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New communications resource: The TDL Guide 2010-2011

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

In order to improve communications with our existing and prospective members, the TDL has created a one-stop reference guide for all matters related to the Texas Digital Library.

Academic librarians and OA: Do as I say or do as I do?

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

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A journal article by Holly Mercer explores whether librarians “practice what they preach” when it comes to self-archiving and open access behaviors.

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Tags: Institutional Repositories, open access, scholarly communications, Texas A&M University

D-Lib issue focuses on repositories

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

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The September/October 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is available and focuses on repository-related issues.

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Tags: digital libraries, digital preservation, digital repositories, Institutional Repositories, user resources

Imagining the future of scholarly communications

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

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Journal Stacks Cameron Neylon contemplates a future scholarly communications system that matches the realities of modern communications technologies in a post on Science in the Open.

He argues that any system for scholarly publication must perform certain functions:

Assigning credit/registering ideas
Archiving/safekeeping research
Enabling re-use,

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Tags: scholarly communications

Help us create the new TDL Membership Guide

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

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The Texas Digital Library is compiling documentation and information about the TDL organization and its services into a comprehensive guidebook for new and prospective members, as well as for long-time partners in the consortium.

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Tags: Texas Digital Library, user resources

The benefits of blogging for academics

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

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Why do academics blog? That’s the question explored in Sara Kjellberg’s article “I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context,” found in the latest issue of First Monday.

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Tags: blog, blogs, scholarly communications, user resources

TDL announces launch of the TDL Technical Interest Group

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

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The TDL Technical Interest Group will bring together web developers, programmers, system administrators and others who are involved in the implementation of TDL services at their institutions.