What was New 2009 Monday, 8 March 2010

 

 24 December, 2009

• SPEC Kit 315, Leave and Professional Development Benefits [by] Cathleen Martyniak and Brian Keith • December 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-827-0 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Coping Strategies of Public Universities During The Economic Recession of 2009: Results of a Survey on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on University Campuses November 2009 [by] Christine M. Keller, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) (US)

23 December, 2009

• Horizon Report Wiki - the workspace for the main report of the Horizon Project. The New Media Consortium (US)
  • NMC Horizon Project: 2010 Preview.

 19 December, 2009

• A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process: A Pilot Study Commissioned by OCLC Research. Key Perspectives Ltd, for OCLC Research. December, 2009 (US)

18 December, 2009

• JISC Grant Funding 14/09: Managing Research Data Programme. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on Friday, 12 February 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Bibliography ”Impact and Outcome of Libraries” Compiled by Roswitha Poll, Münster. IFLA Statistics and Evaluation (EU)

15 December, 2009

• Measuring the Socio-economic Status of Higher Education Students. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Interested parties are invited to comment on the SES discussion paper.. Submissions are due by 5 pm (AEST) on 5 February 2010. (AU)
  • The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. 15 December, 2009 Media release Funding boost helps low-SES higher education student places.
• Higher Education Equity Support Program. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
  • Higher Education Participation and Partnership Program (HEPPP) Guidelines. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
• JISC Grant 12/09: Enhancing library management systems. Submission Deadline 05 February 2010 12:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age: A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections. Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI) no. 267 (December 2009) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

12 December, 2009

• Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation. Posted by Diane DiEuliis and Robynn Sturm on December 10, 2009 Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (US)
• EQT V and GIC agree to acquire Springer Science+Business Media from  Candover and Cinven - 11 Dec 2009 (SE)
• ARROW, Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, also representing writers through their main European associations and national organisations. European Commissions eContentplus Programme (EU)

11 December, 2009

• An Indicator Framework for Higher Education Performance Funding: Discussion Paper. December, 2009  Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)
  • The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. 11 December, 2009 Media release Discussion paper on higher education performance funding released.
• The Economic Downturn and Libraries: [the Charleston] Survey findings. Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), University College London, December 2009 (UK)
• Mobile Libraries - Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Services Provided By Libraries To Patrons Within Mobile Environments. Library Mobile Services Are Defined As Any And All Library Services That Are Provided Via Mobile Technologies. Gerry McKiernan (US)

10 December, 2009

• Overcoming barriers: access to research information: a Research Information Network report. December 2009. Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)
• Acrobatics in the citation circus. Mark Dodgson. The Australian December 09, 2009 12:00AM (AU)

9 December, 2009

• HEFCE Online Learning Task Force. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• Managing Research Data Programme. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
  • Meeting the Research Data Challenge: Managing Research Data programme 2009-11: Briefing paper. November 2009 Written by Simon Hodson, JISC Programme Manager for the Managing Research Data Programme. (UK)

8 December, 2009

• ARL Statistics 2007-08. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Elsevier Announces the “Article of the Future”  Media Release 20 July 2009 (NL)

7 December, 2009

• The Tertiary Student Experience: A Review of Approaches based on the First Cycle of AUQA Audits 2002–2007 [by] Carole Alcock, Joan Cooper, Joyce Kirk with Kaitlin Oyler. ISBN: 978 1 921561 22 1 Occasional Publications Series No: 20  Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• National Union of Students. University Ratings: 2009 Re-Establishing Representation. (AU)

5 December, 2009

• Institutional Data Management in Higher Education [by] Ronald Yanosky. (Research Study, Vol. 8). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2009 (US)

3 December, 2009

• ESOS Review Interim Report. Review of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 The Hon Bruce Baird for Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)
  • 3/12/2009 - Media Release - International student review interim report released.

2 December, 2009

• Strategy 2010-2012. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Advertisement. University Librarian And Director (Information Management) (Ref 2965) The University of Western Australia. Applications close 22 January 2010 (AU)

30 November, 2009

• Open Access: Who pays? How much? posted by Richard Poynder at 16:17 Thursday, November 26, 2009 (US)
• JISC ITT: Strategic Content Alliance: Business Modelling and Sustainability for Digital Content. The deadline for receipt of proposals .... 11th January 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

25 November, 2009

• A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended [Google Book] Settlement Agreement. Jonathan Band. The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (US)
• JISC Grant Funding 11/09: Research Information Management. The deadline for receipt of proposals .... 11th January 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

23 November, 2009

• Citation supplier. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative. Australian Research Council (AU)
  • Scopus announced as citation provider for ERA. 23 November 2009
  • ERA Indicator Benchmark Methodology.
  • Frequently Asked Questions for 2009 Trial.
• Research Workforce Issues. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)
• ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

17 November, 2009

• Announcing the 2010 Executive Education Program. LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, The University of Melbourne. (AU)

12 November, 2009

• Learning to share, By Zoë Corbyn, Matthew Reisz. Times Higher Education, 12 November 2009 "Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree." (UK)

11 November, 2009

• Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential: Consultative Report. Author: Dr Liz Lyon. 6th November 2009 This work was funded by the JISC as part of the Information Environment programme. (UK)

10 November, 2009

• Web 2.0 use in libraries. A list for anyone interested in Web 2.0 and its uses in libraries. Specifically for those interested in developing Web 2.0 content for their library service, including social networking tools, mashups and other media. LIS-WEB2@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (UK)
• ARL Survey on E-science and Data Support: Initial Findings. Sponsored by the Library Roles in Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee. Presenter: Wendy Lougee. Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting (US)

6 November, 2009

• Researchers of Tomorrow: A three year (BL/JISC) study tracking the research behaviour of 'Generation Y' doctoral students. Education for Change, in collaboration with The Research Partnership, has been engaged by the British Library and the JISC to undertake a groundbreaking 3-year study on the research behaviour of the 'Generation Y' scholar. (UK)
• CIBER Study Shows E-books Least Likely to be Cut from Library Budgets in Tough Economy, Other Key Findings (PDF) CIBER research group at University College London. Survey cosponsors: Baker & Taylor’s YBP Library Services and ebrary®. (US)

