We have been hard at work deploying OpenAthens integrations with DSpace for the National Health Service. OpenAthens is a centralized identity and access control mechanism provided by Eduserv, moving identities to cloud so that users can log in with the same details across multiple web applications and sites. We have recently completed the successful deployment…
We are pleased to announce that KnowledgeArc has been selected to host and manage the DSpace-CRIS installation for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) which is called Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS).
Many application and SaaS hosts pitch a no fuss, easy to use, up-to-date hosted archive. However, most customers who sign up for these services don’t plan for what will happen when they no longer wish to use the services of their existing host. We’ve experienced customers who have tried to migrate away only to find…
We are proud to announce the official release of our new hosting service, The KnowledgeArc Platform. The KnowledgeArc Platform uses a combination leading open source technologies to provide a fast, scalable, low-cost infrastructure for running various applications including DSpace and Solr. Services are containerized for fast deployment and upgrades, resulting in greatly reduced downtime even…
DSpace + WordPress = CollectionPress. We are pleased to announce an open source project for the WordPress plugin, CollectionPress. CollectionPress brings together the document and knowledge management capabilities of DSpace with the content management and blogging capabilities of WordPress. CollectionPress can be used for creating an institution’s Author pages, allowing for each author to have…
The new release of the CRIStin repository introduces new metadata fields which may break existing DSpace harvests. To address these changes, we have released a new version of the CRIStin metadata registry for DSpace instances and is publicly available from our code repository at https://github.com/knowledgearcdotorg/cristin/. Check out the associated README file for information on how…
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, is now available as a stable release 1.0.0.
Embed an Altmetric badge on your Joomla! web site and monitor the impact of your research information.
Altmetrics provides an overview of your scholarly material’s online activity in a way that is quick and easy to disseminate. Using altmetrics to measure the impact adds value to your repository, whether that value is simply to help you determine whether users are engaging with your information, to whether it translates into funding opportunities for…
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, closes in on a production release with the beta pre-release of version 1.0.0. 1.0.0 Beta introduces a number of bug fixes as well as an improved interface for embedding archive items within a Joomla! articles. For more information, visit the…