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Babini, D. "Cooperative virtual libraries: training via internet of librarians and editors." IFLA/SAGE, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105695.
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This conference paper has been published by IFLA Journal, vol. 31, n 3, 2005, p. 229-233The development of virtual libraries that offer Internet users access to full-text documents requires the team work of librarians, editors and webmasters. In this presentation, Dr. Dominique Babini, coordinator of the Latin American and the Caribbean Social Sciences Virtual Library of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences´ Network (CLACSO), proposes the option of cooperative virtual libraries and describes how they organized a distance training course via Internet for a group of librarians and editors of 18 countries of Latin American and the Caribbean, pointing out the factors that must be considered for the organization of courses via Internet
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Eschenfelder, Kristin R. "Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources: A Report for ACRL." ACM/IEEE, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105263.
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This report is a later version of the JCDL 2006 posterThis report summarizes the results of an ACRL Samuel Lazerow Fellowship funded research project to investigate the extent to which publishers and vendors are making use of technological protection measures ("TPM" also known as DRM) to control access to and use of licensed full-text scholarly materials or data sets. The study also began to explore the impact of access and use restrictions on learning, scholarship and library management.
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Goodman, David. "Open Access: What Comes Next." Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105958.
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(also in this archive)This article examines the effects that present decisions about open access (OA) will have over the next ten years. It will be shown that the consequences are affected both by deliberate choices of policy by librarians and publishers, as well as by the adoption of various alternatives by scientific authors. The eventual result could be excellent, or quite otherwise.
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Chakrvarty, Rupak, and Sukhdeep Kaur. "OpenCourseware: Learning Beyond Classroom." Twenty First Century Publications, Patiala, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106151.
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OpenCourseWare is an innovative and bold idea. It aims to support learning and teaching programme significantly. Learning material contained in an OCW provides learners an opportunity to gain knowledge beyond their routine classroom environments. These are in the digital form which can be accessed online, thus breaking the barriers of time and distance. Indian academics can play a significant role in creating OCW materials for the students to propagate the teaching and learning process diluting the limitations of traditional educational setup and begin a new culture of "Learning Beyond Classroom". The present study aims to sensitize the teachers and learners about the potentials of the OCWs. It presents a proposal for creating an "Indian OCW Consortium" at different levels. Also discusses the challenges and issues in establishing such an OCW project.
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Downing, Thomas A. "An Initial Survey and Description of How Selected United States Government Libraries, Information Centers, and Information Services Provide Public Access to Information Via the Internet." the Library of Congress, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105137.
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The purpose of this survey is to describe how selected United States Government agencies provide information to the public via Internet services. With more than 2,000 Federal library and information centers located throughout the world this effort, of necessity, is selective and findings neither represent all libraries nor do they identify all approaches currently used to present information via the Web. An effort has been made to describe services without attributing values to particular site characteristics. This report provides a brief snapshot in time of a complex and rapidly evolving world. While not definitive in scope, it is hoped that this report will provide a baseline for anyone who may wish to revisit some of these sites in the future to determine how services may have been expanded, reduced, or refined.
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Garrido, Piedad, Jesús Tramullas, and Manuel Coll. "CONDITOR1: Topic Maps and DITA labelling tool for textual documents with historical information." Texas A&M University Libraries, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105197.
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Conditor is a software tool which works with textual documents containing historical information. The purpose of this work two-fold: firstly to show the validity of the developed engine to correctly identify and label the entities of the universe of discourse with a labelled-combined XTM-DITA model. Secondly to explain the improvements achieved in the information retrieval process thanks to the use of a object-oriented database (JPOX) as well as its integration into the Lucene-type database search process to not only accomplish more accurate searches, but to also help the future development of a recommender system [21]. We finish with a brief demo in a 3D-graph of the results of the aforementioned search.
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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Cheryl Knott Malone. "Copyright Transfer Agreements and Self-Archiving." Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106282.
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Concerns about intellectual property rights are a significant barrier to the practice of scholarly self-archiving in institutional and other types of digital repositories. This introductory level, half-day tutorial will demystify the journal copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that often are the source of these rights concerns of scholars. In addition, participants will be introduced to the deposit processes of self-archiving in an interdisciplinary repository and open access archive (OAA), such as DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology.
Editor's Note: This is a 1-page summary of the tutorial at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '05), June 7, 2005, Denver, Colorado. It does not include the actual tutorial. Contents: Introduction, Learning Outcomes, Topics to be covered, About the Presenters, and References.
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Edminster, Judith Rhoades. "The diffusion of new media scholarship [electronic resource] : power, innovation, and resistance in academe / by Judith R. Edminster." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000035.
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Bailey, Charles W. "Libraries with Glass Walls." University of Houston Libraries, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105475.
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Fantasies of "virtual libraries," where users transparently access needed information regardless of location, depend on no-cost, unrestricted access to electronic information. In the real world, ownership and access are interwoven, library materials are usually in print form, and libraries are not usually high funding priorities for their parent institutions. If electronic information is obtained from commercial sources, libraries may need to restrict remote access to it. Ironically, print information in remote libraries may be more accessible than electronic information.
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Chandra, Smita, and Vivek Patkar. "ICTS: A catalyst for enriching the learning process and library services in India." Elsevier, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106060.
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The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the library and learning environment. On the one hand, ICTs have enhanced the variety and accessibility to library collections and services to break the barriers of location and time. On the other, the e-Learning has emerged as an additional medium for imparting education in many disciplines to overcome the constraint of physical capacity associated with the traditional classroom methods. For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking. Thanks to the recent initiatives by the public and private institutions in this direction, a few web-based instruction courses are now running in the country. This paper reviews different aspects of e-Learning and emerging learning landscapes. It further presents the
library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process. How these ICTs driven advances can contribute to the comprehensive learning process in India is highlighted.
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Möller, Allison Melanie. "The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1607.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBiblOpen access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.
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Cheng, Li-Shan. "The design of digital document strategies, principles, and processes /." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003chengl.pdf.
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Mon, Lorri M. "User perceptions of digital reference services /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7177.
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Samyuktha, R. "Nutraceuticals gateway: A value-added electronic information service." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105500.
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The attributes of education in a digital neighborhood have warranted a community of teachers on one end with shared curriculum and teaching materials and another community of students with distance and distributed learning on the other end. There is a different kind of ecology emerging and the library professionals have the opportunity to create a world without borders, making everything available to everyone anytime, anywhere. Roles of libraries have changed from being traditional to exist as hybrid or electronic libraries. In turn, the Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals have become intelligent filters of information and contribute to the libraries to emerge as â Knowledge Resource Centersâ . Creating successful e-information services for its demanding clientele has become their major challenge. One such case study of e-information services provided by the Science Campus (Guindy Campus) Li-brary of University of Madras is focused in this paper. The Campus Library caters to the re-search community of Schools of Life, Physical, Chemical, Earth Sciences and an array of re-searchers (members) from industries. Periodic discussions with experts, faculty and research scholars have necessitated the Library to enhance research with Information Gateways on spe-cific themes. Subject Gateways on Biomedical Sciences, Life, Chemical, Physical and Inter-disciplinary Sciences are compiled periodically and made available on the intranet in turn making its clientele access the sources on the internet from their desktop. They not only sup-plement research but also new popular courses introduced, thrust of the University programs and so on. The Gateway focused here is â Nutraceuticalsâ which is a component of the Gate-ways on â Biomedical Sciencesâ . The methodology of information aggregation from the Inter-net, evaluating their validity and organizing them for access, the strategies used to market the e-service, such as organizing user education and information literacy programs are discussed. Methods of evaluation of the service provided are analysed to improve the same. The chal-lenges of the career to develop essential skills to combat technology have compelled the pro-fessionals at the Library to get trained and update their technical expertise. Thus the Library tries to support the evolutionary convergence of Library Services, Technology and the Clien-tele.
