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[DISCOVER|http://drsg.cac.cornell.edu] : creating Aan project to inventory of campus cyberinfrastructure needs and to developdeveloping capacity and services to address research data storage, discovery, and computational needs across Cornell.  The Library is working with the Center for Advanced Computing and astronomy professor Jim Cordes on this this Provost-funded project.
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[2CUL|http://2cul.org/sites/default/files/zen_classic_logo.jpg]: An innovative partnership with Columbia University Library to improve the quality of collections and services offered to campus constituencies, redirect resources to emerging needs, make each institution more competitive in securing government and foundation support, and generate additional revenues.that could enable collaborative collection development, acquisitions and processing. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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[Creating and Sustaining Digital Collections at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)|http://contentdm.auctr.edu/cdm4/credits.php]: A project to foster fostering the research and teaching of scholars specializing in African-American Studies, the American South, American Democracy, cultural pluralism and other related discipline by building and promoting sustainable digital collections at dozens of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country. Since 2005, Cornell University Library has partnered with the HBCU Alliance, a coalition of HBCU library deans and directors, working to strengthenexpand theaccess roleto of librariesresources on historically black campuses and expand access to their resources.by training CUL trained HBCU library staff to build digital collections utilizingfrom their institutions' the archives of 20 HBCUs resulting in. "[A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University|http://contentdm.auctr.edu/index.php]" With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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[Tsinghua University Library Partnership|http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CULChinaCollab.html]:a collaborative relationship with the [Tsinghua University Library|http://www.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/] aimed at enhancing scholarship and learning at Cornell and Tsinghua.&nbsp;Cornell Library signed aA&nbsp;formal partnership agreement with Tsinghuasigned on October 29, 2009 that covers joint opportunities for collection building, including digitization, the sharing of library and technology practices, as well as &nbsp;and working on behalf of each other in negotiating with vendors and others to expand access to materials and services.Benefits have already accrued.&nbsp; Tsinghua has purchased duplicate titles from Uris Library and the proceeds from that sale have been used to set up an endowment netting $40,000 per year that is supporting &nbsp;for the acquisitionacqusition of &nbsp;books in the humanities.&nbsp; Also, Tsinghua has been instrumental in introducing&nbsp; [Euclid|http://projecteuclid.org/] to Chinese research libraries by assisting in the preparation of <span style="color: #1f497d">introductory</span> materials and by hosting a Chinese Euclid trial. <span style="color: #000000">We anticipate subscription negotiations will begin with interested Chinese subscribers in fall 2010 and we hope to attract Chinese publishers to&nbsp;beas participants</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.</span>&nbsp;
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[DataStaR|http://datastar.mannlib.cornell.edu/]: A data staging repository and services to promote the publication of data and high quality metadata to both discipline‐specific data centers and Cornell's own institutional repository (eCommons), developed with funding from the National Science Foundation.  CUL's data librarians are fielding inquiries from Cornell researchers who are required to include data management and/or sharing plans in grant proposals. In the past year, librarians have contributed text for four grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, and one to the US Environmental Protection Agency. All of these requests specified use of the DataStaR platform as a part of the data management/sharing plan. Cornell researchers are also planning to use DataStaR as a collaboration space. For example, Barbara Lust's Virtual Center for Language Acquistion will use DataStaR to share a library of audio recordings among colleagues.  The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology plans to use DataStaR as a temporary workspace for volunteers entering data from decades' worth of nest box data cards. The DataStaR team continues to assist researchers with the publication of data sets to discipline-specific repositories, as well as Cornell's digital repository (eCommons). With the NSF's new requirement all for Data Management plans for all submitted proposals, we expect that the demand for these services will increase dramatically.
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