[Dspace-general] Maturity of DSpace

2015-02-26 Thread Surendran Cherukodan
Dear All,  I am doing research on the maturity of DSpace software. The quality of open source code and design isimportant element to examine to determine the maturity of software. The maturity model I am following demands  to examine 1.the organization of the code2. the aspects of

[Dspace-general] Scholarly Publishing Fund for Open Access

2015-02-26 Thread Schuster, David
Greetings all! If your Institution has or had a fund like this I would be interested in reviewing any guidelines or rubric information you used to grant funding. We are exploring this currently and before creating a wheel that doesn't work wanted to find out best practices that others have

[Dspace-general] DSPACE SECURITY ADVISORY: New DSpace 5.1, 4.3 and 3.4 releases resolve security issues in XMLUI and JSPUI

2015-02-26 Thread Tim Donohue
All, In recent weeks, several security vulnerabilities where discovered in the XMLUI and JSPUI of DSpace 3.x, 4.x and 5.x sites. Some of these vulnerabilities also affect Space 1.x.x sites. While these security vulnerabilities vary in severity (see below), WE RECOMMEND ALL DSPACE USERS