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Overview


The University of Oregon Libraries are exploring options for creating a digital archive for scholarly output of the University of Oregon community. The goal of the archive would be to preserve and make more widely available to the international scholarly community the intellectual output of the University of Oregon community. The archive is likely to have the following characteristics:

  • Authors select which of their own scholarly works to deposit in the archive, as long as they meet the standards of the University of Oregon academic community. Authors are responsible for insuring that deposit of works to the archive does not violate copyright or any other relevant laws. Examples of the kinds of materials that could be deposited are:
    • abstracts of copyrighted publications, with full citations to the publication
    • conference papers not submitted for formal publication
    • course lectures or other course material
    • articles written for journals or newspapers where copyright was retained by the author
    • pre-prints and working papers
    • research materials supporting scholarly publications
    • works where the copyright has been transferred but the copyright holder permits the author to make the material freely available.
  • Authors retain copyright over deposited materials (unless they sign it away to another copyright holder)
  • Materials will be registered, providing a means of establishing the intellectual priority of the ideas, concepts, or research contained in them
  • Electronic files of any type or size will be accepted, within certain broad parameters still to be articulated.
  • Deposited materials may be written in any language
  • Access to materials will be via a Web interface
  • Materials will be indexed and searchable, according to terms and concepts selected by the author(s)
  • Indexing will be mapped to international standards so that the materials in the archive can be routinely found by international search engines
  • Access to the full text of materials will be open or restricted, depending on author preference
  • Accepted materials will be preserved and migrated to newer formats, as needed
  • No materials will be removed without the authors' knowledge

There are several freely available software options available to the Libraries for establishing the archive. One, called D-Space, was developed by Hewlett-Packard and MIT. To get an idea of how such an archive could develop, see the D-Space archive at: MIT

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