DSpace How-To Guide: Tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores

PDF fileThis short booklet is intended to introduce the commonest non-obvious customization related tasks for newcomers to DSpace administration. It has been written against the current stable version 1.3.2 of DSpace. We have tried to include instructions for different operating systems as required; most customizations, however, work identically cross-platform

DSpace How-To Guide: Tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores

This short booklet is intended to introduce the commonest non-obvious customization-related tasks for newcomers to DSpace administration. It has been written against the current stable version 1.3.2 of DSpace. We have tried to include instructions for different operating systems as required; most customizations, however, work identically cross-platform. This booklet was created as a handout for the tutorial "Making DSpace Your Own", at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.unpublishednot peer reviewe

Research Data and Scholarly Communication

Data? Doesn\u27t it belong in lab notebooks? Yes... and no. Learn how research data is changing the face of scholarly communication across the disciplines, from data-management planning to data publication and citation

Librarian Panel Discussion presentation: Manufacturing Serendipity: Research Data Services at UW-Madison

Dorothy Salo, MA, is a Faculty Associate in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, as well as co-Lead for UW-Madison\u27s Research Data Services. In her presentation she discussed the development of the Research Data Services initiative at her institution

Making DSpace your own

PDF fileThese slides were created in HTML with s5 (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/). They are here in their print form owing to DSpace's poor handling of CSS and JavaScript. The slides are from a tutorial given 11 June 2006 at Joint Conference for Digital Libraries in Chapel Hill, NC

Making DSpace your own

PDF fileThese slides were created in HTML with s5 (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/). They are here in their print form owing to DSpace's poor handling of CSS and JavaScript. The slides are from a tutorial given 11 June 2006 at Joint Conference for Digital Libraries in Chapel Hill, NC

On the mark? Responses to a sting

A series of responses to John Bohannon's "sting" operation on OA journals

Le IR, c'est mort. Vive le IR!

Keynote talk given at the Edinburgh Repository Fringe 2008 conference (www.repositoryfringe.org)The institutional repository is dead -- long live the institutional repository! Despite their rocky beginnings, IRs are finally finding their niche and surging forward. What were their initial mistakes, and how can further missteps be avoided? How do we best build on IRs' current momentum? What do IRs need to succeed? Let's get the conversation started

A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Repository Software

This proposal outlines the design of a comparative analysis of the four institutional repository software packages that were represented at the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories held in 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia: EPrints, DSpace, Fedora and Zentity (The 4th International Conference on Open Repositories website, https://or09.library.gatech.edu). The study includes 23 qualitative and quantitative measures taken from default installations of the four repositories on a benchmark machine with a predefined base collection. The repositories are also being assessed on the execution of four common workflows: consume, submit, accept, and batch. A panel of external reviewers provided feedback on the design of the study and its evaluative criteria, and input is currently being solicited from the developer and user communities of each repository in order to refine the criteria, measures, data collection methods, and analyses. The aim is to produce a holistic evaluation that will describe the state of the art in repository software packages in a comparative manner, similar in approach to Consumer Reports (Consumer Reports magazine website, http://www.consumerreports.org). The output of this study will be highly useful for repository developers, repository managers, and especially those who are selecting a repository for the first time. As members of these respective communities and the organizations who support them are increasingly collaborating (e.g, DuraSpace), this study will help identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of each repository to inform the "best-of-breed" in future solutions that may be developed. The study’s methods will be presented in a transparent manner with documentation to support their reproducibility by a third party