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, […]
Eigenfactor.org uses data from Thompson (publishers) to create a browsable map of relationships between academic disciplines, as evidenced in the citations published in top academic journals over the last five years.
From Eigenfactor’s home page you can also search for a specific journal and find two numbers that describe the journal:
Article Influence (AI): a measure […]
Some of our leading suppliers of technology and books visited the Melbourne University campus last month to share their thoughts about the next 10 years.
Videos are now available on the Information Futures web site — follow the links below. Each presentation is 20-30 minutes long.
Blackboard’s Regional Manager, Tony Macguire, talked about the changing expectations and […]
By Margaret L Ruwoldt
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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 […]
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. […]