Category Archives: knowledge transfer

Research data management, an emerging role for academic libraries

26 March 2009 – 6:32 am

The capture and storage of research data, and its preservation over time, is an emerging challenge for universities and other research institutions.
The University Library has a leading role in establishing standards, procedures and services to help researchers preserve their original data. We were therefore delighted to meet Robin Rice, who visited this month.
In a meeting [...]

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Grant available for a library research project

23 January 2009 – 12:09 pm

The Redmond Barry Fellowship is named in honour of Sir Redmond Barry (1813-1880), a founder of the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria.
Valued at A$20,000, the Fellowship is open to scholars and writers to facilitate research and the production of works of literature that utilise the superb collections of the State Library [...]

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Measuring a cultural institution

28 July 2008 – 6:49 am

The BBC has in many ways pushed the adoption and acceptance of the Internet in the UK. For example, it is required to provide a public whole-of-web search engine that takes users to non-BBC web sites.
Here are a few factoids that illustrate how the impact of a cultural institution like the BBC might be measured.
The [...]

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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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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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