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Digital Commons
White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson (2008)
An institutional repository [IR] is a means to collect the intellectual digital output of an organization. This white paper discusses creating a business case for...
At WKU, New Technology Changes the Way Library Works, Dan Modlin, WKYU Radio Broadcast (2007)
BOWLING GREEN, KY (2007-09-21) Advances in technology are leading to important changes in libraries across the country--and WKU is a case in point. A new...
Digital Commons -- An Introduction, Paul Royster (2007)
The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") and ProQuest to Expand bepress's Role with Digital Commons™, the World’s Leading Hosted Institutional Repository, The Berkeley Electronic Press (2007)
Berkeley, CA – August 10, 2007 - ProQuest and The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") today announced that they have reached an agreement for bepress to...
Bepress to Market and Support its Institutional Repository Platform, The Berkeley Electronic Press (2007)
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced today that it would begin selling its Institutional Repository platform directly. The bepress Institutional Repository platform currently powers the...
Faculty Profiles
White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson (2008)
An institutional repository [IR] is a means to collect the intellectual digital output of an organization. This white paper discusses creating a business case for...
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace, Philip M. Davis and Matthew J.L. Connolly, D-Lib Magazine (2007)
Problem: While there has been considerable attention dedicated to the development and implementation of institutional repositories, there has been little done to evaluate them, especially...
Open Source or Off-the-Shelf? Establishing an institutional repository for a small institution, Mark Sutherland and Peta Hopkins, Paper presented at the Information Online 2007 13th Exhibition and Conference, Sydney, 30th January – 1st February 2007. Australian Library and Information Association. (2007)
Effective management of digital assets as well as increasing research exposure and impact are particular challenges faced by smaller institutions with limited infrastructure and resources....
Institutional Repositories
White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson (2008)
An institutional repository [IR] is a means to collect the intellectual digital output of an organization. This white paper discusses creating a business case for...
Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, Carol A. Watson, LLRX.com (2007)
A law firm associate has prepared a continuing legal education PowerPoint presentation that resides on the hard drive of the associate's laptop. Another associate has...
Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository, Paul Royster, Serials Review (2007)
Institutional repositories (IRs) have been developed and promoted primarily as a means to re-publish scholarly content previously published elsewhere—usually in journals, festschriften, or collections of...
At WKU, New Technology Changes the Way Library Works, Dan Modlin, WKYU Radio Broadcast (2007)
BOWLING GREEN, KY (2007-09-21) Advances in technology are leading to important changes in libraries across the country--and WKU is a case in point. A new...
Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think about Legal Scholarship, Carol Parker (2007)
Open access to scholarship, that is, making scholarship freely available to the public via the Internet without subscription or access fees, is a natural fit...
Open Access Scholarship
Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository, Paul Royster, Serials Review (2007)
Institutional repositories (IRs) have been developed and promoted primarily as a means to re-publish scholarly content previously published elsewhere—usually in journals, festschriften, or collections of...
At WKU, New Technology Changes the Way Library Works, Dan Modlin, WKYU Radio Broadcast (2007)
BOWLING GREEN, KY (2007-09-21) Advances in technology are leading to important changes in libraries across the country--and WKU is a case in point. A new...
Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think about Legal Scholarship, Carol Parker (2007)
Open access to scholarship, that is, making scholarship freely available to the public via the Internet without subscription or access fees, is a natural fit...
The Evolving Nature of Faculty Publications, Jan Ryan Novak and Leslie A. Pardo, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies (2007)
Technology increasingly drives the evolving nature of the library's role in managing faculty publications. Libraries not only create physical archives of faculty scholarship, but take...
The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access, Michael J. Madison, Lewis and Clark Law Review (2006)
This Essay was written as part of a Symposium on open access publishing for legal scholarship, held at Lewis & Clark Law School. It makes...
Self Archiving
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace, Philip M. Davis and Matthew J.L. Connolly, D-Lib Magazine (2007)
Problem: While there has been considerable attention dedicated to the development and implementation of institutional repositories, there has been little done to evaluate them, especially...
Open Source or Off-the-Shelf? Establishing an institutional repository for a small institution, Mark Sutherland and Peta Hopkins, Paper presented at the Information Online 2007 13th Exhibition and Conference, Sydney, 30th January – 1st February 2007. Australian Library and Information Association. (2007)
Effective management of digital assets as well as increasing research exposure and impact are particular challenges faced by smaller institutions with limited infrastructure and resources....