eLucidate Vol 5 No 4 now available

The latest issue of UKeiG's eLucidate is now available on the UKeiG website.

Contents include:

Top Search Tips from the Google and Beyond workshop held in Liverpool earlier this year. [Members only]

Web 2.0 Round-up. Karen Blakeman. A regular column summarising postings and news from the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/ [Members only]

News of UKeiG at Internet Librarian International and Online Information 2008

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers Duke University, Guardian News and Media, Ingram Digital Group, JISC, Microform Academic Publishers, NetLibrary, OUP, ProQuest, Thomson Reuters [Members only]

Intranets. Martin White on the importance of having an Intranet Strategy, especially when it comes to implementing new technologies such as SharePoint 2007. "There is no better time than now for intranet managers to step up a gear and take responsibility for shaping an overall information management strategy for their organisation, whether by stealth or frontal attack." [Members only]

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at useful publishing repositories, Microsoft's decision to axe Academic Search and Book Search, and 'Is open access free and legal? Also some thoughts on Endnote X2 and ThoughtMesh. [Members only]

Public Sector News. Jane Inman covers Keeping within the Law, re-use of public sector information, 'They work you', and the cost of the new UK parliamentary web site. [Members only]

Meeting Report: SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Websites. Report by Shaida Dorabjee, Information Consultant.

Meeting Report: UKeiG Annual Seminar - Web 2.0 in action. Report by Joanne Dobson, Programmes Director, Corporate Partnership Unit, Coventry University j.dobson@coventry.ac.uk)

Meeting Report: Agenda for Information Retrieval ISKO UK Meeting 26 June 2008, University College, London. Report by Michael Upshall

Current Awareness. Summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc. [Members only]

Innovation in e-Information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference. Manchester Conference Centre. Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Press Releases & News: COUNTER New Schedule for Publication of Release 3; Onix for Serials Released; Keeping Within the Law.

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