Ira Repositories
DSpace
Outcomes
Outcome 1:
Research outputs from a range of New Zealand TEOs will be made available for teaching, learning and research through open access, open source repositories.
Outcome 2:
Increased understanding by the academic community of open access institutional repositories and their benefits will be achieved. Promotion of the use of repositories as a means of enhancing teaching and learning, as well as demonstrating how the research impact can be enhanced at the individual academic level, at the institutional level and at the national level will be an additional benefit.
This project will contribute toward the achievement of the outcome in the partner institutions and other TEOs.
Outcome 3:
The partner institutions will have deployed OAI compliant repository solutions and the National Library of New Zealand will be able to identify and retrieve repository content via their proposed national discovery service; this content will subsequently be able to be used in a teaching, learning and research context.
This project will singularly achieve the outcome in partner institutions and contribute toward the achievement in relation to the National Library's systems.
Outcome 4:
New Zealand TEOs and other associated research institutions will have the opportunity to leverage off the experiences of the participants thus enabling faster adoption in their own institutions.
A communications plan will be established to facilitate the dissemination of project information to interested parties throughout New Zealand.
Outcome 5:
Contribute content to the digital landscape envisaged in the New Zealand Digital Strategy as well as be linked into the National Library's multi-million dollar National Digital Heritage Archive initiative.
Outcome 6:
Closer relationships will be built with Australian TEOs. Our project will singularly achieve the outcome in partner institutions by developing links with the DEST funded information infrastructure projects, ie UNSW-based Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) project, ANU-based Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) that uses the DSpace software, and the Monash-based Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) project, in particular their over-arching discovery services that combine different metadata in a single resource discovery model.
