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Winchester, MA  Looking back over ten years of DSpace development with active community participation @mire noted in a recent blog post that on Nov 18, 2002 Robert Tansley sent a message to the OAI-general list announcing "Version 1.0 of the DSpace ... [More] institutional repository software platform is available..." Read the blog post here: http://bit.ly/UaB2eT With more than 1,300 DSpace repositories worldwide, DuraSpace would like to thank @mire for birthday wishes and the DSpace community for their innovation and continued support as DSpace enters it's second decade. [Less]

From Tatyana Zayseva, Director Library Information Center, Khazar University Azerbaijan, South Caucasus  Khazar University Institutional Repository (KUIR) powered by DSpace provides innovative services and stunning digital collections that include ... [More] peer-reviewed journal articles, textbooks, theses and dissertations, working papers and methodologies; patents, conference contributions (unpublished), project reports, presentations, images and more. As in recent years, the KUIR is still the only repository in Azerbaijan, the South Caucasus and Central Asia former Soviet countries to be ranked (except Kyrgyzstan). In the latest Top Institutional Repositories Ranking  (July 2012), KUIR falls nearly in the middle of all the Central & Eastern European countries (53rd place out of 98). We envisaged having six main collections (Academic Support, Library Information Center, Periodicals, Khazar University Press, Schools and Centers, Personal Pages) to encompass the wide range of materials we wanted to expose through the repository and to assign content leaders and experts for each of the collection. • Caucasus Research and Resources Center Collection represents open public perceptions on Political, Social and Economic Issues in South Caucasus countries. • Open Theses and Dissertations http://dspace.khazar.org/jspui/community-list The theses and dissertations produced at Khazar University represent an important body of intellectual output. Locally digitized and with few exceptions, the full corpus of university theses are available in the institutional repository, discoverable on the web and via links in the Library catalogue. • OA journals collection In addition to supporting the conversion, publishing and production of Open Access journals, the Library also actively promotes the discovery and use of OA journals by Khazar University Community. Khazar University Library is a member and active supporter of the  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and CrossRef (www.crossref.org). • Personal Image Collection This beautiful visualization tells the life story of Khazar University founder, Chairman, Board of Directors and Trustees, Dr. Hamlet Isaxanli. To find out more and browse KUIR digital collections please visit: http://dspace.khazar.org [Less]

  Winchester, MA  Earlier this year the DuraSpace organization launched its third annual Sponsorship Program, encouraging all institutions using the DSpace and Fedora open source technologies to contribute financially to the not for profit entity ... [More] which provides leadership and support for these platforms. Thanks to our community we raised $417,750 in this year's campaign, with $223,750 coming from the DSpace community, $173,000  from the Fedora community and $21,000 from institutions who do not use either DSpace or Fedora, but who recognize the critical role DuraSpace has in helping to meet the challenge of preserving and providing access to our collective digital heritage. This year there are a total of 86 DuraSpace sponsors, an increase of 37% over last year.  Along with 59 renewing sponsors, 27 new sponsors made a commitment to help fund DuraSpace. The sponsor dollars will pay for DuraSpace staff working directly on DSpace and Fedora, our community programs and our webinar/educational series as well as infrastructure to support the technologies. DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton says, "The continued evolution of DSpace and Fedora depend on the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization bringing the community together and providing the guidance and the essential resources necessary for effective collaboration. We are grateful this year so many institutions showed their commitment in the continued advancement of DSpace and Future and support of the community collaborative process."  DuraSpace would like to thank all sponsoring institutions: Gold Sponsors Arizona State University Columbia University Cornell University Duke University Emory University Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts Institute of Technology  North Carolina State University  Stanford University Texas Digital Library Tufts University University of British Columbia  University of Illinois  University of Michigan  University of Pittsburgh University of Texas Libraries University of Toronto  University of Virginia  Virginia Tech  Silver Sponsors Georgia Institute of Technology  Harvard University Monash University Northwestern University  Penn State Rice University  Smithsonian Institution  The Ohio State University University of Calgary  University of California San Diego University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Guelph  University of Hull University of Kansas University of Maryland  University of Miami University of Minnesota University of New South Wales University of Ottawa University of Prince Edward Island University of York York University Libraries Bronze Sponsors Brown University Case Western Reserve University Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Durham University Florida State University George Mason University Georgetown University  Imperial College London Lafayette College National Library of Medicine New York University Northeastern University  Oxford University Purdue University Rockefeller University State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark Université de Montréal University of Adelaide University of Arizona University of Auckland  University of Connecticut University of Hawaii at Manoa  University of Manitoba  University of Massachusetts Amherst  University of Missouri University of New Brunswick University of Notre Dame University of Technology Sydney University of Tennessee Utrecht University Vrije University Amsterdam Washington State University Libriaries Yale University  Youngstown State University Friends of DuraSpace Creighton University Kansas State University  Loughborough University Massey University Temple University University College Cork University of Delaware *Italics indicate new sponsors About DuraSpace  DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.  DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, and research centers, for managing and preserving digital content.  The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to ensure durability and enable access to digital content. http://duraspace.org/. Contact: Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Programs; vhollister[at]duraspace.org   [Less]

