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The Austrian National Library

The Austrian National Library (ONB) is the main scientific library of the Republic of Austria. With a history dating back to the 14th century, the Austrian National Library’s collections contain a significant part of the world’s cultural heritage. The library offers access to and professionally competent advice on its own holdings and links to international digital resources and digital library services. The Austrian National Library is required by media law to receive a copy of every publication appearing in Austria.

The British Library

The British Library (BL) co-ordinated the Planets project and currently hosts the Open Planets Foundation. As the national library of the United Kingdom, the BL provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection.

The Danish National Archives

The Danish National Archives holds the records of the central bodies of the Danish government such as ministries and agencies as well as digital records for a number of municipalities and regions. Since the mid 1970s the National Archives has received transfers of digital records and was among the first national archives in the world to allow fully digital record keeping.

The Royal Library, Denmark

The Royal Library, Denmark is both a national library with an obligation to preserve Denmark’s digital cultural heritage, and a university library which serves the University of Copenhagen. This means the Royal Library both collects and preserves heritage data and is a legal deposit library for material published on the internet together with The State and University Library, Aarhus. This includes e-books and material from institutional repositories for Danish universities.

The State and University Library, Denmark

The State and University Library, Denmark (SB) is an institution of the Danish Ministry of Culture. It functions as: National Library The SB is a legal deposit library. It receives a copy of all Danish publications, whether in printed or in digital form. It houses the national newspaper collection, the national media archive and is the national loan centre for public libraries and small special libraries.

Goportis

Goportis is the name of the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information. The three libraries behind this partnership are: the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) in Cologne/Bonn and the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) in Kiel/Hamburg.

Joint Information Systems Committee

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies. We invest heavily in research and development, offering over 18 million users access to quality assured resources through our secure network. We provide expert advice, help to save money through national content license agreements and work with colleges and universities to realise the potential of their existing technologies. Everything we do has one aim – to maintain the UK’s position as a global leader in education.

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research’s involvement in Planets has been focused on identifying strategies for using Office Open XML standards for archiving and preservation of digital content. The Microsoft Office Open XML (Office OpenXML) formats represent a significant advance in representing information contained in textual documents, spreadsheets, and multimedia presentations in an open format, based on the XML standard.

The National Archives of The Netherlands

The National Archives of The Netherlands has been involved in digital preservation since the beginning of the 1990s. It has a legal duty to provide access to and preservation of archival records through time, both paper and digital. It has longstanding experience managing and preserving paper records. It provides access to government records and other historical sources to a broad audience, also by using modern channels such as the world wide web.

The National Library of The Netherlands

The National Library of The Netherlands (KB) fosters the national infrastructure for scientific information and plays an important role in the permanent access to digital information at an international level. The e-Depot, the world’s first digital archiving system for academic publications, now contains more than 15 million articles (15 TB). The KB aims to scale up the e-Depot in the next years to contain 700 TB by 2013.

Bibliotheque nationale de France

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is one of the largest research and public libraries in the world collecting and conserving the national heritage entrusted to its care, in whatever form, for the use of all researchers, students and professionals. Today its patrimonial collections encompass all areas of culture and knowledge in a great variety of languages and illustrate the library’s encyclopaedic nature through all kinds of materials.

International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History (IISG) is the world’s largest documentation and research centre in the field of social history. It is one of the eighteen research institutes that fall under the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Since its foundation in 1935, the institute has dedicated itself to the collection, preservation and accessibility of the heritage of social movements worldwide. The IISH offers a safe repository for the threatened cultural heritage of the labour movement and other emancipatory groups and currents worldwide.

University of Freiburg

The University of Freiburg (ALUF) is among the top 9 German universities selected in the Initiative for Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments. Already a comprehensive university at its founding in 1457, the University of Freiburg still offers undergraduate and graduate studies as well as professorial qualification in all important disciplines today: the humanities, natural and engineering sciences, medicine, law, and theology. This diversity also provides an ideal environment for innovative interdisciplinary studies.

Portico

Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, is among the largest community-supported digital archives in the world.

Working with libraries and publishers, Portico preserves e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future.