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Volume 9 No 2 January, 2004


Editorial

Selected papers from the Conference, 'Toward a user-centred approach to digital libraries', Espoo, Finland, September 8 - 9, 2003

Guest editorial

Linda Banwell and Graham Coulson
Users and user study methodology: the JUBILEE project

Terttu Kortelainen
An analysis of the use of electronic journals and commercial journal article collections through the FinELib portal

Kirsti Nilsen
The Library Visit Study: user experiences at the virtual reference desk

Eero Sormunen and Sami Pennanen
The challenge of automated tutoring in Web-based learning environments for information retrieval instruction

John Colvin and Judith Keene
Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments

Bo-Christer Björk
Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change

Other refereed papers

Wallace Koehler
A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence

Rita Marcella and Karl Knox
Systems for the management of information in a university context: an investigation of user need

ball  Resúmenes en Español


Watch this: forms move centre stage. — one of a series of occasional columns by Terrence A. Brooks of the Information School, University of Washington, USA.


Reviews

ball  A.P. Bishop, N.A. Van House and B.P. Buttenfield. Digital library use: social practice in design and evaluation.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

ball  Klaus Ceynowa and André Coners. (Eds.) Cost management for university libraries: with attached CD-ROM. Munich: Saur, 2003.

ball  D. Fensel, J.A. Hendler, H. Lieberman, and W. Wahlster, (Eds.) Spinning the Semantic Web: bringing the World Wide Web to its full potential. Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2003.

ball  Hacking the systems. Reviews of Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest, Google hacks: 100 industrial-strength tips and tools. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2003; Paul Bausch, Amazon hacks: 100 industrial-strength tips and tools.Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2003; and Preston Grall, Windows XP hacks: 100 industrial-strength tips and tools.Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly,

ball  Leandro Herrero, The trouble with management. Richmond: PJB Publications Ltd., 2002.

ball  William Hersh, Information retrieval: a health and biomedical perspective (2nd ed.) New York, NY: Springer, 2003

ball  June Lester and Wallace C. Koehler  Fundamentals of information studies: understanding information and its environment. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2003.

ball  Bruce Edward Massis, editor. Models of cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean libraries: the first IFLA/SEFLIN International Summit on Library Cooperation in the Americas. Munich: Saur, 2003.

ball  Net Snipppets 3.0.3.2   Sunnyvale, CA: Net Snippets Ltd., 2003.

ball  Morten Flate Paulsen. Online education and learning management systems: global e-learning in a Scandinavian perspective. Oslo: NKI Gorlaget, 2003.

ball  Erik T. Ray, Learning XML. (2nd ed.) Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2003.

ball  Cristina Soy Auditorķa de la información.  Editorial UOC, 2002.

ball  Anne Valmas  Eestlaste kirjastustegevus välismaal 1944-2000 [Publishing activities of Estonians outside Estonia during 1944-2000]. [Two volumes]. Tallinn: Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikool, 2003.


What's in the open access e-journals?


Conference announcements

ball A message to Conference organizers.

ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2004, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 September 2004

ECDL 2004, the 8th European Digital Library Conference, 12-17 September, 2004. University of Bath, United Kingdom.


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