DSpace is the software that VTechWorks, the institutional repository, is based upon. There is a demonstration version of DSpace 4, the next release, set up at demo.dspace.org. The DSpace 4 Testathon runs from November 4th to November 15, 2013. During … Continue reading
A new feature has been added to VTechWorks in support of the open access policy that was recently approved by the Library Faculty Association. Occasionally, authors and journal publishers will agree that an “embargo” period should pass before an article … Continue reading
A new collection has recently been added to VTechWorks, the institutional repository hosted by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The collection, Computer Science Technical Reports, is a set of approximately 1,000 open access reports from the computer science department … Continue reading
VTechWorks, the institutional repository at Virginia Tech, now supports captions and subtitles in its video playback feature. Video titles can help support information access for speakers of alternate languages and for the deaf. One short sample video (the April 16 … Continue reading
VTechWorks now has a collection of video lectures from the computer science department’s spring 2012 seminar series. The seminars are lectures given by invited experts in cutting edge computer science research. Work on this collection was made possible by a … Continue reading
VTechWorks, the institutional repository at Virginia Tech, has a collection where university employees can put their academic and creative works to preserve them and make them publicly available. Although the collection is called Faculty Archives, the repository is open … Continue reading
The Digital Library and Archives unit is running a test for inline playback of videos within VTechWorks. The playback is meant to work with iPads and other modern mobile devices with high speed connections, as well as common desktop web … Continue reading
There are new faces working on projects at the Digital Library and Archives department.
In another blog post, we mentioned that new BioMed Central articles from Virginia Tech contributors are automatically deposited into VTechWorks. At that time, we had about a dozen items from this service. BioMed Central has now given us access to … Continue reading
Digital Library and Archives received some responses to one of our previous blog posts, Automated Repository Deposit and Messy Metadata. These responses were sent via email because blog comments were not enabled at that time. Here are most of the … Continue reading