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[Greek]
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Title
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Access and availability policies of libraries' digital content
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Creator
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Koulouris, Alexandros
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Date
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2007
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Abstract
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In this Ph.D. thesis, the access and availability policies
(policies from now on) of libraries' digital content are examined
in relation to specific factors, which according to bibliography, affect them.
The factors refer to acquisition method, intellectual property,
content type, digital content creation type and library type.
The intellectual property and policies relation is examined in different
countries worldwide. The electronic theses and dissertations, is the
case study selected for analyzing the relation of policies and content type.
Alternative access policies for such content are proposed.
The national and academic libraries worldwide, is the core for the policies
and library type's relation analysis. The questionnaire, the personal observation
and the study of the relevant literature are the methods used for collecting
the research data. Generalized rules in relation to the factors are extracted for
the libraries' followed policy practices. The absence of an appropriate model for
national and academic libraries' digital content is ascertained. Two flexible
access and reproduction policy models for national and academic libraries' digital content
are proposed. The models contain simplified policy rules, resulted from libraries' common
policy practices, supplemented by alternative policy proposals. Each model results in a
decision tree, which proposes alterative and flexible access and reproduction policy routes
according to the factors, digital content creation type, acquisition method and intellectual property
that apply on each case. The proposing policy models and the decision trees that result in,
hope to be helpful in resolving the policy problem. Additionally, they may constitute useful tools
(guides) in forming the policies and managing the national and
academic libraries' digital information (content).
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Source
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koulouris_policies.pdf (in Greek)
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