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 University of Maryland Libraries, a DuraSpace Silver ... [More] Sponsor and long-time user of Fedora and DSpace, are continuing to add to digitize and add valuable collection material to their repository daily. DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland) <http://drum.lib.umd.edu>, currently holds close to 13,000 digital objects, including all of the theses and dissertations produced by students at the University of Maryland since 2003. Digital Collections <http://digital.lib.umd.edu> is home to the University's digitized special collections, and includes a rich array of content, appealing to students, alumni, and scholars.  Even when it's not football season, take some time to view one of the over 700 University of Maryland football films dating from 1946-1989, recently digitized and made freely available via the University AlbUM digital collection <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1773>.  Or, if planning a road trip this summer, pick a state and browse the National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection's over-4,000 historic postcards for attraction ideas <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3711>. In the past year, we have digitized several hundred manuscripts to assist in research relating to the history of the Civil War and slavery in Maryland  <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1716>. Into espionage? Digital Collections is also an excellent place to read other people's diaries, whether you're interested in heartfelt confessions from a young Maryland widow in 1859 <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/2613> or  a war diary detailing aspects of the attack on Pearl Harbor <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/5910>. If tempted to visit campus, the University of Maryland Libraries' Digital Collections contain a number of resources that are restricted to campus use due to licensing restrictions.  The collections include over 70 digital videos documenting the work of Jim Henson <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/419>, over 800 digital educational films <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/420>, and a growing collection of digitized Japanese children's books from the post-WWII years, 1946-1949 <http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3301>. The University of Maryland Libraries have been actively adding content to their Fedora repository since 2007, and will continue to do so.  The treasures located there are used for fun, for research, and for educational purposes, and we hope, for reasons that we have not even imagined. Thanks to Jennie Levine Knies, Manager, Digital Stewardship, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, for submitting this information. Please continue to send descriptions of the "Splendid Stuff" that can be found in YOUR Open Access repository. DuraSpace will highlight availability throughout year. Please contact Carol Minton Morris [email protected] for more information. [Less]

