Welcome to Australian Research Online - where you can search Australia’s research repositories.
The service is provided by the National Library of Australia. The records are harvested from the hosting repositories via the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Each record found through this service will link back to a record in the original repository. The contents of Australian Research Online are also indexed by Google, increasing the visibility of Australian research throughout the world.
Australian Research Online was developed with generous funding and support from the ARROW Project http://www.arrow.edu.au.
Currently more than half of Australian universities have public research repositories, which can be simultaneously searched through this site along with various government repositories. The service also searches several other collections of Australian research, including Australian Policy Online, and Australasian Digital Theses Program.
While the specific open access policies will vary between contributing institutions, repositories offer a vehicle for researchers to make their work publicly available. Researchers deposit a digital copy of their work, along with some descriptive information, into the repository. Most of the items discoverable through the site will have a digital copy available, although some may not yet have a file attached, and others may have access restricted.
It is anticipated that all Australian universities will develop repositories and as these become compliant with the OAI-PMH the service will grow to offer a comprehensive search of Australian research output. The research itself may be in any form - published or unpublished; text, image or dataset; historical or current. The National Library of Australia is keen to include as many sources of Australian research as possible.
Please contact us for information about contributing to the service. The Australian Research Online Guide for Repository Managers details technical requirements for inclusion in the service.