Digital Repository Federation (DRF) in Japan has released The DRF (Digital Repository Federation) Report during 2006-2008.
Here's an excerpt:
Hokkaido University/Chiba University/Kanazawa University have organized Digital Repository Federation (DRF: 25 universities and 58 universities participated in 2006 and 2007, respectively) and worked on cooperation activities with support from CSI (Cyber Science Infrastructure)in order to form an IR community for IR promotion.
Main activities are:
- Construction of mailing list for information exchange on IR/Open Access and Wiki.
- Workshop for IR/Open Access
- International symposium for IR/Open Access
- International survey on cooperation model for IR
- Discussion on ideal future IR community