openkm : Open Source Electronic Document Management System,

OpenKM is a Open Source electronic document management system, which, due to its characteristics, can be used by large companies as well as by the small ones, as a useful tool in knowledge management processing, providing a more flexible and lower-cost alternative to other proprietary applications.

The use of knowledge management systems by a company helps it to manage intelligence on the resources available to the company, more efficiently. This leads to a medium-term increase in productivity. Using these systems, the information, as well as the knowledge generated within the organization, can be universally accessed.

Using OpenKM to manage documents at your company, will be easy. One of our major goals is the usability case study. OpenKM is a document management application with a web user interface that allows the following operations to be carried out: sharing, setting security roles, auditing and finding enterprise documents and registers. With OpenKM users can easily collaborate and communicate.

Documents are not created or consumed in a vacuum – information is created for a purpose. The flow of documents through the business cycle can be managed and tracked. From initial capture and creation, sharing and collaboration, across approval, review and revisions.

OpenKM ensures information workers can find, use, share and secure valuable corporate content. Information assets contribute to on-going business. Collaborating on new or existing documents is central to how users engage with corporate information. Secure interactive repository connect teams to their critical, even across the most distributed, decentralized organizations.

OpenKM is offered on a wide range of different supports adapted to the needs of major organizations.

The source code is available to the community, which can freely use, modify and redistribute it under the GNU General Public License version 2 license.


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Free Collaborative Software: Free Groupware, Phpbb, Cyn.in, Fluxbb, Wreckamovie, Kolab, Open-Xchange, Gforge, Fudforum, Group-Office, Mindtouch

NewGenLib

NewGenLib is an integrated library management system developed by Verus Solutions Pvt Ltd. Domain expertise is provided by Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management in Hyderabad, India. NewGenLib version 1.0 was released in March 2005. On 9 January 2008, NewGenLib was declared Open Source Software under GNU GPL Licence by Verus Solutions. Currently NewGenLib2.5 is the latest version running. It is estimated that 2,500 libraries across 58 countries are using NewGenLib as their Primary integrated library management system


The software modules are:
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Serials management
Circulation
Administration
OPAC - Support for VuFind is also available
MIS Reports
End-of-day process (daily scheduler)

The system allows the creation of open access (OA) institutional repositories compliant with OAI-PMH. It is web-based software and has a multi-tier architecture[2] using Java (a Swing-based librarian's GUI) and JBoss (J2EE-based application server). The default backend database is the open source PostgreSQL.

NewGenLib is compliant with MARC 21 format, has a MARC editor, and allows seamless bibliographic and authority data import into cataloguing templates. Form letter templates are configurable using OpenOffice 2.0 as ODT and htm.

SMTP mail servers can be configured for emails that can be sent from functional modules. NewGenLib servers are SRU/W compliant supporting MARC-21 and MODS 3.0 metadata formats. CQL (level 1) with both Bath and Dublin Core Profiles are supported. NewGenLib is Unicode 3.0 compliant and is RFID ready.

NewGenLib can be installed on Linux and Windows operating systems.

Functionally NewGenLib has more features over its counterparts. There are also many features that are very important to libraries in the developing world. For example, quotation process in the Acquisitions functionality.


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Free Library and Information Science Software: Evergreen, Koha, Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment, Newgenlib, Phpmybibli

Koha 3 Library Management System

EPrints Open Access and Institutional Repositories software

EPrints is a free and open source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in Document Management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under a GPL license

EPrints  website

installation guide  

Greenstone digital library software

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries. Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries. We hope that this software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Further information can be found in the book How to build a digital library, authored by three of the group's members

The complete Greenstone interface, and all documentation, is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Kazakh. Greenstone also has interfaces in many other languages.

Greenstone website

PhpMyBibli

PMB (PhpMyBibli) is a fully featured open source integrated library system. The project was initiated by François Lemarchand in October 2002, Director of the Public Library of Agneaux; it is now maintained by PMB Services


PMB has most of the functional modules essential for a library management system.
Circulation
Cataloguing
Reports
SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information Service)
Administration
Acquisition

The features of PMB are,
User friendly web interfaces for librarian and users
UNIMARC
Z39.50
Barcode generator
Detailed documentation for users and administrator
Active development status
Interface for database back up and bibliographical records
Multi language support (French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
Import and export of bibliographic records in different formats.
Complies to Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

PhpMyBibli download link

Evergreen

Evergreen is an open source Integrated Library System (ILS), initially developed by the Georgia Public Library Service for Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES), a statewide resource-sharing consortium with over 270 member libraries

Beyond PINES, the Evergreen ILS is deployed worldwide in hundreds of libraries, and is used to power a number of statewide consortial catalogs

In 2007, the original Evergreen development team formed a commercial company around the software, Equinox Software, which provides custom support, development, migration, training, and consultation for Evergreen.


Evergreen's features include:
*Circulation: for staff to check items in and out to patrons
*Cataloging: to add items to the library’s collection and input information, classifying and indexing those items.
*Online public access catalog (OPAC): a public catalog, or discovery interface, for patrons to find and *request books, view their account information, and save book information in Evergreen "bookbags." The *OPAC received a makeover in early 2009 with the new, optional skin, Craftsman.
*Statistical Reporting: flexible, powerful reporting for retrieval of any statistical information stored in the database.
*SIP 2.0 support: for interaction with computer management software, self-check machines, and other applications.
*Search/Retrieve via URL and Z39.50 servers

Evergreen website 

Koha the first open-source Integrated Library System

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.

Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic or advanced options. Koha includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more. For a comprehensive overview of features visit the Koha feature map.

Dual Database Design. Koha uses a dual database design that utilizes the strengths of the two major industry-standard database types (text-based and RDBMS). This design feature ensures that Koha is scalable enough to meet the transaction load of any library, no matter what the size.


Library Standards Compliant. Koha is built using library standards and protocols that ensure interoperability between Koha and other systems and technologies, while supporting existing workflows and tools.

Web-based Interfaces. Koha's OPAC, circ, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies--XHTML, CSS and Javascript--making Koha a truly platform-independent solution.

Free / Open Source. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). More information on the GPL can be found here.

No Vendor Lock-in. It is an important part of the open-source promise that there is no vendor lock-in: libraries are free to install and use Koha themselves if the have the in-house expertise or to purchase support or development services from the best available source

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Why Open Source Software

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!David A. Wheelerhttp://www.dwheeler.com/contactme.htmlRevised as of April 16, 2007

This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software (abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS) is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper’s goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software. This paper examines market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership. It also has sections on non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, OSS/FS on the desktop, usage reports, governments and OSS/FS, other sites providing related information, and ends with some conclusions. An appendix gives more background information about OSS/FS. You can view this paper at http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html (HTML format). A short presentation (briefing) based on this paper is also available. Palm PDA users may wish to use Plucker to view this longer report. Old archived copies and a list of changes are also available

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