From the DSpace 3.0 Release Team We thank you all for your great feedback during the first round of the DSpace 3.0 Test-A-Thon! You have helped discover many bugs, some of which we have already fixed. Since we have so many great new features in 3.0 ... [More] , we decided to give it another round of public testing to help make it to the final 3.0 release without any significant bugs. The community has requested advance notice of testathons, so that you can make some time in your calendars for testing. Therefore we have scheduled the second round of testathon to officially start on November 5. But demo.dspace.org has been updated yesterday with bugfixes we managed to make so far, so feel free to test at any time! If you find that a bug has already been reported, there's no need to report it again, we're probably still working on it. If the bug is marked as fixed, please do test if the fix works as expected! I'd like to draw your attention especially to the new theme for mobile devices, which wasn't enabled in the first testathon on demo. It's a beta, so there are still some missing advanced features. It also not enabled by default because there are some extra steps required to use it in your installation (adding a "mobile." domain). There's a "View mobile theme (beta)" in page footer to switch to the mobile version and "View full website" to switch back to the regular version from the mobile home page. Here's a direct link, too [1]. Please, show it some love and report bugs and ideas to Jira as usual. Don't forget to mention what kind of device you're using to browse it! Testathon essentials Details on how to participate: see [1] Details about new features, bug fixes in 3.0 and release schedule: see [2] Call for Translations This is also the time to send us your translations of DSpace 3.0 (Messages_xx.properties and messages_xx.xml files). Both new and updated translations are welcome. When updating translations, please try to contact the previous translator first to avoid possible duplication of work. You may send translations at any time, but to make them easily available to others via the DSpace build process, try to send them before the 3.0 release date, currently scheduled for November 15. To send a translation, register/log in to Jira [4], file a new issue (e.g. "Updated French translation") and attach the files to that issue. You can find the latest English version of these files here: [5] [6] --- [1] http://mobile.demo.dspace.org/xmlui/ [2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Testathon+Page [3] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Notes [4] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS [5] https://raw.github.com/DSpace/DSpace/master/dspace-xmlui/src/main/webapp/i18n/messages.xml [6] https://raw.github.com/DSpace/DSpace/master/dspace-api/src/main/resources/Messages.properties [Less]

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 ... [More] world. The impact of this free exchange of knowledge is told in personal reflections from grateful readers in this MIT press release offered in celebration of Open Access Week 2012: https://libraries.mit.edu/sites/news/worldwide-impact-access/9624/. The press release also contains a map view of where  MIT Open Access Articles users are located. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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! Important Links: • Announcement: http://duraspace.org/announcing-dspace-30-test-thon • 3.0 Release Notes (describes new features): https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Notes • Download DSpace 3.0 Release Candidate #1: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/zipball/dspace-3.0-rc1 • 3.0 Documentation: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/DSpace+3.x+Documentation WHO: You! Everyone is invited to take part. Whether you manage multiple instances, or are interested in trying it out, we welcome your feedback. WHAT: Help beta-test DSpace 3.0 to ensure that it passes its ultimate test: that it does what users expect it to. We've added new features that could use more eyes, browsers, and mouse-clicks to make sure that things aren't missing, that they don't break, that they don't lose your data, and that they easily do what one expects them to do. So if any features have issues while your testing it, click the "Feedback" button and tell us about it. WHEN: Wednesday, October 10 to Friday, October 19, 2012. You can keep visiting the site and post your feedback, as part of continual improvement. WHY: The sooner we find and fix bugs, the higher quality the software will be when it comes time to upgrade or install DSpace 3.0. HOW: Go to http://demo.dspace.org and test-drive one of the DSpace User Interfaces, such as JSPUI or XMLUI. If anything comes up while you are testing DSpace, you can click the red "Feedback" button on the page. If you are more technically inclined, you may download and install your own copy of DSpace 3.0 Release Candidate #1. We're looking for feedback on the DSpace software, as well as feedback on our unreleased 3.0 documentation. [Less]

