Category Archives: research

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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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 [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in knowledge transfer | Comments (0)

Can you picture that?

28 November 2008 – 4:13 pm

The Director of eResearch, Professor Leon Sterling, and the Melbourne Research Office are offering a $10,000 development grant in 2009 for University of Melbourne researchers to create an innovative demonstration of the visualisation capabilities of our OptiPortal facility.
Developed in partnership with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and with funding from the Victorian state [...]

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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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