The ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) Discovery Service has had a branding makeover. The ARROW project concluded in December 2008, and the new name is ARO (Australian Research Online) – a fortuitously homophonic new name.
Update your bookmarks as the URL has changed although at present a redirect is handling traffic. Similarly the email [...]

On 21st April, the World Digital Library was launched. The World Digital Library brings together digitised primary documents including rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs, from countries around the world, with content available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Inspired by James Billington from the Library of Congress in 2004, it has [...]

In early 2008, Flickr launched the Commons to showcase the public photo collections of libraries, museums and archives from around the world. The Library of Congress was the first to start adding their collections and New York Public Library (probably) the most recent.
The two main objectives of the Commons are to increase access to publicly-held [...]

A two-day workshop on the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is being held on the 4th and 5th of December at the University of Sydney.
Themes for this workshop are:

scholarly publishing in the electronic environment
business models and service frameworks
establishing and maintaining publications and services
experience sharing and establishing an Australian PKP community, and
technical developments.

The PKP is dedicated to improving [...]

A very new blog has been launched to communicate developments in an ARROW project that focuses on managing names in institutional repositories. The project is just starting up and comments are being sought on a draft project plan.
The NicNames Project

We’ve had a few posts about repositories lately, and here’s another one. Research repositories are playing a major role in furthering open access to research papers, but of course they are not the only factor in the open access movement.
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of [...]

Although there is some inaccuracy, it is good to see reporting on the work Australian universities are undertaking in research repositories and the open access movement.
Access remains an open secret by Bernard Lane | The Australian
If you are wondering about the innacuracy..Fedora was not developed by the University of Queensland. UQ developed Fez to [...]

Anyone interested in the development of research repositories might like to go to this upcoming ARROW event in Brisbane.
“Repositories : into the future” will be held at Customs House in Brisbane on Tuesday the 14th October. It is followed the next day by ARROW Community Day at Queensland University of Technology.
Details: News and Events (Australian [...]

Neil Godfrey’s blog has been quiet for awhile, but it seems he is back and busy reflecting on repositories and metadata. Many will not find repository metadata terribly exciting, but Neil’s writing is very accessible and if you are new to repositories and attempting to come to terms with metadata requirements his metareflections posts are [...]

September is a lovely time of year to visit Brisbane.. And this September, you can attend the Open Access and Research Conference and hear speakers on topics such as evolving publishing models, repository management, e-Research, policy development, and legal and technical issues.
Early bird registration is available until the 25th of July. The conference will be [...]