Attendance at the recent Information Online conference in Sydney brought home to me the fact that university libraries around Australia are still somewhat in the dark about the whole RQF (Research Quality Framework) which will be imposed by the federal government in 2008. The problem seems to lie in a government which is willing to [...]

I recently had an interesting experience from an academic friend of mine who, on learning that I worked on team involved with repository development, hit me hard over the head with all that she thought was absolutely evil about repositories. It’s a bit of a shock having a friend you think you are helping turn [...]