This discussion will highlight a presentation from UMI of its electronic capture and publishing plans, and its efforts to develop a permanent electronic archive. MCF is an open format for representing information about content. The goal of MCF is to provide an adequate language for representing a wide range of information about content. After building tremendous success in generalizing and adapting Internet technology to the needs of the research and education community, a number of universities are now joining together with government and industry partners to accelerate the next stage of Internet development in academia. This project briefing will cover progress on the Internet II initiative, and will deal specifically with how the research and education community is being organized to articulate and build Internet II applications.
Libraries receive the data incrementally and are responsible for providing end-user access.
Elsevier is working with 20 libraries in testing this model for electronic subscriptions. Each library builds its own infrastructure and selects its own hardware, software, and access methods. Following a publisher overview, a number of several successful implementations by different types of libraries will be presented. The object is not to create an individual and idiosyncratic system, but to draw on, and help create, standards of good practice which can be widely adopted by subject communities to aid and automate the process of resource organization, description and discovery. OMNI is a project to build a gateway for the UK higher education and research community to facilitate access to high quality information about clinical, research and management aspects of health and biomedicine.