Institutional Repositories

Institutional repositories (IRs) are open access, online electronic archives of university research outputs such as journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters and digital objects including video and sound files. Material in IRs can be accessed via general search engines such as Google. Search engines such as Oaister and ARROW specifically harvest information from IRs. The University of Wollongong IR is Research Online ro.uow.edu.au

Search engines

• OAISTER - a union catalogue of digital resources, comprising 16+ million objects world wide and an index to IRs - www.oaister.org
• Google Scholar - a search engine for open access research material - scholar.google.com.au
• SCIRUS - a search engine for scientific research material, with over 450 million entries - www.scirus.com
• Thomson Scientific WebPlus - open access research material on the web - tswebplus [Password access only]
• Digital Commons - search on 70+ repositories world wide - digitalcommons.bepress.com
• ARROW - search Australian research repositories including ADT - search.arrow.edu.au
• AuseSearch - search engine for Australian repositories - rollyo.com/arthursale/ausesearch

Information sites

• APSR - Australian Partnerships for Sustainable Repositories - www.apsr.edu.au
• Digital Commons - proprietary open access and republishing IR system - digitalcommons.bepress.com
• DSpace - open access digital repository software system, MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard - www.dspace.org
• EPrints.org - Archive of information on self-archiving and open access e-print repositories, included links to the EPrints software system - www.eprints.org
• OpenDOAR - International directory of open access repositories with associated statistics - www.opendoar.org

Publisher copyright information

• SHERPA - International listing of publisher open access and copyright polices, plus index to journals - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
• OAKlist - Australian list of publishing agreements and publishers’ open access policies and practices - www.oaklist.qut.edu.au

8 September 2008