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The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This keynote presentation provides a general overview of the changing digital landscape for scholarly communication with an emphasis on the role that institutional repositories play in these changes.
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Meghan Banach Bergin
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries established their institutional repository (IR), ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, in 2006, and we began by systematically populating it with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We currently have a little over 4,500 dissertations and theses in our IR, and they are some of the\ most highly used content in our repository. Through a partnership with the Graduate School, we collect and disseminate all of our current master’s theses and doctoral dissertations through ScholarWorks. We recently launched an ambitious project to scan all 24,000 of our print dissertations and theses and upload them to our IR. In this …
E-Resource Acquisitions In Academic Library Consortia, Christine N. Turner
E-Resource Acquisitions In Academic Library Consortia, Christine N. Turner
Christine Turner
Scholarly publishing is the information marketplace in which academic libraries function, and major shifts in traditional publishing and pricing models are in process. Library consortia have long been viewed as a means of increasing purchasing power and reducing costs. In late 2010, the Five College Libraries (FCL) hired R2 Consulting, LLC to investigate and make recommendations regarding how the Libraries cooperate more closely on the acquisition, management, and delivery of electronic resources. This study examines and evaluates how other academic library consortia are licensing and acquiring electronic books, databases, journals and streaming media. The organizations, activities, processes, history and trends …
Flying Solo, Economy Or Business Class Through Collections In The Cloud, Christine N. Turner
Flying Solo, Economy Or Business Class Through Collections In The Cloud, Christine N. Turner
Christine Turner
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Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin
Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin
Meghan Banach Bergin
The purpose of my sabbatical project was to identify institutions with established digital preservation programs, and investigate how these programs were implemented. To accomplish this task, I conducted a web-based survey that looked into what systems were being used for digital preservation, what services were offered to the campus or user community, staffing and organizational models to support digital preservation programs, as well as the costs associated with these various digital preservation programs. I received a total of 148 responses to the survey. Of the 148 responses, 100 respondents finished the survey. To follow up from the survey, I conducted …