The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective
Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets. Planets started on 1st June 2006. This website makes available project documentations and deliverables
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a pilot project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers. California’s weekly newspapers will be preserved in a searchable archive as UC Riverside expands its massive California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) to include the community chronicles of political, business and social history.
The DuraSpace organization provides leadership and innovation in open source and cloud-based technologies primarily for libraries, universities, research centers, and cultural heritage organizations. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for institutional repositories, open access publishing, digital libraries, digital archives, digital collections, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace, DSpace, Fedora Commons.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitised from libraries around the world.
Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery network (CTRnet), is a digital library network for providing a range of services relating to different kind of tragic events. Through this digital library, we collect and archive different types of CTR related information such as Web sites, videos, blogs and tweets. Various collections about school shootings and natural disasters have been developed from collaboration with the Internet Archive.
The ADAPT project is developing technologies for building a scalable and reliable infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of digital assets. Our approach uses a distributed object architecture that operates on different levels of abstractions built around grid technologies and web services. Major software components have been prototyped and are currently in use in a number of pilot projects such as the Transcontinental Persistent Archives Project and Chronopolis. Integrity Management (ACE) project. PAWN is a mature software platform that is extremely flexible in implementing centralized and distributed ingestion and processing workflows.
Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Digital Library. More than 3,500 documents from three decades of research into best practices in software engineering. technical reports, presentations, webinars, podcasts, etc.
alo ist eine digitale Bibliothek mit mehr als 15.000 frei zugänglichen Dokumenten vom 11. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Bücher, Zeitschriften, Zeitungen, Handschriften, Postkarten, aber auch Dissertationen, Diplomarbeiten und wissenschaftliche Aufsätze - meist mit einem Bezug zu Österreich - stehen in digitalisierter Form oder als PDF zur Verfügung.
alo beruht auf einer Initiative der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol, der Universitätsbibliothek Graz und dem Institut "Integriert Studieren" der Universität Linz. Die Gesamtverantwortung liegt bei DEA (Digitalisierung und elektronische Archivierung) sowie dem Zentralen Informatikdienst der Universität Innsbruck.