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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Forwarding from the World Bank’s Jose de Buerba:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>>>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The World Bank is announcing today the relaunch of its open access repository "Open Knowledge Repository - OKR" with a new, cutting-edge mobile friendly interface and a few additional enhancements. Please find below a copy of the announcement also available here: <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/01/23/open-knowledge-repository-introduces-mobile-friendly-design"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/01/23/open-knowledge-repository-introduces-mobile-friendly-design</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The most significant aspect of the announcement is that The World Bank, in collaboration with @Mire that supported the development of the OKR, will release elements of the new responsive design under an open-source license. We hope this contribution to the community will benefit any institution running a repository on DSpace that wishes to provide a better user experience on mobile devices. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Mobile-Friendly Design</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>WASHINGTON, January 23, 2013</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>—</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>In keeping up with the rapid growth in mobile usage worldwide, the World Bank just relaunched the <b>Open Knowledge Repository (OKR</b>)—its open access portal to its publications and research—on an upgraded platform specifically optimized for mobile use. The relaunched OKR website, at </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://openknowledge.worldbank.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://openknowledge.worldbank.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>, features a “responsive web design” that automatically adapts to the screen size of any device—whether desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>“Knowing that nearly half of OKR users are in developing countries where mobile devices are increasingly being used to access the internet, relaunching the OKR with responsive design was a no-brainer,” said Carlos Rossel, World Bank Publisher. “Now, when users access the OKR from their smartphones or tablets, they will have a greatly improved user experience.”</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The benefits of this change will ultimately extend well beyond users of the OKR. The World Bank and @mire—the DSpace service provider supporting the development of the OKR—are applying the same responsive design principles in the development of </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="https://atmire.com/website/?q=contributions/dspace-mirage-2"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Mirage 2</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>, a theme for DSpace that will be freely available. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.duraspace.org/about_dspace"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>DSpace is the open source platform</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> on which the OKR is built, and it is used by more than 1,500 organizations worldwide for their institutional repositories.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The OKR upgrade brings other user enhancements such as improved search, related title recommendations, enhanced author profiles, and the adoption of a new Creative Commons license specifically adapted for use by International Governmental Organizations (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/IGO"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>CC BY IGO</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>). Currently, more than 13,000 publications are available in the OKR in PDF and text formats. In the future, more file formats will be added, making the mobile experience even more convenient for users. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Since the OKR's launch in April 2012, there have been more than 2.6 million downloads of World Bank Group publications from 231* countries and territories around the world. The OKR was recently described by Creative Commons as </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://teamopen.cc/carlos/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>“…one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>." It was also selected by the American Library Association as one of the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestfreewebsites/marsbestref2013"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>“Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2013.”</span></a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>In coming weeks, the World Bank will also be launching a mobile version of the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>World Bank eLibrary</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>—a subscription-based website with special features designed to meet the specific needs of researchers and libraries. Like the standard eLibrary website, the mobile version will supply search results at the chapter-level for its most recent titles, along with several user tools and features, such as individual accounts for saving searches and favorites, and customized content alerts. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>*According to Google Analytics</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>