eLucidate Vol 5 No 3 now available

eLucidate Vol. 5 No. 3 is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/
Please note: most of the content is available to UKeiG members only

Contents:

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

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers the British Library, Darwin Online, Emerald, Gale, H.W. Wilson, Index to Theses, INTUTE, JISC, JORUM, OCLC, Old Bailey Online, ProQuest and Publishing Technology.

Intranets. Martin White reports on Intracom 2008 in Quebec.

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at what is happening in the reference software world and avoiding plagiarism

Public Sector News. Jane Inman discusses web continuity and local authority web site archiving.

24 Top Business Research Tips from the two UKeiG workshops on business information.

Meeting Report: Practicalities of Web 2.0. Report by Fiona McLean

Meeting Report: Blogs, RSS and Wikis. Report by Matthew Stone.

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

Press Releases & News: Update on OCLC and Google; Microsoft Book Search winding down; library use of e-books; Sparc and Science Commons; Jewell receives Coutts Award for innovation.

Intranets Forum: dates for you diary

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eLucidate Vol 5 No 2. March 2008 now available

The March issue of eLucidate is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/. Please note that most of the articles are available to UKeiG members only.

This month's contents include:

10 Top Tips for Marketing your Intranet. Janet Corcoran

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

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers BBC Motion Gallery, Ebrary, Emerald, Harvard University, JISC, OCLC, OVID, Oxford University Great War Archive, ProQuest, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Scientific,

Internet - What's that coming over the hill?. Susan Miles comments on the fifth "Horizon Report" by the New Media Consortium.

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at referencing and the coat of many colours, or how open are your references?

Public Sector News. Jane Inman.

UKeiG Intranets Forum meeting report, 5th February 2008. Deanne Mitchell.

Meeting Report: Information Law for Information Professionals. Karen Blakeman

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

Press Releases & News: Update on DRIVER; CLOCKSS Works

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eLucidate - January/February 2008 now online

Lucidate Vol 5 No 1. February 2008, is now available online at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/

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Contents include:

Feature Article: Institutional Repositories,Tout de Suite from Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Top Search Tips. Search tips from the participants of the November 2007 Beyond Google Workshop. Compiled by Karen Blakeman

Online Update from Joy Cadwallader, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Includes news on the Britsih Library, National Library of Wales, OCLC, Portico, ProQuest, Readex, Scottish Government, Springer and Thomson Scientific.

Intranets Sharing Intranet knowledge from Martin White, Intranet Focus

Public Sector News from Jane Inman. This month's column covers archiving government web content, and national indicators and electronic delivery of services.

UKeiG Intranets Forum Report: How to sell your Intranet. Report from Ruth Hilbourne on the meeting held on Thursday 13th December 2007 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Meeting report: You want what? Fiona Mclean reports on Jill Fenton's workshop on effective business research process, principles and practice.

Conference Report: Online Information 2007. Melinda Davies, winner of the student conference grant, highlights the hot topics at the Online Information 2007, held at Olympia in London.

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

Book Review: The Inmates are Running the Asylum.

Press Releases & News

eLucidate Vol 4 no. 6 now available

The latest issue of eLucidate (Vol 4 No 6. November 2007) is now available. eLucidate is available to UKeIG members only. Please contact Karen Blakeman if you have lost or forgotten your user name and password.

Contents:

Review Article from Michael Upshall on Sharing, Privacy and Trust in our Networked World: A Report to the OCLC Membership.

Online. Update from Shirley Parker-Munn, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Includes news on the Archives Hub, British Library Theatre Archive, Nineteenth Century Newspapers, BUVFC, Emerald, Ovid/Kluwer, and ProQuest.

Intranets. An end of year miscellany from Martin White, Intranet Focus

Reference Management. Recent developments in reference software from Tracy Kent. Includes news on HistCite, Publish or Perish, KnightCite, Refworks, Endnote and Google Scholar's download formats

Public Sector News from Jane Inman. This month's column covers land, property and street information; "Pride of Place"; blogs in government; electronic deposition of papers; Blackberries in the House.

UKeiG Intranets Forum Report: meeting held at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Intranet and Extranet case study.

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

Press Releases & News

eLucidate Vol 4 No. 5 now available

eLucidate Vol 4 No 5 is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/index.html

An RSS feed of the table of contents is available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/elucidatetoc.xml and members can download a PDF of the current issue.

This month's issue has articles on:

Online Update from Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Includes news on JISC ticTOCS, Census, EBSCO, Elsevier& EMBASE Classic, ProQuest, Intute and Thomson Scientific.

RAE, Institutional Repositories and the Internet, by Susan Miles. How institutional repositories have impacted on preparation for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise

Intranets: Supporting collaboration with social networking software, from Martin White, Intranet Focus. How joint working can be implemented in organisations, using SharePoint, Notes, and other software.

Public Sector News from Jane Inman. Includes news on Power of Information, Digital Divide, Land Registry, Government websites, and Scottish Executive change of name.

Current Awareness. The usual collection of goodies and summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc.

Book Review: The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism

Meeting Report - Intranets Forum: Does your intranet meet accessibility standards?

