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For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure: U Nairobi Digital Repository

Winchester, MA In 1986 it was estimated that only 1/3-1/2 of all theses and dissertations (ETDs) were published for a variety of reasons–institutional access policies, outdated collection methods and systems, and idiosyncratic revision requirements1–to name a few. This meant that many original contributions to scholarship, the traditional academic goal for PhD research, were missing from the world corpus of knowledge.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 3:52pm

2013 DuraCloud Brown Bag Series Kicks Off February 27th

Winchester, MA The DuraCloud team will host the first brown bag session of 2013 on Wednesday, February 27th at 12:30pm ET. February's brown bag session will detail the ways in which the Preservation subscription plans differ from the Enterprise subscription plans, specifically highlighting the differences between features and price as well as the types of use cases that are best suited for each subscription plan option.

Submitted by csmith on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 1:43pm

Upcoming DSpace Futures Calls

Winchester, MA Last month DuraSpace shared a report on the current "State of DSpace" following a series of phone calls with sponsors, committers, DCAT members, and service providers. The summary can be found here http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures.

Submitted by Valorie_Hollister on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 1:09pm

RECORDING AVAILABLE: COAR Interview with DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton

Winchester, MA  COAR (Coalition of Open Access Repositories) Executive Director Alicia Lopez Medina recently conducted a video interview with DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton to learn more about DuraCloud, and plans for DSpace and Fedora development in the next year and over the next three years. She also asked Kimpton for her views on major driving forces in Open Access repository development and more.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 1:10pm

Welcome to DSpace Committer Bram Luyten

From the The DSpace Committers Group

The DSpace committers team are delighted to announce a new member to the group: Bram Luyten [1] from @mire. Please join us in welcoming him!

Submitted by carol on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 3:01pm

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Open Repositories 2013 Proposals Now Due on March 4th!

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 11:27am

17th Int. Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Valetta, Malta, Sept 22-26

From the TPDL organizing committee

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital

Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

Aims and scope

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 11:20am

U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Conference, Claremont, California, Jul 24-26

From the USETDA Board

Claremont, CA  Proposals for presentations, panel sessions and posters are invited for the upcoming U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation conference to be held in Claremont, California (near Disneyland resort, beaches & Hollywood) July 24-26, 2013. 

Conference registration is now open - for complete information visit http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1730

Submitted by carol on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 11:06am
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