DSpace 1.8

World Bank Launches DSpace "Open Knowledge Repository"

Ithaca, NY The World Bank recently announced adoption of an Open Access policy thereby joining institutions, organizations and advocates around the world who are making research outputs broadly accessible. The policy will go into effect on July 1, 2012.

Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library & Information Associations

Nairobi, Kenya The XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) will be held June 4-8, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme "Information for Sustainable Development in a Digital Environment" highlights opportunities for information professionals in Africa to take advantage of the recent transformation from print to digital information.

DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repositories Ranking"

Ithaca, NY @tmire has published an analysis of the recent CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) Top Institutional Repositories Ranking on @mire's just-released, redesigned web site (http://atmire.com/). Author Bram Luyten, Head of Sales and Marketing, @mire, points out that ongoing changes to the ranking algorithm and internal search engine algorithms can cause changes in a repository's rank from one edition of the report to the next.

Take Advantage of Key DSpace Features With Version 1.8.2

Ithaca, NY DSpace (http://DSpace.org) is an out-of-the-box open source repository software package for creating repositories focused on delivering digital content to end users, and providing a full set of tools for managing and preserving content within the application.

Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners With Oxfam

From Matt McKay, Head of Communications, BioMed Central

London, UK Today BioMed Central is pleased to announce that today, Oxfam GB adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from open access specialist BioMed Central, which allows organizations to build, launch, host and maintain their own repositories.

Making the SWORD Deposit Picture Clear

Ithaca, NY The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol was developed in to 2007 make it easier for institutions to deposit research outputs in institutional repositories. In the Jan/Feb issue of D-Lib Magazine authors Stuart Lewis, The University of Auckland Library, Pablo de Castro, GrandIR, and Richard Jones, Cottage Labs present nine use cases identified by the SONEX and SWORD projects in an article, "SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios".

DSpace at the Heart of Thai Legislative Repository Launch

Ithaca, NY Governments all over the world are finding that access to government information is a key part of engaging stakeholders—members of government, officials, citizens, businesses and more—in using data to leverage economic opportunity. The Parliment of Thailand made the decision to implement a DSpace (http://dspace.org) repository to meet national requirements for access, space, scalability and preservation:

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