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D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
David Seaman |
Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository can address.   |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Mary Wu |
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013
April Younglove |
Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and examined four different approaches that are in use by research institutions today. |
D-Lib
April 2007
Davis & Connolly |
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Cornell's DSpace is largely underpopulated and underused by its faculty. |
D-Lib
October 2006
Tyler O. Walters |
Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications An examination of emerging IR developments and explore how IRs can help create a new infrastructure to support scholarly communications and digital research. |
D-Lib
December 2007 |
Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Institutions at Different Stages of IR Development The article begins with background of IR topics and issues, and introduces our methods and characteristics of census respondents. It concludes with an examination of long-term issues pertaining to IRs. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2013
Burns et al. |
Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these institutional repositories offer to their communities. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Cat S. McDowell |
Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 2 It is time to once again take stock of institutional repositories in America. This article will do so by revisiting several groundbreaking areas, analyzing new statistics and utilizing some new approaches. |
D-Lib
October 2008
Maness et al. |
Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users 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 |
D-Lib
December 2007
Estlund & Neatrour |
Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories As the deployment of IRs becomes mature, more libraries will take advantage of consortial or regional ties to provide support, training, and expertise in IR development. This support structure is essential for organizations that otherwise would not have the infrastructure to create an IR. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011
Li & Banach |
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats. |
D-Lib
September 2005
van Westrienen & Lynch |
Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005 Institutional repositories are becoming well established as campus infrastructure components. |
D-Lib
January 2003
Smith et al. |
DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository DSpace functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. |
Searcher
May 2004
Miriam A. Drake |
Institutional Repositories Hidden Treasures Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building repositories now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions. |
D-Lib
February 2008 |
Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository An overview of the implementation process of RepositoriUM and the most effective measures conducted to achieve a successful IR implementation. |
D-Lib
February 2009
Wrenn et al. |
Institutional Repository on a Shoestring In this article, the authors describe the process of setting up and managing a digital repository: hardware and software selection; customizations; gaining campus support and other tasks. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Li et al. |
Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository In this age of explosive growth of digital resources, it is becoming ever more important for libraries to provide the variety of contents and services that IRs play an important role in delivering. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Richard K. Johnson |
Institutional Repositories Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication using digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. |
Information Today
August 28, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Institutional Repositories on Target: ARL Survey and Scopus/Scirus Features The Association of Research Libraries has surveyed its members to collect baseline data on institutional repositories, a potentially transforming, technological realignment of scholarly communication. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lynch & Lippincott |
Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005 Institutional repositories are now clearly and broadly being recognized as essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital world. |
D-Lib
January 2005
Bonita Wilson |
User-Centered Design It is of the utmost importance to keep users foremost in mind when developing tools or designing interfaces for digital libraries. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Elias Tzoc |
A Mobile Interface for DSpace As libraries continue to work on new technology developments, a mobile interface for their institutional repositories can be a good new way to reach out to faculty and other interested parties. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
Lewis et al. |
SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Joachim Schopfel |
Adding Value to Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories In this paper, we investigate what can be done to improve the quality of content and service provision in an open environment, in order to increase impact, traffic and usage. |
D-Lib
March 2003 |
In Brief The CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project... The Australian e-Humanities Gateway... University of Minnesota Electronic Portfolio is Open Source... Nerdi Web on Science and the Internet... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2003
Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2009 |
In Brief European initiative to facilitate access to research data... Nevada's statewide digital initiative... The Mark Twain's Mississippi project... Council of Science editors honors CrossRef... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
October 2005
Yvonne Hultman Ozek |
Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors The importance of communication and collaboration with units outside the library to make self-archiving attractive to authors. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007 |
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions. |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
StoneD: A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace The clarification of the similarities and differences between Greenstone and DSpace, and a report on a new technical development that allows users to migrate their collections from Greenstone to DSpace and vice versa. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
D-Lib
May 2005 |
Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences A look at how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Devare et al. |
VIVO: Connecting People, Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community VIVO's campus-wide, cross-referencing search capability and large index of life sciences researchers, resources, and facilities make it a core service whose timeliness and need at Cornell and beyond are becoming clear to faculty and administrators alike. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Prost & Schopfel |
Degrees of Openness: Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial Our first three articles are all about maturation in library services, including institutional repositories, data curation, and MOOCs. |
Information Today
April 29, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009
Carol Minton Morris |
Doing So Much More The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09) featured discussion on the global registries initiative, author identification in scholarly repositories, and fedora repositories. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010 |
In Brief and In the News HumBox... CACAO project overview... Digital Classicist Summer Seminar Series 2010... The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership... Frontiers of science: Science fact in a comic strip... etc. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2009
Carol Minton Morris |
Baltimore SPARC IR and SUN PASIG Meetings At the SPARC Conference and the Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group meeting, attendees grappled with the thorny issues around creating technology and policies to support durable knowledge for future generations in an era of burgeoning information. |
D-Lib
January 2005 |
In Brief The Gamera Software Development Kit for Document Image Analysis... XML Techniques for the Representation and Interchange of Thesaurus Data... The UTOPIA Project... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2007
Shigeki Sugita et al. |
Linking Service to Open Access Repositories Link resolvers have not been offering satisfactory article-level resolution for Open Access documents that have been accumulated in repositories such as arXiv 1 and RePEc, 2 and in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib
October 2002 |
In Brief DSpace: An Open Source Institutional Repository for Digital Material... Workshop Report: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries at JCDL '02... ECDL 2002 Workshop Report: E-books + E-Readers + E-journals = E-education?... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2008 |
Clips and Pointers Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing... The State of America's Libraries... The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and Institutional Repositories... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
MacKenzie Smith |
External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Peter A. Zuber |
A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline In some academic disciplines, participation in institutional repositories is low and it may be difficult to persuade faculty to contribute research. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2008 |
D-Lib -- In Brief News about a digital libraries curriculum, CrossRef, an independent membership association that provides a linking infrastructure for scholarly communication, and other reports on items of interest to librarians. |
