We're gonna need a bigger boat, presentation by Rebecca Parker

At the Research Forum in Brisbane recently Rebecca Parker of Swinburne University Library gave a presentation on open access. I wasn't able to make it but here are the slides. Thanks to Rebecca for sharing it :)

We're gonna need a bigger boat: new directions for open access from Rebecca Parker

ANDS Webinar: Data Management Plan and Policy

Back in April Constance Wiebrands and I delivered a webinar on behalf of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS):

The ANDS Seeding the Commons - Data Management Plan and Policy, Friday 27th April 2012

I've just noticed that the audio of this one a whole lot more audio and videos are available on the ANDS Channel on Vimeo 

The ANDS site has a list of past and forthcming webinars on data management:

ANDS Webinars: Data Management Series

Research Support Services at ECU Library

This slidecast has been prepared by myself and Constance Wiebrands on behalf of Kate Davis, lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). It is intended for students in the Information Programs unit at QUT. Please post a message on the blog if you have any questions about our programs at ECU. Thanks, Julia

Research Support Services ECU Library from Julia Gross

Video on Keynote for iPad

At our next session with the faculty learning advisors I'll be showing Keynote, which I have just downloaded. I've been looking around for some videos to help me get started using Keynote on the iPad and found this one, which is pretty good.

Stockholm iPad ingenuity

I love this: New iPad Act - Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales

"You call it desert, we used to live there" Jimmy Pike

If you are in Perth and wandering by the University of Western Australia area in Nedlands drop by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and see the newly opened exhibition of the some of the wonderful works of the late Aboriginal artist, Jimmy Pike.

 Jimmy Pike’s Artlines: You call it desert, we used to live there.

Last night we went to the opening and I will definitely go back again when it is not so crowded to take another look and take advantage of the many events over the next few months while the exhibition runs. The works are felt tipped pen drawings and brilliantly coloured.

The late artist, Jimmy Pike, was a Walmajarri man from the Great Sandy Desert of WA whose family were "first contact" and lived a traditional hunter-gatherer life before coming into contact with white people in the 1950s. What an amazing and terrifying encounter that must have been. We can't begin to imagine.

The exhibition has been organised by UWA's Berndt Museum and it runs til September 15, 2012.

WAGUL Research Day

I'm on the planning committee of the WAGUL Research Day and tomorrow's the big day. WAGUL is the Western Australian University Library Group and they are funding the full day of workshops, guest speakers, lunch and teas provided. We have Wilna Macmillan coming across from Monash University Library in Melbourne to speak about research data management. It's going to be a very comprehensive program covering many aspects of research and university libraries.  UWA is hosting the event which is really a mini-conference.

This is the program:

WAGUL Research Day UWA June 27th 2012

9.00    Introduction

9.05    The Research Process - panel of researchers followed by small group work exploring the research process

10.30    Morning tea

11.00    Scholarly Communication – Publication and Peer Review Panel of journal editors followed by presentation on copyright and open access

12.00    Research funding

1.00    Lunch

2.00    Data management – presentation from Monash University followed by summary of WA university library initiatives

3.00    Research measurement – what it is and current WA university library initiatives

4.00    Putting it into practice

4.20    Wrap up and evaluation

Those of us on the committee will be having celebration drinks after!