Welcome to the 7th and last issue of Exploit Interactive Web magazine, as the saying goes - 'all good things must come to an end!' However there is no need to worry, the Exploit Interactive site will remain available for reference from UKOLN's server for at least another two years. A final report on Exploit Interactive will be written before the end of the year and linked to from this Web site.
Exploit Interactive has had a very successful year and a half run. During its duration 35 Telematics for Libraries projects have been covered, 110 articles have been included and there have been approximately 250,000 page views [1]. Exploit Interactive's coverage has included many vital and relevant topics areas ranging from technology based subjects such as "push" services, XHTML, accessibility tools, automated translation facilities, to library areas such as The Citizen's Gateways, eLib, digital Libraries, metadata and personalised libraries. Many writers have benefited from using Exploit Interactive as part of their project's Web-based dissemination strategy and a greater number of readers have benifited from sharing this knowledge. We hope that you have all enjoyed all Exploit Interactive has had to offer.
In this final issue we have a number of concluding reports from the Telematics for Libraries Community, notably the ELVIL, EQUINOX, ILSES, LIBECON 2000, TECUP and VERITY projects. From the broader community we are featuring articles on the FASTER project, and the preceding NESSTAR project, an initiative that provides flexible access to statistics, tables and electronic resources held at social science data archives and other data publishers. This type of information could be particularly pertinent to those putting in bids for the new IST 5th Framework programme. Karen Neale, formerly of the Library Information Technology Centre at South Bank University, looks at ways in which the European Library community can provide their own news services to their community using the NewsAgent project. Other contributions include commentary on the Tempe Meet document on scholarly publishing and an review of the Virtual Worlds 2000 conference held in Paris, France in July.
If you are interested in Telematics for Libraries and Digital Cultural Heritage issues and are going to miss your trimonthly installment of Exploit Interactive Web magazine then visit the new Cultivate Interactive Web magazine which hopes to carry on where Exploit Interactive leaves off. The next issue of Cultivate Interactive will be released on October 16th [2].
Marieke Napier, Exploit Interactive editor
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