This is the last “CAIRSS Update” for 2011. The CAIRSS team (Caroline, Scott, Robin and Derek) wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The CAIRSS team will be back from Tuesday January 3rd.
At this time of year, we’d like to thank CAIRSS members for their contributions to the CAIRSS community over the course of 2011, particularly on the CAIRSS eList. The membership of the eList now stands at 228 members, and we would like to particularly thank our “Top 5″ Posters to the List:
Joanna Richardson (Griffith)
Danny Kingsley (ANU)
Michael Organ (UoW)
Rebecca Parker (Swinburne)
Paula Callan (QUT)
Of interest…
UNESCO has recently released the Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) to provide an overview of the status of Open Access to scientific knowledge around the world. More information about the portal can be found on the GOAP website.
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/
The CAIRSS Community Day 2011 was held on Friday 11th 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
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/
The CAIRSS 2011 Community Day will be held on Friday 11th November, 2011 at the University of Melbourne. More information about the program will soon be available on the CAIRSS website here.
The CAIRSS Copyright Workshop was held on August 5th, 2011 at Swinburne University’s Hawthorn Campus. Approximately 45 CAIRSS Community members attended the event which covered a range of topics. Information about the program and the topics covered on the day can be found on the CAIRSS website here: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/cairss/copyright-support-tools/cairss-copyright-workshop-2011/
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 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.
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 207 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
A reminder that a selection of FAQs around the ERA 2012 can be found on the ARC website here
ANDS
The July 2011 issue of “Share”, the ANDS Newsletter is available here: http://ands.org.au/newsletters/newsletter-2011-03.pdf . Of particular interest in this newsletter may be the article “Connecting datasets to publications” which looks at recent work from ANDS in piloting a DOI service for datasets, extending beyond the traditional model of using DOIs for research publications.
SHERPA RoMEO has announced an upgraded version of its services, along with an extension of the service. The service now offers increased journal coverage, more up-to-date information, more accurate searching, and more search options. Information about the upgrade can be found here.
Events
Open Access Week 2011 will be from 24-30 October. Information about various activities going on around the world during this week can be found on the Open Access Week site here: http://www.openaccessweek.org/
ETD2011 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 13 – 17 September 2011. Information about the conference can be found here: http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011.
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.
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 CAIRSS Copyright Workshop will be held on August 5th, 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/
In further Open Access related conferences, the 3rd 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 3rd – 5th August in Edinburgh. More detail can be found here: http://www.repositoryfringe.org/
ETD2011 (14th 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
Thank you to all who participated in the 2011 CAIRSS Repository Manager survey during May. Our response rate was fantastic again this year – around 82%! Thanks everyone! 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. 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 Community welcomes Scott Archer to the team as the new CAIRSS Technical Officer.
As the CAIRSS Community now includes a number of New Zealand universities as members, the CAIRSS acronym has been altered to now stand for “CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service”. The website and other resources have been changed to reflect this name change.
Some of the CAIRSS Community resources have now been closed to CAIRSS members only. This includes the eList and some parts of the website, which will be changed over in the coming weeks. If you’re not sure whether or not you’re a CAIRSS member, please contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury.
The updated CAIRSS website is slowly taking shape. Over the next few weeks you may notice some slight changes in the look and feel as we move to the different platform. We don’t anticipate that there will be any outages, but will keep you up to date.
The CAIRSS elist has now had most of the non-CAIRSS members removed and membership is sitting at 202 members.
The SPARC Open Access Newsletter for June 2011 is now available here: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-11.htm Points of interest include Digital Commons (Bepress) releasing both ETD and Journals Toolkits which both include information and recommendations on making ETDs and Journals OA.
Of interest…
The open-access.net has released number two in its series of short videos. For a more humorous look at Open Access, check out open-access.net’s YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/openaccessnet The second film explains the difference between an open- and closed-access journal article. Further films in German and English will be published to the channel in the future.
Events
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/
Open Repositories 2011 will be held in Austin, Texas from 7-11 June 2011. The conference is currently underway, and the list of presentations can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main
Thank you to all who participated in the 2011 CAIRSS Repository Manager survey during May. Our response rate was fantastic again this year – around 82%! Thanks everyone! Similar to the surveys conducted in 2009 and 2010, the results/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. 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.
