“Taking research to the real world”
Explore the commercial potential of QUT research at the bluebox commercialisation workshop for QUT research staff.
Taking place at The Stamford Plaza near QUT’s Gardens Point campus on Thursday, 24th April 2008, the workshop is a fantastic opportunity to network with successful entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, patent attorneys, and the bluebox team.
Session topics include:
- How is QUT research commercialised?
- What is intellectual property and why is it relevant to my research?
- How can I ensure my research outcomes are able to be commercialised?
Attendance is free and includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
| Date: |
Thursday, 24th April 2008 |
| Location: |
The River Room
Stamford Plaza Brisbane
Cnr Edward & Margaret Streets
Brisbane QLD 4000 |
| Map: |
Google Maps  |
| Cost: |
Free (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) |
| Flyer: |
Workshop flyer (pdf) |
| To register, contact: |
enquiries@qutbluebox.com.au |
| Registrations close: |
Friday, 18th April, 2008. |
The latest statistics (February 2008) for the QUT ePrints Archive indicate there are 9337 items in the repository with 1316 registered users.
981 new records were created in 2007. This represents a deposit rate almost double that of 2006 when 2202 new records were created. Many of these new records were created for the RQF and, although they are linked to the published version, some have no open access (OA) copy (postprint version) attached. However, at least some of the records created for the RQF included OA fulltext with the proportion of our total records that include OA fulltext still relatively high (approximately 75%).
A few days ago, the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities launched their new Ranking of Repositories as given at http://www.webometrics.info/top200_rep.asp.
QUT’s institutional repository QUT ePrints Archive, was the highest ranking Australian repository in the list.
With a rank of 28, we are the only Australian repository in the top 50. Large international discipline-based repositories (such as RePEc, ArXiv and the Arts & Humanities Data Service) are included in the list so our ranking would be even higher if only institutional repositories were being compared.
The ranking is based on visibility, number of pages (records) and number of ‘rich files’ (eg .doc, .ppt, .pdf ). That latter gives an indication of the amount of fulltext material in the repository.
This is becoming increasingly important as many universities have recently ingested tens of thousands of metadata-only records (i.e bibliographic details but no OA fulltext).
Zotero available at http://www.zotero.org/ is a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser, that enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the Firefox
browser. On websites that show search results such as those from library catalogue searches and electronic database searches Zotero with a mouse click finds and saves the full reference information for each citation to a local file. If the source is an online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a fulltext local copy of the source. Users can also add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the in-browser interface. Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies.
The program is produced by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University and is currently available in public beta.
It is open and extensible, allowing other users to contribute citation styles and site translators, and more generally for others who are building digital tools for researchers to expand the platform.
