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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.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Prost & Schopfel |
Degrees of Openness: Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access.  |
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 2001 |
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Bridging the gaps for global access - part 1: mission and progress...  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 James RW MacDonald |
Report on the 2011 Inaugural United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) Conference Everything from the nuts and bolts of ETD workflow management to the foundations of scholarly communication and the "publish or perish" model was discussed. The conference organizers delivered an outstanding program at an affordable price.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Schopfel & Soukouya |
Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo The self-archiving of scientific work in an open access repository, is often considered as the choice for developing countries because of lower investment and operational costs. We will provide a review of relevant literature on the topic.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Information Today August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Wolski et al. |
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed.  |
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 Jan/Feb 2010 Ramirez & McMillan |
FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations This article explores several campus approaches to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and electronic student work.  |
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 Mar/Apr 2015 Schopfel et al. |
A French-German Survey of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Access and Restrictions As a French-German research team we conducted a survey with a sample of academic libraries and graduate schools in France and Germany to determine the current situation and trends in the publishing of electronic PhD theses and dissertations under Open Access  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Coleman, Bracke & Karthik |
Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository Highlights of some of the limitations of proposed solutions to distributed archives as well as the added benefits for digital repository development that non-OAI (Open Archives Initiative) integration offers.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Coleman & Roback |
Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science: dLIST and DL-Harvest Open access archiving and open access publishing through open access journals are two complementary ways to accomplish open access of the scholarly, refereed, research literature and other outputs of a field.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Knoth & Zdrahal |
CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access We present the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) system, a large-scale Open Access aggregation, outlining its existing functionality and discussing the future technical development.  |
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.  |
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 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 November 2002 Liu, et al. |
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries: The ODU/Southampton Experiments  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2009 Mueller et al. |
OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Lewis et al. |
SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs.  |
Information Today March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities.  |
Information Today August 8, 2011 |
ProQuest Acquires U.K.'s Expert Information ProQuest has acquired U.K.-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses.  |
D-Lib September 2001 |
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Bridging the gaps for global access - part 2: services and research...  |
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 February 2000 Herbert Van de Sompel & Carl Lagoze |
The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives initiative promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions through the development of technical mechanisms and organizational structures to support interoperability...  |
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 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.  |
Information Today February 8, 2010 |
OpenThesis.org Launches A new web property called OpenThesis has been launched. It exposes theses and dissertations, making them highly accessible, useful, and shareable-at absolutely no cost.  |
D-Lib March 2003 Stephen Pinfield |
Open Archives and UK Institutions: An Overview This paper provides a brief overview of current activity in the development of open archives (particularly e-print repositories) within UK universities and similar institutions and discusses some of the issues the open archives activity is raising.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Artini et al. |
The OpenAIRE Literature Broker Service for Institutional Repositories OpenAIRE is the European infrastructure for Open Access scholarly communication. It provides access to a graph of objects relative to publications, datasets, people, organizations, projects, and funders.  |
D-Lib February 2006 |
FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry FeDCOR enables the federation of DSpace communities by following the CORDRA infrastructure.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Arthur Sale |
The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia's coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories.  |
D-Lib August 2003 Hagen et al. |
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide: Highlights of the ETD 2003 Symposium The electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) movement is truly becoming a global phenomenon, and the ETD 2003 Symposium has certainly lived up to its motto "Next Steps: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide."  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Paul Vierkant |
2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding Germany's open access repository landscape is one of the largest in the world. The key findings of this survey shall help stakeholders by identifying trends in the development of open access repositories in Germany.  |
Information Today June 30, 2015 |
EBSCO Updates Dissertations Database EBSCO Information Services expanded its partnership with The H.W. Wilson Foundation to enhance searching for electronic theses and dissertations.  |
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 Nov/Dec 2010 Adamick & Reznik-Zellen |
Trends in Large-Scale Subject Repositories Noting a lack of broad empirical studies on subject repositories, the authors investigate subject repository trends that reveal common practices despite their apparent isolated development.  |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
ProQuest Enhances Discoverability of Its Dissertations and Theses Collection ProQuest partnered with Elsevier and the Philosopher's Information Center to make dissertations and theses more discoverable in context with other relevant content.  |
D-Lib September 2005 |
In Brief Current Cites: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been... User Needs and Potential Users of Public Repositories: An Integrated Analysis... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2000 Van de Sompel, Krichel, Nelson, Hochstenbach, et al. |
The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives A description of the Universal Preprint Service (UPS) Prototype developed as a proof-of-concept of a multi-discipline digital library of publicly available scholarly material  |
D-Lib September 2004 Roxanne Missingham |
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Ternier et al. |
The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) The Simple Publishing Interface is a new publishing protocol, developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization workshop on learning technologies.  |
D-Lib August 2003 Van de Sompel et al. |
Using the OAI-PMH... Differently The Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was created to facilitate discovery of distributed resources. This article describes innovative applications of the OAI-PMH that researchers have introduced in recent projects.  |
D-Lib November 2005 Lagoze et al. |
What Is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL We are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern.  |
D-Lib June 2006 |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level An analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches.  |