Information and Software Technology
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In recent years, open source relational database products have achieved enterprise-level quality. The Los Alamos National Laboratoryýs Research Library selected the open source MySQL database management system to develop a comprehensive database of scientific journal articles and citation information. The project converted bibliographic metadata from several data sources into a common format and enhanced the data with links between each of more than 55 million articles as well as 600 million individual references. Lessons learned should help advocates promote MySQL and open source for building a sound technology infrastructure; some might also interest practitioners using other products.