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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…

ORE Specification and User Guide

December 10, 2007

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.  This document provides an introduction and …

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. …

Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google

January 1, 2006

The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a princip…

Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books

January 1, 2005

What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the materia…

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. …