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Open Repository Workshop at ALA 2010
Open Repository recently hosted a repository workshop at the American Library Association Conference 2010 in Washington D.C., titled Developing A Repository: The Library's Journey.
The workshop discussed the history of institutional repositories, developments in the open access movement and the growing need for organizations to have their own institutional repository. A case study of a library's journey in developing and implementing a repository was also included.
The slides from this presentation are now available to view online. If you would like any further information about how Open Repository can help your organization implement a repository solution, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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OR Interviewed at Repositories and the Cloud conference. #repcloud
At the recent 'Repositories and the Cloud' event held at The Magic Circle in London on 23rd February 2010, I was interviewed by Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN:
More interviews are at http://www.viddler.com/explore/ukoln/videos/
Slides and videos of the presentations can be seen at http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/repcloud.
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Enhanced Repository Statistics
Usage statistics have been a major topic of discussion for institutional repositories for some time. And last year, a survey of DSpace repository administrators put enhanced statistics as their most desired feature for the next release of DSpace.
Google Analytics provides a great interface and many advanced features for seeing the overall activity for the repository, and as such, we have offered a Google Analytics account alongside the repository - enhanced to record file downloads that would otherwise be missed. However, it's not always easy to see how this relates to an individual item or file, or it's relevance in the context of a collection or community.
Now, with the release of an API for Google Analytics, we are able to provide enhanced reporting within the repository. At every level - Items, Collections, Communities and the repository as a whole - we can show how your content is being used, the items and files that are attracting attention, and the reach the repository is having.
Read more about the enhanced statistics now available as part of the Open Repository service
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Digital Asset Management for Museum Collections
Open Repository recently hosted a repository workshop at the Museums Association conferencein London entitled Digital Asset Management for Museum Collections.
The workshop focused on the increasing need for organizations to be able to digitally archive and manage their collections, including a presentation outlining how Open Repository worked with The Natural History Museum, London, to enable them to showcase and preserve their content for a future global audience.The slides from this presentation are available to download but if you would like any further information about how Open Repository can help your organization implement a repository solution please do not hesitate to get in touch
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The Christie NHS Foundation Trust> has a rich heritage as one of Europe’s leading centers in the field of oncology and its related sciences, publishing 350 peer-reviewed papers a year and with over 9000 papers indexed in Medline.
The launch of this repository will enable The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to capture and showcase the organizations research and provide a centrally located search-able index for this information.
Also Cancer Research UK, one of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust’s, main funding bodies is a supporter of open access publishing so the launch of the repository means many grant holders will now be able to deposit directly into the repository to meet funding requirements.
If you would like to find out more about how The Christie launched their repository take a look at their case study.
Posted by Michael Guthrie at 14:22 Comments (0)
Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) Open Repository Case Study Now Available
Open Repository is happy to announce a new case study on the OpenRepository.com website for the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).
This as the Irish Times publishes an Article on Open Access: "The Government funded new OA archives at Irish universities while simultaneously requiring Government-funded research to end up in them. Suber would like to see more countries adopt the Irish model. “Ireland is ahead of the world,” he says. The Irish model spurs progress beyond its own borders, just as it takes in research from OA journals everywhere. For Suber that’s the point. “All of us benefit, because researchers benefit directly.”
Posted by Michael Guthrie at 16:50 Comments (0)
Repository Fringe, Edinburgh Wrapup
Graham and Michael attended the 2nd Repository Fringe in Edinburgh, July 30th and 31st. It was a great opportunity to meet and discuss all things repository with fellow developers, administrators and users of repositories, with delegates coming from all over the UK and some from further afield. An excellent wrapup of the event can be browsed by going to the JISC Datashare blog. The Closing Plenary by Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is especially noteworthy, though there are many very interesting aspects of the conference documented on the site. The Twitter thread can be searched using the #rf09 hash tag.
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"Canadian Excellence" strengthened by extensive adoption of open access
- Wilfrid Laurier University adopts Open Repository and BioMed Central Membership
- Open access movement gains ground in North America
BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University today announce the
launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository that provides a
visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all
members of the University community. Read more on the site...
Posted by Michael Guthrie at 16:53 Comments (0)
Open Repository recently sponsored and attended OAI6 conference, CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, organised and hosted by the University of Geneva and CERN, last week June 17th to the 19th. The city of Geneva and the Alps were certainly a magnificent backdrop for the lofty ideas that were being generated by the 236 delegates attending from all over the world.
The delegates consisted of repository managers, developers, and representatives from the Open Access community and there great networking opportunities, both informal and planned events, one notably taking place at CERN, the site of the Large Hadron Collider, and the setting for the opening sequences in the the current Dan Brown film, Angels and Demons.
Apart from the socialising, the tutorials and breakout sessions were well received and covered a wide range of topics, with something for everyone, whether a new or propective repository manager looking at various solutions, or developers working on the latest standards or ingestion methods.
Some photos of the event are posted on the CERN site.
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BioMed Central recently hosted a repository workshop at the ACRL conference in Seattle entitled Developing A Repository: The Library’s Journey
The workshop focused on developments in the open access movement and the consequent need for institutions to have their own institutional repository. This was followed by a case study on the journey that a library takes in developing and implementing a repository to their institution.
If you would like any further information about how Open Repository can help your organization implement a repository solution please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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