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I was at a national meeting this week where we discussed, among other things, aspirations for high quality facilities for PhD students. I made the suggestion that we (the University) should supply a new laptop on enrolment for all PhD students. This suggestion was met with gasps of horror from colleagues at other universities, somewhat to my ...

There has been a proposal to move to a standard internet quota for all postgraduate students of 2GB per year. This is apparently what Melbourne does for its students. I would be interested to hear whether people think that this is going to be sufficient. Given that my quota at home is 25GB per month, I would suspect not?

We all are, it seems. An interesting report commissioned by the British Library and JISC has looked into the way the so-called google generation of users will utilise libraries and their resources in 5 - 10 years time. Observations from the report include: there is far less difference in behaviour between google geners and older researchers ...

A new site called SciVee which allows people to post video about research papers. The video also features sections of the paper - the idea is that you can quickly get to grips with the details of the paper without reading the whole thing. Although the site is focussed at science, I am assuming this would work as well with other disciplines?

  Following on from Robyn's post about the recent eResearch conference, the question has been raised about what our involvement in eResearch at UWA and what sort of things we could be doing. There are lots of ideas and in most cases they are not necessarily new. The key is putting them together in order to create collaborations that form a ...

I've just spent the past two days in Brisbane at a conference on eResearch. Now I'm feeling really inspired about lots of eResearch technologies that we can set up for research students. There were some really great keynotes at this conference: Phil Bourne from San Diego was fantastic about his vision for the near future (the vision he is in fact ...