News 2006-08
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Open Scholarship 06
The Early Bird registration for OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES closes on the 31 August (£150) and the registration fee rises to £180 after that date.
This inaugural conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK on 18-20 October 2006.
Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences, and is aimed at Librarians, University Administrators, funders, academics and technical specialists.
Key themes will include:
* Repository Developments * Added Value Services * Quality Assessment * Policies and Implementation * Sustainability
To register and for further information about the conference, including the programme go to: http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship
The conference will also provide an opportunity for posters to be submitted and displayed in a dedicated slot in the programme. Posters should address one of the themes of the conference and be no larger than 1m x 1m.
Further details about the poster session, including the list of themes is available at http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.shtml
The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: JISC, LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-LEAP, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, SPARC Europe, OSI, Thomson Scientific, Proquest and Biomed Central.
For further information please contact us at openscholarship@lib.gla.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October,
The Organising Committee, Open Scholarship 2006
Neil Jacobs 2006-08-17
Repository interoperability
CNI, Mellon, Microsoft, JISC and DLF sponsored a meeting in April to discuss the interoperability of repositories and ways in which to take forward more sophisticated interoperability to support scholarly communication. The meeting considered what standards might be required over and above OAI-PMH to support better interoperability. The report of the meeting has now been published:
http://msc.mellon.org/Meetings/Interop/FinalReport
Julie Allinson 2006-08-14
Institutional Repositories in the latest issue of 'Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems'
The latest issue of 'Program' is is a special issue on Institutional Repositories. It contains five papers on the subject of institutional repositories, including a paper about Repository Bridge, and papers about Southampton's repository and digital preservation from the JISC perspective.
Information about the issue is available here:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/prog/prog.jsp
Jon Bell and Stuart Lewis, from the now-completed Repository Bridge project, have made their paper freely available in the University of Aberyswyth's Institutional Repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/2160/203
Julie Allinson 2006-08-02
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
The Fifth All Hands meeting will be held between 18 and 21 September 2006 at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.
The theme for this year is Achievements, Challenges and New Opportunities and the programme includes a session on Data Curation, convened by Liz Lyon from UKOLN and including presentations from the members of the eBank and R4L projects.
For further information please visit the All Hands Meeting website at:
Julie Allinson 2006-08-01