Meeting Report - Managing New and Emerging Library Technologies: Skills for the 21st Century . Report of a meeting organised by the East Anglia Online User Group (http://www.eaolug.org.uk/), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 13 June 2007

Press Releases & News

eLucidate Vol 4 No. 4, July 2007

The latest issue of UKeiG's electronic newsletter eLucidate is now available at
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/index.html

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Contents include:

UKeiG Management Committee Annual Report. Incorporating the UKeiG Councillor's Report January 2006 - December 2006

Report on the UKeiG Annual Seminar: Riding the waves or treading water?
Confronting the challenges of a volatile electronic environment. Report by Fiona McLean

Feature Article - Referencing in the 21st Century: the LearnHigher website. By Colin Neville (c.neville@bradford.ac.uk)

Online - Updates from Joy Cadwallader, University of Wales

Internet - Do you have a Second Life? By Susan Miles

Intranets - Just how networked are you? from Martin White, Intranet Focus. How to contact, and stay in touch with other members of your organisation.

Reference Management Edited by Tracy Kent,Librarian for Physics and Computer Science University of Birmingham t.k.kent@bham.ac.uk

Public Sector News - Guidelines for Official Publications in Local Authorities by Jane Inman.

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

Meeting Report - RSS, Blogs and Wikis. Report from Mark Bargon on the UKeiG one day event held in Edinburgh.

Meeting Report - Image Management in Bio- and Environmental Science: New Directions. Report from Anne Costigan on the UKeiG one day event held in Manchester.

Intranet Forum Report: 7 June 2007. Report from Roshan Khan.

Press Releases & News

eLucidate - May issue now available

The May issue of eLucidate is now available. This month's issue includes:

COUNTER: Getting the Measure of e-Books. An article by Jenny Walker, executive vice-president for Xrefer, and based in the Xrefer London office.

Abstract: This article is based on a workshop given by the author at the 2007 UK Serials Group Conference, entitled “Understanding, Implementing and Using the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works”. Ebooks seem set to flourish in 2007, with great interest from publishers and librarians alike. The COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works, first released in 2006, provides standardization that can help with the tracking, comparison and analysis of ebook usage. Publishers and aggregators of ebooks and online reference works are urged to adopt and implement these standards at their earliest convenience; and feedback is actively sought from all interested parties.

Online - latest news from Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Internet. Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best practices for social software – a book review from Susan Miles.

Intranets. This month, Martin White of Intranet Focus has compiled an Intranet Miscellany- a round-up of recent intranet books and reports.

Reference Management. Updates and news on reference software packages from Tracy Kent, Librarian for Physics and Computer Science University of Birmingham

Public sector news from Jane Inman, Chair of ALGIS.

Meeting report on eInformation for eScience by Stephen Bull.

Intranets Forum: Planning your intranet strategy - report from Dion Lindsay.

Current Awareness - compiled and edited by Jane Grogan.

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eLucidate Vol 4 No 2 now available

The latest issue of eLucidate, UKeiG's electronic newsletter, is now available on the UKeiG web site

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Contents of this month's issue:

Online (Members only)
Essential updates on new online resources by Joy Cadwallader, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Includes updates on Cambridge Information Group, COPAC, Emerald, Intute - Arts & Humanities, JISC News, Macmillan, Natural History Museum, OCLC, Thomson Gale, Wiley

Intranets, (members only)
Who manages the Intranet? By Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd.

Reference Management (members only)
By Tracy Kent, Librarian for Physics and Computer Science, University of Birmingham. This month’s issue covers Manuscript Management Toolset, Cross Ref, RefWorks, new reference software packages, reproducing the references and training options.

Public Sector News (Members only)
Supplied by ALGIS, and compiled by Jane Inman, Technical Librarian, Environment and Economy, Warwickshire County Council. Topics include e-petitions, cull of government web sites, public libraries and online services, parliamentary blogs, information for local government, local authority web sites and UK cabinet papers.

Current Awareness (members only)
Edited by Jan Grogan. Summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation, virtual libraries etc.

Meeting report by Stella Dextre Clarke.
Report on the UKeiG meeting on Selecting and Implementing Web and Intranet Search.

Book Reviews
Ambient Findability, Peter Morville. Farnham: O’Reilly Press 2005
Negotiating Licences for Digital Resources Fiona Durrant. London: Facet Publishing, 2006

Press Releases and News (members only)

eLucidate Jan/Feb 2007 now available

The latest issue of eLucidate Vol 4 (1), January 2007 is now available to members at
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/index.html

This issue's articles include:

Feature Article: Lexis Nexis on Trial
A comparison of LexisNexis and Factiva for providing news alerts from Megan Roberts

Intranets
Making One plus One equal One by Martin White

Internet
Reflections on 2006 by Susan Miles

Online
Essential updates on new online resources from Shirley Parker-Munn

CILIP News
Report from Chris Armstrong on the New Governance Implementation.

Public Sector News
A review of what's new in public sector information resources by Jane Inman,

Reference Management
Updates and what's new from Tracy Kent on reference and bibliographic management services.

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

Meeting Reports - Intranet Forum
Working with sub-editors. A report on the meeting held in London on Thursday 7 December 2006

Book Reviews
Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums
Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities

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