What was New 2008 Tuesday, 21 July 2009

29 December, 2008

• Breaking Ranks: Assessing Quality in Higher Education. Report by Lyndon Thompson of The IMHE General Conference "Outcomes of higher education: quality, relevance and impact. Paris, France, September 8-10 2008. OECD (FR)

23 December, 2008

• PEER - Invitations to tender for research now available. Invitations to Tender for the Behavioural Research and Usage Research aspects of the PEER project are now available. Due Tuesday 17 February 2009. PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) (EU)
• Towards the academic library of the future. JISC, SCONUL, RLUK, the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) are to work together on a major strategic initiative which will explore the substantial challenges facing academic libraries as they respond to a period of unparalleled change in the external environment. (UK)
• New animation: Intellectual Property Rights in the Web 2.0 world. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)

22 December, 2008

• ERA Indicator Principles. 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia. Australian Research Council (AU)
• ERA Indicator Descriptors. 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia. Australian Research Council (AU)
• Indicators of excellence for the new ERA. Media Release 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia. Australian Research Council (AU)
• JISC Annual Review 2008. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)

19 December, 2008

• Making the intangible tangible: the economic contribution of Australia's copyright industries, by PricewaterhouseCoopers, commissioned by the Australian Copyright Council [November, 2008] (AU)
• The Future of Google Book Search. Our groundbreaking agreement with authors and publishers. Google Book Search (US)

17 December, 2008

• Review of Australian Higher Education. Final Report. December 2008 Expert Panel Chair Professor Denise Bradley, AC. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Commonwealth of Australia (AU)
• SP308 Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services, SPEC Kit 308 [by] Vivian Lewis and Cathy Moulder. November 2008 • ISBN 1-59407-807-6 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

16 December, 2008

• Grant Funding Call 13/08: JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitisation Collaboration Grants. Submission Deadline: 26 March 2009. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• ARL Statistics "Counting Serial Titles" Webcast Archive Now Available. Association of Research Libraries (US)

15 December, 2008

• The support of teaching by libraries in higher education: towards an analysis of past and future costs. Toby Bainton.  12 November 2008. SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) (UK)
  • A new briefing paper from SCONUL analyses some of the principal costs incurred by libraries in higher education, in their role in support of teaching.

13 December, 2008

• Prime Minister's Fast Tracking the Nation-Building Agenda Media Release 14 October 2008. (AU)
• Education Investment Fund (EIF). (AU)
  • $580 million fast-tracked into Australian universities. Joint Media Release, Minister for Education with Senator the Honorable Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 12 December 2008
• $500 million to promote Teaching and Learning in Australian Universities. Media release. 12 December, 2008 Minister for Education (AU)
• Outsourcing Email and Data Storage briefing papers. Author: JISC and UCISA. Publication date: 12 December 2008. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• Embracing the future: Embedding digital repositories in the University of London. By: Stijn Hoorens, Lidia Villalba van Dijk, Christian van Stolk. The research in this report was prepared for the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium and conducted by RAND Europe. (US)

12 December, 2008

• Meeting the challenges: societies and scholarly communication. Results of a survey to understand the needs of scholarly societies in the 21st century. November 2008. SAGE. The survey was supported by the Association for Learned Professional and Scholarly Publishers; the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers; the International Association for Science, Technical and Medical Publishers, and the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. (UK)

11 December, 2008

• Internet Governance Forum (IGF) The First Two Years. Edited by Avri Doria and Wolfgang Kleinwächter in cooperation with the IGF Secretariat. A UNESCO Publications for the World Summit of the Information Society - Special issue co-produced with the ITU and UNDESA (2.34MB) (EU)

10 December, 2008

• Self-Review for Higher Education Institutions. ISBN: 978 1 877090 94 3 Occasional Publications Series No: 17  R Adams, J Strong, LE Mattick, ME McManus, KE Matthews, J Foster  December 2008 ©  Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC). Stanford Law School (US)
  • Press Release 8 December 2008.

6 December, 2008

• JISC ITT: SCA: Design, Analysis, Synthesis and Editorial for the Knowledge Base. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), invites tenders to develop a web based knowledge base which will provide insightful analysis and good narrative copy for practitioners and policy makers on the e-content life-cycle. This will require design, synthesis of existing documentation, editorial and development of a suite of products for the component parts of the e-content life-cycle.Submission Deadline: 16 January 2009. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• The International Journal of Digital Curation. ISSN: 1746-8256 Vol 3, No 2 (2008) The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre. (UK)

5 December, 2008

• Grant Funding Call 12/08: JISC Information Environment and e-Research. Submission Deadline: 11 February 2009 JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)

4 December, 2008

• Parliament of Australia. Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit. Report on the inquiry into the Effects of the Efficiency Dividend on Smaller Public Sector Agencies entitled :Report 413: The Efficiency Dividend: Size does matter. 4 December 2008 (AU)

3 December, 2008

• SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #128  December 2, 2008 by Peter Suber (US)
• An evaluation of citation databases as sources of data in research assessment exercises: A report commissioned by the Libraries of the Australian Technology Network (LATN).  Gaby Haddow, Curtin University Library, August 2008 (AU)
• Access to and Use of Public Sector Information (auPSI) (projects are supported by the QUT Law Faculty and the Australian Government) (AU)

