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Web pages relating to the British Education Index (BEI) and its associated information services, including Education-line, are being redesigned for presentation in a more coherent site from June 2001. Users may notice some inconsistencies and minor failures while the work is in progress. The new site will first be visible in public at the Library and Information Show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham on 5-7 June 2001. |
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The BEI office is instrumental in leading a Joint Information Systems Committee project to establish an education "portal" within the Resource Discovery Network. The first deliverable from the project will be an internet resource catalogue, an early version of which will be visible to the public at the Library and Information Show, More information about the British Education Portal project can be found on its official project page. The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) site also contains information about many projects with which the portal project is associated. |
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The second Qualitative Evidence-based Practice Conference "Taking a critical stance", meets in the Techno Centre at Coventry University between May 16 and May 18 this year. As last year it has a fully searchable programme on-line, to be followed by links to the full texts of papers as they become available. |
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104 full text BERA conference papers and 80 ECER papers from last year's conferences are now linked to their entries in the conference databases. They can also be browsed by clicking on BERA-2000 or ECER-2000. Papers from either conference are still very welcome. |
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October usually sees an increase in Education-line usage. October 2000 database search figures are 120% up on October 1999, which itself was 27% up on 1998. More details and a graph are available here. |
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Papers from the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference in Cardiff are now going on line. They join nearly a thousand other conference papers in the Education-line collection. Each full paper is linked to the BERA 2000 search page, where all titles, authors and abstracts can be found. |
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Education-line now has a searchable conference programme for the European Conference on Educational Research that takes place between September 20th and 23rd. Edinburgh's Year 2000 event is hosted by the Scottish Educational Research Association. Searches can be made according to title, author, session or network. All abstracts are also available. Authors are encouraged to send full texts of their presentations for inclusion in the main database |
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A number of technical changes are being made to the databases and web pages associated with the British Education Index and Education-line. The end result will be an improved service for Education-line users. Please accept our apologies for any unwelcome problems while the changes take place. Please let us know what they are by using the comments form on our faq |
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Papers included in Education-line have been catalogued by the British Education Index since October 1999. The on-line BEI, available via the BIDS Education Data Service has already started to include full bibliographic details and urls for each Education-line paper. Print editions will include them from the next issue. (Volume 36 No 2) |
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SCUTREA's 30th Annual Conference takes place at the University of Nottingham between the 3rd and 5th of July. The searchable programme for SCUTREA 2000 is now on-line. The full text of each paper is linked to its record in the conference database. |
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The British Educational Research Association's Annual Conference takes place in Cardiff between the 7th and 9th of September. The provisional programme for BERA 2000 is now on-line. (The Student Conference starts on Wednesday 6th September) |
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We apologise for the loss of access to Education-line databases during the 22nd April. Major electrical safety work over the holiday weekend at the University of Leeds resulted in the web server being unavailable for most of Saturday. The service is now back to normal. |
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The Qualitative Evidence-based Practice Conference, meeting in the Techno Centre at Coventry University between May 15 and May 17, has a fully searchable programme on-line, with links to the full texts of papers as they become available in advance of the conference itself |
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Logs for March 2000 show visitors to Education-line coming from from more than 7,500 separate internet addresses in 76 different countries. Database search events for the month stand at 32,874 - exceeding last months record total by 22% |
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Full text papers from 1999's British and European Educational Research Associations' Annual Conferences are still coming in to the Education-line collection. Over a hundred papers from each conference are now linked to their respective conference proceedings and all can be found by title, author, subject term or free text search in the main database |
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Conference organisers can submit details of future conferences directly to the Education-line Conference Listings through an on-line form that has recently been updated to work with all common web browsers. |
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February 2000 was the busiest ever month for the Education-line service. For the first time the number of search steps in the BRS database exceeded 25,000 with a total of 26,997 steps being recorded over the 29 days. Approximately 2,700 separate visits were involved, with more than 5,400 retrievals of full text documents resulting from the searches. The main database now contains 1,354 documents and the conference database contains 4,484 records. A graph shows the pattern of use since January 1997 |
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In the change to self-funded status, Education-line is gradually adopting a new set of web pages. We hope that the new pages are simpler to use and faster to load. We would be pleased to get feedback from users who find that the designs do not work well on their browser. |
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Education-line entered the year 2000 with its first user searching the database at 03.23 Greenwich Mean Time on January 1st. Full responsibility for the service will be taken over by the British Education Index at the end of January and continuing free access is assured. Document acquisition and search activity continue to increase in scale. Document number 1,315 was entered on January 14th. Search figures for December 1999 were up by 45% on the previous December and continue to grow at a rate of 10% per month. Further development is planned. |
