eSpace, the CDU Institutional Repository
About eSpace
eSpace is based on the Fez and fedora open source software. Currently it is in the final stages of being configured for use. Go to eSpace.
eSpace at CDU will:
- Increase citation rates of CDU research
- Simplify compliance with research reporting requirements
- Simplify reuse of material
- Provide better management of long term preservation of CDU research
- Provide permanent links to CDU research
- Provide open access to CDU research on the web (where allowed by copyright)
- Create community spaces for researchers to work collaboratively
Here is a link to the powerpoint presented at the recent
forums at CDU
CDU
Institutional Repository forum powerpoint (1.4 Mb). If you'd
like to look at a mature repository, Eprints at UTAS
is one example of an established repository containing many thousands
of items.
We have created a blog to try and track some of the progress we make
with the repository. Go to Blog
Further readings
Below are useful links to further information on how and why institutional repositories are used, and common software used to build them.
Excellence in Research Australia
- ERA: The
Excellence in Research for Australia home page
Australian national initiatives
- APSR: the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
- ARROW: Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
- RUBRIC: Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively
- ADT: Australian Digital Thesis program
News
FAQ's and other institutional repository information
- Self-Archiving FAQ: tracks and answers questions about self-archiving.
- AuseAccess: a very useful site devoted to open access repositories in the Australasian region
- ROAR: tracks the growth of existing OA Archives
- ROARMAP: tracks the growth of institutional self-archiving policies.
- ROMEO: tracks journal/publisher "green" policies on author self-archiving.
- SHERPA: Parent project of ROMEO
- OAKLIST: Australian equivalent to ROMEO
- OAA Bibliography: tracks the studies on the OA advantage in research usage and impact.
- Citebase: tracks citations: a scientometric OA search engine.
- American Scientist Open Access Forum: has been tracking OA progress since 1998.
- Library of Congress Digital Preservation formats: good information here.
Legal considerations
- OAK Law Project: developing legal protocols for managing copyright in an open access environment.
- Legal Framework for e-Research: analysing and reporting on the legal structures for supporting e-Research.
- IP:KCE: Legal research program based at the Law Faculty at Queensland University of Technology.
- Creative Commons Australia: the Australian derivative project of the Creative Commons project in the USA.
- Australian Digital Alliance: links page provided by ADA to resources with information on copyright.
Finding items
Items in institutional repositories are found and indexed by OAI capable software, such as
Repository toolkits and frameworks
- DRAMBORA: Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
- TRAC:Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist
- DSPACE: Building an institutional repository with DSPACE (includes LEADIRS workbook and other resources)
- RUBRIC: Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively
- ORCA: Online Research Collections Australia (APSR)
- DRIVER: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
Repository software
Popular tools used to build a repository
Permanent links
One system widely used to deliver worldwide unique permanent links in institutional repositories is the handle system.
Australian academic institutional repositories
OAKList
repository contacts page
DSpace
Eprints
Fedora
(via ARROW using VTLS VITEL layer over
Fedora software)
Fedora + Fez
The institutions below are testing repositories as part of the ARROW project
The ARROW Consortium comprises:
- Monash University (lead institution)
- National Library of Australia
- University of New South Wales
- Swinburne University of Technology.
- University of Southern Queensland became a member in September 2006 through the PILIN Project
ARROW Community members are:
- Queensland University of Technology
- Central Queensland University
- University of South Australia
- University of Western Sydney
- La Trobe University
RUBRIC Project members who have joined the ARROW Community are:
- Macquarie University
- Murdoch University
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- University of Newcastle
- University of New England
