The Registry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Academics — Dark Emu Exposed

Dec 4

Dec 4 The Registry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Academics

Informit was founded in the RMIT University Library in 1989 and claims to be:

the leading Australian scholarly and education resource for researchers, educators, librarians and learners by supporting the broadest range of publishers and research centres to promote bibliodiversity. We aggregate, organise and host a vast amount of authoritative content and make it accessible through our world class platform.

We are committed to fostering diversity in publishing and the promotion of critical thinking for a better informed and knowledgeable community.

With regard to Indigenous scholarship, Informit is:

incorporating First Peoples’ perspectives and knowledges within our platform. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led research is changing the national story in meaningful and positive ways, as well as having beneficial impacts within communities. As Australia’s primary research database, hosting the largest collection of academic content in Indigenous studies, the Informit platform is searched daily by thousands of students, researchers and members of the public and we are ideally placed to reflect and amplify these advances.

Informit have developed a database of `Indigenous scholars you should know’ .

Quite independently, Dark Emu Exposed has been commissioned to investigate the creation of an independently verifiable Registry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Academics.

We selected a dozen of the Informit certified Indigenous scholars (see below) and sent them the following self-explanatory letter, enquiring whether they would be willing to contribute to the registry. Their responses will be published in due course.