Learn how to make the DSpace repository your own in this free webinar offered by EIFL, the
Institute of Development Studies and Stellenbosch University.

Have you just set up your open access repository using DSpace free and open source software?
Join us for this free webinar with Nason Bimbe (Institute of Development Studies) and Hilton
Gibson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and learn the following:

● User interface customisation based on the Mirage theme
● Important housekeeping chores - Cron jobs
● Harvesting and to be harvested: enabling  OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting)
● Implementing Multilingual user interface
● Persistent identifiers using the Handle service
● Improving discovery through search engines such as Google
● Basic web traffic insights using Google analytics

Date: 15 April 2016

Time: 09:00 - 10:00 (GMT)

How to participate: Go to http://www.instantpresenter.com/eifl139  The password is DSpace

All you will need to join in the webinar is an internet-connected computer with sound (and

maybe headphones if you are in a busy room). To check if your computer can access the

session, please go to: www.instantpresenter.com/systemtest

Useful link: SUNScholar/DSpace wiki: After installation: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Install_DSpace/S11

This is the third webinar in the series of DSpace webinars offered by EIFL, the Institute of
Development Studies and Stellenbosch University.

Check out our expert tips for setting up and managing a DSpace repository (written as the result
of the first webinar).
In April-May we plan more DSpace webinars that will cover the following topics:

● Upgrading DSpace (April 20);
● DSpace system administration (April 27);
● Adding a responsive UI: Mirage 2 theme (May 4); and
● DSpace customization (May 11).

Get in touch with us if you want to suggest other topics for our DSpace webinars series!