A pre-print article for Library Trends, this is a no-holds barred critique of institutional repository politics, software, usage statistics, utility (from the researcher's point of view), and of the library establishment for not providing enough support and training to make them work, from the point of view of a fed-up IR manager from the University of Wisconsin. Very insightful, with colourful language, as the title suggests. (Thanks, Ann for the link!)

An interview in CILIPS Update with DISC-UK members about the field of data librarianship in today's academic environment.

Sun Microsystems sponsored conference on storage and preservation in San Francisco, May 2008. Article describes keynote speech by Librarian of Stanford University.

A comparison across institutions at different stages of Institutional Repository development (published in D-Lib Nov/Dev 07)

This article of JISC Informs by Judy Redfearn says that "data management is rising up the political agenda". Some scenarios by researchers are given, and repositories are offered as a possible solution, naming some JISC projects from the Digital Repositories Programme.

This article describes the work currently underway at Monash University to rethink the role of repositories in supporting data management. It first describes the context within which the work has taken place and some of the local factors that have contributed to the inception and continuation of this work. It then introduces the idea of a Data Curation Continuum and describes the various continua that might be applicable in a repository data management context. The article then discusses some of the implications of this approach, before reviewing related work.

Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries - by William Arms

Peter Murray-Rust, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, has a vision. In his vision, software robots roam the network collecting scientific information, which they aggregate and process to arrive at new insights.

Data, disciplines, and scholarly publishing by Christine Borgman - due in Learned Publishing, Volume 21, Number 1, January 20