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DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service – a Dutch national collaborative effort

Peereboom, Marianne - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 1, pp. 46-49

national collaborative effort of the National Library and a number of academic libraries. The combined centralised and …

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Promoting a subject gateway: a case study from EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)

MacLeod, Roddy - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 1, pp. 59-64

Describes the development of the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) ( http://eevl.ac.uk ) and outlines the services offered. The potential market for EEVL is discussed, and a case study of promotional activities is presented.

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Australian subject gateways: political and strategic issues

Campbell, Debbie - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 1, pp. 73-77

The key political and strategic issues which need to be addressed for the future development of the Australian subject gateways are: continued quality of content creation, integration of access to print and electronic resources, archiving and persistent identification, sustainability of services...

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An EASIER way to search online engineering resource

Granum, Geir; Barker, Phil - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 1, pp. 78-82

EEVL, the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, consists of several distinct resources, which exist as separate databases. This article describes the approach taken to tackle a particular problem that was identified through evaluation studies, namely, that searches of the EEVL catalogue too...

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Project LIS: a Web‐based resource of IOLS information

Kochtanek, Thomas R.; Hein, Karen K. - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 3, pp. 212-218

Project URL originated while identifying electronic resources that promote access to information about integrated online library systems (IOLS). Over 40 students, enrolled in a Web‐based asynchronous distance learning graduate level course “Library information systems”, searched the Web...

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Should scientific journals be printed? A personal view

Goodman, David - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 5, pp. 357-364

Although the widely appreciated advantages of electronic journals in the sciences would indicate that they should be the preferred form of publication, they persist in print as well. The data on the relative use of bound and unbound journals in an academic biology library suggest that almost all...

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Recent relevance research: implications for information professionals

Greisdorf, Howard; Spink, Amanda - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 5, pp. 389-396

We discuss results from recent relevance research with implications for information professionals. Our studies show that beyond the usual concern with high relevance and non‐relevance judgements, that partially relevant judgements by users are important. We call for the adoption of a more...

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Improving access in bilingual, biscript catalogues through Arabised authority control

Vassie, Roderic - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 6, pp. 420-429

Describes some of the information retrieval issues faced by Arab libraries with bilingual (Arabic/English), biscript …

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CORC: a system for gateway creation

Hickey, Thomas B. - In: Online Information Review 24 (2000) 1, pp. 49-56

CORC is an OCLC project that is developing tools and systems to enable libraries to provide enhanced access to Internet … itself and relies on large‐scale cooperation among libraries to maintain a centralized database. By supporting emerging … metadata standards such as Dublin Core and other standards such as Unicode and RDF, CORC broadens the range of libraries and …

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The management of the scientific information environment: the role of the Research Library Web site

Arte, Assunta - In: Online Information Review 25 (2001) 2, pp. 88-93

Describes the experience of the Italian National Research Council Library staff in the successful implementation of its Web. Suggests that small working groups of professional librarians can manage their own agenda to help the Research Library achieve its mission more effectively. Discusses key...

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