Events

• Reminder to register for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshops on 29^th July 2010 and 17^th August 2010. Registrations for Perth close 9^th July and registrations for Brisbane close 30^th July. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
• Peter, Caroline and Tim will be away at the Open Repositories Conference 2010 (http://or2010.fecyt.es/) in Spain over the next week and a half (funded by USQ). They are presenting 2 papers and a poster. Peter’s presentation: http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/GSabstracts/RepositoriesPost2010.pdf. Caro’s presentation: http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/GSabstracts/ReadyOrNotHereItComes.pdf. Tim’s poster: http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/PostersAbstracts/ManagIR.pdf. They will be updating the CAIRSS blog while at the conference with their conference observations. Swinburne Repository Manager Rebecca Parker is also attending the conference and will be guest blogging to the CAIRSS blog her conference observations also.

Activity

Provide a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia.

• Thankyou to those repository managers who have sent in program ideas for the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day program. If you have a repository development you are interested in presenting on the day, or a topic area you would like to see addressed please contact Katy at cairss@caul.edu.au. We hope to announce the date next week.

Provide support for ADT.

• Once Tim returns from Spain, CAIRSS will be working with the institutions requiring migration of theses content from old VT-ETD system to IRs. A new section outlining these ADT changes and new requirements has been added to the CAIRSS website at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/theses/new_nla_theses_view.htm.

Support (such as meeting organisation or provision of communication channels) for emerging areas of activity.

• A new DSpace section has been added to the CAIRSS website (http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/repository_software/dspace.htm). The new webpage outlines details for a new closed Australian and New Zealand DSpace users elist that is managed by Sten Christensen. CAIRSS and Sten will also be conducting a teleconference for Australian and New Zealand DSpace users on 14^th July. See website for details.

Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ERA and the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) exercises.

• The 18^th June ERA upload file window date has passed and most of the community seems to have survived the first leg of ERA 2010. Please continue to submit any ERA SEER repository queries to CAIRSS as we continue to work closely with the ARC in this area.
• Of the 39 CAUL institutions, 72% utilised CAIRSS services for the SEER IR test process throughout May and June.

Assistance with the understanding of managing copyright issues in the repository environment.

• See events section of this blog post for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop dates and details. Robin and Derek have booked their flights to Perth and the Perth program is in final stages of development.
• Remember CAIRSS Community members can contact Robin for repository related queries on cairss-copyright@caul.edu.au.

Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ANDS and the associated Australian Data Commons.

• Caro visited CQUniversity last week to discuss all things ANDS.

Provide a watching brief on trends and developments in repositories, Open Access, scholarly communication and dissemination of research in repositories both in Australia and overseas.

• Have you seen the OASIS website? Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: practical steps for implementing open access http://www.openoasis.org/.

Also of interest.

• UK Repositories Support Project has a blog at http://rspproject.wordpress.com/. They are also on twitter at http://twitter.com/RepoSupport.