4 November, 2009

• Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in Life Sciences. Report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)
• © The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age. October 09  Intellectual Property Office. Department for Business Innovation & Skills (UK)
• D2.2 Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers. PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (EU)
• Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives, SPEC Kit 314. Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba • November 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-826-2 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• The Data Audit Framework (DAF) - developed with JISC funding in a project led by HATII at the University of Glasgow in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre. The Data Audit Framework (DAF) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. (UK)

3 November, 2009

• Open access policies, practices and licensing : a review of the literature in Australia and selected jurisdictions [by] Fitzgerald, Anne M. (2009) School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland. (AU)
• Copyright and Data. Prepared by Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Kylie Pappalardo, QUT. ANDS Guides – Awareness level. Australian National Data Service (ANDS) (AU)

2 November, 2009

• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums [by] Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, Andrew T. Kenyon.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library Press, 2009 (US)

30 October, 2009

• From inputs to impact: A study of the impact of JISC funding on universities. A report of research carried out by Leeds Metropolitan University with the Universities of Bedfordshire and Middlesex, commissioned by million+ and funded by JISC. (UK)
• PEPRS (Piloting An E-Journals Preservation Registry Service). Lead Institution - EDINA, University of Edinburgh. JISC (UK)

29 October, 2009

• Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Committee for Economic Development. Digital Connections Council. (US)
• CED, the Committee for Economic Development is an independent, nonpartisan organization for business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors. (US)
• Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency from journals on open access publishing costs. 19 October 2009 (UK)

26 October, 2009

• Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century: Interim Summary. Prepared by Ithaka S+R for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), October 2009 (US)
• PIRUS 2: a project to develop practical standards for recording and reporting online usage at the individual article level. The project is supported by JISC, the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems Committee, is a co-operative project involving publishers and repositories. It builds on the outcomes and recommendations of the original PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) project. (UK)

22 October, 2009

• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle, eds. published by Microsoft Research, October 16, 2009. (US)

21 October, 2009

• JISC’s work on Open Access. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Open Access for UK research: JISC’s contributions - Summary of achievements. Author: Michelle Pauli, on behalf of JISC Communications and Marketing 19 October 2009. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Skilling Up to Do Data: Whose Role, Whose Responsibility, Whose Career? [by] Graham Pryor, Martin Donnelly. 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)

20 October, 2009

• Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections. Written by Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth for the Collections Council of Australia (AU)

19 October, 2009

• The Institutional Repository Bibliography (IRB). Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship (US)

15 October, 2009

• ARC-supported research: the impact of journal publication output, 2001–2005, prepared for the ARC by the Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP) of The Australian National University. Australian Research Council, October, 2009 (AU)
  • Media Release 15 October 2009: ARC Funded Journal Outputs Hitting World Benchmarks.
• The Nature of International Education in Australian Universities and its Benefits. Strategy Policy and Research in Education Limited Prepared for Universities Australia September 2009 (AU)
• A Library to Last Forever By SERGEY BRIN Published: October 8, 2009 The New York Times (US)

14 October, 2009

• Scholarly Book Publishing Practice: Academic book publishers' policies and practices in online publishing. An ALPSP survey conducted by Laura Cox (Frontline Global Marketing Services) and John Cox (John Cox Associates) The First Findings summary (pdf) published on 13 October 2009 (UK)
• Whose Metrics? On Building Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars. Chris Armbruster Research Network 1989 August 31, 2009 (US)
• Cultural Ministers Council to cease funding the Collections Council of Australia. 13 October 2009  (AU)

13 October, 2009

• What research support services do researchers need? The RIN and OCLC Research are undertaking a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US. Research Information Network (UK)
• The stm report:  An overview of scientific and scholarly journals publishing. Mark Ware (Mark Ware Consulting) [and] Michael Mabe (stm) September 2009 STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (UK)

8 October, 2009

• After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software By Marc Parry The Chronicle of Higher Education September 28, 2009 (US)
•  7 Things You Should Know About Federated Identity Management (ID: EST0903) EDUCAUSE Publications 09/10/2009 (US)

7 October, 2009

• Impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services: Final report for JISC, SCONUL and UCISA. Ipsos Mori, Social Research Institute. September 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

3 October, 2009

• data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. Australian Government (AU)
• SPEC Kit 313, E-book Collections [by] Catherine Anson and Ruth R. Connell • October 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-825-4 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• ARL, ALA and ACRL Release Report, "The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying?" by Brandon Butler [PDF] The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Ten challenges for open-access journals, by Peter Suber - SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #138 October 2, 2009 (US)

1 October, 2009

• What to Withdraw? Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization. September 29, 2009 Authors: Roger C. Schonfeld (Manager of Research) & Ross Housewright (Analyst) Ithaka S+R (US)
• Survey [on the impact of digitization on book publishing] Finds Publishers In Search of New Business Models By Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 9/28/2009 1:46:00 PM (NL)
  Keeping Research Data Safe 2 - a JISC-funded Project:  The identification of long-lived digital datasets for the purposes of cost analysis. The project is being undertaken by a consortium consisting of University of Cambridge, Charles Beagrie Ltd, OCLC Research,  University of Southampton, Archaeology Data Service, University of Oxford, UK Data Archive, and University of London Computer Centre. (UK)

29 September, 2009

• Research Library Issues, no. 265 (August 2009) A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC. A Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators - Assessment of Current Practice and Future Needs: report to the JISC. Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown July 2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
  • The future of the data scientist – new report
• ARC media release: ERA Timeframe announced. Australian Research Council (AU)
• SPARC Member Spotlight: Testing the waters with open-access funds (University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary) Article by Caralee Adams for SPARC (US)
• Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) (AU)
  • Inaugural meeting of Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) - 28 September 2009 - Communique. Media release. 28 September, 2009 Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion, Deputy Prime Minister (AU)

27 September, 2009

• The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition. New Media Consortium. (US)
  • NMC Releases Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition Posted September 25th, 2009

26 September, 2009

• Library Statistics Manifesto. IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section (NL)
• Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Promoting a shared system of research and scholarship. ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries)  (US)

