Open access, digital libraries and DK

D. Becker

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Open access - definitionsResources that are openly available to users with no

requirements for authentication or payment.www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/MS1999/Glossary.html

a model for journal publishing in which authors make their content freely available and archive it themselves. Costs of publishing are borne by authors or their funderswww.foodinfoquest.com/glossary

A publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. ...www.loc.gov/acq/conser/glossary.html

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Levels of open accessRead onlineDownloadDownload and distribute

Some items are open access only for short periods of time before having access restricted

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Bookshttp://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/http://www.oapen.org/xtf/home?brand=oapenhttp://www.library4science.com/http://www.intechopen.com/books/http://oreilly.com/openbook/http://ocw.unu.edu/http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/unu

pbks-alm.htmlhttp://www.questia.com/publicdomainindexhttp://www.archive.org/details/universallibrar

y

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Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSear

ch.aspx

Accredited open access journal (SA)http://www.ais.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm

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Texbooks/Coursewarehttp://www.4icu.org/opencourseware/http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/http://www.textbooksfree.org/http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/

Main_Pagehttp://www.oercommons.org/courses/material

_types/textbooks?gclid=CO-w56fzrqQCFdj92AodUXeoyw

http://ocw.unu.edu/ocw/Courses_listing

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Videohttp://www.learnerstv.com/http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideoTextbooksLanguage courses

Repository –definitionA repository in publishing, and especially in

academic publishing, is a real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications, such as academic journal articles.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_(publishing)

a permanent, not-for-profit education or research-oriented agency or institution that provides in-perpetuity legal housing and curation of records and material collections. ...www.txarch.org/archeology/glossary/index.html

)

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Traditional repository servicesRestricted to the output of a single institution

A digital product to enable perpetual access through digital preservation

Access that would be not restricted (not necessarily Open Access)

All intellectual output, irrespective of the type

Types of repositories

Open Access

Scholarius repository for PhD Thesis, Articles, Books and ReportsCovers many subject areas

European portals with English textNetherland Scandinavia

Institutional repositories

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All repositorieshttp://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutio

ns.html

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Journalshttp://digitalcommons.bepress.com/journals.h

tml

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Digital library - definitionA digital library is a library in which collections are

stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library

A digital library is a collection of documents in organized electronic form, available on the Internet or on CD-ROM (compact-disk read-only memory) disks. Depending on the specific library, a user may be able to access magazine articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos. ...www.netaonline.org/pd-digitalglossary.rtf

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Beyond traditional repository servicesIndividual websites for CPUT

staff members

Image galleries for archival and current images

Publication of e-journals and

Conference proceedings

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