1. Joanna Richardson (Griffith)
2. Danny Kingsley (ANU)
3. Michael Organ (UoW)
4. Rebecca Parker (Swinburne)
5. 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/
• 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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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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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.

Newsletters

• eResearch Australia August 2011 news update is available here: http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/news/august-2011/
• The August 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Peter Suber) is available here: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-11.htm

Of interest…

• AusGOAL has launched their new website: http://www.ausgoal.gov.au
• 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/
• The 3^rd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held 26 – 28^th September 2011 in Berlin, Germany. ANU’s Dr Danny Kingsley will be presenting at this conference on Open Access in Australia. Information about the conference can be found here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011 and Danny’s abstract can be found here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/paper/view/271
• 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.

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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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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.
• An announcement has been made regarding improvements to ERA for 2012. Brief information can be found here: http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/improvements_for_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)

ANDS

• The ANDS Newsletter, “Share” for April 2011 has been released and is available here: http://ands.org.au/newsletters/newsletter-2011-02.pdf
• ANDS is also running a “Digital Preservation Management Workshop”, 20-21 July. Information about the workshop can be found here: http://ands.org.au/events/digital-preservation/index.html
  

Newsletters

• The SPARC Open Access Newsletter for May 2011 is now available here: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-11.htm This month’s newsletter contains an interesting read on “pure” OA and what Suber calls “OA Prime”.
• 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/
• The OAI7 Workshop will be held again this year, from 22-24 June in Geneva. Information can be found here: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=103325
• 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

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