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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

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