Delegates to the IR Workshop will receive a CD containing a sample of briefing materials about institutional repositories.

1.  Workshop presentations

• National Library, Penny Carnaby (1.6MB)
• ProQuest Digital Commons, Julie Stevens (384kB)
• Monash University, Cathrine Harboe-Ree and Katie Blake (168kB)
• University of Queensland
  • Andrew Bennett (1.4MB)
  • Christiaan Kortekaas (1.1MB)
• University of Tasmania, Arthur Sale (324kB)
  • see also the accompanying paper [1]
• Australian National University
  • Peter Raftos (1.3MB)
  • Scott Yeadon (1.2MB)
• Rice University, Texas, Chuck Henry (764kB)

2.  The following resources are PDF files included on the CD

• OECD report on the scientific publishing industry [2]

• JISC further education repositories briefing paper

• JISC higher education repositories briefing paper

• Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook [3]

• ProQuest Digital Commons Technical White Paper [4]

• DSpace MIT Case Study [5]

• A Guide to Institutional Repository Software [6]

• Institutional Repositories for the Research Sector feasibility study (New Zealand)

• Open access self-archiving — an author study [7] (A must-read on author behaviour and attitudes)

3.  Recent documents on the web

• Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals [8] (why we are doing this)

• Citation analysis in the Open Access World [9] (why we are doing this - more)

• Fedora Digital Repository System Brochure [10]

• ePrints self-archiving FAQ [11]

4.  Online resources

• Institution Archive Registry [12] (list of all OA archives in the world)

• Self archiving policies by Journal [13] (8603 journals)

• Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving [14]

• Open Access Initiative website [15] (definitions, standards, protocols)

• OAI Repository Explorer [16] (tool to validate OAI-PMH protocols)

• The EPrints software website [17] (information and download)

• AuseAccess (a wiki devoted to the Australasian open access community)

• NZ Institutional Repositories wiki [18]

5.  Gateways/search engines

• Australasian Digital Thesis Program [19] (Australian and NZ thesis gateway)

• ARROW Discovery Service [20] (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World)

• OAIster [21] (scholarly search engine harvesting OAI repositories)

• Scirus [22] (scholarly search engine)

• Google Scholar [23] (scholarly search engine)

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