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In consultation with the journal School Leadership and Management Education-line has created a subject-specific search page to discover the documents most likely to be of interest to readers and would-be readers of that journal. Researchers, school managers and school governors are among those who are encouraged to use it. Feedback to Education-line is always welcome - especially when it identifies problems and shortcomings. Please email education-line@leeds.ac.uk with comments, questions or suggestions. |
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Education-line use continues to increase. October 1999 was another record month, with 23,751 search steps being recorded by the database software. A graph shows the monthly picture since January 1997. |
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Following the European Conference on Educational Research in Finland a preface to and listing of 38 full text papers presented to Network 2 (Vocational Education and Training) is included in the Education-line database. Other full text papers are being linked to the conference records as they are put on -line. |
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The Scottish Educational Research Association holds in Annual Conference in Dundee between September 30th and October 2nd. The programme, with abstracts, authors, titles and session details can be searched via the special Education-line search page |
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Full text documents from the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference in Brighton are being submitted to Education-line. Authors are encouraged to send an electronic version of their presentation as an email attachment to education-line@leeds.ac.uk. The full conference programme is searchable through the Education-line Conference Service. |
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Education-line has submitted its fourth annual project report to the Electronic Libraries Programme. A web version is available. |
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The Education-line guidelines for submission have been updated, principally through the addition of a link to a draft acquisition policy that has been discussed by the Education-line Advisory Committee. Education-line users are invited to submit comments. |
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The conference programme for ECER 99, the European Conference on Educational Research 1999 can be searched on-line. Papers can be listed by author, title, session or network. Free text searching is also available. Abstracts will be added during August and authors are invited to submit full papers for archiving. The Conference takes place in Lahti, Finland between September 22nd and 25th. |
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Database activity and document requests continue their upward trend. 5,000 papers per month are now being requested from the Education-line server. See the graphs |
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The programme of the International Lifelong Learning Conference, being held at University College Worcester can be searched on-line. The Conference itself takes place at the Worcester Conference Centre between the 9th and 11th July 1999. |
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Researching Vocational Education and Training - The Third International Conference organised by the Journal of Vocational Education and Training is being held at the GMB College, Whalley Range, Manchester between July 14th and 16th 1999. The Conference programme can be searched on-line, and 2,000 word summaries of most of the papers are now available. |
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The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA) 29th Annual Conference takes place at the University of Warwick between July 5th and 8th. The Conference proceedings can be searched and all papers are on-line in advance of the conference. |
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Phillip Sheffield, Manager of the British Education Index and originator of Education-line, entered document number 1000 into the Education-line database on the afternoon of June 21st 1999. |
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Abstracts and titles from the second international conference on evidence based-policies and indicator systems, to be held between the 11th and 14th July 1999 at the University of Durham, can be browsed in Education-line |
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The 1999 Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association is due to take place in Brighton between the 2nd and 5th of September. A list of over 900 papers and symposia can be searched in Education-line. |
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Keynote Addresses from the North of England Education Conference have been archived in Education-line. Speeches by Secretary of State David Blunkett MP, David Willetts MP (Conservative), Don Foster MP (Liberal Democrat) and Charles Handy (Conference President) are among the eight keynote speeches available. |
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Growth in search activity is moving up towards 20,000 search steps per month, with a corresponding increase in visitors and use of other information pages. |
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The Education Conference Listings Service now has an on-line form for Conference details to be submitted for inclusion. |
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A list of recent, current and future Education Conferences has been added as a trial part of the developing British Education Index/Education-line information service. |
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Education-line has added a Frequently Asked Questions page. It gives basic answers to most of the things that we are commonly asked. There is also an on-line form for readers to submit further questions, or to make other comments about the service. |
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This year's North of England Education Conference is being held in the City of Sunderland between January 6th and 8th. The theme is "Education for Renewal : Radical Change for the Public Good". Education-line hopes to be able to archive keynote and seminar papers as they become available. The Conference Office are planning to publish papers as soon as they are available on the Conference website. |
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Education-line has been live on the Internet for two years now. At least 1,000 documents per week are being downloaded ( see graph) and the service is listed on hundreds of homepages and "useful links" pages around the world. A good recent example is the link on BBC Education Scotland's website, which is a very useful resource in its own right. |
