OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 24 Issue 1

Fall fare: the NISO ERM Forum

Norm Medeiros

The purpose of this article is to describe highlights from the NISO ERM Forum held September 2007 in Denver, Colorado.

Weaving the digital library web

Robert Fox

This column seeks to recommend five basic principles that should be used when a library web site is designed or refactored.

Developing the business case for a digital library project

H. Frank Cervone

The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the role comprehensive business cases can have in ensuring the successful adoption of a digital library project.

The long and winding road: Institutional and disciplinary repository at Saarland University and State Library

Ulrich Herb, Matthias Müller

The purpose of this article is to describe the open access archiving of scientific primary and secondary literature on the institutional and the disciplinary repository of the…

The ARROW project: A consortial institutional repository solution, combining open source and proprietary software

David Groenewegen, Andrew Treloar

To provide an overview of the Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) project.

Ontario Government documents repository D‐Space pilot project

Rea Devakos, Annemarie Toth‐Waddell

This paper aims to describe a project to increase access and longevity of electronic government documents.

Setting up a university digital repository: experience with DigiTool

Valerie Stevenson, Sue Hodges

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the DigiTool software has been used to create a university digital repository.

Collecting metadata from institutional repositories

Gordon Dunsire

The purpose of this article is to review metadata issues identified in recent research carried out in Scotland on services based on metadata aggregation via OAI‐PMH, and to…

ePrints@IISc: India's first and fastest growing institutional repository

Francis Jayakanth, Filbert Minj, Usha Silva, Sandhya Jagirdar

The purpose of this paper is to share NCSI's experiences in using GNU EPrints.org software to create and maintain the open‐access institutional repository of IISc, ePrints@IISc.