About

Welcome to the ARROW Discovery Service - where you can search Australia’s research repositories.

The service is provided by the National Library of Australia. The records are harvested from the hosting repositories via the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Each record found through this service will link back to a record in the original repository. The contents of the ARROW Discovery Service are also indexed by Google, increasing the visibility of Australian research throughout the world.

The Discovery Service was developed with generous funding and support from the ARROW Project http://www.arrow.edu.au.

Please contact the manager of the ARROW Discovery Service arrow@nla.gov.au for further information.

Currently, more than half of Australian universities have public research repositories, which can be simultaneously searched through this site. While the specific open access policies will vary between universities, these repositories offer a vehicle for researchers to make their work publicly available. Researchers deposit a digital copy of their work, along with some descriptive information, into the repository. Most of the items discoverable through the site will have a digital copy available, although some may not yet have a file attached, and others may have access restricted.

It is anticipated that all Australian universities will develop repositories in the next two years, and the service will grow to offer a comprehensive search of Australian research output. The research itself may be in any form - published or unpublished; text, image or dataset; historical or current. The National Library of Australia is keen to include as many sources of Australian research as possible.

The service also searches several other collections of Australian research, including Australian Policy Online, and Australasian Digital Theses Program.