With the hubbub about bepress going to the dark side, it is time to reevaluate our options. While I think that Digital Commons remains our best option, due diligence requires me to prove that. Here is one option that is available.
Ubiquity Press is excited to announce that we are expanding our commitment to open access by providing hosted repositories. Starting in January 2018, we will be piloting two full-featured repository systems: Hyku and Invenio. Hyku is community-developed as a turnkey Samvera application and Invenio is developed by CERN. Our repositories will be open source, cloud-based, and fully integrated with our publishing and conference systems.
Since 2012, we have been a researcher-led publisher committed to cost-effective, high quality publishing of open access journals and monographs. We will carry over this ethos in providing a hosted, community oriented repository. We hope to enable institutions of all sizes to embrace open source repositories, increase the dissemination of their scholarship, and raise their institutional scholarly profile.
This new repository service will begin as a pilot in order to ensure the repositories meet the needs of the library community. If you are a library interested in learning more or being a spring semester beta tester that will be critical in shaping the service, read more about our plans and get in touch. Let’s create a researcher focused repository for your institution together.
If you would like to share this announcement with a colleague, please feel free to forward this email or link to our announcement blog post.
Best,
Chealsye
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Chealsye Bowley
Community Manager
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