Winchester, MA  As many of you are aware, the DuraSpace organization launched the 2012 Sponsorship Program earlier this year. Funds raised will help pay for the direct costs -- staff and programs --  for the DSpace and Fedora open source software.  ... [More] Without this funding DuraSpace will not be able to provide dedicated technical leads for each project, infrastructure to run the projects, and community programs to facilitate collaboration and learning within the user communities.  With the close of our campaign on October 31st, today we make a final request of any institution using DSpace or Fedora to become a DuraSpace sponsor for 2012.  Why become a Sponsor? DSpace and Fedora open source software is available free of charge. If you pay licensing fees for proprietary software to run your repository you may also pay a maintenance fee that can be as much as $20,000 per year or more to cover access to new releases and bug fixes. In contrast, DSpace and Fedora communities pay nothing for ongoing software upgrades, maintenance, release management and the development infrastructure. Sponsorship funds to DuraSpace ensure the continuity of these valuable services. Tim Donohue, DuraSpace technical lead for the DSpace repository project explains, "DuraSpace staff do more than coordinate code development. Yes, our community open source committers use the online wiki and bug tracker services provided by DuraSpace to accomplish software releases. But along with other DuraSpace staff, I act on behalf of the community to create, communicate and gather feedback to ensure that our open source products meet the needs of the greatest number of stakeholders." DuraSpace relies on community financial support to pay for continual releases, technical leadership and coordination. Every institution saves money because they do not have to improve software on their own. By everyone contributing a little, priorities can be addressed and code contributions come together to benefit the entire  global community of users. Without the strategic project management that DuraSpace provides, the health and vitality of DSpace and Fedora open source software would suffer. "Some bugs would get fixed, but significant  improvements and advances to the platform would not happen without DuraSpace," said Chris Wilper, DuraSpace technical lead for the Fedora repository project. Becoming a DuraSpace Sponsor costs much less than what you would pay to a proprietary software vendor. The sponsor program has 3 sponsor levels (Gold-$10,000, Silver-$5,000 and Bronze-$2,500). We also welcome contributions from new 2012 sponsors at our “Friends of DuraSpace” level which can be in any amount. To find out more about the program or use the Paypal credit card feature to become a sponsor today visit http://duraspace.org/sponsors. If you have questions, please contact Valorie Hollister at [email protected].  We strongly urge you to make a contribution and become a DuraSpace Sponsor today. Your support will ensure that DSpace and Fedora open source software remains a dynamic force in contributing to collecting, managing and preserving the world's scientific and cultural heritage. DuraSpace 2012 Sponsors to date DuraSpace would like to thank all the institutions that have already renewed their sponsorship as well as those organizations that have joined us for the first time (new sponsors are noted in italics below). Gold Sponsors Arizona State University Columbia University Cornell University Duke University Emory University Indiana University ICPSR Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina State University Stanford University Texas Digital Library Tufts University University of British Columbia University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh           University of Toronto University of Virginia Virginia Tech Silver Sponsors Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Monash University Ohio State University Rice University Smithsonian Institution University of Calgary University of California San Diego University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Guelph University of Hull University of Kansas University of Maryland University of Miami University of Minnesota University of New South Wales University of Ottawa University of Prince Edward Island University of York York University Libraries Bronze Sponsors Brown University Case Western Reserve University CLIR Florida State University Georgetown University Imperial College London Lafayette College New York University Purdue University Oxford University Rockefeller University State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark University of Adelaide University of Arizona University of Auckland University of Connecticut University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Manitoba University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Missouri Université de Montréal University of New Brunswick University of Notre Dame University of Technology Sydney University of Tennessee Utrecht University Vrije University Amsterdam Yale University Youngstown State University Friends of DuraSpace Creighton University Kansas State University Loughborough University Massey University Temple University University of Delaware     [Less]

From Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/) Madrid, Spain  The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain, Cybermetrics lab recently presented the July edition of the popular web-exposure ... [More] ranking for Institutional Repositories together with a major overhaul of the webometrics website. http://repositories.webometrics.info/en Among other improvements, it is now more intuitive to look at rankings per country. @mire has identified as many DSpace repositories in the ranking as possible and compiled the following trend report based on the July webometrics ranking: Webometrics Institutional Repository Ranking July 2012. [Less]

From Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC <[email protected]>, and Devika Levy, World Bank <[email protected]>. Washington, DC  SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank have announced they will ... [More] co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012 on Monday October 22nd in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the state of the art World Bank facilities and will host a Liveblog and Webcast via live.worldbank.org for those who cannot attend in person. The event will also be recorded, and be available to the community for use during and after local Open Access events. The co-sponsored event will begin at 4:00 p.m. and consist of a 90-minute panel discussion with Open Access experts from a variety of stakeholder groups – including students, researchers, and policy makers – as well as representatives from the World Bank and SPARC. As this year’s Open Access theme is “Set the Default to Open Access,” the panelists will touch upon what that means to them, their institutions, and their work. Speakers will be announced in early September. Immediately following the question and answer session, SPARC will sponsor a reception for those attending and participating in the panel discussion. The World Bank was recently named as SPARC Innovator (read bit.ly/QVmvRc) for its implementation of a new open access policy, which included the launch of the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org in 2012. The World Bank opened its data (http://data.worldbank.org/) to the public in 2010. For information about Open Access week events and information please go to http://www.openaccessweek.org. [Less]