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Birdie, Christina, B. Sreeharsha, T. Pallavi, and Mahantesh Kannur. "Archiving of Electronic Journals in Physics and Astronomy: Role of Consortia." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106409.
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Electronic journals unfold their most valuable features when they are inter-linked with other documents, archives and databases. These electronic journals need an archiving system that is based on a global concept. Archiving ensures "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form". Archiving system has to be flexible to adopt the new technological generation. The rapid pace at which technology becomes obsolete makes archiving an extremely expensive undertaking. The librarians are more concerned about the archiving of the electronic journals themselves, or getting access to the archives established by the publishers or the aggregators. This paper focuses on the issues related to the archiving of electronic journals in Physics and Astronomy by the publishers, aggregators and the consortia.
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Ry-Kottoh, Lucy Afeafa. "Digital publishing in Ghana : a focus on children's e-books." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26842.
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Adopting a mixed methods approach consisting of interviews, focus group discussions and surveys, this thesis investigates the state of digital publishing in Ghana within the context of Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory. With a focus on children’s ebooks, it examines publishers’, authors’ and readers’ levels of adoption of ebooks, and their motivations for, perceptions of, and challenges or barriers to, going digital or otherwise. It also assesses the state of digital infrastructure and human resource capacity in Ghana to support the growing ebook sector, and identifies the knowledge and skills deficit in the industry in order to inform the development of courses that will be incorporated into the BA Publishing Studies programme at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). This thesis reveals that the level of adoption of ebook publishing among publishers and authors was relatively low given the interest demonstrated by young readers. The latter were very interested in ebooks and read mainly foreign content because it was freely available and accessible online. Publishers’ and authors’ motivations for publishing ebooks include visibility, the opportunity to reach a much wider audience, and the novelty of publishing digitally to keep abreast of current trends so as to transform the local industry. Some barriers to adoption identified were the cost associated with acquiring infrastructure, the security of online content, inadequate information about ebooks, non-use of ebooks, and infrastructural challenges such as inconsistent electricity supply and poor Internet penetration. The thesis also identified an awareness disconnect between publishers and their local readers: publishers perceive ebooks to be for the international market and, as such, do not focus on promoting them in the local market; thus, local readers are not aware of the existence of ebooks. Expanding on Rogers’ adoption categories, two new categories were created, incidental adopters and perceptual late adopters, to accommodate individuals who do not fall within Rogers’ established adopter categories. To increase the spread of digital publishing and the uptake of ebooks in the Ghanaian book market, the thesis recommends the elimination of the barriers to adoption and, most importantly, advocates training and skills development to reduce the knowledge and skills deficit gap among publishers and authors.
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Cleland, William A. "Best Practices in Digital Asset Management for Electronic Texts in Academic Research Libraries." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182789000.
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Stewart, Lewis E. "Factors contributing to download activity for applied research projects completed at Texas State University in the Master of Public Administration program /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/306.
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Konstantelos, Leonidas. "Digital art in digital libraries : a study of user-oriented information retrieval." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1333/.
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This thesis presents an empirical investigation of the problems of including pictorial digital art in the context of Digital Libraries (DLs). The rational for this work is that digital art material is a significant source of learning and research, provided that it is systematically collected and maintained in structured electronic repositories. The thesis addresses a fundamental question: How to provide description and retrieval services, which are based on the needs of digital art user communities? This raises three research issues. One is the need to combine DL collections into meaningful and functional content. The second is the importance of a user-oriented approach to designing and developing Digital Libraries. The third is the requirement for continuing access to digital art as a record of modern culture. These questions are explored through a needs assessment targeted to Arts & Humanities scholars, digital artists and representatives of the DL community. A data collection methodology is developed, based on the principles of Social Informatics and a case study of evaluation efforts in extant projects. The results from this process demonstrate that the scholarly value of digital art can be established by aggregating material from various repositories into a unified dataset. The results also identify specific documentation and retrieval issues deriving from inclusion of digital art in a DL environment that necessitate further investigation. To this end, a review of sixteen digital art online resources is conducted which reveals ad-hoc collection strategies and metadata deficiencies. The work presents a prototype Digital Library for enhancing the educational outcome of digital art. The application is used as an implementation platform for material aggregation and augmented documentation through the Media Art Notation System (MANS). The summative evaluation findings confirm that the suggested solutions are highly rated by the targeted audiences. The thesis makes a contribution to academic knowledge in situating the representation of digital art within modern society. By critically examining the unique requirements of this material using the resources of social theory, the thesis represents a contemporary and pragmatic perspective on digital media art. In a well-structured Digital Library, the scholarly potential of digital art is much greater than the currently employed ad-hoc context. This work offers a sustained reflection and a roadmap for selecting and consistently applying a strategy that aims to continually improve the quality of digital art provision.
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Arora, Jagdish, and Pawan Agrawal. "Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium: Consortia-Based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India: A Government of India Initiative." Information and Library Network Centre, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105608.
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The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set-up a â Consortia-based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in Indiaâ on the recommendations made by the Expert Group appointed by the ministry. The consortium is named as the Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium. The INDEST Consortium has commenced its operation since Dec., 2002 through its headquarters at the IIT Delhi. The Consortium subscribes to full-text electronic resources and bibliographic databases for 38 leading engineering and technological institutions in India including IITs (7), IISc (1), NITs / RECs (17), IIMs (6) and a few other institutions directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). While the expenditure on electronic resources proposed for subscription under the consortium for these 38 institutions are being met from the funds made available by the MHRD, the consortium being an open-ended proposition, welcomes all other institutions to join it on their own for sharing benefits it offers in terms of highly discounted subscription rates and better terms of agreement with the publishers. Moreover, beneficiary institutions may also subscribe to additional electronic resources through the consortium that are not being funded by the MHRD. This article introduces the INDEST Consortium, its activities and services.
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Kahu, Sampanna Yashwant. "Figure Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/100113.
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The ability to extract figures and tables from scientific documents can solve key use-cases such as their semantic parsing, summarization, or indexing. Although a few methods have been developed to extract figures and tables from scientific documents, their performance on scanned counterparts is considerably lower than on born-digital ones. To facilitate this, we propose methods to effectively extract figures and tables from Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), that out-perform existing methods by a considerable margin. Our contribution towards this goal is three-fold. (a) We propose a system/model for improving the performance of existing methods on scanned scientific documents for figure and table extraction. (b) We release a new dataset containing 10,182 labelled page-images spanning across 70 scanned ETDs with 3.3k manually annotated bounding boxes for figures and tables. (c) Lastly, we release our entire code and the trained model weights to enable further research (https://github.com/SampannaKahu/deepfigures-open).Master of Science
Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most popular document formats. However, parsing PDF files is not a trivial task. One use-case of parsing PDF files is the search functionality on websites hosting scholarly documents (i.e., IEEE Xplore, etc.). Having the ability to extract figures and tables from a scholarly document helps this use-case, among others. Methods using deep learning exist which extract figures from scholarly documents. However, a large number of scholarly documents, especially the ones published before the advent of computers, have been scanned from hard paper copies into PDF. In particular, we focus on scanned PDF versions of long documents, such as Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). No experiments have been done yet that evaluate the efficacy of the above-mentioned methods on this scanned corpus. This work explores and attempts to improve the performance of these existing methods on scanned ETDs. A new gold standard dataset is created and released as a part of this work for figure extraction from scanned ETDs. Finally, the entire source code and trained model weights are made open-source to aid further research in this field.
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Dillon, Andrew. "TIMS: A framework for the design of usable electronic text." Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106509.
