Libraries reserved on net buying
Universities are showing cautious interest in buying discount books over the Internet but fear the loss of special services offered by traditional library suppliers. Many universities, such as the...
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Pyramid power
Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, the free, non-profit gateway to engineering resources on the Internet (www.eevl.ac.uk/), has been redesigned. It now has an Egyptian...
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Lion tamed
Universities can now subscribe to Chadwyck-Healey's LION (Literature Online) service on the Internet for Pounds 2,500, thanks to a deal with the Combined Higher Education Software Team (CHEST)....
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Jones buys OU shows
The United States-based cable and satellite broadcaster Jones Education has bought BBC-produced Open University programmes for its Knowledge TV channel. Business, media and tourism are among the...
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John Moores Pounds 2M spinoff
Amaze, the multimedia company spun off from Liverpool John Moores University's learning methods unit, has been sold to ECI Ventures Ltd in a Pounds 2 million deal. The university retains a minority...
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Personal scan
Science publisher Wiley has worked with Zuno, a Mitsubishi subsidiary, to put the full text of 400 journals on the Web. Two hundred titles are already on the site (www.interscience.wiley.com) which...
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Jobs by Internet
A free CD-Rom which helps graduates find jobs will be released on October 31. The Activate CD will be sent to college and university careers officers, and 100,000 copies will be cover-mounted on the...
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Students use web for fees lobby
Students at the University of North London are continuing their tradition of acerbic left-wing lobbying via the Internet. The Students' Union, organiser of several vociferous anti-government...
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Libraries 'better than the Net for all research information'
Libraries are more accurate sources of information than the Internet and children are not receiving a "well-balanced" education if they restrict their school research to the net, according to...
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In search of a new gold standard
Robin Yeates welcomes the latest developments in library information systems but calls for closer collaboration between librarian and user to fulfil demands Libraries may be on the brink of a...
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Hatfield's stock and roll show
Tony Durham reports on a state-of-the-art learning resource centre in Herts that offers a choice of study environments In many ways it is a traditional library design, with a long central well...
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Some missing guests at the revolutionary party
Electronic libraries offer the prospect of infinite access to worldwide information resources from the researcher's PC but are key players really talking to each other, asks Sylvia Simmons For...
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Knowledge at a price
Mike Holderness foresees the development of an entrepreneurial academic service culture with 'pay-as-you-go' global information The purpose of the Internet is to save corporations from - and here you...
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Environmental sensibilities grow from a remote seed
Bill Holdsworth visits a Dutch project that aims to train a teacher taskforce in new technology for the earth sciences On televised weather forecasts we are able to watch clouds swirling white above...
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Dialogue with a dumb terminal
Terry Mayes describes how higher education students can help to construct a learning resource for their peers It is a measure of the increasing sophistication of the debate about the impact of...