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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:28:34 GMT
Dear All Some more information circulated by ICSTI: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Knovel - nothing to do with fiction..... ---------------------------------------- >From Information Today: Has anybody any experience of this? "In a nutshell, the knovel database is a single searchable collection of engineering and applied science reference works and databases from top publishers. It features a proprietary, common Web interface that supports cross-searching of the aggregated content and multiple formats. It claims to be the only sci-tech database that contains fully interactive tables, graphs, and equations. According to the company (knovel inc), knovelization involves the following elements: - knovel takes ordinary data and makes it interactive. This allows users to manipulate and customize information-such as tables and graphing applications-and apply it to what they are working on. - The content is deeply searchable. Data values have been put into a database and ranges of values can be searched. This goes beyond keyword searching and helps users efficiently locate desired information. - knovel is aggregated, and only the most respected content is selected from major publishers. - knovel works as one. All the content-reference books, databases, and conference proceedings-can be selected harmoniously. The interface across all content is consistent. The knovel database offers 450 premium science and engineering reference books and databases from publishers such as McGraw-Hill, CRC Press, John Wiley, and Reed Elsevier, to name a few. By the end of 2003, the company says it will have nearly 20 million data records from more than 600 sources. There is a review of knovel by the California State U librarians at: http://www.calstate.edu/SEIR/EAR_rev_knovel.shtml ****************************************************************** The proposed EU Directive on Public Sector information ------------------------------------------------------ At this URL: http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1123 Managing Information has some commentary on recent reactions in the UK to the proposal, in particular the suggestion that 'research' would be removed as a sector exempted from the terms of the Directive. I am still trying to find a suitable site with an overview of the progress of the Directive. ****************************************************************** D-Space article --------------- In the January Edition of D-Lib Magazine: Abstract For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpaceâ„¢ that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally-based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formats-much of which is never published by traditional means-the repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. The first part of this article describes the DSpace system including its functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html ****************************************************************** Open Archiives Forum article ---------------------------- Also from D-Lib magazine, Jan 2003 Abstract The Open Archives Forum is not another OAI implementation project. It is a clustering activity that targets existing open archives communities, as well as new communities, like IST projects or national initiatives planning or initiating open archives. The Open Archives Forum is a dissemination activity that aims to manage an exchange of experiences on open archives in general. The project investigates usage of open archives under different paradigms, and its aims are to make digital repositories more widely available, make them globally accessible, encourage people to share developments, and enable developing countries to obtain access to scientific and cultural heritage information. The Open Archives Forum project supports established metadata repositories and supports new open archive data providers from communities such as cultural heritage institutions, museums, European digitization projects, research organizations, educational institutions, public libraries, community organizations and publishers as well as the commercial sector. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/dobratz/01dobratz.html ------------------------------------------------------- -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ NEWSFLASH: Complete text of all IUCr journals back to 1948 now online! Visit Crystallography Journals Online for more details
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