What was New 2007 Tuesday, 21 July 2009

19 December, 2007

• Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). (CH)
  • Towards Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics: Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party. CERN, Geneva. 19 April 2007 ISBN 978-92-9083-292-8
• Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data. This protocol is maintained by the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. (US)

18 December, 2007

• The MIDESS Project is a JISC funded project that will explore the management of digitised content in an institutional and cross-institutional context through the development of a digital repository infrastructure. It will address how support can be provided for the use of digital content in a learning and research context, in an integrated manner. It will also explore how use and management of digital content can be joined up in a national context. (UK)
• Academic Commons, December 2007. Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts: A Special Issue, edited by David L. Green (US)

14 December, 2007

• ABS National Centre for Education and Training Statistics (NCETS). Australian Bureau of Statistics (AU)
• Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE). Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) (AU)

13 December, 2007

• Educational Fair Use Today, by Jonathan Band, JD. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• JISC ITT Publisher Metadata and Interoperability Projects 3 JISC invites proposals to undertake projects that help to further develop interoperability between publishers, aggregators and libraries and the JISC Information Environment (IE). Submission Deadline: 25 January 2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

11 December, 2007

• SPEC Kit 301, Liaison Services [by] Susan Logue, John Ballestro, Andrea Imre, and Julie Arendt • October 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-794-0 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

10 December, 2007

• Managing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories Authors: John Casey, Jackie Proven & David Dripps. JISC TrustDR (Trust in Digital Repositories) project.

7 December, 2007

• The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone, by Richard K. Johnson and Judy Luther. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• Research Report: Interoperability Standards Across the Australian Education and Training Sector compiled by Croger Associates Pty Ltd for The Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC) (AU)
• HB 256:2007 Metadata usage in Australian and New Zealand education and training. Published: 08 Nov 2007 Committee: IT-019 Standards Australia. (AU)
• JISC ITT: A scenario-based study on using repositories and e-portfolio tools to submit an application for employment. Submission Deadline: 07 January 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

4 December, 2007

• Sainsbury Review of Science and Innovation. The recommendations of the Sainsbury Review will be taken forward by the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS). (UK)
  • The Race to the Top: A Review of Government’s Science and Innovation Policies [by] Lord Sainsbury of Turville October 2007 ISBN 13-978-1-84532-356 (UK)
• JISC Information Governance Gateway. JIGG is a JISC commissioned 'one stop shop' for all matters relating to information governance legislation and the HE sector. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. University Library. (CA)
  • University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. University Librarian. Advertisement. 4 December, 2007 (CA)

30 November, 2007

• Collaborative Collection Management (CCM). The CCM programme has been established as a joint initiative by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL). (UK)
• Uncovering Hidden Resources: Progress in extending the coverage of online catalogues: Key findings and recommendations of a study undertaken for the Research Information Network. November 2007 (UK)
• The Identity Project: Final Progress Reports. The broad aim of the project was to investigate and document the detailed Identity Management (IDM) situation in UK higher education and to produce outputs to assist academic institutions in the UK wishing to take part in the newly emerging federated world in understanding what they need from their own IDM to enable this. ..funded by the JISC under the e-Infrastructure programme. The project was led by Cardiff University and the London School of Economics & Political Science. (UK)
• e-Infrastructure Security: Levels of Assurance. Authors: Mike Jones et al. Levels of assurance (LoAs) are about how much proof is needed of an individual’s identity to access online resources; whether via a simple user name and password or a more complex system of biometrics and tokens. This JISC report looks at how LoAs can be defined, agreed and then applied to different resources. ...funding support by JISC in its Capital Programme: the e-Infrastructure Security Programme. (UK)
• JISC Annual review 2007. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

29 November, 2007

• Open Access Resources, SPEC Kit 300. Anna K. Hood • September 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-793-2 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
  • The purpose of this survey was to gather information on whether and how ARL member libraries are selecting, providing access to, cataloging, hosting, tracking usage of, and promoting the use of open access research literature for their patrons by using established library resources such as the OPAC and link resolvers.
• SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding) : Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions [by]  Karla L. Hahn. D-Lib Magazine November/December 2007 Volume 13 Number 11/12 ISSN 1082-9873
• SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit). SWORD is continuing the activities of the the JISC Digital Repository Programme Deposit API working group. (UK)

28 November, 2007

• ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 252/253 (June/August 2007) Special Double Issue on University Publishing. Association of Research Libraries (US)

24 November, 2007

• The RUBRIC Toolkit: Institutional Repository Solutions. The RUBRIC project (Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively) (AU)

20 November, 2007

• ITT: Skills, role & career structure of data scientists & curators. JISC invites tenders to undertake a project to examine and make recommendations on the role and career development of data scientists, the associated supply of specialist data curation skills to the research community, including an assessment of the value and potential of extending data handling, curation and preservation skills within undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Tenders should be submitted no later than 13:00 on Thursday 20 December 2007 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Circular 05/07: Digital Repositories. JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to: develop interoperability demonstrators to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which research papers are deposited into repositories; develop, provide examples for, and a limited support facility for, a Data Audit Framework ; implement a version of the ‘Data Audit Framework’ methodology in a range of institutions and subject areas. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon on Monday 14 January 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

19 November, 2007

• The use of bibliometrics to measure research quality in UK higher education institutions ISBN 978 1 84036 165 4 November 2007 Universities UK (UK)

16 November, 2007

• PROWE (Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment) is a JISC-funded digital repositories project that has researched the extent to which informal repositories within Wiki and Blogs could meet the needs of part-time distance tutors for sharing and storing resources in the context of their own professional development.  Project partners are the Open University and the University of Leicester. (UK)

15 November, 2007

• Towards the Australian Data Commons - a proposal for an Australian National Data Service. The ANDS Technical Working Group October 2007 Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). (AU)

14 November, 2007

• Project Briefings: A Preliminary Title List. Coalition for Networked Information. Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC December 10-11, 2007 (US)
• Ariadne Issue 53 | October 2007 ISSN: 1361-3200 UKOLN (UK)

12 November, 2007

• The Impact of VSU on Postgraduate Students: A report by the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. August 2007 (AU)
• Discipline-Based Initiatives Stage 2. Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (AU)

9 November, 2007

• Scanning the Environment for the Library Strategic Plan 2008 -2010. The University of Western Australia Library. (AU)
• The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories - ISBN: 1-57440-090-8)  Publication Date: 11/07 Primary Research Group information science studies (US)

8 November, 2007

• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, By Oya Rieger. A white paper examining preservation issues relevant to mass-digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance. Council on Library and Information Resources. (US)
• NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee. National Information Standards Organization (US)
• Report To PALS: Charging Models For Information Final Report [by] Hugh Look. 3 October 2003 PALS (Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions) (UK)

7 November, 2007

• Carrick Communiqué Issue 2 November 2007. Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (AU)

6 November, 2007

• Director of Libraries The University of Manitoba. Vacancy. Advertisement. Applications close December 15. (CA)
• Calendar Issue 3, 2007 – the quarterly magazine that brings you information on what's happening in publishing, copyright management and at Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). (AU)
• Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement. November 2007. Report by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (US)
• The LIFE Model v1.1. Discussion paper. Wheatley, P. and Ayris, P. and Davies, R. and Mcleod, R. and Shenton, H. (2007) LIFE Project, Released for comment until 7th January 2008 LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) is a funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Library (UK)

3 November, 2007

• Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives, SPEC Kit 299. Kathleen A. Newman, Deborah D. Blecic, and Kimberly L. Armstrong • August 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-792-4 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Protecting Privacy & Intellectual Freedom in Libraries. The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Society publishers with open access journals (Peter Suber, with Caroline Sutton) SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #115 November 2, 2007 by Peter Suber (US)
  • Scholarly Societies and Open Access Publishing - Full OA Journals List. Compiled by Peter Suber* & Caroline Sutton.

