In this issue of D-Lib Magazine there are five articles about the Archiving, Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), a project sponsored by the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

Ten years after the Web turned every institution into an accidental publisher, the simple difficulties of long-term storage are turning them into accidental archivists as well. For digital preservation to flourish, those institutions must be able to implement preservation tools without having to create them from scratch. The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), a project of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), was created with the idea that by giving a moderately complex digital archive to a variety of participants, we would be able to better understand which aspects of digital preservation were institution-specific, and which aspects were more general.

Self-archiving, the practice of depositing one's works in an OAI-compliant archive, is a key strategy for innovating scholarly communication and achieving open access. DL-Harvest, a subject service for Library and Information (LIS), based on the aggregation of OAI-PMH compliant metadata from both institutional and disciplinary digital repositories, including dLIST, is described. Additionally, results from two studies that explored LIS journal publishers' stances towards self-archiving as expressed in copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) and the scholarly communication behaviors of LIS scholars, with regard to self-archiving and searching, are presented and some implications for the development of federated subject services are highlighted

Online games possess a number of characteristics similar to those in digital library and other online services. Awareness of these characteristics can provide: clues as to how people can and do use online systems. | inspiration for new or improved methods of providing access to digital information holdings. | examples of what is technically possible for complex online services with many simultaneous users.

Examining the impact of gender on the experiences of men and women in the workplace, and considering the impact of economic matters on the relative status and well-being of men and women, this book provides a brief introduction to the intersection of two systems of inequality. The book describes gen

Tapping into the structured metadata in snippets of information gives communities of interest effective access to their collective knowledge.

The 16 articles in this special issue include contributions from France, Germany, Canada, the UK, Cuba, the Netherlands and Spain and cover topics such as the design of LD tools (editors and players), the role of ontologies and patterns in learning design, introducing LD in institutions and using LD with other specifications. Fifteen of the book's chapters have associated articles; the sixteenth contribution to the special issue has a wider scope, touching on many aspects of the book. It records the results of a discussion involving 'teacher-developers' in the Moodle community and examining what it might mean to use IMS Learning Design together with the open source course management system Moodle.

The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring is a free access, international peer reviewed journal, which is published bi-annually online in February and August. The aim of the journal is twofold: firstly, to provide evidence-based, well-researched resources for students, professionals, corporate clients, managers and academic specialists who need to be at the forefront of developments in the field; and secondly to offer an accessible yet powerful discussion platform for the growing number of coaching and mentoring practitioners seeking to validate their practice

Nature Publishing Group has just released a free online service called Connotea (http://www.connotea.org). This tool belongs to a new class of 'social bookmarking' applications that has already made its mark in the public domain with popular facilities such as Del.icio.us and Flickr. Connotea is tailored to the academic user; it facilitates bookmarking of any reference or URL and allows tagging with keywords

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