E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

E-Science and Data Support Services

August 19, 2010

This study draws on data from 57 of 123 ARL member libraries (a 46% response rate for the survey). Over 75% of survey respondents reported that their institution either provides infrastructure or…

Sustainable economics for a digital planet: Ensuring long term access to digital information

March 23, 2010

Digital information is a vital resource in our knowledge economy, valuable for research and education, science and the humanities, creative and cultural activities, and public policy. But digital…

What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization

September 29, 2009

 As journals are increasingly accessed in digitized form, many libraries have grown interested in de-accessioning little-used print originals; but desires to repurpose space often come into co…

A Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data

November 30, 2008

The current methods of storing research data are as diverse as the disciplines that generate them and are necessarily driven by the myriad ways in which researchers need to subsequently access an…

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education

August 18, 2008

Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects.  This study afford…

The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship

September 26, 2007

This is a report of a workshop held in Phoenix, Arizona April 17 to 19, 2007. The objective of the workshop was to build on the findings of recent Cyberinfrastructure reports ([ACLS], [CI]) to id…

Managing Digitization Activities: Executive Summary

January 1, 2006

The executive summary of this ARL Spec Kit discusses various components of library digitizing projects. These areas include; staffing, budgets, and material selection. …

In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library

January 1, 2007

The author discusses how the Google Library Project has brought digital libraries into the spot light, including a new focus on negotiations concerning digital library resources. …

Mass Digitization of Books

January 1, 2006

Mass digitization of the bound volumes that we generally call "books" has begun, and, thanks to the interest in Google and all that it does, it is getting widespread media attention. The …

Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting

January 1, 2007

A detalied report of the results of the meeting of OAI-ORE Technical Committee describing features and requirements of the ORE model and its context in the Web Architecture. …