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VALA2018 Session 5 McCarthy

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Can archives fly? Delivering Australian archives to researchers

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION  5
Tuesday 13 February 2018, 14:45 – 15:15

Gavan McCarthy and Peter Tonoli

University of Melbourne

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Abstract

This paper outlines the rationale and initial development of a service that will allow digital materials held by archives to be delivered, via request through an online form, to researchers anywhere in the world. Rather than attempting to provide access to privacy and rights-compromised materials in an online environment, the delivery of derivative copies of these types of unpublishable materials directly to the researcher, under clearly-articulated conditions, helps deal with a range of onerous technical and administrative issues. The process supports, rather than complicates, researcher information transfer needs while meeting the custodial obligations of the information provider.

 

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VALA2002 Session 5 McCarthy

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The Open Resource Scholarly Network: new collaborative partnerships between academics, libraries, archives and museums

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Scholarly Publishing
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 14:35 – 15:05
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Gavan McCarthy and Joanne Evans

University of Melbourne

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The Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (Austehc) has been collecting and disseminating information about the history of Australian science, technology and medicine, including data about archival resources, on the assumption that scholarly practice and the creation of new knowledge was based on free access to, and the citability of, existing knowledge. Despite the advent of enabling electronic network technologies, it appears that this assumption is not universally accepted. In this paper, we explore by way of real examples the benefits that come from the open sharing of information and knowledge, not just for researchers but for cataloguers, archivists, web publishers and other informatics professionals.

 

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