Showcase your research with Deakin Exhibit
Deakin Library has just launched the online exhibition platform Deakin Exhibit. Deakin Exhibit allows researchers to create their own website to showcase research data and findings and enhance user engagement with their work. The platform supports a range of media including images, videos, audio records, as well as text-based documents.
Why showcase your research?
Exhibiting your research is a new way to communicate the work you do to the world. Exhibitions created on Deakin Exhibit are open access, viewable by anybody and discoverable through Google and other sites such as Trove. This can lead to greater dissemination and increase the audience and impact of your work.
Deakin Exhibit has only just launched, but we already have two exhibitions up and running.
- Scholarships and connections: Contains audio interviews with over 100 Indonesians and Papua New Guineans sponsored for Australian-based tertiary study.
- Mind Matters Student Art Exhibition: Looks at the unique mental health and wellbeing journeys of students through works by students.
Keep an eye on Exhibit Your Research for new Deakin Exhibits as they are published.
An example Deakin Exhibit page of browsable images.
What’s involved in creating an exhibit?
If you think an exhibit will suit your work and you’re interested in creating one, the first step is to start thinking about the purpose, scope, and audience.
Consider the following questions:
- What is the purpose of the exhibit?
- What story do I want to tell?
- What unique perspectives can I offer?
- Who is my audience?
- What items would I display?
Once you’ve decided that Deakin Exhibit is right for you, you can submit a proposal to the Deakin Exhibit Team. The library offers Deakin Exhibit through a tiered service model:
- Basic (self-service): the library creates the site, you take it from there! This is the most common support model.
- Strategic: the library will create the site, and provide additional customised content and technical support.
- Commissioned: your site will be built by the library on its own platform with customised content, metadata and theming (a unique appearance!). Note that the commissioned level of service requires a source of funding.
Submit an exhibit proposal
Interested in creating your own exhibit? Head over to the Designing your Deakin Exhibit guide where you can find tips on planning your exhibition idea, more information on the tiered service model, and a form where you can submit your proposal.