Frederick Miller, Disposable Scholarship, EDUCAUSE Quarterly 27(1), 2004. Miller discusses the imperatives for preservation of digitial material, remarking the trends towards licensing rather than purchasing content, the growth of digital information and the range and complexity of formats, and pointing towards potential solutions that "include open-source software such as DSpace from MIT and commercial products such as Documentum's Digital Asset Management capabilities." Finally he asks what might be useful strategies to employ technology to further education and research while avoiding a cascade of increasingly obsolete digital data. (Source: The Kept-Up Librarian)
Posted by
Garrett at 3/12/2004 04:21:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