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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. (1996) TIMS: A framework for the design of usable electronic text. In: H. van Oostendorp and S. de Mul (eds.) Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing. Norwood NJ: Ablex, 99-120. Introduction:
Despite the claims and the promises, the hype and the visions, the reality of electronic text is far less impressive than the rhetoric that surrounds it. Internet, World Wide Webs, MOSAIC, e-journals, word processors, and of course, hypertext are all pushed forward as examples of this triumph of technology, this liberation of the human reader and writer, this future of unlimited information for everyone. Yet, for all this, as has been outlined in detail elsewhere (see e.g., Dillon 1994), the typical reader of an electronic information source will likely suffer loss of orientation, lower reading speeds, and possibly greater fatigue than the typical reader of a paper document for few demonstrable benefits.
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McKnight, Cliff, Andrew Dillon, and Brian Shackel. "The Electronic journal and its implications for the digital library." New York: SUNY Press (SUNY Series in Computer-Mediated Communication), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105169.
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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: McKnight, C., Dillon, A. and Shackel, B. (1996) The electronic journal and its implications for the digital library. In T. Harrison and T. Stephens (eds.) Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century. NY: SUNY Press, 351-368.
1. INTRODUCTION: It is now over ten years since the first electronic journal experiments (e.g., EIES, BLEND) and the intervening years have not seen researchers being idle in this field. Indeed, while experiments have continued apace in an attempt to answer various questions such as the appropriateness of particular interfaces, electronic journals have continued to appear. The third edition of the ARL list (Okerson, 1993) contains 45 electronic journals while the first edition, only two years earlier (Okerson, 1991), listed only 27. This might suggest reasonably rapid growth but in actual fact represents a high rate of turnover also -- 16 of the original 27 do not appear in the latest list. We therefore start this chapter from the assumption that electronic journals will continue to be a feature of the scholarly communication process, although not all will survive.
Our second assumption arises from our experiences in the design, implementation and evaluation of information technology based systems in general, not just electronic journals. That is, we assume that in order to be acceptable, any system attempting to replace an existing technology must enable users to perform their necessary tasks in a way which is at least as easy as the existing system. The new system must offer at least as much (and preferably more) than the existing system, otherwise motivation to move from the old to the new is not high. In the present context, this means that the successful electronic journals will be those which not only support the scholarly communication process and all the other user requirements satisfied by paper based journals, but also support additional, enhanced facilities such as tailorable presentation formats, integrated interactive discussion about articles, flexible indexing and retrieval, hypertext linking and so forth.
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Martínez, Javier Rodriguez-Borlado. "A study of emerging opportunities for digital print production of user-generated content /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7745.
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Recene, Ronald James. "An investigation into the use of the World Wide Web as an interface for distributing electronic documents to and from a remote digital color printing site /." Link to online version, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/60.
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Allard, Suzanne Lorraine. "INNOVATION IN A UNIVERSITY SOCIAL SYSTEM: THE ADOPTION OF ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATIONS DIGITAL LIBRARIES." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2003. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukycomm2003d00084/AllardDiss0503.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2003.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 172 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164).
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Kimbrough, Julie L. "21ST CENTURY PRESERVATION CHALLENGES FOR LAW LIBRARIES." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/34.
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This study examines the preservation practices of academic law libraries and argues that the survey results illustrate the growing gap between current preservation practices and new technology. The introduction to the study discusses challenges for libraries and cultural institutions in the digital age. In the second section, the paper analyzes U.S. copyright law and the effect of recent amendments on library preservation activities. The third section reports the results of a preservation practices survey. In the fourth section, the paper explores options for future law library preservation including institutional repositories and collaborative preservation efforts. The paper concludes that a new approach to scholarship and preservation is necessary to ensure that future generations have access to historically important legal literature.
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Yeh, Shea-Tinn. "Integrated Faceted Browser and Direct Search to Enhance Information Retrieval in Text-Based Digital Libraries." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1252951819.
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Токмань, Віталіна, and Vitalina Tokman. "Електронні бібліотеки." СумДПУ імені А. С. Макаренка, 2017. http://repository.sspu.sumy.ua/handle/123456789/2620.
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У статті дано визначення електронної бібліотеки. Перераховані деякі функції та загальні положення. Наведені плюси та мінуси користування електронними бібліотеками.In article definition of the electronic library. Lists some of the functions and General regulations. Given the pros and cons of use of digital libraries.
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Kan'an, Tarek Ghaze. "Arabic News Text Classification and Summarization: A Case of the Electronic Library Institute SeerQ (ELISQ)." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74272.
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Arabic news articles in heterogeneous electronic collections are difficult for users to work with. Two problems are: that they are not categorized in a way that would aid browsing, and that there are no summaries or detailed metadata records that could be easier to work with than full articles. To address the first problem, schema mapping techniques were adapted to construct a simple taxonomy for Arabic news stories that is compatible with the subject codes of the International Press Telecommunications Council. So that each article would be labeled with the proper taxonomy category, automatic classification methods were researched, to identify the most appropriate. Experiments showed that the best features to use in classification resulted from a new tailored stemming approach (i.e., a new Arabic light stemmer called P-Stemmer). When coupled with binary classification using SVM, the newly developed approach proved to be superior to state-of-the-art techniques. To address the second problem, i.e., summarization, preliminary work was done with English corpora. This was in the context of a new Problem Based Learning (PBL) course wherein students produced template summaries of big text collections. The techniques used in the course were extended to work with Arabic news. Due to the lack of high quality tools for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and topic identification for Arabic, two new tools were constructed: RenA for Arabic NER, and ALDA for Arabic topic extraction tool (using the Latent Dirichlet Algorithm). Controlled experiments with each of RenA and ALDA, involving Arabic speakers and a randomly selected corpus of 1000 Qatari news articles, showed the tools produced very good results (i.e., names, organizations, locations, and topics). Then the categorization, NER, topic identification, and additional information extraction techniques were combined to produce approximately 120,000 summaries for Qatari news articles, which are searchable, along with the articles, using LucidWorks Fusion, which builds upon Solr software. Evaluation of the summaries showed high ratings based on the 1000-article test corpus. Contributions of this research with Arabic news articles thus include a new: test corpus, taxonomy, light stemmer, classification approach, NER tool, topic identification tool, and template-based summarizer – all shown through experimentation to be highly effective.Ph. D.
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Andersson, Kent-Inge. "Developing a theory of open access : a grounded theory based literature review." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10864.
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The thesis presents a conceptual literature review of the subject of open access as it is reflected in literature relevant to digital library research. An approach to the grounded theory method specifically created for the purpose of performing a literature review is applied to 70 articles and conference proceedings found in the databases LISA and LISTA. Through the coding of the literature five categories that conceptually order the subject of open access emerged; Open Access, Authors, Scholarly Communication, Libraries and Librarians, and Developing and Transitional Countries. The conceptual relations of the categories are discussed in the presentation of the categories. The emerged theory is then validated through a review of earlier literature, which focused on literature reviews on open access. A model of the emerged theory with explanatory narratives are then presented in the concluding chapter.
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Aardse, Kent Alexander, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The print artifact in the age of the digital : the writings of Mark Z. Danielewski and Steve Tomasula." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, 2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3069.
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The primacy of the print novel as the main mode for knowledge dissemination
and communication is being challenged today by the vast influx and pervasiveness of
digital media. Print literature, then, is at potential risk for obsolescence, as digital
technology creates new modes of narrative distribution. The novel, therefore, is in the
midst of a metamorphosis, having to adapt in order to properly situate itself within the
new media ecology.
Somewhat paradoxically, the same digital technology that challenges print
literature’s primacy is responsible for the novel’s adaption. The changing face of the page
creates new novels that reflect the digital in print, through changes in typography, layout,
and design. These changes illuminate the need for a material-specific methodology in
literary theory, and brings about the death of postmodernism in the new, digital
environment.
