November 18, 2009 – 12:56 pm
nbsp;http://www.sciplore.org/
Contributed by:
Jöran Beel, Bela Gipp and Christoph Müller
OvGU Magdeburg
FIN/ITI/VLBA
Germany
SciPlore.org
{beel, gipp, mueller}@sciplore.org
Mind maps are useful tools for researchers. They can use mind maps, for example, to manage their literature or to draft research papers. Dozens of tools exist to create mind maps, for instance, FreeMind, MindManager, and XMind. However, researchers need special features such as [...]
November 17, 2009 – 9:36 am
http://chronicle.com/article/Business-Software-Built-by/49147/
The Kuali Foundation hopes its wares will be the most tempting—and the least expensive. A nonprofit group that coordinates colleges’ efforts to produce free software that is built through a collaborative, “open source” process, Kuali is bringing out a research-administration system that it says could ultimately save universities millions.
The project, plus a student-information system, opens [...]
November 10, 2009 – 10:06 am
http://oleproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/OLE_FINAL_Report1.pdf
With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment project
(OLE Project) convened a multi-national group of libraries to analyze library business processes
and to define a next-generation library technology platform. The resulting OLE platform is
predicated on Service Oriented Architecture and a community-source model of development and
governance. Over 300 libraries, educational institutions, professional organizations [...]
October 19, 2009 – 1:38 pm
VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc.
NOTICE OF MEETING
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Australian Policy Online (APO) goes open source…
Speaker:
Amanda Lawrence
Managing Editor
Australian Policy Online
Amanda will discuss the process of upgrading the Australian Policy Online website,
which was launched in its new form in May this year.
In particular she will look at the process [...]
October 13, 2009 – 7:19 am
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/2254
Submitted by kevin on Thu, 2009-10-08 22:06
Tagged: ojs; journals
I was recently asked about alternative uses of OJS and decided to hunt around to see what I could find. The results were quite interesting, with OJS being used in a number of unexpected ways. Here are some examples:
1. Student journal: http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/
2. Teaching tool: http://ejournal.vudat.msu.edu/
3. Book archive: http://journals.sfu.ca/coactionbks/
4: NGO Newsletter: http://www.americanmorrisnews.org/
5: [...]
October 9, 2009 – 7:54 am
nbsp;http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/2252
The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.3.0.
OJS 2.3.0 introduces a major rewrite of core aspects of PKP applications that reconciles common code (e.g. shared between OJS, OCS, and the Harvester) into a separate library called the PKP Web Application Library (WAL). Many parts of the system have been changed [...]
October 6, 2009 – 6:52 am
Hello, all. With all the recent list chatter about LibGuides, I thought I’d mention that there is a new version (0.9) of SubjectsPlus
available:
http://www.subjectsplus.com/
SubjectsPlus is a free and open source tool to help you manage several interrelated parts of your website, including your subject guides.
Version 0.9 is a significant improvement (hopefully) over version 0.8, with [...]
August 13, 2009 – 8:05 am
Dear colleagues
A little while ago, as part of our JISC funded IncReASe project, we wrote 4 plugins for EPrints to import bibliographic metadata from arXiv. In case of interest, further details of the plugins are below. Screenshots and tips are available at: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/increase/…
The plugins should work with Eprints 3.1.1 – use with other releases might need [...]
August 11, 2009 – 7:49 am
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/docum…
This project established a framework for e‐Humanities (also called digital humanities) research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content. The project created novel research interfaces to the first of many scholarly e‐Humanities web collections.
We are pleased to annouce that RODA 1.0 source-code and installation binaries have been released!
RODA is an open source digital repository specially designed for Archives, with long-term preservation and authenticity as its primary objectives. Created by the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Portuguese Archives (i.e. the National Archives) in partnership with the University of Minho, it [...]