higher education

Ithaca, NY LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries (http://www.libereurope.eu/) was founded in 1971 under the auspices of the Council of Europe. Currently LIBER encompasses more than 400 national, university and other libraries in 45 countries.

Ithaca, NY This year’s OR10 Conference will be held from July 6 through 9 at the at Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, Spain. As the dates get closer information, who’s who, and various posts-links-tweets-tags (use #OR10 for conference-related items) will be featured on the OR10 Crowdvine (http://or10.crowdvine.com/) site. Organizers encourage all interested open repository community members to register, connect, share ideas and stay tuned for opportunities to participate.

From Scott Phillips, Managing Editor, Journal of Digital Information
The Journal of Digital Information has just published its first issue of 2010 (volume 11, number 1)  at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/issue/view/91. This issue, edited by John Howard, is a Special Issue with papers invited from Open Repositories 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The following papers are included in this issue:
Journal of Digital Information
Volume 11, number 1 -  March 2010

Ithaca, NY The mission of the Jewish Women’s Archive (http://jwa.org/) is, “to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women.” The makers of this in-depth, delightful, and profound collection have developed an Encyclopedia (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia), educational materials, diverse exhibits, book and film guides, a look back at Jewish women’s lives, and a blog featuring colorful stories (http://jwablog.jwa

Ithaca, NY On March 20,2009 the faculty of MIT voted to “give MIT nonexclusive permission to disseminate their journal articles for open access through DSpace, an open-source software platform developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard and launched in 2002. The policy gives MIT and its faculty the right to use and share the articles for any purpose other than to make a profit. Authors may opt out on a paper-by-paper basis.” (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html).

About the Google Summer of Code from the GSoC web site: “GSoC is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Google has worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.

Ithaca, NY Webinito Networks (http://www.webinito.com/) held a workshop on DSpace January 30-31, 2010 at Kadi University in Gujarat, India with 60 delegates from 35+ colleges, universities and government institutions from across India on hand to participate. Topics ranging from installation in Windows/Linux to a statistics module, and structure of DSpace were covered during the 2-day event.

Ithaca, NY The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent scientific and technological support for the EU. Articles and papers from these JRC European research organizations are now available in a DSpace repository (http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/), an online service providing access to research publications:

Ithaca NY Earlier this week in London Eduserv (http://www.eduserv.org.uk/) and JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/) organized a free “Repositories in the Cloud” day-long event as a way to offer software developers, repository managers, service providers, and funding/advisory bodies a review of potential policy and technical issues associated with cloud computing and the delivery of repository services in UK Higher Educational Institutions. As Gaz J.

Information for this blog post was contributed by Eric Jansson, NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education)