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New From Archivist of the United States: NARA Celebrates the U.S. Entry into Open Government Partnership
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|David Ferriero writes: Yesterday, President Barack Obama unveiled the U.S. National Action Plan during a meeting in New York of the member nations of the Open Government Partnership. Last Week, the White House also issued a Status Report on the Administration’s Commitment to Open Government. Over the past year and a half, I’ve written a […]
New From ARL: SPEC Kit 324: Collecting Global Resources
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|The full text of the SPEC Kit is fee-based, ordering info at the bottom of this news release. However, as is always the case, the table-of-contents and an executive summary (18 pages; PDF) is available at no charge. From the Introduction of the Executive Summary: The purpose of this survey was to identify trends, practices, […]
Recently Released Briefing Paper: Making the Case for Research Data Management
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, Resources
|Title: Making the Case for Research Data Management (Briefing Paper) By: Angus Whyte (DCC) and Jonathan Tedds (University of Leicester) Source: Digital Curation Centre (UK) This briefing paper aims to help managers in research institutions build support for developing new services for research data management. It also gives a brief snapshot of the JISC-led programmes […]
Smithsonian Institution Archives Launches a New Website
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From a News Release: The Smithsonian Institution Archives announces the launch of its new website, http://siarchives.si.edu, with new features and improved access to collections. First launched in 1995, the website has been redesigned to maximize public access to the Archives’ rich collections that document the history of the Smithsonian and its role in the arts, […]
New Issue Online: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (6.3, 2011)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is published at the University of Alberta. It’s an open access publication. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Selected Articles Situating Student Learning in Rich Contexts: A Constructionist Approach to Digital Archives Education by Anthony Cocciolo An Examination of Library Anxiety at Cape Breton University by Lenard J. […]
A New 24 Page Report From OCLC: "WorldCat Quality"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|Title: Principle Contributors: Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management From a Summary on the OCLC Web Site: This paper describes OCLC’s steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat’s unprecedented growth […]
From the United States Courts: The [Judicial] Conference [of the United States] also authorized an increase in the Judiciary’s electronic public access fee in response to increasing costs for maintaining and enhancing the electronic public access system. The increase in the electronic public access (EPA) fee, from $.08 to $.10 per page, is needed to […]
Summary from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Web Site: This guide outlines the process of developing a data management and sharing plan. Planning for the effective creation, management and sharing of your data enables you to get the most out of your research. The guide outlines UK funder expectations for data management and sharing plans […]
New e-Print: "Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach"
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|A new e-Print via arXiv Full Text: “Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach” (44 Pages; PDF) Authors: Prodromos Tsiavos (London School of Economics, UK), Petros Stefaneas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) The creation of open archives i.e. archives where access is regulated by open licensing models (content, […]
What Google is attempting for books, the University of California, Berkeley, plans to do for the world’s vertebrate specimens: store them in “the cloud.” Online storage of information from vertebrate collections at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Natural History in Paris, UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and […]