In a press release posted to the SPARC-IR mailing list,  the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) became the founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR).
A full text of the release is below or you may visit https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5212.html.
October 23, 2009
OTTAWA/GHENT, BELGIUM - On October 21, CARL became a founding member of the […]

DuraSpace and the DSpace Global Outreach Committee are pleased to announce the official launch of the DSpace Ambassador Program.
The Ambassador Program seeks to develop a global network of volunteers who can help new and potential users get started with DSpace and/or help solicit the necessary help for users with questions. While the Ambassador is not […]

The DSpace platform now has over 700 instances in over 70 different countries worldwide.
DSpace continues to be the most popular repository solution, with well over a third of the known institutional repositories using the DSpace software. Each month there are between 20-30 new instances of DSpace. Check out “Who’s Using DSpace” to see the complete […]

Published by SPARC on September 24, 2009
Washington, DC – Last year, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary were among a handful of institutions that established pools of money, through their libraries, to cover the cost of open-access journal fees. This approach – aimed at supporting a new academic publishing model […]

NITLE (http://www.nitle.org/), a community-based non-profit initiative, is offering a pre-conference workshop on “Manakin: Developing New Interfaces with the DSpace Interface Toolkit” on November 3, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. For more information or to register go to http://www.educause.edu/E2009/EDUCAUSE2009/Seminar12PManakinDevelopingNew/176004 .

“The TDL has completed a key phase of development on the Texas Learning Object Repository (TxLOR), performing a demonstration of its first iteration of the system to UT TeleCampus representatives.” Read more at
http://www.tdl.org/2009/09/tdl-technical-team-completes-early-txlor-development-phase/.

August 14, 2009
SLA 2009 Annual Conference presentation by Amy Brand from Harvard University Office for Scholarly Communication is now available.

Summaries from the event are posted on the DISC UK DataShare blog.