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Gudinavičius, Arūnas. "Digital Book Quality From The User's Perspective." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20121227_090448-36088.
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The object of research is the quality of the digital book conveyed in terms of quality criteria. These are some distinguished features, assessment measures whose presence or absence determines the quality of the object. The object is analysed from the user’s perspective in consideration of his/her expectations and assessments. The research takes the approach that the quality criteria attributable to the digital book should be tailored to the needs of the user to a maximum level.
By differentiating the criteria according to their importance to the users, this research aims at building up the quality assessment instrument for digital books that would reveal the specifics and expressive characteristics of the digital book.
Referring to the explored concept of the digital book and its potential, the analysis into the needs, experience and wishes of readers, it is going to be established as to which qualitative book reading factors have the biggest impact on the quality assessment of the digital book. A new qualitative step is taken as it is for the first time in digital book quality research, by using Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, the components of the toolbox (quality criteria) are differentiated and rated under two aspects. The results of the research reveal the overall innovative picture of elements of the digital book that are most important to users. The created digital book quality assessment instrument can be used both in further scientific digital book research... [to full text]Disertacijoje tiriama skaitmeninės knygos kokybė, išreikšta tam tikrais išskirtais kokybės kriterijais, vertinimo matais, kurių buvimas arba nebuvimas nulemia objekto kokybę. Darbe laikomasi nuomonės, kad skaitmeninei knygai taikomi kokybės kriterijai turi būti maksimaliai pritaikyti vartotojui, todėl objektas nagrinėjamas žvelgiant iš vartotojo pozicijos, atsižvelgiant į jo lūkesčius ir vertinimus. Skaitmeninės knygos skaitymo procesas traktuojamas kaip vartotojo noras gauti informacijos bei ją suvokti. Darbo tikslas – diferencijuojant kriterijus pagal jų svarbumą vartotojams, sukonstruoti skaitmeninių knygų kokybės vertinimo instrumentą (kokybinių kriterijų rinkinį), kuris atskleistų skaitmeninės knygos specifiką bei raiškos ypatybes. Remiantis išanalizuota skaitmeninės knygos samprata, jos galimybėmis, skaitytojų poreikių, patirties ir pageidavimų analize, nustatoma, kokie kokybiniai knygos skaitymo aspektai turi daugiausia įtakos vertinant skaitmeninės knygos kokybę. Žengiamas kokybiškai naujas žingsnis – pirmą kartą skaitmeninės knygos kokybės tyrimuose, pritaikant Herzbergo motyvacijos-higienos teoriją, rinkinio sudedamosios dalys (kokybės kriterijai) yra diferencijuojamos ir reitinguojamos dviem aspektais. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia ir novatorišką visuminį vartotojams reikšmingiausių skaitmeninės knygos elementų vaizdą. Sukonstruotas skaitmeninės knygos kokybės įvertinimo instrumentas gali būti taikomas tiek tolimesniuose moksliniuose skaitmeninės knygos tyrimuose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Ali, Muhammad Usman, and Muhammad Aasim. "Usability Evaluation of Digital Library BTH a case study." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-6140.
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Libraries have for hundreds of years been an important entity for every kind of institute, especially in the educational sector. So now it is an age of computers and internet. People are now using electronic resources to fulfill their needs and requirements of their life. Therefore libraries have also converted to computerized systems. People can access and use library resources just sitting at their computers by using the internet. This modern way of running a library has been called or given the name of digital libraries. Digital libraries are getting famous for flexibility of use and because more users can be facilitated at a time. As numbers of users are increasing, some issues relevant to interaction also arise while using digital libraries interface and utilizing its e-resources. In this thesis we evaluate usability factors and issues in digital libraries and the authors have taken as a case study the real time existing system of the digital library in BTH. This thesis report describes digital libraries and how users are being facilitated by them. Usability issues are also discussed relevant to digital libraries. Users have been the main source to evaluate and judge usability issues while interacting and using this digital library. The results obtained showed dis¬satisfaction of users regarding the usability evaluation of BTH:s digital library. The authors used usability evaluation techniques to evaluate functionality and services provided by the BTH digital library system interface. Moreover, based on the results of our case study, suggestions of improvement in BTH:s digital library are presented. Hopefully, these suggestions will help to make BTH digital library system more usable in an efficient and effective manner for users.0046-738956073 0046-738956073 0046-734956502
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Lindström, Clara. ""Antingen så lägger man sig ner och dör eller så försöker man" : En intervjustudie om några förläggares och bibliotekariers inställning till e-bokshantering på svenska folkbibliotek." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253310.
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This master thesis aims to examine how public libraries in Sweden are practically and ideologically equipped to deal with e-books, outside of the dominant distributor Elib. The study also aims to find out what’s required of the book market and the public libraries to make further progress in the question of e-books. In Sweden e-books are still representing only a small amount of all the library loans and an even smaller amount of the commercial book market. The methodological and theoretical ground for the thesis is Grounded Theory, and the survey is based on interviews with publishers, librarians and distributors. The conclusions of this thesis are that the public libraries lack resources to invest in e-books, and that they also lack in knowledge about the media and its readers. It also exposes that both internal and external collaboration efforts need to be further developed. In addition to this it also becomes clear that the libraries’ and publishers' digital presence is crucial in their efforts to reach out with literature to the readers. The findings above are closely interwoven with two conceptions of a more abstract kind. The first relates to the issue of the identity of the public library and the question of how they should manage their mission in a still developing digital world. The second concerns the issue of the value of the e-book vs. the value of the printed book. Both publishers and libraries still see the printed book as superior to the e-book, wherefore libraries are reluctant to invest in books that will not be a part of a traditional bookshelf collection. In order to work more actively with the development and further adapt to a future digital society, it is these factors that the book market and the public libraries must work on in order to reach out with literature to the readers. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum Studies.
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Gudinavičius, Arūnas. "Skaitmeninės knygos kokybė vartotojo požiūriu." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20121227_090437-68854.
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Disertacijoje tiriama skaitmeninės knygos kokybė, išreikšta tam tikrais išskirtais kokybės kriterijais, vertinimo matais, kurių buvimas arba nebuvimas nulemia objekto kokybę. Darbe laikomasi nuomonės, kad skaitmeninei knygai taikomi kokybės kriterijai turi būti maksimaliai pritaikyti vartotojui, todėl objektas nagrinėjamas žvelgiant iš vartotojo pozicijos, atsižvelgiant į jo lūkesčius ir vertinimus. Skaitmeninės knygos skaitymo procesas traktuojamas kaip vartotojo noras gauti informacijos bei ją suvokti. Darbo tikslas – diferencijuojant kriterijus pagal jų svarbumą vartotojams, sukonstruoti skaitmeninių knygų kokybės vertinimo instrumentą (kokybinių kriterijų rinkinį), kuris atskleistų skaitmeninės knygos specifiką bei raiškos ypatybes.