25 September, 2009

• ERA Indicators Consultation Paper. The closing date for electronic submission of responses to the ERA Indicators Consultation Paper has been extended to Friday 2 October 2009. Australian Research Council (AU)
• ITinteroperability: Technical Standards for the Digital Education Revolution Newsletter September 2009: Issue 2. This newsletter is an output of the Technical Standards and Specifications: Development and Deployment for the Digital Education Revolution (DER) Project - funded by the Australian Government's Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)

24 September, 2009

• University Copyright Ownership Policies (UCOP). Open Education (US)
• ERA, Overview and Implications: The Academic Perspective’ [by] Stuart Macintyre, President Academy of the Social Sciences. NAF Workshop on Excellence in Research Evaluation: Impacts on Scholarship, Research Funding and Publications Wednesday 9 September 2009 (AU)
• Knowledge Exchange comparative report on Costs and Benefits of Open Access. Knowledge Exchange (EU)

23 September, 2009

• Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS). Australian Education International (AEI) (AU)
  • Review of the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000.
    • Issues paper. Released 23 September, 2009. Written submissions (following the template provided) will be accepted up until 30 October 2009.
    • Terms of Reference for the review of the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000 and associated regulatory and legislative frameworks.
    • ESOS Review press release. Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, 8 August, 2009
• Collections Council of Australia seeks new benchmarks for collections policy. Collections Council of Australia (AU)
• OCLC Research Annual Highlights: Progress in support of the RLG Partnership. July 2008 – June 2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (US)
• Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development [by] Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmann. © 2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (US)
• EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS) is an organisation for universities and research institutions worldwide. The aim of (EOS) is to further the opening up of scholarship and research that we are now seeing through the growing open access, open education, open science and open innovation movements. (UK)

18 September, 2009

• Now available! Students 2008 [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 Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (AU)
• Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation. House of Representatives. Inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. (AU)
  • Building Australia's Research Capacity: Report of the inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. Parliamentary paper 573/2008; Tabled 1 December 2008 Date of Government Response: 17 September 2009 (PDF 1840KB)
• Communicating knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings. A Research Information Network report September 2009 This report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Higher Education 2020 Newsletter. Current Issue 08 (September 2009) now available. The Higher Education Group, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (AU)
• Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds." (US)

16 September, 2009

• Proceedings of  AUQF2009: Internal & External Quality Assurance: Tensions & Synergies. Alice Springs, Australia 1–3 July 2009 AUQA Occasional Publications Number 19 ISSN 1446-4268 ISBN 978-1-921561-13-9 © 2009 Published by: Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

15 September, 2009

• Understanding global activity in higher education and research. Prepared for JISC [by] mindset research ltd (UK)

14 September, 2009

• ARC Peer Review Processes Consultation Paper. Responses to the Consultation Paper close at 5 pm (AEST) on 19 October 2009. Australian Research Council (ARC) (AU)

3 September, 2009

• Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education. Executive Summary. Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Laura E. Rumbley. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 2009 (FR)
• Online Learning as a Strategic Asset. Volume II: The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences with Online Learning. Jeff Seaman, August 2009. Results of a National Faculty Survey, Part of the Online Education Benchmarking Study Conducted by the APLU-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning. Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Babson Survey Research Group, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson College (US)

2 September, 2009

• The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. (AU)
• Diverse Coalition Unites To Counter Google Book Settlement. Open Book Alliance (US)
• Innovative Spaces in ARL Libraries: Results of a 2008 Study. Association of Research Libraries (US)

1 September, 2009

• Public Engagement, SPEC Kit 312. Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• ACLS Humanities E-Book XML Conversion Experiment: Report on Workflow, Costs, and User Preferences. By Nina Gielen, Editor for Digital Content and Production, ACLS Humanities E-Book. ACLS Humanities E-Book White Paper No. 2 DATE: February 11, 2009 (US)

27 August, 2009

• Repository Staff and Skills Set. 2009 revision. SHERPA (UK)

25 August, 2009

• ERA Journal title list. Research Excellence. Australian Research Council (AU)

20 August, 2009

• Library Performance Measurement in the UK and Ireland. Tracey Stanley and Selena Killick • 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-839-4 • EAN 978-1-59407-839-2 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

19 August, 2009

• Setting and Monitoring Academic Standards for Australian Higher Education. Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

14 August, 2009

• A threat to scientific communication. 13 August 2009 By Zoë Corbyn Times Higher Education (UK)

13 August, 2009

• Public Access Policies, SPEC Kit 311. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

12 August, 2009

• Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions—final report. 14 July 2009 Australian Government. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (AU)
• Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books: [final] Research report. This research report was released on 14 July 2009. Productivity Commission (AU)
• ARC Strategic Plan 2009–10 to 2011–12. Australian Research Council (AU)

3 August, 2009

• Advertisement Flinders University. University Librarian. Ref 9196 • Applications close: Friday, 28 August 2009 (AU)
• Towards the Academic Library of the Future. The British Library, JISC, the Research Information Network (RIN), RLUK and SCONUL are taking forward a joint initiative that will help to map the future strategic direction for academic and research libraries in the UK. August 2009 (UK)
  JISC Strategy Review 2010-2012. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

28 July, 2009

• Final OLE Project Report. Open Library Environment project (OLE Project). This project has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable the library community to deliberate together and deliver a design for the next generation of library automation services. (US)

27 July, 2009

• Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age. Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age; National Academy of Sciences (US)
• Towards Government 2.0: An Issues Paper. Government 2.0 Taskforce, Department of Finance and Deregulation. "Remember we can’t promise to give your input proper consideration if we receive it after the start of business on 24 August 2009." The Taskforce will provide a final report on its activities to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation and the Cabinet Secretary by the end of 2009. The Taskforce will disband on completion of its final report. (AU)

25 July, 2009

• OECD Feasibility Study for the International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO). OECD Directorate for Education. (EU)

23 July, 2009

• Out-googling Google: Federated Searching and the Single Search Box [by] Verne W. Newton [and] Kathryn Silberger, James A. Cannavino Library, Marist College (US)/

22 July, 2009

• Revisiting Institutional Repositories: Project Briefing Session. Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting April 6-7, 2009 (US)

