Re: Serials Solutions joins eXtensible Catalog Project

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:54:25 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Jennifer Bowen wrote:

> The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries announce that  
> Serials
> Solutions, a leader in providing technology solutions for libraries,  
> has
> joined the eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project -- an Andrew W. Mellon  
> Foundation
> funded project currently underway at the University’s River Campus
> Libraries.  Serials Solutions’ involvement is both technical and  
> financial...



In many ways, I see this sort of development as being a step in the  
right direction. I suspect Serials Solutions will be able to  
supplement the traditional content of a "next generation" library  
catalog with article level metadata using something like Summa. This  
has been a goal of XC from the beginning. It gets closer to the ideal  
we are all, more or less, striving for -- one stop shopping. Kudos.

To see how this can be done with medically-related open access  
content, visit the website of OpenPHI and learn about their  
HealthLibrarian. [1]

[1] http://www.openphi.org/

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Jul 07 2009 - 08:57:32 EDT