Arrow is an Australian project developing institutional repository facilities for Australian Universities. The National Library of Australia will provide a 'national discovery layer' for the initiative. At Members' Council somebody compared an institutional repository to a vertical file system; Arrow has a vertical file system motif on its web pages.

The project has just selected its repository software:

Blacksburg, VA - VTLS and the ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) Project are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to develop VITAL and FEDORA^TM as the solution to address ARROW's research repository needs. VITAL is one of the newest products from VTLS and is based on the open source digital object repository FEDORA^TM. FEDORA^TM was originally conceived and designed at Cornell University with funding from the National Science Foundation. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the open-source FEDORA^TM that is jointly being developed by the University of Virginia and Cornell University. In reaching agreement with VTLS, the ARROW project now joins the FEDORA^TM development partnership that includes the University of Virginia, Cornell University, VTLS and other academic and commercial stakeholders.[VTLS Inc. | Customer Support]