Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure

http://www.innovation.gov.au/ScienceAndResearch/Documents/Strategic%20Roadmap%20Aug%202008.pdf
Following a structured process of consultation with stakeholders, this Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure builds on the 2006 Roadmap, and presents a renewed view of where strategic infrastructure investments should be made over the next five to 10 years.

Australian universities among the top 50 most cited research institutions in the world

Universities in Australia are ranked amongst the world’s top 50 most frequently cited research institutions over a period of five years from January 2003 to December 2007. This is according to data derived from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database of the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. The ranking derived from [...]

Streamlining Collaboration in an e-Research World

http://www.e-research.law.qut.edu.au/2008-StreamliningCollaboration
The Legal Framework for e-Research Project presented a public forum entitled, “Streamlining Collaboration in an e-Research World” on Friday, 13 June 2008 in Brisbane, at the Queensland University of Technology Kelvin Grove campus.
The Project’s 2007 survey report entitled Legal and Project Agreement Issues in Collaboration and e-Research: Survey Results showed that [...]

Microsoft launches free collaboration tools for researchers

http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65992/
Microsoft announced a set of free software tools for helping researchers publish, preserve, and share data. The utilities include an authoring add-in for Word 2007 for capturing document metadata; a Creative Commons add-in for Office 2007; an e-journal service for self-publishing of online-only journals; a research output repository platform; and a collaborative workspace for researchers.
Campus [...]

Collaborating to a purpose

http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/CRCReviewReport.pdf
review of the CRC program July 2008

FINDINGS OF THE SCOPING STUDY INTERVIEWS AND THE RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/docs/ScopingStudyInterviews-Workshop%20Findings.pdf
The project Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management is a joint effort in between the Office of the Director of IT, the Oxford University Computing Services, the Oxford University Library Services and the Oxford e-Research Centre. The project reports to the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group and aims to scope requirements, including underlying [...]

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship

James A. Evans
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse—electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. [...]

Research Trends (Elsevier) July 2008

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESC001/m4UFAO8/uNCRMM8/xRD7JO8
The value of bibliometric measures
Journal analysis
What can journal analysis tell us? Research Trends takes a closer look at a collection of French Medical journals and a collection of physics journals.

Research trends
Journal publication: why the Netherlands is so prolific
The share of world articles is dominated by those countries with [...]

International comparative performance of the UK research base

http://www.dius.gov.uk/publications/IntComparativePerformanceUKResearch.pdf
The UK has increased its share of research published in the world’s most influential scientific journals, according to a report published by the UK’s Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). The report analysed 17 million papers and 22.5 million citations in 8000 of the world’s leading scientific journals. It was found that the UK [...]

Online researchers have access to more articles but cite fewer

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/07/online-researchers-have-access-to-more.html
James Evans has an article in the July 18 issue of Science Magazine, showing that when researchers have access to more papers, they cite fewer of them in their own work.  The July 18 isn’t yet online, but here’s an article from today’s Economist about Evans’ research.  (Thanks to Heather Joseph).  Excerpt:
…[James [...]