School of Education items in the Research Repository

The RMIT University Research Repository has been operating for a little while now and items are starting to flow through from the School of Education. Items are being identified from HERDC but there is also information on how you can contribute research items to the Repository in the FAQs. This is a great way to raise your research profile as well as allowing you to easily point colleagues to published research .

To search on particular author names you will need to use the Advanced search option. You will be able to see the number of times each publication has been viewed. There is also the option to set up an RSS feed so that you are alerted when new publications by an author are added. Here are some of the publications currently included:

• Michael Crowhurst
• Heather Fehring
• Annette Gough
• Berenice Nyland

ACER educational research repository

ACEReSearch is the online research repository of the Australian Council
for Educational Research, maintained by the Cunningham Library.

ACEReSearch contains in excess of 450 reports, working papers,
conference papers produced by ACER and available for access and download
free of charge.

Visitors to the repository can subscribe to an RSS feed or customize
their own email alert to parameters of their choosing if they want to be
informed of recent additions to the repository.

The repository provides full-text access to Research Development, ACER’s
newsletter, produced twice year.

The Australian Journal of Education is also hosted on ACEReSearch. It
provides access to the tables of contents and abstracts of recently
published issues of the journal.

UK University to make all research open access

Via Library Intelligencer and CILIP blog, and article from the Financial Times on University College London making all their research freely available online.

Paul Ayris, head of the UCL library and an architect of the plan to put all its research on a freely accessible UCL website, said he had backed open access because the existing system of having to visit a library or pay a subscription fee to see research in journals erected “barriers” to the use of research. “This is not good for society if you’re looking for a cure for cancer,” he said.

UPDATE: 10 University-Press Directors Back Free Access to Scholarly Articles

Some reasons to include your research in the new RMIT University Research Repository

With the recent launching of the RMIT Research Repository, it is now possible to showcase your research outputs locally and globally.

What is the RMIT Research Repository?
A digital collection of RMIT University research outputs which provides a single and safe location for the authoritative version of your work.

What are the benefits of including my research outputs in the RMIT Research Repository?
√  Enjoy higher citation rates and an increase in profile
√  Improve your chances of obtaining research funding
√  Reveal your research to the world and the RMIT University community
√  Increase your chances of collaboration with other Australian and overseas researchers
√  Make your research outputs available via Google Scholar, the Arrow Project and the OAIster project

How can I view what is already in the Repository?
Go to the Repository website to search by individual or multiple criteria.

For further information regarding the inclusion of your work in the RMIT Research Repository, contact us at repository@rmit.edu.au

[Source : Keely Chapman -- Librarian, Digital Repository]

UPDATE: To the information sent through from the Digital Repository Librarian above I’ll also add that the repository

• doesn’t require surrendering copyright
• will allow you to link to articles from your CV or website
• provides ongoing and stable hosting of material
• will allow you to include a wide variety of different material
• allows access to those who haven’t got access to intitutional subscriptions to journals etc.

RMIT University Research Repository launch

RMIT Research Repository launch RMIT’s institutional digital repository is being launched on Thursday, 9 April. This new repository means RMIT’s research output can now be held in the one place and searched via the web, providing free, access to RMIT’s research publications. Benefits include: enabling harvest of the records by major search engines such as Google; increasing the impact and citation rates of RMIT’s research publications; facilitating collaboration between researchers through easy exchange of information; preserving RMIT’s research output for the future; and helping to raise the profile of RMIT as a research institution.

[Source: Carmen Riordan, RMIT University Library]