Reminder - WEBINAR SERIES: Repositories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Michele Mennielli

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May 4, 2020, 4:13:45 PM5/4/20

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Hi All,

This is a reminder of the first webinar of the series “Repositories During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, which will be on Thursday May 7 at 9AM EDT / 1PM UTC.

The webinar “DSpace as A Collaborative knowledge Hub for Mitigating Distance Learning Challenges During the Pandemic” will be presented by Dr. Amrender Kumar Jha, Program Head – KrishiKosh, (Principal Scientist – Agricultural Statistics), Indian Agricultural Research Institute in collaboration with DSquare Technologies, New Delhi (Service Partner Krishikosh and DuraSpace Registered Service Provider).

KrishiKosh is the Open Access knowledge bank for more than 80 agriculture institutions from India having more 201k items / 40 million pages. The Head of the Program will share how they transformed their DSpace Institutional repository into a Collaborative knowledge hub to help institutions in mitigating challenges faced in Distance learning during pandemic times.

To attend a “Repositories During the COVID-19 Pandemic” webinar please register here.

The Webinar Series will highlight examples of how DSpace repositories have quickly adapted to provide critical infrastructure required during this crisis: integrating DSpace with other platforms; strengthening Open Access; creating new research collections; engaging with off-campus users; supporting cultural heritage; enhancing user experiences; dealing with a high volume of access, and more.

if you are interested in sharing your experiences by presenting a “Repositories During the COVID-19 Pandemic” webinar, please sign up here.