Download statistics - what do they tell us? The example of research online, the open access institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia

A study was undertaken of download and usage statistics for the institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia, over the six-month period January-June 2006. The degree to which research output was made available, via open access, on Internet search engines was quantified. Google was identified as the primary access and referral point, generating 95.8% of the measurable full text downloads of repository content. Further long-term studies need to be carried out to more precisely identify factors affecting download rates of repository content. This data will assist institutions and faculty in measuring research impact and performance, as an adjunct to traditional bibliometric tools such as citation indexes

Arthur Cousins 1866-1960

He was that rara avis in Australian historiography, the devoted local historian who has a realisation of the broader implications of regional development. So wrote Sydney University Archivist D.S. Macmillan in an obituary notice published in the October 1960 number of the Union Recorder, commemorating the death of Arthur Cousins on Wednesday, 17 August, at his Cremone residence, aged 94 years. Though having known him for only a brief period at the end of a long life, Macmillan had developed a degree of admiration and respect for this elderly gentleman, who, along with G.E. Hall and others, had worked towards the creation of the Sydney University Archives, where Macmillan was appointed first full-time archivist in 1954. However this was only one of many noteworthy achievements, in a long career during which Cousins was a schoolteacher, local historian, parent, and Honorary Archivist of Sydney University

Secret Service: Governor Macquarie’s Aboriginal War of 1816

Detailed analysis of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s punitive actions against the Aboriginal population of New South Wales in 1816 reveals the extent of war engaged in by local military forces and the colonial authorities, along with a corresponding cover-up of those activities and outcomes to both the local community and authorities in England. This analysis has implications for our present day reading of Australian history and the ongoing debate over recognition of the so-called Forgotten War (Australian Aboriginal War), especially in light of the ANZAC and World War I centennial commemorations of 2015-18. The use of unpublished archival resources is highlighted in revealing a detailed and localised picture of events in New South Wales during 1816. The rediscovery and reinterpretation of the facts behind this historic episode reveals the ever-evolving history of Australia and the moving stories which are an important part of that history

Leveraging research quality assessment exercises to increase repository content - an Australian case study

The legacy of Australia’s national research quality assessment process – Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) - at the University of Wollongong during 2010 was improved integration between the institutional repository and research management systems, and a move towards digitisation of the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) with consequent flow-on of metadata and digital objects to the institutional repository. Whilst ERA was a diversion from the task of securing open access content through faculty promotion and one-on-one contact with researchers, it nevertheless gave rise to a semi-automated process which promised improved rates of content acquisition

Hume Cook and Christian Yandell\u27s Australian Fairy Tales 1925

Hume Cook\u27s Australian Fairy Tales of 1925 was the first book fully produced in Australia to bear that specific title. Its appearance followed on the passage of almost 30 years since the publication in London during 1897 of Frank Atha Westbury\u27s similarly titled work, and Jessie Mary Whitfield\u27s The spirit of the bush fire and other Australian fairy tales in Sydney the following year. There had been numerous stories about local fairies and other fantastical creatures written in Australia prior to 1925, including the Reverend Charles Marson\u27s Faery Stories (Marson 1891) and the many small booklets, articles and monographs by artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and her sister Annie from 1903; and May Gibbs\u27 fairy-like Gumnut Babies from 1916 (Gibbs 1916, Organ 2012). The dreaming stories of the Australian Aborigines were also adapted and labelled fairy tales or legends

Alice in OZ - \u27Please, Ma\u27am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?\u27: The Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland books in Australia

There is no obvious connection between Australia and the very English Alice in Wonderland stories written by the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in the latter half of the nineteenth century, apart from a few brief words uttered by Alice at the beginning of her adventures - \u27Please, Ma\u27am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?\u27 - suggesting that, upon falling down a rabbit hole, she had been transported to the Antipodes (\u27Antipathies\u27), just as Lemuel Gulliver had found himself lost in Lilliput a century earlier. Yet the ongoing popularity and influence of these works in the former British colony is reflected in their rich and varied publication history and having remained in print since first offered for sale by local booksellers

Download statistics - what do they tell us? The example of research online, the open access institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia

A study was undertaken of download and usage statistics for the institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia, over the six-month period January-June 2006. The degree to which research output was made available, via open access, on Internet search engines was quantified. Google was identified as the primary access and referral point, generating 95.8% of the measurable full text downloads of repository content. Further long-term studies need to be carried out to more precisely identify factors affecting download rates of repository content. This data will assist institutions and faculty in measuring research impact and performance, as an adjunct to traditional bibliometric tools such as citation indexes

Australia - Japan Industrial Relations Bibliography

This bibliography contains references to works in English dealing primarily with Japanese industrial policy, industrial relations, the labour market, trade unionism, and associated topics including human resource management, comparative economics and investment relationships between Australia and Japan. References to internal, comparative and external studies of Japanese industrial policy and labour markets are also included. The bibliography is divided into two sections as follows: 1. Australia-Japan - Specifically deals with comparative studies of Japan and Australia, or studies carried out by Australian researchers on relevant Japanese topics; 2. General - Encompasses worldwide investigations of Japanese industrial relations and the labour market during the 1980s. Material included in this bibliography substantially post-dates 1983 and is meant to serve as an update of the Australian Department of Industrial Relations\u27 Japanese Employment and Employee Relations - An Annotated Bibliography (Canberra, 1984). This publication is quite comprehensive for material published between the approximate period 1970-83. However it did not included unpublished theses and dissertations, and as such this omission has been partially addressed within this work

Old Pioneer\u27s Reminiscenses of Illawarra

Who was Old Pioneer? Despite the passing of over sixty years since the initial publication of the series Reminiscences of Illawana by Old Pioneer in the Illawarra Mercury between 1923-25, the identity of this Old Pioneer is still shrouded in mystery. It is commonly held that Old Pioneer was Frank Young, a prominent local resident and journalist with the Illawarra Mercury, who used letters written to that paper by various old pioneers of Illawarra - including William Piper (1843-1927) - along with his own personal interview material and reminiscences, to compile the series known as Reminiscences of Illawarra by Old Pioneer . This series was published in the Illawarra Mercury in 79 parts between 12 October 1923 and 8 May 1925, and a further, un-numbered part appeared on 8 June 1934.https://ro.uow.edu.au/hcp/1005/thumbnail.jp

Wind Symphony

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