- Events
- Activity
- Provide a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia.
- Provide support for ADT.
- Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ERA and the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) exercises.
- Assistance with the understanding of managing copyright issues in the repository environment.
- 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.
Events
- 2010 CAIRSS Community Day to be held on Tuesday 23rd November 2010 in Melbourne. Registrations are now open. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_2010.htm.
- Reminder to register for the Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop on 17th August 2010. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
- The 2010 Open Repositories Conference is over. See blog posts from Peter, Caro, Tim and guest blogger Rebecca Parker (Swinburne) on the CAIRSS blog.
Activity
Provide a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia.
- 2010 CAIRSS Community Day to be held on Tuesday 23rd November 2010 in Melbourne. Registrations are now open. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_2010.htm.
- 2010 CAIRSS Community Day program is under construction and will be announced in August. Thankyou to those repository managers who have sent in program ideas. 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.
- The new Australian and New Zealand DSpace users group had their first teleconference this week which CAIRSS participated in. Reminder that 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. If any other software groups want to use the CAIRSS teleconference facilities to discuss software issues, please contact Katy at cairss@caul.edu.au.
- A group of Vital software users have started planning a meeting to coincide with the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day. Contact Vicki Picasso from Newcastle University for details.
Provide support for ADT.
- Tim is back from Spain and CAIRSS is now 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. Contact CAIRSS if you need assistance migrating your theses content from VT-ETD to your IR.
Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ERA and the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) exercises.
- The 18th 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.
- ARC ERA faqs page (http://www.arc.gov.au/era/faq.htm) has some information on ‘when’ you may be asked for non-IR RODAs.
- John Lamps at Deakin has developed a tool for looking up ERA journal rankings that you might not have yet seen. It is available at: http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/.
Assistance with the understanding of managing copyright issues in the repository environment.
- Based on feedback from the Sydney CAIRSS Copyright workshop, Robin Wright the CAIRSS Copyright Specialist has provided a new updated version of the ‘CAIRSS and Copyright: A good practice guide’. See: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/a_good_practice_guide.htm. This includes additional or revised information in sections 2.6, 3.9, 3.12 and 3.13.
- See events section of this blog post for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop dates and details. Registrations are still open for the Brisbane workshop.
- A poster of possible interest on copyright permissions was recently presented at an ALA Convention. ‘Asking for Permission: A Survey of Copyright Workflows for Institutional Repositories’ by Hanlon & Ramirez: http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/14/.
- Remember CAIRSS Community members can contact Robin for repository related queries on cairss-copyright@caul.edu.au.
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.
- For your possible interest the July issue of SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-10.htm.
