NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARIES OPEN SOURCE & OPEN ACCESS SOFTWARE AND DIGITAL SCHOLARLY ECOSYSTEMS

Abstract

Leading University research libraries and institutions around the globe have begun to place academic research online through open digital ecosystems. These open source and open access infrastructures are available to any university and college. They make research more readily discoverable opening doors for collaboration and quickening further progress. This presentation overviews setting up these new possibilities for institutions globally wishing to enable researchers and university faculty and quickly connect them to the current state-of-the-art global network research possibilities.