Category Archives: access

Changing our scholarly communication habits

12 July 2008 – 6:56 am

The Create Change web site “is an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognise the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.”
The site explains why Open Access publishing is beneficial to academic researchers, teachers and students, [...]

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Web2.0 and authorship: suggested reading

9 May 2008 – 9:20 am

Posted on behalf of Dr Celia Thompson (Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts):
Given the Information Futures Commission’s focus on teaching and learning in the Digital Age, I would like to propose that the Project Team include the paper entitled “Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity” as a recommended resource for [...]

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FAQ 21 March: Who uses our library collections?

21 March 2008 – 6:30 am

Good question!
The Library regularly collects statistics about its activities. For example, we know how many items are checked out every year from the Legal Resource Centre – click the image below to see a larger version of the graph.

Another example: we know that in the week ending 4 August 2006 library staff received 197 telephone [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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