The National Research Discovery Service Project aims to open up the publicly funded research produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions in New Zealand through a central website that will promote the research and make it easy to find.
The National Research Discovery Service is a joint project of the National Library and many of New Zealand's universities and polytechnics.
About institutional repositories
An Institutional Repository is a secure storage space for the digital documents stored at an institution, such as a university or polytechnic. Many New Zealand institutions maintain an institutional repository to protect their research outputs.
This project has built the Kiwi Research Information Service website, http://nzresearch.org.nz, that makes it easy to find the research held in institutional repositories in New Zealand, for the mutual benefit of researchers, research users, and research institutions.
National Research Discovery Service project partners
The Library initially worked with three partners, each of whom is a consortium representing a larger group of universities and polytechnics. They are:
- Coda – a consortium of six institutes of technology and polytechnics, led by the Manukau Institute of Technology
- Institutional Repositories Aotearoa – a consortium of the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury, and Victoria University of Wellington, led by the University of Auckland Library
- Open Access Repositories in New Zealand – a consortium of twelve universities and polytechnics led by the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Institutional Repositories Aotearoa website
Open Access Repositories in New Zealand website
The Tertiary Education Commission funded these three projects and the National Research Discovery Service through the e-Learning Collaborative Development Fund.
e-Learning Collaborative Development Fund – Tertiary Education Commission website
As the National Research Discovery Service project progressed, it included other research institutions, and now works with representatives from all of New Zealand's universities and many polytechnics.