20 July, 2009

• The UK's share of world research output: An investigation of different data sources and time trends: A report by the Research Information Network. June 2009 (UK)
• Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning: A report for the Joint Information Systems Council (sic) (JISC) 2009 by Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Claire Mashiter, Jonathan Westaway, Peter Lumsden, Helen Day, Helen Hewertson and Anna Hart. Produced by the Centre for Research-informed Teaching, University of Central Lancashire (UK)
• The Higher Education Empirical Research (HEER) database comprises summaries of evidence-based published research on a range of topics related to higher education. It is intended for use by policy-makers, academics and researchers in higher education. The HEER database has been developed by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) of The Open University. (UK)

18 July, 2009

• The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER). Four pioneers from the Open Educational Resources community offered their insights into “The transformative potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)” at the SPARC-ACRL Forum, held during the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO. (US)

17 July, 2009

• Campus Outreach Initiative Talking Points. Campus Outreach to Scholarly Society Leaders, Editors, and Members: Promoting positive change and a continuing role for scholarly societies. Association of Research Libraries (US)

16 July, 2009

• 'Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today: Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability: Final Report', written by Ithaka S+R analysts Nancy L. Maron, K. Kirby Smith and Matthew Loy. July, 2009. Strategic Content Alliance (UK)

13 July, 2009

•  Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? Author: Pinfield, Stephen Source: Learned Publishing, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2009, pp. 165-175 (11) (UK)
• Supporting Digital Tools for Humanists: Investigating Tool Infrastructure: Final Report: May 15, 2009 [by] Katie Shilton. Council on Library and Information Resources. (US)

10 July, 2009

• "Triggering" Content from the Portico Archive. JSTORNEWS June 2009, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (10/7/09)
• Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments [PDF] [by] Crit Stuart. Research Library Issues no. 264 Association of Research Libraries (US)

4 July, 2009

• Government 2.0 Taskforce. "The Government 2.0 Taskforce is being formed against a backdrop of increased interest by governments worldwide in the potential uses of public sector information and online engagement." (AU)
  • Speech: Launch of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, Minister for Finance and Deregulation. 22 June 2009 (AU)
• OECD Recommendation of the Council For Enhanced Access and More Effective Use of Public Sector Information. OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, Seoul, South Korea, 17-18 June 2008. (FR)
• Access to and use of Public Sector Information. auPSI provides a wide range of information services to the public, information industry, government and the wider public sector relating to finding, using, sharing and trading in PSI. Queensland University of Technology (AU)
• Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data. Final report. Tabled in the Parliament of Victoria on 24 June 2009. (AU)

3 July, 2009

• Costs and business models in scientific research publishing: A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. Compiled by SQW. April 2004 (UK)
• Digital Repository Federation (DRF) is a federation consisting of 87 universities and research institutes (as of February 2009), which aims to promote Open Access and Institutional Repository in Japan. (JP)
  • The DRF (Digital Repository Federation) report during 2006-2008. DRF Coordinating Committee. (JP)

2 July, 2009

• SPEC Kit 310.  Author Addenda. Karen Fischer. July 2009 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow by Judy Luther (Informed Strategies) NISO White Papers June 30, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-880124-82-6  (US)
• Journals and Repositories: An Evolving Relationship? Stephen Pinfield, Learned Publishing, v.22, no.3, July 2009, pp. 165-175; (UK)
• Resource Description and Access (RDA) and New Research Potentials; Shawne D. Miksa Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.35, no.5, June/July 2009 (US)
• Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories. Authors: Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele, Travis Brooks Report-no: CERN-OPEN-2009-007, SLAC-PUB-13693 arXiv:0906.5418 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:45:04 GMT   (929kb)  (US)

1 July, 2009

• Effective Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching. JISC, 2009 (UK)
• Creating Catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world. A Research Information Network report June 2009 (UK)
  The Super Science Initiatives. The Super Science initiatives, announced as part of the Commonwealth Government's budget on 12 May, will provide a substantial boost to Australia's national research infrastructure, comprising a total commitment of $1.1 Billion. NCRIS eResearch Infrastructure (AU)

30 June, 2009

• In from the Cold: An assessment of the scope of ‘Orphan Works’ and its impact on the delivery of services to the public. April, 2009. Research report prepared for: Strategic Content Alliance Collections Trust Prepared by: Naomi Korn. Produced and funded by JISC (UK)
• Timeline of the open access movement. The Open Access Directory (OAD) (US)
• The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries. By Stuart Basefsky, Published on June 16, 2009. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) (US)
• Beyond Institutional Repositories [by] Laurent Romary [and] Chris Armbruster. June 25, 2009 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1425692 (US)

29 June, 2009

• Make It Digital. DigitalNZ - includes guides for good digitisation practice. National Library of New Zealand (NZ)
• Calendar. Issue 2, 2009, now available. Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) (AU)

27 June, 2009

• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS). The site is coordinated by Alma Swan, of Key Perspectives Ltd, UK and Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada and overseen by a steering committee and advisory board of international Open Access experts and advocates. (UK)
  • OASIS Open Access Source Book Now Online. SPARC (US)

26 June, 2009

• OECD’s education lighthouse for the way out of the crisis. The economic and social crisis is having an increasing impact on education. This collaborative website has been set up to leverage the collective intelligence of the global education community in shaping the post-crisis economy and society. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (FR)
• 2009 August 17-18 Sydney CAUL Industry Think Tank 2009: Global Economic Crisis: Library Consortia, Publishers and Content Providers Working Together. Council of Australian University Librarians. Invitation Only. http://www.caul.edu.au/meetings/thinktank2009.html

25 June, 2009

• Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF. 18 June 2009. By Zoë Corbyn. The Times Higher Education  (UK)
• IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section Newsletter, June 2009 - Special Edition - Learning Centres (NL)

22 June, 2009

• 2009 November 23-24 Wellington, NZ 2009 National Digital Forum: Being online now: Culture, creativity and community. The National Digital Forum (NDF) http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm

18 June, 2009

• RBA sells most [AU] dollars in five years to stem rally. The Sydney Morning Herald June 18, 2009 - 1:38PM (AU)
• Tara Brabazon: Committed to fighting and thinking: As librarians are being retitled and rebranded, Tara Brabazon focuses on their vital role. Times Higher Education 17 June 2009 (UK)
• 2009 September 2-3 Canberra 4th annual University Governance & Regulations Forum. Informa http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/4th-annual-university-governance-regulations-forum