2 December, 2008

• Discovering Physical Objects: Meeting Researchers' Needs.  Research Information Network (UK)
• Parliament of Australia.  House of Representatives House Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation. Inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. Report: Building Australia’s Research Capacity. 1 December 2008. (AU)

1 December, 2008

• SIRIS: Report of the Subject and Institutional Repositories Interactions Study [by] Catherine Jones, et al, Science and Technology Facilities Council.  November 2008 Commissioned by JISC (UK)
• Questions Raised About Google Library Project’s Impact On Knowledge Access, Posted by William New @ 11:22 am Intellectual Property Watch 26 November 2008 (CH)
• Intellectual Property Watch (CH)

25 November, 2008

• The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester. Authors:  Randall, Ryan, et al. Report to the Public on Graduate Student User Research (CC) 2008 University of Rochester (US)
• A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement (Nov. 13, ‘08) Association of Research Libraries (US)
• HathiTrust: a shared digital repository. HathiTrust membership currently consists of the member libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation(CIC) the University of California system, and the University of Virginia, but is open to all interested research libraries. (US)
• PLoS and SPARC release new "Voices of Open Access" video series. Clips describe a rich new world where access to research is open. Public Library of Science, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)  (US)
• ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 260 (October 2008) Association of Research Libraries (US)

21 November, 2008

• For Advice on Publishing in the Digital World, Scholars Turn to Campus Libraries, By JENNIFER HOWARD. The Chronicle of Higher Education From the issue dated November 21, 2008 (US)

19 November, 2008

• The international tendency to concentrate research capability.  Group of Eight Backgrounder.  November 2008 (AU)
• The Value that Repositories Add. Leslie Carr, Southampton University (UK)
• Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.  Green Paper. Commission of the European Communities. COM(2008) 466/3 Responses by 30 November 2008 (BE)
• No Shelf Required: A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers.  Wright State University (US)
• Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records.  OCLC (US)
  • Code4Lib Wiki - OCLC Policy Change

18 November, 2008

• SPEC Kit 307, Manuscript Collections on the Web. Donnelly Lancaster Walton.  October 2008 ISBN 1-59407-806-8 198 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

15 November, 2008

• The Alliance for Permanent Access [to the Records of Science].  (EU)

11 November, 2008

• JISC Advisory Services.  JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, JISC TechDis, JISC Netskills, JISC Procureweb and TASI (soon to be JISC Digital Media) are coming together to create JISC Services which will formally come into existence on 1 August 2009. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
• Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication, by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith. Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries. November 2008  (US)

10 November, 2008

• LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management (The Martin Institute). Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne.  (AU)
• Digital Preservation Policies Study. [by] Neil Beagrie, Najla Semple, Peter Williams, and Richard Wright. 30 October 2008 JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)

6 November, 2008

• Executive Report: Finding Meaningful Performance Measures for Higher Education. Thomson Reuters (US)
• Serials Price Increase Report. Swets (NL)
• Brisbane Declaration on OA. Open Access News, Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Peter Suber, Editor (US)

5 November, 2008

• PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the European Union, will investigate the effects of the large-scale systematic depositing of  authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal vability, as well as  n the broader ecology of European research. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society and INRIA will collaborate on PEER, supported by the SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld, which will contribute the expertise of the EU-funded DRIVER project.
  • STM partners in the just launched pioneering collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community. Press Release 14 October 2008. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) (EU)

1 November, 2008

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies). EPrints (UK)

24 October, 2008

• Research Training in Australian Universities: An Interim Report. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation October 2008 Canberra (AU)
• The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 (ID: ERS0808) Author(s): Gail Salaway (EDUCAUSE) and Judith Borreson Caruso (University of Wisconsin-Madison) With: Mark R. Nelson (NACS) Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008 (US)

22 October, 2008

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Public information and consultations on the ACTA. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (AU)
• Australian ePortfolio Project: ePortfolio use by university students in Australia: Informing excellence in policy and practice. Final project report August 2008 Gillian Hallam (Project leader) ISBN: 978-1-74107-256-3 Published by the QUT Department of Teaching and Learning Support Services (AU)

21 October, 2008

• Review of the Australian Government's Use of Information and Communication Technology By Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng Minister [for Finance and Deregulation] Tanner released the report on 16 October 2008. (AU)

20 October, 2008

• Proceedings of AUQF2008: Quality & Standards in Higher Education: Making a Difference. ISBN: 978 1 877090 93 6 Occasional Publications Series No: 16 The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) (AU)
• Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (FR)
• Open Archives Initiative. Object Reuse and Exchange. (OAI-ORE) ORE Specifications and User Guides. 17 October 2008 (US)
• IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR). A Review of the Feasibility of an International Authority Data Number (ISADN). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (EU)

17 October, 2008

• Economics and usage of digital libraries: byting the bullet / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee, editors. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan University Library, Scholarly Publishing Office 2008 (US)

16 October, 2008

• Regional Telecommunications Review. The Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC) is established by the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 to review the adequacy of telecommunications services in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia, and to report to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. (AU)
  • The Committee presented its final report, Framework for the Future, to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on 5 September 2008.

