News Headlines
The DRIVER project has now finished (December 2009) and so the News pages will no longer be updated. Please find below links to News items that were posted here during the course of the project.
For current and more recent news, please see Peter Suber's Open Access News page, which is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Open Access and repository development.
- ERA Conference:Working together to strengthen research in Europe - 11-November-2009
- COAR establishes a global knowledge infrastructure - 28-October-2009
- Three new DRIVER Studies released - 28-October-2009
- DRIVER and Eurodoc sign Memoradum of Understanding - 27-October-2009
- DRIVER Confederation Summit, 20 October 2009 - 14-October-2009
- The Netherlands active during Open Access Week 2009 - 12-October-2009
- DRIVER project features in a European Commission 2 part special article under "ICT Results" section, titled "The sum of knowledge - online and accessible, no less" - 25-September-2009
- DRIVER project features in a European Commission 2 part special article under "ICT Results" section, titled "Taming the vast - and growing - digital data-sphere" - 24-September-2009
- PEER- Invitation to tender for Economic Research now available - 10-September-2009
- CHPC national meeting & 5th BELIEF international symposium, 7th & 8th December 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa - 08-September-2009
- Boloka repository now in DRIVER. - 03-September-2009
- Funding for Tools & Research to Support the Sharing of Digital Annotations - 18-August-2009
- 5th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR10) - 18-August-2009
- PEER project reports now available - 4-August-2009
- Engaging faculty and students through the Sparky Awards; Creative partnerships at Penn State - 31-July-2009
- EC QUESTIONNAIRE TO CREST MEMBERS AND OBSERVERS - SUMMARY OF RESPONSES - 17-July-2009
- BELIEF project announces Call for Abstracts for 3rd edition of Zero-In Magazine - 2-July-2009
- 12,000 references in ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liège - 26-June-2009
- DRIVER at OAI6 - 23-June-2009
- DRIVER now on Twitter - 19-May-2009
- DRIVER Tutorial at OAI6
- LinuxDays 2009 includes EGEE Business Day "Grid Solutions" - Registration now open! - 28-May-2009
- DRIVER now on Twitter - 19-May-2009
- DRIVER Tutorial at OAI6
- Introduction to DRIVER - 20-May-2009
- DRIVER now on Twitter - 19-May-2009
- DRIVER Tutorial at OAI6 - 07-May-2009
- DRIVER set included in EPrints software - 01-May-2009
- Replies now available to the EC Green Paper "Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" - 09-Apr-2009
- MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles - 25-March-2009
- Second BELIEF International Symposium, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 16-17 July 2009 - 25-March-2009
- BELIEF II workshop on Sustainable e-Infrastructures: Challenges in Data Provenance and Authenticity - 12-March-2009
- E-books and E-content 2009, University College London, 12 May 2009, 10.00 to 17.00 - 04-March-2009
- ECDL 2009: Call for papers - 02-March-2009
- SURF: 2009 is Open Access year: Tackling restricted access to higher education research results - 26-Feb-2009
- Ireland's 3rd Green OA Mandate - 18-Feb-2009
- PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research - 16-Feb-2009
- The draft of the National Law of Science in Spain includes a section on Open Access - 11-Feb-2009
- Your Opinion Matters! - 11-Feb-2009
- Europe-wide Survey on Doctoral Programmes - 11-Feb-2009
- BELIEF project announces Call for Abstracts for 2nd edition of Zero-In Magazine - 10-Feb-2009
- SURFshare gives researchers and lectors active role - 28-Jan-2009
- JISC study on costs and benefits of scholarly publishing models - 28-Jan-2009
- Digital Repository Federation (Japan) and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Understanding - 03-Dec-2008
- DRIVER Mentor Service launch - 28-Nov-2008
- DRIVER: Comments on EC Green Paper "Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" - 01-Dec-2008
- Couperin website on Open Access is launched - 28-Nov-2008
- Europeana.eu website launched - 21-Nov-2008
- ARL Releases Final Report from Ithaka Study: Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - 17-Nov-2008
- DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Receive Grant from the Mellon Foundation for DuraSpace - 17-Nov-2008
- Open Access - Opportunities and Challenges, a Handbook (2008) - 17-Nov-2008
- Open Access Pilot in FP7 - 17-Nov-2008
- PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research - is seeking a Project Officer - 04-Nov-2008
- Publishing and the Ecology of European Research launched - 17-Oct-2008
- Open Archives Initiative Announces Production Release of OAI-ORE - 17-Oct-2008
