[BOAI] The report on Digital Repository Federation (DRF) in Japan

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Hideki Uchijima, via the JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter 
Suber.]


Dear all,

   Digital Repository Federation (DRF) in Japan has released a report on 
the activities
of DRF during 2006-08.

   Digital Repository Federation (DRF) was initiated by three national 
universities
- Hokkaido, Chiba, Kanazawa - as one of Institutional Repository Programs 
subsidized
and supported by NII (National Institute of Informatics) in Japan.
   DRF is an independent body by IR managers to promote institutional 
repositories and
Open Access. At present, 89 universities and institutions in Japan 
participate in DRF.
Its activities include sharing information about IRs and Open Access by 
mailing list,
wiki, workshops at regional and national revel.

  DRF has also been getting involved in international activities.

  DRF held international conference on institutional repositories and Open 
Access (DIRFIC
2008) in 2008 at Osaka University which is one of top research universities 
in Japan.
More than 200 librarians and IR managers joined this conference from 
several countries
in Asia and Europe.
   DRF has also exchanged MoU with DRIVER last November at the venue of 
SPARC Digital
Repository Meeting 2008 for mutual cooperation to contribute to the 
establishment of
institutional repository infrastructure, share technical and non-technical 
information
on the management of IRs.

   DRF report during 2006-08 :
    http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=Digital%20Repository
    %20Federation%20%28in%20English%29&openfile=DRF%20report%20during%202006-08.pdf 


  about DRF :
   http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?Digital%20Repository%20Federation%20%28in%20English%29 


  For further information:
    Please contact: Hideki Uchijima  uchijima at ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

Hideki UCHIJIMA
Librarian
Kanazawa University Library
Kakuma
Kanazawa City
Ishikawa Prefecture JAPAN
Telephone : +81-76-264-5203
Fax : +81-76-234-4050
Mail:uchijima at ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
http://www.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/index.html
http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/dspace
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