As the CAIRSS Community now includes a number of New Zealand universities as members, the CAIRSS acronym has been altered to now stand for “CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service”. The website and other resources will be changed to reflect this name change over the coming weeks.
Some of the CAIRSS Community resources have now been closed to CAIRSS members only. This includes the eList and some parts of the website, which will be changed over in the coming weeks. If you’re not sure whether or not you’re a CAIRSS member, please contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury.
The updated CAIRSS website is slowly taking shape. Over the next few weeks you may notice some slight changes in the look and feel as we move to the different platform. We don’t anticipate that there will be any outages, but will keep you up to date.
The CAIRSS elist has now had most of the non-CAIRSS members removed and membership is sitting at 202 members.
The SPARC Open Access Newsletter for June 2011 is now available here: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-11.htm Points of interest include Digital Commons (Bepress) releasing both ETD and Journals Toolkits which both include information and recommendations on making ETDs and Journals OA.
Of interest…
The open-access.net has released number two in its series of short videos. For a more humorous look at Open Access, check out open-access.net’s YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/openaccessnet The second film explains the difference between an open- and closed-access journal article. Further films in German and English will be published to the channel in the future.
Events
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/
Open Repositories 2011 will be held in Austin, Texas from 7-11 June 2011. The conference is currently underway, and the list of presentations can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main
As the CAIRSS Community now includes a number of New Zealand universities as members, the CAIRSS acronym will now stand for “CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service”. The website and other resources will be changed to reflect this name change over the coming weeks.
Some of the CAIRSS Community resources have now been closed to CAIRSS members only. This includes the eList and some parts of the website, which will be changed over in the coming weeks. If you’re not sure whether or not you’re a CAIRSS member, please contact the CAIRSS Repository Program Coordinator, Caroline Drury.
Over the next few weeks you may notice some slight changes in the look and feel of the CAIRSS website and blog as we move to a different platform. We don’t anticipate that there will be any outages, but will keep you up to date.
The CAIRSS elist has now had most of the non-CAIRSS members removed and membership is sitting at 198 members.
CAUL has released information regarding the decommissioning of the ADT service. This was forwarded to the eList on March 23, 2011.
The CAIRSS 2011 Repository Managers Survey will be conducted over the next few weeks. You will soon receive an invitation to participate in the survey. This survey has been run twice (2009 and 2010) and has provided valuable information regarding current issues facing repository managers, as well as identifying trends in the repository space. I encourage all CAIRSS repository managers to participate in this year’s survey.
The SPARC Open Access Newsletter for April 02, 2011 is now available here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-11.htm This month’s newsletter highlights quite a number of very recent developments in the OA world, including working happening on national initiatives in Denmark, Germany, and the UK.
For a more humorous look at Open Access, check out open-access.net’s YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/openaccessnet which endeavours to explain Open Access simply. Further films in German and English will be published to the channel in the future.
The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) has successfully completed its WRN Enhancement Project as of 31 March 2011. The Network now continues as a sub-group of the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF).
The English Version of the DINI Certificate “Document and Publication Services 2010” has now been published by the OAN (Open Access Network). For those who are unfamiliar with DINI (German Initiative for Network Information), you can find more information on their Open Access projects here: http://www.dini.de/projekte/eng/ One of their main projects is the Open Access Network, and the DINI Certificate has only previously been available in German. The English version can be found here: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/dini-schriften/2010-3-en/PDF/dini-zertifikat-2010-3-en.pdf
Events
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/
Open Repositories 2011 will be held in Austin, Texas from 7-11 June 2011. Registrations have opened and information about the conference can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main
Welcome to the first newsletter of the next stage of CAIRSS (2011-2012). I would especially like to welcome on board our 6 CONZUL institutions who are joining the 39 CAUL institutions in becoming CAIRSS members. There have been a few changes for this next stage, which are outlined below.
Some of the CAIRSS Community resources will now be 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.
Over the next few weeks you may notice some slight changes in the look and feel of the CAIRSS website as we move to a different platform. We don’t anticipate that there will be any outages, but will keep you up to date.
The CAIRSS elist has now had most of the non-CAIRSS members removed and membership is sitting at 194 members.
CAUL continues working on the decommissioning of ADT and providing information on new NLA theses display. CAUL will release this information soon.
A reminder that the NLA has completed the migration of records from ARO into Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au and the ARO has now been turned off.
