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From Clifford Lynch, CNI Washington, DC  Stanford University Libraries are calling for entries for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries. These entries are due by January 15, 2014. The award recognizes a research, national, or ... [More] other library that supports research activities, and is  on either a single program or project and/or a sustained culture and profile of encouraging effective and sustainable innovation. The effects of such efforts must have measurable impact on the library's own clientele as well as influencing the practices and/or standards of research librarianship generally. Full information and entry forms can be found at http://spirl.stanford.edu.   [Less]

From The DSpace Committers Group Winchester, NY  The DSpace committers are delighted to announce a new member to the group: (Luigi) Andrea Pascarelli from CINECA (http://www.cineca.it/). Please join us in welcoming Andrea! Andrea is a Java ... [More] Developer, with six years of experience in the field. His experience is primarily in web application development. At CINECA, he works on integration, development and maintenance of large systems for digital library and electronic publishing, including DSpace. Andrea is a certified Programmer for Java 6 (SCJP) and received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in December 2006. In addition, Andrea is the lead developer on the DSpace-CRIS project: http://cilea.github.io/dspace-cris/ You can read even more about Andrea on his LinkedIn profile at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/luigiandreapascarelli We are always on the lookout for new developers, contributors, and committers within the DSpace community. Anyone who would like to get more involved is encouraged to do so. You are also welcome to contact us at any time if you'd like some ideas of how to start contributing: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpaceContributors Contributions can take many forms, from writing code to editing documentation, or testing new releases to designing new themes for our user interfaces. If you or someone you know has been an active DSpace contributor for some time, you can also nominate that person to become our next committer! Nomination details are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Committer+Nominations [Less]

Winchester, MA  The upcoming offering of the E-Science Institute will be the final opportunity for institutions to take advantage of the course. Originally developed by ARL and CLIR/ DLF, the course is designed to help academic and research libraries ... [More] develop a strategic agenda for e-research support. The last offering of the Institute will begin on December 5,  2013 and run through April 3, 2014. Space is limited to 25 institutions and the deadline to register is Monday, November 25, 2013. To register visit http://duraspace.org/esi-logistics.  Ninety-seven institutions have participated the Institute over the last 2 years, many making significant progress in jump starting their approach to e-research services. To view a short video on the University of Cincinnati's experience over the last year, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8CTXsSLd24&feature=youtu.be. The E-Science Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from your institution through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. The coursework begins with a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminates with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments help staff establish a high-level understanding of research-support needs and issues. For more information on the E-Science Institute, visit http://duraspace.org/courses or email Valorie Hollister at [email protected]. [Less]

From James Evans, Product Manager, Open Repository London, UK  Open Repository has acquired a new US client, an institutional consortium consisting of The Five Colleges of Ohio: Oberlin College, Denison University, College of Wooster, Kenyon ... [More] College, and Ohio Wesleyan University.  The initial repository launch will contain communities and collections from Denison and Oberlin. Previously, the repositories forming the 5 Colleges repository were part of the OhioLINK  network. We are pleased to welcome our new Ohio-based clients and look forward to working with them. In other news, Open Repository (along with colleagues from BioMed Central and Papers ) will be exhibiting at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Conference, which takes in Philadelphia from January 24-28, 2014. Open Repository also plans to host a conference workshop, details of which will be announced in the December issue of DuraSpace Digest. About Open Repository Open Repository builds, hosts and customises enhanced, DSpace repositories for institutions, enabling the institution to focus on managing and developing content within their repository. Through Open Repository and Open Repository Lite, clients can choose a package to suit their needs. Open Repository offers clients the full services required to successfully run a repository, while Open Repository Lite offers is aimed at clients from emerging and developing countries, requiring a simple install at a cost effective price.  Open Repository (http://www.openrepository.com) is offered by BioMed Central, the  Open Access specialist. [Less]

