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Subject Repositories: European collaboration in the international context
| Administrator
January 28-29, 2010
The British Library ConferenceCentre, London
You are invited to an international conference with a range of speakers from around the world. The two-day programme will allow delegates to find out about repository trends across three continents.
The conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of s…
New User Functionalities in DRIVER
| Administrator
The new DRIVER search portal UI with advanced end user functionalities has been released!
Users are now able to manage their private space by
creating their own private or public collections
saving frequent queries, used also in alerts and notifications
creating communities with forums, announcements, reading lists used for collaboration
DRIVER…
Repositories and the Cloud
| Administrator
Tuesday 23 Feb, 2010 Magic Circle Headquarters London This free event, organised jointly by Eduserv and the JISC, will bring together software developers, repository managers, service providers, funding and advisory bodies to discuss the potential policy and technical issues associated with cloud computing and the delivery of reposito…
OpenAIRE Press Release
| Administrator
European Countries join forces to realize the EC Open Access pilot: OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious effort unites 38 partners fr…
Chalmers - first Swedish university with an Open Access mandate
| Jan Hagerlid
Chalmers University of Technology is the first Swedish university to decide on a strict Open Access policy.
The policy applies from January 1, 2010.
"All research published by Chalmers' researchers must be made available in an open archive, normally within six months of publication although no later than 12 months. This means that researc…
CFP - Third Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries @ ECDL 2010
| Paolo Manghi
The Call for Papers of the Third Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries is now open. Deadline for submission is 25th of June, 2010. Click here for more information...
Call-for-Papers - 2nd DL.org Workshop: Making Digital Libraries Interoperable
| Paolo Manghi
Making Digital Libraries Inter
operable, 9-10 September 2010, during the 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2010), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
http://www.dlorg.eu/index.php/dl-org-events/2nd-dl-org-workshop
Workshop Theme
The central theme of the 2nd DL.org Workshop will be "Digital Library Interoperability". Interoperability is a multi-…
COAR and OpenAIRE: Enhancing the Interoperability of Repositories for International Research
| Paolo Manghi
Bird of Feather session at OR 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 17:30 - 19:00
http://or10.crowdvine.com/pages/bof
Interoperability of open access repositories enhances the visibility of research outputs and adds value to repositories. Therefore, the development and implementation of interoperable standards and consistent policies is important for int…
DL.org School on Digital Libraries & Repositories: Modeling, Best Practices, Interoperability
| Paolo Manghi
3-8 October 2010
University of Athens
Athens, Greece
http://www.dlorg.eu/index.php/autumn-school
The European project, DL.org (Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations) is delighted to announce its Autumn School on "Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices, and Interoperability", which…
OAI7 in Geneva
| ivnieuwe
The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), will be held at the University of Geneva on 22-24 June 2011.
The call for ideas is open until Sep. 15
link: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=103325
OpenAIRE releases version 1.0 of the OpenAIRE Guidelines
| Administrator
The OpenAIRE Guidelines 1.0 provide the OpenAIRE compliance to repositories. By implementing these Guidelines, repository managers are facilitating the authors who deposit their publications in the repository in complying with the EC Open Access requirements. For developers of repository platforms, the Guidelines provide guidance to add supportive…
Information on OpenAIRE at Science Online, London
| Chloe Furnival
The University of Nottingham's Centre for Research Communications displayed and presented information on its projects, including OpenAIRE, at the Science Online Conference held at and organised by the British Library, in partnership with Mendeley and Nature Network, on 3rd and 4th of September. Delegates were mainly active researchers and science…