NIH has issued a solicitation for a non-personnel services contract to provide article level historical journal scanning and XML (Extensible Markup Language) preparation for the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) Biomedical Journal Digitization Project.
The purpose of the project is to perform archival-quality, non-destructive scanning and digitization of an identified set of biomedical journals from their earliest date of publication forward to a specified end date. The digitized content will be added to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central database, a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine.
The project will initially comprise approximately 250,000 pages, but may extend in phases to 1.8 million pages or more. The scope of the project is to scan bound volumes in varying condition from NLM’s own collections, produce bibliographic citation data (NISO JATS XML) at the article level, produce full article text…
