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DURASPACE SOLUTIONS WEBINAR: Learn About the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud As Part of DuraCloud SaaS

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the collaboration between DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) cloud services to offer SDSC cloud as part of the DuraCloud SaaS. This offering provides additional preservation services and storage for researchers, students, academics, and industry users.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 10/30/2012 - 3:36pm

OA Week 2012: For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure–Postcards, Football, Espionage and Muppets at the University of Maryland

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

The University of Maryland Libraries, a DuraSpace Silver Sponsor and long-time user of Fedora and DSpace, are continuing to add to digitize and add valuable collection material to their repository daily.

Submitted by carol on Fri, 10/26/2012 - 4:27pm

DSpace 3.0 Test-A-Thon: Second Round and Call for Translations

From the DSpace 3.0 Release Team

We thank you all for your great feedback during the first round of the DSpace 3.0 Test-A-Thon! You have helped discover many bugs, some of which we have already fixed. Since we have so many great new features in 3.0, we decided to give it another round of public testing to help make it to the final 3.0 release without any significant bugs.

Submitted by carol on Fri, 10/26/2012 - 9:30am

WEBINAR RECORDING: Research Data Management Support:E-Research Support at Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University

Winchester, MA  On October 17 Sayeed Choudhury and James L. Mullins presented “E-Research Support at Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University” to participants in the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute. In this webinar, the presenters discuss their progress towards developing a data management plan and service at their institutions. This pre-recorded webinar is part the DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series on "Research Data Management Support" curated by E-Science Institute faculty.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 1:49pm

OA Week 2012: For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure–Letters from the Smithsonian Digital Repository

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Submitted by carol on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 10:01am

OA Week 2012: For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure Visit Columbia University Libraries

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Submitted by carol on Wed, 10/24/2012 - 10:20am

Why Preservation Matters: "We Need to Remember, Period."

Winchester, MA  Digitization of fragile film and video resources is the first step towards making sure they are preserved into the future. Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives published an example of a video from The Fortunoff Video Archive Holocaust Testimonies, a historic collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, to demonstrate how important it is not only to digitize video resources, but to do it as soon as possible.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 11:21am

Impact of Open Access to MIT Research Through DSpace@MIT

Boston, MA  Since 2009 when the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy went into effect more than 7,000 MIT faculty papers have been made openly available from DSpace@MIT. The articles have been downloaded over 630,000 times by visitors from all over the world.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 10:40am

OA Week 2012: For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure Visit the The Arizona Geological Survey Repository

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Submitted by carol on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 9:06am

CALL: ALCTS Metadata Interest Group at ALA Midwinter Meeting

From Maureen P. Walsh, Vice-Chair, ALCTS Metadata Interest Group, Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University Libraries

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for
presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 

Submitted by carol on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 11:54am
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