Library Researcher Week

Library Researcher Week, 8-12 October 2018, will draw together a week of presentations, workshops and discussion of research issues. There will be a range of dynamic and prominent researchers and experts presenting on themes covering publishing, managing research data, social media, researcher profiles and more!

The Library Researcher Week website provides the full Program and Participants.

Library Researcher Week is open to the RMIT University research community (academic staff and postgraduate research students).

Venue: Swanston Library Megaflex Building 10, level 6, Rooms 063/064

Contact your liaison librarian for more information.

Research Skills for HDR Candidates

The Library recently launched a range of online modules specifically designed for PhD and Masters by research candidates.

Research Skills for HDR Candidates covers:

• Researching your literature review
• Setting up your researcher profile
• Choosing where to publish.

Each module takes about 30 minutes to complete and includes practical activities that will benefit your research.  We encourage you to provide feedback and tell us what you think.

Further topics will be added in the future:

• Are you being cited?
• EndNote for your thesis.

These are online versions of the research skills workshops taught in the School of Graduate Research PhDUp program.   

If you would like to attend a face-to-face workshop, see the Library’s Researchers web page, or the PhD Up program, for details of available workshops.

Please contact your liaison librarian for further information or to book a research consultation.

Digital research lunchtime catchup

Circular economy database launched

"A new global database drawing on information from 60 countries has been launched to support the growth of the circular economy.

Compiled by the Circular Economy Club (CEC), on the back of its international Mapping Week project the open-source database is designed to accelerate the impact of circularity.

“If we aim to move towards a circular economy, we first need to understand what is already being done. It is imperative that circular economy advocates come together and clearly document what each of us knows. This database puts these abstract concepts into a tangible form that helps form a clearer picture,”  CEC founder Anna Tarí said in a press release.

One message that came from the 2000 plus participants – from more than 100 cities – that took part in the Mapping Week was that there needs to be better communication among stakeholders.

Anna added: “Something mentioned in most workshop sessions was that stakeholders are not talking effectively among themselves. We suspect this lack of communication may directly influence why certain industries—such as investment, financial and public sectors—appear to be grossly underrepresented in findings.”

A post-mapping week campaign is being planned to build on the lessons learned. Check out the CEC website for updates."

Access the database.

[Source: Innovators Magazine]