2 November, 2007

• The Copyright Kitchen is a resource for those working in vocational education and training (VET) who deal with copyright issues in their day-to-day work. Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AU)

1 November, 2007

• Statement Concerning the Decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to Discontinue its Relationship with JSTOR (October 30, 2007) International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) (US)
• National Library of Australia.  Annual Report 2006–2007 (AU)
  Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World.  The report is based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S. The research provides insights into the values and social-networking habits of library users. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (US)

26 October, 2007

• Review of the Extension of Legal Deposit. The examination of the legal deposit scheme is being undertaken jointly by the Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Closing Date for Submissions is 11 January 2008. (AU)
  • Discussion Paper on the Extension of Legal Deposit.

25 October, 2007

• Students 2006 [full year]: selected higher education statistics. This series - 'Students: Selected Higher Education Statistics' - contains statistics relating to students enrolled in higher education courses in each Australian Higher Education Provider. Data in each publication is reported in numbers and Equivalent Full-time Student Load (EFTSL). Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). (AU)
• Draft ‘safe harbor’ guidelines for Orphan Works. Likely to be sponsored by the following publishing trade associations: STM, ALPSP, the PA, PSP division of AAP. (UK)

24 October, 2007

• CAUL Executive Committee for 2008. Council of Australian University Librarians (AU)
• CEIRC Committee membership for 2008. CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee. (AU)
• Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning [by] I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman: The Sloan Consortium. October 2007 (US)

19 October, 2007

• Research Quality Framework. Copyright.  Frequently Asked Questions. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)

18 October, 2007

• DCMI Identifiers Community. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. (US)

17 October, 2007

• Regional Telecommunications Review. A review of the adequacy of telecommunications services in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia. Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee. (AU)
  • The Committee has released a Discussion Paper and called for written submissions to be made by 31 October 2007.
• Research Quality Framework Newsletter 16 October 2007 Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)

16 October, 2007

• CONTENTdm - Digital Collection Management Software by DiMeMa, Inc. (US)
  • OCLC's CONTENTdm software offers a complete set of tools to store, manage and deliver digital collections such as documents, photos, newspapers, audio and video on the Web.
• JISC Circular 4/07: Reuse of learning content. Submission Deadline: 30 November 2007 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

11 October, 2007

• The Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. National Library of Australia (AU)
• The Australian Newspaper Plan. National Library of Australia (AU)
• DISC-UK (Data Information Specialists Committee - United Kingdom) is a forum for data professionals working in UK Higher Education who specialise insupporting their instituion's staff and students in the use of numeric and geo-spatial data. (UK)
• DISC-UK DataShare, The project's overall aim is to contribute to new models, workflows and tools for academic data sharing within a complex and dynamic information environment which includes increased emphasis on stewardship of institutional knowledge assets of all types; new technologies to enhance e-Research; new research council policies and mandates; and the growth of the Open Access / Open Data movement. (Data Information Specialists Committee-UK) (UK)
• Australia’s Cultural Heritage - A Digital Future. Three of Australia’s national collecting institutions – the National Archives of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Library of Australia – have issued a public statement drawing attention to their urgent need for additional funds to allow them to cope with the “tidal wave” of information that is being produced in digital form. (AU)
• The Business, Industry and Higher Education Collaboration Council. (AU)
  • Graduate Employability Skills report.

10 October, 2007

• Review of network provision for research needs briefing paper. JISC Communications and Marketing Team 8 October 2007 (UK)
• ALIA National Advisory Congress 2007. This year's NAC regional meetings will focus on one of ALIA's 2008 priorities - Professional Education and Workforce Planning. Australian Library and Information Association (AU)
• Benchmarking in Australian Higher Education: A Thematic Analysis of AUQA Audit Reports. Antony Stella & David Woodhouse. AUQA Occasional Publications Series 13. ISBN 978 1 877090 80 6 Copyright © 2007 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• Thematic Analysis: The Role of Academic Boards in University Governance. Anthony H. Dooley. AUQA Occasional Publications Number 12 ISBN 978 1 877090 79 0 Copyright © 2007 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

9 October, 2007

• Investigative Study towards establishing a Scottish Higher Education Digital Library for Scottish Universities: A Report commissioned by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow for SCURL, by John Cox 24 September 2007 The Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) (UK)
• The Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) (UK)

8 October, 2007

• Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 2 [by] Cat S. McDowell. D-LibMagazine, September/October 2007, Volume 13 Number 9/10 ISSN 1082-9873
• The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is seeking public comment on its draft Plan for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007-2016. Comments due: November 9, 2007 (US)

5 October, 2007

• Digital Lives Research Project. The Digital Lives project is designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. The project team drawn from the British Library, University College London and University of Bristol is led by Neil Beagrie of the British Library (the lead partner) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). (UK)
• Information Management infoKit: an online resource freely available to all FE and HE institutions. JISC (UK)
• Carrick Communiqué: a monthly publication to keep you updated on all Carrick activities, programs and initiatives. Carrick Institute (AU)
• ITT: Research data preservation costs study. JISC wishes to fund a study into the cost to institutions of long-term storage of research data.Submission Deadline: 29 October 2007 (UK)
• ITT: Review of OpenID use in Higher and Further Education. Submission Deadline: 02 November 2007 JISC (UK)
• ITT: Review of identity metasystems. Submission Deadline: 02 November 2007 JISC (UK)

1 October, 2007

• Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet). Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) The National Science Foundation (US)
• Australasian Research Managers Society (ARMS). (AU)
• National Libary of Australia Roadshow 2007. (AU)

29 September, 2007

• Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the University Of California Conducted in collaboration with Greenhouse Associates [August 2007]. Full report. (US)

28 September, 2007

• Roadmap for a prosperous Australia in a competitive world. Professor Kurt Lambeck FAA, President, Australian Academy of Science NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ADDRESS 26 September 2007 (AU)
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With support by the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom. (UK)
  • Task force to address sustainability in digital preservation. Media Release. 25 September 2007 JISC (UK)

