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Ithaca, NY In a recent Campus Technology article (May 1, "DuraCloud Offers Redundant Storage Across Multiple Cloud Providers": http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/05/01/DuraCloud-Offers-Redundant-Storage-Across-Multiple-Cloud-Providers.aspx?Page=3) author Alicia Brazington points out that academia is often nervous about entrusting precious and irreplacable digital assets to cloud storage providers.

From Joshua Sternfeld, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, May 9th at 2pm ET showcasing the brand new DuraCloud managed service from the DuraSpace organization. Carissa Smith, DuraCloud Partner Specialist, will demonstrate the new automatic content health check services, integrated dashboard reporting features, as well as the streaming and sharing capabilities of DuraCloud. There will be time reserved at the end of the session for questions.

Ithaca, NY Registration is open for the second in the 2012 series of curated web seminars in Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so register today to save your spot.

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series two curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston: Managing and Preserving Audio and Vdeo in your Digital Repository

Community-based solution to help Internet2 members preserve scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Arlington, VA DuraSpace and Internet2 announced today at the Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting that Internet2 members now have automatic access to DuraCloud [http://duracloud.org], a trusted service for archiving and managing content in the cloud featuring one-click creation of many copies, in multiple locations with several providers.

Ithaca, NY Content replication across cloud storage providers is a key factor in meeting higher education and research requirements for taking advantage of the cloud. As Kyle Johnson reported in the April 19 WIRED Cloudline post, "DuraCloud Protects Against Cloud Failures" [link: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/duracloud/], DuraCloud's one-click access to multiple cloud storage providers can ensure that irreplaceable content is preserved in multiple spaces simultaneously.

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, Tx Digital Scholarship (http://bit.ly/172mLs) has released the Research Data Curation Bibliography. It includes over 100 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

From Bonnie J. Smith, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries; Maria A. Jankowska, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library; Marianne A. Buehler,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Las Vegas, Nevada Please accept this invitation to participate in the Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability survey [link: https://academictrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Ds9A1yindrZLlG].

From Joshua Sternfeld, NEH Division of Preservation and Access, Senior Program Officer

Via Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives Ltd. and Director of European Advocacy Programmes for SPARC and Convenor for Enabling Open Scholarship, the organisation of universities promoting the principles of open scholarship in the academic community.