Academic Papers in the Cloud

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Effort Will Help Libraries Put Academic Papers in Data 'Cloud'

Jeff Young, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4/5/2010

from The Chronicle: "Leaders of the movement to build universitywide collections of research papers are hoping that cloud computing—a kind of off-site storage for data—will give a new spark to their efforts.

For several years, some librarians have been pushing to build so-called "institutional repositories," free online collections of papers by their institutions' researchers. In a new project called DuraCloud, developers are building software to make it easier for librarians to put those repositories in off-site data storage services that are increasingly popular in the commercial sector."


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