News and Events
Welcome to the eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) website. Information about the Centre can be found in the links at the left hand side of the page and in the news and events listed below.
- (9 February 2009) The ESRC is involved in an ARC LIEF and NCRIS funded project to set up the first cohesive Australian e-Research service for the social sciences. This is a project with national and international signficance and one of the major ESRC projects over the next three years. The ESRC is the Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA) - Melbourne Node.
- (5 January 2009) We are very excited to announce that contracts are signed and work on the Who Am I?: "the archive" as central to quality practice for current and past care leavers ARC project has officially started.
- (17 November 2008) As part of celebrations for the Centenary of Victorian
Women’s Suffrage, the Hon Maxine Morand MP launched two online
exhibitions at RMIT Storey Hall at 5pm. ‘Representative Women: Victorian
women parliamentarians since 1923’ and ‘Carrying On the Fight’ showcase
the hundreds of Victorian women who have stood for parliament over the
course of the last century.
- (13 November 2008) The Hon Maxine McKew launched 'The Women's Pages:
Australian women and journalism since 1850' at the National Press Club,
Canberra, at 12pm. This online exhibition was produced as part of the
broader Australian Women’s Archives Project, with funding from the
Copyright Agency Limited.
- (14 July 2008) The eSRC, in collaboration with the School of Historical Studies and the University Bookshop held the launch of the open access online publication, "Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial History", using the Open Journal Systems open source software suite and published online at http://msp.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/shs/missions.
The eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) is located on the 2nd floor of the Thomas Cherry Building.
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