Remiantis išanalizuota skaitmeninės knygos samprata, jos galimybėmis, skaitytojų poreikių, patirties ir pageidavimų analize, nustatoma, kokie kokybiniai knygos skaitymo aspektai turi daugiausia įtakos vertinant skaitmeninės knygos kokybę. Žengiamas kokybiškai naujas žingsnis – pirmą kartą skaitmeninės knygos kokybės tyrimuose, pritaikant Herzbergo motyvacijos-higienos teoriją, rinkinio sudedamosios dalys (kokybės kriterijai) yra diferencijuojamos ir reitinguojamos dviem aspektais. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia ir novatorišką visuminį vartotojams reikšmingiausių skaitmeninės knygos elementų vaizdą. Sukonstruotas skaitmeninės knygos kokybės įvertinimo instrumentas gali būti taikomas tiek tolimesniuose moksliniuose skaitmeninės knygos tyrimuose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]The object of research is the quality of the digital book conveyed in terms of quality criteria. These are some distinguished features, assessment measures whose presence or absence determines the quality of the object. The object is analysed from the user’s perspective in consideration of his/her expectations and assessments. The research takes the approach that the quality criteria attributable to the digital book should be tailored to the needs of the user to a maximum level. By differentiating the criteria according to their importance to the users, this research aims at building up the quality assessment instrument for digital books that would reveal the specifics and expressive characteristics of the digital book. Referring to the explored concept of the digital book and its potential, the analysis into the needs, experience and wishes of readers, it is going to be established as to which qualitative book reading factors have the biggest impact on the quality assessment of the digital book. A new qualitative step is taken as it is for the first time in digital book quality research, by using Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, the components of the toolbox (quality criteria) are differentiated and rated under two aspects. The results of the research reveal the overall innovative picture of elements of the digital book that are most important to users. The created digital book quality assessment instrument can be used both in further scientific digital book research... [to full text]
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Amorim, Antonio Marcos. "A globalização do mercado de periódicos científicos eletrônicos e os consórcios de bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras: desafios à democratização do conhecimento científico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27143/tde-23032006-021513/.
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Esta pesquisa buscou avaliar se as bibliotecas envolvidas em atividades de consórcio estão atuando como instrumentos sociais de democratização e ampliação do acesso à informação científica através de suas políticas de desenvolvimento de coleções. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo de caso de consórcio de bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras para aquisição de periódicos científicos. Por meio de uma postura dialética como forma de conhecimento e como método de pensar o objeto de estudo, foi realizada uma análise do contexto sócio-econômico caracterizado pela globalização eletrônica, o processo de crescente exclusão social e a mudança no fluxo do conhecimento científico para uma cultura do digital, buscando verificar quais as relações implícitas e explícitas que afetam o desenvolvimento de coleções e ampliam uma tendência marcada pelo agravamento da infoexclusão digital no Brasil em tempos recentes. Constatou-se que a forte presença de oligopólios de poder no mercado internacional de periódicos científicos e a existência de um contexto dominado pela diminuição crescente de recursos financeiros nas bibliotecas brasileiras, sobretudo a partir da década de noventa, tem restringido a amplitude das metas de consórcios e impedido que se maximize, assim, o ganho social em longo prazo. Os resultados da pesquisa também revelaram que persistem desafios para o desenvolvimento de coleções através de atividades cooperativas, dentre eles o fortalecimento das atividades de marketing executadas pelas bibliotecas participantes, permitindo maior disseminação dos recursos eletrônicos existentes e um maior poder de negociação do consórcio com os oligopólios do mercado de periódicos científicos. Além disso, ficou constatada uma carência real pela realização de novos consórcios de bibliotecas, que contemplem outros tipos de documentos que não periódicos científicos e associados às bibliotecas públicas e regionais, possibilitando uma democratização do conhecimento para uma maior parcela da sociedade, minimizando a exclusão digital existente.The research aimed at evaluating the consortia activities in terms of its performance as social instruments of democratization and broadening of scientific information access, by means of its policies of collection development. A case of study of brazilian University libraries consortia for the acquisition of scientific journals was carried out. By means of a dialectal point of view as a way to develop new knowledge and methodology for this researchs subject matter, an analyses of the electronic globalizations social and economic context was performed, as for the growing of social exclusion, and the change in the flow of scientific knowledge towards a digital culture. The analysis above struggles to check implicit and explicit relations affecting collection development and widening a trend, marked by the gravity of current digital exclusion in Brazil. Research findings revealed that : the presence of scientific publishers monopoly power and the lower budgets of the brazilian libraries in the nineties, have restricted consortias purposes as well as blocked likely long-term social gains; challenges for collection development through cooperative activities still persist among them, the strenghtening of marketing actions performed by those participating libraries, allowing greater electronic resources dissemination, as well as greater negotiation posssibilities between consortium and monopolies in the scientific periodicals market ; lack of new libraries consortia embracing other types of documents non-scientific journals associated with public and regional libraries, allowing knowledge democratization to greater extents of society, minimizing digital exclusion.
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Monopoli, Maria. "User-based evaluation of academic digital libraries : case studies, Social Science Information Gateway, Art, Design Architecture & Media Gateway and the Electronic Journals Service of the University of Patras, Greece." Thesis, City University London, 2005. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8440/.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of academic digital libraries from a user-oriented approach. For this purpose, end-users were invited to describe how they perceive and make use of academic digital libraries. The study was focused on Subject Based Information Gateways (SBIGs) and Electronic Journals Services. Specifically, two gateways were examined: the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) and the Art, Design, Architecture and Media (ADAM) gateway, and an electronic journals service: the Electronic Journals Service of the Library and Information Service (LIS), the University of Patras, Greece. The target group was the academic community: academic staff, research staff and students (undergraduate and postgraduate). The research methods used were online questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and transaction logs analysis (TLA). Concerning the perception of academic digital libraries, users were invited: to provide the advantages and/ or disadvantages of electronic information over print, to compare the electronic and print version of a piece of information, to evaluate services or features as very important, important, or not important and to specify factors that would discourage them from accessing a digital library. Regarding the use of academic digital libraries, users were asked to specify: how frequently they use digital libraries, what reasons they use digital libraries for, what place they gain access from, what their preferred method of searching for information is, what their preferred method of storing and reading electronic information is, whether they use the support services provided, what types of information they want to be provided with and what the role of communication in a digital library is. The study concluded that end-users seem to appreciate the implementation of academic digital libraries. However, there are still some disadvantages that might prevent them from accessing them. A typical user would access them from their office or home for a variety of reasons, such as: for writing up a term paper/project or a thesis/dissertation, writing up a paper for publication, e. g. journal article or conference/workshop paper, keeping up with progress in the relevant subject area, supporting a lecture or for personal reasons. Concerning their search behaviour, they would adopt a relatively unsophisticated, simplistic approach to searching and limited use of Boolean operators or other commands. Notwithstanding their low search abilities, they would be reluctant to consult the online help function that could support their searches. Sometimes, they prefer to ask a person rather than attempt to use the online help. When they have identified information and want to read it, they print it out. But, when they want to store information for the future, they either print it out, or save it on disk. This information might differ in its formats, including electronic journals, reports and papers, digitised books, scholarly mailing lists and archives and educational software. Finally, some users would appreciate the opportunity to communicate with information scientists, authors, or other users who share the same interests with them. Some others emphasized the importance of the communication between users and digital library systems.
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Gubiani, Juçara Salete. "BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL: UMA PROPOSTA PARA PUBLICAÇÃO E DISSEMINAÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO PRODUZIDO ATRAVÉS DAS TESES E DISSERTAÇÕES." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2005. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/8045.
