A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories

A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories

Author: Kasja Weenink

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 905356411X

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The Driver’s Guide is a practical guide for repository managers and institutions who want to build their own repository.


The European Repository Landscape 2008

The European Repository Landscape 2008

Author: Maurits van der Graaf

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9089641904

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It is widely acknowledged that a common knowledge base for European research is necessary. Research repositories are an important innovation to the scientific information infrastructure. In 2006, digital repositories in the 27 countries of the European were surveyed, covering 114 repositories from 17 European countries. In follow-up, this book presents the results of the 2008 survey. It shows an increasing number of respondents, but also a further diversification in the character of a repository. Repositories may be institutional or thematically based, and as such non-institutional as well. 178 Institutional research repositories and 14 thematic and other noninstitutional repositories from 22 European countries took part actively. European practices should be harmonized and the development of state-of-the-art technology facilitated. Authors, institutes and information users are stakeholders in this process. In presenting a state-of the art of developments, this book is a valuable guide for them in developing their policy on research repositories without losing contact with others. The ongoing process of widespread and diversification of digital repositories puts urgency on coherent approach, as a basic feature of repositories is the retrievability of information that may be dispersed over many of them. Continued monitoring of developments will be necessary.


The European repository landscape

The European repository landscape

Author: Maurits van der Graaf

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9053564101

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The inventory study investigates the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union, with the goal of identifying the next steps to stimulate an infrastructure for digital repositories at a European level. It is part of the EU-financed DRIVER project, or Digital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research, which aims to create a knowledge base for European research.


Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology

Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology

Author: Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9089641890

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Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology serves as a technology watch on the rapidly evolving world of digital publication. It provides an up-to-date overview of technical issues, underlying the development of universally accessible publications, their elemental components and linked information. More specifically it deals with questions as how to bring together the communities of the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) and the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF). Case studies like EGEE, DILIGENT and DRIVER are analyzed, as well as implementations in projects in Ireland, Denmark and The Netherlands. Interoperability is the keyword in this context and this book introduces to new standards and concepts used in the design of envelopes and packages, overlays and feeds, embedding, publishing formats and Web services and service-oriented architecture. It is a must-read for quick and comprehensive orientation.


Business Planning for Digital Libraries

Business Planning for Digital Libraries

Author: Mel Collier

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9058678377

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This book brings together international experience of business planning for digital libraries: the business case, planning processes, costs and benefits, practice and standards, and comparison with the traditional library. Although there is a vast literature already on other aspects of digital libraries, business planning is a subject that until now has not been systematically integrated in a book. Digital libraries are being created not only by traditional libraries but also by museums, archives, media organizations, and any institution concerned with managing scientific and cultural information. Business Planning for Digital Libraries is designed for practitioners in the cultural and scientific sectors, for students in information sciences and cultural management, and in particular for people engaged in managing digital libraries and repositories, in electronic publishing and e-learning, and in teaching and studying in these fields.


The Digital Public Domain

The Digital Public Domain

Author: Melanie Dulong De Rosnay

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1906924457

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Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use - copyright and related rights - have become increasingly restrictive. This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Together the authors argue that the Public Domain - that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information - is fundamental to a healthy society. The essays range from more theoretical papers on the history of copyright and the Public Domain, to practical examples and case studies of recent projects that have engaged with the principles of Open Access and Creative Commons licensing. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the Internet. It opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture at the digital age.


Enhanced Publications

Enhanced Publications

Author: Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9089641882

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The traditional publication will be overhauled by the ‘Enhanced Publication’. This is a publication that is enhanced with research data, extra materials, post publication data, and database records. It has an object-based structure with explicit links between the objects. In this book a state-of-the-art overview is given of the structural elements of an Enhanced Publication, as well as publication models, interrelationship and repository issues. The use of Enhanced Publications evokes questions on object models and functionalities. In-depth study is made of these subjects. More practically, a sample is given of datasets together with a demonstrator-project. In the final section, this book deals with long-term preservation issues, linking to the developments of digital repositories that are studied in other books in this series.


Electronic Resources Management in Libraries

Electronic Resources Management in Libraries

Author: Chennupati K Ramaiah

Publisher: Allied Publishers

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 818424813X

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This publication covering latest technologies, issues and state of the art related to Electronic Resources Management will be of immense value to practicing librarians, students and teachers of library & information science, publishing industry, and IT professionals working in this area.


Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access

Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access

Author: Charles Wesley Bailey

Publisher: Charles W Bailey Jr

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1453780815

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Can scholarly journal articles and other scholarly works be made freely available on the Internet? The open access movement says "yes," and it is having a significant impact on scholarly publishing. There are two major open access strategies: (1) open access journals publish articles (typically peer-reviewed articles) that are free of charge and may be able to be reused under an open license (e.g., a Creative Commons license), and (2) self-archiving of digital e-prints (typically prepublication versions of articles) by authors in digital repositories, where they can be accessed free of charge and sometimes reused. Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography, which has over 1,100 references, provides in-depth coverage of published journal articles, books, and other works about the open access movement. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works.


Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services

Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services

Author: Muriel Foulonneau

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9053564128

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This study is meant for institutional repository managers, service providers, repository software developers and generally, all players taking an active part in the creation of the digital repository infrastructure for e-research and e-learning. It reviews the current standards, protocols and applications in the domain of digital repositories. Special attention is being paid to the interoperability of repositories to enhance the exchange of data in repositories. It aims to stimulate discussion about these topics and supports initiatives for the integration of and, where needed, development of new standards. The authors also take a look at the nearby future: which steps have to be taken now in order to comply with future demands?