SAS-SPACE IS LAUNCHED! http://www.sas.ac.uk/
The School of Advanced Study, University of London, announces the launch
of its digital repository.
The School of Advanced Study comprises ten prestigious research Institutes
at the heart of the University of London. As part of the School’s
initiative to offer academic opportunities, facilities and stimulation
across and between a wide range of subject fields in the humanities and
social sciences, it has created SAS-SPACE: an institutional repository to
preserve and disseminate digital scholarly and research materials of
enduring value produced at, or in association with, the School. SAS-SPACE
is the latest expression of the wider national research facilitation
mission of the School’s constituent Institutes.
Managed by the School, with technical support from the University of
London Computer Centre, SAS-SPACE will be officially launched on December
18th 2006. SAS-SPACE utilises DSpace™, an open source digital repository
software platform, and has the ability to capture, index, store,
disseminate and preserve digital scholarly material (articles and pre-
prints, theses, technical reports, archives and other textual material,
together with different formats such as multimedia clips, interactive
teaching programmes, datasets and databases) created by the research
communities.
Each of the Institutes of the School forms its own community in SAS-SPACE
and organises its content into collections of related works and materials
that will be freely available via the internet to all interested users,
everywhere. Materials in SAS-SPACE may be read, downloaded and copied for
non-commercial, private, or research purposes.
A number of items have already been deposited into SAS-SPACE. As further
projects, materials and links are added, and the size and outreach of its
communities and collections grow, it is hoped that the repository will
become an enduring resource for the School, the University of London, and
for the wider national and international research community.
University of London Vice-Chancellor, Sir Graeme Davies, affirms: “The
creation of SAS-Space represents a substantial development of the School
of Advanced Study and its already renowned ability to facilitate research
at the highest levels nationally and internationally.”
To find out more information about SAS-SPACE and the School of Advanced
Study, visit the School’s website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/.
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