These are freely accessible collections of research articles set up to house all publications from researchers in a particular institution (including final versions of manuscripts subsequently published in paid-for scientific journals).
"You can't be a cultural hub without a good local art scene," said Claire Hsu, founder of the Hong Kong-based Asia Art Archive, which holds one of the world's largest collections of research materials on Asian contemporary art.
Journals do more than publish collections of research articles and reviews; they also create community, influence standards for community behavior and 'provoke progress' in a particular field.
However, these studies were limited regarding the collection of research articles as they tended to collect more international English research articles than regional or non-English papers.
The titles all come from another collection of research – those projects awarded an "IgNobel" Prize.
More than 750 libraries are located in the Washington area, including the Library of Congress, which contains the largest international collection of research materials in the world.
At first, Ms. Madison said, she was writing a collection of research, not recipes, in part to train herself to be a better gardener.
The center is on the 50-acre campus of the Technology Centre of New Jersey, a state-supported collection of research and production facilities with 380,000 square feet in six buildings.
Her death was announced by the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan, to which, in 2004, Ms. Benberry donated her vast collection of research papers, historical books, museum catalogs, periodicals and original patterns that covered more than two centuries of quilting history.
Ecovolunteer (www.ecovolunteer.org) is a nonprofit Web-based collection of research or conservation projects seeking volunteers, who are asked to commit a minimum of one to four weeks and pay a fee, which largely supports conservation work.
In announcing his readiness to take unilateral steps, Mr. Sharon seemed to split the difference between two points of view expressed by other senior members of the ruling Likud Party during the past two days at the Herzliya Conference, sponsored by the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, a collection of research and study institutes.
