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The chief goal of the Global Collections Initiative launched in 2016 is to expand electronic access to primary source documentation and data from major world regions, where the information landscape differs from that in the U.S. and Western Europe. The initial phase of the project focused on one region: Latin America and the Caribbean. A major focus of the initiative has been access to materials existing only in digital form. This report evaluates efforts in the U.S. to archive open web content from the Caribbean and Latin America for future use by researchers.
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CLOCKSS Audit Report 2018
8 Nov 2018
Scholars Portal Audit Report 2013
1 Feb 2013
On behalf of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), the Center for Research Libraries conducted a preservation audit of the Scholars Portal repository as a repository of journal content. The audit took place between January 15, 2012 and July 15, 2012. Based on the audit findings, CRL hereby certifies that the Scholars Portal journal repository is a trustworthy digital repository for e-journal content.
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Chronopolis Audit Report 2012
1 Mar 2012
Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study
1 Feb 2012
In 2008, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) was awarded funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the practices and technologies used by human rights monitoring groups to create and collect documentary evidence in electronic form, and to assess the adequacy of that documentation for supporting advocacy, investigation, reporting, and legal proceedings at the domestic and international levels.
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Preserving News in the Digital Environment
27 Apr 2011
This report is based on a study undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries in 2010 and 2011, to map the “lifecycle” of news content published in print and on the Web; and to clarify the relationship between the content in those two very different distribution channels at a particular moment in time. The study was commissioned by the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives.
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HathiTrust Audit Report 2011
1 Mar 2011
Political Communications Web Archive
6 Dec 2010
Long-Lived Digital Collections
20 Sep 2010
Funded by the National Science Foundation under its Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program, CRL initiated a two-year project (Jan. 2008-Dec. 2009) to analyze established, "long-lived" collections of data and digital resources, and to create tools and metrics for developing and assessing new repositories. The CRL case studies identified the practices, strategies and mechanisms that have enabled those repositories to sustain massive data collections over substantial periods of time.
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