15 October, 2008

• ARL Learning Space Pre-Programming Tool Kit, [by] Crit Stuart, Oct. 2008. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

13 October, 2008

• ITT: Scholarly communications discipline-based advocacy. Submission Deadline: 07 November 2008 12:00 The JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group1 wishes to commission some discipline-based advocacy work within UK Higher Education Institutions to assist researchers, teachers and learners in benefiting from changes in the scholarly communications process. (UK)

10 October, 2008

• Australian Indigenous Digital Collections: First generation issues: Final report. Authors: Nakata, Martin et al.  Issue Date: 18-Sep-2008 ISBN: 978-0-9802840-5-8 UTS E-Press (AU)

9 October, 2008

• Long-term Preservation Strategies - new ALPSP report The results from a survey investigating preservation strategies are now available as a free to download PDF.  The report by Sarah Durrant was co-funded by ALPSP and Portico. ISBN 978-0-907341-41-3 (UK)
  • Press Release. ALPSP. October 2008 (UK)

7 October, 2008

• Advertisement. The University of Melbourne. University Librarian. Applications close 9 November 2008 (AU)
• Postgraduates and Higher Education 2008: CAPA Issues Paper. Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (AU)
• Research Trends. Special Issue commemorating Derek de Solla Price, the father of Scientometrics.Issue 7, September 2008. Elsevier (NL)

3 October, 2008

• SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding: A Recommended Practice of the National Information Standards Organization. Prepared by the NISO SERU Working Group. February 2008 (US)

2 October, 2008

• International Student Enrolments Up 18.5% in August 2008. Australian Education International (AU)
• WorldCat xISSN - A new Web service that provides information about serial publications’ history, variant editions, and current metadata. OCLC (US)

1 October, 2008

• Zorich, Diane, Günter Waibel and Ricky Erway. Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums. OCLC Programs and Research ISBN: 1-55653-405-1 (9    78-1-55653-405-8) (US)
   

26 September, 2008

• Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA). The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Digital PreservationEurope (DPE) (UK)

24 September, 2008

• Community Engagement and Inclusion in Australian Higher Education: A Thematic Analysis of AUQA's Cycle 1 Audits. ISBN: 978 1 877090 85 1 Occasional Publications Series No: 15  Antony Stella & Jeanette Baird  September 2008. Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

23 September, 2008

• Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL)  - new website! (NZ)
• E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use. Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Copyright Committee. Task Group on E-Books. April, 2008 (CA)
• Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development. Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau, and Mark P. Newton. August 2008 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (US)
• Version 2.0 of the Transfer Code of Practice is now available. UK Serials Group (UK)

22 September, 2008

• eBooks White Paper: eBooks - The End User Experience. Springer (US)
• Australia ups the ante on global access to research. 18 September 2008 By Zoë Corbyn Times Higher Education (UK)
• CALL TO ACTION: Tell Congress you oppose the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act. Alliance for Taxpayer Access (US)
• Alliance for Taxpayer Access. A diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research. (US)

18 September, 2008

• UKRDS Interim Report: UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) feasibility study. Version: v0.1a.030708 Date: 7th July 2008 consultancy lead by Serco Consulting for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). (UK)

11 September, 2008

• White Paper: How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content: Comparing the changing user behaviour between 2005 and 2008 and its impact on publisher web site design and function. Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner. Simon Inger Consulting. The research was jointed funded by Annual Reviews, PNAS, MetaPress, and Nature Publishing Group. (UK)

8 September, 2008

• University investment in the library: What’s the return? A case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign [by] Judy Luther. Elsevier Library Connect White Paper, 2008 (US)

5 September, 2008

• Digital Collections Summit 2006: Final Report arising from the Digital Collections Summit convened by the Collections Council of Australia in 2006. (AU)
• Nature's specials: Big data. 03 September 2008 (Nature ISSN: 0028-0836 EISSN: 1476-4687) (US)

4 September, 2008

• The Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, on 4 September 2008. (AU)
• The Art of Innovation, address by Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, to the National Press Club. 3 September 2008 (AU)
• Thematic Analysis: Internationalisation A new publication, 'Internationalisation of Australian Universities: Learning from Cycle 1 Audits', by Antony Stella and Colleen Liston. ISBN: 978 1 877090 89 9 AUQA Occasional Publications Series No: 14 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. CLIR pub 142: August, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932326-30-7 Council on Library and Information Resources (US)

3 September, 2008

• National Standards for Australian Museums and Galleries - Version 1.0 National Standards Taskforce September, 2008. Collections Australia Network (CAN) (AU)

28 August, 2008

• SPEC Kit 305, Records Management Clark E. Center Jr. August 2008 * ISBN 1-59407-804-1 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

27 August, 2008

• AusLIST online directory. Australian Education International (AU)
  * Australian education and training providers;
  * the Australian courses they deliver around the world; and the
  * locations outside of Australia where those courses are delivered.

