In honour of Open Access Week 2014, I asked the question, “What would the cost of your last term paper be without library access?”. I strategically chose to parse the Works Cited section for a paper I wrote in December ...

Embarking on a university wide journal-hosting initiative can be a resource-intensive undertaking. Providing such a service, however, can be equally rewarding, as it positions the library as both partner and colleague in ...

Thes presentations introduce Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems, and describe how York University Libraries are using these platforms to help the York community publish their journals and conference proceedings ...

Introduces the benefits and disadvantages of digitization. Discusses metadata and the digitization of images, audio and moving images. 2009 lecture discusses digitization project management and dissemination platforms.

This presentation will begin with a discussion of scholarly communications issues from the author's point of view. Tools and strategies to help authors manage their rights will be introduced.

Provides a basic introduction to the Synergies Initiative.

Synergies Background, About York Digital Journals, Open Journal Systems functionality, OJS at York, Local Challenges, Synergies Challenges

Provides an introduction to repositories and their benefits, presents some statistics for YorkSpace.

The aim of this study was to capture the current state of the accessible content provider landscape to glean best practices in the field to inform current praxis as well as identify future areas of research concentration. ...

Topics discussed are Interoperability, OAI-ORE, Manakin XML UI, Dark Archives, BibApp mashup, SIMILE project at MIT.