- First Open Access Day- 14th October 2008 - 14-Oct-2008
- BioMed Central has been sold to Springer - 07-Oct-2008
- eIFL.net and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Agreement - 29-Sept-2008
- Better access to scientific articles on EU-funded research: European Commission launches online pilot project - 20-Aug-2008
- MyDriver goes live! - 08-Aug-2008
- SURFfoundation co-author of authoritative report on digitization - 07-Aug-2008
- WorldWideScience Alliance Agreement Signed in Korea - 18-Jul-2008
- SPARC Europe and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Agreement - 7-Jul-2008
- Joint publication on Open Access by the European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO - 4-Jul-2008
- Open Access gains the support of ESF and EUROHORCs. - 1-Jul-2008
- First Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries" In conjunction with ECDL 2008 - 3-Jul-2008
- Open Access and the progress of science (in Spanish, en Espanol) - 1-Jul-2008
- DRIVER infrastucture software release is available now! - 12-Jun-2008
- First Spanish Open Access explicit policy - 12-Jun-2008
- DAREnet's integration into NARCIS is now complete - 02-Jun-2008
- Open Access expands to humanities disciplines with a bold new publishing initiative in critical and cultural theory - 22-May-2008
- DSpace training days - 13-May-2008
- Consultation Process on Open Access Repository of Published Research - May-2008
- How to use copyright wisely within scholarly communication - May-2008
- Leo Waaijers wins SPARC Europe Award 2008 - Apr-2008
- Digital Libraries à la Carte - Mar-2008
- Official launch of RECOLECTA - Mar-2008
- DRIVER invites contributions to the DRIVER Wiki - Mar-2008
- Traditional academic publishers are on the move - a statement by SURFfoundation - Mar-2008
- HRB Position Statement in Support of Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research (Open Access) - Feb-2008
- Press Release by the Open Grid Forum - Feb-2008
- DRIVER Usability Study report now available - Jan-2008
- First DRIVER Summit - Update - Jan-2008
- Press release: Improved Access to Research Outputs - 16-Jan-2008
- Building the German Network of Open-Access-Repositories - Jan-2008
- ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access - Dec-2007
- European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding- launch conference - Dec-2007
- Irish Universities Association (IUA) Libraries National Research Portal - Dec-2007
- Second meeting of United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) - Nov-2007
- Presentation on Open Access and DRIVER - Nov-2007
- Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories - Nov-2007
- DRIVER at the VII Workshop on Digital projects - Oct-2007
- Irish Research Council proposes policy on open access to published research - Sep-2007
- DRIVER and LIBER collaborate to build the European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure - Sep-2007
- DRIVER in Singapore - Aug-2007
- Repository Staff and Skills Set description - Aug-2007
- DRIVER Inventory Study is published in ARIADNE - Aug-2007
- BioMed Central announces a new Open Access portal for the Developing World - Aug-2007
- Fedora Commons awarded $4.9M grant to develop open-source software for building collaborative information communities - Aug-2007
- DRIVER presentation at bi-annual Flemish conference - Aug-2007
- German DINI intensifies collaboration with DRIVER for digital repositories - Sep-2007
- Researchers asked for their opinion - Aug-2007
- DRIVER presents at the ETDE Conference - Jul-2007
- DRIVER presents at the Les recontres des professionnels de l'IST conference - Jul-2007
- DRIVER presents at the BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Jul-2007
- DRIVER at the IATUL and ETD conferences - Jul-2007
- DRIVER in cooperation with the Spanish Repository Network - Jun-2007
- Spanish Repositories to Receive Funding - Jun-2007
- DRIVER announces the release of the DRIVER Wiki - Jun-2007
- Irish Universities Institutional Repositories Project - Jun-2007
- Irish University authors to publish in BMC journals - Jun-2007
- Information platform open-access.net is now online! - May-2007
- EC Green Paper on the European Research Area - Join the Debate! - May-2007
- Guidebook for Repositories in Australia - May-2007
- DRIVER Guidelines for Content Providers available. - May-2007
- DRIVER Inventory Study of EU Repositories is released. - Apr-2007
- SHERPA wins SPARC Europe Award. - Apr-2007
- Interview with Leo Waaijers of SURF. - Apr-2007
- 4th EUA Convention - Apr-2007
- Success of the Welsh Repository Network Start-Up Bid. - Apr-2007
- Scientific Publishing Conference in Brussels. - Feb-2007
- Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results - Jan-2007
Last updated: 21-May-2013
