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Customer requested features improve content control in the cloud

Ithaca, NY The newest DuraCloud release provides fine-grained access control over your content in the cloud with significant user administration improvements:

• Improved access control–Account administrators can now create access control lists indicating which users and groups have read and/or write access to the content within a DuraCloud space;

New York, NY If you are looking to increase your video views with better Video SEO, this Webinar will explain the challenges and techniques for getting video content found and properly indexed by search engines. The webinar will also feature a hands-on walkthrough of SEO friendly video publishing with Kaltura, and give you a sneak peek at what Kaltura and Google have planned for 2012.

Please join us for an exciting webinar and your chance to ask our experts questions during Q&A time.

Boulder, CO Early registration ends on January 17 for the ELI Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," where a matrix of themes that capture the key opportunities and challenges facing the teaching and learning community will be explored. The meeting will be held February 13–15, 2012 
at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX, and Online

from Barbara Kirsop and Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) supports scholarly publishing in the developing world and facilitates access to research information. EPT recently announced the winners of a new annual award made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings.

From Heather Morrison, Simon Fraser University School of Communication

Vancouver, Canada The December 31, 2011 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available at:

Providence, RI EDUCAUSE Association Partner NERCOMP (NorthEast Regional Computing Program) will host its Annual Conference March 12–14, 2012, in Providence, Rhode Island, and—for the first time—concurrently online to explore "The Human Side of IT: Does Technology Enhance or Limit Human Interactions?" More information here: http://www.educause.edu/NC12.

Chapel Hill, NC Registration is open for the DigCCurr 2012 Public Symposium CurateGear! This interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 6, 2012. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss application in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods.

Ithaca, NY Earlier this month 20 Hydra Project Partners, current and prospective, (http://projecthydra.org) met in Palo Alto to share demonstrations, institutional updates and discuss ongoing development issues and priorities.

About Hydra

From Patty Gertz, Jasig

Westminster, CO The first joint Jasig/Sakai annual conference will be held Sunday, June 10 through Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Supplementary half-day Jasig and Sakai seminars will be held on on Sunday, June 10.

More details to follow soon.

From Robin Taylor, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, UK We have a new bug-fix release of DSpace 1.8 available: DSpace 1.8.1

This small bug fix release addresses a number of issues that have cropped up since 1.8.0. A list of the issues can be found here.