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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
22 February 2008 – 2:32 pm
Congratulations to Professor Michael Geist, who has received a 2008 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award.
The award recognises “significant and influential contributions to the development of computer-mediated communications and to the empowerment of individuals in using computers and the Internet.”
Michael was a keynote speaker at the VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne earlier this month.
We at the […]
8 February 2008 – 4:05 pm
The Western New Year is a scant six weeks old, Chinese New Year has only just started, and already the University community has been treated to two Information Futures Forum lectures by international guest speakers.
Missed the forums? No worries — you can ‘attend’ online instead. Videos of both the forums are now available on the […]