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doi:10.1045/dlib.magazine | ISSN:1082-9873

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Featured Collection: National Library of Medicine's Digital Collections, dozens of digital collections created by the History of Medicine Division including videos and digitized books. [Image on Left: Image of Table 1, displaying the skeleton of a twenty-month-old child, from "Anatomical tables of the human body" by William Cheselden, William Manning, and James Loring. Printed by Manning and Loring, 1796. Courtesy of The National Library of Medicine.]

E D I T O R I A L

[ Editorial ] An Embarrassment of Riches
By Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

A R T I C L E S

[ Abstract ] [ Article ] OpenAIREplus: the European Scholarly Communication Data Infrastructure
By Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy; Lukasz Bolikowski, University of Warsaw, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw, Poland; Natalia Manola, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Computer Science Athens, Greece; Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany; Tim Smith, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

[ Abstract ] [ Article ] The Data Conservancy Instance: Infrastructure and Organizational Services for Research Data Curation
By Matthew S. Mayernik, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Elliot Metsger, Barbara Pralle and Mike Rippin, Johns Hopkins University; Ruth Duerr, National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

[ Abstract ] [ Article ] A Perspective on Resource Synchronization
By Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, and Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University; Berhard Haslhofer and Simeon Warner, Cornell University; Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan

[ Abstract ] [ Article ] Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment
By Sally Vermaaten, Statistics New Zealand; Brian Lavoie, OCLC; Priscilla Caplan, Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC)

[ Abstract ] [ Article ] Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia
By Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois

[ Abstract ] [ Opinion ] United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak
By Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal & University of Southampton

[ Abstract ] [ Conference Report ] 4,000+ Tweets Later: Looking Back at the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories
By Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace

[ Abstract ] [ Conference Report ] AERI 2012 Digital Curation Pre-Conference
By Alex H. Poole, Christopher A. Lee, and Angela P. Murillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

N E W S   &   E V E N T S

In Brief: Short Items of Current Awareness

In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

Clips & Pointers: Documents, Deadlines, Calls for Participation

Meetings, Conferences, Workshops: Calendar of activities associated with digital libraries research and technologies.