lib-ir: FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Articles on Institutional Repositories following up CNI/JISC/SURF meeting

["JQ Johnson" <jqj@uoregon.edu>]

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Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Articles on Institutional Repositories following up
CNI/JISC/SURF meeting


In the just-posted September 2005 issue of D-Lib magazine, which is 
available at http://www.dlib.org, there are two articles analyzing 
data that was gathered for the joint CNI/JISC/SURF May 2005 meeting 
in Amsterdam on the state of deployment of institutional 
repositories. The first, which I co-authored with Gerard van 
Westrienen of the SURF Foundation, looks at the comparative 
international data from some thirteen nations. The second article, 
which Joan Lippincott and I co-authored, goes into more depth on the 
United States survey data that we gathered from academic CNI member 
institutions as input to the international survey. The articles also 
contain URLs for presentations from the Amsterdam meeting and for the 
complete data submitted for each nation as input to the meeting. 
Taken together, I think that these two articles provide an 
interesting look at the state of institutional repository deployment 
as of Spring 2005.

Let me also point out a very interesting article in the same issue 
(with no offense intended to the other articles in the issue, which I 
have not yet read)  by Brian Lavoie, Lynn Connaway and Lorcan Dempsey 
of OCLC that you may want to look at while visiting the D-Lib site. 
This article looks at collection overlap and uniqueness patterns in 
the context of large-scale digitization programs such as the Google 
initiative. For those who were at the Spring 2005 CNI Task Force 
meeting in Washington, I believe that Lorcan Dempsey made reference 
to this ongoing work during the disucssion at the Google digitization 
panel.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI