Overview

The Institutional Repositories Aotearoa (Ira) project is a partnership between the Universities of Auckland, Canterbury and Victoria. Our goals are to :

1. Make available, via the Internet for access by Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant search engines, research outputs created by staff and students of the three partner institutions through the implementation of open access institutional repositories, with technical support from the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) funded DSpace initiative at the Australian National University (ie Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories - APSR project), and to work with the National Library of New Zealand to develop a national discovery service (in addition to the global discovery services provided by OAI-compliant search engines such as Google Scholar) to ensure that repository content can be identified and retrieved, and subsequently used in a teaching, learning and research context within New Zealand.
2. Develop repositories that will meet the criteria identified in the National Library of New Zealand's Institutional repositories for the research sector report (July 2005) and provide a means whereby materials that may have been created with public funding will be accessible. The project will provide benefits not only to the partners but also to the wider tertiary and research communities of New Zealand.

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Organisational Structure

Project Sponsors

• University Librarians
• The University of Auckland Library, Janet Copsey
• University of Canterbury Library, Gail Pattie
• Victoria University of Wellington Library, Sue Roberts

Project Management Group

• Auckland
  • Brian Flaherty
  • Leonie Hayes, Digital Specialist
• Canterbury
  • Anne Scott
  • Peter Kennedy
  • Donna Barber, Digital Specialist (Temporary)
• Victoria
  • Alison Stevenson
  • Ingrid Mason, Digital Specialist

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