The CAIRSS 2011 Repository Managers Survey will be conducted over the next couple of months. You will soon receive an invitation to participate in the survey. This survey has been run twice (2009 and 2010) and has provided valuable information regarding current issues facing repository managers, as well as identifying trends in the repository space. I encourage all CAIRSS repository managers to participate in this year’s survey.
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) together with the United Kingdom Council for Research Repositories are conducting an exercise to “guage researcher’s attitudes to open access generally, funding for open access publishing and the institutional repository specifically”. More information can be found here: http://rspproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/unlocking-attitudes-to-open-access-in-the-uk/
The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) have successfully bid for a JISC grant for their “AEIOU Project”. This project aims to “increase the visibility and usage of Welsh academic research by aggregating Welsh institutional repository activity data to provide a “Frequently viewed together” recommendation service, such as those used by Amazon and many other e-commerce websites.” More information can be found on the project blog here: http://aeiouproject.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
Events
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/
Open Repositories 2011 will be held in Austin, Texas from 7-11 June 2011. Registrations have opened and information about the conference can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main
This is the final CAIRSS newsletter for the 2009-2011 stage of CAIRSS. An announcement will be made in the coming days regarding the next stage of CAIRSS. I would like to take this opportunity to thank and farewell our technical officer, Tim McCallum who has been a valuable member of the CAIRSS team, and who now leaves CAIRSS and USQ for exciting new endeavours. Thanks Tim!
The CAIRSS elist is now sitting at 211 members. Members who have not confirmed their institutional details have been contacted. If you are one of these people and have not yet responded, please let us know.
CAUL is continues working on the decommissioning of ADT and providing information on new NLA theses display. CAUL will release this information soon.
A reminder that the NLA has been working on migrating records from ARO into Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au It is expected that ARO will be turned off in the near future.
For the interest of those people involved in their institutional ANDS projects, ANDS is creating a RIF-CS Advisory Board. More information can be found here: http://ands.org.au/partner/rifcs-advisory-board.html
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/
A SPARC webcast was held on February 22nd, entitled “The (OA)Week ahead: Getting started on Open Access Week 2011 – How to deepen faculty engagement on your campus”. Feedback from the 2010 Open Access week was presented, and suggestions were taken on how to improve Open Access Week 2011. The feedback and suggestions that were discussed can be found here: http://www.eifl.net/news/your-wish-list-open-access-week
Open Repositories 2011 will be held in Austin, Texas from 7-11 June 2011. The call for papers has now closed, but registrations have opened. Information about the conference can be found here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main
Following the Community Day the CAIRSS elist is now sitting at 208 members. Tim is continuing to contact elist members with non-institutional email accounts to confirm contact information. If you are one of these members who have received a request for confirmation, please respond as soon as possible.
A reminder that the NLA has been working on migrating records from ARO into Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au It is expected that ARO will be turned off in the near future.
This issue includes a review of Open Access developments in the last month: changes of institutional policies; latest updates from publishers; launches of new IRs around the world; and various studies and surveys that have recently emerged. Of particular interest may be the release of the SOAP Project (Study of Open Access Publishing) survey here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5260
The Repositories Support Project (RSP), together with Eprints, recently held a training event for technical administrators.
The RSP has also highlighted a recently released report on a survey of attitudes to Open Access and the IR, completed by the University of Huddersfield. The report is available here: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/9257/
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/
This is the first ‘CAIRSS Weekly Update’ for 2011 – Welcome to 2011!
A reminder that as of 4 January 2011 Caroline Drury has taken over as CAIRSS Project Manager while Katy returns to project work at USC before heading off on maternity leave. For all your CAIRSS queries Caroline can be contacted on the usual CAIRSS email address cairss@caul.edu.au and p: 07 4631 5338.
Following the Community Day the CAIRSS elist is now sitting at 208 members. Tim is continuing to contact elist members with Gmail accounts confirming contact information.
ANDS has released two new guides on its website on Metadata Stores Solutions; and Creating a Data Management Framework. Guides can be found here: http://ands.org.au/guides/
The January issue of SPARC Open Access Newsletter is now available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-11.htm This issue includes a review of Open Access in 2010, including a look at policies at funding agencies and universities.
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) has launched new web site design at www.rsp.ac.uk.
