Kristen Sutherland, Repositories enhance researching process, Purdue Exponent, January 26, 2005. Excerpt: 'Soon Purdue students may be able to access their syllabuses, dissertations and any other research materials they may need while they sit in their pajamas. Information Technology at Purdue [ITaP] and the University's libraries have been working together to bring the latest technological developments to Purdue's libraries, specifically digital repositories. Digital repositories provide a way for written products to be stored digitally, said James Mullins, dean of libraries...."[At MIT, DSpace] meant that faculty could make anything they wanted available digitally."..."Institutional repositories are an ideal way to capture, preserve and disseminate the intellectual output of a university," said a press release for ProQuest Information and Learning, a company that recently developed its own digital repository....Although Mullins admitted that the program would be expensive, he said it would be worth it in the end. Keeping up to date on printed journals costs the libraries $500,000 a year, with prices increasing steadily. In creating a digital repository, the first step for ITaP and Purdue's libraries will be to work with document items that are not copyright controlled, and then to begin cataloguing massive data sets. With this alternative to the present model of published documents, we can change the speed of research and learning," said Mullins. "Before, it wasn't easy for people to find data reported in research findings. Now this will speed up (the process)."'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/26/2005 11:53:00 AM.
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.