27 September, 2007

• Digital Assets Factory (DAF) version 2.0. Bibliotheca Alexandrina. DAF v2.0 provides all the necessary tools required to manage the whole process of a digitization workflow, including its various Phases, User management, file movement and archiving. (EG)

26 September, 2007

• Xena: Software for Digital Preservation. Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning 'Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives'. (AU)

25 September, 2007

• Draft Copyright Infringement Notice Scheme Guidelines. Prepared by the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department – August 2007. All comments on the draft guidelines should be provided by the closing date of 5 October 2007. (AU)
• Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) (AU)
• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Funding outcomes. Australian Research Council (AU)
  • Researchers share equipment to advance Australia’s knowledge. 25 September 2007 Media Release. Minister for Education, Science and Training (AU)
• AGD e-News on Copyright. Issue 47 - September 2007 Copyright Law Branch of the Attorney-General’s Department (AU)
• Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Australian Government (AU)
• Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Report (August 2007) Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Program. (US)
  • Press Release September 10, 2007

19 September, 2007

• HAERVI: HE Access to e-Resources in Visited Institutions. UCISA Best Practice Guides. Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association. The project has been jointly managed by UCISA and SCONUL and was funded by JISC. (UK)
• CODATA Data Science Journal Special Issue: Open Data for Global Science. Release Date: 29-Jun-2007 (EU)

18 September, 2007

• Assessment Panel Members for Research Quality Framework announced. Media Release. Minister for Education, Science and Training. 18 September 2007 (AU)
• Research Quality Framework specifications released. Media Release. Minister for Education, Science and Training. 18 September 2007 (AU)
• Survey of Library Cafes. Primary Research Group, Aug 2007 (US)
• Fair use in the US economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use. PREPARED BY Thomas Rogers, Andrew Szamosszegi PREPARED FOR Computer & Communications Industry Association. (US)
  • Fair Use Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDP.  Sep 12, 2007
• SPEC Kit 298. Metadata [by] Jin Ma. July 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-791-6 Association of Research Libraries (US)

17 September, 2007

• Guidelines for the creation of institutional repositories at universities and higher education institutions, prepared by the Group of Scientific Information Repositories coordinated by Antonio Fernández Porcel, of Granada University. Alfa Network Babel Library. Valparaiso : Columbus : Europe Aid Co-Operation Office : Babel Library, 2007. (CL)
• The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007 (ID: ERS076) Gail Salaway (EDUCAUSE) and Judith Borreson Caruso (University of Wisconsin-Madison) EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) (US)

13 September, 2007

• Mandatory Public Access to Federally Funded Research does not Violate Copyright Obligations. Association of Research Libraries, American Library Association, SPARC July 2007 (US)
• Discussion Paper 72, Review of Australian Privacy Law. Australian Law Reform Commission. The closing date for submissions in response to DP 72 is 7 December 2007. (AU)
• Swan, A. (2007) The business of digital repositories, in Weenink, K., Waaijers, L. and van Godtsenhoven, K., Eds. A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories (Amsterdam, 2007). Amsterdam University Press. (NL)
• e-Framework Community Wiki. The primary goal of the initiative is to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes. Established by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). (AU)

12 September, 2007

• Major Trends in Libraries in the UK. Chris Batt, Chief Executive of the UK's Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, discusses major trends in libraries in the UK.  This forum was held at the State Library of Victoria on 29 August 2007. [Podcast now available]
• Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services (ISSN:0024-2667) published by K. G. Saur Verlag, München (DE)
• Circular 03/07: JISC/NEH transatlantic digitisation collaboration grants. Submission Deadline: 29 November 2007 12:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

8 September, 2007

• The LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) Project has developed a methodology to model the digital lifecycle and calculate the costs of preserving digital information for the next 5, 10 or 100 years. LIFE is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Library. (UK)
• Proceedings of AUQF2007: Evolution and Renewal in Quality Assurance. ISBN: 978 1 877090 76 9 Occasional Publications Series No: 11 August 2007 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• Student Expectations Study: Key findings from online research and discussion evenings held in June 2007 for the Joint Information Systems Committee. July 2007 (UK)

6 September, 2007

• Peter Murray-Rust, Open Access to Research Data: surmountable challenges A Scientist and the Web, August 30, 2007. (UK)
• CROSSREF PILOTS CROSS-PUBLISHER PLAGIARISM DETECTION SERVICE Lynnfield, MA. August 1, 2007 CrossRef (US)

5 September, 2007

• The Influence of Academic Values on Scholarly Publication and Communication Practices. Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and C. Judson King. Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007) (US)
• Report: Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models. C. Judson King, Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and Irene Perciali. Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. (July 27, 2006) (US)

3 September, 2007

• A beta version of the Automatic Obsolescence Notification Service (AONS) has been launched as a pilot service. Format obsolescence is potentially a major problem for every repository manager. ....Therefore, in order to ensure the long-term curation of digital material, software tools need to help manage format risk. National Library (NLA) of Australia and the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) (AU)
• UK federated access management. This website is designed to help institutions and service providers in their transition to Federated Access Management. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• National Survey of Research Commercialisation 2003-2004 and Commercialisation Case Studies. Department of Education, Science and Training. Report 6/2007. (AU)

30 August, 2007

• ARL Index. Starting with 2005–06 data, ARL is calculating an Expenditures-Focused Index as an alternative to the ARL Membership Criteria Index. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research: podcast. Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information - the closing speech from the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing in Snowmass Village, Colorado. EDUCAUSE (US)

29 August, 2007

• Webology. ISSN  1735-188X
  • Web 2.0, Folksonomies & Sociology of the Web, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2007

28 August, 2007

• Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation: A report from the Council of Graduate Schools Advisory Committee on Graduate Education and American Competitiveness. The Council of Graduate Schools. 26 April, 2007 (US)

24 August, 2007

• The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure. CTWatch Quarterly. Volume 3 Number 3 August 2007 (US)

23 August, 2007

• Legal and project agreement issues in collaboration and e-Research: Survey Results Maree Heffernan & Nikki David. Queensland University of Technology.  Legal Framework for e-Research Project. ISBN 978-0-9802988-5-7 (AU)

22 August, 2007

• ticTOCs project. The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary funder of the project. (UK)
• 8104.0 - Research and Experimental Development, Businesses, Australia, 2005-06. Latest ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 21/08/2007  Australian Bureau of Statistics (AU)
  • Business spending on R&D reaches $10.1 billion. Media Release. August 21, 2007

17 August, 2007

• Institutional Repositories: Staff and Skills requirements. Mary Robinson. University of Nottingham 8th August 2007 SHERPA Document (UK)

16 August, 2007

• New Generation National Library Strategic Direction to 2017. National Library of New Zealand. 20 July 2007 (NZ)
• Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Intute originates from the Resource Discovery Network. Intute and its four subject groups are funded by Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

