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Digital Preservation and Digitization : What copyright law says?
No full textThe paper after introducing the theme initially discusses the challenges posed due to availability of information tools in various forms like printed-micro-digital / optical forms due to changing trends of publishing . It then presents problems in general that libraries face in their efforts to preserve the information for the future use in the light of copyright restrictions enforced to prevent the misuse of the intellectual property although libraries always try to protect them . The paper further discusses two situations specifically regarding preservation of documents received in digital form and digitization of printed documents. The paper concludes with discussion on procedures and steps involved in converting printed documents in to a digital one for preservation and describes steps towards how to put a look on -line
Collection development in digital information repositories in India
Get PDFThe institutional repository (IR) is a contemporary concept that captures and makes available through Internet and intranet the institutional research output and other relevant documents to the users by way of digitizing the output The IRs have already started emerging in India. This study highlights the importance of IR, delineates the scope and methodology projects the findings. Most of the repositories are using open source information repository software like DSpace, Greenstone Digital Library Software and GNU EPrints. It is observed that generally documents like theses and dissertations, seminar papers, journal articles, etc., are being found more in the repositories. Some of the problems of the repositories have been highlighted and suggestions offered
DSpace Administration
Get PDFThis paper describes the various steps involved in administering DSpace, like creating and maintaining Communities and Collections, E-People; authorizing E-People to submit to the Collections; creating and maintaining E-Groups, etc
India's march towards open access
Get PDFDiscusses India's movement towards Open Access. And the need to break away from the existing model of publishing and communicating scientific knowledge.One way of doing this is to embrace the 'open-access' approach being promoted by the
Budapest Open Access Initiative with its two complementary strategies of setting up interoperable open archives and
promoting open-access journal
Open Source and the DSpace project
No full textDSpace software is published under an Open Source (OS) license. Th
Use of the FAO-UNESCO Learning Module on Digitisation and Digital Libraries
Get PDFThe FAO and UNESCO, two United Nations specialized agencies, have developed a computerized self-learning module on Digitization and Digital Libraries. This paper will summarize the objectives of this project as reported by the sponsors, describe the module, and present the author's experience of testing it in a course on digital libraries in the M.Sc. programme in Information Science at the University of Madras
Disseminating knowledge resources through Weblogs
Get PDFDiscribes about What is Weblogs? How to create a simple Weblogs
