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Member Story: Texas A&M Libraries chronicles African-American farm life in DSpace collection
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TDLTDL founding member Texas A&M Libraries has published an exciting set of images in its institutional repository dealing with African-American farming life in Texas during the middle of the last century.
NSF releases guidelines for data management
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TDLThe National Science Foundation has released its new Data Management Policy for researchers preparing grant proposals.
Academic librarians and OA: Do as I say or do as I do?
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TDLA journal article by Holly Mercer explores whether librarians “practice what they preach” when it comes to self-archiving and open access behaviors.
D-Lib issue focuses on repositories
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TDLThe September/October 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is available and focuses on repository-related issues.
Can you have a successful institutional repository without a mandate?
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The UK’s Open University argues, in a poster presented at Open Repositories 2010, that a successful institutional repository can be built through active advocacy and management — without a mandate.
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Tags: Institutional Repositories, open access, Open Repositories, repositories
Tags: Institutional Repositories, open access, Open Repositories, repositories
Member Story: UT Southwestern to digitize History of Medicine photographs
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TDLThe UT Southwestern Medical Center Library has received a $25,000 grant to create a digital photo repository entitled Dallas Medical Images, 1890-1975.
Digital repositories in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
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TDLThe 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 —
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New DuraSpace blog tackles preservation issues
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For 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 “
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Member Story: UH Digital Library
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TDLBe sure to read our newest “Member Story,” discussing the work of Michele Reilly and team to create the University of Houston Digital Library.