Report from the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)
This is probably the single most important general meeting for those working in the area of data curation, and this year’s event drew more participants than ever before. The themes for the meeting were infrastructure, intelligence, and innovation. Here are some of the highlights for me: Herbert Van de Sompel’s talk, “The Web as infrastructure […]
Implications of Research Funders’ Policies for Scholarly Communication
US Federal funders of research have been developing policies to ensure public access to the products of tax-payer funded research, and two of the major funding agencies have recently announced some changes to their policies with implications for scholarly communication. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has had in place since 2008 a policy requiring […]
Sustainability: Scholarly Repository as an Enterprise
Increasing emphasis on open science and the burgeoning data management mandates usher a complex suite of technology, policy and service needs. It is essential to consider the sustainability requirements upstream and remember that the services we are experimenting and creating now have long-term implications. As we explore a range of issues related to research data […]
Introducing the Scholarly Communication Awareness Program
It is a great pleasure to announce a new program that we’ll be piloting this fall to provide discussion and awareness building forums for CUL’s liaisons in regard to scholarly communication and digital scholarship. One of the CUL Priority Objectives (III.1) has been formalizing the network of library liaisons to departments and academic programs across […]
Working Group on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
For the past several months a group of CUL staff have been meeting to discuss issues related to the management of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). ETDs are one of the important core collections within eCommons, and there are a variety of issues in play, including matters related to processing and cataloging ETDs (which are […]
arXiv Sustainability FAQ and Work Ahead of Us
You may have already seen the press release announcing that Simons Foundation will support arXiv’s transition from an exclusive initiative of Cornell University Library (CUL) to a collaboratively governed, community-supported resource through a generous gift. During 2013-2017, the Simons Foundation will provide up to $300,000 per year as a matching gift for the funds generated […]
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