Beyond the Repository

DINI institutional repository certification and beyond

Purpose: Overview on certification of institutional repositories as a means to support Open Access in Germany and description of the DINI Certificate 2006 developed by DINI, the German Initiative for Networked Information. Design/methodology/approach: The DINI Certificate for Document and Publication Repositories shows potential users and authors of digital documents that a certain level of qua...

Beyond mandate and repository, toward sustainable faculty self-archiving

Repository Junction and Beyond at the EDINA (UK) National Data Centre

found that a significant degree of informal geospatial data sharing occurs because of the lack of any formal mechanism, and that there is demand for a mechanism to legitimately share and reuse geospatial research data. Main barriers to more formal geospatial data sharing within the community are: perceived complexity of licensing and digital rights issues surrounding data (re)use in the UK; lac...

The philosophy beyond the polygamy of holy Prophet

Holy prophet’s polygamy has since long been used as a pretext by the orientalists in order to twist the real face of Islamic mission. This issue gave rise to the anti-Islam writers to unfairly misjudge the facts of Islam. Different scholars have dealt with the issue from different latent angles in order to defend the presence of holy Prophet; however, the psychological and sociological angles o...

Framing the Health Workforce Agenda Beyond Economic Growth

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the ty...