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National Library of Finland picks Ex Libris The National Library of Finland has chosen the Primo discovery and delivery solution and the Primo Central mega-index of scholarly materials to provide a unified interface for the discovery and delivery of the entire country’s collections and electronic resources. These resources are provided by Ex Libris. Primo will be the public interface from which users can access digital content and local collections from museums, academic and public libraries, research institutes and archives throughout the country.
BL gives free access to bibliographic record collections The British Library is making its collections of bibliographic records available for free to researchers and other libraries. The library has around 14 million catalogue records
with a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative should help expose this dataset to users worldwide, allowing researchers and other libraries to access and retrieve bibliographic records for publications dating back centuries in every subject area. The free service will operate in parallel to the British Library’s priced bulk MARC data supply activity which is used extensively by large commercial customers.
Advocate General turns downs EU patent idea The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has found flaws in the ideas of the Community Patent (recently re-named as the European Union Patent) and a European Patents Court. According to the Advocate General, the plans are incompatible with EU law in several ways. In particular, the idea of conducting litigation in the language of the patent – English, French or German – is
British Library maps sounds across UK
The British Library is launching an interactive survey to map and preserve sounds from across the UK. UK SoundMap, which is being carried out in collaboration with Noise Futures Network and Audioboo, will collect sounds recorded on smartphones using the free Audioboo recording application.
Anyone can get involved with this research project just by recording their surroundings and then describing them with simple tags and comments. The recordings are generated as high-quality audio files with GPS data embedded. These files are then made available almost instantly on Audioboo FM as MP3 versions and referenced on the interactive map displayed on the British Library website. The recordings and data will be retained permanently and made accessible to everyone for generations to come. The project will run until summer 2011 and is expected to aggregate 10,000 recordings.
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DataSalon helps JISC with licence site JISC Collections is working with DataSalon to create a new licence comparison site. The online service promises to allow librarians and their users to search and compare electronic licences, view differences in usage terms and export the terms of licences expressed in ONIX-PL format.
The site is launching at the end of 2010.
UK institutions get Cambridge Journals archive JISC Collections has purchased the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Complete Collection in perpetuity on behalf of UK Higher Education. This agreement provides access to the online back issues of 171
journals published by Cambridge University Press. The collection dates from 1827 to 1996 with approximately 350,000 articles, over 3.3 million pages and over 8 million linked references. All articles have been digitised as high resolution PDFs and are fully searchable.
CRL and law libraries partner for preservation and access
The USA-based Consortium for Research Libraries (CRL) will expand the scope of its preservation activities and make new primary source digital collections available to its libraries through a partnership with the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). Under this partnership, CRL and LLMC will work together to identify, preserve, and provide digital access to important at-risk primary sources in the fields of international law, government, and politics.
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