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Research Online: Achieving Success, Michael K. Organ
Research Online: Achieving Success, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A description is given of the powerful outreach program that has brought Research Online 8 journals, 5000+ full text objects, and over 1 million downloads, all without a mandate. The author identifies key factors that have contributed to Research Online’s success and identifies hands-on strategies for attendees to take back to their home institution.
Leveraging Research Quality Assessment Exercises To Increase Repository Content - An Australian Case Study, Michael K. Organ
Leveraging Research Quality Assessment Exercises To Increase Repository Content - An Australian Case Study, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The legacy of Australia’s national research quality assessment process – Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) - at the University of Wollongong during 2010 was improved integration between the institutional repository and research management systems, and a move towards digitisation of the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) with consequent flow-on of metadata and digital objects to the institutional repository. Whilst ERA was a diversion from the task of securing open access content through faculty promotion and one-on-one contact with researchers, it nevertheless gave rise to a semi-automated process which promised improved rates of content acquisition.
Clarke, Coal And Controversy: The Traumas Of Reverend W.B. Clarke In His Defence Of Australian Geology During The Nineteenth Century, Michael K. Organ
Clarke, Coal And Controversy: The Traumas Of Reverend W.B. Clarke In His Defence Of Australian Geology During The Nineteenth Century, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
[Extract] Though readily given the title Father of Australian geology , the Reverend W.B. Clarke remains something of a mysterious figure to Australian geologists. When asked what his major achievements were, few would be able to offer an answer. Yet such disregard is commonly the fate of many pioneers in the field of science, for once a discovery is made, or theory proven, the profession moves on to new and more challenging fields, with scant regard for the foundations upon which current work is based.... William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878) was a pioneer in the field of Australian science who, though …