The Chronicle of Higher Education provides an update on the state of institutional repositories in US higher education in the article “Digital Repositories Foment a Quiet Revolution in Scholarship.” The article chronicles some of the disappointments of IRs, but also highlights some successes — focusing attention on instances where deposit in the IR has made [...]
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Digital repositories in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
New DuraSpace blog tackles preservation issues
Friday, April 23rd, 2010For those interested in issues of preservation, the DuraSpace Preservation and Archive Solution Community is offering a new resource, in the form of a blog, that is intended to foster the “open exchange of ideas and initiatives around preservation & archiving solutions.” The effort is part of the DuraSpace “Solution Community Program,” which brings users [...]
Member story: UH Digital Library
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Be sure to read our newest “Member Story,” discussing the work of Michele Reilly and team to create the University of Houston Digital Library.
April and May training sessions offer advanced instruction on DSpace
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Intermediate and advanced users of DSpace have two upcoming opportunities to learn more about customizing and administering DSpace repositories at their institutions.
UNT Digital Projects Unit creates the UNT Digital Library
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010The Digital Projects Unit at TDL member institution the University of North Texas has released the UNT Digital Library, a centralized repository for digital collections held throughout the university’s schools, colleges, departments, and libraries.
TDL and the Texas Water Digital Library
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010The Texas Digital Library (TDL) and its partners have begun the process of developing a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas. That resource, the Texas Water Digital Library, will federate water research from across the state in a TDL-hosted DSpace repository. The repository will create a single place for researchers to search for water data from every region of the state.
JISC offers resource for digital repository management
Thursday, February 25th, 2010JISC has released the Digital Repositories InfoKit, a resource for planning and managing digital repositories.
TDL demos Vireo 1.0.1 and begins testing phase
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010On Tuesday, February 16, The Texas Digital Library development team held a demonstration of the Vireo 1.0.1 release at TDL headquarters at UT Austin. Lab instances of the new version will be available for testing by TDL member institutions beginning February 17.
TDL members ranked among the world’s top institutional repositories
Monday, February 15th, 2010The University of Texas at Austin Digital Repository has been ranked #50 in the Ranking Web of World Repositories’ list of the top 400 institutional repositories in the world.
TDL to develop federated Texas Water Digital Library with state researchers
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The Texas Digital Library and several prominent water researchers are working together to develop a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas: the Texas Water Digital Library (TWDL).