News 2006-04
From DigiRepWiki
Pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool now available
A Pilot service (http://www.engineering.ac.uk) providing subject resource discovery across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research communities has been released by the PerX Project. Although the target repositories included in the Pilot are relevant to engineering, the cross-searching methods and interface used, plus the range of repository types included, should be of interest to many as a demonstrator of one method of resource discovery across multiple digital repositories.
Twenty-eight repositories are currently cross-searched by the Pilot. These include: the Directory of Open Access Journals (engineering and technology sections), DSpace at MIT, the Energy Citations Database, the GROW Digital Library, NASA Technical Reports, Jorum, ePrints UK, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS), Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), CISTI - Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports, and several more established repositories of interest to the engineering community. More repositories will be added to the Pilot as they are identified and configured.
An important purpose of the PerX pilot is to help scope a possible future cross-search service. With this in mind, feedback on the Pilot would be much appreciated. A 60 second survey is available at: http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=quest and those providing feedback will be entered into a draw to win £100 of Amazon vouchers.
For further details about PerX, please go to http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/
Julie Allinson 2006-04-21
JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop
JISC are hosting a pre-conference workshop at WWW2006 on 22 May 2006, 9.30-4.30, Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The aim of the workshop is to deepen the shared understanding within the higher education community about the role of repositories. The target audience is researchers, teachers, managers and administrators who have an interest in sharing or managing the intellectual output of universities.
All delegates are entitled to a 10% discount to attend the WWW2006 conference. For further information see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=www2006_repositories
Julie Allinson 2006-04-19
Capital Programme Town Meeting
JISC are holding a Town Meeting on Wednesday 10 May 2006 in Birmingham for those interested in submitting proposals in response to the April 2006 calls for proposals for the following three development areas – Digital Repositories, e-Learning and e-Infrastructure.
For further information see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=event_capitalprog_0506
Julie Allinson 2006-04-19
University Open Access Repositories and RAE
The IRRA project (irra.eprints.org), a part of the JISC Digital Repositories' Programme, invites librarians, administrators and support staff with responsibility for their institutional RAE response to attend an information meeting on Friday April 7th at the British Computer Society HQ in London.
The aim of the meeting is to provide a forum for support, advice and sharing best practice for institutions who are deploying an Institutional Repository as a part of their own Research Management framework.
For more information, and to register for the meeting, please see
http://irra.eprints.org/bcsmeet.html
Les Carr & John MacColl, IRRA project managers
Julie Allinson 2006-04-01
