Open access

Register for the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit "RDAP12"

Silver Spring, MD Registration is open for the third annual ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit that will take place on March 22-23, 2012 in New Orleans at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, held in cooperation with the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit.

Web site: http://rdap12.posterous.com/

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Expands Access to Research Outputs With DSpace

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) extended its DSpace IR (http://mahider.ilri.org) to include different groups independently on the same platform when developers realized that each community could have its own URL, look and feel, and administration using DSpace.

NOW AVAILABLE: DuraCloud 1.3

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;

Premiere Winner of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) Award Announced

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.

Thank You to Our DuraSpace Community of Supporters

Ithaca, NY Earlier this year the DuraSpace organization asked partners, collaborators, colleagues and communities to join us in helping to address the world's most immediate data preservation needs by participating in our 2011 Sponsorship Campaign. Your response was heartening. Thanks to you we exceeded our goal and along with you have made significant progress towards meeting the challenges associated with preserving and providing access to a rapidly expanding sea of scientific, cultural and research data. 

NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Annual Conference

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.

REGISTRATION OPEN: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

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.

Report from the Hydra Project Partners Meeting, Dec. 7-9, 2011 at Stanford University

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

DSpace 1.8.1 Released

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.

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