In the lead up to next month’s Australian Heritage Festival, where part of QUT Library’s wonderful digital photographic collection will be on display, we thought we’d show you some of the rare images of Ireland we are preserving and making available for the whole world. Part of “Traversing…
Five Open Access Tips for 21st century researchers: Tip #5 Access Open Research
This #OAWeek we are introducing five tips on how to make your research open and find open research. Yesterday we looked at growing your impact with QUT ePrints. Today we’re looking at accessing open research. What would you do if your library subscription access was suddenly cut off? …
Five Open Access Tips for 21st century researchers: Tip #4 Grow your impact with QUT ePrints
This #OAWeek we are introducing five tips on how to make your research open and find open research. Yesterday we looked at publishing wisely, and today’s tip is Grow you impact with QUT ePrints. QUT ePrints is our institutional repository of research outputs, showcasing the research of QUT staff…
Five Open Access Tips for 21st century researchers: Tip #3 Publish wisely
During #OAWeek we have been introducing five Open Access tips for 21st Century Researchers. Today we are taking a look at Tip #3: Publish wisely. Tools and repositories such as Think Check Submit, the Directory of Open Access Journals and OpenDOAR can help you identify trusted journals for…
Five Open Access Tips for 21st century researchers: Tip #2
Open your work with a Creative Commons Licence This #OAWeek we are introducing five tips on how to make your research open and find open research. Yesterday we looked at ORCiD; today’s tip is Open your work with a Creative Commons licence. Open Access is the free,…
Five Open Access tips for 21st century researchers: Tip #1
It’s #OAWeek and we’ll be introducing a set of key tools for researchers throughout the week. To kick it off we’re talking about researcher identifiers, specifically ORCiD. These Identifiers – basically the essential descriptive metadata of a researcher – will be become increasingly important as open access evolves…
Authorship, Publication and Peer Review training
QUT Library and the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI) are once again offering training sessions for HDR students and Early Career Researchers on Authorship and Publication and Journal Peer Review. Session 1: Monday 13 May 2019 – 9.30am – 11.30am Authorship and Publication will cover the…
It’s Christmas time, and there’s no need to be afraid…
Around the world and across Australia the Christian celebration of Christmas is in the air (and on our screens, in our ears and along our streets). For many it’s a time to catch up with friends and family, to have some time off work or study, to go…
International Human Rights Day
On Monday 10 December we celebrate International Human Rights Day. While it will be celebrated in different ways by different people, the message around the world is the same. This year the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70. The document, which proclaimed the inalienable right to which…
Open access week on tour at QUT
Guest blog by Ginny Barbour, Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group & Professor at the Division of Research and Commercialisation, Office of Research Ethics & Integrity QUT As we head towards the end of October – we turn our focus to a week dedicated to open access (OA). Now…