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Monday, March 30, 2009

The Fall 2008 issue of Library Trends is a theme issue on "Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future". Contents:

Sarah L. Shreeves and Melissa H. Cragin, Introduction: Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future
Dorothea Salo, Innkeeper at the Roach Motel
Neil Jacobs, et al., Institutional Repositories in the UK: The JISC Approach
Carole L. Palmer, et al., Strategies for Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of Three Evolving Initiatives
Soo Young Rieh, et al., Perceptions and Experiences of Staff in the Planning and Implementation of Institutional Repositories
Michael Witt, Institutional Repositories and Research Data Curation in a Distributed Environment
Leslie M. Delserone, At the Watershed: Preparing for Research Data Management and Stewardship at the University of Minnesota Libraries
G. Sayeed Choudhury, Case Study in Data Curation at Johns Hopkins University
Julie Allinson, Describing Scholarly Works with Dublin Core: A Functional Approach
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, The �Wealth of Networks� and Institutional Repositories: MIT, DSpace, and the Future of the Scholarly Commons
Nancy Y. McGovern and Aprille C. McKay, Leveraging Short-term Opportunities to Address Long-term Obligations: A Perspective on Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation Programs
P. Bryan Heidorn, Shedding Light on the Dark Data in the Long Tail of Science

Only the abstracts are OA, at least so far. See the pre- and post-print for Salo (and our past post).

Update. See also self-archived versions of Shreeves and Cragin (thanks to Garrett Eastman) and Heidorn (thanks to Dorothea Salo).

Posted by Gavin Baker at 3/30/2009 06:51:00 PM.

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