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Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges – A Handbook (EU, UNESCO)
Added 14 July 2008
http://ec.europa.eu/...cess-handbook_en.pdf
A Joint publication of the European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO, 2008. The English version of the handbook, a joint publication with the European Commission’s Science in Society Programme, has just been published. The publication is available in print and electronic version.
The handbook aims to provide information about the opportunities and challenges offered by Open Access, and to present a wide array of issues and positions under debate. The English version of the handbook is a translation of the handbook in German, published by the German Commission for UNESCO in 2007.
Categories:
- Access
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
Added 21 July 2008
http://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
Categories:
- Open Access
Oya Y. Rieger: Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization
Added 13 December 2007
http://www.clir.org/...ies/details/lsdi.pdf
This paper examines large-scale initiatives to identify issues that will influence the availability and usability, over time, of the digital books that these projects create. As an
introduction, the paper describes four key large-scale digitization projects and their digitization strategies. Issues range from the quality of image capture to the commitment and viability of archiving institutions, as well as those institutions’ willingness to
collaborate. The paper also attempts to foresee the likely impacts of large-scale digitization on print collections. It offers a set of recommendations for rethinking a
preservation strategy. It concludes with a plea for collaboration among cultural
institutions. No single library can afford to undertake a project on the scale of Google Book Search; such a library can, however, collaborate with others to address the common challenges that such large projects pose.
Categories:
- Access
- Co-operation of memory institutions
- Digital libraries
- Digitisation
- Long-term preservation
