1. E-publishing Your Thesis and Research Papers
2. Copyright, Your Thesis and Future Publications
3. Research Data Management – humanities
4. Research Data Management  – sciences
5. Tools for Collaboration and Networking – wikis, blogs and social bookmarking
6. Using the Web for Surveys
7. Legal Framework for Your Thesis

The e-research workshops are designed for new research students, and for those considering a research higher degree (master’s or PhD). Participants will gain familiarity with skills, methodologies, tools and issues to enable them to participate effectively in the e-research environment.

New technologies are transforming the research environment in every academic discipline. E-research is any research activity that uses information and communication technology (ICT) and embraces new research methodologies.

The e-research training program for graduate researchers is a joint venture of the School of Graduate Studies and the University Library.

Library consultant Jennifer Warburton also provides specialist support for graduate research students throughout the year.

Given the Information Futures Commission’s focus on teaching and learning in the Digital Age, I would like to propose that the Project Team include the paper entitled “Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity” as a recommended resource for academic staff.

This paper has recently been published by Dr Kathleen Gray, Dr Celia Thompson (University of Melbourne), Dr Rosemary Clerehan and Dr Judithe Sheard (Monash University) and Dr Margaret Hamilton (RMIT University),in the Internet and Higher Education journal (2008).

It raises questions concerning academic integrity in relation to current referencing and citation style guides and argues that these guides are inadequate to the task. We suggest that traditional concepts of authorship need to be reformed in order to accommodate the collaborative and multi-voiced dimensions of authorship afforded by Web 2.0 authoring tools such as wikis, blogs and social bookmarking.

Please see below for the abstract. The full paper is available.

Abstract:

Web 2.0 authoring forms such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and audio and video podcasting pose a challenge to academic authorship traditions. This paper reviews the provisions made in major academic referencing and citation style guides for acknowledging content and ideas that may be published using these new web authoring forms. It offers an overview of features of web 2.0 authoring forms and explores concepts of authoring that can help academics to understand the challenges of working with these forms. It provides examples of referencing and citation in scholarly and scientific communication, and concludes that the conceptual basis of referencing and citation as expressed in current systems and standards needs reform in order to bring academic integrity to the use of these new forms of authorship.

Thanks, Celia :-)