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Digital Libraries, a micro and macro perspective of databases
Menno Nijssen LM Information Delivery
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Definition… ‘Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities’. A working definition of digital library [1998] Digital Library Federation
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Complexity
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’An organized collection of resources for a specific group of users’
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Databases
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Macro
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Content, tools & discovery, the KNOVEL case.
- Extending the platform with tools in stead of content (SD) Making content more interactive (datasets in textbooks, interactive chemical reactions in reference works) As a publisher saving your platform and identity from discovery tools and Google.
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Micro Content micro (niche market) – new products focussed on a single set of content or audience or competence (Atmaglobal) Micro wannabe and becoming macro (oneclickdigital) Back to micro (MGH)
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What do we do with databases?
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LM & Databases RBDigital Zinio Indieflix Recorded Books McGraw-Hill
Access Engineering Access Medicine McGraw-Hill E-Books Library Cengage Gale Gale Virtual Library Insights products Global Issues IHS Jane’s Country forecasting Industry forecasting Pressdisplay International newspapers online Cabi Infotree Vetmed resource Pharmaceutical Press, Palgrave – MacMillan, Credo Reference, AMS, Sage, Bridgeman Group, E-book vendors. Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Brill, AMS, Thomson Reuters.
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New and diverse content
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Main goals for LM. Service all databases Bring new content to the market. Look at all segments such as schools, academic, institutional and public libraries Focussing on local content and looking for opportunities to broaden our digital offering by hosting it.
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Our own Infastructure Knowledge, competence and customers
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Kiitos and any questions?
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