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MePrints: Building User Centred Reposito…

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MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories :

« Over the last few years we have been working to reinvent Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. Over this time we have successfully deployed a number of innovative repositories, including Southampton University EdShare, The Language Box, The HumBox, Open University’s LORO and Worcester Learning Box. A key part of this work has been the development of an extension for the EPrints repository platform, called MePrints, that enables configurable profile pages, and works alongside existing extensions such as IRStats and SNEEP in order to give users live feeds about repository events that matter to them. Through these deployments we have discovered that more sophisticated profile pages give users a home within a repository, act as a focus for their work, and help them feel more ownership of the work that they deposit. This increases the visibility of the repository and encourages more deposits. »

URL : http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21716/

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An Overview of Online Exhibitions : « To…

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An Overview of Online Exhibitions :

« To save our culture and heritage collections, online exhibitions are good conviction. Apart from saving and propagating the knowledge they play a vital role as communications link between highly valuable collections and the general public. This paper gives an overview of online exhibitions, their need, types, benefits and drawbacks. It also describes various authoring tools to create user interfaces and such online exhibitions. Some of the historical online exhibitions have also been discussed. The paper conclude that online museums have consequently reduced the distance between visitor and historical monuments and also the demand for original work has increased because of repeated exposure on World Wide Web. »

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19380/

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Stage Five Book Publishing

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Author : Joseph J. Esposito

In order for university presses to ensure their financial success, they have to become innovators: Simply cutting expenses will get them nowhere. The key area for innovation for presses today (a point they share with all other book publishers) is in the area of marketing.

The five stages of book publishing outlined here describe the arc as publishers move from the traditional model (where print books were sold mostly in bookstores and to libraries) through a range of developments using online media, culminating in new forms of subscription marketing.

Among the assumptions for this strategy are: publishers will increasingly seek direct relationships with their readers, often bypassing libraries; publishers will have to become experts in metadata creation in order to make their publications discoverable online; and publishers, even university presses, will begin to create customer databases and become concerned about the life cycles of their customers.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.204

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Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age

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Author : Clifford Lynch

I outline a possible future system of many distributed university presses mainly focused on the editorial production of scholarly monographs, supported by a very small number of digital platforms for managing and delivering these monographs as a database rather than transactionally to academic and research libraries. I also touch on the ongoing evolution of various types of scholarly books into (often much more costly) networked information resources and the implications this has for the overall dissemination of scholarship and the roles of university presses.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.207

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Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future …

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Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication :

« This essay proposes that bold new forms of experimentation and bookishness are necessary if we are to advance (and perhaps save) scholarly publishing in the humanities. Possible issues facing presses are considered through consideration of two examples in scholarly publishing that involve the author. The first example, the experimental journal Vectors, highlights the advantages and limits of certain types of multimodal scholarly communication for the humanities. The second example, the new Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, points toward new methods of workflow and publishing that link archives, scholars, and presses. The essay ends with a list of key questions that presses will need to address as various stakeholders collectively expand what we understand humanities publishing to be. »

URL : http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.208

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Use of Scholarly Resources among Researc…

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Use of Scholarly Resources among Research Scholars in Pondicherry University :

« In this short article we examine the use of electronic journals by research scholar and consider whether library services need any innovation. Research scholars are the intellectual asset of the University and their production of new knowledge through the practices of research and scholarship lies at the heart of the University’s mission. Yet, without effective and ongoing dissemination of knowledge, the efforts of researchers and scholars are wasted. Dissemination is thus a core responsibility of the University. »

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19368/

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Analyse prospective du libre accès en Fr…

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Analyse prospective du libre accès en France :

« Dresser un panorama et identifier les enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France ont été les objectifs de l’étude que nous avons menée. Pour réaliser cette étude, nous avons emprunté une méthode de travail d’une autre discipline, la prospective, qui est souvent utilisée dans le domaine du management stratégique. L’analyse structurelle, la première étape de la prospective, est utilisée dans le cadre général de cette méthode à la fois pour dresser un panorama de l’environnement de l’entreprise et pour identifier les questions clés liées au développement de celle-ci. Par le biais de la méthode MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts Croisés—Multiplication Appliquée à un Classement), nous avons pu identifier que les principaux enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France seraient le développement des mandats obligatoires, les politiques de l’Union européenne et les embargos liés à l’auto-archivage. Ces enjeux devront s’articuler autour de deux spécificités françaises, à savoir HAL, l’archive ouverte disciplinaire et nationale, et l’environnement disparate de la recherche publique française. »

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00537239/fr/