Hook Your Repository Up to the Repository Analytics & Metrics Portal (RAMP)

August 30, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Atmire   Share your repository usage data with the international RAMP initiative for repository usage analysis and comparison. Montana State University, the Association of Research Libraries, the University of New Mexico, and OCLC Research have joined as partners to examine the difficulties that libraries face in producing accurate reports on the use of their digital … Read More

Harvard Upgrades DASH DSpace Repository

August 30, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Atmire  The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication worked together with Atmire on a major upgrade to Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH). Pioneering in the field of Open Access, Harvard originally launched the Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository on September 1st 2009. Over the years, Harvard added dozens of customizations, including … Read More

Digitisation and Digital Preservation Workshop 6-9 November 2018, Nairobi, Kenya

August 27, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

To share information about digitisation of library collections, digitisation project management, and digital preservation ITOCA, the News Media Section of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) in partnership with the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Regional Centre for Southern Africa, University of Nairobi, Digital Divide Data, and DuraSpace, will offer a Digitisation and Digital … Read More

CALL for Participants: DSpace 7 Entities Working Group

August 27, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace Technical Lead for DSpace and DSpaceDirect Per the DSpace Steering Group’s June statement on the DSpace 7 Data Model [1] and the DSpace 7 Update talk at OR2018 [2], we are now establishing a DSpace 7 Entities Working Group whose role will be to: • Define an implementation roadmap for DSpace … Read More

Free Publications from 2018 Shanghai Ranked Institutions in DSpace

August 27, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Atmire  A wide uptake of institutional repositories facilitates open access access to scientific research. The latest edition of the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities, aka Shanghai Ranking, came out last week. As the list below shows, a large number of these world-renowend make their research outputs freely available for online consultation, through their DSpace … Read More

DSpace Workshop at CONCYTEC–the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Conference

August 1, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Michele Mennielli, International Membership and Partnership Manager for DuraSpace On July 18, 2018 CONCYTEC (the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation) hosted the first DSpace workshop in Peru as a pre-conference event during the National Conference on Research Information. The event was most likely the most attended DSpace workshop ever organized, with … Read More