10 June, 2009

• Grant Funding Call 07/09: Data Management Infrastructure. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon on Thursday 6 August 2009. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• JISC ITT Modelling Scholarly Communication Transition. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on Monday 13th July 2009. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

9 June, 2009

• CollectionsCare proposes a system of staffed regional hubs where communities and governments can work in partnership to develop and care for Australia’s distributed cultural and scientific collections. Collections Council of Australia (AU)
  • First regional CollectionsCare hub to be in Western Australia. First announcement 4 June 2009 (AU)
• Digital Collection Builder (DCB). Canadiana.org The Digital Collection Builder (DCB) is an open-source software tool that makes it simple for libraries, archives, and other heritage organizations to provide access to their unique digitized collections; it brings their collections together with other Canadian online resources for Canadians and the world. (CA)

5 June, 2009

• Campus-based Publishing Resource Center. SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (US)

4 June, 2009

• PEER. D2.1 Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers. 31 March 2009 PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (EU)
• Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Grant Funding Call 07/09: Data Management Infrastructure. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon on Thursday 6 August 2009. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Libcitations: A measure for comparative assessment of book publications in the humanities and social sciences. Howard D. White et al. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Volume 60 Issue 6, Pages 1083 - 1096 Published Online: 20 Feb 2009 Wiley-Blackwell (US)

3 June, 2009

• Development of a web-based scholarly communications toolkit. The RIN has commissioned Mark Ware Consulting, working in partnership with Searchlighter, to help it formulate a web-based toolkit to support key stakeholders (especially research funders, higher education institutions, libraries and publishers) to apply the common principles set out in the Research and the Scholarly Communications Process: towards strategic goals for public policy. RIN (Research Information Network) (UK)

29 May, 2009

• University Press 2.0 by Phil Pochoda, Director of University of Michigan Press, essay presented recently at a symposium on "Bookishness" organized by the Michigan Quarterly Review. (US)

28 May, 2009

• Copyright Questions & Answers. Blog from Lesley Ellen Harris (US)

27 May, 2009

• Online Availability of Government Entities' Documents. Tabled in the Australian Parliament. Report Number: 37 Year: 2008/2009 Tabled: Monday, 25 May 2009. The Auditor General, Australian National Audit Office (AU)
  • Download full report.

26 May, 2009

• The Australian Education Sector and the Economic Contribution of International Students Date: Apr 2009 Report by Access Economics Pty Limited for Australian Council for Private Education and Training. (AU)
• Economic Modelling of Improved Funding and Reform Arrangements for Universities. Prepared at the request of Universities Australia by KPMG EconTech March 2009 (AU)
• Appraisal of Citation Data Sources: A report to HEFCE by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University. By Henk F. Moed and Martijn S. Visser September, 2008 (NL)

25 May, 2009

• Rice, Robin (2009) DISC-UK DataShare Project: Final Report. DISC-UK (Data Information Specialists Committee - United Kingdom) (UK)
• Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC. 263 April 2009. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• OCLC Members Council discusses issues facing libraries worldwide. News Release. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 21 May 2009 (US)
  • "Review Board on the Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship .... The Review Board is accepting feedback on its report. The Review Board will submit a draft report for the June meeting of the OCLC Board of Trustees, and plans to finalize its report by the end of June."

22 May, 2009

• Advertisement. Director, Information Services (Scholarly Information & Research) - Griffith University. Applications close: 9 June 2009 (AU)
• Advertisement. Director, Information Services (Learning & Teaching) - Griffith University. Applications close: 9 June 2009 (AU)
• The Evolving Google Library [by] Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed May 21, 2009 (US)
• The Metadata is the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections. [by] Jennifer Schaffner. OCLC Research (US)

21 May, 2009

• Investing in education and innovation to create the jobs of the future. Post-Budget Speech. Hosted by the Office of Knowledge Capital and City of Melbourne. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. (AU)
• Higher Education 2020 Newsletter. Newsletter Issue 07 May 2009 Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations (AU)
• Joint IFLA-IPA statement on open access. 20 May 2009 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the International Publishers Association (EU)
• PARSE.Insight - Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe - a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. (EU)

20 May, 2009

• National Research Infrastructure Committee (NRIC) Membership is announced. Media Release. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research. (AU)

19 May, 2009

• Campus Collaborative Tools Strategy. UC Berkeley University of California (US)
• Fair to whom? New House bill challenges public access, by Heather Joseph. C&RL News, April 2009 Vol. 70, No. 4 American Library Association (US)
• Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide. DISC-UK DataShare Project, funded by JISC (UK)
• Digital Economy Future Directions. Australian Government. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
  • Submissions in response to the ‘consultation draft’ for the Digital Economy Future Directions Paper.

15 May, 2009

• Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles & Measuring Contemporary Preservation Activities in ARL Libraries. Prepared by:
  Lars Meyer, ARL Visiting Program Officer May 2009 Association of Research Libraries (US)

