Dear Friends,
The October DuraSpace look across the scholarly ecosystem landscape includes several notable highlights:
- We announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAIRE aimed at ensuring that repositories are using up-to-date technologies and adopting international standards and protocols.
- A Fedora and Samvera Camp is happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts.
- VIVO was recently highlighted at Force 11 in Montreal.
- We welcome Ontocale, our newest participant in the DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) program. Ontocale is a Certified DuraSpace Contributor offering VIVO services. (link to come)
- As our global community continues to expand DuraSpace is pleased to announce the first Country-specific Webinar Series, offered with the support of Neki IT, focused on DSpace in Brazil. The series will be presented in the Portuguese language.
Thank you for supporting our work on these and other initiatives aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign
Here's where we are towards meeting the 2018 Membership Campaign goals by project:
Total: $1,047,440; 159 unique members ; 92% of goal (pls update)
- DSpace: $291,857; 58 members ; 113% of goal
- Fedora: $482,167; 71 members; 85% of goal
- VIVO: $174,916; 22 members; 84% of goal
General: $98,500; 20 members; 95% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
Register for a Members Only Hot Topics Webinar
Register today for our upcoming members-only webinar! The “Beyond North America: Widening Access and Participation” webinar will be presented on September 26th at 12:00 p.m. ET. This is the second webinar in our members-only Hot Topics webinar series, "The Revolution Will Be Open?" curated by David Lewis, Indiana University Purdue University Indiana, Dean Emeritus of the University Library, and Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College. They will review progress in the drive to make scholarly content open, discoverable, and accessible through initiatives originating outside the US. The Open Access 2020 Initiative, for example, is a global initiative whose strategy is to accelerate the transition to open access by converting subscription expenditures into funds that support open access; it is coordinated by the Max Planck Society on behalf of the research community and counts over 100 national and international funding organizations, university president’s associations, individual research institutions and library consortia from 36 countries across 4 continents. Colleen Campbell who works on OA2020 and Arianna Becerril García from Redalyc.org will share their experiences on the global open access movement bringing insights from where they sit in Europe and South America.
Learn more and Register Today!
