The Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS) project aims to promote the publicly funded research produced at New Zealand universities, polytechnics and other organisations, and make this research easier to find.
KRIS is a joint project of the National Library and many of New Zealand's universities and polytechnics. A governance group, with representatives from the research sector and government, has been established to guide the future development of the project.
The KRIS website
Many New Zealand research institutions operate institutional repositories, where digital copies of research produced at that institution (such as theses and journal articles) are stored. The KRIS website is a single place where users can search across these individual repositories.
The KRIS website is located at http://nzresearch.org.nz
The website makes it easy to find the research held in institutional repositories, for the mutual benefit of researchers, research users, and research institutions. The site has simple and advanced search options, including comprehensive subject, author, institution and date classifications.
The KRIS website was officially launched in November 2007 at the Digital Future Summit.
Metadata harvesting
The KRIS website does not host copies of all the digital documents stored in the individual repositories. It is a collection of the metadata published by the institutions. A daily metadata harvest of the repositories collects records that have been added or changed in the past 24 hours; a full harvest is performed approximately monthly.
More about metadata harvesting – KRIS website
