Category Archives: publishing

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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E-research training for graduate students

19 March 2009 – 6:29 am

The Semester One 2009 program of UpSkills training for graduate research students is now available. It includes a series of seven e-research workshops:

E-publishing Your Thesis and Research Papers
Copyright, Your Thesis and Future Publications
Research Data Management – humanities
Research Data Management  – sciences
Tools for Collaboration and Networking – wikis, blogs and social bookmarking
Using the Web for Surveys
Legal [...]

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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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Mapping the top journals

8 July 2008 – 6:04 am

nbsp;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 [...]

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The future according to…

12 June 2008 – 6:40 am

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 [...]

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