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The characteristics of a representative set of Health Sciences virtual libraries were analyzed with the further aim of identifying good practices that could be to put into practice in the Spanish context. Projects were selected in countries with a decentralized health management system similar the Spanish one. The following variables were analyzed: structure, financing, content, process coordination and interlibrary cooperation bodies. Also, good practices that can be applied to the Spanish national model were identified, of which we highlight the centralization of processes and the presence of organisms or interlibrary cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most important developments that have taken place in virtual libraries during 2014 are described. We focus on projects with a great impact, technological advancement and normative influence, especially Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, and Hispana. We note how these large projects, based on the use of common standards and linked open data, have made it possible for archives, libraries and museums to form consolidated virtual libraries with an enormous volume of data and information of all kinds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library systems in the modern era are the critical link to link on a common purpose to individuals and institutions that manage information and knowledge in a particular subject area. These systems are themselves social and open systems, are based on activities that complement and interact in space and time. The paper describes in detail the elements of network science libraries in Cuba health and how each one contributes greatly to the life cycle of information in medical libraries. Combine in a triad activity of “Traditional Library" with the “Health Library" and the use of technology to support the development of information management in each model. We propose a flow that links the document management, information management and knowledge management from INFOMED to the library network and vice versa to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of each business process and the development of a smart grid where all members form true communities of practice that integrate information and knowledge to the Virtual Health Library Latin American and Caribbean (NLM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design of a model for the management of Cuban agricultural digital information is presented. Different methods such as the descriptive method, the empiric level method to collect information, mathematical methods for statistical processing, observation method to directly learn the facts of the operation of agricultural activity in Cuba, as well as interviews with experts were applied. Greenstone 2.82 version, internationally acknowledged, was used as the main software. The outputs of this work showed that the integration of advanced technological and scientific information services with the new technologies demand adequate planning, organization, management, coordination and control by the administrations of science and technological innovation bodies from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Higher Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Europeana project progress is presented, emphasizing its importance among other strategies of the European Commission. In 2011 important recommendations and standards were published that clarify the future development of Europeana. Documents produced by the W3C are highlighted and Spanish contributions, particularly from Hispana, are listed. The collaboration between Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America is mentioned. Finally, the differences between various concepts like open access, open data and open source are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work pretended evaluate the different software used in the construction of digital libraries and described the procedure used whit Greenstone in the construction of the Digital library of EcuRed, available in http://biblioteca.ecured.cu whit more than four thousand documents (articles, bibliographic, conferences proceedings, and books and thesis) A Cuban Collaborative Encyclopedia EcuRed, pretended creates and divulges the knowledge whit the participation of every body and for everybody, from Cuba whit the whole word. A Cuban digital library, whit national resources and the selection of the best international documents will be a great help for that. It will provide permanent links to cited information resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the development of a digital library database dedicated to sugarcane by-products. The authors note the Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones de los Derivados de la Caña de Azúcar, located in Havana, Cuba, which has attempted to update its Intranet database to be accessible to anyone. The digitization process, software development, and the creation of a usable database, including the physical construction of a computer network, are also analyzed.

Library cooperation in Germany is a tradition that predates the emergence of Internet. This is explained partly by the absence of a "classic" National Library, as a single central institution. This absence has been replaced by the three major German libraries, which have distributed among themselves the function of a national library. The other reason for this tradition is the Federal political system and the responsibility of each of the Federal States in cultural matters, including libraries. This meant that at both regional and interregional levels, there has traditionally been a solid cooperation, at least among scientific libraries. Later, the arrival of automation has facilitated the production of collective regional catalogues. With the entrance into the so-called "digital age", the tendency to cooperation has been intensified, so that today one can talk about an "age of cooperation". One example of the ease and assiduousness of this cooperation are the new services which, in most cases, supply several libraries together; others are the specialised virtual libraries, the consortium acquisition of digital media user licences, including national licences for certain items, and the cooperative creation of a long term national digital archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sedic Health Science Group organized the 1st Technical workshop on health science libraries in the 21st century: electronic, virtual, digital and hybrid. The aim was to update the view of health science libraries within the technological environment, sharing professional experience, methodologies and practices. In the first session, 12 autonomous communities (a designation for geopolitical regions within Spain) reported on their virtual library projects, which are in different phases of development. The second session addressed new concepts in acquisitions, such as national licensing of electronic resources and "pay per view"; new approaches to accessibility, including open access repositories and open access digital books; and new tools for integrating catalogue listings of library resources with metasearch, webbridge, and individualised data bases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of reading on screens and in virtual libraries seems very new, but there are precedents that have developed this concept up to what we know today. This article describes some of the stages electronic books have passed through in their short existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]