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Mr Paul Mercieca

Position	Lecturer
School / Work Unit	Business Information Technology
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 5825 paul.mercieca@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 108 Level: 17 Room: 71 City Campus
Portfolio	Business

Paul has developed skills in information management, digital publishing, commercial consultancy services and higher education provision. These skills have been developed through leadership positions in information organisations, commercial publishing house and now through the Business Faculty at RMIT University. These roles have lead to strategic placement of new services or products, whichinclude:

• the development of an Internet focused consultancy service, which provided knowledge management and interface design advice to government and semi-government agencies
• the development of online publishing business models that are promoted under the brandingEducational Resources & Information Network (ERIN)
• the development of an aggregated Australian digital publishing solution for database and full text journals - Informit Online.
• the instigation of an internet presence for a major regional information service, through the development of the South-East Melbourne Internet Link (SEMIL)

Qualifications

B.A. (Mon), Grad. Dip. Lib. (MCAE), MBIT (RMIT), AALIA

Publications

Book Chapters

Mercieca, P, (2002) ‘Gale: case study in digital publishing’ in Creator to consumer: book three, Common Ground, Altona, Victoria, 2002

Mercieca, P, (2001) ‘Digital publishing’ in Creator to consumer in a digital age: Australian book production in transition, Common Ground, Altona, Victoria, 2001

Refereed Journal Articles

Mercieca, P, (2002) ‘Interface issues for electronic publishing: What should the new “book” look like?’ International Journal of the Book, vol 1, 2002

Mercieca, P. and Welch, B., (2003) ‘Knowledge management and information management - convergence and future directions', International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, vol. 3, 2003

Refereed Conference Papers

Mercieca, P., (2004) ‘E-book acceptance: What will make users read on screen?’ Breaking Boundaries: Integration & Interoperability, VALA 2004, Melbourne, 3-5 February

Mercieca P, (2003) ‘Interface issues for electronic publishing: What should the new 'book' look like’, International Conference on the Future of the Book, Cairns, NT, 22-24 April 2003

Mercieca, P, (2001) ‘From virtual library to e-business library: applying e-business models to information provision’, Revelling in reference 2001: RAISS - Reference and Information Services Section Symposium Proceedings, Melbourne, 12-14 October 2001

Mercieca, P, (2000) ‘The publisher and the library: Converging professions or the start of the true hybrid library, books and bytes’, Victorian Association for Library Automation Conference, Melbourne, January 2000

Mercieca P and Fitzgerald, B, (1999) ‘From Digitisation to Publishing: Using SIN as a case study’, RAISS99, Conference of the Reference and Information Service Section, Australian Library and Information Association 1999

Treloar, A; Cameron, J; Denison, T; Jansen, B; Mercieca, P; Reekie, P; Schauder, D; Wilken, P, (1997) ‘Aftershocks of an electronic publishing experiment: a review of the EPICentre project’, in Information Online and On Disc 97. Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Information Online and On Disc Conference, Sydney 21-23 January 1997 Australian Library and Information Association Information Science Section, 1997

Mercieca, P, (1997) ‘E-publishing: using tomorrow's information delivery, today’, in Creating tomorrow today: can you imaging’, Proceedings of the 1997 public libraries section and reference and information service section conference 9-12 November 1997 Australian Library and Information Association, 1997

Professional Conference Papers

Mercieca, P, (2000) ‘The role of the information aggregator in the electronic marketplace’, IQPC Conference on Online Publishing, Sydney, July 2000

Mercieca, P and Anderson, C (1999) ‘Extending information services: are public libraries in the information game?’, Proceedings of the National Public Librarians Conference, Perth, 1999

Invited Lectures

Mercieca, P, (2000) ‘The publisher and the library, converging professions or the start of the true hybrid library’, VALA, Melbourne, 2000

Mercieca, P, (2000) ‘Is scholarly publishing in peril?’, National Scholarly Communication Forum, Sydney, July 2000

Mercieca, P, (1999) ‘Sliced bread or sticky bun’, RIG workshop on copyright and licensing issues and Australian content electronic products, 1999

Mercieca, P, (1999) ‘From digitisation to publishing’, RAISS '99, Sydney, 1999

Mercieca, P, (1998) ‘Licensing issues for digital information resources’, ALIA biennial conference, Adelaide, 1998

Mercieca, P, (1997) ‘E-Publishing, using tomorrow's information delivery, today’, PUBRAIS ‘97, Joint Public Libraries and Reference and Information Services Section conference, Brisbane, 1997

Mercieca, P, (1996) ‘Panel presentation on issues relating copyright and electronic publishing’, ALIA biennial conference, Melbourne, 1996