13 May, 2009

• Australian Government Budget 2009-10.  12 May 2009 (AU)
  • Major publications.
    • Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century. "This paper builds on investigations and policy work undertaken throughout 2008. It responds to the recommendations of Venturous Australia — Building Strength in Innovation: Review of the National Innovation System." [The Cutler Report]  ISBN 978-0-642-72584-4  Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research. (AU)
      • Setting the Innovation Agenda to 2020. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research. Media Release 12 May 2009.
    • Transforming Australia’s Higher Education System. "In response to the findings of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, the Australian Government will make an unprecedented investment in our universities and tertiary education system to drive comprehensive reform across the post-compulsory education and training sector."  © Commonwealth of Australia 2009 (AU)
      • Appendix 1. Summary of budget initiatives.
      • Appendix 3.  Bradley recommendations table.
  • Portfolio Budget Statements.
    • Education, Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
      • Expense Measures - Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
    • Innovation, Industry, Science and Research portfolio.
      • Expense Measures - Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
      • Expense Measures - Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
  • Media Releases.
    • Delivering fairer indexation for universities. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.  Joint Media Release with Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • A new era for Australian universities. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.  Joint Media Release with Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • New agency to set quality benchmarks in higher education (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) "The Government will redirect funding from the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA)"). The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
    • Student demand to drive university funding. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
    • Investing in tertiary education and research infrastructure (Education Investment Fund (EIF)). The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.  Joint Media Release with Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • Investing in quality teaching. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
    • Setting the Innovation Agenda to 2020. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
      • Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century. "This paper builds on investigations and policy work undertaken throughout 2008. It responds to the recommendations of Venturous Australia — Building Strength in Innovation: Review of the National Innovation System." [The Cutler Report]  ISBN 978-0-642-72584-4
    • A $3.1 Billion Investment in New Ideas Industries and Jobs ("establishing a new National Research Infrastructure Committee to coordinate future infrastructure decisions.. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • Supporting World Class University Research. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • Investing in productivity and sustainability. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.  Joint Media Release with Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research.
    • Reaching out to help more students from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
  • Responses to the budget.
    • Visionary road taken to university reform. The Group of Eight Ltd
    • Universities Australia applauds Federal Budget for higher education, research and innovation.  Universities Australia Media Release 05/09
    • Universities' responses - from edna.edu.au (14/5/09)
• Future directions for Tertiary Education: A new student-centred, demand driven, higher education system.  The Deputy Prime Minister has announced future structural reforms for the higher education sector, which focus on a student-centred, demand driven system. March 2009 The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. (AU)
• Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World.  Report of an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students’ widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies.  March 2009  JISC Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (UK)

11 May, 2009

• Preservation of Web Resources.  JISC Briefing Paper, March, 2009.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

5 May, 2009

• 'E-journals: their use, value and impact' takes an in-depth look at how researchers in the UK use electronic journals, the value they bring to universities and research institutions and the contribution they make to research productivity, quality and outcomes. Research Information Network (UK)
• Redefining e-books. Research Information: April/May 2009 (UK)
• At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering, By Andrew Albanese -- Publishers Weekly, 4/21/2009 5:34:00 AM (US)

2 May, 2009

• Open Access to Research Outputs: Final Report to RCUK. September, 2008. LISU [and] SQW Consulting. Research Councils UK (UK)
  • RCUK publishes report on open access study.

1 May, 2009

• Preserving the Integrity of The Journal Impact Factor: Guidelines from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters Forums (US)

30 April, 2009

• UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) feasibility study. UKRDS is a joint project between RLUK (the Consortium of Research Libraries in the UK and Ireland), and RUGIT (the Russell Group IT Directors Group). The objective of the UKRDS study is to assess the feasibility and costs of developing and maintaining a national shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education sector. (UK)
  • [Final report] Report and recommendations to HEFCE. 19 December, 2008

29 April, 2009

• [Special Issue: The Economics of Open Access Publishing]. Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP): Journal of the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) INC. Volume 39, Issue 1, 2009 ISSN: 0313-5926 (AU)
• Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want: An OCLC Report. Principal contributors: Karen Calhoun, et al.  Copyright © 2009, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. ISBN: 1-55653-411-6 (US)
• Digital Repositories Research Group (DR-RG) The goal of the Digital Repositories Research Group (DR-RG) is to analyze how digital repositories can be built on top of federated storage infrastructure, focusing on the exploitation of existing data-related standards and the identification of need for new or revised data-related standards. The Open Grid Forum (OGF) (US)

28 April, 2009

• Paying for open access publication charges. The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide (March 2009) to provide advice on paying open access publication charges. (UK)
• Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: Report of a Workshop Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities. CLIR pub 145: March, 2009 ISBN 978-1-932326-33-8 (US)
• Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript procedures for publishers and repository managers. 31 March 2009 - D2.1 Authors: Foudil Brétel, et al PEER Project Report - This project is funded under the eContentplus programme1 (EU)

27 April, 2009

• CAUL Statement on the Global Economic Crisis. CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) (AU)
• It’s bigger than just libraries [by] Jeremy Gilling. Campus Review 27 Apr 09 (AU)
• STM - International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. New website! (EU)
• MACAR: Metadata Advisory Committee for Australian Repositories. (AU)

26 April, 2009

• Federal Depository Library Program. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is working with the US Government Printing Office (GPO) as well as others in the library community on an effort to ensure that tangible US government documents are made perpetually available through online access to the public at no cost. (US)
  • Strategic Directions for the FDLP: An ARL White Paper [PDF] (April 14, ‘09)

23 April, 2009

• Data repository for teacher education scoping study. 2009 Author/s: Professor Sue Willis, Barbara Preston. The Australian Council of Deans of Education. Australian Learning and Teaching Council (AU)

22 April, 2009

• New report shows university reforms will drive growth. 22 April 2009 Universities Australia today released the results of a KPMG study that shows implementation of the recommendations of the Review of Australian Higher Education (the “Bradley Review”) will drive Australian recovery and growth, and provide increases in future skills, productivity, exports and GDP.“ (AU)
• International Repositories Infrastructure wiki.  Edited by Alma Swan (UK)
• Green, T (2009), “We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables”, OECD Publishing White Paper, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/603233448430 (EU)

21 April, 2009

• CAIRSS Central is delighted to launch the new CAIRSS website. The primary function of CAIRSS (CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service) is to offer support for Repository Managers in the higher education sector in Australia.  This website will be the central hub for this activity. (AU)

18 April, 2009

• Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born, Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 2009, Library Journal, April 15, 2009 (US)

9 April, 2009

• Data.gov: This site will make a broad array of U.S. Government data available. Coming soon! (US)

7 April, 2009

• Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections.  March 2009 Association of Research Libraries (US)
  • Press release: Special Collections in ARL Libraries: Working Group Releases Discussion Report. April 6, 2009
• Higher Education Student Data Collection statistics released - 2008 half-year data - Media Release - 02/04/2009 Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (AU)

