ScholarSpace
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| Location | University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |
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| Website | ScholarSpace |
ScholarSpace is an institutional repository for the digital scholarly output for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) community. Contributors include researchers, faculty, and students who maintain copyright to their submissions and can control access to their collections. ScholarSpace is an attempt to make the university a participant in the Open access (publishing) community. The digital repository serves to capture, index, store, makes searchable, disseminate, and preserve digital materials which include scholarly communications, theses and dissertations, technical reports, teaching materials, images, multimedia clips, interactive teaching programs, data sets, and databases. The database is maintained and coordinated by Desktop Network Services of the UHM Library.
Mission
The ScholarSpace mission is to "store the intellectual works and unique collections of this academic community and to provide a permanent web location for those accessing these resources".[1] The project focuses on developing a system to support the storage and use of digital materials for undergraduate, graduate, and faculty learning and other purposes.
System & Organization
ScholarSpace uses the open-source software, DSpace, that provides a permanent and stable storage. DSpace was developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company.
ScholarSpace is organized primarily into Communities, Sub-communities, and Collections. Communities are groups that present content to the database and may include departments, labs, research centers, schools, or another unit within an institution. Communities may be further separated into Sub-communities. Collections are housed within these Communities and/or Sub-communities and contain the actual content which includes individual audio, visual (photographs & illustrations), and textual files (articles, papers, notes, dissertations, theses, etc.), as well as web pages, videos, computer programs.[2]
Publications
ScholarSpace covers a range of disciplines such as Asian Studies, Linguistics, Anthropology, Urban and Regional Planning, Ethnobotany, etc.
Publications include:
- Asian Perspectives
- Cakalele
- Explorations (journal)
- Kaipuleohone
- Proceedings from the Hawaiian Entomological Society
- Lyonia
References
- ^ ScholarSpace at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Accessed November 20, 2009.
- ^ Overview of ScholarSpace. Accessed January 2, 2010.