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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 October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
D-Lib August 2005 Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. |
Information Today March 29, 2010 |
UC's California Digital Library Launches DataCite Archive for Research Data The University of California's California Digital Library has become a founding member of the international DataCite consortium, a group of 12 leading academic and scientific memory institutions worldwide, providing data publishing opportunities for researchers |
D-Lib October 2005 Jayakanth et al. |
In Brief Static and dynamic approaches to make legacy databases OAI-compliant... Open access in library and information science... International conference on preservation of digital objects (iPRES)... etc. |
Information Today October 4, 2012 |
California Digital Library and Partners Launch DataUp Scientific datasets have immeasurable value, but they are useless without proper documentation and long-term storage. DataUp is a free data management tool with an Excel add-in. |
D-Lib December 2004 |
In Brief New Cross-Atlantic Collaboration in Digital Government Starts November 2004... Creating a Digital Library Education Program at Indiana University Bloomington and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign... etc. |
Information Today July 26, 2012 |
New Portal for Earth Science Data Exploration DataONE represents a collaboration of universities and government agencies coalesced to address the mounting need for organizing and serving up vast amounts of highly diverse and interrelated but often heterogeneous, scientific data. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
New Collaboration Announced -- Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) GOKb will be an open, community-based, international data repository that will provide libraries with publication information about electronic resources. |
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. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Mayernik et al. |
The Data Conservancy Instance: Infrastructure and Organizational Services for Research Data Curation This article provides a high-level description of the Data Conservancy Instance, an implementation of infrastructure and organizational services for data collection, storage, preservation, archiving, curation, and sharing. |
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. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Poole et al. |
AERI 2012 Digital Curation Pre-Conference A digital curation pre-conference symposium was held at the University of California-Los Angeles in association with the Archival Education Research Initiative's AERI 2012. Seven digital curation experts from six institutions led the day's sessions. |
D-Lib May 2001 Ewald Brahms |
Digital Library Initiatives of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is the central public funding organization for academic research in Germany. It is thus comparable to a research council or a national research foundation... |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2009 Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers |
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. |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians Librarians interested in what their roles will be in the future cyberinfrastructures of science may find their skills and capabilities give them a natural and even crucial role in building and supporting the information infrastructures of local data centers. |
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 March 2002 Maurita Peterson Holland |
We Come from around the World and Share Similar Visions Digital technology offers enormous opportunity to encompass global information systems. Should digital library models be applied in venues that have little or no tradition of compiling and sharing knowledge? This article deals with this question by discussing three broad themes... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 |
In Brief and In the News The Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Center... Reports on the 8th International Digital Curation Conference... NISO Publishes Maintenance Revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI Standards... |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2009 |
In Brief Contributors offer updates on various digital library research and initiatives. |
D-Lib October 2003 Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature... |
Information Today May 24, 2010 |
World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2008 |
Clips & Pointers Current models of digital scholarly communication... The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology... A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States... Digital Preservation Policies Study... etc. |
Information Today August 20, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Hank & Davidson |
International Data Curation Education Action (Idea) Working Group A report from the second workshop of the Idea. |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 4 1999 Robert A. Fleck Jr. and Tena McQueen |
Managing the Campus Internet Explosion The Internet entered the campus environment with great rapidity and little forewarning. The rapidity of adoption by students caused many academic institutions to discover that existing policies were ill prepared and ill suited for
managing and focusing computing resources. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Wolski et al. |
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed. |
Chemistry World March 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Hefce announces how RAE money will be distributed This includes 1.6 billion for research, based on the outcome of the revamped Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). |
Information Today February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund. |
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 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. |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 |
Clips and Pointers Cloud-sourcing Research Collections... Geek the Library: A Community Awareness Campaign... Impact of the Supreme Court's Decision in Costco v. Omega on Libraries... |
D-Lib June 2000 Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
D-Lib October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc. |
D-Lib August 2005 Stephen M. Griffin |
Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Digital libraries research and related activities are key in determining the future content, value, and use of global knowledge infrastructure. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
D-Lib October 2004 |
In Brief RCDL 2004: Sixth Russian Conference on Digital Libraries: Pushchino, Russia, September 29 - October 1, 2004... DELOS and the Future of Digital Libraries... ACRL 2005 Awards Program... In the News: New Pathways to the National Science Digital Library... etc. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 |
In Brief and In the News Should there be a right to be forgotten?... Registration underway for Digital Library Federation's eResearch Network... The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange... |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
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 . |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 |
In Brief NISO 2010 webinar series provides updates on technology and standards for libraries and scholarly communication... Web archives registry launched... Digital preservation training program scholarships offered again this year... etc. |