DOME COLLECTIONS - DEWEY

 

New Titles / Web Data

Content

Web site content and documents

Size

10s-100s per year?

Age

Current

Source

• Trade and professional associations, and other organizations
• U.S. federal, state, and local governments
• Foreign governments
• International intergovernmental organizations
• Non-governmental organizations

Rights

Mostly copyright protected except government documents. There will likely be issues regarding only one simultaneous user.

Anticipated Audience

Current and future MIT community

Benefits

There are many electronic documents as well as web site content that Dewey is interested in collecting. At present there doesn't seem to be a way to store this type of material. Collecting the material would either provide access to new content (purchased documents), store for future access (free content that the provider does not maintain past the current year) or both.

Format Risk

Low

Format

Digital (PDF, htm, other web formats)

Metadata

Varies. Some websites provide some metadata while others do not.

Funding

Existing collections budget

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