15 August, 2007

• International report on library and information services for visually impaired people. Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the British Library and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 8 May 2007 (EU)
  • Press Release 14 August, 2007.
• ebrary’s Global eBook Survey. Survey analysis by Allen McKiel. ebrary (US)

9 August, 2007

• The Politics of Promoting Freedom of Information and Expression in International Librarianship: The IFLA/FAIFE Project. Alex Byrne  007 0-8108-6017-1 978-0-8108-6017-9 (Libraries and Librarianship: An International Perspective #4) The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2007 (US)

7 August, 2007

• Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories. Primary Research Group Inc. (US)
• DRIVER Project: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research. EU Sixth Framework Programme (EU)
• A PORTAL FOR DOCTORAL E-THESES IN EUROPE; Lessons Learned from a Demonstrator Project. Drs. M.P.J.P. Vanderfeesten. Utrecht, July 2007. The project has been performed by SURFfoundation. The work was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, the National Library of Sweden and SURFfoundation in the Netherlands. (NL)
• The International Journal of Digital Curation. ISSN: 1746-8256 The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre. (UK)
• The British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2006/07. (UK)

6 August, 2007

• Building the Infrastructure for Data Access and Reuse In Collaborative Research: An Analysis of the Legal Context. Anne Fitzgerald and Kylie Pappalardo. OAK Law Project and Legal Framework for e-Research Project. OAK Law Project. June, 2007 (AU)

1 August, 2007

• eBooks – Costs and Benefits to Academic and Research Libraries. Author Rita A. Renner. White paper. Springer.com (DE)
• Library Automation Systems and Services - Global Strategic Business Report. Global Industry Analysts, Inc., Jan 2007 Research and Markets Ltd (IE)
• Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. National Library of Australia (AU)
• The Big Bang: creating the new library universe; encouraging flexibility, rapid response and innovation within the library sector. National & State Libraries Australasia 2007-2009. Discussion paper. (AU)
• Public Libraries Australia (PLA). (AU)

31 July, 2007

• SCONUL Access - reciprocal borrowing scheme. SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) (UK)
• Online Research Collections Australia (ORCA). - twofold aims of developing an online registry of Australian research collections and a coordinating network to support researchers with the ongoing development of these collections. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (AU)
  • ORCA Registry project.
  • ORCA Support Network.
• Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Inquiry into the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007 (AU)
  • Public hearings and transcripts. July 17
  • Report. July 30

30 July, 2007

• eResearch Mailing List. A new mailing list -- eresearch-announce@eresearch.edu.au -- has been created to facilitate announcements of events and activities that may be of interest to the Australian eResearch community. To subscribe, send a plain text message to majordomo@eresearch.edu.au with the words "subscribe eresearch-announce" (without the quotation marks) in the message body. (AU)
• Having Your Cake and Eating It: The e-Framework's Service-Oriented Approach to IT in Higher Education. Bill Olivier, Development Director for Systems and Technology for the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 4 (July/August 2007): 58–67 (US)
• University Publishing In A Digital Age. Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (July 2007). Ithaka. (US)

23 July, 2007

• mura: RAMP Support for RQF Repositories. Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities (RAMP) is a DEST funded project from the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) based at the Macquarie University E-Learning Center of Excellence (MELCOE). (AU)
  • mura can support both open access and dark repository requirements via alternative front-ends to a single Fedora core repository avoiding repository duplication.

20 July, 2007

• An Australian e-Research Strategy and Implementation Framework: Final Report of the e-Research Coordinating Committee. Chair: Dr Mike Sargent AM. April, 2006. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)

19 July, 2007

• Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories (ASHER) application form. Applications close 1 August 2007 Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• e-SciDR: towards a European infrastructure for e-science digital repositories - a study led by the Digital Archiving Consultancy on behalf of the European Commission to drive forward the development and use of digital repositories in the EU in all areas of science, from the humanities to the earth sciences. (EU)
• Metadata Extraction Tool. The Metadata Extraction Tool was developed by the National Library of New Zealand to programmatically extract preservation metadata from a range of file formats like PDF documents, image files, sound files Microsoft office documents, and many others. (NZ)

18 July, 2007

• National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) NH&MRC - The Statement replaces the 1999 National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans. (AU)

17 July, 2007

• Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain: Final Report for UKSG. 21 May 2007 UK Serials Group (UKSG) (UK)
• ARL White Paper on Interlibrary Loan. Anne K. Beaubien. Association of Research Libraries (US)

12 July, 2007

• Australian Framework & Action Plan for Digital Heritage Collections, July 2007. The Collections Council of Australia. Comments on the draft are welcome, up to 3 August 2007. (AU)
• Exposure Draft of the National Standards for Australian Museums and Galleries. Collections Council of Australia, the History Trust of South Australia, Museums & Galleries NSW, Museums Australia (Victoria), Museum & Gallery Services Queensland and the Western Australian Museum. (AU)
  • The Feedback Form can be completed online - the interactive webform will be available until 15 August 2007.

11 July, 2007

• Towards an Open Source Archival Repository and Preservation System, by Kevin Bradley (NLA), Junran Lei (APSR) and Chris Blackall (APSR). This report was commissioned by UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and prepared with the support of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR). June 2007 (EU)
• Report of the Sustainability Guidelines for Australian Repositories Project (SUGAR). Rowan Brownlee (University of Sydney) and David Berriman (APSR). Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. June 2007 (AU)

7 July, 2007

• International Publishers and Librarians Agree On Access to Orphan Works. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Publishers' Association (IPA)

6 July, 2007

• The cost of journal publishing: a literature review and commentary.  King, Donald W. Learned Publishing, Volume 20, Number 2, April 2007 pp. 85-106(22) (UK)

5 July, 2007

• Access for library users with disabilities: by Linda Robertson on behalf of the SCONUL Access Steering Group. SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) (UK)
  • New guide to help disabled students secure 'truly accessible services'  12 June, 2007

3 July, 2007

• Creating a new Library for Macquarie University: are we there yet?  Maxine Brodie [and] Meredith Martinelli. Paper presented at:

2 July, 2007

Submission to Material That Advocates Terrorist Acts Discussion Paper. Submission from: Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA); Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL); National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA); Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA). 29 May 2007 (AU)

29 June, 2007

• Guide to Open Data Licensing. The Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki (UK)

27 June, 2007

• Task Force on New Ways of Measuring Collections. Association of Research Libraries (US)

25 June, 2007

• Inquiry into Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007. Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee.  The closing date for submissions is Tuesday, 10 July 2007. (AU)
• ALPSP, AAP/PSP and STM issue White Paper on academic use of journal content. Joint statement lays out general terms for the appropriate balancing of rights for academic journal publishing. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) (UK)

