Browsing MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations by Title
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DSpace: Durable Digital Documents
(ACM Press, 2002)The DSpace system for long-term management of institutional scholarly research repositories is now in use at the MIT Libraries; we will demonstrate the system and provide more information about its design, use at MIT, and ... -
DSpace: Durable Digital Documents
(United Kingdom Serial Group, 2001)DSpace is a joint development project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company. Its mission is to establish a library service to capture, distribute, and preserve the digital, ... -
Electronic Resource Management Systems From ILS Vendors
(Against the Grain, 2004-09)For several years libraries, especially larger libraries and research libraries, have been more and more desperately seeking systems and tools to help them manage electronic resources for several years. To date, most ... -
Electronic Resource Management Systems, Part II: Offerings from Serial Vendors and Serial Data Vendors
(Against the Grain, 2005-06-19)In the September 2004 issue, I reported on the Electronic Resource Management (ERM) offerings of the major ILS vendors, and promised to follow with a second article covering the ERM tools offered by other kinds of companies, ... -
Envisioning Reference at MIT
(Haworth Press, 2004). In the past few years, the MIT Libraries has been focused on how to turn declining reference statistics, new modes of technology, users’ increasing needs and expectations, and constrained staff resources into a robust ... -
Eternal Bits
(IEEE, 2005-07)The MIT Libraries is addressing the problem of maintaining and sharing digital content over the long haul with a project called DSpace. For this digital repository, a simple, open-source software application was built that ... -
The Evolution of Geospatial Data Discovery at MIT
(2024-05-22)This poster was presented at the International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST) conference, which was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from May 28 - May 31, 2024. -
Evolving IRs to serve our expanding open scholarship priorities
(2022-08)Presentation slides used for invited talk given by Amy Nurnberger and Sadie Roosa at the C H Mohammed Koya Library, University of Calicut conference "Futuristic Information Systems: Aspirations and Apprehensions." -
Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs
(2021-02)In this blog post we look at the open data available on monograph publication, and use it to explore patterns and trends in open monograph publishing. This blog post takes the form of a guided, interactive, reproducible ... -
Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Publications Office, 2005)The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to ... -
Future-Proofing Architectural Computer-Aided Design: MIT's FACADE Project
(Editions InFolio, 2008-09-27)The FACADE project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA is exploring the long-term archiving and preservation of digital data from architectural projects in general, and 3D models and related ... -
A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India
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Hip Hop and Activism,: Bridging Boundaries and Healing Through Hip Hop Pedagogy
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Implementing an Institutional Repository: The DSpace Experience at MIT
(Haworth Press, 2004-06)This paper describes MIT Libraries' experience implementing DSpace, a home-grown open source digital institutional repository, which other institutions may want to introduce as a service to their communities. MIT's ... -
Implementing Open Access Policies Using Institutional Repositories
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Improving Access to E-Journals and Databases at the MIT Libraries: Building a Database-Backed Web Site Called "Vera"
(Hayworth Press, 2002)The MIT Libraries provide access to databases and electronic journals via the online catalog and the web. The Vera database was created in order to improve public access to a growing number of resources listed on web pages ... -
Increasing the A in OA: How accessibility work in repositories should influence publisher agreements
(2021-06)Presented at Open Repository 2021 on June 9, 2021. -
Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) at DSpace@MIT
(2024-04-18)Presentation given as part of the LyrOpen Fair 2024, session 3: Open Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) on Thursday April 18, 2024. For those interested in institutional repositories and assessment of ... -
Kicked a heading lately? The challenge of establishing headings for buildings and other structures
(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2006)Providing access points for building names is a tremendous challenge for library catalogers. Using Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum as an example of the complexities involved in assigning these types of headings, ... -
Margins of the Margins of the Margins: On Being Black with Disabilities and/or Neurodivergence in Libraries and Archives
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022)