5 April, 2009

• iCamp is a research and development project funded by the European Commission under the IST (Information Society Technology) programme of FP6. The project aims at creating an infrastructure for collaboration and networking across systems, countries, and disciplines in Higher Education. (EU)
  • How to use social software in Higher Education.  iCamp handbook (EU)
• NISO Thought Leader Meetings 2008 (US)
  • NISO Thought Leader Meeting on Institutional Repositories.  Date: February 12, 2008 Facilitator: Greg Tanenbaum (US)
• The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has launched a new Web site for its latest assessment tool, ClimateQUALTM: Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment, offered through the StatsQUAL® platform. (US)

4 April, 2009

• Draft Roadmap for an e-infrastructure for Scientific Data. March, 2009. PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe) (EU)
• Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate. SPECIAL SECTION. BULLETIN of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 35, Number 4 ISSN: 1550-8366 (US)
• Services to support repository managers. Open Access Directory (US)
• Field Guide to Misunderstandings about Open Access, in SPARC Open Access Newsletter (April 2, ‘09) Peter Suber (US)

30 March, 2009

• Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology - a revised approach to HEFCE's strategy for e-learning. (HEFCE 2009/12) Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• Scholarly books and journals at risk: Responding to the challenges of a changing economy.  Research Information Network briefing.  March 2009 (UK)
• ITT: Development of a scholarly communication toolkit for use in research & teaching in HE Institutions. Submission Deadline: 06 May 2009 12:00 Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee (UK)
• Public Consultation on IP Rights Reforms.  Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research today called for written submissions on proposed reforms to the intellectual property (IP) system. 27 March 2009 The closing date for submissions is Friday, 8 May 2009. (AU)
  • ‘Getting the Balance Right’ – Raising patentability standards and giving greater certainty in the validity of granted patents.
  • ‘Exemptions to Patent Infringement’ – Ensuring that patents do not inhibit research and development in Australia.
• Crown use of Intellectual Property -  information sheet [by] IP Australia, in conjunction with the Attorney-General’s Department 24 March 2009 (AU)

26 March, 2009

• Repositories Support Project (RSP). Repository Software Survey, March 2009. JISC (UK)

24 March, 2009

• Learning Spaces. EDUCAUSE Review Volume 44, Number 2, March/April 2009 (US)
• James Grimmelmann. "How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement" Journal of Internet Law Apr. 2009: 1 (US)

19 March, 2009

• Audit Manual Version 6.0 March 2009 - Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) (AU)

18 March, 2009

• CAIRSS – supporting access to university research.  The CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service (CAIRSS) officially commenced March 16, 2009.  Council of Australian University Librarians (AU)
• ALTC Reports and Resources: Teaching and learning spaces.  ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) (AU)
  • Next Generation Learning Spaces: Technology Assessment: Third Generation Collaborative Teaching and Learning Space. Prepared by Derek Powell for the Next Generation Learning Spaces Project. ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) (AU)
  • Next Generation Learning Spaces Technology Assessment: ACTS. Prepared by Derek Powell for the Next Generation Learning Spaces Project. ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) (AU)
• Open Access: A publisher's perspective.  Steven Hall.  Richard Poynder blogspot 17 March, 2009 (UK)
• eSciDoc is an eResearch environment developed specifically for use by scientific and scholarly communities to collaborate globally and interdisciplinary. It comprises a set of services and solutions that enable innovative eScience scenarios: Scientists, librarians, and software developers can work with research data, create novel forms of publications, and establish new ways of scientific and scholarly communication. (DE)

13 March, 2009

• Australia’s research universities and their position in the world: Address to the Financial Review Higher Education Conference 2009, Sydney, 10 March 2009 Michael Gallagher, Executive Director, The Group of Eight (AU)
• Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning. George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, March, 2009 University of Manitoba (CA)

12 March, 2009

• Open Access: Whom would you back? Richard Poynder blogspot (UK)
• Research Data Management Forum. In partnership with the Research Information Network, the DCC have created a new forum for the exchange of experience and best practice between the managers and technical staff from UK data centres, university repository installations and other related organisations with responsibility for the discovery, delivery and preservation of digital research output. Digital Curation Centre (UK)

11 March, 2009

• Greater Reach for Your Research: Expanding Readership Through Digital Repositories. Developed by the CARL Institutional Repositories Working Group and SPARC. (CA)

7 March, 2009

• OCLC and Libraries Australia achieve breakthrough in timeliness. National Library of Australia. Press Release. (AU)

5 March, 2009

• Advertisement. University of Durham. University Librarian. Applications close 27 March, 2009 (UK)
• Open Access Week 2009. October 19-23, 2009 Organizers: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), the PLoS (The Public Library of Science), Students for FreeCulture, OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) (US)

4 March, 2009

• Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society: report of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the National Science and Technology Council. January 2009 (US)
• Collaborative Librarianship -- Call for Papers and Participation  (eISSN: 1943-7528) sponsored by: Colorado Academic Library Consortium, Colorado Library Consortium, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Regis University, University of Denver (US)

3 March, 2009

• JISC ITT: Strategic Content Alliance: Business Modelling and Sustainability Activities. Submission Deadline: 03 April 2009 12:00 JISC Content Services Committee (UK)
• Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources.  An Ithaka Report. May 2008 Authors: Kevin Guthrie, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron. Strategic Content Alliance, Ithaka (UK)
• The Global Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Publishing and Library Subscriptions: ARL Issues Statement to Scholarly Publishers and Vendors. February 19, 2009. Association of Research Libraries (US)

2 March, 2009

• National Committee for Data in Science, established by the Australian Academy of Science. (AU)
• National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) established under the NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration capability to develop and assist the adoption of new eResearch methods and tools (AU)

1 March, 2009

• Infrastructure Planning And Data Curation: A Comparative Study Of International Approaches To Enabling The Sharing Of Research Data. Version 1.6 30 November 2008 Prepared by: Raivo Ruusalepp, Estonian Business Archives Consultancy. JISC (UK)

26 February, 2009

• Repository Staff and Skills document [by] Mary Robinson, SHERPA (UK)

25 February, 2009

• Ensuring a bright future for research libraries: a guide for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers. RIN (Research Information Network) 2008 (UK)

23 February, 2009

• [Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)] timeframe. Media Release. The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. 23 February 2009 (AU)

