Editorial: Happy 20th Birthday Ariadne!
Ariadne hits its 20th birthday, and its 75th issue.
Gary Brewerton reports on figshare fest 2015, held in London on 12th October.
Back to the moon - eLib and the future of the library.
Martin Hamilton, Jisc's resident futurist and one time developer on the ROADS project in the 1990s, looks back at the heady days of the Follett Report, the eLib projects that appeared as a result and the services that some of them gave rise to. He then proposes an interesting long term archiving idea that might not be as far fetched as it sounds.
Review of: Kristin Briney, Data Management for Researchers. Organize, maintain and share your data for research success.
Gareth Cole, the Research Data Manager at Loughborough University Library, reviews the book Data Management for Researchers. Organize, maintain and share your data for research success by Kristin Briney.
Ariadne is not the only fruit.
John Kirriemuir, editor of the first ten issues of Ariadne, reminisces about library and information science e-­journals back in the day, looks across the current landscape of online “free to read, free to write for” publications, considers a few questions for budding authors to ask, and highlights some publications to house their words.
Tom Roper, Sam Burgess and Holly Case discuss the formation, use, benefits and limitations of Twitter chat sessions for forming and maintaining professional networks. They focus on the #ukmedlibs chat aimed at UK (and European) health library professionals, which has been running since May 2015.
Events: OER16 - Open Culture.
Lorna M. Campbell introduces the Open Educational Resources Conference 2016 (OER16). This will be held in April at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and will focus on the theme of "Open Culture". Participants will be looking at how open culture can be embedded into institution's learning, teaching and research offerings.
Emma Tonkin discusses how the words we use, and where we use them, change over time, and how this can cause issues for digital preservation.
FIGIT, eLib, Ariadne and the Future.
Marieke Guy, Philip Hunter, John Kirriemuir, Jon Knight and Richard Waller look back at how Ariadne began 20 years ago as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), how some of the other eLib projects influenced the web we have today and what changes have come, and may yet come, to affect how digital libraries work.