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DSpace at Princeton University is open for business!

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Data­Space can now be used to store papers and data.  From the homepage:

“Data­Space is a dig­i­tal repos­i­tory meant for both archiv­ing and pub­licly dis­sem­i­nat­ing dig­i­tal data which are the result of research, aca­d­e­mic, or admin­is­tra­tive work per­formed by mem­bers of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity. Data­Space will pro­mote aware­ness of the data and address con­cerns for ensur­ing the long-term avail­abil­ity of data in the repository.”

There are papers from 2 groups or com­mu­ni­ties avail­able so far: 

Civil and Envi­ron­men­tal Engineering
Woodrow Wil­son School of Pub­lic and Inter­na­tional Affairs

There is a use­ful “About” page, and the “Help” page gives you the mechan­ics of run­ning searches using the Jakarta Lucerne search engine, which bears lots of sim­i­lar­i­ties to Google.

Con­tact:  Mark Ratliff, Dig­i­tal Repos­i­tory Archi­tect, Phone: (609) 258‑0228.

MIT Faculty votes for open access to scholarly articles

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 MIT fac­ulty votes for open access to their schol­arly arti­cles — 24 Mar 2009

The fac­ulty at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT), US, has voted to make their schol­arly arti­cles avail­able to the pub­lic for free and open access on the Web. The move is aimed at broad­en­ing access to MIT’s research and scholarship.

The new pol­icy was approved unan­i­mously at a recently held MIT fac­ulty meet­ing and took imme­di­ate effect. Under the new pol­icy, fac­ulty authors give MIT nonex­clu­sive per­mis­sion to dis­sem­i­nate their jour­nal arti­cles for open access through DSpace, an open-source soft­ware plat­form devel­oped by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard. The pol­icy gives MIT and its fac­ulty the right to use and share the arti­cles for any pur­pose other than to make a profit. Authors may opt out on a paper-by-paper basis.

MIT’s DSpace repos­i­tory con­tains the dig­i­tal research mate­ri­als of MIT fac­ulty and researchers and allows them to be saved, searched and shared world­wide. MIT Open­Course­Ware (OCW) was launched in 2001 with the goal of mak­ing all MIT course mate­ri­als avail­able, free of charge, to any­one over the World Wide Web. Since then, OCW has shared MIT course mate­ri­als with more than 50 mil­lion vis­i­tors world­wide and inspired hun­dreds of other uni­ver­si­ties to do the same. The new open access res­o­lu­tion will now remove bar­ri­ers to mak­ing all of MIT’s research openly avail­able to the world.

A fac­ulty com­mit­tee will work with the MIT Libraries to over­see imple­men­ta­tion and deter­mine a work­flow for adding arti­cles to DSpace. Under the new open access model, poten­tially thou­sands of papers pub­lished by MIT fac­ulty each year will be added to DSpace and made freely avail­able on the web and acces­si­ble through search engines such as Google.

MIT’s pol­icy claims to be the first faculty-driven, university-wide ini­tia­tive of its kind in the US. While Har­vard and Stan­ford uni­ver­si­ties have imple­mented open access man­dates at some of their schools, MIT is the first to fully imple­ment the pol­icy university-wide as a result of a fac­ulty vote. MIT’s res­o­lu­tion is built on sim­i­lar lan­guage adopted by the Har­vard Fac­ulty of Arts & Sci­ences in 2008.

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New Portuguese scientific OA repository launched

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Portugal New Por­tuguese sci­en­tific OA repos­i­tory launched — 19 Dec 2008

Portugal’s publicly-funded Repositório Cien­tí­fico de Acesso Aberto de Por­tu­gal (RCAAP) was recently launched at the 3rd Open Access con­fer­ence that took place at Uni­ver­sity of Minho on Decem­ber 15 – 16, 2008. RCAAP gath­ers con­tent from 10 insti­tu­tional repos­i­to­ries from across the country.

The new open access repos­i­tory cur­rently indexes more than 13091 doc­u­ments from 10 repos­i­to­ries. The project is funded by the Knowl­edge Soci­ety Agency (UMIC) and will be tech­ni­cally main­tained by the National Sci­en­tific Com­pu­ta­tions Foun­da­tion (FCCN).

The 10 repos­i­to­ries that are cur­rently con­tribut­ing to this main cen­tralised repos­i­tory are mainly uni­ver­sity DSpace-based repos­i­to­ries or similar.

Approx­i­mately 10% are in Eng­lish.  Top­ics appear to be mainly biomedical.

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Dec. 19, 2008.