Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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Carnegie Corporation of New York has developed a model virtual library to demonstrate one method of supplementing collections in African universities where Internet connectivity is limited and expensive. Scholarly articles free of both charge and copyright were downloaded from the Internet, sorted by subject and stored in a hard drive, later to be copied and housed in a server. Should the virtual library project be implemented, the server could be copied and exported to the beneficiary universities and operate at the center of a local area network. The report
* outlines the technological and ethical issues encountered during
the two-month collection phase of the project
* identifies and describes other initiatives addressing issues of
free access to scholarly research and low Internet connectivity or
bandwidth
* offers suggestion to make the project design both more efficient
and effective
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/pubs/virtlibreport.html
Posted by at May 18, 2005 4:25 PM
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