The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the open source release of its institutional repository IR+. Following a successful production launch on Tuesday October 12th, IR+ 2.0 is now available to the entire community.
IR+ was born from user research. With portfolios, personal workspaces, and publication listings, it offers useful tools for researchers and extends the role of the repository into the authoring process. It is a fully featured digital repository management solution that is easy for users to understand and manage. Its goals are to meet the needs of any organization that needs to author, publish and preserve digital information. The download and documentation can be found at http://www.irplus.org The new version has many new features and updates. These include: - OAI-PMH harvestable - Dublin Core mapping features for Identifiers and contributors - Improved batch metadata manipulation - automated re-indexing enhancements (changing control lists forces re-indexing of all items that use changed data) - Sponsor browsing / statistics - Paging and Sorting for contributor pages - Improved Search Engine Optimization(SEO) for better indexing of researcher pages and content within the repository - Researcher page interface enhancements - Content type listing and filtering at the repository and collection levels - Content type counts at the repository and collection levels - Increased download information and removal options for more accurate download counts - Updated Help, Installation and User manuals - RSS feeds for Collections/Contributor Pages - Upgraded pdf/word/excel/power point text extraction libraries - Updated user account management features - Submission performance enhancements - Improved home page module placement - Improved change tracking We are pleased with the current faculty and student interest in our IR+ installation, UR Research, having over two thousand registered users, over one million downloads and thirty six public researcher pages. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Nathan Sarr Senior Software Engineer River Campus Libraries University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 (585) 275-0692
