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Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
AgNIC provides agricultural information collected by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), land-grant universities and other governmental and non-governmental agricultural organizations. Staff at the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, worked with the National Agricultural Library to develop a new technical infrastructure for a consortium of land-grant institutions. 
http://www.agnic.org/

Cornell eClips - video clip collection on Entrepreneurship, Business and Leadership
The e-Clips collection was created by Dr. Deborah Streeter and contains thousands of video clips that were created from in-depth video interviews or presentations by entrepreneurs and other experts involved with supporting entrepreneurship and small businesses. Interviewees include startup and experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bankers, angel investors, and employees of startup companies.
http://eclips.cornell.edu

Cornell Genomics Initiative
In support of an interdepartmental initiative to advance genomics research at Cornell, Mann Library is developing a federated thesaurus for use in genomics digital library projects. The thesaurus will facilitate the discovery and retrieval of a wide range of genomics-related resources from Cornell and beyond. It brings together into a single database over 229,000 terms relevant to genomics, the life sciences, and agriculture from four leading controlled vocabularies (the National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings, the National Agriculture Library Agricultural Thesaurus, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Agrovoc thesaurus, and the Gene Ontology Consortium databases.) The independent structural hierarchies and relationships of each source thesaurus have been retained even as individual common terms have been combined, allowing users to assess the acceptance of a term and navigate easily through any one or all four source thesauri. Mann’s federated thesaurus focuses on the human user's need to move from non-preferred entry terms to the appropriate controlled vocabulary, follow consistent navigation pathways to broader, narrower, or related terms, and link directly to the source of a term, to online resources such as PubMed and the European Bioinformatics Institute, and to resources associated locally with the Cornell life sciences initiative.

Cornell Life Sciences Initiative
Interaction is one of the three organizing principles of Cornell’s Life Sciences Initiative, the goal is to “catalyze a network of campus-wide research and educational activities to continue to bring together biologists, physicists, chemists, computational scientists, and engineers in an atmosphere where traditional departmental and college boundaries become secondary to the intellectual work itself.”  In support of this goal the library is developing a site that will highlight the relationships among existing web-based content, minimize duplication of information while greatly improving the opportunities for discovering the full breadth and depth of Cornell's life sciences activities. The site’s function is to bridge from a Google-like search front end directly to the individual service descriptive web pages maintained at other units throughout the university. This same front end would also provide users direct, searchable access to course descriptions, department and field information, events, faculty research, and library resources, as well as to the existing public information available on the Cornell Genomics Initiative and New Life Sciences Initiatives web sites.

Development of a Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs
This three-year collaborative project of the University of Michigan Library, Cornell University Library and the State and University Library Gottingen was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.  A realistic interoperable mechanism capable of unifying a single type of resource (retrodigitized books) within a single discipline (mathematics) across multiple access systems at multiple institutions will be developed over the course of the project.  After a thorough evaluation of the effects and benefits, the system, if successful, will be maintained by the three libraries to allow users to access and exploit these collections in a new and more efficient way.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/

Digital Himalaya
Digital Himalaya is a pilot project based in Cornell's Department of Anthropology to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. The three principle goals of the project are: to preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms; to make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with a search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students; and to make these resources available on DVD or other suitable viewing platform to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected.
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/

Digital Imaging Tutorial
This online tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. The tutorial has been translated into Spanish and French.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html

Digital Preservation Management Workshop (and Tutorial)
Cornell University Library is offering a digital preservation training program supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program consists of an online tutorial and a series of one-week workshops to be held in Ithaca, N.Y. The primary goal of this program is to enable effective decision making for administrators who will be responsible for the longevity of digital objects in an age of technological uncertainty. The Digital Preservation Management workshop series is intended for those who are contemplating or implementing digital preservation programs in libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/index.html

Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection at Cornell Law School
The Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection consists of nearly 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and documents from the personal archives of General William J. Donovan (1883-1959).  In a collaborative effort between the Cornell Law Library and the editors of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, the Law Library makes selected portions of the Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection available to the public on the Internet. The Law Library is making acid free print and digital copies of selected documents, and the editors are using the copies to solicit commentary and related articles from scholars, that will be published online at www.lawandreligion.com.  The first installments of the digitized pages provided by Cornell Law Library are available on the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion web page.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/nuremberg

DSpace
DSpace is an open-source institutional repository system developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Library. Cornell University has joined the DSpace Federation along with five other universities plus MIT. Cornell’s DSpace implementation will be managed, maintained, and housed by the Cornell University Library. DSpace communities and collections are currently being formed.
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/index.jsp

Ensuring Access to Mathematics Over Time (EATMOT)
This project is creating a distributed, interoperable archive for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital serial literature in the fields of Mathematics and Statistics. It has two major objectives: building multi-organizational consensus about preservation planning and distributed administration; and solving the technological problem of enabling separately administered databases to function as a single digital archiving system. The project, a collaboration between Cornell University Library and the State and University Library Göttingen, is being funded by the National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 2004 through the beginning of 2007.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/EATMOT

European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS) Mirror Site
CUL mirrors with live updates the European Mathematical Society's EMIS (European Mathematical Information Service) site. The EMIS mirror provides outside links to several mathematics databases and stores the content of 62 math journals.
http://emis.library.cornell.edu/

Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC)
The Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC) is an international group of organizations and individuals committed to providing interactive, multimedia, and multilingual performing arts resources on the Internet, enabling people everywhere to explore the diversity and depth of the world's performing arts. With support from a three-year grant (2002-2005) the Cornell University Library received from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, GloPAC has created metadata standards for the performing arts, increased the number of digital objects in the Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD; see description under Collections), and made GloPAD's user interfaces more effective. GloPAC is now developing another of their projects: Performing Arts Resource Centers (PARCs), which draw on the database to create innovative Web-based learning environments. Each PARC will have a specific focus, which may be cultural (Japanese), temporal (the 18th century), genre or thematically oriented (puppetry, gender in theatre), or audience oriented (teens). More information about GloPAC, GloPAD, PARCs, and a complete list of GloPAC's participating organizations and individuals can be seen at: http://www.glopac.org/ .

