The University of Sydney library launched its Sydney eScholarship Repository. The Repository aims to:
bring together, in one secure digital repository, as much of the research and scholarly material which is generated by the wide variety of academic areas of the University of Sydney...The eScholarship Repository will provide long term preservation for a wide variety of material currently stored in a variety of electronic data bases and on individual computers. It will store numerous different digital formats including, text, audio, video images and data sets. Material in the repository will be discovered through web search engines such as Google.
Through its 'Communities' it is also hoped that the Repository can facilitate communication between researchers.