In the developing world, digital technologies have the potential to transform lives. Mimas, with RCUK China and other Chinese and UK partners, is hosting an international workshop to tackle these issues.

This September, in Shanghai, China, academics will come together for ICT and e-Knowledge for the Developing World to explore the impact, benefits and challenges of digital technologies – and to discuss how they can create better lives.

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Libraries spend millions on electronic journal licences every year, but it has never been easy to gather statistics about how these resources are used.

We're working with JISC Collections, Evidence Base and Cranfield University to develop the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP), a new project that will provide libraries – and librarians – with a simpler way of analysing the usage and impact of their e-journal subscriptions.

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Together with our partners, we're investigating new ways to 'mine' the UK's richest information assets.

As institutions confront a massive and ever-increasing body of digital information, Mimas is taking a Meaning Based Computing approach to search and discovery so we can harness the true value of these knowledge assets for research and teaching.

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Mimas is collaborating with UKOLN on the Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH) Project to investigate new ways of opening up data for users.

Working with Eduserv, Talis and OCLC, we're aiming to put archival and bibliographic data at the heart of the Linked Data Web.

By enabling innovative data exploration, our vision is to help researchers uncover even more about our history and society.

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