UrMEL - University Multimedia Electronic Library
In response to the need to acquire, to index, to store,
and to provide for documents which are in rising numbers only
available in digital form, the Thuringian University and State
Library (ThULB) and the University Data Processing Centre (URZ)
began in 1999 with the composition of a digital library called
UrMEL (University Multimedia Electronic Library). UrMEL will
make it possible to combine the Friedrich Schiller University's
(FSU) various activities for the provision of multimedia and
historical documents. Since UrMEL can already integrate
different projects and serve as a project platform for them, it
forms the basis for the integration of further institutions in
Thuringia. This is true not only of libraries, but also of museums,
archives, and other cultural institutions.
UrMEL's diversity is illustrated by the wide range of
material available in it. UrMEL has already realized three
different projects: University@UrMEL, Journals@UrMEL, and
Collections@UrMEL.
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University@UrMEL
Within the scope of the
Digital Library Thuringia University@UrMEL provides
online access to university documents such as doctoral
theses, dissertations, research
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reports, and lecture
scripts. It serves as a platform for accessing course
materials. Audio and video recordings in different formats
are also available at University@UrMEL.
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Journals@UrMEL
Journals@UrMEL provides
access to electronic journals. By digitalization,
historical journals are made more easily
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accessible, and are at the
same time prevented from decaying. In cooperation with
scientific publishers and societies, the ThULB
increasingly also publishes online journals itself. In
addition to this, the ThULB also purchases online journals
from publishers, stores them, and makes them accessible on
its own servers.
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Collections@UrMEL
Within Collections@UrMEL,
we work together with scholars from different areas to
develop special applications for the
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digitaland multimedia editing and indexing of valuable stock from archives and
manuscript collections.
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