Resources

The Academic Database Assessment Tool, a major new resource giving librarians access to a wealth of information on key academic resources, has recently been launched. This free resource, developed by JISC Collections in association with Nick Andrews Consultancy, provides quick and easy comparisons of the major bibliographic and citation databases currently in use by the academic community, including Web of Science, Scopus, ABI Inform, British Humanities Index and many more.

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We recently undertook an externally moderated reflective self-evaluation to gather evidence of the extent to which we are meeting our objectives. The evaluation used a number of different methods to gather data from a variety of users, potential users and others with an interest in digital curation. Evaluation activity included a detailed DCC staff survey, focus groups, interviews and a public survey.

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The "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)" standard was approved as CCSDS 650.0-B-1 in January 2002 and was approved as ISO standard 14721 in 2003. In accordance with normal procedure, the first five-year review of the standard is now underway. Submit any comments by 30 October 2006 to OAIS-support@delight.gsfc.nasa.go.

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