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With the coming of the World Wide Web (Web), there has been a great change in the form of communication between the people and the organizations. The link among documents that can be situated in any place on the computer network, through the Internet and the concept of Universal Resource Locator, made the fast recovery of information possible, before materialized in environments of restricted access. Publishing on Internet has become a simple task, however it was necessary to search for quality in publications and an only
vestibule of access and search of excellent information. Proposals with standards for publication have appeared
propitiating the interoperabilidade of information. In this context we have the digital libraries offering conditions
to make a great net of data and knowledge. This work has the aim to analyze technologies for publication on the
Web and to suggest a proposal to publish the knowledge produced through the Theses and Dissertation of the
Programs of Pos-Graduation of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), as well as measuring the acceptability in the academic community of the new form of spreading and dissemination of the knowledge. The proposal tool must use standards and technologies that offer total integration with the other libraries in the country and be part of the project of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), as well as being linked with the Digital Networked Library of Theses and Dissertations of Virginia Tech University. After
analysis of technologies, publication protocols and the view of the academic community, the system TEDE developed by the Institute of Science and Technology (IBICT), was considered as solution for publication. It was chosen because it incorporates technologies with protocols capable to collect and to make the transference of information possible being guaranteed the necessary interoperabilidade among libraries and for consequence the dissemination of the knowledge produced by the programs of pos-graduation through the publication of the theses and dissertations on the Web.Com o surgimento da World Wide Web (Web), houve uma grande mudança na forma de comunicação entre as pessoas e as organizações. A ligação entre documentos que podem estar situados em qualquer lugar na rede de computadores, através da Internet e do conceito de Universal Resource Locator, possibilitou a recuperação rápida de informações, antes materializadas em ambientes de acesso restrito. Publicar na Internet passou a ser uma tarefa simples, porém era preciso buscar qualidade nas publicações e um portal único de acesso e busca de informações relevantes. Surgem propostas com padrões para publicação propiciando a interoperabilidade de informações. Neste contexto temos as bibliotecas digitais oferecendo condições para a formação de uma grande rede de dados e conhecimento. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar tecnologias para publicação na Web e sugerir uma proposta para publicar o conhecimento produzido através das Teses e Dissertações dos Programas de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), bem como medir a aceitabilidade na comunidade acadêmica da nova forma de divulgação e disseminação do conhecimento. A ferramenta proposta deve usar padrões e tecnologias que ofereçam total integração com as demais bibliotecas do país e fazer parte do projeto da Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD), bem como estar ligada com a Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations da Virginia Tech University. Após análise de tecnologias, protocolos de publicações e a visão da comunidade acadêmica, o sistema TEDE desenvolvido pelo Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT), foi considerado como solução para publicação. Sua escolha de deu, em função do mesmo incorporar tecnologias com protocolos capazes de coletar e possibilitar a transferência de informações garantindo a interoperabilidade necessária entre bibliotecas e por conseqüência a disseminação do conhecimento produzido pelos programas de pós-graduação através da publicação na Web das teses e dissertações.
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Leckner, Sara. "Is the medium the message? : The impact of digital media on the newspaper concept." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Medieteknik och grafisk produktion, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4530.
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Amorim, Antonio Marcos. "A globalização do mercado de periódicos científicos eletrônicos e os consórcios de bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras: desafios à democratização do conhecimento científico." Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://eprints.rclis.org/17713/1/dissertacao_final2006.pdf.
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The research aimed at evaluating the consortia activities in terms of its performance as social instruments of democratization and broadening of scientific information access, by means of its policies of collection development. A case of study of brazilian University libraries consortia for the acquisition of scientific journals was carried out. By means of a dialectal point of view as a way to develop new knowledge and methodology for this research s subject matter, an analyses of the electronic globalization s social and economic context was performed, as for the growing of social exclusion, and the change in the flow of scientific knowledge towards a digital culture. The analysis above struggles to check implicit and explicit relations affecting collection development and widening a trend, marked by the gravity of current digital exclusion in Brazil. Research findings revealed that : the presence of scientific publishers monopoly power and the lower budgets of the brazilian libraries in the nineties, have restricted consortia s purposes as well as blocked likely long-term social gains; challenges for collection development through cooperative activities still persist among them, the strenghtening of marketing actions performed by those participating libraries, allowing greater electronic resources dissemination, as well as greater negotiation posssibilities between consortium and monopolies in the scientific periodicals market ; lack of new libraries consortia embracing other types of documents non-scientific journals associated with public and regional libraries, allowing knowledge democratization to greater extents of society, minimizing digital exclusion
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Magalhães, Carolina de Souza Santana. "Seleção de coleções de livros digitais nas universidades públicas brasileiras." Instituto de Ciência da Informação, 2013. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/15021.
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A presente pesquisa foca a formação de coleções de livros digitais nas bibliotecas universitárias públicas do Brasil. Essa recente tipologia de livros parece impor elementos novos que devem ser considerados ao se planejar sua introdução num acervo. Esses novos elementos abarcam uma gama de questões que interferem não só na cadeia das operações de organização, tratamento e recuperação da informação, mas, se situam em fases anteriores a começar pela seleção e aquisição das coleções digitais. Toma-se como universo de investigação as bibliotecas universitárias públicas brasileiras por serem organismos que, impulsionados pelo avanço dos recursos tecnológicos, necessitam criar um ambiente inovador para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas proporcionando aos usuários novas coleções e facilidades de acesso o que nos leva a analisá-las com o objetivo de elucidar variáveis presentes nesse processo. Questiona-se como e em que bases (políticas e ou diretrizes) realizam-se a seleção das coleções de livros digitais adquiridos pelas universidades públicas do Brasil para alicerçar essas escolhas. Com isso, o objetivo da pesquisa é averiguar os parâmetros de seleção dos livros eletrônicos para inserção nas coleções das bibliotecas universitárias públicas, se as políticas contemplam os recursos digitais para a formação dessas coleções. A pesquisa pode ser classificada como descritiva, com uma abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa. A técnica de coleta de dados que melhor se adequou a proposta foi o método survey, utilizando como instrumento de coleta de dados o questionário estruturado via web e o mapeamento nos portais das Universidades. A partir do referencial teórico levantado verificou-se que o mercado de livros digitais no Brasil está em franca expansão, porém a oferta de livros técnico-científicos em português que suprem as necessidades das bibliotecas universitárias, ainda é restrita. A partir da análise dos dados constatou-se que, a maior parte das universidades públicas federais, disponibilizam coleções de livros digitais em duas modalidades: assinatura e acesso perpétuo, cujo conteúdo é selecionado parcialmente pelas universidades. Esses livros digitais são disponibilizados nas plataformas dos editores ou agregadores/distribuidores de conteúdo, que são também responsáveis pelo acesso, armazenamento e controle dos direitos autorias, ainda que, em alguns casos, a custódia dos livros seja da universidade. Houve uma simetria no resultado referente à política de desenvolvimento de coleções, metade declarou que o acervo de livros eletrônicos atende a política e a outra metade que atende parcialmente.
This research focuses on the formation of collections of digital books in university public libraries of Brazil. This recent book´s typology seems to impose new elements that should be considered when planning its introduction in collections. These new elements cover a range of issues that affect not only the chain of the organization operation, processing and retrieval of information, but it lies at the earlier stages starting with the selection and acquisition of digital collections. Take as the universe of research the Brazilian´s university public libraries that driven by the advancement of technological resources, needs to create an innovative environment for the development of research providing for users new collections and access facilities which leads us to analyze them in order to elucidate the variables in the process. Wonders how and on what basis (politics and guidelines) are held selection of collections of digital books purchased by public universities in Brazil to underpin these choices. Thus, the aim of the research is to ascertain the parameters selection of electronic books for inclusion in the public collections of university libraries, if it policies includes digital resources for the formation of these collections. The research can be classified as descriptive in a qualitative and quantitative approach. The technique of data collection that best suited the proposal was the survey method, using as an instrument of data collection structured questionnaire via web portals and mapping in the Universities. From the theoretical referential was verified that the digital book market in Brazil is booming, but the provision of technical and scientific books in Portuguese to serve the needs of academic libraries, is still limited. From the data analysis it was found that most federal public universities, offer collections of digital books in two ways: subscription and perpetual access, whose contents are partially selected by the universities. These books are available in digital platforms of publishers or aggregators / distributors of content, which are also responsible for the access, storage and control of copyrights, although in some cases, the custody of the books is in the university. There was a symmetry in the results for the collection development policy, half stated that the collection of electronic books meets policy and the other half backorders.
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Grammenis, Efstratios, and Antonios Mourikis. "Migrating from integrated library systems to library services platforms : An exploratory qualitative study for the implications on academic libraries’ workflows." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76971.
