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July 10th, 2009

Japan: Digital Repository Federation Report released

Here’s the beginning. You can find the English report (PDF) here.

Hokkaido University/Chiba University/Kanazawa University have organized Digital Repository Federation (DRF: 25 universities and 58 universities participated in 2006 and 2007, respectively) and worked on cooperation activities with support from CSI (Cyber Science Infrastructure)in order to form an IR community for IR promotion.

Main activities are:

Construction of mailing list for information exchange on IR/Open Access and Wiki.

Workshop for IR/Open Access

International symposium for IR/Open Access

International survey on cooperation model for IR

Discussion on ideal future IR community

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