From Richard Poynder, independent journalist and blogger specialising in information technology, scholarly communication, professional online database services, open science, e-Science, and intellectual property. I have posted a number of responses to my question asking people what they think the stakeholders of scholarly communication community should be doing now to fully realise the vision outlined at the 2002 meeting that led to the Budapest Open … Read More
Scholarly publishing
CfP: 14th International Conference on Research Information Systems, CRIS2018
From Ed Simons, euroCRIS President From June 13-16th 2018 euroCRIS will hold its 14th International Conference on Research Information Systems, called CRIS2018. The conference will take place in Umea Sweden, and will be organised in co-operation with Umea University. The theme of the conference is ‘FAIRness of Research Information“. Here is the link to the Call for Papers (http://www.cris2018.se/cfp/) and guidelines for … Read More
iPRES 2018 Preliminary Call for Contributions
From Sibyl Schaefer, Chronopolis Program Manager and Digital Preservation Analyst, University of California, San Diego iPRES 2018 BOSTON—Where Art and Science Meet —The Art In the Science & The Science In the Art of Digital Preservation—will be co-hosted by MIT Libraries and Harvard Library on September 24-27, 2018. Help us celebrate the first 15 Years of iPRES, the premier international … Read More
CONTRIBUTE an Essay to Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities Collection
From Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Seton Hall University Libraries While the debates in and around the digital humanities continue–what they are, why they are, what they contribute to humanities scholarship–those working in the field know the truly transformative work being done both nationally and internationally. This proposed collection of essays, Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities, will build on the … Read More
CALL–Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open
From Open Repositories 2018 Program Co-Chairs Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub Open Repositories 2018 is now calling for proposals around the theme of Sustaining Open. http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and open access publications and collections. These projects and communities require … Read More
UPDATE: DuraSpace Migration/ Upgrade Survey: Call for Participation
From Erin Tripp <etripp@duraspace.org >, Business Development Manager The DuraSpace community is sharing their migration and upgrade stories. Now let’s hear from you! We captured 12 migration stories and have 11 more interviews pending. Managers, librarians, application analysts/ engineers, and project managers from the United States, Canada, the UK, and Switzerland talked about migrations and upgrades … Read More
Introducing the DuraSpace Code of Conduct
DuraSpace is an international community dedicated to providing a welcoming, inclusive and positive experience for all members of our community. This includes formal gatherings, social settings, and online activities including mailing lists, wikis, web sites, IRC channels, Slack, and/or private correspondence. Accordingly, all community members are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees … Read More
The 2.5% Commitment
This blog post was contributed by David W. Lewis, Dean of the IUPUI University Library, dlewis@iupui.edu This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license The Commitment: Every academic library should commit to contribute 2.5% of its total budget to support the common infrastructure needed to create the open scholarly commons. Academic Libraries and … Read More
SHARE your migration and upgrade Story
From Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager for DuraSpace I’m collecting anecdotes from people who have undertaken a migration or a major upgrade in the recent past. We hope to collect stories about how the project went, what resources were used or developed during the process, and whether it turned into an opportunity to update skills, … Read More
REGISTER for The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017
From Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code GmbH Berlin, Germany Registration is open for the DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place on Thursday, September 21, 2017 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. It is organized by Stuttgart University Library, Fraunhofer IRB and The Library Code GmbH. This Meeting is about informal … Read More