DRIVER Belgium The DRIVER usability study needs you and your institution's researchers, coming February! Ask Karen how & why. After ORBI, UCL and others have been re-harvested, the DRIVER Information Space is keen to take on new repositories. DRIVER Europe The DRIVER Guidelines 2.0 are announced for November 26th, and will be well-documented as they include a lot of new specifications. Keep an eye on your inbox and this website! OA Springer acquired the largest OA publisher, BMC, as part of its ongoing OA business experiments. CEO Derk Haank: "This acquisition reinforces the fact that we see open access publishing as a sustainable part of STM publishing, and not an ideological crusade." Read more at Peter Suber's blog. Charles Bailey has published a simple and good introduction on Scholarly Copyright for faculty. 'Authors' Rights, Tout de suite' is available under a CC license and can be translated if desired. After some criticisms and an online vote, Stevan Harnad stays AMSci list moderator. Technical The ORE project has released its first v1.0 specifications and user guide. Read the latest version here. Events - The 2008 SPARC Institutional Repositories Meeting. Baltimore, November 17-18, 2008.
- Radical Sharing: Transforming Science? 4th International Digital Curation Conference. Edinburgh, December 1-3, 2008
- 9th Bielefeld Conference 2009 - Upgrading the eLibrary. Bielefeld, Germany, February 3-5, 2009.
- Open Repositories 2009. Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-21, 2009
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