23 August, 2008

• Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education. August 18, 2008 Authors: Ross Housewright, Roger Schonfeld Ithaka Harbors, Inc. (US)
  • See also the complete faculty dataset and the complete librarian dataset
• The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner Report produced by OCLC Programs and Research. (US)

 20 August, 2008

• Social Software in Libraries. SPEC Kit 304, Matthew Bejune and Jana Ronan July 2008 * ISBN 1-59407-803-3 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

19 August, 2008

• The Impact of Web-Based Lecture Technologies on Current and Future Practices in Learning and Teaching. Maree Gosper | David Green | Margot McNeill | Rob Phillips | Greg Preston | Karen Woo. April, 2008 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) (AU)
• CHASS – the Next Steps. Discussion Paper. HASS in the Capital Canberra 3 September 2008 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) (AU)
• Science Dissemination using Open Access: A compendium of selected literature on Open Access. Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy) (IT)

15 August, 2008

• Review of Australian Higher Education. Discussion Paper June 2008. Submissions close 31 July 2008. Minister for Education (AU)
  • Review to look at future of higher education in Australia. 10/06/2008 2:50:00 PM Media Release Julia Gillard, Minister for Education (AU)
  • Submissions:
    • Universities Australia
    • Group of Eight
    • Australian Technology Network
    • Innovative Research Universities Australia
    • Australian Universities Quality Agency
• For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice. Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC Report 108) (AU)
  • Media Release. 11 August 2008.
• UK Research Funders’ Policies for the Management of Information Outputs. Michael Jubb. International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 2, No 1 (2007) (UK)

14 August, 2008

• Students 2007 [full year]: selected higher education statistics - now available - Department Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (AU)

13 August, 2008

• The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance. Editors: Howard I. Browman, Konstantinos I. Stergiou. Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics ESEP - Vol. 8, No. 1 Copyright © 2008 Inter-Research. Published June 03 (DE)
• Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge: a 21st century agenda for the National Science Foundation. Report of the NSF Taskforce on Cyberlearning. June 24, 2008. The National Science Foundation (US)
• Project Bamboo. Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? Project Bamboo is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (US)

11 August, 2008

• O’Brien, L., Brodsky, M., & Ruwoldt, M. L. (2008). Information Futures Commission: final report of the Steering Committee, July 2008. Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne (AU)
• O’Brien, L., Brodsky, M., & Ruwoldt, M. L. (2008). Melbourne’s scholarly information future: a ten-year strategy July 2008. Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne (AU)

7 August, 2008

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation. July 2008 A joint report of The Library of Congress National Digital Information, Infrastructure and Preservation Program, The Joint Information Systems Committee, The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, The SURFfoundation. (AU)
• PDF format becomes ISO standard  (Media Release 2008-07-02) ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7 International Organization for Standardization (CH)
• NISO Z39.7-2004: Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers—Data Dictionary National Information Standards Organization (US)

5 August, 2008

• Intersect [Institute for Trans-disciplinary eResearch and Technology] is the new peak eResearch body servicing the local research and innovation sector including all NSW universities and relevant public and private sector research agencies. (AU)
• VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative). VeRSI is a five-year, $10M, State Government funded Program to provide a coordinated approach to accelerating the uptake of eResearch by Victorian researchers. (AU)
• Collaborating to a purpose: Review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program. On 5th of August 2008 Minister Carr released the Report by Professor O'Kane of the Review of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program. Comments on the Report of the CRC Review are invited and .... must be received by COB 31 August 2008. (AU)
• Government Welcomes Release of CRC Review [includes review recommendations]. Media Release Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, 05 Aug 2008 (AU)

30 July, 2008

• TNE [transnational education] Quality Framework of AUQA. The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) (AU)
• Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. Beta Service Released 25 July 2008. The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries. (AU)

 29 July, 2008

• Principles for [Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)] negotiations. In alliance with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), CHOICE and the Internet Industry Association (IIA), the ADA filed a submission with DFAT, urging Australia to take the lead in ensuring that six vital principles are not compromised. Australian Digital Alliance (AU)
• The future of Higher Education. DIUS is working on developing a framework for Higher Education in the UK for the next ten to fifteen years. We would like to engage with a wider audience on this and would be interested in hearing from anyone who might have an interest in one, some or all of the identified issues using this blog hosted on JISC Involve. Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (UK)
• Using bibliometrics: A new white paper focuses on evaluating research performance with citation data. Thomson Reuters. Scientific. July 2008 (US)
• Web of Science®Journal Expansion - Asia Pacific. Thomson Reuters. Scientific. (US)
• Investigating Data Management Practices in Australian Universities by Margaret Henty, Belinda Weaver, Stephanie Bradbury and Simon Porter. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) (AU)
• Scoping digital repository services for research data management - findings. UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) feasibility study. A Project of the Office of the Director of IT Oxford University. Author: Luis Martinez-Uribe (UK)
• Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). (AU)
• Library 3.0: where art our skills? [by] Grace Saw and Heather Todd. WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 73RD IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL 19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa. Section 151 Reference and Information Services (EU)

