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West Bengal Public Library Network, here you can find copy right free rare books which are under the custody of various libraries of West Bengal, India. This repository is initiated with the assistance of Mass Education Extension and Library Services Department, Government of West Bengal and Center for Development of Advanced Computing, under the Ministry of Information & Technology, Government of India. It has started its journey on 12th August 2010. The aim of this digital repository is to provide free service to academics, researchers, and students. It is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes rare digital material.
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Latest Release DSpace 4.0

DSpace 4.0 can be downloaded from the files area in SourceForge (Zip) or viaGitHub (dspace-4.0 tag).  Release documentation is available at DSpace 4.x Documentation.

DSpace 4 is the latest major release offering many new features, bug fixes and improvements. We encourage users to upgrade to 4.x.

New Features and Improvements

General:

• (NEW) REST API module (based on JAX RS 1.0);
• (NEW) "Request a Copy" for files that are not yet available for public downloading;
• (NEW) DOI Support;
• Discovery (filtered search/browse) formally replaces legacy Search & Browse;
• SWORDv2 module updates;
• Improved command line features;
• Support simple embargo in AIP import/export (see DS-1514);
• Support running Handle server and application container on separate machines;
• Improvements to LDAP Authentication;
• Media filter generates better-looking thumbnails (see DS-1259);
• Curation task for consuming "web services" (see DS-1647);
• Filtering of web spiders from Statistics based on domain/user-agent
• Improvements to help Google Scholar (and similar) better index your content (see DS-1481, DS-1482, DS-1483)

JSPUI Specific:

• (NEW) A new Bootstrap-based default look and feel (see DS-1675 for screenshots);
• (NEW) Integrated PubMed, Arxiv and CrossRef metadata lookup;

XMLUI Specific:

• Support simple embargo in item display (see DS-1697);
• Language switching from the XMLUI (see DS-842);
• Mobile theme matures from beta;

For much more information on each of these features or improvements, please visit our 4.0 Release Notes.