• Thank you to all who participated in the 2011 CAIRSS Repository Manager survey during May. Similar to the surveys conducted in 2009 and 2010, the results and responses to this survey will assist CAIRSS in targeting services for the duration of the CAIRSS project, as well as provide an up-to-date picture of the Australian research repository landscape. The CAIRSS team will be examining the data through Q3 2011 to look at information regarding trends and concerns, and expects to release the results of this analysis to the CAIRSS website through Q3 2011. CAIRSS thanks all repository managers for taking the time to respond. Contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury if you have any queries on the survey.
• The CAIRSS website has been successfully moved to its new platform which now includes an area available only to CAIRSS members. This area will be used for drafts of new pages to be open for comment by the community, along with anonymous survey data, and community-generated content. To get a login for this area of the website, please contact the CAIRSS Technical Officer, Scott Archer.
• The CAIRSS 2010 Repository Manager Survey Summary has now been released to the CAIRSS “private” website. An analysis of the 2010 Survey will be released to the CAIRSS website soon, and further development of the analysis as it relates to the 2009 and 2011 surveys will be added over time. To access this Summary please contact the CAIRSS Technical Officer, Scott Archer to arrange for a login.
• Some of the CAIRSS Community resources have now been closed to CAIRSS members only. This includes the eList and some parts of the website. If you’re not sure whether or not you’re a CAIRSS member, please contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury.
• The CAIRSS elist has now had most of the non-CAIRSS members removed and membership is sitting at 203 members.
• Looking for a list of all Australian University research repositories? A reminder CAIRSS has a complete list with links available here.
• A reminder that CAIRSS maintains a number of sandbox environments of institutional repository software. More information is available on the CAIRSS website here: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/cairss/repository-manager-tools/repository-software-sandbox/ Contact the CAIRSS Technical Officer, Scott Archer, if you would like a login to look at the software.

ERA Information

• A reminder that ERA-related information is placed on the ARC Research Excellence website as it becomes available: http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/era_2012.htm.

HERDC 2011 Information

• HERDC 2011 Specifications, along with a summary of the HERDC 2011 Workshop (held in March) are available at: http://www.innovation.gov.au/Research/ResearchBlockGrants/Pages/HigherEducationResearchDataCollection.aspx (Please note that the URL for the HERDC information has changed)

Of interest…

• On the Open Access Week site, Christine Ross has highlighted a post from her blog (Copyright on Campus) entitled “Our Best Defense: Open Access” [sic], examining some of the recent developments in the area of Open Access for publications. Christine also provides links to current examples of how librarians are looking to promote Open Access: http://campuscopyright.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/our-best-defense-open-access/
• The Open Access Week site also now has a link to Neelie Kroes’ presentation on “Libraries, Access to Knowledge, and Open Access”, presented at IFLA (14^th-15^th April 2011): http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/neelie-kroes-on-libraries

Events

• The CAIRSS Copyright Workshop will be held on August 5^th, 2011 in Melbourne. All CAIRSS members have now received an invitation to the event. Any queries please contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury.
• Open Access Week 2011 will take place all over the world from 24-30 October 2011. See here for further information: http://www.openaccessweek.org/
• The OAI7 Workshop has been held in Geneva. Information can be found here: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=103325
• In further Open Access related conferences, the 3^rd Conference on OA Scholarly Publishing will be held September 21-23 in Tallinn (details here: http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/index.php)
• And the PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 will be held in Berlin from 26-28 September 2011. CAIRSS Community member Dr Danny Kingsley has had a paper accepted to this conference, entitled “Support for Open Access in Australia – An Overview”. Details about the conference program can be found here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/schedule
• Open Repositories 2011 was held in Texas 7-11 June 2011. The conference presentations can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main. The conference included two presentations which mentioned CAIRSS.
• Repository Fringe is to be held again this year, this time 3^rd – 5^th August in Edinburgh. More detail can be found here: http://www.repositoryfringe.org/
• ETD2011 (14^th Annual Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2011) will be held in September 13-17 in Cape Town, South Africa. An overview of the programme, along with a list of accepted papers can be found here: http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011/programme

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