Institutional Repository ecosystem in Japan, IRDB and JAIRO Cloud

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

Ecosystem of institutional repositories that we are promoting is made up from the two systems. IRDB (Institutional Repositories DataBase) provides integrated linking to external systems among more than 400 institutional repositories in Japan. Specifically, it works together with the National Diet Library’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation archiving system. In order to identify the content, JaLC DOI, the Japan Link Center Digital Object Identifier is also provided for institutional repository original contents. JAIRO Cloud supplies equalization environment of institutional repository for the participant institutions. JAIRO Cloud is SaaS-type institutional repository Cloud service for Japanese academic institutions. The National Institute of Informatics developed a software of it and has provided it since April 2012. The number of the participants has reached to 192 as of January 2014. This is about 40% of all Japanese institutional repositories. We can take advantage of this large share and features of a cloud computing to deploy advanced functions which deliver intersystem links between institutional repositories and external systems.