22 July, 2008

• MCEETYA Joint Ministerial Statement on Education and Training in the Information Economy - endorsed by MCEETYA and MCVTE in June 2008. Ministerial Council On Education, Employment, Training And Youth Affairs Ministerial Council For Vocational And Technical Education (AU)
• Charter of Principles for Cross-Sectoral Collaboration on Interoperability across the Australian Education and Training Sectors. - endorsed by MCEETYA and MCVTE in June 2008. Ministerial Council On Education, Employment, Training And Youth Affairs Ministerial Council For Vocational And Technical Education (AU)

21 July, 2008

• Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. COM(2008) 466/3 Commission of the European Communities. (EU)
  • Press release. Intellectual Property: Commission adopts forward-looking package 16/7/08 (EU)

18 July, 2008

• Exposure Draft of the 2008 NCRIS Roadmap Responses from stakeholders and the wider community on this Exposure Draft are encouraged and welcomed. The closing date for responses is Friday 18 July 2008. National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (AU)
  • CAUL Submission, drafted by Cathrine Harboe-Ree (18/7/08)
  • CAUDIT Submission (18/7/08)

11 July, 2008

• Productivity Commission Review of Parallel Importation of Books. Terms of reference will be released later this year. Issue 49 - July 2008 AGD e-News on Copyright. Attorney-General's Department (AU)

2 July, 2008

• JISC ITT: Scoping study on issues relating to quality-control measures within the scholarly communications process. Submission Deadline: 08 August 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• A new future for Australia's past. Collections Council of Australia 29 October 2007 (AU)
• Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: A Guide for Authors. From the OAK Law Project: by Kylie Pappalardo (with the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Jenny Georgiades and Anthony Austin) (AU)

1 July, 2008

• Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK: Report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) (UK)
• SCONUL Focus - Number 42 Winter 2007 (UK)
• New library design resource launched. 9 June, 2008. Designing Libraries and SCONUL (UK)
• LIBRARY-DESIGN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK email list. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Designing Libraries: the gateway to better library buildings. Funded by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council on behalf of the Department of Culture Media and Sport, as part of the Framework for the Future Programme. Managed by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Designed and developed by the Information Services department of Aberystwyth University. (UK)

30 June, 2008

• Evaluation of the JISC UK LOCKSS Pilot. May 2008 Pete Dalton and Dr Angela Conyers, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Funding to advance University Infrastructure. 6/06/2008 5:45:00 PM Joint Media Release Julia Gillard The Minister for Education, and Minister for Innovation, Senator Kim Carr (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations) (AU)
  • Expressions of Interest for funding close at 5 pm (AEST) on 14 August 2008. These submissions will be considered, and those short listed will be invited to submit full applications. Successful projects will then be announced in July 2009.
• Education Investment Fund (EIF) (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations) (AU)

27 June, 2008

• E-News for ARL Directors. June 23, 2008 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Digital copyright exceptions and limitations for scholarly publications in the education and research communities. (Position paper of the International Association of STM Publishers) June 2008
  • STM issues statements on digital copyright exceptions. 13 June 2008. UKSG Serials-eNews. (UK)
• The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress. March 2008 (US)
  • Study Group Issues Report Recommending Changes in Copyright Law to Reflect Digital Technologies. Section 108 Study Group Looks at Exceptions to Law for Libraries and Archives. Press Release March 31, 2008 Library of Congress (US)

26 June, 2008

• Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. Consultation Paper released June 2008. Responses due 30 June. Australian Research Council. (AU)
• ARC seeks sector's views on journal rankings for ERA initiative. Media Release 12 June 2008. Australian Research Council. (AU)
• Partnerships in ICT Learning (PICTL) Report and Case Studies. The PICTL study was a large research enterprise involving groups of pre-service teachers, teachers and teacher educators in each state and territory undertaken from April 2005 to July 2007. The report was provided to the Department in October 2007. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)

25 June, 2008

• Higher Education 2020 Newsletter. Higher Education Group. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)
• Digital preservation of e-journals in 2008: Urgent Action revisited: Results from a Portico/Ithaka Survey of U.S. Library Directors. Portico and Ithaka (US)
• The E-Resources Management Handbook. United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) (UK)
• The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching Higher Education had changed its name to the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). (AU)
• Communique: mid-year 2008. Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). (AU)
• Library services for international students. Karen Senior et al. SCONUL Access Steering Group. (UK)
• Great Expectations of ICT: how Higher Education Institutions are measuring up. Research Study Conducted for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) - Report June 2008 (UK)
• To Share or Not to Share: Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs - findings of a study commissioned by RIN in association with JISC and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and carried out by Key Perspectives Ltd. Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)

16 May, 2008

• Draft Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Sophia Krzys Acord, Shannon Lawrence, and C. Judson King. CSHE.8.2008 (May 2008) (Research and Occasional Papers Series) The Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California (US)
• Staff Discussion Paper: Blueprint for Success: The National Agricultural Library 2008-2012. [PDF 34MB] Principal Authors: Eleanor Frierson, Mary Ann Leonard.
• Keeping Research Data Safe: a cost model and guidance for UK Universities, by Neil Beagrie; Julia Chruszcz; and Brian Lavoie, JISC, 12 May 2008. (UK)
• D-Lib Magazine. Volume 14 Number 5/6 May/June 2008 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)
• Technology Watch Report: Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF, Betsy A. Fanning, DPC Technology Watch Series Report 08-02, April 2008. © Digital Preservation Coalition & AIIM 2008. (US)
• Exploring Tangible Benefits of e-Learning: Does investment yield interest?, Project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee. Published April 2008. © Northumbria University 2008, ISBN: 978-1-86135-349-8. (UK)

