LYRASIS: Office Hours
LYRASIS is here to support you during the COVID-19 crisis. We are offering informal, drop-in office hours; schedule is below. Plus, we are giving members complimentary access to our professional services and senior staff, from our CEO onward (including HR, […]
Free Online Workshop: Introduction to ArchivesSpace
Are you new to the ArchivesSpace application or do you need a refresher on some of the basics? If so, please join us for a free online workshop covering the core functions of ArchivesSpace. When: April 6, 2020 and April 7, […]
The Virtual DSpace Anwendertreffen 2020-Online March 26
The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2020 will take place this Thursday (March, 26th) as a webinar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m CET. The presentations from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be in German, the presentations from 3 p.m. to 4 […]
Press Release: Washington State Library Announces Partnership with LYRASIS to Produce a New e-book Platform for All Citizens in Washington State
Atlanta, GA – March 17, 2020 – 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. “The State Library aims through this partnership to create a […]
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 […]
University of Michigan Press COVID 19 Response: Free Access to Scholarly Ebooks
Originally posted here. Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be 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 […]
Press Release: Washington State Library Announces Partnership with LYRASIS to Produce a New e-book Platform for All Citizens in Washington State
Atlanta, GA – March 17, 2020 – 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. “The State Library aims through this partnership to create a […]
There Should Never Be a Quarantine on Knowledge and Learning
A Letter from Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS Dear LYRASIS Members, Our team is safe and working from home. It is now time to help you, our members. As all of our communities are working to respond to COVID-19, LYRASIS wants […]
VIVO 1.11.1 is Now Available!
VIVO 1.11.1 is a point release containing two patches to the previous 1.11.0 release: Security patch that now prevents users with self-edit privileges from editing other user profiles [1] Minor security patch to underlying puppycrawl dependency (CVE-2019-9658) [2] Upgrading from […]
Press Release: LYRASIS announces the ICOLC Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Library Services and Resources
Atlanta, GA – March 16, 2020 – 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 (https://icolc.net/statement/statement-global-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-impact-library-services-and-resources). The statement, written […]
Press Release: NOW AVAILABLE: DSpace 7.0 Beta 1
Atlanta, GA – March 5, 2020 – Version 7.0 Beta 1 of DSpace, one of the leading open source repositories used in more than 2500 installations globally, is now available for download and testing. Beta 1 is the first of several scheduled […]
Available: New Fedora 6 Demo Video
A current Fedora 6 demo video is now available showcasing recently added features. In the first demo we demonstrated the use of the migration tools to transform a Fedora 3 on disk representation to OCFL (Oxford Common File Layout). Our […]