Review
DSpace Website.
This is an excellent website for those interested in setting up and maintaining an institutional repository. DSpace is an open source digital repository software system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard for the storage of academic literature. Using LINUX and UNIX, the website has links to take you through the process of installing and running a functioning repository. It offers suggestions pertaining to the type of information service and its own personal needs.
Up to date reports are provided from various sources describing working repositories, the advantages and downsides. There are easy to access links to repositories worldwide. A working example is often the best way to ascertain whether this technology would work within our own systems, and provide the kind of service that would be of advantage to our customers. I recommend you visit the Wiki attached to this site to see contributions from clients and users of this software.
News articles and forthcoming conferences are listed on the home page.
The website promoting this software is very user friendly and easy to navigate. While it does have a certain bias the advantages are well documented in reports and wiki feedback. Should this software be put in place and used as your choice of technology, it offers a very good support network. It deals not only with repositories but also with records management and learning objectives repositories, and a host of other services which would certainly prove useful in a learning environment.
http://www.dspace.org
Monday, May 7, 2007
Review
“Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDELUS project”. Morag Mackie.
In this report Mackie outlines the process used to persuade academics to deposit their articles these and working papers in the repository.
The main point brought up in this project was the copyright restrictions imposed by some publishers. Many academics were willing to give personal permission for their works to be used, but due to restrictions these articles were unable to be used.
The report outlines the time and energy consumed by researchers of the DAEDELUS project. The vast majority of research consisted of contacting publishers and individual scholars about each article. While their findings show that there is considerable interest in contributing to an institutional repository, Mackie expresses a certain amount of frustration in getting scholars to self archive. It seems they would much rather leave the work to the project managers.
Mackie quite definitely states at the beginning that this was not a study to show the advantages of a repository, as this has already been well documented, but the work required in the undertaking of one such.
The topic of open access journals is explored, using specific examples such as Nature where publishers allow the author to have the right to place their articles in repositories following publication. Mackie implies that this type of copyright is what many scholars are moving towards, after general dissatisfaction with the restrictions imposed by publishers.
“Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDELUS project”. Morag Mackie.
In this report Mackie outlines the process used to persuade academics to deposit their articles these and working papers in the repository.
The main point brought up in this project was the copyright restrictions imposed by some publishers. Many academics were willing to give personal permission for their works to be used, but due to restrictions these articles were unable to be used.
The report outlines the time and energy consumed by researchers of the DAEDELUS project. The vast majority of research consisted of contacting publishers and individual scholars about each article. While their findings show that there is considerable interest in contributing to an institutional repository, Mackie expresses a certain amount of frustration in getting scholars to self archive. It seems they would much rather leave the work to the project managers.
Mackie quite definitely states at the beginning that this was not a study to show the advantages of a repository, as this has already been well documented, but the work required in the undertaking of one such.
The topic of open access journals is explored, using specific examples such as Nature where publishers allow the author to have the right to place their articles in repositories following publication. Mackie implies that this type of copyright is what many scholars are moving towards, after general dissatisfaction with the restrictions imposed by publishers.
This report would be of advantage to the library setting up such a repository to show the obstacles which may rear their heads in the process of implementing this technology.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/mackie
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