Poster by: Professor Paul Roe, Chair, QUT eResearch Working Party.

eResearch underpins the Queensland University of Technology's real world research, especially its flagship research institutes. QUT is actively involved in NCRIS and in many other eResearch areas. It has two major research programs focussed on eResearch: OAKLAW (the legal and efficient sharing of digital knowledge across domains, and the world) and The Microsoft QUT eResearch Centre (smart tools for eResearch). QUT was one of the first institutions to introduce a mandate for its researchers to deposit their research outputs into its
institutional repository - QUT ePrints and is now a world leader in the deposition rates for its research papers.

Key eResearch services such as high performance computing (HPC) and advanced data visualisation have been delivered for many years and more recently, QUT has established a corporate wiki for research collaboration, commissioned an enterprise wide single sign on engine (ESOE) and is establishing a university-wide data store for digital research materials.

Currently, QUT is planning a unified eResearch Support Service between the Library and Information Technology Services to provide a "researcher as client" focussed services such as HPC, research data storage and management, data curation, institutional repository and a training program for HDR students and researchers in data management and developments in scholarly communication. QUT’s eResearch Working Party is sponsoring a number of research data pilots to investigate data management in a number of key areas such a the Creative Industries, Sustainable Resources and Medical Analysis. QUT is also partner in a project which is digitising Australian Children's Literature and critical works within the Austlit program. Another eHumanities project is investigating an Australian performance art database and archive.

Detailed information about the range of QUT’s current eResearch projects will be available from the display.