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Phil Sheffield (Education-line Project Manager) and Sam Saunders (Project Officer) are sharing a platform with Stevan Harnad and Dan Fleming at this month's "Information Ecologies" Conference in York, organised by the Electronic Libraries Programme. The panel is set to discuss "Informal publishing". |
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An update on levels of database searching shows that 10,000 separate internet addresses have made search requests to Education-line since the service was launched. 300 visitors per week are now using the search facilities to search either the main database of full texts or the Conference database for details of particular education conferences. |
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The 1998 Scottish Educational Research Association Annual Conference is being held at the West Park Conference Centre, University of Dundee between September 24th and 26th. Conference sessions and abstracts can be searched on the special conference page |
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The British Education Index incorporating Education-line will be presenting a workshop at the European Conference for Educational Research in Ljubljana between September 17th and September 20th. The workshop will offer hands-on access to both Education-line and the BEI, with an opportunity for discussion of more general questions arising from educational researchers' use of the internet. The session will be held on Friday morning and repeated on Saturday morning. (search Conference Sessions) |
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The British Education Index and Education-line have launched a major text collection exercise within the UK. |
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The European Educational Research Association Annual Conference takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between September 17th and 20th 1998. Conference details can be checked in Education-line |
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An Education-line news item in July 1997 referred to plans for a further VET Conference. The Journal of Vocational Education and Training has announced that it's Third International Conference will be hosted by Bolton Institute in July 1999. Further details from Vincent Farrell at v.farrell@bolton.ac.uk |
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In late August Education-line will be taking part in the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In September we will be at The European Educational Research Association Annual Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. If you are going, please look out for Sam Saunders and put your questions and suggestions to him in person. |
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An update on levels of document acquisition and search activity shows further increases in use of the Education-line service. |
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The SCUTREA Annual Conference 1998 at the University of Exeter is presenting its programme through Education-line. The conference sessions can be searched by author, title, subject or session. Full text of each article is being added. |
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Education-line is presenting 29 of the papers being discussed at the three day intentional conference Higher Education Close Up . This conference is jointly hosted by the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University and the Department of Education Studies, University of Central Lancashire and is supported by the Society for Research into Higher Education. |
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A set of four PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded. One gives a general background to Education-line. Each of the others explains one of the three search strategies. |
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The BERA 98 Conference in Belfast is being supported by Education-line. The provisional programme can be searched by author, title or session. Free text searching of over 500 abstracts is also available. Check the organisers' own homepage for all details and the latest updates. |
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Education and training Conference organisers are being encouraged to look at the benefits of using the Education-line Conference Service. |
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The Project Manager and Project Officer wrote a paper "Searching for Clues" to present at the recent IRISS Conference in Bristol. A version has been entered as a document in the Education-line collection. |
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A further update on levels of document acquisition and search activity to the end of March 1998 is available. |
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Approximately 150 submissions of evidence to the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (the Dearing Committee) have been added to the Education-line database. Each record is a part of the main database, but the whole body of evidence can be searched as a separate set of documents from a special search page. |
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Education-line published its 500th document on Monday March 2nd 1998. Tuesday March 3rd saw the 100th full text document from the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference for 1997. |
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Education-line is presenting keynote papers from the 1998 North of England Education Conference, "Keys to Learning" in Bradford. Papers will be appearing on-line as they become available. |
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Education-line will be at the 1998 North of England Education Conference, "Keys to Learning" in Bradford. The Conference takes place between January 5th and 7th. |
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The
In-Service and Professional Development Association is presenting an
International Conference "School Improvement - The Role of CPD"
at the GEC Management Centre in Dunchurch, Warwickshire between the 28th
and 30th of November 1997. Full details from Tony Bates, IPDA Conference,
Professional Development Office, Worcester College of Higher Education,
Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ Telephone +44 (0)1905 855055 Fax +44 (0)1905 855132 email t.bates@worc.ac.uk |
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Comments made by respondents to the Education-line user survey can be read on-line. Please feel free to send further observations to us. |
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A brief progress report on levels of use and document acquisition in the first ten months of the project is available. |
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Many papers presented at BERA 96 can be browsed. |
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Education-line gathered educational policy statements from front bench politicians in each of the major English parties in the run-up to the UK General Election of 1997. |
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Education-line was formally launched on January 2nd 1997 at the North of England Education Conference at the Octagon Centre, Sheffield. Keynote addresses are available |
