November 19, 2009 – 11:55 am
Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital [...]
November 16, 2009 – 1:59 pm
nbsp;http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/430/1/OC…
The aims and objectives of this study were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various [...]
November 16, 2009 – 1:48 pm
nbsp;http://www.nactem.ac.uk/tm-ukoln.php
Presentations include:
Introduction and Overview (Dr. Lyon)
Scholarly communications and Text Mining : a view of the landscape (Prof. Ananiadou) Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Director, NaCTeM, Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Using text-mining for discovery and data integration: literature resources at the EBI and the UKPMC project Dr Johanna McEntyre, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge
Mining and meaning in the chemical [...]
November 5, 2009 – 9:59 am
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/426/
The Fedorazon project is first and foremost the experiences of a small HE/FE team running and maintaining a Repository in the Cloud for one year. Being early adopters we provide both technical, fiscal and practical advice for both our successes and failures in this endeavour. We hope this report provides insight for other institutions wishing [...]
November 3, 2009 – 11:45 am
nbsp;http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/medi…
The Draft report on the provision of usage data1 and manuscript deposit procedures for
publishers and repository managers, deliverable 2.1, set out to establish a workflow for
depositing stage-2 outputs in and harvesting log files from repositories to enable the
research envisaged in the PEER project. As that report preceded the tendering process
whereby the respective research teams were [...]
October 30, 2009 – 12:45 pm
JISC has this week become a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), joining those representing the UK.
Taking inspiration from the European DRIVER repositories project, which helps to enhance repository development, COAR takes this vision to an international scale; founding members of the Confederation include members from North America, China and Japan, [...]
October 30, 2009 – 11:30 am
The international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009. The aim of the organisation is the networking of over 1000 global scientific repositories comprising peer reviewed publications under the principle of Open Access. This will be achieved by means of common [...]
October 26, 2009 – 2:09 pm
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
Release: 22 October 2009
A major upgrade to RoMEO has been released today, giving:
* Extra Category for the self-archiving of the Publisher’s Version/ PDF
* Expanded Journal Coverage
* Extra Search Options for Journal Abbreviations and Electronic ISSNs
* New Tabular Browse View for Publishers
* Selective Display of Publishers’ Compliance with Funding Agencys’ Mandates
What’s New?
As part of ongoing improvements [...]
October 21, 2009 – 1:27 pm
To coincide with the start of Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to announce that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon its initial role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up into a facility to [...]
October 19, 2009 – 1:36 pm
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To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/)is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. This bibliography presents over 620 selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Although institutional repositories intersect with a number of open access and scholarly communication topics, this bibliography only includes [...]
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