My plan was to begin posting student honors theses to the College’s institutional repository on the DSpace platform, but there are still several hurdles that need to be surmounted before the posting of theses can begin. A survey has been created by the library committee to be administered to all department heads. The survey addresses several points: 1) does the …
My project of digitizing student honors theses is now with department heads who are deciding how best to get the theses to me. I’m working through Tina and the library committee on this. I hope to have some resolution on it by later this semester.
My project is to collect and curate online the honors theses of Muhlenberg students for open access. Right now, the permission to proceed rests with the library director and the library committee, who in turn are going to consult with department heads. Once I receive the go ahead, I will develop a system of collection, most likely working with department …
The distinction being made here is between “useful articles” and design files of those articles. The blueprint design files or patterns are considered “expression” and thus protected by copyright. The objects that are designed from them–the hardware–cannot be protected by copyright. So, again, I can seek protection from copyright for the design files, but not for the useful objects (the …
I can speak from personal experience when I talk about open source. The library now employs an open source system called WMS or Encompass Search. When the library made the switch from Innovative Interfaces (a proprietary closed system) to Encompass Search (an open system), the college reaped a savings of many thousands of dollars. The system is far more robust …
My first thought about this reading is one that echoes what others in the group have said, that open scholarship is seldom free. It may be a “free price” to the end user, but much of the time, institutional support in the form of grant funding, or ongoing funding is behind the scenes. Wikipedia is frequently posting a request for …
