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Minding Our Ps And Qs - Issues Of Property, Provenance And Quality In Institutional Repositories, Bruce White

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The development of institutional repositories has opened the path to the mass availability of peer-reviewed scholarly information and the extension of information democracy to the academic domain. A secondary space of free-to-all documents has begun to parallel the hitherto-closed world of journal publishing and many publishers have consented to the inclusion of copyrighted documents in digital repositories, although frequently specifying that a version other than the formally-published one be used. This paper will conceptually

examine the complex interplay of rights, permissions and versions between publishers and repositories, focussing on the New Zealand situation and the challenges faced by university repositories …

Becoming The Authoritative Source: Taking Repositiories Centre Stage, Howard Amos, Tom Ruthven

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories can be a storehouse of the research of an institution. There are many internal and external needs to find, use and report on the entirety or parts of an institution’s research output.

This paper examines how to harness environmental factors to make an institutional repository the central and authoritative source of the research material output of a university. How to take it from “a place” to put research to making it “the place” and moving it from a nice-to-have service to one with a solid, sustainable future, one that the academic community values, supports and uses rather than …

Going Digital, Experiences At The Wellcome Library, Dave Thompson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Wellcome Library^[1] acknowledges that born digital material will form part of its research collections. The question is, how do we implement this? This paper talks to the experiences of the Wellcome Library as it develops and implements its strategy to acquire and manage born digital material. It draws on our experiences of working with ’real’ material, and looks at the pragmatic ways in which workflows and practices have been developed and the archivists successfully engaged in working with this new medium.

Eresearch Developments In Australia, Rhys Francis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Eresearch: Access And Support To University Researchers, Judy Stokker

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The way research is undertaken is changing fundamentally with eResearch, the uptake of web technologies and the application of advanced computational techniques. At the same time, rapid changes are underway in scholarly publishing and communication so that research outputs - both articles and data - are available in new and different ways. What does this mean for university libraries in our work to support research? Many university libraries are establishing and populating institutional repositories, undertaking e publishing of university journals and entering the field of research data management and curation with the consequential need for training researchers in data management …

Long Walk To Digital Freedom, Hannie Sander

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Creating A Free To Read International Digital Library - Five Years Later, Erika Linke

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Million Book Project was begun in 2003 with the vision of creating a free-to-read, universally accessible, million-book digital resource by 2007 to provide a test bed for developing digital library tools and software. By spring 2007 1.4 million titles were digitized.

The project stemmed from a collaboration of the university library and the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. From the project’s inception partners included libraries, institutions of higher education and research organizations in China, India and the U.S., essentially computer scientists and librarians. Additional partners have been added selectively as the project became more visible in …

Layers Of A National Digital Information Strategy In Germany, Maria Mann-Kallenborn

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Due to the lack of a sustainable tradition of private patronage for tertiary education, German libraries have developed a complex layered network of communication and support to cope with a permanent lack of resources. The tiers of this structure of cooperation and funding reflect the organization of Germany as a coalition of federal states. National, regional and local ventures to improve education infrastructure massively rely on funding by the National Research Foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) which on its part presets frameworks for project proposals by issuing specific support programmes for universities and libraries. The paper presented describes current structures and …

A National Digital Data Policy For The United States: To Be Or Not To Be?, James L. Mullins

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

As countries worldwide are coming to terms with establishing a national data policy, the United States is approaching the issue in a piecemeal manner. With numerous federal, state and private agencies in control of funding, it is unlikely that a national policy will emerge for the United States in the near future. Regardless, efforts are moving forward on digital initiatives, including open access to scholarly publications, access to digital data-sets, creation of standards for data-set management, and national repositories for scanned images. Consortiums of research libraries such as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Coalition …

Charting The Landscape Of An Innovation University Library, Ari Muhonen, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The digital age calls for strategies in issues regarding access, dissemination as well as preservation of information. The global digital environment offers new and exciting possibilities to share knowledge across boundaries. In terms of scientific information access to information is crucial for research and innovation. Indeed, universities and libraries have in recent years made considerable investments in providing access to online information.

