Archive for January 29th, 2008

Copyright, IPR and the Institutional Repository

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

The Repository Support Project recently ran a one-day Professional Briefing at
Queen”s University Belfast in which Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN gave a presentation entitled “Copyright, IPR and the Institutional Repository”. Slides from this presentation are now available.

JISC/DCC synthesis study on Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

JISC has recently published a synthesis study of the 4-04 programme, Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions. Written by Maureen Pennock, DCC researcher at UKOLN, the study provides a comprehensive and categorised overview of the outputs from the entire programme. Categories include training, costs and business models, life cycles,
repositories, case studies, and assessment and surveys. Each category includes detailed information on project outputs and references a number of re-usable project-generated tools that range from software services to checklists and guidance.