• The CAIRSS Community Day 2011 was held on Friday 11^th November, 2011 at the University of Melbourne. Delegates from 37 CAUL institutions and 4 CONZUL institutions attended, for a total of 73 delegates.
• Information regarding the CAIRSS Community Day, including the day’s program, can be found on the CAIRSS website.
• CAIRSS is currently looking at ways in which institutional repository managers are involved in data management activities (such as ANDS-related activities) at their institutions. CAIRSS members are invited to respond to the post on the CAIRSS eList, to share their involvement and experiences in this area.
• The CAIRSS website now includes an area available only to CAIRSS members. This area is 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.
• Some of the CAIRSS Community resources are 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 membership is currently sitting at 228 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. Contact the CAIRSS Technical Officer, Scott Archer, if you would like a login to look at the software.

ERA

• An updated selection of FAQs around the ERA 2012 can be found on the ARC website here

Newsletters

• eResearch Australia December 2011 news update is available here: http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/news/december-2011/
• The December 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Peter Suber) is available here: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-11.htm
• The October 2011 issue of “Share” (the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service, ANDS) is available here: http://ands.org.au/newsletters/

Of interest…

• On the Repositories Support Project blog, a guest post by Paul Stainthorp has been added, highlighting some points about placing a repository at the heart of an institutional research information, and what makes a repository play its part within an institution.
• The Open Access Network now has 5 short videos on its YouTube channel, to provide brief explanations about various aspects of Open Access (in both English and German).

Events

• The 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) will be held in Washington DC from June 10 – 14, 2012. Information regarding the conference, and the Call for Papers can be found here: http://www.jcdl2012.info/
• The 2012 Open Repositories Conference will be held in Edinburgh from 9 – 13 July, 2012. Information regarding the conference and the upcoming Call for Papers can be found on the conference website here: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/
• After a successful Open Access Week 2011, the dates for the 2012 Open Access Week have been announced as October 22 – 28, 2012. Dates for future years can also be found on the Open Access Week website here: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/open-access-week-2011-dates

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