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Les I don't see it as an either/or. Cambridge has an iTunesU site. The university's policy on podcasts and video is fairly enlightened from the accessibility, digital collection management and long-term preservation points of view in that the material is normally deposited first with the university Streaming Media Service. It can then be made accessible through a variety of platforms, including YouTube, the university web pages and departmental/faculty sites, and the Streaming Media Service's own site, as well as iTunesU. At the point at which it is deposited the depositor is prompted to tick a box indicating whether they would also like deposit in [log in to unmask] Since multimedia material normally comes to the repository through this route it potentially allows some control over formats and the Streaming Media Service can advise on preservation issues. At the moment the material is dark in DSpace but we hope to open it up later. Regards Patricia Patricia Killiard Head of Electronic Services and Systems Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge, CB1 2NU t. +44 (0)1223 333037 f. +44 (0)1223 333160 e. [log in to unmask] Leslie Carr wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with iTunes U? Our University is > thinking of starting a presence on Apple's iTunes U (the section of > the iTunes store that distributes podcasts and video podcasts from > higher education institutions). > > It looks very professional (see for example the OU's presence at > http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/itunesu/ ) and there are over 300 > institutions who are represented there. HOWEVER, I can't shake the > feeling that this is a very bad idea, even for lovers of Apple > products. My main misgiving is that the content isn't accessible apart > from through the iTunes browser, and hence it is not Googleable and > hence it is pretty-much invisible. Why would anyone want to do that? > Isn't it a much better idea to put material on YouTube and use the > whole web/web2 infrastructure? > > -- > Les