Category Archives: open source

Open Library Environment (OLE) Project Final Report Available for Comment

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 [...]

Open Source Electronic Resource Management System: ERMes v. 2009.05 Released

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

Open Journal Systems 2.1.2 Released

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

XC User Research Preliminary Report

nbsp;https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retriev…
This report summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings from the
data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project. A full analysis
and interpretation of the data is not included here and will be provided at the conclusion of the
project. This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions and [...]

Digital Collection Builder

nbsp;http://dcb-gcn.canadiana.org/
The Digital Collection Builder (DCB) is an open-source software tool that makes it simple for libraries, archives, and other heritage organizations to provide access to their unique digitized collections; it brings their collections together with other Canadian online resources for Canadians and the world. The DCB greatly facilitates even the smallest institution’s ability to describe [...]

EPrints working with Sun’s Cloud Storage Service

As part of Sun Microsystem’s Preservation Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), the EPrints team have been collaborating with Sun to enable EPrints to be used with archival storage products, such as the Honeycomb (STK-5800).
This collaboration has informed the development of the new EPrints 3.2 Storage Controller that enables the repository to distribute its objects between [...]

EPrints – the research management tool for US markets

Dr Leslie Carr at the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) will present EPrints as a practical solution for business management within US institutions and launch a new version when he speaks in Atlanta, USA next week.
Dr Carr who is Technical Director of EPrints, the world’s leading software for producing open [...]

OJS 2.2.3 Released

nbsp;http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/1980
The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.2.3.
OJS 2.2.3 is a maintenance release that fixes several minor bugs in OJS 2.2.2 and introduces several new features. These include:
* Added nl_NL locale
* Numerous languages updated
* Add TinyMCE support to reviewer comments
* Overhaul DOI generation
* Overhaul COUNTER statistics storage
* Link article title [...]

OLE Teleconference – Australia

The National Library of Australia will host a teleconference for those in the Australasian region interested in an update on progress with the OLE Project. 
 
Contact: Carmel McInerny, National Library of Australia  cmcinerny at nla.gov.au
+61 2 6262 1129
You may view the latest post at
 http://oleproject.org/2009/04/13/ole-tel…

RSP podcast on EPrints

*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ We’ve all read about repository developments. Now you can hear directly from many of the people responsible for these developments, and from those taking and using them, with the launch of a series of podcasts from the Repositories Support Project.
The series opens with four podcasts, including one on EPrints:
 http://www.rsp.ac.uk/podcasts/eprints.ph…
EPrints: repository [...]

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