... % of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college’s institutional digital repository for scholarly research purposes. + About 28% said that ... to their research materials as much as they possibly can. + Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually contributed an article to one of them. ...

Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on a survey on the use of digital repositories and open access. Unfortunately, the PDF is not open access, so Baker’s summary will have to suffice. From the post: About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.

... Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of Institutional Repositories. Presenter: MacKenzie Smith Tuesday, November ... interests are in applied technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular. The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving ... publishing models and the role of digital repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors at the regional ...

... aimed by populating institutional channels within popular digital resource repositories (del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Scribd, SlideShare) with digital contents created and consumed by learners, teachers and researchers ... Scribd for documents. This approach takes advantage of the added value these repositories give us for our resources (embedding in other sites, searching, ranking, ...

... 's a simple thing -- I only mean to indicate a contrast) use new tools to disseminate old materials; while digital archives are much stickier of a wicket. Does the term refer to a repository of ... , one-stop-shop archival communities. After all, unless we can get folks using them, they're just fancier repositories. *Funded by the NEH and JISC, the project is a joint collaboration between the ...

By way of amplifying the signal: the 5th International Digital Curation Conference is coming up in London in December. I will be there in spirit only, I fear, but ... and may continue to change." Data curation will be included, as will scholarly communication and the serials crisis, institutional repositories, digital collections, digital preservation, and similar things that I actually do know ...