Overview of content related to 'intellectual property'

Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

editor — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

JISC announced its FAIR Programme (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) in January of this year. The central objective of the Programme is to test ways of releasing institutionally-produced content onto the web. FAIR describes its scope as:

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

editor — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 23:00:00 +0000

by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

‘ETDs’ is the acronym widely used in the US to stand for ‘Electronic Theses and Dissertations’. The father of the ETD movement, Professor Ed Fox of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech), explains the acronym as containing an implicit Boolean ‘OR’: ‘ETs’ OR ‘EDs’ equals ‘ETDs’. This makes for a very convenient shorthand, whereby a digital object which is either an electronic thesis or an electronic dissertation can be referred to as ‘an ETD’.

Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

editor — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:00:00 +0000

Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

This article outlines some of the main stages in setting up an institutional e-print archive. It is based on experiences at the universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham which have both recently developed pilot e-print servers(1). It is not the intention here to present arguments in favour of open access e-print archives – this has been done elsewhere(2). Rather, it is hoped to present give an account of some of the practical issues that arise in the early stages of establishing an archive in a higher education institution.

ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

editor — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

This report covers a selection of the papers at the above conference, from those which I chose and was able to attend in a three-strand conference held over three days (with two additional days for workshops, which I did not attend). It includes the three keynote papers, as well as the paper which won the Vannevar Bush award for best conference paper.

Instructional Management Systems

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.

Conference Goes One Step Beyond

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.

View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

Interface

editor — Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.