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Category: library
You’re invited: Enhance your library’s RDM program by partnering with Dryad
Please join us on February 22 to learn more about how Dryad complements and enhances institutional research data management initiatives. This event is specifically designed for librarians to learn more about how a partnership with Dryad can increase pa…
Launching the Digital Collections Management Compendium
Over the past two years, my colleagues and I in the Digital Content Management section have been working with experts from across many divisions of the Library of Congress to collate and assemble guidance and policy that guide or reflect the practices that the Library uses to manage digital collections. I am excited to share […]
Exploring the publishing model of the Open Library of Humanities: A view from Latin America
This week marks the launch of the greatly anticipated open access mega-journal, the Open Library of Humanities. Francisco Osorio provides a brief overview of what sets this journal project apart from the rest and how the new funding model offers an economic, social and technological platform for the humanities and social sciences to transition to open access. At the heart of […]
Researchers are not ‘hoodwinked’ victims. All choose to play the publishing game and some can choose to change it.
Researchers are often cast as hapless victims in the scholarly communication system. Cameron Neylon argues their largely rational actions to demonstrate productivity are a choice and are also all part of the game they helped to create. Everyone is playing the game, publishers, researchers and funders, but that doesn’t mean that all the players have the same freedom to change it. It is […]
Where are they now? An RDM update from Loughborough University
The latest in our series of catch-up blog posts is based on discussion with Dave Temple and Jeff Brown at Loughborough University.read more
Where are they now? An RDM update from the University of Northampton
The latest in our series of catch-up blog posts is by Miggie Pickton at the University of Northampton.read more
Rescuing and Digitally Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Great Smoky Mountains
In western North Carolina, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, rests a boulder covered in prehistoric petroglyphs attributed to the Native Americans who have resided in the area for thousands of years. Experts debate the specific origin and meaning of the glyphs but the general interpretation describes Judaculla, a human-like giant with supernatural […]