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PREMIS Working Group publishes data dictionary for Preservation Metadata

Final product of consensus-building effort sponsored by OCLC and RLG

OCLC and RLG are pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive guide to core metadata for supporting the long-term preservation of digital materials. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group is the product of the foremost international consensus-building effort directed at preservation metadata, and it is likely to become the foundation for future work in this area. Sponsored by OCLC and RLG, PREMIS is an international set of more than 30 experts from libraries, museums, archives, government and the private sector. The data dictionary is the final product of the PREMIS Working Group.

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U.K. study says that access to e-resources is ad hoc and fragmented

A recently released policy review by the British Academy on e-resources for research in the humanities and social sciences makes the following general recommendations:

U.K. institutions and national bodies adopt a coordinated and coherent strategic approach to e-resource provision and access, based on research community needs.
E-resource conversion by resource holders pay particular attention to secondary before primary e-provision.
Those providing e-resources address means and mechanisms for access from general information discovery systems, such as Web search engines.
National institutions, funding bodies and library representatives collectively address the development of licensing and fair use protocols for e-resources that balance the claims of providers and users.
National institutions and funding bodies conduct an in-depth analysis of the requirements and options for long-term e-resource curation, preservation and use.

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Now available on FirstSearch: PsycBOOKS

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) new full-text database, PsycBOOKS covers all aspects of psychology with over 10,000 individual chapters drawn from more than 500 APA books, 100 out-of-print books and 75 archival resources. It also includes the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press’ Encyclopedia of Psychology.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

FSA University Hospital
Location: Akureyri, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISFJO
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Wisconsin Digital Archive Group
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
OCLC Symbol: WIDAG
OCLC Network: WILS

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 60 million bibliographic records and holdings information contributed by more than 8,600 libraries around the world. The new Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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