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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Ariel
Mimas is the UK, Irish and Scandinavian distributor and technical support provider for Infotrieve's Ariel software. Ariel is used around the world for fast, economical, high-quality document transmission over the internet.
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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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The InFuse Project from the CDU will help researchers, teachers and students to understand, explore, obtain and use UK census information in innovative ways, by developing a new online application to exploit recent advances in dissemination methods and technologies – and to expand and enhance 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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CrossFire
This chemical information resource covers more than 200 years of literature. It connects chemists and researchers to two invaluable databases, Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic), detailing structures, reactions, facts and references for over 11 million compounds.
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Electronic Publishing at Mimas (epub@mimas)
In the field of electronic publishing, we aim to improve resource discovery for academic researchers, and increase the linkage between resources. Various projects look at interoperability between electronic resources and maintain our awareness of current developments in digital library and electronic publishing technologies.
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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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Historic Books Platform
Helping academic users dig deeper into content to find undiscovered historical or thematic relationships across texts. We will offer access to two significant digital collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), deploying Autonomy IDOL to provide our users with significant, powerful search capabilities of full-text content in ways not previously possible.
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IESR
The UK's premier catalogue of electronic resources is a gateway to research collections – all accessible through web or machine interfaces using flexible online tools.
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Intute
We help researchers, teachers and students find credible scholarly information on the web, by providing research tutorials (including Virtual Training Suite) and pathways to trusted resources.
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Academy Intute Resource Database Integration Project (AIRDIP) enhances users' experience of Intute and the HE Academy Support Centres, by integrating and developing the resource collections of the Academy Subject Centres. This brings their records into a single database, created and maintained by Intute.
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Intute Informs is a flexible tool that makes it easier for educators to design interactive, bite-sized online tutorials.
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Mobile Internet Detective helps users develop internet research skills while on the move. This is a user-friendly mobile version of the well-respected online tutorial, Internet Detective, already popular with students wanting to learn how to find the best resources on the web.
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Value for money in automatic metadata generation (ViM) is an Intute project aiming to gain a clear understanding of the information search and retrieval needs of Higher Education, to identify opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of metadata and to improve the efficiency of metadata generation processes. It is investigating the trade-offs between 'value to user' and 'cost of creation' to establish the optimum point for 'value for money' in metadata generation.
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ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
We support users of ISI 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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JISC eJournal Archive
We're empowering our users to cross-search some 4 million articles with one simple tool, by bringing together the journal archives from Oxford University Press, Institute of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry in a single interface. Autonomy IDOL, a powerful platform providing semantic search capability of full-text content, will be used to generate more sophisticated and contextually meaningful results.
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JISC 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 transition a well-received prototype to full service by the end of October 2010.
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Jorum
This is the place supporting the community to find, share, keep safe and discuss free learning and teaching resources.
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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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Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH)
We're working with UKOLN, Eduserv, Talis and OCLC to investigate new ways of opening up data for our users. Our vision is to help researchers uncover more about our history and society, by putting archival and bibliographic data at the heart of the Linked Data Web.
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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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Publisher & Institutional Repository Usage Statistics 2 (PIRUS2)
Aiming to specify standards, protocols, an infrastructure and an economic model for the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage of individual articles hosted by repositories, publishers and other bodies.
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ticTOCs
Making it simple for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine, personalise and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers.
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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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Zetoc
We enable users to keep up to date with the latest articles and papers or search back to 1993, by offering access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings, published annually.
Portfolio A-to-Z
Our core services and projects, plus other hosted services: