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Provides a cost-effective, long-term preservation repository for digital materials in support of teaching and learning, scholarship, and research in the state of Florida. The services of the FDA are available to public university libraries in Florida and their partners. The FDA utilizes the Dark Archive In The Sunshine State (DAITSS) software.

Florida on Florida is an aggregated metadata repository of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts. The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout Florida. FLVC supports this service by hosting and maintaining the metadata aggregation system, and by running quarterly OAI-PMH harvests of metadata to update the repository. Any Florida institution with OAI-PMH serving capabilities is welcome to contribute metadata to this project, co-hosted by the Florida Electronic Library.

A scholarly research online publication service that uses the Open Journal System publishing platform. FLVC will work with faculty directly, or through the library, to publish and/or produce their open access journals. FLVC provides a number of services for electronic scholarly journals under the Florida OJ program, including publishing electronic journals from scratch, hosting electronic journals, and providing access to licensed commercial journals no longer supported by the publisher. Any department, group, or scholarly society associated with a Florida public university or college is welcome to apply to have a journal hosted with Florida OJ.

Florida Lambda Rail. High-speed network for Florida. Also referred to as “lightrail.”

Florida Virtual Campus