The State Library of WA provides study space and resources for Year 11 and 12 students as they prepare for year-end exams.
The University of Western Australia will adopt the Bologna model for its degree programs: five 3-year bachelor degrees will replace the current 70-odd courses and a range of professional postgrad degrees will provide specialised [...]
In an article for The Australian (newspaper), Bernard Lane points to some examples of universities re-using their publications data: publishing their research output online for easy, open access and using the repository’s bibliographic details for mandatory reports to government.
Most Australian universities have an online repository of their research papers, articles and theses. Some have adopted [...]
About a month ago I blogged about the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Improving Access to Public Sector Information and Data.
Submissions to the Inquiry are now available online.
I’m reasonably pleased with the Melbourne University document (PDF 1.2 Mb). M’colleague Sally and I were able to gather some useful input from well-informed people on very short notice [...]
The Victorian Parliament is conducting an Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Government Public Sector Information and Data.
Public submissions are invited from individuals, groups and organisations. Submissions close on Friday 22 August 2008.
The Inquiry has produced a 50-page Discussion Paper that explores some of the questions and issues to be addressed. In particular, they are [...]