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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 2015 Laurence Lannom |
The Practice of Digital Libraries The practice of digital libraries continues to evolve and the range of that practice is well represented in our current issue of nine full articles. |
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 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 Sep/Oct 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial With this issue we start our twenty-first year and combine topics that would have been unlikely subjects for D-Lib articles twenty years ago with updates on more traditional topics. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial -- Traditional Roles Our eight articles as a whole primarily speak to the increased activity and importance of repositories in library evolution. |
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 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 January 2005 Foster & Gibbons |
Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories The availability of open-source institutional repository (IR) systems has encouraged a proliferation of IRs worldwide, particularly among academic and research institutions. Installing the software, however, is just the first step towards a successful IR. |
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 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 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 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 Jan/Feb 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Why Comes Before How Across the range of articles published by D-Lib can be found two sub-genres. The practical, gives detailed explanations of how one existing or proposed technology or another can or should be applied and the second looks more closely at first principles. |
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? |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Acquisition, Access, and Preservation You will find an emphasis on preservation, but taken as a whole, the issue covers the waterfront of digital library topics, i.e., acquiring information, making it accessible, and preserving it. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Olio This issue has a set of seven articles, each highly relevant to the digital library field, each in its own way. |
D-Lib October 2003 King et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities University libraries are rapidly moving toward electronic journal collections. Readership surveys at three universities with different levels of electronic journal implementation demonstrate how transition to electronic journal collections affects use patterns of faculty and staff. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The editor describes articles on identifying personalized representation of online content in web archives, descriptive metadata for field books, and a census of open access repositories in Germany, among others. |
D-Lib November 2006 |
The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs What readings are assigned in courses on digital libraries in Library and Information Science programs? Is there a core group of readings? What is the distribution of readings among the various topics in these courses? |
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 Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The editor highlights several articles including one on the Massive Open Online Courses phenomenon. The characteristics of MOOCs that intersect with the traditional provision of library services are discussed. |
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 December 2008 Tenopir & King |
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns Electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. |
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 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 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 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. |
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. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The work of the Digital Library Federation's Assessment Interest Group... Fifteen years of interoperability efforts... Scenario-based learning in training library staff... |
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 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. |
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 Taemin Kim Park |
D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years By the use of bibliometric techniques, authorship characteristics of D-Lib Magazine are studied. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Web Archiving What I found interesting about these articles is that they are not primarily technical in nature, but instead consider the web as a source of material to be studied and archived. |
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 Jul/Aug 2013 Fowler & Smith |
Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. |
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 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 August 2007 Oya Y. Rieger |
Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models As web services become ubiquitous in our digital lives, designing flexible and interoperable repositories is essential in order to meet the evolving needs of users - both from end-user and system/service manager perspectives. |
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 June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
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. |
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 January 2000 David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
D-Lib October 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
Report on the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004): 12 - 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom The conference presentations gave an excellent overview of current digital library research projects. Digital libraries are created for an increasingly diverse and distributed user community. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Laurence Lannom |
Special Issue on Digital Libraries in China Significant language, culture, and political gaps between China and the more established digital library players in Western countries remain, of course, and will present challenges on all sides for years to come. |