The European Union has invited the member states to reinforce national strategies and structures for access to and preservation and dissemination of scientific information. Furthermore, the member states of the European Union should ensure the long term preservation …

Towards A Canadian Digitization Strategy, Janine Schmidt, Louis Houle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Digital Strategy: European Perspectives, Paul Ayris

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role and content of digital strategies in European research libraries. The paper will look at current developments in UCL (University College London) in the UK in terms of strategic directions at an institutional level. It will then examine how UCL Library Services is developing its own strategy to meet these institutional objectives. The paper will look at changing digital architectures, which reflect the new emphasis on student-centred learning and research. Three types of e-content will be examined, and the success or otherwise of libraries in delivering this type of content examined. …

Creating A Digital New Zealand: New Zealand's Digital Content Strategy, Opportunities And Challenges For The Education And Research Sectors, Penny Carnaby

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva 2000 http://www.itu/int/wsis/geneva/index.html and Tunis http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html

set the agenda for the development of e-strategies in a number of countries. Drawing from the strategic vision and inspiration of WSIS New Zealand launched its own Digital Strategy in May 2005 http://digitalstratregy.govt.nz. This was a far reaching all of country digital vision impacting on communities, business and local and central government throughout the country. The NZ Digital Strategy argued that there were three components that would define the digital environment. These are referred to as the 3 C’s framework these are connection, content …

Digitization Initiatives: A Reconnaissance Of The Global Landscape, Marinus Swanepoel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Digitization has become quite a buzzword around libraries and library organizations. Conferences, symposia and workshops on digitization are becoming more popular and many general conferences feature a technology or digitization track.

A factor contributing to the popularity of digitization is that the technology required for basic digitization is very affordable. It is therefore not uncommon to find an under funded enthusiast doing excellent work, making content available through a free hosting service on the Internet and using only a simple digital camera and/or scanner, bought for a couple of hundred dollars.

The proliferation of local digitization initiatives great and small …

Open Access Journals And The Developing World - Experiences From Operating The Directory Of Open Access Journals (Doaj), Lars Björnshauge

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Research Knowledge In A Global Perspective, A Public Good Or Part Of A Knowledge Apartheid., Rune Nilsen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Developing World Access To Peer-Reviewed Research - Oa In Action, Emily Gillingham

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Beyond Access, Paul Peters

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Advocates of open access have generally focused on the benefits that an open access publication model will have in terms of providing researchers with increased access to scholarly literature. However, there are equally important benefits that open access can have in creating a more economically efficient market for scholarly journals. A business model based on publication charges can potentially enable far greater competition between publishers, ultimately leading to a more functional market than currently exists in the subscription world. In evaluating the various business models that can provide open access, it is important to understand the impact that each model …

Driver: Supporting Institutional Repositories In Europe, Sophia Jones

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Engineers Australia Collection On Informit, Elena Vvedenskaia

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Science-Specific Search: Bridging The Gap In Dissemination Of And Access To Information, Joris Van Rossum

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Access To Global Information—A Case Of Digital Divide In Bangladesh, Anisur Rahman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

ICTs can reduce communication costs and break down geographical borders. In the developed nations government policies are being established which attempt to ensure that all citizens will get the opportunity to access the effective use of ICTs in order to enable them to participate in the educational, social and economic activities and democratic processes. Developed countries are getting much benefit from the advancement of ICTs. There is digital divide between developed and developing countries. The term digital divide has been applied to the gap that exists in most countries between those with ready access to the tools of ICTs, and …

Not Just Quality Information: Hinari Drives Desirable Change In Teaching & Research, Tony Mcséan, Daviess Menefee

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Challenging Libraries In The Alternative Dissemination Of African Scholarly Communicastion, Hannie Sander

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library Service-Oriented Architecture To Enhance Access To Science, Richard Akerman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the digital world, library services need to be transformed to recognize that automation and machine-to-machine communication of information enables many advanced features. NRC CISTI, Canada's National Science Library, has addressed this challenge using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Using SOA based on Enterprise Architecture, we have modeled services provided by the catalogue, services related to document delivery, and advanced services to provide more open data access. We will present a completed model of some library business functions, discuss the challenges of implementing an SOA within the library technology environment, and present our vision of how library SOA is an important enabler …

The New Geography Of Science, Jonathan Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Support Service For Publication Of Open Access Journals, David Lawrence

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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New Metaphors In Scientific Communication: Libraries And The Commons, John Wilbanks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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E-Research Infrastructures And Scientific Communication, Ralph Schroeder, Jennifer A. Debeer, Jenny Fry

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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How Researchers Use The Electronic Library?, Helle Lauridsen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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