jake -- about
"jake is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing metadata about online resources with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to customize for a specific library's holdings.
Put simply: jake makes it easy to create software which uses information about journals and online journal products.
The project started in April 1999 (see freshmeat version history) at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. From the beginning, jake has been a free software project developed using open source methods. This means that in addition to using a free software license (the GPL), we've opened up the process of managing the data in jake to our whole community. Our goal is to distribute the difficult task of keeping this data up to date very broadly, enabling all interested in helping to help make the data better and more complete. "
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