Full list of our current portfolio
A full listing of Mimas services and associated projects, with brief descriptions – plus other services that we either host or run as the software service provider
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Archives Hub
We help researchers investigate the past, by employing today's most sophisticated technology to transform the way people use archives and manuscript collections. We also develop sustainable methods for content expansion.
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Linking Lives from the Archives Hub is a project exploring ways to present Linked Data for the benefit of research. By combining archival descriptions with other data sources, we're creating a new biographical interface for the Archives Hub - helping researchers to make new connections between people, places, times and events.
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Census Dissemination Unit (CDU)
We connect the academic community to aggregate information from current and historical UK censuses – an unparalleled source of demographic and socio-economic information that is used widely in research and teaching.
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Casweb is a user-friendly web interface to UK census aggregate statistics, offered by the CDU.
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GeoConvert, also from the CDU, is a powerful online geography matching and conversion tool for UK academics. It enables registered users to obtain and manipulate complex geographical and postcode data in a straightforward way.
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InFuse from the CDU helps researchers, teachers and students to understand, explore, obtain and use 2001 UK census data in innovative ways. This new application exploits recent advances in dissemination methods and technologies – and expands and enhances the use of this important socio-economic resource.
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Copac
We make it easier to hunt down specialist information, by giving free online access to the catalogues of more than 50 UK libraries, and unique collections such as those at Oxford University, Tate Britain, the Natural History Museum and the Women's Library.
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Project iCue from Copac aims to provide a better user experience for search-related tasks, by building a more robust and responsive database and improving the usability and navigation of the Copac interface.
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Discovery (formerly the Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF))
We're working with JISC and various partners to to create 'a metadata ecology' to support better access to vital collections data in libraries, archives and museums and facilitate new services for UK education and research.
Our work will continue to the end of 2012 and is focused on advocating open data, reducing technical and licensing barriers, providing information, advice and training, and supporting exemplars. The Discovery programme takes forward the Vision of the earlier JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) which has been working with partners from the libraries, archives and museums since 2010.
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ESDS International
We offer UK researchers access to, and specialist support for, the databanks of some of the world's most prestigious and influential organisations, such as the Organisation for European Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
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Hairdressing Training
This online resource helps hairdressing students and teachers in their training. It covers key aspects, such as cuts and styles, with step-by-step guides and handy tips and techniques.
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Hairdressing Training for Mobiles gives students and teachers the chance to learn on the move through mobile devices. This fresh approach to online learning is an intuitive, mobile version of our Hairdressing Training service.
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Hair.Net
Funded through the EC's Leonardo da Vinci Programme, this project brings Mimas together with four partners from Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania. With our EU partners, we'll be transferring the innovation of Mimas' award-winning Hairdressing Training Service to make online resources more widely available and improve skills and training opportunities for hairdressers in Eastern Europe.
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JISC Historic Books
Helping academic users dig deeper into content to find undiscovered historical or thematic relationships across texts. We offer access to three significant digital collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and 65,000 19th century books from the British Library collection. Deploying Autonomy IDOL to provide our users with significant, powerful search capabilities of full-text content in ways not previously possible.
JISC Historic Books is part of the JISC eCollections service.
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JISC Journal Archives
We're empowering our users to cross-search some 4 million articles with one simple tool, by bringing together journal archives from Oxford University Press, Institute of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry, Brill and Proquest in a single interface. Autonomy IDOL, a powerful platform providing semantic search capability of full-text content, generates more sophisticated and contextually meaningful results.
JISC Journal Archives is part of the JISC eCollections service.
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Jorum
The place where users can find, share and discuss learning and teaching resources, shared by the UK Higher and Further Education community. Jorum's resources are free to use and available for all educational purposes.
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Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)
Providing libraries – and librarians – with a simpler way of analysing the usage and impact of their electronic journal subscriptions. We're leading on the JUSP Project, partnering with JISC Collections, Evidence Base (Birmingham City University) and Cranfield University to develop the service. By December 2011, JUSP aims to include all NESLi2 publishers and subscribing libraries, and during 2012 we'll be extending the service to include non-NESLi2 publishers.
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JSTOR
Helping users investigate core scholarly journals, this unique archive is a fully searchable and browsable digital collection of leading academic publications. Mimas hosts one of the three international JSTOR Data Centres.
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Landmap
We connect UK university researchers to the highest quality spatial data, including incredibly dense and rich satellite images of the Earth's surface.
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Names
This project helps identify individuals reliably and uniquely, by creating a name authority service for institutional and subject-based repositories – and for other applications beyond the repository sector.
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19th Century British Pamphlets Online
Helping and encouraging researchers and teachers to use 19th century pamphlets, by providing access to resources created by large cataloguing and digitisation projects. Mimas provides hosting for this service.
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SCARLET (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching)
We’re working with The University of Manchester Library, The John Rylands Library and academic staff at The University of Manchester to explore how Augmented Reality can bring resources held in special collections to life by surrounding original materials with digital online content.
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UK Institutional Repository Search (IRS)
Providing an easy way to search and retrieve academic and research content from institutional repositories.
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UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)
In collaboration with The University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the British Library, we connect researchers to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research literature – a vast collection of biomedical, life and health science journals.
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Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
We support users of Web of Knowledge and other Thomson Reuters online products in finding, analysing and managing information in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
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Zetoc
Zetoc is one of the world's most comprehensive research databases, providing access to over 28,000 journals (of which over 21,500 are current), 45 million article citations and conference papers through the British Library's electronic table of contents.
Portfolio A-to-Z
Our core services and projects, plus other hosted services: