Elizabeth Gadd, Richard Goodman and Adrienne Muir
Outlines the copyright clearance difficulties faced by librarians in the development of the Electronic Library and states the need for an electronic copyright management system…
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Outlines the copyright clearance difficulties faced by librarians in the development of the Electronic Library and states the need for an electronic copyright management system (ECMS) to log the clearance process and to protect electronic documents. Reports the absence of a suitably priced commercially available ECMS for the academic sector and describes the design process for the eLib project ACORN's Rights Management system entitled CLEAR (Copyright Licensed Electronic Access to Readings) based on Microsoft Access. Describes the functionality of the CLEAR database and concludes that it might provide a template for other institutions in the design of subsequent ECMSs.
Project ACORN (Access to Course Readings via Networks) sits within the Electronic Short Loan strand of the Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme and has been developed by a team…
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Project ACORN (Access to Course Readings via Networks) sits within the Electronic Short Loan strand of the Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme and has been developed by a team at the Pilkington Library at Loughborough University. Having established procedures for making journal articles in short loan collections available electronically, the next stage was to test the portability of these procedures to Leicester University. This paper describes a study undertaken by the Project ACORN team to investigate the portability of the technical model by implementing it at Leicester University, and discusses the main challenges faced (authentication and printing), the solutions proposed by the ACORN team, some possible future solutions, and recommendations for libraries looking to set up an ACORN‐type service.
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ALTHOUGH SOME attention has been devoted recently to the nature of teaching machines, very little thought has been given to the problems that will be encountered in their…
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ALTHOUGH SOME attention has been devoted recently to the nature of teaching machines, very little thought has been given to the problems that will be encountered in their introduction and use. This article is an attempt to envisage and think about some of those difficulties.
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The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with Dr Stanley C. Abraham.
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The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with Dr Stanley C. Abraham.
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The paper provides an interview with Stanley C. Abraham, author of Strategic Planning.
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In the interview, Dr Abraham discusses his background in strategic planning and consultancy, and his role as co‐founder of the Association for Strategic Planning.
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The interview highlights the benefits of Dr Abraham's “Strategic Analysis Model (That Works).”
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The study of birth defects has increased in importance in recent years because the rate of infant mortality due to other causes (such as infection and nutritional disease) has…
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The study of birth defects has increased in importance in recent years because the rate of infant mortality due to other causes (such as infection and nutritional disease) has decreased more quickly than has the rate of deaths due to birth defects. Today, abnormalities are detected in approximately 3 percent of newborn humans, and twice as many prenatally acquired defects are found in children after infancy as are discovered at birth. In addition, many of the more than 500,000 miscarriages and stillbirths that occur each year in the United States are due to abnormal fetal development.