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<DIV>Dear Ana:</DIV>
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<DIV>At the University of Rochester in New York we just received a federally
funded grant to study how different disciplines work with grey literature (tech
reports, pre-prints, conference papers, etc.) and make modifications to DSpace
based on our findings. I'd be glad to email you a copy of the grant
proposal, if you are interested.</DIV>
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<DIV>We'd be glad to share anything we learn from our studies and hope you will
do the same with yours.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes,</DIV>
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<DIV>Susan Gibbons</DIV>
<DIV>Director, Digital Library Initiatives</DIV>
<DIV>River Campus Libraries</DIV>
<DIV>University of Rochester</DIV>
<DIV>585-275-6320</DIV>
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Ana Alice Baptista <analice@dsi.uminho.pt> 10/01/03 04:49AM
>>><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>My name is Ana Baptista and I'm emailing you
from Universidade do <BR>Minho, Portugal.<BR>We are implementing DSpace here at
Uminho with (what we believe) the <BR>first Portuguese version of DSpace. We are
now feeding the system with <BR>Thesis and Dissertations from the whole
university. We are also <BR>starting to involve communities and we have started
with 6 of them <BR>which will make available other scientific documents such as
articles <BR>and reports. We hope to open the doors to our repository by the end
of <BR>Octoober.<BR><BR>We have some students willing to do research using
DSpace. In <BR>particular one of them is interested in studying the users that
are <BR>producers of scholarly resources stored in DSpace. With this in mind, I
<BR>would like to ask you the following:<BR><BR>- Are you doing similar studies
in your intitutions? It seems to me <BR>that, if there are, all these
researchers could share experiences that <BR>would benefit all of them. In
particular for us it would be very <BR>helpful to know similar studies in other
cultural contexts.<BR><BR>- Do you know of any international organization
willing to sponsor <BR>these kind of studies?<BR><BR>I'm looking forward to
hearing from you.<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>Ana
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