Last week the U.S. Senate approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve its Public Access Policy. The language would require rather than request participation by researchers that it funds, who must deposit copies of all research publications with PubMed… Read more »
So we’ve set the final date for the release of Open Repository 1.4.1, Monday November 5th. Further details will follow.
Below is a round-up of recent website items relating to the issue of open access and the developing world: Peter Suber examines Dalindyebo Shabalala’s recent research paper which emphasizes the need for digital and internet content in developing countries in order to generate and disseminate educational knowledge. On a related note, Shelved in the Ws… Read more »
Next week, Graham and I will be travelling over to Rome for the next DSpace User Group meeting. It’s going to be tough but we do this so you don’t have to! Alongside various presentations from DSpace developers working on local projects there will be updates on the work that was done in the Google… Read more »
JISC and the Repositories Support Project are holding a DSpace technical day at the University of Bath on Monday 12th November’ and Graham, our technical architect and one of the DSpace committers will be giving a presentation there. Pasted in below is the information from the email just sent through to the DSpace JISC list… Read more »
We’ve almost completed the conversion of the old site interfaces to the new version and everything is looking good. There hasn’t been much feedback yet so I’m hoping that means everyone is happy with the new look and feel. It shouldn’t be long now before we’re able to get test instances of each of… Read more »
Despite the continuing momentum of the open access movement, only a few German-language publishing houses have so far developed a clear position on open access. This was apparent at a recent conference organised by the Universitaetsbibliothek Stuttgart – for a summary of the day, see Ulrich Herb’s excellent article, (in German). Whereas established publishing houses… Read more »
The preview site for the Open Repository 1.4.1 release is now available. This post really should be accompanied by a small trumpet fanfare; it’s been a trek getting here. So first and foremost thanks must go to Graham, Peter and Diahnne who wrote all the lines of code to make this happen. Although you should… Read more »