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ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better. |
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. |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
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. |
Information Today March 15, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today November 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 Nov/Dec 2013 Paul Vierkant |
2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding Germany's open access repository landscape is one of the largest in the world. The key findings of this survey shall help stakeholders by identifying trends in the development of open access repositories in Germany. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
Information Today December 11, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Previews New Web-Based Science Search Engine Elsevier Science has announced that it's developing a Web search engine for scientific information that will search both free and proprietary (access-controlled) content... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories |
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 Sep/Oct 2010 Adamick & Reznik-Zellen |
Representation and Recognition of Subject Repositories Subject repositories are under-studied and under-represented in library science literature and in the scholarly communication and digital library fields. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today October 15, 2013 |
Scirus Says Goodbye The Scirus search engine and science-specific research service, owned by Elsevier is set to retire in early 2014. An official retirement date will be posted as soon as it is determined. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
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 May/Jun 2015 Scott Carlson |
An Assessment of Institutional Repositories in the Arab World The history and development of the digital repository in Western archives and libraries have been well documented. This is less true for other regions of the world, especially for Arabic-speaking countries and territories. |
D-Lib November 2006 Michael Organ |
Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us? The Example of Research Online, the Open Access Institutional Repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia As universities and funding bodies worldwide seek to quantify return-on-investment for research output, and more closely monitor individual academic and institutional performance, new forms of bibliometrics are being sought that go beyond journal quality assessment and into the area of research quality and impact. |
Information Today June 25, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
Scirus Partners With FAST and Elsevier Publishing to Create Topic Pages Scirus has announced it is partnering with FAST and the Elsevier Publishing Division to provide an additional free online resource for the scientific community that will create more of a portal community for the Scirus site. |
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
D-Lib December 2008 |
The Future of Repositories? Patterns for (Cross-)Repository Architectures Over the past few years, repositories have been created as a product intended to foster dissemination of scholarly works, a shared objective for most academic institutions. |
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 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 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 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 August 2007 Carr & Brody |
Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles This article attempts to start developing a workable metric for a reasonable rate of ingest that is consistent with capturing the community's scientific and scholarly output. Such a measure is needed both for evaluating the performance of a single repository. |
D-Lib March 2006 |
In Brief The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program... Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories... PerX: Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch... etc. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Carol Minton Morris |
Open Repositories 2011: Community Meet-up in the "Live Music Capital of the World" The Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories convened in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2011, bringing people from all over the world together to focus on how repositories might be more closely integrated into the technically and community-driven digital scholarly landscape. |
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 April 2004 Chris Awre |
Report on the 3rd OAI Workshop: CERN, Geneva, 12 - 14 February 2004 Highlights of the February OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Workshop in Geneva. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Margaret Henty |
Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities This article identifies the issues relating to repository management that are seen as important by a group of senior academic administrators. These reflect to some degree the way in which repositories have developed in Australia. |
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. |
Information Today September 9, 2010 Sue Polanka |
Elsevier's SciVerse Hub--Transforming Scientific Research SciVerse development began back in 2008, after Elsevier interviewed more than 3,000 researchers, librarians, and application developers to determine obstacles in scientific research. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Laurence Lannom |
Repositories and One More Thing Are repositories primarily storage mechanisms, primarily access mechanisms, mainly about technology, mainly about policy, or some combination of the above? |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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 Sep/Oct 2009 Carol Minton Morris |
Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions A look at the Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival held this year in July. |
Information Today July 18, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Enhances Scopus Scopus, the abstract and indexing database of scientific, technological, and medical research information developed by Elsevier, has been wildly successful since its launch late last year. New features are now being introduced. |
D-Lib March 2003 Stephen Pinfield |
Open Archives and UK Institutions: An Overview This paper provides a brief overview of current activity in the development of open archives (particularly e-print repositories) within UK universities and similar institutions and discusses some of the issues the open archives activity is raising. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Adamick & Reznik-Zellen |
Trends in Large-Scale Subject Repositories Noting a lack of broad empirical studies on subject repositories, the authors investigate subject repository trends that reveal common practices despite their apparent isolated development. |
Information Today November 1, 2012 |
Report Issued on Open Access Repository Interoperability The Confederation of Open Access Repositories published "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)." |
D-Lib February 2006 |
In Brief CLADDIER: Citation, Location And Deposition in Discipline and Institutional Repositories... The Management of Images in a Distributed Environment with Shared Services Project... JISC Digital Repositories Programme team launch wiki and mailing list...etc. |