Browsing Research and Informatics Division, University Libraries by Issue Date

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    • Annual Report for 1995/1996 

      VT University Libraries; Digital Library and Archives (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1996)

    • The Role of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Graduate Education 

      Eaton, John L.; McMillan, Gail; Fox, Edward A. (Council of Graduate Schools, 1998-01)
      In Spring and Summer of 1997 … news outlets, in their desire to report on controversy, largely missed the point of why it is desirable to produce theses and dissertations, and indeed many other publications, in electronic ...

    • Open Archives Initiative 

      McMillan, Gail (2000-06-01)
      This presentation, which was given at the annual meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing on June 1, 2000, describes the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), a protocol for exchanging content between digital repositories. ...

    • Results of a Survey of Virginia Tech Graduates Whose Digital Theses and Dissertations Are Accessible Worldwide 

      Eaton, John L.; Fox, Edward A.; McMillan, Gail (Council of Graduate Schools, 2000-11)
      Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's graduate students have submitted theses and dissertations as digital documents since the spring of 1997. In that time more than 2,800 digital documents have been submitted ...

    • "A Strangely Useless Thing": Iseult Gonne and Yeats 

      French, Amanda (2002)

    • IAWA Archivist's Report for 2001/2002 

      McMillan, Gail (International Archive of Women in Architecture, 2002)

    • Scalable Storage for Digital Libraries 

      Mather, Paul (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2002-10-01), TR-02-21
      I propose a storage system optimised for digital libraries. Its key features are its heterogeneous scalability; its integration and exploitation of rich semantic metadata associated with digital objects; its use of a name ...

    • Process Accounting 

      Gilbertson, Keith (Linux Journal, 2002-12-01)
      Standard utilities can help you collect and interpret your Linux system's process accounting data. Describes the uses of process accounting, standard process accounting commands, and example code that makes use of process ...

    • Science of Digital Libraries(SciDL) 

      Fox, Edward A.; Carroll, John M.; Fan, Patrick; Cassel, Lillian N.; Zubair, Mohammad; Maly, Kurt; McMillan, Gail; Ramakrishnan, Naren; Halbert, Martin (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2003), TR-03-13
      Our purpose is to ensure that people and institutions better manage information through digital libraries (DLs). Thus we address a fundamental human and social need, which is particularly urgent in the modern Information ...

    • DLA Annual Report 2004/05 

      McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2005)

    • IAWA Archivist's Annual Report 2005 

      McMillan, Gail; Shaffer, Amy (International Archive of Women in Architecture, 2005-10-30)

    • IAWA Archivist's Report for 2005/06 

      McMillan, Gail; Vilelle, Amy Shaffer (International Archive of Women in Architecture, 2006)

    • DLA Annual Report 2005/06 

      McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2006)

    • On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids 

      Miller, Chreston; Butler, Patrick; Shah, Ankur; Butt, Ali R. (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2007), TR-07-16
      The availability of desktop grids and shared computing platforms has popularized the use of contributory resources, such as desktops, as computing substrates for a variety of applications. However, addressing the exponentially ...

    • IAWA Archivist's Report for 2006/07 

      McMillan, Gail; Vilelle, Amy Shaffer (International Archive of Women in Architecture, 2007)

    • Integration of VT ETD-db with Banner 

      Volpe, James; McMillan, Gail; Fox, Edward A. (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2008), TR-08-04
      The Electronic Thesis and Dissertation database (ETD-db) was developed at Virginia Tech by Digital Library and Archives for the VT Graduate School and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The ...

    • Digital Library and Archives FY 2008 Annual Report 

      VT University Libraries; Digital Library and Archives (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2008)

    • ETD Preservation Survey Results: MetaArchive and NDLTD Collaborate to Provide a Distributed Preservation Network for ETDs 

      McMillan, Gail (2008-06)
      Because many universities now welcome or require ETDs from their graduate students, institutions must ensure that these works will be at least as available and enduring as they were when libraries and archives preserved ...

    • ETD Preservation Survey Results: MetaArchive and NDLTD Collaborate to Provide a Distributed Preservation Network for ETDs 

      McMillan, Gail (11th International Symposium on ETDs, 2008-06-05)
      Because many universities now welcome or require ETDs from their graduate students, institutions must ensure that these works will be at least as available and enduring as they were when libraries and archives preserved ...

    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects 

      McMillan, Gail; Fox, Edward A.; Srinivasan, Venkat (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, 2009)