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Welcome to UKeiG. UKeiG is a respected and well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. We promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information and offer a wide range of resources including seminars and workshops. Access is also available to our e-journal eLucidate, publications and our popular series of Factsheets.
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For further details or to make a booking on one of these courses, please visit our website: www.ukeig.org.uk/training. We are always delighted to take...
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On May 26th 2011 the The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 came into force and, acknowledging the complexity of falling into line, UK websites have one year to comply. The 2003 Regulations implemented a...
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We have updated almost all of our Factsheets and have only a few left to go! Most Factsheets are now dated December 2011. In most cases this has been a process of checking facts and URLs, but some have been competely renewed, and there is one new...
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Having problems with Google? Fed up with it ignoring your search terms and giving you something completely different? Or confused by irrelevant...
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"An excellent course especially in the format it was. Pleasantly informal and plenty of opportunity to ask...
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UKeiG offers a wide range of training resources, including seminars and workshops, which are renowned for their interesting content, their relevance and their cost-effectiveness. Topics cover the general management of e-resources as well as...
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The recent UKeiG training workshop, The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you, held in London on 15 November 2011, received an unequivocal 'thumbs up' from those who attended. The course which was highly...
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The 2011 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award has been awarded to the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR). Founded in 2007, UKCoRR is a professional membership-driven organisation managed for and by those staff working...
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UKeiG is delighted to announce this year’s winner of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award - ** Photos of the presentation are now online ** Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing, Dublin City...
Archive of '...from the Chair'
September 2011 (PDF)
April 2011 (PDF)
February 2011 (PDF)
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Training
Our training programme provides affordable, practical, high quality workshops and seminars on every aspect of electronic information.
Intranets Forum
If you work with intranets then our Intranets Forum is for you. We hold meetings, produce factsheets and have an active discussion list. Find out more on the Forum page.
Publishing
New title for 2011. Details on Publications page.
"For some strange reason the success of the various mobile platforms has been judged on the basis of the number of apps that are available, but [...] most users can only manage perhaps a maximum of twenty apps."
Martin White, Information Management column
Christina Harbour & Rachel Isaac-Menard
Peter Griffiths
A mobile year, and much more mobility to come
The new Kindle; HathiTrust and orphan works; rival scholarship platforms
Reviewed by Stephen Hunt
Report by Roger Farbey
Pick a book to review
Reviewed by Rachel Isaac-Menard
November 2011
