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From the website:

“The ARROW project will identify and test software or solutions to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing.
The ARROW project is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), under the Research Information Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education.
The ARROW Project is sponsored as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability.”

With its funding ARROW chose to develop a ‘best practice’ repository solution around Fedora and VITAL from VTLS Inc. ARROW’s objective is to build an institutional repository capable of storing a wide range of content types corresponding to the research outputs of Australian universities. VITAL 2.0 has been installed in a number of Australian universities.

The ARROW Discovery Service, developed by the National Library of Australia, harvests metadata from a subset of Australian repositories. Searches from this site are therefore automatically restricted to Australian repositories, though the set is not complete. This service is planned to be subsumed into a common NLA discovery service interface. The service may be of some use to people wishing to limit their searches to Australia. A similar effect may be achieved by the AuseSearch custom search engine, or by restricting Google Scholar with ‘site:.au’ in the search box.

The ARROW project funding has now ceased, but its website still exists http://arrow.edu.au/.


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