Repositories

Proceedings of the 161st ARL Membership Meeting, October 2012.

mm12fall-smith-henry-riley-kirchner.pdf    Audio on YouTube

Presented at the ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries," October 2010.

ff10-orgchg.mp3

Presented at the ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries," October 2010.

ff10-bellinger.pdf

RLI issue 263 includes the following articles:

• Diversity in Research Universities
• An Overview of ARL Diversity Programs
• Digital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends
• Strategies for Supporting New Genres of Scholarship
• Achieving the Full Potential of Repository Deposit Policies
• Author-Rights Language in Library Content License

SPEC Kit 292 collects baseline data about ARL member institutions’ institutional repository activities. For the purposes of this survey, an IR was simply defined as a permanent, institution-wide repository of diverse locally produced digital works (e.g., article preprints and postprints, data sets, electronic theses and dissertations, learning objects, and technical reports) that is available for public use and supports metadata harvesting. If an institution shares an IR with other institutions, it was within the scope of this survey. Not included in this definition were scholars’ personal Web sites; academic department, school, or other unit digital archives that are primarily intended to store digital materials created by members of that unit; or disciplinary archives that include digital materials about one or multiple subjects that have been created by authors from many different institutions (e.g., arXiv.org). This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of IR home pages, IR usage statistics, deposit policies, metadata policies, preservation policies, and IR proposals.

This publication is available for purchase in both online and print versions. Download the spec-kit-purchase-options-2013.pdf  for complete pricing and purchase options information.

Link to the online SPEC Kit 292 on the ARL Digital Publications website.

Includes the seminal article "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" by Clifford Lynch, as well as "Framing the Issue: Open Access" by Mary Case, "The End of History? Reflections on a Decade" by William Crowe, and "Celebrating Seventy Years of ARL."

arl-br-226.pdf

Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.

mm11sp-okeeffe.pdf

Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.

mm11sp-legal.mp3

Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.

mm11sp-caron.pdf

Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.

mm11sp-berthiaume.pdf

Presented at the 159th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2011.

mm11fall-walters.pdf

Presented at the 159th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2011.

mm11fall-kahle.pdf

Presented at the 159th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2011.

mm11fall-gemert.pdf

Presentation at the 2009 ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age."

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Presented at the 154th ARL Membership Meeting, "Transformational Times," May 2009.

mm09sp-sharing-humphrey.mp3

Presentation at the 2009 ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age."

ff09-seneca.pps

Presented at the 154th ARL Membership Meeting, "Transformational Times," May 2009.

mm09sp-humphrey.pps

mm03fall-institutional-repositories.pdf

Presentation at the 2009 ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age."

ff09-shreeves.mp3

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Digital Repository Issues Task Force was charged "to evaluate trends, contextualize repository activities among ARL libraries, and recommend leadership roles and activities for ARL." Institutional repositories are a common form of repository, but this report focuses more broadly on the full range of repositories. At the same time, it concentrates on repository services rather than repository technologies or content.

repository-services-report-jan09.pdf

The New Roles for New Times series identifies and delineates emerging roles and present research on early experiences among member libraries in developing the roles and delivering services. This report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation.

The authors consider a “promising set of new roles that libraries are currently carving out in the digital arena,” describing emerging strategies for libraries and librarians and highlighting collaborative approaches through a series of case studies of key programs and projects. They also provide helpful definitions and offer recommendations for libraries considering how best to make or expand their investments in digital curation. Issues and developments within and across the sciences and humanities are considered.

nrnt_digital_curation17mar11.pdf

Hardcopy also available for purchase for $25.00 plus shipping & handling.

These questions were asked during the April 7, 2011, webcast "New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation," but were left unanswered due to time constraints. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) asked the webcast panel and the report authors to develop written responses to the unanswered questions in an effort to deepen webcast participants' understanding of the topic.

nrnt_dc_webcast_qanda_apr07.pdf

Deepening our understanding of our nation and its culture and history, advancing scientific discovery, tackling environmental, economic issues, and more, all depend on scientists, researchers, students, scholars, and members of the public accessing our nation's cultural, historical, and scientific assets. A large-scale initiative to digitize and preserve the public domain collections of library, governmental, and cultural memory organizations will support research, teaching, and learning at all levels, will help stem the current economic crisis by equipping and employing workers in every state with 21st Century skills, and it will lay a foundation for innovation and national competitiveness in the decades ahead. The goal is to establish a universal, open library or a digital data commons.

open-lib-dig-commons-statement-jan09.pdf

PubChem is a free, publicly available database created by NIH in 2004 to provide information about small molecules for use as research tools and as potential starting points that may lead to the development of new medications. The database connects chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information in a connect-the-dots fashion, organizing facts in numerous public databases into a unified whole.

pubchem-cas-talkingpoints.pdf