Citations Made Easier

Citations are, within some academic publishing traditions, a very important tool to measure impact or an acknowledgement of a work. They are also useful to avoid plagiarism by attributing other works or ideas to the correct source. The citations are also meant to help the reader to navigate the landscape of information within a given…

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FFI Publikasjoner

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment have their open archive in the KnowledgeArc ecology, and we have worked with them to develope a future-oriented and inovatative archive. We have now finished the latest developements and are happy to share them with you. Integration Integration is a key-word for all our hosted archives, whatever technology they are…

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DSpace vs (and / or) Docman

We understand that different organisations have different needs. Because of that we offer several services so that you can pick the one that suits you and your organisation the best. DSpace As an academic institution, like a university or research institute, you may have academic publications that you need to manage and disseminate. To meet…

DSpace metadata spring clean

The importance of clean, well-structured metadata cannot be ignored; poorly maintained metadata can affect discoverability of assets and can break search engine index. This can affect the impact of your archive and can result in less traffic and, potentially, less funding. There are various issues with your metadata you should look out for: Duplication Make…

Integrate KnowledgeArc Matomo Statistics with DSpace

We are excited to announce the launch of our first integration of Matomo statistics with a DSpace digital archive. This brings together two leading open source projects, and provides DSpace users with a way to easily identify the impact of archived assets through easy-to-understand metrics. Why Matomo Matomo (formerly Piwik) is the leading open source…

DSpace Statistics is fundamentally flawed (and Google Analytics is not the answer)

While it has its many flaws, DSpace’s biggest strength has always been its out-of-the-box usability; install and configure it, and all the parts are in place to store, describe, index, search and view your archived material. However, with this kind of simplicity comes the inflexibility to utilize the latest technologies because you are stuck with…

Launch DSpace in less than 5 minutes with the KnowledgeArc Platform

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…