NetLibrary teams with Airiti to offer Chinese-language eContent
Subscription service now available for Chinese-language periodical
articles, National Palace Museum image database
DUBLIN, Ohio, August 21, 2006-NetLibrary, a division of OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, Inc., and a leading platform for eContent to
libraries worldwide, has announced an agreement with Taipei,
Taiwan-based Airiti, Inc. to offer subscription service to three
highly-regarded Chinese-language databases.
The agreement, which was announced on the opening day of the 72nd IFLA
General Conference and Council in Seoul, Korea, will provide OCLC
NetLibrary with rights to sell annual subscriptions to Airiti's Taiwan
Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS), the Chinese Electronic Periodical
Services (CEPS) and the National Palace Museum (NPM) Online Database.
"We are very pleased that this agreement will make Airiti's quality
online databases available to OCLC's members through NetLibrary's access
portal and support infrastructure," said Chris Chang, President and CEO,
Airiti, Inc. "NPM Online is the world's most complete and feature-rich
eContent offering for ancient Chinese art treasures, and our periodical
services will provide hundreds of thousands of high caliber journal
articles to academic and public library users worldwide."
Named the Best Subsidized Digital Publication by News Bureau of The
Executive Yuan of Taiwan, the NPM Online database contains more than
12,000 images of Chinese antique art paintings, calligraphy, ceramics,
jade, bronze, Buddhist antiquities and other artifacts from the National
Palace Museum in Taipei. NPM Online provides high-resolution 1024x768
pixel images and includes artifact descriptions in multiple languages,
including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English.
Japanese versions will be coming soon.
Airiti's Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) and Chinese
Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) database products will provide
library users with direct access to more than 2,500 full-text
Chinese-language journals. The Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
covers 81,000 articles published in leading Taiwanese academic journals,
and the Chinese Electronic Periodical Services includes 338,000
full-text articles from journals published in China and in Taiwan.
Spanning subject areas including medicine and life sciences, humanities,
social sciences, natural sciences and applied sciences, each service is
updated daily with new academic journal content and includes archived
issues dating to 1991.
"We are delighted to be able to offer these exciting new resources to
our partner libraries," said Rich Rosy, Vice President of Content
Management, OCLC. "NPM Online will be the first collection of
high-quality images available through the NetLibrary platform, and the
addition of the Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services and the Chinese
Electronic Periodical Services will significantly enhance both the
quality and quantity of Chinese-language content available to our
users."
"The strategic alliance with Airiti, Inc. marks a new era for OCLC in
providing Asian eContent to libraries worldwide-information representing
thousands of years of rich culture," said Andrew H. Wang, Executive
Director, OCLC Asia Pacific Services and New Initiatives. "The rich
Chinese cultural heritage of the National Palace Museum Online and
important Chinese-language publications are invaluable additions to
NetLibrary, providing access to users at the point of need-through the
World Wide Web."
The Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services, Chinese Electronic Periodical
Services and NPM Online database are available to libraries as an annual
subscription offering unlimited, simultaneous usage. Users will be able
to link directly to the image database and periodical services from the
NetLibrary user interface, and will be able to search, browse and access
content online. For more information on the Taiwan Electronic
Periodical Services, Chinese Electronic Periodical Services or NPM
Online database, please contact an OCLC representative at:
libservices@oclc.org <mailto:libservices@oclc.org> . Or call
+1-800-898-OCLC.
About Airiti
Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Airiti is a leading Chinese e-content
vendor that has provided Chinese academic e-journals and classical art
images to more than 450 libraries and institutes around the world. For
more information, visit www.airiti.com <http://www.airiti.com/> .
About OCLC
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is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging,
reference, resource sharing, eContent and preservation services to
55,000 libraries in 110 countries and territories. For more
information, visit www.oclc.org <http://www.oclc.org> .
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public, corporate and special libraries create a richer, more productive
learning environment for their users. By combining the time-honored
traditions of the library system with electronic publishing, NetLibrary
offers an easy-to-use information retrieval system for accessing the
full text of reference, scholarly and professional books, journals,
eAudiobooks and other eContent.
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