Search Results

open access

Database Copyright: Limited Protections

Description: This document is part of a series of white papers on various copyright issues. This white paper discusses the copyright status of databases and addresses how the US and European copyright applies to these kinds of works.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Wolfson, Stephen M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Deepwater Horizon Response and Trial Websites]

Description: Websites related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, recovery efforts, and trial. It includes sites established to document corporate and governmental actions to clean up the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill in 2010, and ongoing efforts to restore ecosystems in the region as well as documentation related to the civil action filed against BP and the subsequent trial.
Date: 2010/2017
Creator: Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Denton Plan 2030

Description: This is the official website for the Denton Plan 2030. Denton Plan 2030 is an effort by the city of Denton, Texas to update its comprehensive plan for the future growth and development of Denton. The Denton Plan involves input from local residents, as well as the Denton City Council's Planning and Zoning Commission and the Denton Planning Department. The site includes information about the contents of the plan, the planning process, how to get involved, local events, press coverage, and contact… more
Date: 2013
Creator: Denton (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
open access

Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Literature Review of User Needs.

Description: The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group was formed to recommend descriptive metadata best practices for archived web content that would meet end-user needs, enhance discovery and improve metadata consistency. This report is a literature review of user needs related to descriptive metadata for web archiving.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Venlet, Jessica; Farrell, Karen Stoll; Kim, Tammy; Jai O’Dell, Allison & Dooley, Jackie
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Detailed Description of the UNT Libraries Metadata Elements

Description: Print-out of webpages describing the usage and formatting guidelines for metadata elements used in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections in 2005. It includes a brief introductory explanation of metadata at UNT, guidelines for descriptive and preservation elements, and related administrative information.
Date: April 27, 2005
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries. Digital Projects Department
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

Description: The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2011 in English. The bibliogrphy doesnot cover conference papers, digital media works, editorials, presentation slides, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Bailey, Charles W., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

Description: Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use — copyright and related rights — have become increasingly restrictive. This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists … more
Date: March 2012
Creator: De Rosnay, Mélanie Dulong & De Martin, Juan Carlos
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Digital Scholarship 2009

Description: The work is a bibliography of digital scholarship containing citations of articles, books, and technical reports on institutional repositories and scholarly electronic publishing
Date: 2010
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Digital Squeeze: Libraries at the Crossroads: the Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study on 2012 Library Spending Plans

Description: The second annual benchmark study of library spending plans from Library Resource Guide explores the wide range of spending and priorities decision-making taking place in 2012 budgets for public, academic and special libraries. Includes year-to-year comparative data. Learn where peer institutions are focusing their scarce investments, based on a study of over 700 participating North American institutions.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: April 2012
Creator: McKendrick, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries

Dirty Eddie's War: Based on the World War II Diary of Harry "Dirty Eddie" March, Jr., Pacific Fighter Ace

Description: Dirty Eddie’s War is the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr., captured by way of diary entries addressed to his beloved wife, Elsa. Nicknamed “Dirty Eddie” by his comrades, he served as a member of four squadrons operating in the South Pacific, frequently under difficult and perilous conditions. Flying initially from aircraft carriers covering the landings at Guadalcanal in August 1942, he was one of the first pilots in the air over the island and then later base… more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: August 2021
Creator: Cook, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?

Description: The essay discusses specific concerns of digital humanists in hopes of bridging the gap between how library directors and digital humanities researchers think. It suggests many ways to respond to the needs of digital humanists, and creating a Digital Humanities center is appropriate in relatively few circumstances. The essay recommends that a “Digital Humanities-friendly” environment may be more effective than a Digital Humanities Center but that library culture may need to evolve in order for … more
Date: February 2014
Creator: Schaffner, Jennifer & Erway, Ricky
Partner: UNT Libraries
captions transcript

Dysphoric History: A Trans/Historical Approach

Description: Video recording of a presentation by Dr. Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski which unpacks how dysphoria has been an organizing pattern within trans literature since the premodern period, predating the adoption of the term within the modern medical sciences, and she emphasizes the need for critical trans literary and historical theory to better identify and analyze trans history and narratives that have been silenced in archives. The event was organized for LGBTQ History Month and held virtually on Novemb… more
Date: November 14, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Bychowski, Gabrielle
Partner: University of North Texas

