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EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
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February 1, 2012
This guide was published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who sup…
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Designing and Implementing Second Generation Digital Preservation Services: A Scalable Model for the Stanford Digital Repository
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September 13, 2010
This paper describes the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR), a large scale, digital preservation system for scholarly materials. It examines the lessons-learned through over five years of developm…
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Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution
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April 17, 2008
This White Paper, written by Thinh Nguyen, is addressed to the faculty and administrators of academic institutions who support equitable access to scholarly research and knowledge, and who believ…
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E-Science and Data Support Services
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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…
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The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services
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February 3, 2009
The report, “The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services,” identifies key issues surrounding repository development, explores common strategies that libraries are using, anal…
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Institutional Repository on a Shoestring
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February 3, 2009
In this article, the authors, three members of the Humboldt Digital Scholar (HDS) Steering Committee, describe the process of setting up and managing a digital repository: hardware and software s…
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A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline
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December 12, 2008
The purpose of the study reported in this article was to determine nationally which academic disciplines demonstrate a greater tendency to publish in academic institutional repositories. The stud…
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Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development - Final Report
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August 21, 2008
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a one-year pilo…
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Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users
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October 3, 2008
This study shares the results of an effort to understand the needs and goals of future institutional repository (IR) users at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB). Due to underutilization …
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The UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study
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July 7, 2008
This UKRDS interim report is an early draft from the feasibility stage of the consultancy prepared for the UKRDS Steering Committee. It is intended as a working draft of the Feasibility Study rep…

















