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Dspace: One Schools' Use Of An Open Source Institutional Repository, Michelle Rigual Apr 2006

Dspace: One Schools' Use Of An Open Source Institutional Repository, Michelle Rigual

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A variety of resources, both proprietary and open source, have evolved in recent years to enable the collection, preservation, indexing and distribution of digital work, as well as to provide communities for peer review of works in progress. These emerging technologies make it more feasible to advocate for open access to scholarly communication. This presentation discusses the movement toward open access to scholarly information, as colleges and universities struggle to gain more control over and retain more rights to their scholarly output, and the consequences of not doing so. The speaker will also describe the various options currently available for …


Dspace, Institutional Repositories And The Open Access Movement: Why Should You Care?, Carol A. Parker Sep 2005

Dspace, Institutional Repositories And The Open Access Movement: Why Should You Care?, Carol A. Parker

Faculty Scholarship

The amount of digital scholarly output grows daily, yet only a small fraction of legal scholarly communication is published in traditional venues such as law reviews and journals. Some of this digital scholarly communication makes it to the Web and becomes a resource often referred to as "gray literature," but this can be a haphazard process at best. The UNM School of Law Library employs DSpace, an open source digital institutional repository, to enable the Law faculty to collect, preserve, index, and distribute their digital work, as well as to provide a community for peer review of works in progress. …