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COVID-19 presents opportunity to re-think diversity in Australian HE
As universities across Australia look to enrol more domestic students in 2021, trends indicate that female students are likely to dominate first year intakes across the country.
If a publication lands in the library and nobody is near, does it still make a noise?
The evolution of the internet has resulted in digitisation of many scholarly tomes, but also further obscured what we know about the influence of monographs.
Battle of the Benchmarks
Setting one benchmark for universities is hard.
Setting 27 benchmarks is a herculean task…
Fireside Chats at the Open Publishing Festival
Project co-lead Cameron Neylon writes about online festivals, celebrating success and the challenges of infrastructure.
Avoiding thought bubble captivity
How do you avoid talking to the same groups of individuals with your research publications?
How else can community be built?
In September last year – or in another universe depending on how you want to look at it – the COKI project received funding from Arcadia …
Spotlight on an invisible continent
Over the past 20 years, higher education systems in wealthier countries have embraced narrow rankings systems which purport to evaluate and recognise global excellence but in fact exclude many of the discoveries and insights of universities in countries in the Global South.
Why open knowledge is central to the future of HE
Around the world, respect for the work of university researchers appears to be on the rise.
The Virus Pandemic’s Greatest Lesson
The threat of COVID-19 to health and economies has sparked an unprecedented growth in open access to research outputs.
COKI Open Knowledge Dashboards
The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) project is developing online, interactive data dashboards relating to aspects of university research performance. Dashboards include a broad range
UK Universities face diversity dilemma
The intersections between less privileged groups are easy to overlook – but essential to understand in order to develop a clearer picture of equity, diversity,
A data repository tracking open access books
There are often lots of questions when we talk about our latest project, building the world’s first data repository for open access books. Most people
Building knowledge one byte at a time
Great careers often don’t take linear paths. Most people don’t tend to phone in for their job interview on their way to board a ship
Curtin develops cyber knowledge bank for open-access books
Curtin University researchers will help create a new international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of open-access (OA) books, which will be delivered through a US$1.2 million (AUD$1.75 million) project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Universities find relevance in sharing knowledge
Open Access and Open Data are critical elements of effective vibrant scholarly communication systems.