November 11, 2008

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DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Receive Grant from the Mellon Foundation for DuraSpace

Ithaca, NY, Cambridge, MA   The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a planning grant to the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons in support of their work to ensure durability and long-term access of scholarly research output and digital collections.  This comes after the two largest providers of open source software for digital repositories announced their intentions to form a working collaboration in July of this year.

July 29, 2008

JOINT PRESS RELEASE  - DSpace Foundation & Fedora Commons 

DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons announce plans to combine strengths to work on joint initiatives that will more closely align their organizations' goals and better serve both open source repository communities in the coming months. Read full press release.

July 2008

HP Newsroom

"China is currently among DSpace?s most enthusiastic participants, with officials and researchers choosing DSpace to support two national initiatives." Read full article or download PDF.

Fall 2007

Bib-lo-tech

An article on the new DSpace Foundation from Bib-lo-tech, the MIT Libraries' Newsletter.  Read full article or download PDF.

September, 26, 2007

Campus Technologies 

An interview with the new DSpace Executive Director, Michele Kimpton. Kimpton discusses her vision for the DSpace Foundation. Read full article or download PDF.

July 18, 2007 

CNET News.com 

"Users of DSpace digital-archiving technology will now receive help and support via a not-for-profit organization set up by the creators of the tool."

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July 17, 2007

The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A foundering project to promote free digital archives of scholarship is getting new life, as a nonprofit foundation will pump in more dollars and technical expertise."

July 2007

OSS Watch 

"In the latter half of 2006, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) commissioned a study via its Teaching and Learning committee to examine the issues surrounding sustainability of open source software." This case study on DSpace was published July 2007, written by Julie Walker, previously working at MIT Libraries.  PDF

July 17, 2007

PRESS RELEASE -- HP and MIT Libraries today announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of organizations that use DSpace, an open source software solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly works in a digital archive. Read full press release.