Research Paper Purpose: To make CDS/ISIS databases OAI-Compliant Design/Methodology/Approach: One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many digital libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the dis...

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internet advancement and publication of bibliographic and full text databases in this new medium by different providers and at the same time, increases in the expenditure of subscription to these databases, has caused libraries to be careful about which database(s) to subscribe and which ones not to. choosing the best version among different versions available has become very important. this ar...

It is widely accepted that future digital library applications have to be built upon diierent kinds of database servers to draw from them diierent forms of data. These data include bibliographic data, text data, multimedia data as well as structured data. In this paper, we address the problem of integrating existing bibliographic and structured databases which reside at diierent locations in th...

Given the large number of databases on the Internet, it is increasingly diicult for users to identify the databases relevant to their queries. Instead of broadcasting a given query to all databases, one would like to intelligently select only a small subset of databases for evaluating the query in order to reduce the amount of network and I/O overheads. This problem, also known as query routing...

INTRODUCTION This protocol covers the first part of a two-part project funded by the Health Libraries Group and the University Health and Medical Librarians Group. It details the proposed methodology for a systematic map of the literature relating to UK bibliographic databases in the fields of health and social care. The aim of this mapping exercise is to consider ways in which UK bibliographic...