6.7 Conclusion

In this chapter planning your research has been situated within Australia’s public history industry to demonstrate that the work you do at university has the potential to reach beyond it, and to highlight the important role you play as the historian making public histories.

The skills presented in this chapter will help you record and build on your searching, ensure you have checked a range of databases, navigate the complexities of copyright, Creative Commons and more access and sharing sensitivities, restrictions and requirements, and attribute collection items you use in your project. Your audience and the access and sharing sensitivities, restrictions and requirements on the material you find will help you decide what license and format will be most appropriate to use when publishing your research beyond the university.