The Eagle Feather

Description: Website for a journal published by the University of North Texas (UNT) Honors College to showcase research and other work by undergraduate students. It contains an archive of all published issues (2004-2017) including articles by students and the annual Scholars' Day keynote address (2004-2014) as well as other information about the publication.
Date: 2017~
Creator: University of North Texas. Honors College.
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
open access

Ecological Studies of the Hudson River Near Indian Point

Description: "The general purpose of [this study is] to determine the ecological responses of the [Hudson] River to various classes of potential pollutants, so that the discharge of waste heat and radionuclides from the Indian Point Power Plant can be evaluated in context with these" (p. 1).
Date: April 1971
Creator: New York University. Medical Center. Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Economics: From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran

Description: Adam Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and established the ethical foundation for The Wealth of Nations (1776) as well as the important role played by custom and fashion in shaping behaviors and outcomes. Kendall P. Cochran believed in Smith’s emphasis on value-driven analysis and seeking solutions to major problems of the day. Cochran believed that economists moved too far in the direction of analysis free of words like ought and should and devoted his career to establishi… more
Date: January 2015
Creator: Cochran, Kendall P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

The Effects of Changes in Hydrostatic Pressure on Some Hudson River Biota: Progress Report for 1974

Description: This research report represents the findings on a study conducted over the effect of hydrostatic pressure and hydroelectric generators on various types of fish and other aquatic organisms in the Hudson River.
Date: September 1974
Creator: New York University. Medical Center. Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Effects of Entrainment by the Indian Point Power Plant on Biota in the Hudson River Estuary, August 1976

Description: "This report presents the final results of studies conducted at Indian Point during 1973 using the full complement of available striped bass ichthyoplankton data. These procedures were undertaken in order to present data for river and plant comparisons in the proper perspective of time and space" (p. ii).
Date: August 1976
Creator: New York University. Medical Center. Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Effects of Entrainment by the Indian Point Power Plant on Biota in the Hudson River Estuary, March 1975

Description: "The data presented in this report represent an analysis of the abundance of four life-history stages of striped bass collected in the Hudson River at Indian Point and the intakes and discharge canal at the Indian Point Power Station" (p. 54).
Date: March 1975
Creator: New York University. Medical Center. Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Electronic Course Reserves, Copyright Law, and Cambridge University Press v. Becker

Description: This document is part of a series of white papers on various copyright issues. This section revisit the current e-course reserves policy, which allows faculty members to make some readings available for electronic reserve. It uses the case from the 11th Circuit which may clarify how schools can use electronic course reserves.
Date: January 2018
Creator: Wolfson, Stephen M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies

Description: Between the two fundamental digital preservation strategies, migration has been strongly favored. Recent developments in emulation frameworks make it possible to deliver emulations to readers via the Web in ways that make them appear as normal components of Web pages. This removes what was the major barrier to deployment of emulation as a preservation strategy. Barriers remain, the two most important are that the tools for creating preserved system images are inadequate, and that the legal basi… more
Date: 2015
Creator: Rosenthal, David S. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries

The encore concerto for piano and orchestra

Description: This is a holograph score of Don Gillis "The Encore Concerto for Piano and Orchestra." Gillis's dedicated this his first piano concerto to his friend Joseph Kahn. The entire score is in loose white onionskin pages and black ink. It is part of the UNT Music Library's Don Gillis Special Collection, which can be accessed at <http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/gillis/the-don-gillis-collection-1>. Page 96A is an alternative re-orchestrated version that replaces the essentially c… more
Date: 1956
Creator: Gillis, Don, 1912-1978
Partner: UNT Music Library

End of Term Presidential Harvest 2008

Description: This is the collection for the End of Term Presidential Harvest 2008, an effort by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive, and the U.S. Government Printing Office to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the presidential administration that ended January 19, 2009. This collection documents federal agencies' presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administration… more
Date: 2008
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries.
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
Back to Top of Screen