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Boston, MA  Since 2009 when the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy went into effect more than 7,000 MIT faculty papers have been made openly available from DSpace@MIT. The articles have been downloaded over 630,000 times by visitors from all over the world.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

From Maureen P. Walsh, Vice-Chair, ALCTS Metadata Interest Group, Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University Libraries

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for
presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an open access repository "CDC Stacks" at http://stacks.cdc.gov using the Fedora repository platform hosted in the cloud.

From The DSpace Committers Team

The DSpace committers team are delighted to announce a new member to the group: João Melo from Lyncode, his startup company. Please join us in welcoming him!

Since his earlier student stages, as a hobby, João had studied the most recent programming methodologies, frameworks and languages, he developed websites, applications, tools and contributed to his local community leading local informatics projects.

ORCID  (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique profile and personal identifier for themselves.

Announcement: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 16 Rick Johnson and Richard Green presented “A Case Study on General Repository Applications using Hydra". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, “Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions,” curated by Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University Libraries. 

From Sands Fish, Senior Software Engineer MIT Libraries, and the DSpace 3.0 Release Team

DSpace Development never stops! DSpace 3.0 is almost here, and with it arrives numerous new features, improvements, bug-fixes, changes, etc.

We ask that you take a few minutes of your time in these coming weeks to help us fully test this new release! We want to ensure that we are maintaining the same level of quality that you come to expect out of a new DSpace release. We'd also love to hear your early feedback on 3.0!