eResearch

Winchester, MA  Institutional collections of digital video and audio continue to grow in size and significance. To curate video and audio files and manage workflows for generating video and audio content university libraries and archives need a complete and scalable system. To meet that need Indiana University and Northwestern University are pleased to announce release 1.0 of the Avalon Media System. 

From Alexander Garcia and Alex Garcia-Castro

Montpellier, France  The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) will be held Monday, May 27 in Montpellier, France at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement Superieur (ABES):

http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES.

From Louisa Kwasigroch, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources

Washington, DC  The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.

Winchester, MA  DuraSpace is pleased to announce its latest Hot Topics Webinar Series, VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so be sure to reserve your spot today!

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series Five: VIVO–Research Discovery and Networking


From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Winchester, MA  The growth of the Internet along with many channels users have created to disseminate every kind of networked digital information has been a catalyst for the simple idea that access to the results of publicly funded research should be free and open.

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1/3-1/2 of all theses and dissertations (ETDs) were published for a variety of reasons–institutional access policies, outdated collection methods and systems, and idiosyncratic revision requirements1–to name a few.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.

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!