This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand.
We have harvested research document metadata from around New Zealand and collected it in one place. You can use this website to search for research, look up specific subjects or authors, browse the research in various ways, and keep abreast of emerging research activity.
If you're a researcher at a New Zealand institution, we encourage you to contribute your research outputs to your institution's research repository. [KIWI] will harvest them and distribute them to your peers - both in New Zealand and worldwide.
Thanks to the NZVCC Electronic News Bulletin, November 6, 2007, which provides a few extra details:
CONZUL (Council of New Zealand University Librarians) has taken the lead in sharing expertise on the development of institutional repositories. The National Library was funded by the Tertiary Education Commission to develop the harvesting service. A governance group for KRIS has been set up, chaired by Ainslie Dewe, University Librarian & Director of Knowledge Management at the Auckland University of Technology
KRIS will be officially launched in November but it is already publicly available for search....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/07/2007 02:59:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
