Ma.gnolia goes open source

Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make its code available in open source.
source: Readwriteweb

OJS-SWORD-DSpace deposit

http://www.apsr.edu.au/ore/
From the Public Knowledge Project blog on August 12, 2008:
The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has recently produced a screencast of an OJS-SWORD-DSpace deposit using their forthcoming OJS SWORD plugin.
This exciting development comes from their work on submitting materials from OJS and OCS to institutional repositories through the OJS/OCS [...]

Open Library Environment Project

http://oleproject.org/
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented Architecture. The project leaders are a multi-national group of libraries dedicated to thinking beyond the current model [...]

Bridge Between Blackboard and Open Source?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/15/sakai
Blackboard, the dominant player in course management software, has the ability to inspire devotion and, for the more fervid open-source adherents, not a little contempt. So today’s announcement may cause a stir among those more apt to liken Blackboard to the devil than a gentle giant: The company is partnering with [...]

DSpace/Fedora initial discussions on joint collaboration

Over the last few weeks, we (Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette) have
been discussing the possibilities of our organizations collaborating.
The reasons for exploring the possibilities of collaboration are based
on the following:

1.The missions of our non-profit organizations are very similar and
we are motivated to provide the best technology and services to many
of the same communities

2.Over the next [...]

UsefulChem

http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/
This is an open source science project in chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University.
Since all laboratory experimental results are made public, we refer to this work as Open Notebook Science as well.

OpenWetWare

http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.

LibStats: An open source online tool for collecting and reporting on statistics in an academic library

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:135768
Jordan, Elizabeth (2008) LibStats: An open source online tool for collecting and reporting on statistics in an academic library
this is an article explaining the libstats package, with links to the installation requirements etc
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and practical applications of a highly configurable online tool [...]

The Michigan Library Consortium is going open source.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6553800.html?nid=2671&rid=76250400&source=title
The Michigan Library Consortium is going open source. The group April 14 announced that it has selected an Evergreen system as its next automation solution, as well as signing with Equinox Software Inc., which will “provide comprehensive library data migrations service, software configuration, consultation, and on-going Evergreen support.”

New Features in EPrints 3.1

http://wiki.eprints.org/w/New_Features_in_EPrints_3.1
The latest beta release of EPrints targets the crucial issues of Quality Assurance and Repository Management. Having made data entry and reuse much easier for researchers and users in EPrints 3.0, many of the new features in EPrints 3.1 are focused on repository managers, giving them tools to produce a more [...]