The three most common repositories software EPrints, OPUS and DSpace/Fedora had several small news, which we have combined to one Repository News:

EPrints has published a new version of the repository software. The version 3.3.8 was already announced at the beginning of the year and is available from now on. But only a few changes have been made, the developers state: “Fixes several regressions in views code“ and “Fixes a regression on document format phrases“. For the new version of EPrints see http://files.eprints.org/723/

There is also a new version of the repository software OPUS, which was already published in January. ...

After the official announcement in November the organizing team of the Open Repositories 2012 has published the call of proposal for the conference.  The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues. There will be also space during the conference for session in the spirit of the successful Repository Fringe which took place periodical as un-conference  in Edinburgh and will be this year part of the conference. 

Understanding the change repositories can bring about, the changes they themselves need to undergo, and the areas in which local action is ...

Over the past few years, there have been a number of JISC funded projects and other institutional initiatives which have focused on the embedding of research repositories into organisational systems, policies and workflows. The results have been documented in websites, blogs, conference presentations etc but they have not been synthesised into a coherent whole. The Repositories Support Project Embedding Guide and Toolkit aims to do just that.

The Repositories Support Project Embedding Guide and Toolkit has been published by the Repositories Support Project and will help institutions to get the best value from their institutional repositories through integration with other university systems, particularly research management systems. It is aimed at repository staff but will be of interest to other groups such as academic librarians and research ...

Like announced on DINI-/Helmholtz-Workshop on 01/12/2010 CARPET presents the article "Repositoryhosting" by Anja Oberländer as a Living-Document in the CARPET Technology Knowledge Base. Everyone is invited to participate.