Open Scholarship at RMIT: Library Research Spotlight

RMIT University will soon adopt a new Open Scholarship Policy that will embrace the free flow of research and learning, transforming how our community discovers, creates and shares knowledge. To meet these principles of Open Scholarship, RMIT will work to make its research outputs visible and accessible and our learning collaborative and flexible to maximise the impact and benefit for our communities.

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Is this a good thing? What will enable your participation in these policy ambitions? And what might be the barriers to Open Scholarship? We need a vigorous and open discussion that addresses future possibilities and challenges.  

This session will provide a platform for several key RMIT open research and open education practitioners. 

Dr Julian Lee, Associate Professor of Global Studies (School of GUSS) has co-authored Monsters of Modernity: Critical Icons for our Critical Condition as an open text for students and teachers, and is currently co-editing an open book on learning and teaching at RMIT. Dr Sarah Bekessy, Professor and ARC Future Fellow (School of GUSS) has research activities in the intersection between science and policy in environmental management, is keenly interested in issues of equity in open access publishing. Carl Higgs, doctoral researcher in RMIT University's Centre for Urban Research, has developed open data and software to further understanding of the health impacts of urban environments in Australia and internationally. Through his research collaborations he aims to promote and practice the concepts articulated by UNESCO’s open science recommendation. Dr Patrick O’Keefe, Senior Lecturer (School of GUSS) has worked with students to co-edit and co-author the open book Partnerships with the Community: Social Work Field Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic as a WIL project.

If you register and cannot attend, a follow-up email with the webinar recording, along with any presentation material, will be sent to you by email following the event.

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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