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The present master thesis is an exploratory qualitative study in academic libraries regarding the transition from the integrated library systems to the next generation integrated library systems or library services platforms and the potential implications in their internal workflows. Nowadays, libraries all over the world are facing up with a number of challenges in terms of acquiring, describing and making available to the public all the resources, both printed and electronic, they manage. In particular, the academic libraries have more reasons to wish to fulfill their users’ needs since the majority of them use the library sources more and more for scientific research and educational purposes.In this study we attempt to explore the phenomenon in the globe using the available literature and to identify the implications in libraries’ workflows and the possible future developments. Moreover, through observation and semi-structured interviews we try to identify the current developments in the Greek context regarding the adoption of next ILS and possible implications in their workflows. Finally, we attempt a comparison between the Greek situation and the international one.
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Pinto, Evelyn Cristina. "\"Repensando os commons na comunicação científica\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45134/tde-07052007-092617/.
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Recentemente estudiosos como Benkler, Lessig, Boyle, Hess e Ostrom retomaram o uso do conceito de commons, mas agora relacionado à informação em geral ou à informação científica. Nesse trabalho, nós lançamos mão desse termo para destacar o caráter cooperativo da pesquisa científica, a importância da transparência e neutralidade no acesso ao commons da Ciência e a natureza anti-rival da informação científica. O conceito de commons nos é muito útil para focar todo o conjunto dos artigos científicos já publicados, quer estejam na forma impressa ou na digital. Ainda permite um estudo através de prismas multidisciplinares e, finalmente, enfatiza a dinâmica das comunidades científicos como um todo. Em qualquer commons de informação, quanto maior a distribuição do conhecimento, mais dinâmico e eficiente é o processo de evolução do conhecimento. A tecnologia da imprensa tem desempenhado um papel fundamental na divulgação de informação e o seu surgimento marcou uma revolução no conhecimento e na cultura da nossa civilização. A tecnologia digital tem se mostrado mais eficiente ainda, uma vez que a natureza da sua implementação em bits se aproxima mais da natureza anti-rival das idéias do que qualquer outra tecnologia hoje empregada para preservação e distribuição de informação. Em nosso estudo, constatamos que o commons da Ciência pode ser enormemente enriquecido através de práticas cooperativas e de acesso aberto na publicação da academia. Percebemos também que o uso da tecnologia digital no commons científico, especialmente na publicação dos resultados da pesquisa, aumenta grandemente a distribuição do conhecimento acadêmico, suas oportunidades de escrutínio e validação, a dinâmica de amadurecimento das idéias científicas e, conseqüentemente, pode tornar o desenvolvimento da Ciência mais veloz e eficiente. No entanto, o meio digital tem sido utilizado tanto para criar um ambiente de livre circulação de idéias quanto para controlá-las. Por um lado, código computacional tem sido implementado para garantir o acesso apenas aos que pagam pelos altos preços das revistas científicas. Por outro lado, a publicação de revistas on-line de acesso aberto e outras formas alternativas de disseminação de conteúdo científico têm se proliferado. Ainda, o decrescente orçamento das bibliotecas, o crescente preço das assinaturas de revistas científicas e as crescentes restrições aplicadas pelas leis de propriedade intelectual têm minado a natureza livre das idéias científicas e colocado a Comunicação Científica numa crise. Estamos no meio de uma transição de paradigmas quanto à publicação dos resultados de pesquisa científica, onde aspectos legais, tecnológicos e sócio-econômicos estão em renegociação. À luz das oportunidades da tecnologia digital e da publicação em acesso aberto, as formas de disseminação dos resultados da pesquisa científica presentemente estabelecidas tem sido repensadas. Inserimos essa análise num contexto maior, o paradigma da Comunicação Científica. Isso nos auxilia a fazer um estudo mais abrangente das complexas questões envolvendo nosso tema, analisando os aspectos tecnológicos, legais e sócio-econômicos de uma possível transição para o modelo de publicação de acesso aberto. Tão grandes são as oportunidades desse novo modelo que ele tem agregado em torno de si iniciativas sócio-acadêmicas conhecidas por Movimento de Acesso Aberto à literatura científica. Atualmente, há muitos testes e modelos de publicação dessa literatura. Em especial, nesse trabalho focamos o modelo de acesso aberto aos resultados científicos, suas vantagens, as dificuldades para seu estabelecimento e como ele tem se desenvolvido. Analisamos a viabilidade de criação de um ecossistema de bibliotecas digitais de acesso aberto, especializadas em cada ramo da Ciência. Nossos modelos de partida baseiam-se em alguns aspectos de serviços como arXiv, CiteSeer e Google Scholar. Entre as muitas conclusões desse estudo, constatamos que bibliotecas desse tipo aumentam sobremaneira a dinâmica de circulação, geração, transformação e renovação do conhecimento científico. Assim, o processo de produção de recursos no commons científico pode se tornar muito mais eficiente.Recent studies done by Benkler, Lessig, Boyle, Hess and Ostrom look at the concept of commons again however, this time in relation to information in general more specifically to scientific information. In this study, we focused on the cooperative character of scientific research, the importance of transparency and neutrality to access the scientific commons. The concept of commons is highly useful to focus on every scientific article that has already been published in print or digitally. This allows studies through several multidisciplines and finally emphasizes the dynamic of scientific communities around the world. In each commons of information, the higher the distribution of knowledge, the more dynamic and efficient the process of the evolution of this information. Technology of the press has been key in the divulging of information and its expansion marked a revolution in knowledge and culture in our civilization. Digital technology has shown more efficiency. Its implementation into bits is closer to the non-rival nature of the ideas than other technologies used to preserve it and used to distribute information. In our work, we realized that the science of commons should be enriched through cooperative practices and open access to scientific results. We also realized that digital technology in scientific commons improves distribution of scholarly knowledge and the dynamic evolution of scientific ideas so the science development should be even more efficient and faster. The digital revolution has been used to create a free environment of circulation of ideas and it has also been used to control certain things. On one side, computational code has been implemented to allow access just for people who pay for the service. On the other hand, online journals publishing and other alternative forms of disseminating scientific knowledge have been proliferated. The decreasing budget of libraries, the increasing cost of journal subscriptions and the increasing restrictions applied by intellectual property has enclosed the free nature of scientific ideas and it has put Scholarly Communication into a crisis. We are in the middle of a transitional phase, where legal, technological, social and economic aspects of scientific publishing have being renegotiated. We inserted our analyses in a larger context, the Scholarly Communication paradigm. This supports a larger study about the complex questions of our subject, analyzing the technological, legal, social and economic aspects of a possible transition to the open access publishing model. This new publishing model is so interesting that some initiatives have started social movements pertaining to it. Nowadays, there are many tests and publishing models especially in this line of work. We focused on the open access model in scientific results, its advantages, the difficulties of its establishment and how it has been developed. Finally, we propose that the creation of an open access digital libraries ecosystem specialized in every scientific field. Our staring models are services such as: arXiv, CiteSeer and Google Scholar. Among our conclusions, we have realized that following this models stated above, digital libraries can enhance the dynamic of circulation, generation, transformation and renovation of the scientific knowledge.
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Saraiva, Paula Cristina Sousa. "Implementação de Serviços de Referência para Assistentes Digitais Pessoais (PDA's) nas Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10863.
