CERN Library has announced that it now offers the bibliographic book records, held in its library catalogue, to be freely downloaded by any third party. The records are provided under the Public Domain Data Licence, which permits colleagues around the world to reuse and upgrade the data for any purpose.
It has been observed that though librarians are in general very favourable to the principles of open access, surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. The data of CERN Library will be used by the Open Library Project to provide a webpage for every book and allow users to add content like table of contents, classifications and summaries. For massive reuse of data, the data will be provided soon by an open Z39.50, SRU and OAI interface via biblios.net, a repository of open bibliographic data.
CERN Library is part of the Scientific Information Service of CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. It acquires and manages information resources in all fields of relevance to the Organisation, and seeks to make these accessible in the most convenient way to the worldwide particle physics community.
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