Dear friends and DSpace community members and fans, Another year has passed, we carried on tirelessly during the pandemic and we thank all partners and customers who continued to put their trust in us. It is only by providing services to institutions that 4Science can continue to invest resources in ceaseless contributions to the DSpace […]

When: 9.30 am PST/12.30 pm EST/18.30 CET (17.30 UTC), 16 November 2021 The ORCID permanent identifier is a powerful, widely adopted means of linking people unambiguously to their publications, projects, institutions and more, and distinguishing each researcher across the globe. However, the full power of ORCID within the research infrastructure is only unleashed through ORCID-enabled […]

What an incredible day for the DSpace Community and 4science! Just yesterday, version 7.1. of DSpace was released with several updates and improvements, fully supported by our important contributions (item versioning, IIIF, rationalisation of the use of entities, performance improvements, and security patches, see below for more details) and today 4science is already accompanying the […]

When: : 4 November, 10.00 am (UK)/11am CET Why: The ORCID permanent identifier is a powerful, widely adopted means of linking people unambiguously to their publications, projects, institutions and more, and distinguishing each researcher across the globe. However, the full power of ORCID within the research infrastructure is only unleashed through ORCID-enabled systems. Different levels […]

Dear DSpace Users, today we are celebrating together with the community… because the new DSpace 7 version has been finally released!  In this 1 million lines of code (yes, one million) long story there is all the effort of the Open-Source Community aimed to offer; A new Angular-based UI to enable all the main features […]

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the international member organisation that builds capacity, align policies and practices to support repository networks globally, has announced a significant milestone. Controlled Vocabularies enable repositories to “speak the same language” worldwide.  Over the last 6 years, COAR has developed and made available three Controlled Vocabularies: resource types, access […]

4Science is an ORCID Certified Service Provider, so we and our community are proud to highlight the fact that DSpace-CRIS emerges as the top ORCID-enabled CRIS/RIMS, ticking almost all of the boxes in ORCID’s own analysis and comparison of ORCID-enabled systems: https://info.orcid.org/orcid-enabled-systems/ Persistent identifiers (PIDs), especially ORCID (the persistent identifier for people/researchers), are sustainable and […]

4Science is delighted to announce that version 7  of the most widely adopted open-source solutionfor research data and information managementis finally available!DSpace-CRIS is a comprehensive, free and open-source Research Information Management System (CRIS/RIMS), adopted by a significant number of institutions worldwide. It is based on DSpace, which enables organisations like Universities and Research Institutions to […]

At 4Science, we are proud to be the major supporter to Open Repositories 2021, not only as a sponsor, but also with ten contributions. 4Science actively participates in major events at the international level, not only as a sponsor but also contributing with presentations on innovative projects, technologies, standards: ten of our presentations are in […]

Jisc’s Publications Router can now populate RIOXX metadata fields in repositories using recent versions of DSpace, thanks to a new patch developed in collaboration with 4Science. For UK institutions, the Router service works with publishers to capture articles, match them to their authors’ institutions and deliver them directly into the relevant repositories. Latest versions This new RIOXX functionality […]