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Le portail d'accès à la recherche scientifique européenne, DRIVER, est accessible ici en test.

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Kasja Weenink, Leo Waaijers, Karen van Godtsenhoven (éd.), A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories: Five Studies of Important Digital Repository Related Issues and Good Practices.

La version pdf est en libre accès.
La version imprimée est publiée par Amsterdam University Press.

"This DRIVER’s Guide to Repositories aims to motivate and promote the creation, development and networking of digital repositories. The guide does not provide strict directions on how to construct a repository, or network of repositories. It contains comprehensive and current information on digital repository-related issues in the research community and is particularly relevant to repository managers, decision makers, funding agencies and infrastructure services as stakeholders. This guide not only supports the institutions that already participate in the current U-funded DRIVER network, it also reaches out to institutions that are about to get started with repositories or aim to further extend their current services or impact."

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A Portal for Doctoral e-theses in Europe; Lessons Learned from a Demonstrator Project: un rapport du consortium hollandais SURF:

"The report gives practical recommendations to improve the interoperability between the service provider and the data supplier. The recommendations are entirely in line with the guidelines of the DRIVER project (www.driver-support.eu). When all repositories support a common metadata format, it is very easy to set up services like the European e-Theses demonstrator portal. Without appropriate agreements on metadata semantics, however, many issues will arise when harvesting metadata of poor quality.
The report may be useful for institutions that wish to show the world the results of their research. By making their material accessible in a standardised manner and using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), they can reach beyond any boundary. "

- Rapport complet
- Recommandations ETD

- Recommandations DRIVER

Dans le dernier n° d'Ariadne:

Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson, Rosemary Russell, DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe

"Outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe."

Les dépôts institutionnels des universités de Madrid seront dans DRIVER à la rentrée prochaine.

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(En Belgique, ça se précise lentement)

DRIVER vient de lancer un wiki.

"The purpose of this wiki is to provide a home for community contributions from across Europe, to create a dynamic and updatable picture of open access activity in the EU.
If you would like to contribute to this wiki please email us at driver@nottingham.ac.uk for a password. To ensure that as many people as possible can read your contribution we recommend that you write in a major European language."

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