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Z39.50 Projects

Please send information about Z39.50 projects to z3950@loc.gov.

• EDINA GetRef service
  (Previously the Xgrain project.) A broker service to remote Z39.50 and other services.

• Sigla: Search in Libraries
  A free, scalable world-wide Z39.50 search portal, at Sigla, a virtual union catalogue of the world. It is based on a Moscow State University Scientific Library's project to develop an adaptable and highly scalable world-wide Z39.50 searching engine that allows you to search more than 1400 catalogs at once.
  
  
• ZING
  Z39.50-International: Next Generation. Covers SRW/U, CQL, ZOOM, ez3950, and ZeeRex
  
  
• Scandinavian Virtual Union Catalogue Completed December 2003
  
  
• ONE Open Network in Europe
  
  
• ONE-2
  A Z39.50 and ILL project to exploit the results from ONE (OPAC Network in Europe) and to extend those results to Item Ordering, Inter Library Lending, Copy Cataloguing and Update, and Electronic Document Delivery.
  
  
• NLI-Z39.50
  A natural language interface (German) for parallel search in bibliographic data bases, developed at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.
  

• Zack
  WWW-Z39.50 gateway for German libraries. The user can search in several databases in parallel. Duplicates are recognized; and a short list of matches without double entries is offered.

• MALVINE (Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated networks in Europe)

• Z+SQL (and related projects)

• PROmemoria - Multi Media Cultural Viliage
  Z39.50 Access: PRO memoria Opera Aperta
  (Italian)

• RIDING Project
  eLib project, providing a Z39.50 gateway to libraries in Yorkshire and Humberside to create a distributed union catalogue.

• M25 Link Project
  To provide transparent access to M25 Library OPACs using the M25 Web Guide and Z39.50 search techniques.

• SILO: State of Iowa Libraries Online
  An Evaluation of Z39.50 within the SILO Project
  Blue Angel Technologies, Inc.

• BOPAC
  Research project based at University of Bradford, Department of Computing

• The eLib Phase 3 Programme

• CAIRNS: Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland

• Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue Project

• MODELS
  Moving to Distributed Environments for Library Services; UK Office of Library Networking.

• European projects involving Z39.50
  Compiled by Rosemary Russell of the UK Office of Library Networing