This paper explores the circumstances under which cultural institutions (CI) should seek to control noncommercial reuse of digital cultural works. It describes the results of a 2008 survey of CI professionals at U.S. ...

The Digital Rights Management and Cultural Institutions Project was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant 04-06-0029-06 to investigate the impact of digital rights management technologies on ...

Codebook for content analysis in for Eschenfelder, Tsai, Zhu and Stewart (2013) How Institutionalized are Model License Use Terms: An Analysis of E-Journal License Use Rights Clauses from 2000?2009. College & Research ...

This paper describes and explains the shift in the database industrys treatment of downloading as an unwanted byproduct of new technology to a product feature in terms of shifts in ?use-regimes,? or changes to market ...

This paper describes the range and variation in access and use control policies and tools used by 24 web-based data repositories across a variety of fields. It also describes rationale provided by repositories for their ...

As public investment in archiving research data grows, there has been increasing attention to the longevity or sustainability of the data repositories that curate such data. While there have been many conceptual frameworks ...

In this paper, we analyse how three social science data archives (SSDA) have adapted to provide value to different stakeholders over time. Drawing on historical administrative documents and interviews with current and former ...

This theory review paper argues that in order to ensure the longevity of data, we need a better understanding of the sustainability of institutions that steward data. The paper considers what sustainability means in ...