21 June, 2007

• Research Quality Framework: Assessing the quality and impact of research in Australia. RQF Implementation 2007 - Newsletters. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships: Consultancy Report. By Dr Liz Lyon. V1.0 19th June 2007 This work was funded by the JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities[by] Margaret Henty, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. D-Lib Magazine May/June 2007 Volume 13 Number 5/6 ISSN 1082-9873
• Library Brown-Bag Lunch Series [Discussion Leader's Guides]: Issues in Scholarly Communication.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• EndNote Web. Thomson ResearchSoft, a business of the Thomson Corporation, is a division of Thomson Scientific (US)
  • Announcing... EndNote® X1 for Windows®
  • THOMSON SCIENTIFIC RELEASES ENDNOTE X1 FOR WINDOWS June 4, 2007

20 June, 2007

• Publishing Skills Group. The PSG is an alliance of trade associations and related organisations across the whole spectrum of publishing - books, journals, directories and databases, magazines and newspapers, in both print and electronic media. Its aim is to promote and improve education, training and development and to anticipate the industry’s future skills needs. (UK)

18 June, 2007

• Final Report on the Investigation into the Feasibility of Developing and Implementing Journal Usage Factors  Dr Peter T Shepherd.  Sponsored by the United Kingdom Serials Group May 2007 (UK)
  • Usage Factors Study - Final Report Now Available.

15 June, 2007

• Australasian Digital Theses Program (ADT) membership survey 2006. CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) (AU)
• Changing Infrastructures for Academic Services:  Information Management in German Universities. [in German and English]  Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DE)

14 June, 2007

• Seizing the opportunities: National Press Club Address by Go8 Chair, Professor Glyn Davis. Group of Eight (AU)
• Go8 Policy Discussion Paper: Seizing the opportunities: Designing new policy architecture for higher education and university research. Group of Eight (AU)

13 June, 2007

• ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol).  (EU)
  • ACAP is being developed as an industry standard by the publishing industry, working with search engines and other technical and commercial partners; it will enable the providers of all types of content published on the World Wide Web to communicate permissions information (relating to access and use of that content) in a form that can be automatically recognized and interpreted, so that business partners can systematically comply with the publishers' policies.

12 June, 2007

• HEFCE strategic plan 2006-11. Updated April 2007. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• ebrary’s Global eBook Survey.  Survey analysis by Allen McKiel. ebrary (US)
• ITT: Library Management Systems.   JISC and SCONUL wish to commission a project to conduct an evaluation and horizon scan of the current Library Management Systems (LMS) landscape in HE. Submission Deadline: 09 July 2007 13:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education [by] Tom Franklin and Mark van Harmelen. 28 May 2007. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2nd Edition Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization, 2004 (US) 3rd Edition in progress

10 May, 2007

• A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository. Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald
  With the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Scott Kiel-Chisholm.  OAK Law Project. April, 2007 (AU)
• Copyright Guide for Research Students: What you need to know about copyright before depositing your electronic thesis in an online repository. Damien O’Brien and Dr Anne Fitzgerald with the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Scott-Kiel Chisholm, Jessica Coates and Kylie Pappalardo.  OAK Law Project. May 2007. (AU)

8 May, 2007

• Australian Government. Budget 2007-08.
  • Portfolio budget statements.
    • Education, Science and Training.
      • Minister for Education, Science and Training Media Releases.
      • Budget at a glance - Higher Education.
    • Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
      • National Library of Australia.
• CAUL Report 2005-2006.  Council of Australian University Librarians.  (AU)
• M-learning standards report: Background, discussion and recommendations for usable and accessible m-learning. 8 January 2007
  Version 1.0 By Leonard Low.  Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• A guide to working with m-learning standards:  A manual for teachers, trainers and developers. 11 April 2007 Version 1.0 By Margaret O’Connell and John Smith.  Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Mobile Technologies. "Summary of recommended m-learning standards on the E-standards for Training website." Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Association of Research LibrariesInstitute on Scholarly Communication. FAIR (Freely Accessible Institute Resources).  (US)

7 May, 2007

• Product Evaluation Report and Tool Kit. ISBN 978-1-904769-14-4 - April 2007 © Free Pint Limited (US)

5 May, 2007

• New Directions for Innovation, Competitiveness and Productivity: New Directions paper and a ten point plan for innovation in Australia.  Kevin Rudd, MP and Senator Kim Carr.  Australian Labor Party.  April, 2007 (AU)
  • Media Release. 24 April 2007
• Skills for a Nation: A Blueprint for Improving Education and Training 2007-2017. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  April, 2007 (AU)

29 April, 2007

• Stewardship of digital research data: a framework of principles and guidelines. Responsibilities of research institutions and funders, data managers, learned societies and publishers. Draft for consultation. Research Information Network (UK)
• HarvestRoad Receives a Gold Award at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact Awards 2007 in Vancouver
  April 24, 2007
  Perth, Western Australia: Technology company HarvestRoad (ASX:HRD) today announced its digital object repository solution HarvestRoad Hive® received a Gold Award at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact Awards held in Vancouver, British Columbia for the HarvestRoad Hive® Resource List Management System implementation at The University of Western Australia.
• The iSkills™ assessment (the former ICT Literacy Assessment) is a comprehensive test of Information and Communication Technology proficiency that uses scenario-based tasks to measure both cognitive and technical skills. The assessment provides support for institutional ICT literacy initiatives, guides curricula innovations, informs articulation and progress standings, and assesses individual student proficiency. Educational Testing Service. (US)

19 April, 2007

• The Future of Preservation in ARL Libraries, by Thomas Teper.  ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 251 (April 2007).  Association of Research Libraries (US)

17 April, 2007

• Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-2006. Sonya White & Claire Creaser.  LISU Occasional Paper No. 37 ISBN 978 1 905499 23 6 Published LISU, Loughborough University April 2007 (UK)

16 April, 2007

• The Depot is a supporting service of the JISC Repositories and Preservation programme. Researchers based at UK institutions of higher and further education are welcome to use this national facility to deposit their peer-reviewed papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints). EDINA SHERPA, JISC (UK)
• JANET Wireless Technology Advisory Service.  This service provides free advice and guidance to organisations on all aspects of wireless technologies.  UKERNA (UK)
• JISC ITT Towards Optimal Information Retrieval.  Submission Deadline: 21 May 2007 13:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  •  The JISC wishes to commission a project to explore and evaluate the value of cross search based on metadata and the combination of metadata and full text. The project should also explore what types of resources are best suited to cross-searching/meta-searching.

