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News: The Interdisciplinary Science Library - Inside Higher Ed
Libraries as leasders in interdisciplinary research and mentions the University of Utah's Uspace as an example.
Digital Media Repository : About
Excellent description of what a digital library is and can do for a University. Produced by Ball State University's Digital Media Repository. Has link to video description that is 5-6 minutes long.
The Brown Daily Herald - No need for binders as library digitizes documents
Brown University's newsletter announcing repository services and digitization activities. Using Fedora for software system.
Wheaton College - Dspace Home page.
Wheaton's search interface within a consortium of colleges and universities using DSpace.
Wheaton College: Library: Digital Repository at Wheaton College
Implementation plan and documentation of Wheaton using Dspace.
Digital Case Home Page
Case Western Reserve Univeristy's Digital Library. Excellent browsing interface with tabs for Collections, Exhibits, and Scholarship. Also includes tabs for format.
EBSCOhost: What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories
Paper that discusses that Service must be the focus not the repository and highlights the four core activities of repositories and tracks the development of awareness and current lack of success. Great description of new models of service and core to where I see the future of libraries.
College Presidents Signal Support for Public Access Research Act - 9/24/2009 - Library Journal
NIH Open Access Law was extended and now there is a bill for any Federally funded research to be available within 6 months.
JISC Digital Media - Cross-media: Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections
Broad overview of all kinds of Digital Asset Management software currently available.
Document Details - National Information Standards Organization
Institutional Identifiers in Repositories: A survey report for the NISO I2 Working Group.
DSpace@MIT : MIT Theses
Theses section of MIT's Dspace. Good source of introductory language.
Winning the War on The War on Terror | First Things
August 7, 2009 article by Daniel E. Ritche, professor of English at Bethel University.
Albany's transition from paper to digital dissertation submission
From Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference in Pittsburgh, PA 2009
When the University at Albany, specifically the Office of Graduate Studies, initiated the implementation electronic dissertation submission, unanticipated concerns over the use of ETD were communicated by academic departments, advisors, administration, Library staff and students during this process. The scope of the issues ranged from decreased University income, accessibility of the research publications, formatting issues and policy and procedural changes.
Faculty Questions about Institutional Repository | The University of Utah
Answers adapted from Suzanne Bell at the University of Rochester.
Institutional Repository | The University of Utah
Holds Theses & Dissertations, Peer-reviewed works by faculty, and University Internal documents. Excellent example.
Brainstorm: Local Politics in Academe - Chronicle.com
Academic departments have a culture and is sometimes the first priority over institution. This is important to know when working as a liaison or working in institutional repositories.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
Charles Bailey's Electronic Theses and Dissertations list
Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine
10 software packages evaluated and 3 chosen for deeper testing. Fedora was chosen over Dspace and Digitool. Others considered were Contentdm, eprints, DAITSS, Greenstone, Keystone DLS, ArchivalWare, and VITAL.
Integration of mission in the co-curriculum: A case study of Messiah College
Margaret J McKeon, "The integration of mission in the co-curriculum: A case study of Messiah College" (January 1, 2006). Univ. of Pennsylvania - Electronic Dissertations. Paper AAI3209976.
http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3209976
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