Today we officially launch the 2018 DuraSpace Membership Campaign. The campaign raises funds to support the continued advancement of the DuraSpace projects – DSpace, Fedora, VIVO, and CASRAI. While DuraSpace, a non-profit, proudly provides both the software and standards for free for anyone to use, we rely on the financial support and collaboration of our members to continue to … Read More
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Announcement: CASRAI to Become a DuraSpace Project
The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) improves the flow of information within and between research stakeholders by developing and maintaining standard information agreements among various stakeholders in the research enterprise. The DuraSpace organization and CASRAI are pleased to announce that CASRAI is now a project of DuraSpace. Together they will work to enable … Read More
DEADLINE April 9 for DSpace repository and CRIS systems Event Proposals
DuraSpace and euroCRIS will co-host a one-day event to focus on interoperability between DSpace repository and CRIS systems in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden – on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. In February 2017 DuraSpace and euroCRIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the intent of working with the respective communities in order to share ideas and best practices … Read More
3 Million Medical Downloads per Month
From Bram Luyten, Atmire WHO Library in Geneva releases new features for IRIS, the extensive public health DSpace repository, including statistics and automated recommendations. Introducing IRIS The Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) is the digital library of WHO’s published material and technical information in full text produced since 1948. Its content is freely accessible and searchable … Read More
4Science Brings You New Features and Areas of Use for DSpace
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science 4Science has several new projects for 2018 and will participate in significant conferences for the repository community. We’re looking forward to Open Repositories 2018 where 4Science will participate as a sponsor. At OR2018 we will present some of our main projects, either recently completed or in progress. Presentations may include: Hasselt University (Belgium) … Read More
Are you using DSpace, Fedora or VIVO?
As the number of DSpace and Fedora repositories and VIVO installations grow–in 2018 there are more than 2,900 registered worldwide–the desire to learn more about them–where are they, how they are accessed online, what type of content they hold, software versions, specializations etc.–also increases. Answers to these and other questions can lead to greater connections … Read More
ANNOUNCING A DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event: DSpace and CRIS Systems Workshop
From the DuraSpace and euroCRIS Teams DuraSpace and euroCRIS will co-host a one-day event to focus on interoperability between DSpace repository and CRIS systems in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden – on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. In February 2017 DuraSpace and euroCRIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the intent of working with the respective communities in order … Read More
Registration Open: “Making DSpace Your Own” Webinar
DuraSpace presents a community webinar, “Making DSpace Your Own” on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 12:00p.m. EST. Presented by Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, Applications Programmer Analyst, Department of Library Information Technology While there are many exciting changes under development with the future DSpace 7 User Interface, this presentation will describe how to get started TODAY using … Read More
KnowledgeArc Platform News
From Michael Guthrie, KnowledgeArc (https://www.knowledgearc.com) is pleased to welcome the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) to the KnowledgeArc platform. ASSAf are hosting their 6 Open Access journals that were migrated from Open Journal Systems version 2 to the new OJS version 3, combined onto a multi-journal installation that now includes the former Wiley Scholar One … Read More
REGISTER for ILIDE (Innovative Library in Digital Era) 2018
The April 15-18 ILIDE (Innovative Library in Digital Era) International Conference in Jasna, Slovakia is open for registration. This International conference attracts librarians from all over the world. The aim of the Innovative Library in Digital Era Conference is to present visionary and original ideas based on the extensive experience of the participating experts and institutions. … Read More