New local environmental film.

Rediscovering the Country is a new film about landscape restoration in Victoria inspired by the work carried out in Sri Lanka.

Is pre-print peer reviewing on its way out?

Read about the alternatives and developments in peer reviewing.

Altmetrics growing in popularity

Examples of the increased use of altmetrics in subscription products and other universities make interesting reading for the current research and scholarly communication landscape.

An alternative model for measuring research output and impact.

A US medical library provides a model of measuring research impact.

Elsevier offers authors new pre-print sharing

Elsevier is replacing its existing 'e-offprint' arrangement with Share Link which will allow authors to share a link to their articles. Read more . . . 

New Fracking video available.

 Fractured Country: An Unconventional Invasion, an online  video on the impact of fracking is now available via the library catalogue.

VU hosts the 19th International Association of Packaging Research Institutes

The Engineered Packaging and Distribution Research Group, VU is organising the 19th IAPI conference 15-18 June, 2014.  See the website for more information and program details.