Our concept
GrandIR provides technical support to institutional repository projects in universities and research centres. Repositories are databases of self-produced research works which the abovementioned institutions offer in an Open Access way, that is, freely available via the Internet.
GrandIR aims to offer these repositories, either running or still in project, a whole series of support services for contributing to their development along their different implementation stages. GrandIR intends thus to become a technological partner to those projects interested in having a support service, as well as to the Open Access and repository community as a whole.
With these goals in mind, GrandIR will work along the following three main lines:
- Providing support for setting up and developing Open Access repositories, plus related services
- Organizing technical sessions for the repository and Open Access community
- Promoting Open Access-related initiatives, such as repositories and digital libraries, in developing countries in an international cooperation framework
News
"Digital Libraries for Research Data": a report on the lecture by Jane Greenberg
A talk on "Digital Libraries for Research Data" was delivered yesterday Feb 13th at the Carlos III University Madrid by Jane Greenberg, Director of the Metadata Research Centre (MRC) at University of Noth Carolina. Along her talk (which is available online), Dr. Greenberg presented the Dryad data repository for storage and management of datasets from the life sciences. Dryad, a DSpace-based repository developed out of a NSF-funded project... Read more
10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
At a time when Open Access is turning 10 years old (Bethesda Statement and Berlin Declaration will both be 10 next year), Feb 14th, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which was the result of a "small but lively meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001". Open Access has advanced a lot in a rather short period of time (read article "Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access" by Melissa Hagemann), but there is still a long way ahead too.
SONEX work on repository interoperability to be presented at INFO2012
The communication "The SONEX Workgroup for the analysis of repository interoperability issues: a summary of activities" (in Spanish) presented by the JISC-funded SONEX Workgroup has been accepted for the 2nd Open Access Forum to be held Apr 16-17th along the INFO2012 conference in Havana, Cuba. The motto for this 2nd Open Access Forum is "Interoperability: the Basis for the Ecology of Open Access Repositories".
