BURA upgraded to DSpace 1.5.0
The DSpace and all associated software underlying BURA have been upgraded. The DSpace software was upgraded from 1.3.2 ⇒ 1.4.0 ⇒ 1.4.1 ⇒ 1.4.2 ⇒ 1.5.0 and then launched on Wednesday evening, 21st October.

Significant improvements:
• Faster searching – very useful as the number of papers on BURA increases
• Facility to click on any Author to get all that author’s papers, when browsing
• New browse by Subject (key word) option
• Facility to sort records by title, date of publication and submission date
• Facility to rearrange records in ascending/descending order, eg to view the latest records first, you can choose date of publication and descending

With the upgrade to DSpace 1.5.0, we shall be in the vanguard of UK universities. Initially the new version of BURA has been launched without additional customisation, but during the next few months we hope to customise the home page and restore the statistics feature.