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Item Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Review of Content Recruitment Strategy(2006-10-10) Mark, Tim; Shearer, KathleenItem Open Access Empowerment through knowledge and the sharing of knowledge(2006-10-10) Porrett, BarbaraItem Open Access Preservation Strategies for Institutional Repositories(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Tansley, RobertThis presentation adresses the challenges of digital preservation and discusses the various strategies that can be implemented using institutional repositories.Item Open Access Institutional Repositories: Preserving Digital Scholarship(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-06-02) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, KathleenThis presentation describes the role that institutional repositories can play in preserving digital material. The presentation goes on to introduce the CARL Institutional Repositories Project.Item Open Access Institutional Repositories: Collection Issues(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Leggott, MarkThis presentation discusses some of the key decisions required when developing collection policies for an institutional repository.Item Open Access DSpace(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Devakos, Rea; Mircea, GabrielaThis 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.Item Open Access Digital Commons-Overview(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Riedel, JeffThis presentation provides an overview of the Digital Commons software. The software was developed by The Berkeley Electronic Press and is being licensed by ProQuest.Item Open Access Developing a Canadian Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Jordan, MarkThis 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.Item Open Access Creative Commons Canada(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Bornfreund, MarcusA presentation on the Creative Commons Canada and alternative copyright licensing.Item Open Access Building institutional support: how we & others have done it ... good?(2004-10-13) Devakos, ReaThe 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.Item Open Access Archimède(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-10-13) Teasdale, GuyThis 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access Institutional Repositories Position Statement(Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2003-11) Canadian Association of Research LibrariesThis 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.Item Open Access QSpace: Queen's University IR Project(2004-10-20) Kalb, SamQueen'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.Item Open Access QSpace: Queen's University IR Project(2004-11-30) Kalb, Sam; Queen's University. LibraryQueen'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.Item Open Access Institutional Repositories: Towards the Identification of Critical Success Factors(Canadian Association of Information Science, 2003-09) Shearer, KathleenInstitutional 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.Item Open Access Developing a National Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2004-11-18) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, KathleenIn 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.Item Open Access A digital library of gambling-related publications(2005-06-06) Stevens, RhysOver 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”.