SPARC

Winchester, MA  Though unafilliated with the successful Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new Open Library of Humanities (OLH) initiative has been inspired by the PLOS open megajournal model–if the sciences can do it why not the humanities and social sciences? The OHL mission is to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is:

• Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review

From Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI Canada  The Islandora team is pleased to report that plans for the upcoming Islandora Camp Europe are coming along nicely. With the new Islandora 6 and 7 releases due in the coming weeks we are sure to have a lot to talk about when we gather in March. The current agenda is available:

http://europe.islandora.ca/program/session-schedule

Washington, DC  Join NISO for the February 13 webinar on Preservation Metadata to hear viewpoints and updates from industry leaders on theory and practice.

Webinar: Metadata for Preservation:
A Digital Object's Best Friend
Date: February 13, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (EST)

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 the RDMI 2013 Workshop Organizing Committee

Washington, DC  A Research Data Management Implementations (RDMI) Workshop funded by NSF will be held March 13-14 at the Westin Hotel in Arlington, VA in conjunction with the Spring Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) Meeting (http://www.casc.org).  Registration information and a call for position and experience papers will be available soon.

From Jean-Claude Guédon, University of Montreal

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