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CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service
The primary function of CAIRSS is to offer support for Repository Managers in the higher education sector in Australia.
The service commenced officially on March 16, 2009.
The service:
- Provides a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia;
- Supports emerging areas of activity;
- Supports and develops toolkits for copyright and institutional repositories;
- Provides best practice and policy advice for areas such as data migration, metadata, standards compliance, import and export, harvesting, ingest of new forms of digital material;
- Assists with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ERA and the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) exercises;
- Assists the understanding of managing copyright issues in the repository environment;
- Provides a watching brief on trends and developments in repositories.
A News Stand page outlines the various CAIRSS communication channels.