E-Science Developments in Australia and New Zealand

Ainslie DeweUniversity LibrarianLa Trobe University16 November 2009

Traditional science at Uppsala University IATUL Conference 2007

The journey from open access advocacy to eResearch partnerships

• Context – e-infrastructure• CONZUL and open access• KRIS – Kiwi Research Information Service• KAREN- Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network• CAUL and open access• ARO – Australian Research Online• ANDS - Australian National Data Service• Two examples

– Queensland University of Technology– Monash University

Library role in e-infrastructure

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/report.pdf

New Zealand Aotearoa

CONZUL STATEMENT ON OPEN ACCESS (2005)

• CONZUL’s mission is to act collectively to improve access for students and staff of New Zealand universities to the information resources required to advance teaching, learning and research

• CONZUL believes that the economic, social and cultural interests of Aotearoa New Zealand will be advanced by the rapid adoption of open access to research and scholarly literature

• CONZUL is committed to contributing to international initiatives to promote sustainable models of open access to scholarly literature, wherever possible

• It recognises that this requires systems of academic publishing and communication that enable the rapid and affordable dissemination of the outcomes of research and scholarship, and on the preservation of the scholarly record for the future

Kiwi Research Information ServiceKRIS Governance Group

VisionThe Kiwi Research Information Service (“KRIS”) will open up and promote publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and otherresearch providers in New Zealand and make publications easy to find

MissionAcceptance of KRIS as adding value to New Zealand open accessinstitutional research repositories through:• Providing complete coverage of high quality research outputs• Harvesting their metadata• Supporting an active community• Operating the nzreserach.org website• Promoting open access especially to publicly funded research• Enhancing aggregated metadata• Single point of information• Encouraging high quality metadata

KRIS Governance GroupActivities

• Agreeing on research definition for inclusion of a repository and its contents• Establishing criteria for inclusion• Advising new participants of how to proceed• Recruiting new high quality participants• Working with existing members to ensure quality• Continuing to develop nz.research.org• Consulting with and supporting the IR community• Establishing working groups for specific activities• Maintaining metadata guidelines• Investigating copyright issues for NZ publications• Providing statistical reports• Encouraging quality assurance

See http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/past-initiatives/kris-seminar

http://www.karen.net.nz/about/

Australia

CAUL statement on open access (2004)

CAUL declares it will work towards: • Building the infrastructure, such as institutional repositories, that will

advance open access. • Collaborate with researchers, research institutions and publishers to

raise awareness of the principles and practice of open access publishing within CAUL institutions.

• The generation and implementation of public policies that ensure fair use of copyrighted information for educational and research purposes.

• Cooperation with the Australian government to improve access to scholarly information, and to maximise the amount of information in the public domain, or otherwise available without economic restriction.

http://www.caul.edu.au/meetings/caul20092.html

http://www.caul.edu.au/meetings/caul20092.html

Thanks

• To CONZUL, KRIS, CAUL and ARO for information from their websites

• To KAREN for use of KAREN 101 presentation• To ANDS, Ross Wilkinson and Cathrine Harboe-Ree for

use of presentation to CAUL Sept 2009 meeting• To QUT and Judy Stokker for use of presentation to

CAUL meeting Sept 2009 meeting

• To all of you for listening….