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…

Building "Above-Campus" Library Services

August 5, 2010

© 2010 Paul N. Courant and John Wilkin. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). …

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…

Why Lakoff still matters: Framing the debate on copyright law and digital publishing

June 1, 2009

In 2004, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff popularized the idea of using metaphors and “frames” to promote progressive political issues. Although his theories have since been cri…

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…

University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library

October 13, 2008

A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Googl…

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…

Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper

March 6, 2008

The paper describes four large-scale projects—Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Search Books, Open Content Alliance, and the Million Book Project—and their digitization strategies. It then d…

Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning?

February 15, 2008

The growing need for institutions to capture and maintain access to their administrative and academic information is driving the exploration of organizational models for digital preservation. Amo…