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Strategies for Sustainability of Biological: Resources
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Ithaka is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies. Ithaka serves scholars, researchers and students by providing the content, tools, and services needed to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research. Their projects include digital preservation and archiving services such as JSTOR and Portico.
Reports:
- Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today. Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability
This report explores the sustainability models of 12 selected digital resources and highlights lessons for leaders of other digital projects and other stakeholders in the research community. - Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: An Ithaka Report
This report focuses on the development and maintenance of digital content useful in the networked world. It aims, through examples and analysis, to provide background and context for a discussion of the challenge of sustainability, and the next steps to take.
References:
Chandras, C., T. Weaver, M. Zouberakis, D. Smedley, K. Schughart, N. Rosenthal, J.M. Hancock, G. Kollias, P.N. Schofield, and Vassilis Aidinis. 2009. Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources. Database, Vol. 2009, Article ID bap017, doi:10.1093/database/bap017.Available at: http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2009/bap017.full.pdf+html
Division of Environmental Biology Committee of Visitors. 2006. DEB COV report. Available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/activities/cov/covs.jsp.
National Research Council. 2009. Ensuring the integrity, accessibility, and stewardship of research data in the digital age. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
National Science Board. 2005. Long-lived digital data collections: enabling research and education in the 21st century. Report NSB-05-40. National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
