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Amanda Hill A Rose by any other name: a new approach to name authority [ABSTRACT]
4th April 2011

Searching for author names in online systems is fraught with difficulty because there are so many possible variations for each name. So the Names Project promises to provide a much-needed solution for the many institutional repositories which are being developed. Amanda Hill describes the progress being made with this JISC-funded, joint British Library and Mimas project.

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Robin Neidorf Are organisations investing in information skills?
20th March 2011

The ability to interact effectively with information is a job requirement for nearly every worker in the digital age. Regardless of job title, we're all sorting through reams of information, finding and selecting the most important bits, analysing it and communicating it constantly. The wrong information can be costly; missing information can be time-consuming; incomplete information can be devastating.

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