Helsinki Cathedral, Tuomiokirkko, is located in the centre of the city. Photo courtesy of http://www.pachd.com. Helsinki, Finland  The Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2014, will be held 9-13 June 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. ... [More] The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is: Towards Repository Ecosystems Repository systems are but one part of the ecosystem in 21st century research, and it is increasingly clear that no single repository will serve as the sole resource for its community. How can repositories best be positioned to offer complementary services in a network that includes research data management systems, institutional and discipline repositories, publishers, and the open Web? When should service providers build to fill identified niches, and where should they connect with related services?  How might these networks offer services to support organizations that lack the resources to build their own, or researchers seeking to optimize their domain workflows? Examining how repositories best integrate into the holistic research flow; exploring ties between domain-specific repositories and institutional repositories; and understanding durable content strategies outside of traditional repository environments are the central themes of the Open Repositories 2014 conference. We welcome proposals on these themes, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital repositories. We're particularly interested in hearing about: • Unconventional approaches to repository-like services • Interconnection between publishers and repositories • Researcher-centered design for scholarly workflows • Adaptations to support curation lifecycle management, e.g., for research data • Real-world scalability and performance stories: working at web-scale, with big data for global usage • Requirements for holding restricted or classified data in repositories • Infrastructure to accommodate national and international mandates for data management and open access • Positioning repositories closer to (local, consortial, or cloud-based) cyberinfrastructure for data processing • Leveraging connections to external services including: --Remote identifier services (e.g., DOI, ORCID) --(Re-)using repository data/metadata in new and unexpected ways, including integrated discovery • Scholarly social media services, such as for annotation, review, comment, reputation, citation, and altmetrics • CRIS and research management systems • Digital preservation tools, services & infrastructure • Community and sustainability in an open world KEY DATES • 3 February 2014: Deadline for submissions • 4 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference • 17 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to interest groups • 9-13 June 2014: OR2014 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS Conference Papers and Panels We welcome proposals that are at least two pages and no more than four pages in length for presentations or panels that deal with digital repositories and repository services. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as an Interest Group presentation. Interest Group Presentations One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (DSpace, ePrints, and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. 24x7 Presentation Proposals We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This format will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. "Repository Rants" 24x7 Block. One block of 24x7's at OR14 will revolve around "repository rants": brief exposés that challenge the conventional wisdom or practice, and highlight what the repository community is  doing that is misguided, or perhaps just missing altogether. The top proposals will be incorporated into a track meant to provoke unconventional approaches to repository services. Posters, Demos and Developer  "How-To's" We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters, demonstrations, technical how-tos and technology briefings. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. Developer "How-To's" will provide a forum for running a mini-tutorial or demonstration in the developer lounge, if there are enough interested parties. Developer Challenge Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2014 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. Workshops and Tutorials One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Please address the following in your proposal: • The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey • Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) • How many attendees you plan to accommodate • Technology and facility requirements • Any other supplies or support required • A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session • Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system will be open for submissions by 16 December 2013, and is linked from the conference web site: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/ Program Co-Chairs Tom Cramer, Stanford University Mike Giarlo, Pennsylvania State University Simeon Warner, Cornell University contact: [email protected] Local Hosts Helsinki University Library National Library of Finland contact: [email protected] Social Media #or2014 [Less]

Winchester, MA  Washington was wet, gray and shutdown quiet as the 2013 ARL Membership Meeting and Fall Forum got underway last month. Key agenda topics included presentations of perspectives on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the ... [More] Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) “SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)" initiative. Collaboration at scale is at the heart of SHARE as a tactical response to providing public access to the intellectual assets of higher education. Nearly 200 university library deans, provosts and finance directors were in attendance to discuss how to work together to capture and utilize the majority of U.S. research that is generated by ARL, AAU and APLU. Speakers’ slides are available here: http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/2996-arl-membership-meeting-and-fall-forum-2013-slides-online Higher education is facing an unprecedented combination of financial pressures, unfunded mandates, demand for access to educational resources as MOOCs force a restructuring of economic models, and an increasing downward pressure on tuition. Balancing budgets while continuing to innovate is a recurring challenge as the traditional paradigm continues to shift. Rick Luce, Dean, University Libraries, University of Oklahoma outlined the proposed SHARE stack that is designed to address building infrastructure that will scale across institutions, comply with the Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum, and provide data management tools and workflows. Higher education has the opportunity to distinguish itself as a community bound together by discovery based on access to and preservation of the scholarly results of the research enterprise. The SHARE focus on collaboration at scale offers institutions a way to leverage the network for local advantage.        [Less]

Winchester, MA  The University of Minho's DSpace-based Institutional Repository RepositóriUM began with just 4 communities in 2003. The goal for the repository was to provide a permanent accessible record of the research output of the University and ... [More] to maximize the visibility, usage and impact of its research through open access. This month marks the tenth anniversary of the RepositóriUM that now houses a growing collection of the scientific output from the University. To celebrate the University of Minho will release a print and a digital version of a book titled “Uma década de Acesso Aberto na UMinho e no Mundo (One decade of Open Access at UMinho and in the World) with chapters in portuguese (10) and in english (7). The book will be openly available later this month through the RepositóriUM (link to come). Eloy Rodrigues, the Director of the University of Minho (UM) Documentation Services led the effort to create Minho University’s institutional repository in 2003. He drafted Minho University’s formal policy requiring open access to the institution’s scientific output in 2004. In 2011 UM's OA mandate was upgraded to provide greater incentives to researchers to comply. Currently compliance at UM is approaching 70 percent. In this interview with Richard Poynder Rodrigues explains how he became an open access advocate and what he thinks the future looks like for the global OA movement: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/07/eloy-rodrigues-on-state-of-open-access.html [Less]

