[open-bibliography] Announcing the launch of new biab online service

Mon Oct 25 15:38:00 UTC 2010

Very interesting! But this doesn't look like its open:

"Copyright. All materials contained in the biab website are subject to
copyright claims and other proprietary rights. All rights are
reserved. Users may only retrieve and print the contents of the biab
website for their own use. You may create links in other WWW pages to
the biab website using the URL http://www.biab.ac.uk. You may not
modify, copy, reproduce, retransmit or otherwise distribute the biab
website and its contents, including elements of the online database,
without the express permission in writing of the CBA." --
<http://www.biab.ac.uk/pages/terms_and_conditions>

Isabel: do you think BIAB might consider releasing (some portion of)
the data under an open license?

  <http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/>

All the best,

Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Isabel Holroyd <i.holroyd at britac.ac.uk> wrote:
> Announcing the launch of the NEW biab online service from the CBA!
>
> http://www.biab.ac.uk
>
> biab online - the primary research resource for British & Irish archaeology - has now launched a fully upgraded service. The underlying datamodel has been redesigned to bring the dataset more in line with FRBR and developing online bibliographic standards such as RDA.
>
> This free online service now contains c.200,000 records on a huge range of subjects from Palaeolithic DNA to post-medieval housing, and from sources as wide-ranging as published books, journals and post-graduate theses. Powerful new search and browse facilities mean that the dataset can be interrogated far more closely - plus users can now create their own accounts and store their searches and retrieved results, building a reference bibliography as their research takes shape. The launch of the new service also brings with it an astonishing c.60,000 new references with the addition of not only over 5,000 new publication references but also over 55,000 grey literature references from England's Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), including technical reports deposited by archaeological contractors in Historic Environment Records.
>
> A new and improved interface means that users can search for the references they need, in many cases read abstracts that summarize the content and, where the publication is available online, click through to the source.
>
> biab online is an essential tool for anybody carrying out archaeological research from:
>
> - undergraduate essays to postdoctoral work
> - HERs to archaeological contractors
> - television screenwriters to archaeological scientists
> - national organizations to local societies
>
> biab online is a free service provided by the Council for British Archaeology and funded by all major heritage agencies in Britain and Ireland.
>
>
> We are looking to frame terms of reference for open data status given that we are an abstracts & indexing service - if anyone has any advice on this please email me direct or to the list. Also, we are looking as a matter of urgency to implement DOI resolver facilities in some form for our users - again all advice extremely welcome!
>
> Kind regards
>
> Isabel
>
> Isabel M Holroyd, BA (Hons), MIFA
> Chief Bibliographer & Editor - biab online
> The British Academy
> 10 Carlton House Terrace
> London  SW1Y 5AH
>
> iholroyd at biab.ac.uk
>
> telephone: +44 (0)207 969 5223
> fax (shared): +44 (0)207 969 5300
>
> biab online is a service of The Council for British Archaeology
>
> http://www.biab.ac.uk
> http://www.britarch.ac.uk
>
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