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
nbsp;http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.h…
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 [...]
October 15, 2009 – 9:44 am
nbsp;http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/repository…
CAIRSS now has a current list of Australian university research repositories (see: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/repository…).
As outlined on this CAIRSS webpage, all 39 Australian universities have a research repository, with seven various repository software options currently in use.
CAIRSS will be working in the future to list which version of the software each installation uses.
source: CAIRSS blog
October 13, 2009 – 1:22 pm
nbsp;https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/…
Many institutional repositories have pursued a mixed metadata environment, relying on description by multiple workflows. Strategies may include metadata converted from other systems, metadata elicited from the document creator or manager, and metadata created by library or repository staff. Additional editing or proofing may or may not occur. The mixed environment brings challenges of creation, [...]
October 8, 2009 – 1:20 pm
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/…
The core aims of this project were to update the Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) protocol, the SWORD repository code libraries in the DSpace, Fedora, EPrints and Intrallect repositories, and the existing reference demonstrators. A Facebook application and validator have also been developed.
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