Swinburne Library Blog

Promote your research through Swinburne Research Bank, an online open access collection of publications by Swinburne researchers designed to help your research reach a worldwide audience and maximise its potential for citation.

Profile your research in Swinburne Researchers, which brings your publications, grants and research interests together on a single profile page. It's a great way to showcase your work and attract new collaborators and research students.

Publish your research via the Swinburne Online Journals service, which provides a publication platform for online open access journals, including technical infrastructure support and advice on online publishing and copyright.



Manage and promote your research data with the assistance of Swinburne Library staff and some handy resources.


Measure your research impact using citation metrics such as h-indexes and journal impact factors. We can help you calculate these measures and make use of them for grant applications and research reporting exercises.

Stay up to date with new developments in your fields automatically by setting up journal table of contents alerting services.


Access high quality research material through the Library's collection, which is designed to match Swinburne's areas of research concentration. Contact your Liaison Librarian with suggestions for additional material, or our inter-library loans service to access research material not available at Swinburne.

Manage your references using EndNote bibliographic software, which helps you create a database of references as you find them, or keep a list of your own publications to easily insert into grant applications.

Library services and resources are continually reviewed to meet your needs. If you have suggestions, contact Rebecca Parker, Research Services Librarian. Read more about how the Library supports research here, or through Rebecca's fortnightly column in the Research Bulletin.

In celebration of all things Olympic, we bring to you the front cover of the 1956 Swinburne student magazine The Open Door. The cover, almost Art Deco in style, was designed by then third year Swinburne student, Miss Hiltrud Sawatsky, in celebration of the Melbourne Olympic year.

"Miss Hiltrud Sawatsky...is a third year student at the Swinburne Art School. She was born at the German colony, Wilhelma, Palestine, of German parents. When the colony was evacuated in 1941, she and her family came to Australia in the famous liner Queen Elizabeth. Hiltrud, who received her secondary education at the Camberwell Girls' School, is taking the Diploma of Advertising course, and hopes to work for an advertising agency. Her favourite activity in spare moments is sketching, especially in the bush, and despite the long journey to Australia she is very interested in visiting other countries." Open Door (1956), 16-17.

We don't know whether Hiltrud ever pursued that career in advertising, however her legacy lives on with her striking cover design.

To check out other Swinburne-related artefacts and memorabilia, visit Swinburne Image Bank.