Some publishers aren’t scared of new technologies - they are finding ways to use mobile applications to enhance the reading experience.
The Little, Brown paperback edition of Iain M Banks’s latest novel, Transition, comes with a unique barcode. Scan the barcode with your iPhone and it will download companion features for the novel [...]
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 Australian Research Council (ARC) has asked universities to provide information about their researchers’ publication records, so that it can test a suite of performance indicators. The aim, apparently, is to propose that the new performance indicators form part of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework.
Peter Merholz observes that conferences [...]
The Information Futures Commission raised lots of questions about how the University of Melbourne wants to engage in public action and advocacy about Open Access and intellectual property.
Partly as a result of contacts we made via the boss’s US study tour, we can now announce that Australia has joined the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative that [...]
