Browsing MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations by Title
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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
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The Materiality of Digital Collections:Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-07)Digital and textual objects are coming under a new kind of scrutiny as scholars are becoming more interested in physical artifacts and their relation to their social and cultural environment. This study of material culture ... -
MIT Libraries Liaison Program: A Paradigm Shift
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MIT's CWSpace project: packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-01-20)This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protocols required to archive the course ... -
OA Policies at MIT & Framework for Publisher Contracts
(2020-06)Presented at the Ivy Plus Library Confederation Summer of ScholComm meeting on June 24, 2020. Topics include the history of MIT's Open Access Policies, the goals of the Framework for Publisher Contracts, and brief reflections ... -
Patron for a Day (PFAD): A Space Assessment
(ACRL, 2017)A basic premise of User Experience (UX) is to empathize with your users. This assessment exercise encourages your staff to understand what users experience in your spaces and, as a bonus, identifes some immediate space ... -
Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser
(Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005-10)The Semantic Web Initiative envisions a Web wherein information is offered free of presentation, allowing more effective exchange and mixing across web sites and across web pages. But without substantial Semantic Web ... -
Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty of MIT
(Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2010-08-01)Faculty and researchers who receive substantial funding from NIH were interviewed about their publication practices. Qualitative data was collected from interviews of eleven faculty members and one researcher representing ... -
Responsibility, Rights, and Repositories: Negotiating for Accessibility of Open Access Content
(2021-10-27)Presented as part of an London Open Research Week event, hosted by Birbeck, University of London on October 28, 2021. -
Staffing for Electronic Resource Management: the Results of a Survey
(Elsevier : Serials Review, 2002)The authors offer the results of an informal survey of library staffing trends related to the acquisition and maintenance of electronic resources. They test their hypothesis that the problem of staffing for e-resources has ... -
The Symbolic Value of Libraries in a Digital Age
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001-10)As an increasingly virtual society anticipates the decline of print, it looks to the keepers of the written record to maintain continuity with its past. Libraries cannot formulate intelligent collection and preservation ... -
Text and Data Mining: Negotiating Computational Access to Library Resources
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Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004-01)Creative and compelling theoretical formulations of the archive have emerged from a host of disciplines in the last decade. Derrida and Foucault, as well as many other humanists and social scientists, have initiated a ... -
Transforming Scientific Communication for the 21st Century
(Haworth Press, 2001)Since its inception in the 17th century the research journal emerged as the formal communication method in the sciences. The last half of the 20th century has seen stresses develop on the journal system due to the explosion ...