Press Release - DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding

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DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding

PRESS RELEASE
September 29, 2008

DRIVER and eIFL.net - Electronic Information for Libraries - have
identified demand for cooperation in order to progress and enhance the
provision, visibility and application of European research outputs
through digital repositories. 

DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by
the European Commission, to establish a flexible, robust, and scalable
infrastructure for all European and world-wide digital repositories,
managing scientific information in an Open Access model increasingly
demanded by researchers, funding organisations and other stakeholders.
DRIVER's mission is to expand its content base, supporting the global
research community with high quality research output, including textual
research papers and complex forms of scholarly electronic publication.

Rima Kupryte, Director of eIFL.net, said 'eIFL.net and DRIVER share the
vision that research institutions should contribute actively and
cooperatively to a global, interoperable, trusted and long-term data and
service infrastructure based on Open Access digital repositories. This
agreement includes joint approaches to consolidation of national
communities for the European repository network and active joint
dissemination of best practices of Open Access scholarly communication