LYRASIS During COVID-19 Crisis: 

Working together to ensure there will never be a quarantine
on knowledge and learning

The American Samoan State Library Chooses SimplyE for its Statewide eBook Program, hosted by LYRASIS

The American Samoan State Library has selected the SimplyE eBook platform, hosted by LYRASIS, to make more than 6,000 titles available to all citizens of the unincorporated U.S. territory of American Samoa.

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Jisc and LYRASIS Help US Universities and Research Organizations Gather New Usage Insights

Jisc and LYRASIS are joining forces to introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) in the United States. Read more

Washington State Library Announces Partnership with LYRASIS to Produce a New e-book Platform for All Citizens in Washington State

The Washington State Library has selected LYRASIS to begin deployment of a statewide, e-book platform, SimplyE, to be available to all citizens in Washington. Read more

There Should Never Be a Quarantine on Knowledge and Learning

A Letter from Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS.   Read more

LYRASIS announces the ICOLC Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Library Services and Resources 

LYRASIS, as the administrative agent for the International Coalition of Library Consortia ( ICOLC ), announces the ICOLC Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Library Services and Resources . Read more

Making the Business Case for a Digital Preservation Program

Join instructor Heather Greer Klein for a LYRASIS Learning class, May 14 at 3:00 PM

- 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5), focused on why it's good business to preserve your institution's unique digital objects. Data stored outside of a preservation-specific environment is often unmonitored, misplaced, or poorly tracked, all of which leaves it at a high risk of loss. A well-timed and carefully written business case can help you advocate for the funding needed to implement sustainable digital preservation at your institution. Register

REGISTER for the Second Annual ArchivesSpace Online Forum (May 18 - 21)

Registration is now open for the Second Annual ArchivesSpace Online Forum and will include opportunities to share and learn from each other about different aspects of ArchivesSpace. Visit the Online Forum wiki to view the schedule for each day. Read more

NOW AVAILABLE: DSpace 7.0 Beta 2

The DSpace Leadership Group, the DSpace Committers and LYRASIS are proud to announce that DSpace 7.0 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. Read more

Your Generous Support is Accelerating DSpace 7

Since July 2019, LYRASIS and DSpace governance have worked together to expedite the release of DSpace 7. The DSpace 7 Working Group has worked hard on what will be the largest release in DSpace history, with a completely new, dynamic user interface and a suite of next generation repository features. Read more

News from CollectionSpace

Creating a digital roadmap for your institution, CSpace 6.0 coming soon and more. Read more

VIVO Scholar Advances

Sprint 17 took place from March 30 to April 17. Work continued on improvements to functionality related to Search-paging facets, date slider, etc. Read more

Fedora 6 Rebuild Demo: Resilience in a Long-term-Preservation Persistence Layer

A Fedora 6 demo video is now available showcasing a recently added feature. This demo explains the repository rebuild functionality and demonstrates how it works. Read more

Presenting the Value of ORCID to Researchers

Researcher participation is key to unlocking the benefits of ORCID for both individuals and organizations , but as a relatively new technology, the value of ORCID is not always immediately understood by individual researchers who might initially think of ORCID as "yet another" thing they have to keep track of. Read more

Recent VIVO Sprint Focus: Capability to Add New and Enable Existing Languages

The most recent i18n VIVO Sprint ended on Friday, April 17. The team consisted of ten participants from 6 different organizations. Read more

SciENcv and ORCID to Streamline NIH and NSF Grant Applications

SciENcv is a tool managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that allows researchers to create a biographical sketch (biosketch) to submit with their grant proposals for funding from NIH. It can now also be used when seeking funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read more

VIVO Conference 2020 announces Call for Proposals

The 2020 VIVO conference task force invites proposals for the eleventh annual VIVO conference to be held June 16 - 18, 2020 online.

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WEBINAR SERIES: Repositories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Beginning in May, LYRASIS and the DSpace community will present a series of webinars focused on how DSpace is meeting the emerging needs of institutions around the world as they respond to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more

The Library Code updates DSpace's Sherpa/RoMEO integration to the new Sherpa API

Only a few more months until JISC will discontinue the old API to their SHERPA/RoMEO services on July 31, 2020! Users of their established policy compliance services will have to make the switch to the new SHERPA API v2 to be able to benefit from them moving forward. Read more

News from Atmire

Recent news and updates from Atmire , a DSpace Service Provider and Certified DSpace Partner. Read more

4Science Receives OpenAIRE Open Innovation Award to Enrich Local Data via the OpenAIRE Graph

Are you a passionate DSpace/DSpace-CRIS manager or community member that needs to automatically make use of OpenAIRE Provide and Broker services? Then, this project, "Enrich local data via the OpenAIRE Graph" will make your professional life easier!

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University of Michigan Press COVID 19 Response: Free Access to Scholarly Ebooks

On Friday, March 20, access restrictions were removed for all 1,150+ titles in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) until the end of April 2020. The UMP EBC contains the Press's scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized. Read more