Presentation by Barbara Hutchinson to WUR/IAALD Meeting: Making Agricultural Information Available and Accessible, Wageningen, 13 November 2008.

1. AgNIC’s "Born Digital/Reborn Digital" Repository Initiatives Barbara Hutchinson (University of Arizona) Linda Eells (University of Minnesota) Rob McGeachin (Texas A&M University) “ Making Agricultural Information Available and Accessible” Wageningen, 13 November 2008

13. Institutional Repositories – combining historical and current digital resources Facilitating scholarly communication & open access

14. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin – AgNIC Cooperative Agreement

18. Born-Digital Project Committee Mission A group of land-grant institutions, in partnership with AgNIC, ADEC, USAIN, NAL, and others , and with strong (and critical) support from institutional Colleges of Agriculture and/or Natural Resources and Cooperative Extension Service units, propose to collaboratively create policies, determine appropriate standards, and develop the technical infrastructure for a born digital repository , and subsequently reborn digital, of agricultural resources that may be readily scaled to involve other national and eventually international partners.

24. Cornell Historical Literature for Agriculture, available at http:// chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about.html . (18 April 2008). Dellavalle, Robert P. et.al., 2003. Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References , Science 302 (5646): 787. Eells L. 2007. Born-Digital Agricultural Resources: Archives and Issues. Quarterly Bulletin of IAALD, 52(3/4). Gwinn, Nancy, 1993. A National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature , U.S. Agricultural Information Network. Heatley R. 2007. Plan to Develop a Digital Information Infrastructure to Manage Land Grant Information. Available at http://www.adec.edu/adec-agnic-digital-inf.pdf (5 February 2008). Sellitto, Carmine. 2005. The impact of impermanent Web-located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56(7):695-703. Unsworth, John and Pauline Yu. 2003, Not-so-Modest Proposals: What do we want our system of scholarly communication to look like in 2010? CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication, Chicago, December 2, 2003. Available at http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/CICsummit.htm (18 April 2008). USAIN Task Force. 2008. Making the Case for a Next-Generation Digital Information System to Ensure America’s Leadership in Agricultural Sciences in the 21st Century. Available at http:// www.usain.org/WhitePaperFinal.pdf (1 May 2008). Weiss, Rick. 2003. Electronic Archivists Are Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's Dustbin , Washington Post, November 24, 2003, A08. Selected References