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For Open Access Week 2012 DuraSpace Asks, "What Splendid Stuff is in YOUR Repository?"
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¿Abierto para quien? Open For Whom?

The theme for the 2019 International Open Access Week, October 21-27, is "Open for Whom? Equity in…See More

Oct 22, 2019

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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Carol

Last name: Minton Morris

Organization/institution name: DuraSpace

Type of institution: Non-profit

What's your position?: Other

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: Expert

What are your goals for OA Week?: DuraSpace wants to share the story of DSpace repository success in providing African organizations and institutions with a tool for managing, preserving and creating open access to formerly “locked down” knowledge and culture. This open source, easy-to-use repository application has been instrumental in providing universities and institutions with a tool for creating open access. In 2004 there were 9 DSpace instances in Africa. Due the efforts of DSpace Ambassadors and other community outreach efforts that number has increased to 47+ today.

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¿Abierto para quien? Open For Whom?

The theme for the 2019 International Open Access Week, October 21-27, is…

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Posted on October 22, 2019 at 3:16am

NEW DSpace 6.0 Now Available: Enabling Open Access to Global Scholarship

Austin, TX 2,207 users from around the world have implemented repositories with the popular DSpace, out-of-the box, open source, repository software in order to openly share and preserve digital scholarly information from more than 122 countries.

To take a look at the wide range of institutions and organizations that are using DSpace to make their scholarly…

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Posted on October 25, 2016 at 4:44am

Telling DSpace Open Access Stories

“Telling DSpace Stories” introduces people, ideas and innovation. This community-led initiative introduces project leaders and their ideas to one another while providing details about DSpace open access repository implementations. Open Access Week offers examples of best practices and Open Access benefits. We want to do just that by…

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Posted on October 20, 2015 at 2:49am

Telling Open Access Stories

The Open Access Week global event provides an opportunity for the academic and research community to showcase the benefits of Open Access, and to share what they’ve learned as a way of inspiring increased participation in providing Open Access to scholarship and research. In celebration of Open Access Week 2015, October 19-25,…

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Posted on October 19, 2015 at 2:53am