The PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation (DLF) is a next stage of the development of network of distributed digital libraries and repositories in Poland. The name of the DLF corresponds to its nature - it is a set of advanced network services based on the resources available in Polish digital libraries and repositories deployed in the PIONIER network. These resources are created by many institutions like universities, libraries, museums, archives or research institutions. The Digital Libraries Federation is maintained by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center affiliated by the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences, and the PSNC Digital Libraries Team is responsible for the DLF development.

Mission

The Digital Libraries Federation mission is to:

• facilitate the use of resources from Polish digital libraries,
• increase the visibility and popularity of resources from Polish digital libraries in the internet,
• enable new advanced network services based on the resources from Polish digital libraries to internet users and digital libraries creators.

The mission is realised by the development of the Digital Libraries Federation functionality.

Available functionality

The present DLF functionality is:

• Search in the metadata of available digital objects
• • Simple
  • Advanced
• Digitisation plans
• • Searching
  • Report
• Duplicated digitisation detection and prevention
• OAI identifiers resolving
• Networked user profile
• Statistics
• Add-ons for the promotion of the DLF and its resources

We encourage you to read the more detailed description of the above functionality.

Cooperation with the DLF

If you have a digital library or repository and you would like to make its content available also via the Digital Libraries Federation service, we encourage you to cooperate with us! Making your content available via the DLF is free of charge, it does not require to deposit your digital objects into the DLF nor signing any agreements between your institution and PSNC. You can find more detailed information about this in the "Information for repository stakeholders" section.

If you are interested in using the DLF functionality on your website or in advertising the DLF please check the "Add-ons" section.

Additional information

If you have any questions, feel free to contact with us. We are very interested in your opinion about the DLF and about your ideas for new DLF services. We also encourage you to read other information pages available in the menu on the left side of this page.