13 April, 2007

• Researchers’ Use of Academic Libraries and their Services. Sheridan Brown and Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd.  A report commissioned by the Research Information Network and the Consortium of Research Libraries. April 2007 (UK)
• IFLA Division of Bibliographic Control and the IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Programme (UBCIM).  Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR). 2nd World-Wide Review of Functional Requirements for Authority Data. Comments due by July 15, 2007 (EU)

11 April, 2007

• Copyright Renewal Database. This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. Stanford University (US)

10 April, 2007

• World Intellectual Property Organization.  Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for the Visually Impaired.  Prepared by Judith Sullivan.  SCCR/15/7 Geneva, September 11 to 13, 2006 (INT)
• Australian Law Reform Commission. Privacy Inquiry.  Closing date for submissions on the Discussion Paper (to be released mid-2007) mid-October 2007 (AU)
  • Terms of Reference - Review of the Privacy Act 1988.  30 January 2006
  • ALRC Issues Paper 31. Review of Privacy. This Issues Paper reflects the law as at 20 September 2006. © Commonwealth of Australia 2006
  • ALRC Issues Paper 32. Review of Privacy-Credit Reporting Provisions. This Issues Paper reflects the law as at 30 November 2006 © Commonwealth of Australia 2006
  • Overview of ALRC Issues Papers 31 & 32, Review of Privacy. Reviewing Australia's Privacy Laws. Is Privacy passé? ... have your say. This Overview of Issues Papers 31 & 32 reflects the law as at 20 September 2006. © Commonwealth of Australia 2006

4 April, 2007

• Innovate: Journal of Online Education, April/May 2007, Volume 3, Issue 4.  Special Issue on the Net Generation. (US)
• JISC ITT: High Level Domain Map of Higher Education: Synthesis of Sources.  The deadline for proposals if 1300 hours on 30 April 2007. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

3 April, 2007

• ARC Scheme Calendar.  Australian Research Council (ARC) (AU)
  • ARC scheme calendar available -  a schedule of key dates for researchers planning to apply for Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for projects commencing in 2008. Minister for Education, Science and Training. MEDIA RELEASE 3 April 2007 (AU)
  • The Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme fosters collaboration through its support of the cooperative use of national and international research facilities. Australian Research Council (ARC) (AU)
    • Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2008.  Applications close May 18.
      • Funding may support "library and research information infrastructure (non-capital aspects only to support specific research projects). Administering Organisations should refer to the advice at Appendix 3."

2 April, 2007

• Simplifying Dual-Sector Reporting Requirements: Final Report.  PhillipsKPA.  DEST Reports 8/2005 June 2005.  Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• CERL, the Consortium of European Research Libraries. (EU)
  The Consortium’s purpose is to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of, the European printed heritage.

30 March, 2007

• CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE VISION FOR 21ST CENTURY DISCOVERY. Cyberinfrastructure Council.  National Science Foundation. March 2007 (US)
• Organizing and Managing Your Research [by] Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher and Allan Ellis. Southern Cross University (AU)
  • This site is designed to supplement the book Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates, providing additional support for those who want to follow up the issues and strategies outlined in the book.
• PerX (Pilot Engineering Repositories Xsearch) - a JISC Digital Repositories Programme project. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • The PerX project has developed a pilot service which provides subject resource discovery across a series of repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research communities.

29 March, 2007

• Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS). Australian Education International (AEI) (AU)
  • ESOS Information is Now Available on Australian Education International's Website.

28 March, 2007

• Planning & Designing Technology - Rich Learning Spaces. JISC infoKits. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Audit Manual Version 4.0 March 2007 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

27 March, 2007

• Public Support for Science and Innovation: Research Report. The research report, Public Support for Science and Innovation, was released on 27 March 2007.  Australian Government - Productivity Commission (AU)

26 March, 2007

• Mismatch: Australia’s graduates and the job market. Andrew Norton. The Centre for Independent Studies, 23 March 2007. Issue Analysis 84 (AU)
• Increasing Private Support for Australian Universities. B-HERT Position Paper No. 13. December, 2006. Business / Higher Education Round Table (AU)
• What is a skill shortage? Sue Richardson  26 February 2007 ISBN: 978 1 921170 37 9 National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on behalf of the Australian Government, and state and territory governments with funding provided through the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training. (AU)

24 March, 2007

• New animation makes sense of the e-Framework. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • The e-Framework is a major international initiative, undertaken by JISC and partner organisations, and is designed to provide a means by which education organisations can ensure that the components of their IT systems work together, or interoperate, and that their development is driven by strategic need rather than by purely technical considerations or short term expediency.The benefits of such an approach are potentially significant in terms of better value for money when purchasing or developing IT systems, the increased ability of organisations to adapt, to change their systems to meet changing priorities and to plan effectively.

23 March, 2007

• Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research. (US)

22 March, 2007

• CONSERVATION SURVEY 2006: A survey of human and financial resources in Australian conservation and preservation, [by] VM BULLOCK, MM BIRTLEY, CJ JENKINS.  Collections Council of Australia Research: Report No.1 (AU)
• ACRL releases essay on technology and change in academic libraries.  March 20, 2007 The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (US)
• The Repository Metadata and Management project (RepoMMan) is a project under the auspices of the Joint Information Systems Committee 'Digital Repositories' Programme. (UK)
  • R-D14 RepoMMan Full User Needs Analysis (21/03/07)
• Management of Images in a Distributed Environment with Shared Services.  The MIDESS Project is a JISC funded project. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• IARU (International Alliance of Research Universities).  (AU)

21 March, 2007

• The SERU Approach to e-Resource Subscriptions Framework for Development and Use of SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) DRAFT 0.3 – For Public Comment. NISO (US)
  • NISO Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Releases Draft Recommended Practices (March 15, 2007) (US)
• CDNLAO Newsletter No.58, March 2007. Special topic: Archiving and Preservation of Online Publications Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) (JP)
• LibQUAL+TM Publications.  Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC (US)
• Changing Global Book Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries, by Mary E. Jackson, Auto-Graphics, Inc. (formerly Association of Research Libraries)  Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.  Edward T. O'Neill, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.  Eudora Loh, University of California, Los Angeles © 2006 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC (US)
  • Report Documents Changes in Global Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries.
• 'Self-Archiving and Journal Subscriptions: Co-existence or Competition?': an international survey of librarians' preferences. By Chris Beckett and Simon Inger. This paper is a condensed version of the earlier analysis released in November 2006.  Publishing Research Consortium.  (UK)
• UKCoRR - the UK Council of Research Repositories. SHERPA Plus Project (UK)
  • UKCoRR will be an independent professional body to allow repository managers to share experiences and discuss issues of common concern. It will give repository managers a group voice in national discussions and policy development independent of projects or temporary initiatives.
• GRADE:  Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • GRADE will investigate and report on the technical and cultural issues around the reuse of geospatial data within the JISC IE in the context of media-centric, informal and institutional repositories.
  • Designing a licensing strategy for sharing and re-use of geospatial data in the academic sector. Charlotte Waelde AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh; Mags McGinley, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh

15 March, 2007

• JISC ITT - Sharing e-Learning Content. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) wishes to commission an individual or team to review and synthesise the work of various specified projects and programmes engaged in the development, use and sharing of elearning content. We are commissioning this study in order to support JISC in planning future funding calls and to further the dissemination of programme outcomes.  Tenders should be submitted no later than 1300 hrs on 16 April 2007. JISC (UK)
• JISC ITT - Significant Properties. JISC invites proposals for 4 separate studies to identify and analyse the significant properties of four different types of digital objects for digital preservation purposes: e-learning objects, software, vector images and moving images. For each object type, the contractors are required to develop a model for expressing significant properties and propose standard ways of expressing these in the form of templates. The deadline for proposals is 1300 hours on Thursday 19th April 2007. JISC (UK)
• Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist. Robin Dale and Bernard F. Reilly. Center for Research Libraries and RLG Programs. (US)