Winchester, MA  The E-Science Institute (ESI), designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, is set to offer the course from December 2013 through April 2014. Registration is available here: ... [More] http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. The University of Cincinatti (UC) team found the course to be particularly helpful in jump-starting strategic planning and implementation at their institution. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from an institution through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. Team UC got to work when they returned from the two-day capstone event held in Washington, DC in December of 2012. The University of Cincinnati team recorded their eScience Institute impressions and outcomes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8CTXsSLd24&feature=c4-overview&list=UULOFcrbLUUYisxTzOaTiFuA Xuemao Wang, Dean and University Librarian at the University of Cincinnati feels that ESI offered a real opportunity for libraries and central IT organizations to partner together to take a critical look at digital scholarship and the research agenda. By demonstrating the power of partnerships across the library, IT and faculty Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Nelson Vincent agrees that ESI helped UC move forward towards next century planning. By participating in ESI Ted Baldwin, Head of the Science and Engineering Library at UC reports that the ESI collaborative learning process offered opportunities to collaborate to build and sustain systems, learning spaces and transform the workforce. As a result a next generation digital repository based on Fedora's open source Hydra framework is in development. In time he believes that the digital repository will become a strong option for meeting the data intensive needs for researchers across the institution. Stephen Marine, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Digital Initiatives, has never been this excited about where the university is headed after 25 years at UC. "We are more educated about building the momentum for science on campus," he says. "Our self-study determined that there was a real passion for eScience already. Our ESI course work set the stage for aggressive strategic planning. With reallocation and leveraging we are off and running--thank you ESI!" The E-Science Institute is limited to 25 institutions. Visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute for more details and to register.  [Less]

From Mark H. Wood on behalf of the DSpace Committers Winchester, MA  The first release candidate for DSpace 4.0 has been tagged and is now available for your testing pleasure. • Find it running on http://demo.dspace.org • Get it from SourceForge: ... [More]  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/DSpace%20Release%20Candidate/dspace-4.0-rc1/ • Check out tag dspace-4.0-rc1 from GitHub and build your own copy. Release notes: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+4.0+Notes Key features include: • New look and feel for JSPUI, with several other improvements • A number of features of XMLUI have been ported to JSPUI • REST API exposing repository objects • Support for automatically creating DOIs during ingestion • And more! The developers would appreciate hearing about your experience with it so that we can offer you the best final release. [Less]

From Mark H. Wood, DSpace 4.0 Release Coordinator Winchester, MA  The first Release Candidate for DSpace 4.0 will be available soon for testing.  Some new features of interest include: • A new look and feel for JSPUI, with several other ... [More] improvements • A number of features of XMLUI have been ported to JSPUI • A REST API exposing repository objects • Support for automatically creating DOIs during ingestion. There's much more. Please see the Release Notes at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+4.0+Notes ATTENTION ORACLE SITES Hi, sorry to shout at you, but now that we have your attention, please do plan on testing the release candidates of DSpace 4.0 on your own infrastructure. We'd like to minimize the surprises on the day that 4.0 is officially released, and the best way to do that is with your help. If at all possible, please consider testing DSpace 4.0, to ensure it is compatible with Oracle. Ideally, this would mean testing a new install, and an upgrade. Thanks! INVITATION TO TRANSLATORS If you are willing to translate DSpace message catalogs into another language: the 4.0 catalogs should be nearly stable now. TESTATHON and NEXT STEPS: We plan to tag RC1 on Oct. 31, 2013.  There will be another announcement when it is ready for download. If you would like to try out the next release of DSpace in your own test environment, please do, and tell us what you find. The 4.0 Testathon begins on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 and continues through Nov, 15.  RC1 will be available on http://demo.dspace.org. You can try it out without installing your own instance, and your feedback would be appreciated. Look for the red Feedback button to report issues with the demo site. The actual use of a software product is always more varied and surprising than the developers and maintainers imagined.  Please help us ensure that DSpace 4.0 will do what you expect. [Less]