15 May, 2008

• The Australian Legal Scholarship Library:  An AustLII research and infrastructure project. The main aim of the project is to expand the existing Australasian Law Journals Library (AU)
  • Australasian Legal Scholarship Library.  AustLII (AU)
• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch: Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training. Ariadne, ISSN: 1361-3200 Issue 55 | April 2008 (UK)
• Digital Lives Research Project - designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. The British Library in partnership with The Centre for IT and Law (CITL), University of Bristol and The School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies at University College London (UK)
• Brown-Bag Discussion Guide Series: Issues in Scholarly Communication. Revised & Updated May 2008. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection - Beta Release. Sabinet Online Ltd (ZA)

14 May, 2008

• Australian Government Budget 2008-2009.
  • Portfolio Budget Statements.
    • Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
      • Ministerial Statements
      • Agency Overview
      • Outcome 3 HIGHER EDUCATION
        • Media Release: Higher Education Revolution
        • Media Release: Better Universities Renewal Funding
        • Media Release: $11 billion Education Investment Fund to transform higher education and vocational education training
      • The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Ltd
    • Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
      • Portfolio Overview
      • DIISR Outcome 3 Output Group 3: Innovation (Learned Academies; NCRIS; CRCs;  Higher Education research)
      • Australian Research Council
    • Broadband, Communications And The Digital Economy
    • Attorney-General's
    • The Environment, Water Heritage and the Arts
      • National Library of Australia (p.285 of Portfolio Budget Statements)

13 May, 2008

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 2: 5/12/2008 (13/5/08)

12 May, 2008

• Colleges and UniversitiesU101 College Search: Links to Learning in the United States and Canada. U101 College Search (US)
• Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information. National Diet Library (NDL) (JP)

9 May, 2008

• Licensing beyond borders: international initiative licenses resources across four European countries. Press Release 7 May 2008. Knowledge Exchanged (EU)
• Copyright in higher education. SURFfoundation (NL)

8 May, 2008

• JISC & SCONUL LMS Study Project: evaluation & horizon scan of HE library management systems & the related systems landscape. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Draft Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases (Published March 2008) available for comment on the COUNTER website until 31 May 2008. (UK)
• The State of America's Libraries Report. April, 2008 American Library Association (US)

3 May, 2008

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles: Invitation to worldwide review. Comments due by June 30, 2008. IFLA Cataloguing and Bibliography Sections of Division IV (EU)
• ARROW Discovery Service - where you can search 143,582 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. The service is provided by the National Library of Australia. (AU)
• Exploring tangible benefits of e-learning: does investment yield interest? JISC e-Learning Team. Publication Date: 29 April 2008 (UK)

2 May, 2008

• Australian Government. House Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation. Inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. Written submissions are due 30 May 2008. (AU)
• National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). Re-imagining Library Services Strategic Plan (Exposure Draft, April-May 2008) Comments requested by May 16 2008 (AU)
• Towards Information Literacy Indicators. Conceptual framework paper prepared by Catts, Ralph; Lau, Jesus. Paris, UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP), 2008 (FR)
• AusLIST is an online directory of Australian education and training providers; the Australian courses they deliver offshore; locations where those courses are delivered. Australian Education International (AU)
• Making Sense of E-Book Usage Data - pre-print [by] John Cox (to be published in The Acquisitions Librarian, 19 (3/4), July 2008; © Haworth Press, Philadelphia, PA, http://www.haworthpress.com/ )

23 April, 2008

• JISC national e-books observatory project. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • The findings from the first user survey undertaken as part of the Deep Log Analysis study are now available.
• Libraries Unleashed: Colleges, universities and the digital challenge. EducationGuardian.co.uk In association with the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) (UK)
• ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008. Interim Report. 23 April 2008 The Australian Library and Information Association (AU)

22 April, 2008

• Review of NCRIS Roadmap 2008. The NCRIS Committee has agreed to undertake a review of the NCRIS Roadmap during the first half of 2008. Closing date for responses 14 May 2008. National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (AU)

21 April, 2008

• SPEC Kit 282. Managing Electronic Resources. August 2004. Tim McAdam. Head,Acquisitions, Executive Summary The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Benchmarks for the use of technology in learning and teaching universities. The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning  (ACODE) (AU)

19 April, 2008

• Library Management Systems Study: An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher education - report commissioned by JISC and SCONUL March 2008 [by] Sero Consulting Ltd [and] with Glenaffric Ltd and Ken Chad Consulting Ltd (UK)
• Places and spaces for learning seminars, September 2007. Draft report. 7 April 2008. The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (AU)
• A European Model for the Digital Publishing of Scientific Information? [by] Chris Armbruster, Max Planck Society. (DE)

11 April, 2008

• Carrick Communiqué April 2008. Carrick Institute (AU)

