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Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science: Current State of Repositories

07/07/2015

Introduction The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR),on behalf of the COAR Aligning Repository Networks Committee recently published a report entitled ''Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science". This report presented an overview of the international repository landscape and was written with a broader audience in mind.Institutional repositories are ...

Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2017

06/07/2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERead it online: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Call+for+Expressions+of+Interest+in+hosting+OR2017Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2017The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from candidate host organizations for the 2017 Open Repositories Annual Conference. ...

Opportunities at the IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services team

06/07/2015

The IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services Team is hiring 2 positions - Content Co-ordinator and Web Applications Developer to work on projects like Eldis and OKhub.org. Selected candidates are poised to join a team of people that are committed to promoting open diverse and equitable knowledge creation and sharing ...

Agritrop, the CIRAD publications database becomes an open institutional repository

03/07/2015

The CIRAD publications database, Agritrop (http://agritrop.cirad.fr/), was recently converted into an institutional open repository. With more than 90 000 references, 20 000 full-text documents including 12 000 documents freely accessible on the Internet, this new version gives CIRAD's publications greater visibility, particularly co-publications by CIRAD and its Southern partners on agricultural research and ...

Provide your feedback!! Giving Researchers Credit for their Data: Repositories and Publishes

30/06/2015

JISC is supporting F1000Research to research the case for and develop an API and ‘helper app’ that allows researchers who have deposited data in a repository to automatically submit a ‘data article’ to a journal at the click of a button. The proposed API will transfer data and metadata ...