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Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer
Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer
Lisa A. Palmer
One of the “purposeful pathways” in the UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library’s 2016-2020 strategic plan is to “responsibly preserve institutional investments in purchased and unique content” [1]. Upon completion of the strategic plan, the library began to investigate digital preservation services for its institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform, eScholarship@UMMS. Although content on bepress platforms is protected by a robust infrastructure that includes multiple backups and cloud storage with Amazon Glacier, the library was interested in an additional level of preservation and control, at a minimal cost. After researching various options over many months, in 2016 the library …
Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip
Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip
Lisa A. Palmer
Description Thomas Jefferson University Library and University of Massachusetts Medical School Library have two important things in common: successful institutional repositories and experienced library leaders that developed them. Please join Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman of Thomas Jefferson University, and Lisa Palmer of University of Massachusetts Medical School for a free webinar on institutional repositories (IRs) at medical schools. Speakers will explore how each organization decided to start an IR, how the IRs have evolved, unique IR collections, successful partnerships, challenges and opportunities, and the future of medical IRs.