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 [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in collaboration, research, technology | Comments (0)

Mapping the top journals

8 July 2008 – 6:04 am

nbsp;Eigenfactor.org uses data from Thompson (publishers) to create a browsable map of relationships between academic disciplines, as evidenced in the citations published in top academic journals over the last five years.
From Eigenfactor’s home page you can also search for a specific journal and find two numbers that describe the journal:

Article Influence (AI): a measure [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in publishing, research | Comments (0)

More than words

29 March 2008 – 6:10 am

When we talk about scholarly information, it’s easy to assume we mean words, lots of words, published in books and articles.
In fact, the Information Futures Commission is interested in much more than text-based materials.
For example, let’s consider the image as a piece of scholarly information. In this post, I will describe two types of ’scholarly [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in search, users | Comments (0)