Purpose – This paper aims to focus on how long-term digital archiving systems are tested and what benchmarks and other metrics are necessary for that testing to produce data that the community can use to make decisions. ...

Purpose – Plagiarism has become a salient issue for universities and thus for university libraries in recent years. This paper aims to discuss three interrelated aspects of preserving plagiarized works: collection development ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e-Depot provide long-term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). ...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the second part of the theme issue on “user research and technology” and to discuss testing online digital library resources using methods from ethnography and cultural ...

Dass Open Access aus Sicht der Wissenschaft grundsätzlich wünschenswert ist, darin besteht kaum mehr ein Zweifel. Wenn es an die konkrete Umsetzung geht, werden allerdings Vorbehalte laut. Einer der am häufigsten geäußerte ...

Sind es wirklich in der Hauptsache Bestände und Informationsdienstleistungen, von denen sich Menschen in Bibliotheken ziehen lassen? Sind Bibliotheken nicht auch hochkomplexe Soziotope, in denen weitaus mehr als nur ...

The purpose is to investigate: 1) how many journal titles are both in LOCKSS and in Portico? 2) what is the relationship of small publishers to LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico? 2) what is the relationship of large publishers ...