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Friday, 12th March 2010

Ohio State University: Campus Research Preserved on Library Database, It's the Knowledge Bank

A very interesting institutional repository. The Knowledge Bank uses dSpace technology. As mentioned in the article having all of the material in one location can make can help making it easier to access and preserve over the long haul.

Larry Allen, spokesman for OSU Libraries, said the bank accepts all kinds of materials and finds ways to preserve them “so that 20 years from now it’s not saved in a format that’s not accessible, like 8-track tapes,” he said.

Note: You do not have to be affiliated with Ohio St. University to search, access, and access the content in Knowledge Bank. Simply head to the web site and begin browsing or searching.

From the Article:

The Knowledge Bank, a project of Ohio State’s libraries and the top technology office, gives OSU researchers an easy way to publish and preserve their work on the Web. But it’s not just a place for scholarly research. Video clips, full-length books and even FBI reports call this digital space home.

The Knowledge Bank is an endeavor of OSU Libraries and the Office of the Chief Information Officer which began in 2004 [that's a very long time ago in Internet terms] and has more than 42,000 materials on the site.

The digital content is collected into various communities, based on a common topic or source.

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“We always start with ‘who has the rights to the materials,’” Connell said. “That is sort of the flow in all cases.”

If submitters are uncertain if they own the rights, Connell said the Knowledge Bank will work with them to find out.

“We try to provide a set of services for people who have content,” she said. In addition to dealing with copyrights, they also set up the individual and community pages and provide hardware and software updates.

The material is kept under a creative commons license which allows those who own the content to customize the copyright. The library has the right to distribute the material online through the Knowledge Bank.

Much More in the Complete Article

You do not have to be affiliated with Ohio St. University to search, access, and access the content in Knowledge Bank. Simply head to the web site and begin browsing or searching.

Source: The Lantern (School Paper at Ohio St.)

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