| Open Repository Product News |
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| New Feature: Scopus Citation Counts |
| Open Repository can now display citation counts for published articles directly from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web research. Each repository simply needs its own Scopus access key. For more information about this exciting new feature, read our blog announcement. |
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| New Service: Repository Transfer from EPrints to Open Repository |
We are happy to announce the smooth and successful transfer of the University of Arizona's EPrints repository to Open Repository, retaining all of their metadata and full text files. Further details are available here.
If you currently run an EPrints repository and are looking to switch to DSpace, please get in touch. |
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| Automated Article Deposit: Available at no extra charge to Open Repository customers |
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We would also like to remind you about our new Automated Article-Deposit service, enabling the simple transfer of an Institution's complete published article content from BioMed Central's journals into its repository. Offering significant savings of time and effort for both authors and repository administrators, this service is offered at no additional charge to Open Repository Enhanced Customers. For more information about this service, visit the website or contact us.
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| Open Repository and Social Media |
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Open Repository's team are experts on DSpace and open access. Why not sign up to our Twitter feed and read our blog for regular updates about Open Repository, repository news and open access information?
You can also access them via the Open Repository website.
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| Conferences |
Open Repository presented a very successful workshop at the ALA 2010 Conference entitled Developing a Repository: The Library's Journey, the presentation slides for which are now available online. Additionally, we presented a poster showing the benefits of a hosted repository solution at EAHIL 2010 and attended the 2010 IFLA Conference in Gothenburg.
ECNIS (Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility) and Wilfrid Laurier University, both recently presented posters at conferences explaining their reasons for developing a repository and the process they went through. |
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| Open Repository and the Community |
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Open Repository has continued to show its support for the repository community with a major presence at the Open Repositories 2010 Conference, including two presentations, details of which are available here. We will also be a key sponsor of the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting, taking place in Baltimore this November. If you're attending the meeting and would like to discuss how Open Repository can help you, please get in touch.
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| DuraSpace Registered Service Provider |
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Open Repository is now a DuraSpace Registered Service Provider. This reflects our continuing commitment to DSpace open source digital repository software and our position as an active participant in the DuraSpace community.
Read our blog announcement for more details.
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| ARRO Repository Launch |
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| Anglia Ruskin University launched their ARRO repository in June with the help of Open Repository. Attended by their research staff and JISC, it successfully showcased the |
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features and benefits of their new repository. For further information, read our blog announcement.
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| Open Access Week |
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| Open Access Week is upon us and will run until Friday 24th October. The event aims to raise awareness of the benefits of open access in scholarly publishing and its impact on scientific progress. All scheduled events across the 69 countries can now be viewed on the Ning network. Read more about it here. |
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