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DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world"

Ithaca, NY In an article about the launch of DuraCloud, Jo Maitland, Executive Editor of SearchCloudComputing, SearchServerVirtualization and SearchVMware, takes a look at how DuraCloud operates with cloud storage providers, key advantages of the new service and the ease of uploading content to DuraCloud:

"There are three options for uploading content to DuraCloud: via the web interface, the client-side synchronization utility, or the REST API."

Submitted by carol on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:01am

UPDATED VERSION AVAILABLE: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/: "From April 2005 through September 2011, Digital Scholarship had over 9 million visitors from 227 counties and over 44.2 million file requests, including 29.1 million page views."

Submitted by carol on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:22am

DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture


PART ONE: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana This is the first of a five-part series that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011

Submitted by carol on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 2:41pm

WEB EVENT: Using DuraCloud for Archiving and Preservation, Nov. 2

Ithaca, NY You are invited to attend the web event, "Using DuraCloud for Archiving & Preservation,"  to be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Presenters include Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace Chief Executive Officer & DuraCloud Project Director and Bryan Beecher, Director of Computing & Network Services, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

Submitted by carol on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 4:36pm
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