IntegraL Grant
- Dates: 12/04 - 11/07
- Sponsor: National Science
Foundation -
National Science Digital Library Program
- Amount: $850,000
- Principal Investigator: Michael Bieber
- Co-Investigators: Il Im (NJIT,
Information Systems), Richard Sweeney (NJIT, Van Houten
Library), Yi-Fang Wu (NJIT, Information Systems)
- Partners: Cumberland County College, Ramapo College,
Olin College of Engineering,
JerseyClicks, Digital Library for Earth
Science Education (DLESE),
StartingPoint,
Science@NASA,
NJIT IS Department,
NJIT
Van Houten Library
The IntegraL Grant focuses on integrating specific
resources of university libraries with those of the
National Science Digital Library. It builds
upon the DLSI project. We plan to integrate selected
resources within:
- ACM Digital Library
- Elsevier Science Direct (assuming permission is
granted)
- NJIT Electronic Thesis collection
- JerseyClicks
- Digital Library for Earth Science Education (DLESE)
- StartingPoint
- Science@NASA
- National Science Digital Library Core Integration
features
- an on-line bookstore
The funding for the IntegraL and IntLib grants combined
will enable us to develop two additional aspects that both projects will then
use: a next generation collaborative filtering engine and next generation
federated search. (IntLib is funding students and IntegraL is funding faculty to
work together on these.)
The IntegraL software will be freely available to
university libraries and members of the National Science Digital Library to
integrate their collections and services (if desired and when permissible, with
those of our partners).