Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 34 Issue 4

Distributed digital preservation: preserving open journal systems content in the PKP PN

Bronwen Sprout, Mark Jordan

This paper aims to discuss the public knowledge project (PKP) preservation network (PN), which provides free preservation services for eligible journals by collecting article…

Linking historical collections in an event-based ontology

Qing Zou, Eun G. Park

This study aims to explore a way of representing historical collections by examining the features of an event in historical documents and building an event-based ontology model.

Master’s theses and open scholarship: a case study

Joachim Schopfel, Sylvain Vanacker, Eric Kergosien, Bernard Jacquemin

This paper aims to show how Master’s theses can contribute to open scholarship and give reasons why this should be done.

Awareness, knowledge and attitude of lecturers towards institutional repositories in university libraries in Nigeria

Francisca Nwakaego Okoroma

Content recruitment is a very crucial aspect of institutional repository (IR), and yet, a major challenge in the implementation of an IR system. Literature highlighted the…

Ensuring access to theses in the Arab speaking world – University of Jordan initiatives

Dina Tbaishat

This paper aims to examine some of the digitization projects at the library of the University of Jordan. As the library acts as the deposit centre for theses from the Arab world…