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Pretoria, South Africa  More than one thousand years ago the thriving Iron Age pre-colonial state of Mapungubwe existed where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers came together in an area that would later become the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The Mapungubwe archaeological site is culturally meaningful because it provides evidence of southern Africa’s prehistory.

From Marianne Smith, Director, Internet2

Washington, DC  The Call for Participation for the 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting is open! This includes calls for Proposals and Working Meetings.

Call for Participation: http://events.internet2.edu/2013/spring-mm/calls.cfm

This year's ACRL 2013 (Association of College and Research Libraries) will be held in Indianapolis, April 10-13. Early registration discounts are available until Feb. 22 (http://conference.acrl.org/).

Summary

From Heather Morrison, Simon Frasier University

Vancouver, BC  2012 was yet another awesome year for open access growth. To illustrate just how far we've come: a BASE search of over 2,400 repositories now searches over 40 million documents. The DOAJ article search is inching up to the 1 million article mark, demonstrating that the growth in gold OA is not just in OA journals, but more importantly, in articles published in open access journals.

The numbers:

From David Palmer, Associate University Librarian (Digital Strategies & Technical Services), The University of Hong Kong Libraries

Hong Kong  CILEA and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) are pleased to announce the immediate availability for download of the first alpha release of the DSpace CRIS module.

https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator,  CNI

Washington, DC  Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change by Lynne O'Brien of Duke University, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2012/), is now available on CNI's two video channels: 

The new release of DSpace 3.0 provides users with a rich set of mix and match community-developed features and services to further engage and support DSpace repositories worldwide. Each feature is designed to be turned on or off to ensure that your DSpace is configured in the way that works best for your institution.