D'Alessandro M P, Galvin J R, Erkonen W E, Choi T A, Lacey D L, Colbert S I
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Radiology, Iowa City 52242, USA.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1998 Oct;86(4):553-63.
A university and its faculty encompass a wealth of content, which is often freely supplied to commercial publishers who profit from it. Emerging digital library technology holds promise for allowing the creation of digital libraries and digital presses that can allow faculty and universities to bypass commercial publishers, retain control of their content, and distribute it directly to users, allowing the university and faculty to better serve their constituencies. The purpose of this paper is to show how this can be done. A methodology for overcoming the technical, social, political, and economic barriers involved in creating, distributing and organizing a digital library was developed, implemented, and refined over seven years. Over the seven years, 120 textbooks and booklets were placed in the Virtual Hospital digital library, from 159 authors in twenty-nine departments and four colleges at The University of Iowa. The digital library received extensive use by individuals around the world. A new paradigm for academic publishing was created, involving a university and faculty owned peer reviewed digital press implemented using digital library technology. The concept has been embraced by The University of Iowa, and it has pledged to sustain the digital press in order to allow. The University of Iowa to fulfill its mission of creating, organizing, and disseminating information better.
一所大学及其教员拥有丰富的内容，而这些内容常常被免费提供给从中获利的商业出版商。新兴的数字图书馆技术有望实现数字图书馆和数字出版社的创建，使教员和大学能够绕过商业出版商，保留对其内容的控制权，并直接将内容分发给用户，从而使大学和教员能够更好地服务于其受众。本文的目的是展示如何做到这一点。一种克服创建、分发和组织数字图书馆过程中涉及的技术、社会、政治和经济障碍的方法，经过七年的发展、实施和完善。在这七年里，来自爱荷华大学29个系和4个学院的159位作者编写的120本教科书和小册子被放入了虚拟医院数字图书馆。该数字图书馆受到了世界各地个人的广泛使用。一种新的学术出版模式由此创建，其中包括一所大学和教员拥有的、利用数字图书馆技术实施的同行评审数字出版社。这一概念已为爱荷华大学所接受，该校已承诺维持数字出版社的运营，以便爱荷华大学更好地履行其创建、整理和传播信息的使命。
