Stanford University Libraries' guidelines for digitization projects.

Cornell's upgraded DSpace instance for the university's digital repository. "This Digital Repository is powered by DSpace and is open to anyone affiliated with Cornell University (faculty, staff, students, or groups/organizations) as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute materials in digital formats that may be useful for educational, scholarly, research or historical purposes."

DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories [Interesting interface with faceted browsing, the ability to set a profile to be notified of new research in your field and a community feature.] Tuesday, 13 November 2007 An international partnership has started work on a project to build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe. The "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based infrastructures. The new DRIVER repository infrastructure will enable researchers to plug into the new knowledge base and use scientific content in a standardised, open way. The project is funded by the European Commission under the auspices of the "Research Infrastructure" unit.

The University of California announced this week that its widely used eScholarship Repository has surpassed the 5 million mark for full-text downloads of its open access scholarly content. This major milestone reflects the impressive adoption and usage rate the repository has enjoyed since its inception in 2002, with University of California academic units and departments from its 10 campuses publishing or depositing more than 20,000 papers and works. The eScholarship Repository, a service of the California Digital Library, provides a robust full-spectrum, open access publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. The repository houses a broad range of scholarly content from disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences. The rate of usage of these materials has grown exponentially in the past five years, now often exceeding 55,000 full-text downloads per week.

Educause 2007 presentation with resources Speaker(s) * Dennis DeTurck, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences / Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania * Richard Griscom, Project Leader, ScholarlyCommons@Penn, University of Pennsylvania * Session convener: Joel A. Cohen, Associate VP for Library and Information Services, Canisius College Abstract The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has as a goal expanding opportunities for undergraduates to conduct significant research and promoting the products of this research. CUREJ, the College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, was developed in collaboration with the Penn Libraries to achieve this goal.

The Digital Library Development Lab (DLDL) develops the architecture, tools, and interfaces that integrate information resources and services into the Libraries' digital library and the University's educational and research environments. The Lab is also the home of the Digital Collections unit (DCU), which fosters the creation of and access to research and scholarly material in digital form from across the University of Minnesota.