CG Information was founded in 1997 by scientists who thought that existing bibliographic software programs were not advanced enough to address the needs of researchers in the age of the Internet. With strong backgrounds in computer science, chemistry, and medicine, our goal is to build first class bibliographic software for the 21st century. CG Information is located in Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
SFX is the original, award-winning context-sensitive link server from Ex Libris™. SFX allows context-sensitive linking between Web resources in the scholarly information environment. OpenURL-compliant, SFX accepts an OpenURL as input from an information resource, which is referred to as an SFX source.
Presented by Karen Calhoun at the ALCTS Forum, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver CO, 26 January 2009. Discusses community norms and policies for sharing the data that supports the discovery and delivery of library collections; places these in the context of the broader data sharing environment outside libraries; and analyzes the process and rationale for revising OCLC's Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of Records.
A. Pohl. Bibliotheksdienst, 43 (3):
274--290(March 2009)The article gives an overview over the background, genesis, content and critic of OCLC's proposed metadata policy for WorldCat records. In the end it poses questions for an approach on licensing bibliographic data in germany..