andy Stone, who report
on the 'Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg';

**Agns Guyon alsos reports from Europe on Bibliotecas Universitrias em
Consrcio, a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, held on the 26th and 27th April
this year.

**the Newsline column provides updates on News and Events, including news of
the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study in Oxford, which is due to report
soon.



The Editors of Ariadne are:

Philip Hunter
Information Officer
UKOLN
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 826354
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 826838
Email: p.j.hunter at ukoln.ac.uk

Bernadette Daly
Information Officer
UKOLN
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 323343
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 826838
Email: b.m.daly at ukoln.ac.uk

correspondence, proposals and submissions to:

ariadne at ukoln.ac.uk


Philip Hunter
Information Officer and Co-Editor of Ariadne and Exploit Interactive
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 826354           Fax: +44 (0) 1225 826838
Email: p.j.hunter at ukoln.ac.uk       URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/