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    A digital library of gambling-related publications
    (2005-06-06) Stevens, Rhys
    Over the past several years, the Alberta Gaming Research Institute Library and the University of Calgary Image Centre have been collaborating on a project to digitize and archive a selection of historical and contemporary gambling-related publications. The project requires that digital copyright permissions be secured before items are digitized and made available online in their entirety through a digital library. The software used to run this digital library is called DSpace and it is hosted at the University of Calgary. As of May 2004, there were more than 239 items included in the collection. It can be accessed from the Institute’s DSpace “community”.
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    Developing a National Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories
    (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2004-11-18) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    In the fall of 2002, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries began a project to implement institutional repositories (IRs) at a number of research libraries in Canada. An important part of this project is the pan-Canadian harvester, which was implemented in order to aggregate and search the collections of all of the participating IRs (http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/). The Canadian harvester has been a valuable way of gathering information about a number of aspects of the IRs in Canada. In essence, it has become a sort of virtual ‘laboratory’ for the project. This brief paper introduces three areas in which we are using the harvester to gather information about Canadian IRs in order to monitor and improve the services being providing by these repositories.
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    Institutional Repositories: Towards the Identification of Critical Success Factors
    (Canadian Association of Information Science, 2003-09) Shearer, Kathleen
    Institutional repositories (IRs) are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. Their aim is to provide access to scholarly material without the economic barriers that currently exist in scholarly publishing. If successful, IRs hold the promise of being very advantageous to researchers everywhere, especially those in the developing world. The IR concept is very new and has yet to be studied in any comprehensive way. This paper describes a study being conducted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to determine some success factors of institutional repositories. Through the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project, several variables are being examined to determine whether they contribute to the input activity and use of the IRs being implemented at several Canadian research libraries. The project is in its initial stages, and has yet to show significant results. However, the paper presents a detailed description of the IR concept; identifies and explains the variables that are being studied; and discusses some of the challenges involved in the study.
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    QSpace: Queen's University IR Project
    (2004-11-30) Kalb, Sam; Queen's University. Library
    Queen's University Library Institutional Repository Project plan and governance structure. One year project started in September 2004 to gather data needed to develop a business plan for a sustainable, long-term repository.
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    QSpace: Queen's University IR Project
    (2004-10-20) Kalb, Sam
    Queen's University Library Institutional Repository Project plan and governance structure. One year project started in September 2004 to gather data needed to develop a business plan for a sustainable, long-term repository.
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    Institutional Repositories Position Statement
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2003-11) Canadian Association of Research Libraries
    This document is the Position Statement of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries towards institutional repositories, that was adopted in November 2003. It states that CARL supports the systematic archiving of, and access to the digital research output of Canadian academic organizations into institutional repositories.
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    DSpace @ UCalgary.ca -- Promotional Brochure
    (2002) Wylie, Heather; Westell, Mary E.
    This is a draft version of the brochure that was created at the University of Calgary in order to promote our Institutional Repository. It includes basic information about the repository, reasons why scholars would want to create a repository, and appropriate contact names. Also, it includes an outline of how to navigate our repository, and search for research.
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    Archimède
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Teasdale, Guy
    This presentation provides an overview of the Archimède software. The software was developed at Universite de Laval. It is an open source system and freely available for download.
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    Building institutional support: how we & others have done it ... good?
    (2004-10-13) Devakos, Rea
    The presentation describes the University of Toronto's experience with implementing TSpace IR. In particular, the presentation focuses on how to set up appropriate policies and garner administrative support within the organization.
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    Creative Commons Canada
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Bornfreund, Marcus
    A presentation on the Creative Commons Canada and alternative copyright licensing.
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    Developing a Canadian Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Jordan, Mark
    This presentations discusses the results of an analysis of the metadata gathered from Canadian Association of Research Libraries' institutional repositories. The metadata was found to be incomplete and inconsistent. As such, the presentation recommends the development of a metadata profile that identifies required and recommended elements.
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    Digital Commons-Overview
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Riedel, Jeff
    This presentation provides an overview of the Digital Commons software. The software was developed by The Berkeley Electronic Press and is being licensed by ProQuest.
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    DSpace
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Devakos, Rea; Mircea, Gabriela
    This presentation provides an overview of the DSpace software. The software was developed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard. DSpace is an open source system and freely available for download.
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    Institutional Repositories: Collection Issues
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Leggott, Mark
    This presentation discusses some of the key decisions required when developing collection policies for an institutional repository.
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    Institutional Repositories: Preserving Digital Scholarship
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-06-02) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    This presentation describes the role that institutional repositories can play in preserving digital material. The presentation goes on to introduce the CARL Institutional Repositories Project.
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    Preservation Strategies for Institutional Repositories
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Tansley, Robert
    This presentation adresses the challenges of digital preservation and discusses the various strategies that can be implemented using institutional repositories.
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    Indian Libraries and Librarianship : An overview
    (2006-07-27T19:20:26Z) Kumbar, Tukaram S.
    Dr. Kumbar is a Librarian from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. He came to the University of Calgary as a visiting scholar and gave this presentation about Librarianship in India to local Librarians.
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    Basic Techniques for Electronic Research
    (2006-09-21T03:20:43Z) Rutherford, Shauna; Library; Information Resources; University of Calgary
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    Workshop on the Information Search Process for research (WISPR)
    (2006-09-21T03:24:29Z) Rutherford, Shauna; Hayden, K. Alix; Pival, Paul R.; Library; Information Resources; University of Calgary
    The WISPR workshop will guide you through the phases of the Information search Process. Each of the phases is represented by a different colour in the workshop. Each section will explain the task of the phase, give you some actions and strategies to move you along to the next phase, and outline some of the thoughts and feelings researchers normally experience at that point of the Information Search Process.
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