12 March, 2007

• JISC Strategy 2007-2009. (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• e-Journals: Archiving and Preservation:  Briefing paper, March 2007, by Maggie Jones, Digital Preservation Consultant, on behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• Usage-based measurements of journal quality – wide-ranging study gets under way.  UKSG (United Kingdom Serials Group) (UK)

8 March, 2007

• Information Literacy.  This website has been designed and developed by information professionals from key UK organisations actively involved in the field of information literacy [including CILIP, SCONUL, MLA, SLA and Eduserv.] (UK)
• EndNote Online Tutorial. University of Newcastle (AU)

6 March, 2007

• National Code of Practice for Registration Authorities and Providers of Education and Training to Overseas Students. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon. Julie Bishop, has given her approval for the revised National Code to proceed to Parliament. It is anticipated that it will be placed on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments in February 2007 and the implementation date will be 1 July 2007. (AU)
  • Comparison of the National Code (2001) and the Revised National Code (2007).
  • National Code 2007 Information Sessions - April 12 to June 6, various locations.
• Group of Eight (Go8). Submission 1 to the review of the impact of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (Cth) February 2007 (AU)
• What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education (TSW0701) by Paul Anderson JISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 (UK)
  • This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole surrounding ‘Web 2.0’. It reports on the implications this may have for the UK Higher and Further Education sector, with a special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries.
• Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA).  Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)  (UK)
  • DRAMBORA toolkit.  This toolkit is intended to facilitate internal audit by providing repository administrators with a means to assess their capabilities, identify their weaknesses, and recognise their strengths.  28 February 2007

5 March, 2007

• The Funding of Australian Universities 1996–2005: An examination of the facts and figures. 2007 National Tertiary Education Union  (AU)
  • Students Pay More. Universities Get Less.  - UPDATE III -  An Analysis of the Funding of Government Subsidised Student Places at Australian Universities 1996 to 2005. January 2007 National Tertiary Education Union  (AU)

1 March, 2007

• Reports released on key disability issues.  Media Release 12/07 Thursday March 1st.  Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (AU)
  • Review of the provision of telecommunications equipment to consumers with disabilities.
  • Assessment of text any-to-any connectivity options—future directions for text communications.

28 February, 2007

• National Data Network. A national platform for acquiring, sharing, and integrating data relevant to policy and research in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is the lead agency in developing the National Data Network. (AU)
  • The NDN is currently in demonstration phase with a small number of participating agencies. As part of the development of the NDN a number of pilot projects are being initiated to demonstrate the functionality of the network.
• Research and the Scholarly Communications Process: Towards Strategic Goals for Public Policy: A Statement of Principles. The Research Information Network (UK)
• Issue Brief: John Wiley and Sons’ Acquisition of Blackwell Publishing. Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL (US)

27 February, 2007

• JISC national e-books observatory project: core reading list e-books. JISC Collections. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • invitation to tender.
• CD-LOR Project. (Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories)  The Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University. This project is funded by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • CDLOR Deliverable 9: Structured Guidelines for Setting up and Evaluating LORs. (This is a draft document for discussion – please do not quote.) Final draft, 19 February 2007 Authors: Anoush Margaryan, Colin Milligan and Peter Douglas.

23 February, 2007

• Joint Committee on Publications. Inquiry into the Distribution of the Parliamentary Papers Series. Report.  On Monday 29 May 2006, the Joint Committee on Publications tabled its report on the inquiry into the Distribution of the Parliamentary Papers Series entitled Distribution of the Parliamentary Papers Series. Parliament of Australian (AU)
  • Government response.  7 September 2006 (PDF 61KB)
• publications.gov.au - Access to Australian Government publications.  Managed on behalf of the Australian Government by the Australian Government Information Management Office, a business group within the Department of Finance and Administration. (AU)
• IFLA Asia and Oceania Section Newsletter Issue 18:2, December 2006 (SG)
• Third Stream.  The funding councils in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland aim to support all institutions in making a significant and measurable contribution, through knowledge transfer and related activities, to the economic development and the strength of communities. This work is described as ‘Third stream’ because it is regarded as supporting the third element of an HEI’s mission alongside teaching and research. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

22 February, 2007

• Disaster Planning and Recovery Portal.  Special Libraries Association. (US)
• AlouetteCanada Open Digitization Initiative.  (CA)
• IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section. Newsletter.  Issue 21 (February 2007) (EU)
• Service-Oriented Frameworks: Modelling the infrastructure for the next generation of e-Learning Systems. A Paper prepared on behalf of
  DEST (Australia), JISC-CETIS (UK), and Industry Canada.  Principal Contributors: Scott Wilson, Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards, Kerry Blinco, Department of Education, Science and Training (Australia), Daniel Rehak, Carnegie Mellon Learning Systems Architecture Lab. July 2004 (UK)
• JISC ITT: Synthesis and Evaluation of Reference Models. This invitation to tender invites proposals to undertake, on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a summary, review and evaluation of six Reference Model projects funded through the Distributed e-Learning Programme. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon on Monday 19th March 2007. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Research Quality Framework. [Outline, FAQ, further information] NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) (AU)

21 February, 2007

• Taking stock of convergence - John Akeroyd. Is there, or was there ever, a true rationale for merging IT and library and information services in universities and HEIs?  © Copyright CILIP 2006 (UK)
• In Google’s Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library, by Richard K. Johnson.  ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no.250 (February 2007) "....brings together a number of articulations of core library interests in digitization partnerships, identifies six key interests against which potential agreements should be evaluated, and urges libraries and their institutions to “make full use of whatever leverage they have to ensure the global digital library is open and dynamic.” Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Public Services in Special Collections, SPEC Kit 296 [by] Florence Turcotte and John Nemmers • November 2006 • ISBN 1-59407-712-6   Association of Research Libraries (US)

20 February, 2007

• AGD E-news on Copyright February Issue 45.  Attorney General's Department (AU)
• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on Scientific Information in the Digital Age:  Access, Dissemination and Preservation.  Commission of the European Communities. [i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative] 14 February 2007 (EU)
• DigitalPreservationEurope, building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe.  (EU)

15 February, 2007

• nestor - Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources. Project partners: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek et al (DE)
• IMS GLC Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends North American Higher Education. 05 February 2007 Update. IMS Global Learning Consortium (US)
• United Nations Global Audit of Web Accessibility. Executive Summary. Nomensa, commissioned by The United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs. November 2006 (EU)

