[Web4lib] managing digital resources

[Wilfred Drew]

Move it to a secure directory on your web server that is only viewable on your campus IP, then use EZproxy to allow access to it for those with the proper username/password.

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.
Assistant Professor
Librarian, Systems and Tech Services
E-mail: dreww at tc3.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Morgan
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:00 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] managing digital resources

Hi everyone, here's a question. I work for a small departmental library
(limnology to be exact). We have a collection of electronic reprint (about
3000 and growing) that are currently only accessible when on the home
network. This field requires a lot of field work, so this is a big problem.
I'm trying to find a way to make these digital documents (and eventually
photos, data sets and so on) available on the web. Since a lot of this is
protected information it has to be secure.

I was thinking about setting up a digital library (greenstone or fedora
commons) but I wasn't sure if this would be overkill.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this? Would
either of these tools be digital libraries be better or worse suited for the
task. The budget is approximately zero. And the staffing is pretty limited.

thanks

Joe Morgan

Center for Limnology Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
680 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-4439
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