eScholarship Research Centre

Creating, preserving and connecting public knowledge

The eScholarship Research Centre is a social and cultural informatics research centre within the University Library, with a focus on archival science, metadata, and contextual information. Our research aims to advance the discovery and interpretation of archival records, published literature, and research data for the benefit of the academic community and the greater public good.

What we do

ESRC activities

Research
Prioritising engagement and social good outcomes in research projects and partnerships leads to positive outcomes. We make research and program data accessible to the public, and preserve it for long-term use.
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Technology
We build and share informatics applications designed for researchers and practitioners working in archival science and digital humanities.
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Working with others
Collaborative projects and mutual ownership helps us develop systems and relationships that allow for greater synergy between researchers, policy advocates, and end users from community, government and industry.
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The eScholarship Research Centre is an ideas lab for informatics in archival science and digital humanities, and a producer of online public knowledge resources.

The ESRC has a substantial output of guides to heritage resources and archival collections, and is the recipient of two Mander Jones awards for publications excellence in this area. Our staff, professional and academic alike, actively pursue the Centre's research agenda: contributing to ARC projects; presenting at Australian and international conferences; publishing in ranked journals; and participating in public engagement and outreach on topics of local, national, and global significance.

Gavan McCarthy, Director, eScholarship Research Centre
Yana Novkovic, Administration Officer
Helen Skerman, Administration Officer
Ailie Smith, Senior Research Archivist
Helen Morgan, Research Fellow - The Australian Women's Archives Project
Dr Nikki Henningham, Research Fellow - The Australian Women's Archives Project
Dr Cate O’Neill, National Editor and Research Co-ordinator, Find & Connect Web Resource
Rachel Tropea, Senior Research Archivist, Find & Connect Web Resource
Nicola Laurent, Project Archivist, Find & Connect Web Resource
Genevieve Wauchope, Grant Administration and Outreach Officer, Find & Connect Web Resource
Peter Tonoli, IT Consultant and Systems Administrator
Mike Jones, Consultant Research Archivist
Elizabeth Daniels, Project Archivist
Annelie de Villiers, Assistant Research Archivist
Dr Rosemary Francis, Project Historian

The ESRC also supports a number of Honorary Research Fellows and Students.

The Australian Women's Register
A valuable and growing source of biographical data about Australian women and their organisations, with links to the archival repositories and libraries where their records are held and to other sources of information

The ESRC works with collecting institutions, and directly with organisations and individuals who have created or stored records, to catalogue undocumented archives and find homes for collections that are in danger of being lost.

The links below will take you to the catalogues of archival collections the ESRC has worked on, or that have been catalogued by others using our free archives management tool, HDMS (Heritage Documentation Management System).

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ESRC activities

Our History

Research

Tools and Technology

Research Fellows and Students

Collaboration

Projects

Return, Reconcile, Renew

Trailblazing Women and the Law

Australian Women and Leadership

Find & Connect web resource

Saulwick Polls and Social Research

Arrowsmith's Australian Maps

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia

Australian Trade Union Archives

Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism

Colonial Australian Popular Fiction

eMelbourne

State Library of Victoria Archival Project

Organisational Records

Personal and Family Papers

Guides published by others

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