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Back from ETD2010- Open access theses do predate Google Books

Tweet Google Books was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced  in October 2004 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Google’s Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004. At ETD2010, the 13th international symposium sponsored by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD) the current [...]

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Mon, June 21 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments

CNI youtube channel- Revisiting Institutional Repositories

Tweet This is Coalition for Networked Information Executive Director Clifford Lynch, musing about how to evaluate the success of an institutional repository.  Filmed at the Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting, April 6-7, 2009.

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The lifeblood of institutional repositories: OAI-PMH

Tweet Set up an institutional repository of biomedical  pre- or post-print papers, theses, or open curriculum, and you wonder:  how will my content be discovered? A very elegant solution exists called OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The original specifications for the OAI-PMH emerged from a coalition of web visionaries and programmers from both the Coalition for [...]

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Fri, January 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments