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.
- (21 December 2009) Colonial Australian Popular Fiction goes online. Colonial Australian Popular Fiction is an online bibliography and digital archive that gathers together for the first time a wide range of vibrant colonial writing that has previously been difficult to access.
- (3 December 2009) launch of the first version of Pathways, an online resource for past and present "care" leavers in Victoria. This very significant research from the University of Melbourne responds to recommendations from the three Senate Reports which drew attention to the importance of both public and personal records for those who grew up 'in care'.
- (November - December 2009) Review of the eScholarship Research Centre by the University of Melbourne. A copy of the terms of reference for the review can be downloaded here. Anyone who wishes to provide feeback can email Michael Jones.
- (16 November 2009) The Government of Australia apologised to forgotten Australians and former child migrants. The eScholarship Research Centre in collaboration with Social Work and History at the University of Melbourne, and the Australian Catholic University, Forgotten Australians, recent 'care' leavers, Link UP and Stolen Generations Victoria is working on a project to build a new resource, Pathways which provides web-based access to all public records about Victorian children's institutions. This is a 3 year ARC linkage grant with Government (DHS) and 13 community sector organisations.
- (9 November 2009) The eScholarship Research Centre's new server is commissioned.
- (30 October 2009) Gavan McCarthy was appointed to the Australian Research Collaboration Service Technical Working Group.
- (14 October 2009) Dr Joanne Evans, Dr Nikki Hennigham and Helen Morgan presented a workshop 'Australian Women's Archives Project: Content, Complexity and Web 2.0 Services' at the Australian Society of Archivist's annual conference in Brisbane.
- (13 October 2009) Launch of the Website of the Australian Women's Register by Her Excellency the Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) is located on the 2nd floor of the Thomas Cherry Building.
- (28 July - 2 August 2009) Gavan McCarthy attended the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Ideas and Instruments in Social Context in Budapest, Hungary.
- (July 2009) Gavan McCarthy was appointed to the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme selection advisory committee.