EBSCO Publishing releases Academic Search R&D; Serials Solutions marketing Ulrich’s XML Data Service; Duke Libraries launch DukeMobile 1.1
-- Library Journal, 7/9/2009
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Serials Solutions is now marketing Ulrich’s™ XML Data Service, a data retrieval tool that provides a comprehensive set of metadata to enhance a library’s local web offerings. It delivers continuously updated serials and publisher information that libraries and other organizations can integrate into homegrown and open source applications. Ulrich’s data can be applied to a variety of devices including research tools, journal-awareness services, and faculty web pages and course lists, among others. The data can also be used where there is a need for authoritative serials information in business applications. The new release replaces an existing raw data service that provided ASCII flat-file output with limited updating capability.
Duke University Libraries has launched DukeMobile 1.1, which it claims offers the most comprehensive university digital image collection specifically formatted for an iPhone or iTouch device. The tool includes thousands of photos and other artifacts ranging from early beer advertisements to materials on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene in the 1960s. Although a growing number of scholarly institutions offer images and other material online, Duke asserts it is the first to provide collections that take advantage of the iPhone’s design, navigation, and other features. The collections are the latest addition to the DukeMobile suite of applications, which has also expanded to include several feeds of university news, along with emergency notifications and IT service alerts. Duke University Libraries offers mobile users digital materials from 20 collections—about 32,000 images overall—covering women’s history, early American sheet music, Duke history, and other topics.
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