Congratualtions Fumiyo, I have to say that I am impressed by the amount of content you have and is surely an excellent start for the future of your IR. Perhaps you could give some details as to how you gathered your content, any particular strategies that you used, it's always helpful to see how other institutions are approaching this. Thanks and best of luck John Murtagh PS Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) launches in early December of this year. ________________________________________________ John Murtagh Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive Brunel Library Kingston Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH Tel. 0189 526 5417 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Intranet: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fumiyo OZAKI Sent: 06 October 2006 10:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Hiroshima Univ. IR (JAPAN) Hello, everyone I am sending this message from Hiroshima University Library,Japan. We are pleased to announce that our "Hiroshima University Insitutional Repository (HIR)" has opened formally on October 6th. http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/portal/index_e.html HIR has about 1700 contents including 500 green journal articles, university bulletins, proceedings, etc. In addition, 6000 digital collections (Japanese classic textbooks). In Japan, 57 universities are constructing their IR by "Next-generation scientific information resources infrastructure" that is called "CSI project". http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/index-e.html Best regards, Fumiyo OZAKI Institutional Repository Section Library Academic Information Preparation Group Hiroshima University Library JAPAN e-mail: [log in to unmask]