SPARC will host an online planning meeting to discuss Open Access Week 2010, which will take place October 18-24.
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TDL announces summer 2010 training courses
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library will offer training courses on DSpace, Vireo, and other services during the Summer 2010 semester.
Featured Resource: The TDL Wiki
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TDLThe TDL Wiki is a great resource for finding information on TDL services and projects, including user documentation, suggested reading, and updates on development projects.
Posted in Texas Digital Library, Useful resources
Tags: Electronic Journals, Texas Digital Library, user resources, Vireo, wikis
Tags: Electronic Journals, Texas Digital Library, user resources, Vireo, wikis
New DuraSpace blog tackles preservation issues
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For those interested in issues of preservation, the DuraSpace Preservation and Archive Solution Community is offering a new resource, in the form of a blog, that is intended to foster the “open exchange of ideas and initiatives around preservation & archiving solutions.”
The effort is part of the DuraSpace “
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Scholarship in the Digital Age
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In the most recent EDUCAUSE Review, Richard N. Katz contemplates the transformation of the scholarly enterprise as disruptive technologies begin to cause colleges and universities to question the established order of things.
From his article, “Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age”:
More recently,
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Video: TDL Search Stories
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Inspired by Laura Hammons at the Texas ETD Association blog, we at TDL had some fun with the Google “Search Stories” video creation tool. Check out our results below.
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Why is digital preservation important?
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TDLThe Library of Congress has produced a video that provides a nice beginner’s guide to some of the issues surrounding the long-term preservation of digital assets.
See the video here.
From the video’s description:
Traditional information sources such as books,
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Posted in Preservation Network, Useful resources
Tags: digital preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, user resources
Tags: digital preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, user resources
Launching a sustainable online journal
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The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing contains an article by Gerry Coulter on “Launching (and Sustaining) a Scholarly Journal on the Internet: The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.”
Presentations available from iPRES 2009
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TDLThe proceedings and presentations from the Sixth Annual Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2009) are now available online on the California Digital Library’s eScholarship site.
Posted in Conferences, Useful resources
Tags: Conferences, digital preservation, iPRES, user resources
Tags: Conferences, digital preservation, iPRES, user resources
Academic blogging: escaping the ivory tower
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The UC Berkeley alumni magazine California has published an article on academic blogging, with tales of some of the more well-known bloggers of the genre like Brad DeLong, John Holbo, and Dan Drezner.
Posted in scholarly blogs, Useful resources
Tags: scholarly blogs, scholarly communication, user resources
Tags: scholarly blogs, scholarly communication, user resources