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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week the new-look ARROW Discovery Service was launched featuring faceted browsing, tag clouds and access to more statistics such as the most popular authors and institutions.  The ARROW Discovery Service includes metadata records harvested from institutional research repositories across Australia and from the Australasian Digital Thesis Program. Faceted searching enables results to be refined [...]

On Library Lovers’ Day I attended Open Access Collections at Customs House in Brisbane. This was an APSR event held in association with QULOC and the University of Queensland. I found the presentations very stimulating, especially Peter Murray-Rust’s in which he talked about open data and highlighted some useful sites to investigate further. It was [...]