Ghost references are links that have not been validated. If an author cites an article, then many tools exist to check that link and to turn it into a hyperlink (if one doesn’t already exist). But, for whatever …
Herbert van de Sompel, recently interviewed for the ATG Podcast, describes himself, somewhat modestly, as an “infrastructure plumber” rather than a librarian. Putting it more accurately, he explains “Over the past 25, 30 years, I’ve done a lot of basic infrastructure …
The MIRL Conference (November) is just what a user-based conference should be: a series of case studies, with repository managers willing to share what worked, and at times, what didn’t work, with their peers. In this year’s conference, during an extended …
Anyone with an interest in Open Science and the role of repositories will find the ATG interview with Abel Packer, co-founder of SciELO, fascinating. SciELO is both a national provider of publishing services for journals, and an aggregator of content, active …
Scholarly publishing loves surveys. Perhaps because accurate quantitative information is so difficult to come by in the fragmented and often commercial (and hence private) world of scholarly publishing, many commentators opt for a …
Who knows about repositories? They are a fundamental part of the scholarly world: pretty much every institution of higher education around the world has a repository. Yet what they are, how they are run, and why they …