10 April, 2008

• Quality Assurance within ATN Libraries: A LATN Benchmarking Project: Final Evaluative Report. Coordinated by Karen Tang and Leanne Levinge. July, 2006. ATN group of libraries (LATN)

8 April, 2008

• The TRANSFER Code of Practice Version 1.0 is now available for public comment through 31 May 2008. Project Transfer (UK)

5 April, 2008

• Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing, by Karla Hahn. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

2 April, 2008

• Benchmarking of Electronic Resources. Innovative Research Universities of Australia. Library Benchmarking. (2/4/08)

31 March, 2008

• MARC Record Services: A Comparative Study of Library Practices and Perceptions. By Rebecca Kemp. This is a preprint of an article that has been accepted for publication in The Serials Librarian © 2008 Taylor & Francis. The article will appear in The Serials Librarian v.55, no.3 (2008) with different textual formatting. (US)

28 March, 2008

• Review of HEFCE funding for research libraries. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)

21 March, 2008

• E-LIS: The open archive for Library and Information Science. E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas.  (IT)
• Evaluation of the JISC Digitisation Programme Phase 1 and International Contextualisation. April 2007 Evidence Base (UK)
• ETDs, scholarly communication, and campus collaboration: Opportunities for libraries. C&RL News, March 2008 Vol. 69, No. 3 by Richard Fyffe and William C. Welburn (US)
• Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets. (EU)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 71: 3/3/2008 (US)
• JISC ITT: Usage and Impact Study of Digitised Resources Funded under the JISC Phase One Digitisation Programme. Submission Deadline: 28 April 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

20 March, 2008

• ARL Statistics 2005-06. 18 March 2008. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Speeches by Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. (AU)
  • Universities Australia Plenary Meeting. 12 March 2008
  • Science Serving Society - Address to the National Press Club of Australia. 19 March 2008
  • Leadership in Higher Education for a New Era - Address to the Senior Staff forum, Innovative Research Universities Australia, Flinders University, SA. 6 February 2008
• The International Committee for Museum Documentation (CIDOC). International Council of Museums (ICOM)
  • CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).
  • FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.
    • The FRBR Review Group and the Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation welcomes comments on FRBRoo (object-oriented definition and mapping to FRBRer) version 0.9 (January 2008).

14 March, 2008

• ACRL/LAMA Guide for Architects:  Guide For Planning Higher Education Library Spaces. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) (US)
• JISC ITT: Scoping study on issues relating to quality-control measures within the scholarly communications process. Submission Deadline: 11 April 2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• JISC ITT: A project to identify successful models for embedding repositories in research management systems and processes within higher education institutions. Submission Deadline: 11 April 2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

13 March, 2008

• Review of Australian Higher Education. On 13 March 2008, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, announced a major review of Australia’s higher education system. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)

10 March, 2008

• Conceiving an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright: final report, by P. Bernt Hugenholtz and Ruth L. Okediji. This study was sponsored by the Open Society Institute (OSI). (NL)

9 March, 2008

• Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK). Elsevier (EU)

7 March, 2008

• Audio Tape Digitisation Workflow. Digitisation workflow for analogue open reel tapes. Authors: Juha Henriksson, Nadja Wallaszkovits. TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe) (EU)

 4 March, 2008

• Create Change Canada - developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The website was adapted for the Canadian environment by SPARC and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). (CA)
• Talk about Talking about New Models of Scholarly Communication. Karla L. Hahn. Journal of Electronic Publishing vol. 11, no. 1, Winter 2008 (US)
• Information for organisations seeking to be prescribed as a 'key cultural institution'. Australian Libraries Copyright Committee, Australian Digital Alliance (AU)

3 March, 2008

• RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK: The Research Information Network’s response to the HEFCE consultation on the assessment and funding of higher education post-2008. Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)
• Effectiveness of Journal Ranking Schemes as a Tool for Locating Information [by] Michael J. Stringer, Marta Sales-Pardo, Luís A. Nunes Amaral. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001683 February 27, 2008 (US)

27 February, 2008

• Towards an Integrated Knowledge Ecosystem: A Canadian Research Strategy. A Report Submitted to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries / L'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (CARL/ABRC) [by] William Birdsall et al. January 2005 (CA)
• The university libraries and the national information system [by] Ted Flowers. Preprint. Later published in Australian Academic & Research Libraries Volume 28 Nº 1, March 1997 (AU)

26 February, 2008

• To Buy or Not to Buy? Evaluating Databases and Making Sound Purchase Decisions. Author: Powers, Audrey. Source: The Charleston Advisor, Volume 7, Number 4, April 2006, pp. 48-48 (1) (US)

22 February, 2008

• Scoping study for a registry of electronic journals that indicates where they are archived. Department of Information Science, Loughborough University and Rightscom Ltd. This study was funded as part of the JISC Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme. January 2008 (UK)
• Research Libraries As Knowledge Producers: A Shifting Context For Policy And Funding: Final Technical Report to the Task Force on New Ways Of Measuring Collections, Association of Research Libraries. (US)

13 February, 2008

• OAKList Database - a web-enabled database containing information about publishing agreements and publishers' open access policies. This database is accessible to authors, copyright administrators and repository managers, both in Australia and overseas. The OAK List has been developed to be interoperable with the RoMEO/SHERPA database. Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, Queensland University of Technology (AU)

