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What's New Wednesday, 20 March 2013

For news about CAUL and its activities, and those external to, but of immediate interest to CAUL, see the link to News and Events. 

This page is for additional news about higher education and research, nationally and internationally, and the world of libraries in higher education and their wider environment. 

The following items have been added recently:

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  • The Future focus, 2013 National Workforce Development Strategy is the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency’s second National Workforce Development Strategy.  (AU)
    • “The report provides further evidence that an increase in investment in university education should be a strong priority if we are to drive higher productivity, economic output and employment”, said Belinda Robinson, Chief Executive of Universities Australia, the peak body representing Australia’s universities. 
8 March, 2013
  •  IFLA Hosts Trend Report Meeting at UNAM, Mexico City. "Ten experts from eight countries were invited to discuss the trends that will affect society over the next ten years, with a particular emphasis on the effects they will have on the information environment in which libraries operate."  The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (NL)
7 March, 2013
6 March, 2013
  • 2013 September 22-26 Valletta, Malta 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Organised by the Department of Library Information and Archive Studies of the University of Malta. http://www.tpdl2013.info/ Call for Contributions
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  • 2014 February 3-6 Melbourne VALA2014: The 17th Biennial Conference & Exhibition.   VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. http://www.vala.org.au/  Contact:  vala@wsm.com.au
8 February, 2013
6 February, 2013
  • Why open access is better for scholarly societies.  Stuart Shieber, edited transcript of a talk ... on January 3, 2013, at a panel on open access at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.  The Occasional Pamphlet on scholarly communication January 29th, 2013 (US)
  • 2013 September 11-13 Portland, Oregon  Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference. Hosted by Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus. http://nwill.org/ Call for Proposals

  • 2013 May 30-31 Dallas, Texas  Fourth Annual Open Access Symposium - Futures of Academic Publishing.  Organised by University of North Texas. https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2013

4 February, 2013
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  • Top EDUCAUSE articles of the year... posted Jan 24, 2013, 4:31 AM by Timothy McKay.  "The EDUCAUSE review publishes many articles on analytics, including: Learning Analytics: The New Black. The ten most widely read EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Review Online articles from 2012 focused on current IT issues, online education, analytics, academic libraries, and more. Pretty much every one of these talks about analytics at some point." (US)
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  • The Teaching Standards Framework is a tool for assessing standards in institutional practices in learning and teaching.  Macquarie University has received support for the development of this Teaching Standards Framework from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.  (AU)
  • Research Library Services for Graduate Students (PDF), the second report in the New Roles for New Times series. [By] Lucinda Covert-Vail and Scott Collard. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
31 December, 2012
  • Open Access Textbook Task Force: Final Report.  [Florida Distance Learning Consortium in consultation with the Board of Governors and the Division of Florida Colleges]  "This report contains a rational for open access textbooks, and a plan to promote and increase the use of open access textbooks in Florida."  February 27, 2010 (US)
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  • The Research Information Network (RIN) is a community interest company (CIC) which provides rigorous research and analysis to enhance understanding of the rapidly-changing scholarly communications landscape. ...The company was launched in January 2012, following the successful conclusion of the programme undertaken, between 2005 and 2011, by RIN in its previous guise. (UK)
6 December, 2012
4 December, 2012
  • Go8 Backgrounder 31 - Higher education financing.  "This paper looks at aggregate university funding, and funding for different university activities over time, adjusting for inflation and changes in student and staff numbers in order to develop a more informed and nuanced picture of trends."  The Group of Eight Ltd  (AU)
1 December, 2012
30 November, 2012
  • Analytics.  EDUCAUSE Library. "Analytics is used in a higher education environment to analyze various collected data points to gain insight and make informed decisions about complex issues." (US)
28 November, 2012
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19 November, 2012
  • Internet2 and Educause To Kick Off Electronic Content Pilot Project.  By Leila Meyer. Campus Technology digital magazine 8 November 2012.  ".... the pilot gives schools a chance to explore nontraditional educational materials, such as electronic textbooks, and gives content providers an opportunity to try out new business models." (US) 
17 November, 2012
2 November, 2012
  • Beyond the internet.  Warren Bebbington.  The Adelaide Review,  November, 2012. The University of Adelaide’s Vice-Chancellor argues that the internet will never replace the traditional university library and its books.  (AU)
31 October, 2012
29 October, 2012
  • Research Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship.  "This project aims to deliver a small number of key outputs contributing to a wider investigation into the support available to students, staff and researchers to enhance digital literacy. .... [the identification and promotion of good practice in information handling and data management training] co-ordinated by Research Information Network (RIN) on behalf of Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLs), [and] by SCONUL under the JISC Developing Digital Literacies (DDL) programme."  (UK)
26 October, 2012
  • ScieCom info – Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication is a two-year project funded by the Nordbib research funding programme.  (SE)
25 October, 2012
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17 October, 2012
  • PDA and the University Press.  This report was prepared by: Joseph J. Esposito in collaboration with: Kizer Walker and Terry Ehling.  September 26, 2012. The Johns Hopkins University Press and Cornell University Library gratefully acknowledge the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in funding the research and preparation of this environmental scan and analysis.  (US)
9 October, 2012
  • Knowledge Base+ .... a shared service knowledge base for UK academic libraries to support the management of e-resources by the UK academic community.  JISC Collections.  (UK)
6 October, 2012
  • Research Data Alliance.  "The purpose of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables." 
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10 September, 2012
  • The challenge of ebooks: a JISC project wiki.  This is a project to develop a Digital Infrastructure Directions Report for institutions on meeting the challenge of ebooks. It is a collaboration between JISC Innovation, JISC Collections, JISC Digital Media. The project is being managed by Ken Chad Consulting Ltd.  (UK)
9 September, 2012
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  • Book Industry Collaborative Council.  The Australian Government announced the establishment of the Council on 25 June 2012 in response to a recommendation from the Book Industry Strategy Group.  It will focus on improving efficiency in the Australian Book Industry’s supply chains.  (AU)
  • Regional Telecommunications Review.  The Australian government responded to the recommendations of the Sinclair Review on 23 August 2012.  (AU)
22 August, 2012
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17 August, 2012
  • Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation or pdf.  Nancy Y. McGovern, Volume Editor, Katherine Skinner, Series Editor.  Educopia Institute: 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9826653-1-2  "This volume emerged out of a digital preservation conference held in Tallinn, Estonia, in May 2011: “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation.”"  (US)
  • Lending rights.  Modernisation process. The BISG final report recommended that, following work by Australian publishers to clarify the business model for the use of ebooks in libraries, the Government should establish a framework and guidelines for how ebooks may become a part of the Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending Right (ELR) schemes.  The Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport (the Department) is working on a comprehensive assessment of the PLR and ELR schemes.   (AU)
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27 July, 2012
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26 May, 2012
  • Learning Space Toolkit.  North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and its Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) are partnering with strategic consultants brightspot strategy and DEGW to design, share, and promote an updated model for institutions to plan and support technology-rich informal learning spaces.  (US)  
  • OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot Final Report offers guidance on how and where to register print preservation commitments and marks a milestone for library community as a whole. Constance Malpas and Dennis Massie.  OCLC (US)
  • Cooperative print archiving.  OCLC (US)
25 May, 2012
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