These are the preliminary and full proposals for an IMLS grant to develop a white paper (to be added here in late 2018) to host three national forums of invited experts to support library adoption of 3D and virtual reality ...

Team 16 in the fall 2018 course "CS 4984/5984 Big Data Text Summarization," in partnership with the University Libraries and the Digital Library Research Laboratory, prepared a corpus of electronic theses and dissertations ...

VT Libraries Dean Tyler Walters allocated the 2017 OASF $100,000 to support article processing charges (APC) in open access journals. The Libraries received 110 requests for $134,867 in APCs, and awarded $104,699 to support ...

Virginia Tech began subsidizing article processing fees for authors publishing scholarly peer reviewed articles in open access and hybrid OA journals in August 2012, following the approval of "The Proposal for a Virginia ...

VT Libraries Dean Tyler Walters initially allocated the 2016 OASF $60,000. As funds were awarded to support article processing charges (APC) in open access journals and the OASF was depleted, Scholarly Communication added ...

The VT OASF was allocated $50,000 in FY2015 from the Libraries' Collections budget. The OASF received 88 requests to fund publishers' article processing charges totaling $129,967. We approved 48 articles (55%), awarding ...

All images photographed or copied by a unit of Information Systems will be scanned and contributed to the Virginia Tech Digital Library. The digital images will be browsable and findable through word searching textual ...

Digital libraries will need digital, or software, agents to perform many important tasks such as communication with the user, acquisition of new information and maintenance of the links to that information (assuming that ...

Dan Mosser teaches a course on History of the English Language (HEL). He has been developing this course over the last few years and is especially interested in multi-media resources, speech excerpts, speech analysis game, ...

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