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Institutional Repositories as Sustainable Infrastructure Supporting E-Scholarship

June 2, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009

The development of digital repositories has been a relative recent one, starting in late 2000 with the release a software package called E-Prints. Since that time, the establishment of digital repo…

The "Other" Sustainability Problem

March 20, 2009

© 2009 Diane J. Graves. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ). …

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…

An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges

October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for share…

Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace

January 1, 2007

This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven univers…

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. …

Building a Distributed Knowledge Network: National and International Perspectives

October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

During the past seven years, in partnership with various organizations and institutions, the Carnegie Foundation has helped document and share knowledge in effective educational practices at many l…

Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges

January 1, 2006

Sometimes a word acquires so many meanings that it becomes difficult to use clearly. This happened to 'portal', and it may be happening to 'repository'. There is a lot of develo…

The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories

January 1, 2005

This paper proposes explaining institutional repositories (IRs) and open access, discussing the relationship of open access to IRs, and examining the possible roles of reference librarians in IRs. …

Supporting Community Inquiry with Digital Resources

January 1, 2004

Today there are a number of fields that address the need to develop better means of employing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help communities achieve their goals. Digital infr…