Monthly Archives: September 2007

Berlin 5 and Developing Countries – what's new for developing countries?

In the latest of BioMed Central’s occasional series of guest blog items, Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development reports from the 5th Berlin open access conference: The Berlin 5 conference was the 5th follow-up meeting since the launch of the Berlin Declaration, and a special session on the impact of Open Access… Read more »

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Google Analytics

Something I’ve yet to mention is that we’re adding Google Analytics to all the live Open Repository sites with the 1.4.1 release. GA has recently relaunched with a new interface and we have to say that we’re really impressed with what it does and what it can do. You can (just) see from the screenshot… Read more »

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Time out

We need to make an urgent upgrade to the database this week which we will be doing at 9.00am UK time this coming Thursday (27th September). All Open Repository sites will unfortunately be offline for a couple of hours although we hope the work will not take this long. Apologies for the short notice and… Read more »

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It's like releasing breakfast

On Wednesday, I was hoping that we’d have the 1.4.1 release in a stable environment by today.  We’ve run over slightly.  We have the document conversion tool back up and running and there are only the remaining two interface changes to make to the submission form which are being worked on as I type.  Graham… Read more »

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One bug and two fixes to go

That’s right readers, we’re down to our last bug – the document conversion tool has unconfigured itself – and two final small changes to the interface.  We’ve been terminating our bugs with extreme prejudice with five coming off the list yesterday and expect these final fixes to be finished by the end of today.  All… Read more »

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1.4.1 release update – where we are now

When things are quiet here it usually means that we’re all pretty busy.  Either that or on holiday.  But for now we’re just plain busy.  The last two months have seen the team working hard to complete the upgrade to DSpace 1.4.1 and we’re very close to being able to make the test site publicly… Read more »

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