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 [...]
August 4, 2009 – 12:14 pm
nbsp;http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-…
The Open Library Environment (OLE) Project has posted a draft of its final report. We are excited to offer this report publicly to the community and welcomes comment. As a community-source project, your input is vital to the future and success of the OLE Project. You can access the report at this [...]
nbsp;http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Murphy Library has released ERMes v. 2009.05, an open source electronic resource management system. Iowa State University contributed code to the project.
source: DigitalKoans
nbsp;http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/2081
The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OCS 2.1.2.
OCS 2.1.2 is a maintenance release that fixes several minor bugs in OCS 2.1.1 and introduces several new features, including:
* Complete CAPTCHA support in OCS 2.x
* Review forms ported from OJS
* Add a la carte items to registration
* Merge users at site level
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