Category Archives: publishing

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 | Also posted in access, knowledge transfer, 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. [...]

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Open Access and the privacy tradeoff

23 February 2008 – 6:45 am

Writing for Inside Higher Ed, librarian and professor Barbara Fister examines the trade-offs we make when signing up for that new Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn account.
When you participate in such online communities, you give up some of your right to privacy and some aspects of control over the intellectual property you create in that environment. [...]

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A paper about writing scientific papers

20 February 2008 – 10:14 am

Whenever I revisit it, E Robert Schulman’s “How to Write a Scientific Paper” makes me chortle.

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Comments (1)

Melbourne 6th in Australia, 128th in world for web visibility

14 February 2008 – 6:29 am

The Webometrics.info project uses four metrics to calculate a ranking of the online research profile of the world’s universities:

Size: Number of pages recovered from four search engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
Visibility: Total number of unique inbound links external links, based on results from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
Rich files: Number of PDF, [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in access, online, repositories, research, search | Comments (0)