Category Archives: repositories

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 [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in archives, collaboration, hr, implementation 2009, knowledge transfer, library management systems, publishing, research | Comments (0)

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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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, [...]

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UK inventory of repositories and archives

7 February 2008 – 6:17 am

JISC has conducted an inventory of non-commercial digital repositories & archives — when you get to the JISC site, scroll to the foot of the page for links to the final report. (Tip o’ the hat to Library Intelligencer for this link.)

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