Google Book Search Library
Cornell University Library has partnered with Google Inc. to digitize approximately 500,000 materials from its collections and make them available online using Google Book Search Library. Cornell is the 27th institution to join the Google Book Search Library project.

HeinOnline
The Law Library collaborated with Cornell Information Technologies and the Hein Publishing Company in making historical law reviews available over the Internet, both in image form for authenticity, as well as uncorrected OCR text to allow for manipulation of the text.
http://heinonline.org

International Court of Justice Web Mirror Site
In partnership with the International Court of Justice, the Cornell Law Library created the first official Web site for the Court, and was instrumental in the Court starting its own official Web site.  The Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full-text decisions, documents, and other materials produced by the World Court. 
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/International_Resources/icj.htm

International Labor Organization Web Mirror Site
In partnership with the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland, the Cornell Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full text reports, documents, and other materials produced by this distinguished organization.  The Law Library intends to capture this information twice a year, in order to archive the entire Web collection as presented at a given time.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/International_Resources/ilo.htm

Key Workplace Documents
The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces, and non-governmental associations. Access to key government documents, public policy position papers, and statistics is offered free of charge.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/default.html

Microsoft Live Book Search
Cornell University Library has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to digitize approximately 100,000 books and to put the volumes online using the Microsoft Live Book Search service. The initiative focuses on works already in the public domain and will allow students, researchers, and scholars around the world online access to books from Cornell's outstanding collections.

National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Project
The NSDL is a broad program to build a digital library for education in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.  It is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education.  In summer 2000, Cornell received one of six one-year Core Integration demonstration projects; the task of Core Integration is to ensure that the NSDL is a single, coherent library, not simply a set of unrelated tasks.  Cornell’s demonstration project is known as Site for Science.  In late 2001, the NSF consolidated the Core Integration funding into a single grant for the production release of NSDL.  This grant was made to a collaboration of the University Center for Atmospheric Research, Columbia University, and Cornell University.  The NSDL Project is a collaborative project between Cornell University Library and Cornell’s Department of Computer Science.
http://nsdl.org/

Permanent Court of Arbitration Web Mirror Site
The Cornell Law Library cooperates with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in making several of their documents available.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/pca/default.htm

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) Mirror
Cornell University Library houses a live mirror of PROLA.  PROLA is The American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive. PROLA is the concrete expression of APS's commitment to ensuring the immediate and long-term accessibility all journal content that we publish.
http://aps.library.cornell.edu/

Plant Management Network
Mann Library is working with Cornell faculty and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) staff to provide increased public awareness of CCE publications.  The Plant Management Network (PMN) is a unique cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences.  PMN offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network's partner universities, companies, and associations.  In 2003 approximately 650 CCE publications have been identified and bibliographic metadata entered into the PMN database.
http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/

Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Under the sponsorship of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University Library, the Rose Goldsen Archive serves as a research repository of new media art, with a current emphasis on digital interfaces and experimentation by international, independent artists. Named after the pioneering critic of the commercialization of mass media, the late Professor Rose Goldsen of Cornell University, the Archive houses art works produced on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, and the internet, as well as supporting materials, such as unpublished manuscripts and designs, catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art. The Archive is curated by Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video, at Cornell University.
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
TEEAL delivers the full text literature of over 115 agricultural journals to the lowest income food deficit countries. The content is provided on a set of CDs or as a hard drive that can be networked locally (no Internet). Available at a low cost, TEEAL was designed to support agricultural research in regions where there is an urgent need for increased food production.
http://www.teeal.cornell.edu

USDA Economics and Statistics System
The USDA Economics and Statistics System (ESS) is a dynamic partnership between Mann Library and theUSDA to provide the public with fast and free electronic access to vital agricultural information via the World-Wide Web. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/

Veterinary Procedures Collection
The Veterinary Library, in collaboration with the College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, has created a collection of video clips portraying basic veterinary medical procedures and techniques. This collection is available to students, faculty, and staff from any location within the college.
http://vprocs.vet.cornell.edu/ (Restricted to the College of Veterinary Medicine community.)

The Virtual Center for Language Acquisition
The Virtual Center for Language Acquisition is partnering with the Albert R. Mann Library to provide support and services for the language acquisitions community that are currently housed at the Cornell Language Acquisition Laboratory. Mann Library is committed to providing expertise and technical support necessary to support a variety of components that make up the VCLA and to make the data available and safe for future generations. The supported components will include the preservation and conservation of language materials as well as creating long-term access to language materials in audio, visual, and textual formats in twenty languages, especially the languages of Southeast Asia. Currently Mann Library hosts an OAI compliant repository whose metadata can be harvested by other participating repositories registered with the Open Language Archives Community
http://www.clal.cornell.edu/vcla/

Zentralblatt MATH Mirror Site
Cornell University Library houses a mirror site of Zentralblatt MATH in cooperation with the European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS).  The Cornell mirror established in 2000 is one of nine mirrors worldwide.  Zentralblatt MATH covers the entire spectrum of mathematics including applications in computer science, mechanics, and physics. 
http://euclid.library.cornell.edu/

 

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