From Collaborative Purchasing Towards Collaborative Discarding: The Evolution of the Shared Print Repository

Academic research libraries have a tradition of collaboration, from selecting foreign language material to licensing electronic resources. Although most storage facilities have tended to be local, some libraries have collaborated on operating shared storage facilities. The growth of digital repositories of printed materials has given the library community the opportunity to engage in a conversation about how to collaboratively take responsibility for the long-term selection and preservation of the print originals. Establishing regional repositories will allow member libraries to draw down local print collections. This review article will trace the major development of this progression from local storage facility to regional print repository.     

我国高校图书馆建立机构知识库的必要性及措施

开放存取及机构知识库的发展,给高校图书馆的发展带来了机遇,也使高校图书馆面临着前所未有的挑战。文章通过对世界发达国家机构知识库建设的介绍,阐述了我国高校图书馆建设机构知识库的必要性和可行性,并提出了"积极宣传和推广机构知识库"等数条具体措施。     

Digital Archiving and Preservation: Technologies and Processes for a Trusted Repository

SUMMARY

This article examines what is implied by the term “trusted” in the phrase “trusted digital repositories.” Digital repositories should be able to preserve electronic materials for periods at least comparable to existing preservation methods. Our collective lack of experience with preserving digital objects and consensus about the reliability of our technological infrastructure raises questions about how we should proceed with digital-based preservation practices, an emerging role for academic libraries and archival institutions. This article reviews issues relating to building a trusted digital repository, highlighting some of the issues raised and possible solutions proposed by the authors in their work of implementing and acculturating a digital repository at Rutgers University Libraries.     

Representing Serials Metadata in Institutional Repositories

This study focused on how serials information for journal articles is presented based on a sampling of institutional repository platforms at a variety of institutions. Since metadata on journal articles in institutional repositories can often be incomplete and haphazard, not only due to the difficulty of entering the metadata in the first place, but due to the difficulty of adapting existing metadata schemes to represent a journal article accurately, how can libraries increase the discoverability of these individual articles from a wide variety of journals? By examining existing metadata schemes and how they are used to represent articles currently in institutional repositories, libraries can look for a way forward to better represent articles though adapting schemas, exploring possibilities for standardization of metadata for articles, and promoting good practices.     

机构知识库对大学图书馆的影响和对策研究

简要介绍了机构知识库的定义及大学图书馆构建机构知识库的意义,分析了构建机构知识库给大学图书馆的发展带来的影响,提出了大学图书馆构建机构知识库应采取的策略。     

Metadata and Quality in Digital Repositories and Libraries from 1995 to 2015: A Literature Analysis and Classification

The purpose of this article is to study a broad set of journal papers related to metadata and quality in digital repositories and libraries, and to provide a quantitative analysis of the relevant research. It also aims at identifying open issues and future directions for research. A detailed search was carried out in relevant journals of information science, computer science, and library science; mainly, that allowed us to identify an extensive corpora of relevant work. The identified papers were classified based on an existing framework and a statistical analysis was carried out on the main classifications used within the framework. The analysis of the 702 papers identified, led to a series of statements for the field examined, focusing on the type of research carried out, the research methods deployed, and the research claims made. In addition, the papers were classified based on their target audiences, disciplines, as well as institutional and geographical origins. The article identifies areas in the literature that have not been addressed, as well as areas for future research. It also provides a clear image of the areas already researched, analyzing scientific literature that covers 20 years of repository/library deployment. This article makes an original contribution for researchers, practitioners, and managers of digital repositories and libraries alike as it provides a set of specific recommendations for the metadata and quality in digital repositories and libraries research agenda, along with a thorough analysis and classification of the research carried out so far.     

图书馆在机构知识库建设中的挑战与应用对策研究

作为开放获取运动的一个重要部分,机构知识库已成为教育科研机构知识管理的有力工具。图书馆是机构知识库建设的重要参与者,机构知识库的兴起给图书馆带来了新的机遇,也带来了新的挑战。本文首先介绍了国内外机构知识库建设的基本状况,然后从几个方面说明了图书馆在机构知识库的建设中所面临的机遇和挑战,最后明确了图书馆在机构知识库建设中的任务定位。     

Institutional repository software platforms at undergraduate libraries in the United States

For primarily undergraduate institutions, institutional repositories can become effective tools for communicating and showcasing faculty and student research, facilitating open access initiatives, or supporting new scholarly communication practices. Choosing the right software platform is crucial to the success of a repository initiative. The literature suggests that there are only two or three software platforms heavily used in undergraduate libraries. This article aims to give a landscape of the repository platforms used in sixty-seven undergraduate libraries in the United States in late 2013; it also includes the results of a short survey about current institutional repository software platforms and users/administrators’ satisfaction.     

