Scholarly communication is the process through which research products and outputs are created, assessed, improved, shared, disseminated and preserved in a variety of modes, including through formal and informal publications, conferences and other academic networking methods. In this report, the authors seek to provide a high-level overview of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.

This summary report brings together a range of perspectives from the UK’s higher education, research and innovation sector and stakeholder organisations. It highlights some opportunities for collective approaches to optimise the use, sharing, efficiency and sustainability of research infrastructure assets from the perspective of stakeholders in universities, regional consortia, funders and sector bodies from across...

Each year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. This paper describes a new data infrastructure designed to capture the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector.

There is an accepted need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Knowledge brokers, individuals or organisations sympathetic to both research and policymaking cultures and able to mediate between the two, represent one way of doing so.

Accountancy professionals are used as a case study in this paper to examine the causes behind the growth of knowledge workers within the city’s economy and labour market.