BC ELN Connect 10.1 May 2012

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-05-05

Summary:

“Strategy 3.2 of the BC ELN 2011-2016 Strategic Plan calls for BC ELN to ‘articulate and implement an appropriate role for BC ELN in managing open access archives (e.g. Institutional Repositories, Learning Object Repositories) and supporting adoption by BC ELN partners’. Actions identified for 2012/13 at the fall 2011 BC ELN All Partners Meeting include: [1] Investigate needs and opportunities for a collaborative institutional repository service [2] Conduct needs analysis survey [3] Investigate opportunities - technology and hosting options The BC ELN 2011-2016 Strategic Plan can be found here: http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=1947 This article highlights some existing institutional repositories (IR) in British Columbia, including the DSpace installations at University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Victoria (U Vic), and Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s new Drupal-based IR. University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is planning to have an IR up and running this fall, using Islandora. British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is gearing up for their 50th anniversary with an Innovative Interfaces Content Pro IR. The article concludes with a few tips on staffing and workflow for an institutional repository service by local experts...” [Use the link above to access the full text blog post providing more details about the institutional repositories mentioned in the preceding introduction.]

Link:

http://eln.bc.ca/newsletter/201204/article.html

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.institutional.repository oa.policies oa.licensing oa.comment oa.green oa.copyright oa.societies oa.libraries oa.ir oa.surveys oa.metadata oa.preservation oa.formats oa.librarians oa.sparc oa.audio oa.ch oa.floss oa.studies oa.etds oa.drupal oa.canada oa.images oa.films oa.archives oa.roar oa.grey oa.dspace oa.myopenarchive oa.zotero oa.carl oa.repositories oa.libre

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

05/05/2012, 03:09

Date published:

05/05/2012, 09:57