Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)

The aims of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) Project were to establish a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format.

Online collections of scholarly materials are bringing about a quiet revolution in the way researchers work. Researchers have faster easier ways of finding and analyzing research materials. New modes of research and new research methodologies are all now possible. APSR was a partnership that aimed to promote excellence in building & managing these collections of digital research objects.

The Partnership received Federal Government funding to assist Australian researchers with research information management. To this end, APSR conducted outreach and educational programs and undertakes collaborative development of systems and tools.

The Partnership was an eclectic one including major research universities, the National Library of Australia, and APAC (Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing). This reflected the broad nature of the issues faced and the capabilities required in managing Australia’s research data and scholarly information in digital format.

APSR worked closely with research communities, information professionals, technical staff, and higher education policy makers on a series of development projects, surveys, publications, seminars, and training workshops. The Partnership aimed to help create the systems required for managing data and information in a research environment and simultaneously to increase the capability of Australian researchers to do so.

http://apsr.anu.edu.au/about.html