The value and benefits of open knowledge have become a core part of our advocacy in libraries and the academy for openness, whether for the research community or for Australian society more broadly. Y...

I'm past the PhD halfway mark of my PhD, and lately have been trying to pick up the pace alongside my other professional commitments. There's been a variety of tools and approaches I've used (and at t...

Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...

A few years ago, I sat in on a leadership webinar about influencing. I found myself counting up which of the generalised recommendations I'd actually find off-putting, despite their being positioned a...

We tend to think about processes as the unglamorous part of our work. We struggle through the process to reach an outcome that matters. The outcome is what we tend to share and communicate. It's the i...

"Problems hold greater value than solutions; they keep us ontologically alive and epistemologically sharp. History is not shaped by selfish interests, lofty ideals, or grand visions alone, but also by...

"Problems hold greater value than solutions; they keep us ontologically alive and epistemologically sharp. History is not shaped by selfish interests, lofty ideals, or grand visions alone, but also by...

This blog post serves as an exploratory and developmental process for my PhD. Its focus is on the academic literature I engage with, presented in a blog format, against the backdrop of professional co...

This blog post serves as an exploratory and developmental process for my PhD. Its focus is on the academic literature I engage with, presented in a blog format, against the backdrop of professional co...

A few weeks ago, a colleague and I struck up a conversation about values in the context of leadership. 1 It felt like a full-circle moment, since, a few years earlier, I'd shared with a colleague that...

Keynote at ANZREG Conference 11th June 2025 Slides | Recording [when available] Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0), except for any content quoted from ...

Submission Types RAILS 2025 is a face-to-face conference held over three days. It also incorporates the Australasian Information Educators’ Symposium (AIES) 2025, a Doctoral Consortium, and keynote…

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We set out to determine whether open monographs were being used in teaching and learning and fell down a very deep hole. Here is what we learned.

Library and Information Research: Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future RAILS, the premier Australasian research conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, is the …

Some academic publishers have been accused by scientists of being “too greedy” and prioritising profit over research integrity.

Our formal models of life, computers and materials fail to tell the entire story of their capabilities and limitations.

This paper explores global justifications for open knowledge in higher education and research. Drawing on library and information, scholarly communications, and international relations scholarship, it...

Academic libraries' first and most fundamental obligation is to support the work of their host institutions.