高校图书馆低利用率文献合作存储库研究

高校图书馆馆舍空间匮乏与低利用率文献不断增加的矛盾越来越突出,建立低利用率文献合作存储库势在必行。低利用率文献合作存储库应建立于与参建图书馆距离较近且交通便利的地点,并建立馆藏电子联合目录以支撑储存库的合作运行,建立均衡机制以有效协调合作存储库中各成员馆之间的利益关系。低利用率文献合作存储库各成员馆应制订选择进入低利用率文献合作存储库的文献的标准,确定各成员馆出资比例并委托专业物业托管公司负责低利用率文献合作存储库的日常运作。     

Involving the Library and Campus Community in Institutional Repository Projects

College and university libraries invest a significant amount of funding and staff time in institutional repository projects with the goal of collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of their communities. Institutional repositories are often built without an expressed need for such a service; for this reason, libraries must actively promote them, educate users, and liaise with faculty to ensure success. Technical services and public services librarians have equally important roles in instituting and ensuring the success of institutional repositories in their communities.     

Dialectic: The Aims of Institutional Repositories

ABSTRACT

In the early 2000s, Clifford Lynch and Raym Crow had two different visions for the future of institutional respositories. Using their works as a starting point, T. Scott Plutchak discussed the initial aims of institutional respositories and addressed the dialectic between the view of institutional repositories as providing a method of preserving and nurturing new forms of scholarly communication and that of the institutional repository as a mechanism to transition to Open Access models for scholarly publications. Plutchak concludes that institutional repository librarians should focus efforts on collecting and preserving material outside of the formal publishing program in order to advance the work of our institutions, and to advance what libraries can do.     

机构仓储及其在数字图书馆服务中的应用模式研究

简要介绍机构仓储的概念、产生动因和相关软件。在分析国外众多机构仓储实例的基础上,归纳出机构仓储在数字图书馆服务中的6种应用模式并指出其对国内数字图书馆建设具有的借鉴意义。指出通过机构仓储在学术交流、数字长期保存、教学等领域的应用,数字图书馆的服务内容更加丰富,图书馆职能也会得到改善。     

National repository initiatives in Europe

This paper aims at clarifying the role of repositories in some European countries in preserving research and other library materials in the country. The functional environment of repositories varies from country to country. Typically, the main actor in preserving national literature and national print heritage is the national library institution. The main means of this for national libraries has been legal deposit legislation, which in some countries is almost as old as printing.While the paper focuses on the development of the National Depository Library in Finland, examples in this paper are also drawn from the repositories in Norway, Estonia, and Ilê de France, Paris. The driving concept behind participating in these repository programs is cost reduction through the rationalization of storage and access on a regional—and even national—level. In this model, the repository creates one collection, which it owns and maintains. This allows the depository to employ deduplication and other strategies to rationalize storage. The role of the repository then is to keep the material available and serve as the library of last resort for many research materials.     

国内高校读者对机构仓储认知调查分析

文章对高校读者的Open Access基本认知、机构仓储基本认知、资源开放共享意愿和机构仓储联盟的认知与需求进行问卷调查。经过统计分析后认为,目前多数的高校读者并不了解．Open Access、机构仓储等相关理念和服务;多数高校读者愿意共享其学术资源,学历越高者越注重版权各方面的权益;机构仓储联盟适合绝大多数高校用户的需求,可以作为高校机构仓储的后续发展模式。     

Shutting Down a Consortial Digital Repository Service

ABSTRACT

This column examines the lifecycle of one consortial digital repository service, the Alliance Digital Repository. Though the consortial service provided important infrastructure for members, the nature of digital repository work made it difficult to realize economies of scale. After eight years, members discontinued the shared service and replaced it with single-institution repositories that they could more readily support with the resources available to them. Based on my experiences helping members transition from shared to single-institution repositories, I offer advice for administrators planning or participating in consortial digital repository services.     

OAI资源库更新频率的定量分析和同步模型的建立

在分析现有开放文档先导(OAI)资源库更新频率的基础上,通过定义一些变量,对OAI资源库更新频率进行定量和定性分析,提出4种评价更新频率的方法,然后根据更新频率的定性和定量分析得出针对不同更新频率OAI资源库应该使用哪种收割模型,并且给出两种同步模型,对其算法进行描述。最后,解决目前OAI 资源库存在的几个问题:①服务可用性;②OAI 资源库的同步;③OAI资源库负载;④流控制。     

Breaking It Down: A Brief Exploration of Institutional Repository Submission Agreements

Institutional repositories typically have a submission agreement that is meant to protect the institution hosting the repository and inform submitters of their rights and responsibilities. This article examines how various libraries have created submission agreements, enquires as to issues surrounding them, and identifies commonalities and unique statements. The authors deployed a survey to institutional repository administrators listed in OpenDOAR in the United States. Approximately 7% of the 304 potential institutional repository managers responded. Library administrators, institutional repositories managers/architects, and legal counsel were the most likely to have input into the creation of the submission agreement; scholarly communications librarians were involved only 20% of the time. Although submission agreements averaged 282 words arranged in 9 sentences, their reading complexity requires a university degree. Commonalities include characterizing the agreement as a non-exclusive license, indicating the submitter's responsibility for obtaining permissions for any content that they did not produce, and confirming the right of the submitter to enter into the agreement. Submission agreements are generally complex and do not accommodate the common practice of mediated submission. Sharing submission agreements publicly may lead to simplified and standardized language and reduce barriers to submitters.