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Defining “open”

open bookThe library and academic worlds are teeming with various species of openness: open access, open source, open educational resources, and the list goes on. Understanding all these concepts — both how they’re distinct and how they’re related — can be a daunting task.

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UNT Digital Projects Unit creates the UNT Digital Library

The Digital Projects Unit at TDL member institution the University of North Texas has released the UNT Digital Library, a centralized repository for digital collections held throughout the university’s schools, colleges, departments, and libraries.

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Challenges of preservation in a digital world

The New York Times highlighted the unique challenges of archival preservation of born-digital materials in an article published yesterday.

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Digital Preservation Task Force report now available online

A Blue Ribbon Task Force formed in 2007 to investigate Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has released its final report. You can read the full report here.

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TDL and the Texas Water Digital Library

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) and its partners have begun the process of developing a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas. That resource, the Texas Water Digital Library, will federate water research from across the state in a TDL-hosted DSpace repository. The repository will create a single place for researchers to search for water data from every region of the state.

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TDL offers courses on Vireo and Open Conference Systems

Sign up now for March 25 training courses: ETD Management with Vireo and Online Conference Management with OCS.

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TDL travels to WebWise 2010

TDL co-director Mark McFarland attended WebWise 2010 to showcase Vireo, the TDL’s submission and management system for electronic theses and dissertations.

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New issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is available

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, an online scholarly journal hosted by the TDL Electronic Press, has released its latest issue entitled “Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds.”

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Scholarly Electronic Journals training course rescheduled for March 11

The Scholarly Electronic Journals training course originally planned for February 23 has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 11, 2010. The course had been postponed due to inclement weather in the Waco area.

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Registration is open for TCDL 2010!

The TDL is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 4th annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held May 17-18, 2010, in Austin, Texas.

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