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Ithaca, NY Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored?
DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the  community DSpace Registry.

Ithaca, NY The DSpace repository “Minds@UW” (http://minds.wisconsin.edu/) makes the digital scholarly record of the University of Wisconsin available while preserving valuable content. UW is comprised of 15 campuses in every part of the state. Each campus is represented by its own “mindshare” in this repository.
A dive into this interesting collection of open content includes journals, theses, images, multimedia and more:

From Matt McKay, Head of PR, BioMed Central
London, UK BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher, has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT’s digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have been published in BioMed Central’s journals.

Ithaca, NY Mark Diggory, Head of U.S. Operations, @mire, has announced accepted students for Google Summer of Code™. Congratulations to all the students accepted for this year’s program. The students accepted to this years DSpace GSoC 2010 may seem
familiar, we have two returning students, Andrius and Bojan who will be working further on integrating their previous projects into the next DSpace release.

Ithaca, NY Steve Bayliss, Fedora 3.4 release manager, has announced that scheduling and planning for the next minor release of Fedora, version 3.4, is currently underway and reminds the community that their participation and feedback are vital to ensure that Fedora continues to meet the needs and objectives of its users. A beta version of Fedora 3.4 is scheduled for release in time for the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference that will be held 2010 in early July in Madrid.

Ithaca, NY The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive Project (IVRLA, http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla/main.html) is an Irish government funded project based in University College Dublin. The Project is a component of the research program of the Humanities Institute of Ireland (UCD HII, http://www.ucd.ie/hii/). Its aims are to support leading-edge research by enabling access to digitized content, and to undertake direct research on digitization and digital repositories.

Ithaca, NY Like any marvelous, rare and sometimes surprising museum artifact or exhibit, certain online resources can stop you in your tracks, make your heart beat faster, and cause a slow smile to spread as you gape at a flickering screen that displays something you had never known about or considered before. Most of us have had this kind of exciting online experience that causes time to stand still as you dive deeper through links and related information to find all all there is to know about our  digital discoveries.

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Ithaca, NY On April 7, 2010 Ithaka S+R, part of the Ithaka organization (http://www.ithaka.org/)which develops sustainable business models and conducts research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the academic community, released a report that examines faculty attitudes and behaviors on key library-related issues ranging from the library as information gateway and the need for preservatio