Kiwi Research Information Service — National Library of New Zealand

About the Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS)

The goal of KRIS is to make it easy for people to access publicly available research produced in New Zealand institutions. The KRIS website http://nzresearch.org.nz offers a single place for people to search across a range of research repositories.

KRIS is a collaboration between the National Library and New Zealand universities and polytechnics.

Project background – KRIS website

List of participating institutions – KRIS website

About institutional repositories

A repository is a secure storage space for digital documents. Many New Zealand institutions maintain an institutional repository to protect and preserve their research outputs.

Download the briefing paper for more information. It sets out the role of KRIS in the research landscape and describes some of the issues involved in working with repositories.

Research repositories briefing paper: (doc, 230 KB), (pdf, 342 KB)

The KRIS website collects metadata from New Zealand institutional repositories and presents it in one place. This means people can access research documents from a large number of institutions in one place.

More about institutional repositories – KRIS website

About metadata harvesting

The KRIS website does not contain copies of any of the research documents held by participating institutions. Instead, it is a database containing copies of document metadata, the descriptions of the documents held in individual repositories. People searching KRIS for research are searching this metadata, which is presented as a record; each record links to the original document in an institutional repository.

The metadata is collected through nightly harvesting. You can find out more about metadata harvesting on the KRIS website. We have also made our metadata guidelines available.

More about metadata harvesting – KRIS website

Download the metadata guidelines

KRIS governance group

Representing CONZUL: Janet Copsey (Chair), The University of Auckland

Representing NZVCC Standing Committee on IT (SCIT): Kevin Adamson, Waikato University

Representing NZVCC Standing Committee on Research: Theresa Sawicka, Victoria University of Wellington

Representing Polytechnics - library and technical: Nicki Page, CPIT, and Barbara Garriock, MIT

Representing National Library: Jenny McDonald; KRIS Product Manager, Emerson Vandy

Representing Ministry of Education: Mark Horgan

Representing MSI: Julie Watson.

KRIS Institutional Repository Administrators Seminar

This seminar was hosted by the National Library of New Zealand on 19 June 2009, to facilitate discussion about current issues across New Zealand's institutional repositories and provide a forum for sharing experiences with repository staff from other institutions.

Download the original programme (doc)

Download the list of attendees (doc)