13 February, 2007

• Know Your Copy Rights…a Web site for librarians who are developing positive educational programs for academic users of copyrighted materials in US not-for-profit institutions. Association of Research Libraries (US)

12 February, 2007

• Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU). The working group is charged with developing Recommended Practices to be used to support a new mechanism for publishers to sell e-resources without licenses if they feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior.  US National Information Standards Organization. (US)
• ONIX for Serials is a family of XML formats for communicating information about serial products and subscription information, using the design principles and many of the elements defined in ONIX for Books. EDItEUR and NISO, the US National Information Standards Organization. (US)
  • SOH  (Serials Online Holdings) is a format for communicating electronic serials holdings details from publication access management systems to user libraries.
  • SPS  (Serials Products and Subscriptions) is a format for communicating information about serial subscription products, with or without price information, and optionally including subscription information relating to a particular subscriber.
• High-Level Thesaurus Project (HILT). The HILT project, which is now in phase III, aims to research, investigate, pilot, and develop solutions for, problems pertaining to cross-searching multi-subject scheme information environments. (UK)

9 February, 2007

• Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation. UK Office of Science and Innovation (OSI) e-Infrastructure Working Group. (UK)
• Electronic Theses Online Service Final Report to JISC. October 2006. (UK)
• Evaluation of Options for a UK Electronic Theses Service: Study Report August 2006. Study conducted by Key Perspectives and UCL Library Services on behalf of JISC (UK)

8 February, 2007

• Open Archives Object Reuse and Exchange. ORE will develop specifications that allow distributed repositories to exchange information about their constituent digital objects. (US)

7 February, 2007

• Enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems in Higher Education in APEC Member Economies (October 2006) This report was commissioned by DEST for APEC EDNET members. Australian Universities Quality Agency, with the support of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network, on behalf of DEST. (AU)
• FROM DATA TO WISDOM: Pathways to Successful Data Management for Australian Science. Working Group on Data for Science Report to Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC). December 2006 (AU)
• Quality is the key: Critical issues in teaching, learning and assessment in vocational education and training. [by] John Mitchell, Clive Chappell, Andrea Bateman, Susan Roy.  ISBN:  1 921170 30 1 print; 1 921170 36 0 web Published by NCVER © Australian Government, 2006 (AU)
• Information Access Alliance The IAA was created to allow library associations to share resources to explore the potential of focusing antitrust enforcement on promoting competition in the scholarly publishing marketplace.1 The members of the IAA are the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association for College and Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Medical Library Association, the Special Library Association, and SPARC, the  cholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. (US)
  • IAA Submits Comments to U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Single-Firm Anticompetitive Conduct November, 2006
• The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal" [by] Kenneth Frazier. D-Lib Magazine March 2001 Volume 7 Number 3 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)
• The Bundling of Academic Journals [by] Aaron S. Edlin and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, American Economic Review (2005)
• Exclusion or Efficient Pricing: The "Big Deal" Bundling of Academic Journals [by]  Aaron S. Edlin and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Antitrust Law Journal (2004)

6 February, 2007

• Backing Australia's Future:  Higher Education Reform Implementation Newsletter. Newsletter 25 (5 February 2007) Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• A comparison of OpenURL link resolvers: The results of a University of Connecticut Libraries environmental scan [by] Jill Livingston, a, , Deborah Sanforda,  and Dave Bretthauera,  Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services Volume 30, Issues 3-4 , September-December 2006, Pages 179-201   doi:10.1016/j.lcats.2006.08.001
• Collections Council of Australia. Conservation/Preservation Showcase (AU)
• Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright. Collectanea is the new blog from UMUC's Center for Intellectual Property (CIP). The purpose of Collectanea is to provide an opportunity for CIP's virtual scholar to share his/her thoughts, musings, and ideas on intellectual property (IP) law, policy, and culture. University of Maryland University College (US)
• Carrick Institute. Expressions of interest are now being called for under the Discipline-Based Investigation Funding Scheme. Round 1 applications close 13 April 2007. (AU)

5 February, 2007

• ARC and NHMRC encourage access to research findings. The Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Media Release 18 January 2007 (AU)
• National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes. The revised edition of the National Protocols was approved by MCEETYA on 7 July 2006. This edition of the National Protocols will commence operation in December 2007, to allow time for legislation enacting the new protocols in each of the nine jurisdictions to be drafted and passed by Parliaments. Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) (AU)

18 January, 2007

• Higher Education Report 2005 - the second of a series of annual reports which replace the Higher Education Triennium Report series produced by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) since 1988. This report is based on the calendar year. (AU)

17 January, 2007

• Value for Money Report. Jill Tardivel, September 2006. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Quality Audit and Assurance for Transnational Higher Education. Edited by Jeanette Baird. AUQA Occasional Publications Number 10. © Australian Universities Quality Agency 2006 (AU)
• Managing Digitization Activities, SPEC Kit 294  Rebecca L. Mugridge • September 2006 • ISBN 1-59407-710-X Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Remote Shelving Services, SPEC Kit 295 Thomas C. Deardorff and Gordon J. Aamot • October 2006 • ISBN 1-59407-711-8  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Public Services in Special Collections, SPEC Kit 296 Florence Turcotte and John Nemmers • November 2006 • ISBN 1-59407-712-6 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Library Development, SPEC Kit 297 Karlene Noel Jennings and Jos Wanschers • December 2006 • ISBN 1-59407-713-4  Association of Research Libraries (US)

16 January, 2007

• The espida project (An Effective Strategic model for the Preservation and disposal of Institutional Assets) is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under its Digital Preservation Programme.(UK)

15 January, 2007

• Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries.  eIFL-IP Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries. December, 2006 (EU)

10 January, 2007

• JISC ITT: Survey on use of different forms of scholarly output. Submission Deadline: 07 February 2007 13:00  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

8 January, 2007

• Optimising Storage and Access In UK Research Libraries: A study for CURL and the British Library. CHEMS Consulting. September 2005. (UK)
• Networked Reference Services: Question/Answer Transaction Protocol has been published as NISO Technical Report TR04-2006. National Information Standards Organization (US)

2 January, 2007

• UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research.  Supported by JISC and Becta, and operated by UKERNA (UK)
  • Shibboleth-enabled services.
• Digital Preservation briefing paper.  20 November 2006 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• The future sustainability of the higher education sector: purpose, funding and structures. New Inquiries into Higher Education. The Education and Skills Committee has agreed to undertake two inquiries into higher education issues.  The main inquiry will look at the future sustainability of the higher education sector.  This broad-ranging inquiry will follow on from an initial, shorter inquiry to focus on the Bologna Process and its impact on UK higher education. United Kingdom Parliament. Education and Skills Committee (UK)
• Digital Libraries Initiative. High Level Expert Group.  European Union (EU)
  • The Digital Libraries Initiative is a flagship project of the Commission's overall strategy to boost the digital economy, the  i2010 strategy.
• ARL Statistics Interactive Edition Updated with 2004-05 Data.  Association of Research Libraries (US)