lib-ir: Fwd: Re: DSpace

[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

Quick response with some interesting information
from Ross Atkinson at Cornell.

Carol

>Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:23:41 -0500
>From: Ross Atkinson <ra13@cornell.edu>
>Subject: Re: DSpace
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>To: Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
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>Carol,
>
>Good to hear from you.  We have in fact very little documentation.  We've 
>got a test site up at http://ispy.library.cornell.edu:8080/index.jsp .  We 
>were actually working on our own home-grown repository, in which we were 
>putting things like the computer science tech reports.  At the same time, 
>the Dean of the Faculty (Bob Cooke) was chairing a scholarly 
>communications committee, looking for alternatives to solve some of the 
>pressures in scholarly communications.  That group decided to connect the 
>search for formal publishing alternatives with the concept of a 
>repository--and they also decided that the best repository around would be 
>DSpace from MIT. So we jointed that effort. What is different about what 
>we are doing at Cornell (vs. the other DSpace partners) is therefore that 
>we are planning not only to use DSpace for the huge amount of informal 
>publications now needing a home (tech reports, working papers, data sets, 
>lecture notes, etc.)--but also we expect to create a formal section, using 
>our own Euclid software, that will permit the publication of peer-reviewed 
>journals and other standard publications.  During the past four months, 
>the Dean and I have visited a great many individuals and units on campus, 
>explaining what DSpace is and how it could be used.  We have interested 
>the Graduate School, and we expect to be putting dissertations on DSpace 
>soon (but only on a voluntary basis).  We have talked with the University 
>Press, and they are interested at least in continuing to discuss the idea 
>of digital monographs.  We've talked with the plantations and the museum 
>about putting their images in DSpace.  We've talked with most of the 
>colleges and schools--and many individual faculty.  We are now formulating 
>guidelines, which will explain exactly what those interested in using 
>DSpace will be expected to do.  The Library is taking responsibility for 
>maintaining the service over time.  The Dean got a two-year grant to get 
>us started.  One of our main concerns and interests now, therefore, is to 
>determine how we will continue to support the service, once the grant has 
>run out.  If there are any further details I can find for you, please do 
>let me know.
>
>---Ross
>
>
>___________________________________
>
>Ross Atkinson
>Associate University Librarian
>  for Collections
>201 Olin Library
>Cornell University
>Ithaca, NY 14853-5301
>
>telephone:  (607) 255-5181
>fax:  (607) 255-6788