This report is a result of the Utrecht University Library Policy plan 20152017. In this plan the library expresses the ambition to support the entire life cycle of research, divided in the stages Research, Create, Share. ...
The recent report of the “Comité des Sages” recommends that “cultural institutions should make public domain material digitised with public funding as widely available as possible for access and re-use”. One of the objectives ...
SPARC was started in 1997 by a number of large research libraries in the US. Its main goal was to restore a competitive balance of the STM journals publishing market. A number of programmatic areas were initiated in order ...
Almost 75% of the current academic journals have gone online, even as they continue to be published in print. Furthermore, a rising number of new e-only journals are being started, most of them outside the range of traditional ...
This article describes the tradidional university library organisation, but it also gives an overview of a possible new structure which is in line with the demands described above. It is a flexible structure, in the sense ...
As a consequence of developments in information technology, the traditional information chain is subject to change: the separate functions in this chain become more and more integrated and the roles played by the traditional ...
In any digital information environment, search is considered a vital and
mandatory functionality. In order to be of proper value, search must be carefully
adjusted to the specific character and structure of the searchable ...
In order to consider the interoperability of compound ETDs it is first important to
understand what is meant by interoperability, and for what purpose that
interoperability is required. At the heart of interoperability, ...
The Fedora digital repository system originated in the mid 1990s with an
academically‐based project to explore how digital content could be organised, if you
were starting from a blank sheet. The focus was on the ...
Nowadays, most of the institutional repositories make use of open source repository
software like DSpace, Eprints or Fedora. If libraries want to successfully use OAIORE
to create world‐wide networks of aggregations, the ...
The content of this document is based on desk research. The content represents
an overview of the legal situation that emerges from this desk research. The
document does not, however, represent any type of legal advice, ...
Ruijgrok, Peter; Slabbertje, Martin; Luijt, Martin van(Knowledge Exchange Grouphttp://www.knowledge-exchange.info/, 2009-01)
The most important goal of this document is to be a first step in the realisation of
a model that can be used for a shared method of modeling of enhanced e‐theses.
The advantage of a shared method of modeling of e‐theses ...
Nielsen, Ene Rammer(Knowledge Exchange Grouphttp://www.knowledge-exchange.info/, 2009-01)
The purpose of the roadmap is to look at issues between data and service providers, based on a review of the ORE paper “ORE User Guide – Resource Map Discovery” http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/discovery) to place it ...
Franken, Saskia; Savenije, Bas; Smith, Jennifer(Emerald Publishing Group Limitedhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm, 2007)
Purpose.
The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of the institutional repository of Utrecht University, the Igitur Archive. The Utrecht repository is unique for several reasons: it was started several ...
Most conferences on digitisation focus on the Anglo-Saxon projects (American, Canadian, Australian and British initiatives). Indeed, many major digitisation projects are being carried out there. Yet this specific focus may ...
De Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht heeft de afgelopen jaren Omega ontwikkeld, de plaats waar gebruikers het digitale bezit kunnen vinden. Het ontsluit het complete (digitale) tijdschriftenbezit en ander digitaal materiaal ...
Scopus is a new entrant in the market for multidisciplinary citation databases. This report analyses the coverage and functionality of Scopus and compares it to ISI's Web of Science and Google Scholar. Scopus comes out as ...
Scopus is een nieuw product op de markt voor multidisciplinaire citatiedatabases. Dit rapport analyseert de dekking en functionaliteit van Scopus en maakt vergelijkingen met Web of Science van ISI en Google Scholar. Scopus ...