Monthly Archives: March 2008

FAQ 14 March: Why aren’t my comments appearing here?

14 March 2008 – 4:10 pm

Comments on this weblog are moderated, both by Akismet (software for detecting spam) and by humans. Depending on workloads in the Information Futures Commission office, there may be a short delay before a new comment is approved for publication.
Comments submitted without a valid email address will not be approved.
Please see this blog’s comments policy for [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in about, faq | Comments (0)

FAQ 6 March: What are ’scholarly information and technologies’?

6 March 2008 – 3:58 pm

Question: What are ’scholarly information and technologies’?
Answer: This is a phrase you will often see or hear in relation to the Information Futures Commission. We use the phrase to describe four types of information:

Published information and collections used by our scholars to inform their learning, teaching and research. Published information and collections may be [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in about, faq | Comments (0)

Open Access to Murdoch Uni innovation

6 March 2008 – 6:03 am

Zablon Njiru and Andrew Thompson of Murdoch University, and their research team, have developed a relatively simple, low-tech and low-cost blood test for identifying the presence of trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness.
Instead of selling their elegant innovation to a pharmaceutical company, they have published their method in an Open Access refereed journal [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in access, knowledge transfer, publishing, research | Comments (2)

Questioning authority in an EPIC future

4 March 2008 – 6:48 am

Following my post last month (four short videos about scholarly information and technology), here’s another one for you to enjoy.
EPIC was first released in 2005. It was made for the (fictional) Museum of Media History. It’s a timeline for the next decade, imagining what might happen to news media as the Internet became more ubiquitous. [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in access, publishing, users | Comments (0)