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Media Release

April 24 2007

A worldwide window on UniSA research

Arrow@UniSA is new digital research archiveA new internet portal is set to open a window on the world of UniSA research.

Arrow@UniSA, a digital archive of the University’s intellectual output, will allow staff, students and the wider public to easily access UniSA research.

It will be launched this Thursday as part of the national Commonwealth-funded Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (arrow) project.

Director of Library Services, Helen Livingston, said arrow@UniSA is a one-stop showcase of the breadth and diversity of the University’s research.

“The service provides an easy way to discover the work of UniSA’s inquiring minds,” Livingston said.

“Research theses have been available via the Australian Digital Theses program for several years but there has been no one place to find UniSA's output. Arrow@UniSA changes that by providing access to theses, reports and articles from every discipline not only to university members but to anyone interested in leading edge research.”

One of the system’s special qualities is that it allows staff and students in postgraduate research degrees to deposit completed works in arrow@UniSA.

Authors can also determine the level of access to their content.

“It offers centralised, secure and ongoing access to UniSA’s research output and ensures its preservation, which is a central goal of arrow@UniSA,” Livingston said.

It is anticipated that by making it is easier to find UniSA’s research, research impact – a vital measurement in the new Research Quality Framework – will increase.

Livingston added that arrow@UniSA will raise the profile of UniSA, its research and researchers.

“In the future, arrow@UniSA data will be harvested by the Arrow Discovery Service, Libraries Australia, OpenDOAR and other open access discovery tools and it will be made available to the world.”

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