11 February, 2008

• Online Content Transition News - Blackwell Synergy Journals Moving to Wiley InterScience - includes Frequently asked Questions (US)

8 February, 2008

• Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? CHRIS ARMBRUSTER January 29, 2008 Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (US)

1 February, 2008

• Intellectual literacy hour: A new report says libraries will have to change what they do or risk becoming redundant. Natasha Gilbert reports. The Guardian Tuesday January 15, 2008 (UK)
• Bibliometric analysis of interdisciplinary research. This report is a background document to HEFCE's consultation on proposals for the Research Excellence Framework. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)  (UK)
• Scoping study on the use of bibliometric analysis to measure the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• Six “Key Emerging Technologies” for Higher Ed Profiled in the 2008 Horizon Report. Posted January 30th, 2008. New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) (US)

31 January, 2008

• A View From The Top II : Building the 21st Century Campus: A Leadership Survey on the Challenges Facing Australian Universities. Blackboard White Paper  8 January 2008 (US)
• AGD e-News on Copyright - Issue 48 - January 2008 Copyright Law Branch of the Attorney-General’s Department (AU)
• Prescription as a Key Cultural Institution - Guidelines for Applicants. The Copyright Amendment Act 2006 introduced a number of new provisions to allow key cultural institutions to make preservation copies of material that is of cultural or historical significance to Australia. Attorney-General’s Department (AU)

30 January, 2008

• Technology Supported Learning Database (TSLDB): a Carrick funded project. Edith Cowan University (AU)

29 January, 2008

• Perceptions 2007: An International Survey ofLibrary Automation. by Marshall Breeding. January 9, 2008 Library Technology Guides (US)

28 January, 2008

• Review of the National Innovation System. On 22 January 2008, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced a wide ranging review of Australia's national innovation system to be conducted by an expert panel chaired by Dr Terry Cutler. (AU)
  • Terms of Reference.
• Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, .... announced that the Rudd Government will cease implementation of the Research Quality Framework (RQF). 21 Dec 2007 (AU)
• $15 million to embed e-learning. Media Release 20/12/2007 The 2008 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) Business Plan has been given the go-ahead. (AU)
• JISC ITT: The Preservation of Web Resources Workshops and Handbook. This invitation to tender invites bidders to submit proposals to organise a number of workshops and to produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community. Submission Deadline: 15 February 2008 12:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• The "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER) project. (EU)
  • First DRIVER Summit (17-18 January 2008, Goettingen, Germany) demonstrates the advancement of the European repository network and lays out further actions. (EU)
• Peer Review in Scholarly Journals - perspective of the scholarly community:  an international study [by] Mark Ware & Mike Monkman, Mark Ware Consulting. News Release (25 January 2008) Publishing Research Consortium Projects
  • Research Paper
  • Summary Paper

25 January, 2008

• PAC-LIST. IFLA Preservation and Conservation core activity mailing list. IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) (EU)

24 January, 2008

• Diane Goldenberg-Hart, "Enhancing Graduate Education: A Fresh Look at Library Engagement," ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 256 (February 2008): 1-8  Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. Digital Curation Centre (UK)
  • Comments can be posted on the DCC Forum under "Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model": http://forum.dcc.ac.uk/

22 January, 2008

• Information behaviour of the researcher of the future: a CIBER briefing paper. The University College London (UCL) CIBER group. 11 January 2008. This study was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years, are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years’ time. (UK)

11 January, 2008

• A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities: Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. February 2007 [by] Daniel E. Atkins, John Seely Brown [and] Allen L. Hammond.
• On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (January 9, 2008) (US)

10 January, 2008

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: W3C Working Draft 11 December 2007 Comments on this working draft are due on or before 1 February 2008. (US)
• sitemaps.org - Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. (US)
• Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research evaluation. Thomson Scientific (US)
• ARL Statistics Webcast and Chat History Now Available. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

9 January, 2008

• JISC ITT Digital Preservation Policy Study. Submission Deadline: 11 February 2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
  • This invitation to tender invites bidders to submit proposals for a study that will assist UK higher and further education institutions to formulate policies relating to the preservation of their digital assets.

7 January, 2008

• The Code4Lib Journal. ISSN 1940-5758 (US)
  • The Code4Lib Journal exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

4 January, 2008

• Environmental Scan 2007, by the ACRL Research Committee. January 2008. Association of College & Research Libraries (US)

3 January, 2008

• Middleton, Michael R. and Lee, Julie M. (2007) Cultural institutions and Web 2.0. In Proceedings Fourth Seminar on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS 4), RMIT University, Melbourne. (AU)

2 January, 2008

• 2008 Training Course Directory. CAVAL Collaborative Solutions (AU)
• SPEC Kit 303, Library Assessment [by] Stephanie Wright and Lynda S. White • December 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-795-1 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• SPARC Open Data Email Discussion List. SPARC ®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (US)
• Library Support for E-Science. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries: ARL Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science Final Report & Recommendations. November 2007. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Beyond ALT Text:Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities — 75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology. Nielsen Norman Group Report. October, 2001 (US)