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University libraries are increasingly becoming entwined with technology, from online catalogs to the merging of computing labs with the library. The EDUCAUSE resource center offers an array of information on topics such as digital libraries, electronic publishing, electronic resources, disability access, information discovery and retrieval, IT-library collaboration, and information commons.
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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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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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A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story
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August 3, 2010
Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …
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A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems
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March 4, 2010
The authors, Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky, implemented a survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characte…
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Text Generation
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January 8, 2010
Will the decision of many college libraries to encourage students to text queries from their phones cheapen the research process, or rescue it? …
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An Arbitrage Opportunity for Image Search and Retrieval
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June 2, 2009
A new paradigm for image search metadata collection is emerging exemplified by the Human Computation School's application of gaming principles to information science search challenges. In pa…
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LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
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May 21, 2009
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so th…
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Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library Resources
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March 30, 2009
The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library c…
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Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections
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March 26, 2009
The ARL Working Group on Special Collections was charged by the Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee in 2007 with advising it "on special collections issues on an ongoing basi…
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A Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data
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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…

