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A necessidade por parte dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde, de possuir informação com evidência científica, concisa e móvel no decorrer da sua prática clínica e académica diária, por forma a minimizar os erros de diagnóstico, tem constituído um grave problema para estes profissionais de saúde, que necessitam de ter junto de si uma biblioteca portátil 24 horas por dia. Os PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), pela sua portabilidade e acessibilidade, poderão solucionar este problema, tendo vindo a ser introduzidos com êxito, os serviços para PDAs nas Bibliotecas de Saúde. São objectivos deste estudo, contribuir para a implementação de novos serviços de referência de apoio à decisão dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal, com recurso aos PDAs, por forma a garantir-lhes autonomia e mobilidade nos seus locais de trabalho, indagando as bibliotecas de saúde portuguesas e europeias, sobre esta nova oportunidade de intervir no apoio aos seus utilizadores e averiguando que tipo de serviços estão dispostas a oferecer. A metodologia utilizada foi o inquérito por questionário, às Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas e Europeias, assim como, entrevistas a utilizadores de PDAs em medicina. Concluiu-se, que a utilização de PDAs em medicina é já um processo irreversível, sendo missão das Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas, acompanhar a evolução destas tecnologias móveis, por forma a introduzi-las gradualmente, nos futuros serviços prestados aos seus utilizadores. BSTRACT,
Implementation of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) reference services in portuguesa health libraries
There is an increasing need felt by the health library users for obtaining accurate, up to date, evidence-based and mobile scientific information in their daily clinica) practice. This need to reduto diagnostic errors, save time and achieve the best decision-making for their patients, has became a serious problem to this group of health professionals, claiming more often to have next to itself, a portable library open 24 hours a day.
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have been successfully introduced finto the health libraries environment and give the users the opportunity to have the most recent and scientific information In the palm of their hands".
The main objective is to contributo to the implementation of user reference services based in PDAs, in Portuguese Health Libraries in order to guarantee our health professional users, autonomy and mobility in their work placas near the patients.
We afim to know, if the Portugese and European Health Libraries, are fully aware of the strengths and power of these new kinds of services based on PDAs, giving them the chance to offer the adjusted help to this new user needs.
The methodology used is based on online surveys, submitted to Portuguese and European Health Libraries, and by interviews conducted with a group of selected expert health users of PDAs, in medicine.
We concluded that using PDAs, is the future in Medicine and the mission of health libraries is to offer services based on mobile technologies such as PDAs, if they want to serve their users with excelente
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Atenas, Rivera Javiera. "Estudio de calidad de los repositorios de recursos educativos abiertos en el marco de la educación universitaria." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/286031.
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Esta tesis ha sido desarrollada a modo de compendio de publicaciones las cuales presentan el proceso y los resultados de esta investigación, así como las líneas de investigación futuras. Los artículos han sido publicados entre 2012 y 2014 en formato de artículos en revistas científicas internacionales, en castellano y en inglés, y como capítulo de un libro.
El objeto de investigación de esta tesis son los Repositorios de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (RREA), los cuales son definidos por McGreal (2011) como bases de datos digitales que albergan contenido de aprendizaje, aplicaciones y herramientas, tales como vídeos, grabaciones de audio, aplicaciones multimedia y herramientas de redes sociales, ya que a través de estos repositorios los REA se vuelven accesibles a estudiantes y docentes.
Esta tesis se sitúa en el contexto de una discusión académica relevante para el área de educación superior contemporánea y la comunidad educacional en general, así el objetivo central de este estudio es proponer un marco que permita medir y asegurar la calidad de los repositorios de REA mediante la obtención indicadores teóricos de calidad en los repositorios REA (revisión de la literatura), para comprobar si los RREA cumplen o no con las recomendaciones sobre gestión de calidad, además de conocer cómo los docentes universitarios seleccionan y utilizan estos recursos para describir las características más relevantes con las que los RREA deberían contar para asegurar su correcta implementación.
Sin embargo, para promover y apoyar el desarrollo de RREA, es necesario determinar criterios de control de calidad basados en las necesidades de toda la comunidad académica para mejorar el acceso a la educación a nivel global. Por lo que para este estudio la metodología de investigación es utilizada es mixta, utilizando técnicas de tipo cualitativas y cuantitativas.
La primera etapa de la investigación consistió en una revisión de la literatura publicada entre 1996 y 2013. Con el fin de identificar la literatura más relevante para este estudio se analizaron 122 artículos de revistas científicas, artículos de conferencias y libros, dentro de los cuales se detectaron 10 indicadores de calidad para el diseño de RREA.
En la segunda etapa de este estudio se analizaron 450 iniciativas de REA y 600 repositorios de diferentes tipos de contenidos abiertos. El análisis de estas iniciativas y repositorios abiertos permitió obtener un grupo de 80 repositorios que contenían exclusivamente. Los repositorios fueron contrastados con los 10 indicadores de calidad obtenidos de la revisión de la literatura con el fin de comprobar si estos repositorios cumplen o no con las recomendaciones de la literatura.
La tercera etapa consistió en la aplicación de una encuesta a 217 docentes universitarios de 35 países a los cuales se les consultó cómo y cuánto utilizaban distintos tipos de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TICs), redes sociales, y RREA. Además se les consultó cuales consideraban que eran las ventajas y barreras del uso de REA y RREA y cómo evalúan la calidad en los RREA.
Finalmente, en la última etapa se ha entrevistado a un grupo de 20 expertos mundiales en la temática de REA. Mediante un cuestionario online, se les consultó cuáles son los elementos que podrían sostener la correcta implementación de repositorios de REA.This dissertation is composed by a set of articles that present the process and results of the research and its future research lines. The papers were published between 2012 and 2014. The research object are the repositories of open educational resources (ROER), which are defined by McGreal (2011) as databases of learning content such as videos, audio recordings and multimedia applications that made teaching materials accessible to students and teachers. This dissertation is centred in the context of an academic discussion relevant for higher education and to the academic community in general, its main objective is to propose a framework for quality assurance for the development of ROER by obtaining theoretical quality indicators from the review of the literature and contrasting those indicators with current ROER. Also, this study evaluates how academics select and use OER with the aim to describe a model for a successful implementation of ROER. The research methodology includes quantitative and qualitative techniques. The first stage of this research was to review the literature to obtain from it a set of quality indicators for the development, design and implementation of ROER. From this review 10 quality indicators were obtain, which were contrasted on the second stage within 80 ROER worldwide to analyse if these comply with the recommendations of the literature. The third stage was the application of a survey to 217 academics from 35 countries that were asked how and when they use technologies, social networks and OER in their academic practice and also, which were the advantages and barriers of the use of ROER. Finally, in the last stage, a group of 20 worldwide experts in OER were interviewed with the aim to identify the quality criteria for the development of ROER according to their views and experience.
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Eschenfelder, Kristin R. "Every Library's Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105892.
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This study explored what technological protection measures (TPM) publishers/vendors of licensed scholarly resources employ by assessing the use restrictions experienced in a sample of resources from history/art history, engineering and health sciences. The analysis develops a framework of use restrictions that distinguishes between soft TPM - which discourage use - and hard TPM - which strictly limit or forbid uses. Within soft TPM, the framework identifies six use discouraging TPM: extent of use, obfuscation, omission, amalgamation, frustration and threat. The study concludes that these soft TPM are common in licensed scholarly resources. Further, while hard TPM are less common, they are not unknown.
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Ho, Adrian K., and Joe Toth. "Making the Switch from Print to Online: Why, When and How?" 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105311.
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This bibliography was created for an ALCTS Collection Management & Development Section program at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference. It annotates selected articles published from Jan. 2006 through April 2008.
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Xia, Jingfeng. "A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-archiving Practices." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105552.
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The disciplinary culture theory presumes that if a
scholar has been familiar with self-archiving through an existing subject-based repository, this scholar will be more enthusiastic about contributing his/her research to an institutional repository than one who has not had the experience. To test the theory, this article examines self-archiving practices of a group of physicists in both a subject repository and an institutional repository. It does not find a correlation between a disciplinary culture and
self-archiving practices.
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Eschenfelder, Kristin R. "E-Resource Access and Use Rights Assessment Codebook v2 Feb 2007." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106399.
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