Universities and Libraries Offer a Plan for Public Access to Research
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have collaborated to offer a plan to expand...
View ArticleDoes Digital Scholarship Have a Future?
The articles and books that scholars produce today bear little mark of the digital age in which they are created. Thus the foundation of academic life—the scholarship on which everything else is...
View ArticleOpen-Source Collaboration: A Pathway to Sustainability
UNC Chapel Hill Libraries and DuraSpace have partnered to make digital preservation software available to a broader community. This collaboration provides a model for other institutions to gain broader...
View ArticleNext Gen Tools: Activate Instruction
This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Summit Public Schools' co-development of Activate Instruction--a free, open, online site for curricula that integrates...
View ArticleActivate Instruction Helps Summit Public Schools Personalize Learning
NGLC has embarked upon a new publication series, Next Gen Tools. Today, we share with you the first brief in the series, Next Gen Tools: Activate Instruction. Summit Public Schools teamed up with...
View ArticleThe Universal Library Is Us: Library Work at Scale in HathiTrust
The authors discuss Hathitrust, one of the largest collaborative library initiatives in the world.read more
View ArticleLibrarians and Scholars: Partners in Digital Humanities
Libraries have numerous capabilities and considerable expertise available to accelerate digital humanities initiatives.The University of Michigan Library developed a model for effective partnership...
View ArticleDigital Scholarship in the Humanities and Creative Arts: The HuNI Virtual...
One of the Australian national virtual laboratories, the Humanities Networked Infrastructure brings together data from 30 different data sets containing more than two million records of Australian...
View ArticleDigital Collections as Research Infrastructure
Given the importance of digital content to scholarship, institutions are increasingly developing strategic digitization programs to provide online access to both their reference collections and their...
View ArticleTrends in Digital Scholarship Centers
Experiences gained from existing digital scholarship centers can help uninitiated institutions better launch their own efforts and thereby increase support for the research, teaching, and learning...
View ArticleThe Chinese Railroad Workers in America Project
A Stanford University team aims to discover, digitize, and make freely available historical documents and other materials concerning the contributions ofChinese workers in building the transcontinental...
View ArticleLinked Jazz: Building with Linked Open Data
The possibility of a new method of operation for the web is built with linked open data, which dynamically connects one piece of discrete data to another, not just pages to pages.The Linked Jazz...
View ArticleThe Digital Public Library of America: Collaboration, Content, and Technology...
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among U.S. librarians, scholars, educators, and technologists since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations—such as the...
View ArticleAssessment of E-Book Strategies
What do we know about the use and acceptance of e-books by students and faculty? At the December CNI Executive Roundtable, "E-book Strategies," several institutions reported on data collection efforts...
View ArticlePlanning for Digital Scholarship Support Services: Case Studies from Four...
Academic institutions are increasingly challenged to develop infrastructure and services to support the creation, use, and preservation of digital content and collections. Panelists from four...
View ArticleThe Browning Letters Project: Preservation for Digital Humanities
The Browning Letters Project is a multiuniversity, international collaboration to provide open, online access to thousands of the Victorian poets' correspondence. This session will explore the...
View ArticleOnline Video Strategies across New York State: Learning from the NY6
Learn how cross-campus collaboration enables colleges, universities, and consortiums to build a scalable framework for growing digital media collections. We will examine how the New York Six Liberal...
View ArticleHorizon Report: 2014 Library Edition
The NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition identifies “Increasing Focus on Research Data Management for Publications” and “Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery” as fast trends driving...
View ArticleNetworked Information's Risky Future: The Promises and Challenges of Digital...
Publishers, librarians, and scholars have begun to understand that their substantial and growing investment in digital object creation requires a commitment to protect the content for the long term....
View ArticleThe Avalon Video and Audio Repository for Libraries and Beyond
The Avalon Media System provides an open-source streaming media solution, based on Hydra/Fedora repository technologies, focused on delivery of library media collections, but it is finding other uses,...
View ArticleThe Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?
With the field of digital humanities hitting its stride, higher education institutions need strong, end-to-end, coordinated strategies for managing digital creation.read more
View ArticleScholarship beyond the Word
Scholarship has not kept pace with this explosion of audiovisual material. Like the early web, scholarship is still largely textual. There are many reasons for this, of course. Words carry arguments...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing and Community Engagement
The best-built crowdsourcing tools make clear what each participant adds to the project and why each participant matters to the project as a whole.read more
View ArticleManaging the Smithsonian's Research Record Using SIdora
Key Takeaways Creating a digital record of research preserves the work indefinitely and makes it accessible to other researchers, whether in the same or seemingly unrelated fields for use in both...
View ArticleThe M Word: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Libraries know the potential fallibility of metadata created by hand, and as a result, the academic research library has a long history of working with metadata to ensure good storage, maintainability,...
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