D-Lib Magazine

January – February 2010 Issue:

The January/February 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains eight articles, two conference reports, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and Pointers’. This month, D-Lib features The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection, a historical collection of plant anatomical microscope slides, courtesy of University of Miami Libraries.

The Articles are:

Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture by Sean Reilly and Robert Tupelo-Schneck, Corporation for National Research Initiatives http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-reilly

Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grace Agnew, Rutgers University http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-eschenfelder

The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives by Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, and Theodore S. Papatheodorou, University of Patras http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-koutsomitropoulos

RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use by Diane Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, Metadata Management Associates; Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net; Jon Phipps, JES & Co., Metadata Management Associates; Gordon Dunsire, University of Strathclyde http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-hillmann

D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years by Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-park

Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 – August 2009 by Rose Holley, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), National Library of Australia http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-holley

FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo and Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-ramirez

The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics by Richard H. Cyburt, Sam M. Austin, Timothy C. Beers, Alfredo Estrade, Ryan M. Ferguson, Alexander Sakharuk, Hendrik Schatz, Karl Smith, and Scott Warren, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-cyburt

The Conference and Workshop Reports are:

e-Science for Musicology Workshop Report by Richard Lewis, Goldsmiths College, University of London http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-lewis

Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Open Access at EDUCAUSE 2009 by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace and Cornell University http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-morris

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