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    Dimensions and Pivot: Finding Collaborators, Identifying Funding
    (2018-10-25) Phillips, Ellen
    Presentation made to BU faculty, staff and students on using the two commercial software platforms Dimensions by Digital Science and Pivot by ProQuest to find grants, other researchers to collaborate with, and opportunities to publish research.
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    What Beyonce can teach us about Open Access
    (2017-12) Newman, Anna
    This presentation uses Beyonce's album "Lemonade" as an example to explain the concept of open access. By framing "Lemonade" as an information resource, the presentation explores modes of and barriers to access and encourages participants to discuss questions of privilege, power, and equity in relation to access to information.
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    BU's Opt-out Open Access Policy
    (2017) Newman, Anna
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    Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment
    (OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2011-01) Malpas, Constance
    A report of key findings of the Cloud Library project, an effort jointly designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University's Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories.
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    A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
    (Educopia Institute, 2010) Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt
    This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways."--P. [4] of cover
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    Institutional Repositories, Policies, and Disruption
    (University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries, 2007-04-02) Lindahl, David; Bell, Suzanne; Gibbons, Susan; Foster, Nancy Fried
    For many librarians, institutional repositories (IRs) promised significant change for academic libraries. We envisioned enlarging collection development scope to include locally produced scholarship and an expansion of library services to embrace scholarly publication and distribution. However, at the University of Rochester, as at many other institutions, this transformational technology was introduced in the conservative, controlled manner associated with stereotypical librarian culture, and so these expected changes never materialized. In this case study, we focus on the creation of our institutional repository (a potentially disruptive technology) and how its success was hampered by our organizational culture, manifested as a lengthy and complicated set of policies. In the following pages, we briefly describe our repository project, talk about our original policies, look at the ways those policies impeded our project, and discuss the disruption of those policies and the benefits in user uptake that resulted.
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    DSpace Manual: Software version 1.5
    (The DSpace Foundation, 2008-05) DSpace Foundation
    DSpace is an open source software platform that enables organizations to: - Capture and describe digital material using a submission workflow module, or a variety of programmatic ingest options - Distribute an organization's digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system - Preserve digital assets over the long term This system documentation includes a functional overview of the system, which is a good introduction to the capabilities of the system, and should be readable by nontechnical personnel. Everyone should read this section first because it introduces some terminology used throughout the rest of the documentation. For people actually running a DSpace service, there is an installation guide, and sections on configuration and the directory structure. Note that as of DSpace 1.2, the administration user interface guide is now on-line help available from within the DSpace system. Finally, for those interested in the details of how DSpace works, and those potentially interested in modifying the code for their own purposes, there is a detailed architecture and design section.