21 February, 2009

• Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records: Final Report to the ARL Board. January 30, 2009 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• RLG Partnership Shared Print Collections Working Group Shared Print Policy Review Report. Final report circulated to RLG Partners (January 2009): Malpas, Constance. (.pdf: 161K/23 pp.) OCLC (US)

20 February, 2009

• System to Evaluate the Excellence of Research (SEER). The Pilot of the ERA system is now closed. The live SEER Platform will be available in April 2009. Australian Research Council (AU)

19 February, 2009

• What I Said About Public Access at the ER&L Conference. [Re: HR 801 - Fair Copyright in Research Works Act and the NIH Public Access Policy] T. Scott Plutchak (US)

18 February, 2009

• Education Investment Fund. Funding Round 2. Applications must be received by 4:00 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT) on Monday 2 March 2009. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (AU)
• nestor (Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources) (DE)
• Redmond Barry Fellowship. The Fellowship shall be awarded to scholars and writers to facilitate research and the production of works of literature that utilise the superb collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. Applications close on Thursday 30 April 2009. (AU)
  • Guidelines for Applicants (including Application Form and process)

17 February, 2009

• PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research. The aim of PEER is to build a substantial body of evidence, by developing an “observatory” to monitor the effects of systematic archiving over time. (EU)

16 February, 2009

• The state of the nation: A snapshot of Australian institutional repositories,by Mary Anne Kennan and Danny Kingsley. First Monday, Volume 14, Number 2 - 2 February 2009 (US)

14 February, 2009

• JISC ITT: User Behaviour Observational Study. JISC Content Services committee. Submission Deadline: 13 March 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

13 February, 2009

• Digital Britain - interim report. Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (UK)
  • JISC Announcement. 29 January 2009.
• The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship — A Call to Action. February 2009 Joint statement from Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) (US)
• Transformational Times: An Environmental Scan Prepared for the ARL Strategic Plan Review Task Force. Prepared by: Charles B. Lowry, Executive Director, et al. Association of Research Libraries February 2009 (US)
• Guiding Principles for Library and Information Science Education 2.0: A project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. You are invited to participate in a series of focus groups seeking to identify the current and anticipated skills and knowledge required by successful LIS professionals in the age of web 2.0 (and beyond). Contact Helen Partridge (AU)

12 February, 2009

• JISC Invitation to Tender: Assessing the Role of Digital Information Management Practice in Reducing the Environmental Impact of ICT Use in Higher Education. Submission Deadline: 16 March 2009 12:00 Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee (UK)

11 February, 2009

• Research Data Canada (CA)
• Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis [by] Research Data Strategy Working Group, Research Data Canada. October 2008 (CA)
  • Update: Research Data Strategy Working Group. Gap analysis published. Ottawa, ON, January 12, 2009

6 February, 2009

• Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library. ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (US)
  • Media Release. 29 January 2009. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have published a guide to “Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library.” (US)
• Universities receive $73 million for teaching and learning 05/02/2009 - Media Release - Minister for Education (AU)

5 February, 2009

• Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring the costs and benefits. Author: John Houghton, Bruce Rasmussen and Peter Sheehan, Victoria University and Charles Oppenheim, Anne Morris, Claire Creaser, Helen Greenwood, Mark Summers and Adrian Gourlay, Loughborough University. Publication date: 27 January 2009 JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
  • Research reveals economic case for open access publishing. JISC Media Release Publication Date: 27 January 2009
  • Major new report on the economic implications of OA. Peter Suber's Open Access News 27 January 2009 (US)
  • Analysis backs open-access path for scholarly publishing. Times Higher Education, 05 February 2009 "Jisc report says publishing landscape should be reshaped to deliver better value, writes John Gill"
  • Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring costs and benefits. John Houghton. Presentation at ALIA Information Online, January 21, 2009. (AU)
  • STM, PA & ALPSP respond to Houghton JISC Report.  April 7 2009 STM (EU)
  • JISC Response to:JISC Response to Feedback on the Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models Report from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the International Association of STM Publishers on ... by Houghton et al. ...  (UK)
• Invitation to Tender for the JISC Collections Service Provider Interface Study. JISC Collections wishes to commission a study to explore the approaches taken by Service Providers to the implementation of federated access management, and its effect on the End User experience. The aim of the study is to make clear recommendations regarding common terminology and practices across service provider platforms to both improve the user experience and to ensure the maximum number of successful authentications. Submission deadline: Monday 2nd March 2009 12:00 (UK)
• JISC ITT: The links between library OPACs and repositories in Higher Education Institutions. Submission Deadline: 12 March 2009 12:00 JISC Integrated Information Environment committee (UK)

4 February, 2009

• The Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services: Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force. January 2009 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

3 February, 2009

• 2008 Horizon Report: Australia–New Zealand Edition. Johnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R. © 2008, Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. (US)

27 January, 2009

• Advertisement. Victoria University (Melbourne). University Librarian. Closing date 23 February 2009 (AU)
• Australian Research Council. The ARC has released the draft ERA Submission Guidelines and draft ERA–SEER Technical Specifications for Cluster One (Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences) and Cluster Two (Humanities and Creative Arts). Comments are due by COB Friday 6 February 2009. (AU)
• Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development [by] Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau [and] Carrie M. Pirmann. January, 2009. OCLC Research. ISBN: 1-55653-408-6 (978-1-55653-408-9) (US)
  • News release. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 23 January 2009
• Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2009. (US)
  • The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report.
• Australian Government. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Digital Economy Future Directions. Consultation Paper. Draft for industry and other stakeholders’ input and comment – 18 December 2008. Respond to DEFutureDirections@dbcde.gov.au by Wednesday 11 February 2009. (AU)
• Australian Government. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. The review of the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 (PMCH Act) and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Regulations 1987 (PMCH Regulations). Discussion paper and Fact sheet Community participation is encouraged, and written submissions are invited until March 6 2009. (AU)

26 January, 2009

• Google & the Future of Books By Robert Darnton. The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 2 • February 12, 2009 (US)

23 January, 2009

• Campus-based Publishing Resource Center. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) (US)

19 January, 2009

• INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC) Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses. January 19, 2009 (US)

17 January, 2009

• The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada invites institutions to submit proposals for the Digging into Data Challenge. The proposal process will be in two stages and interested potential applicants must first send a letter of intent by 15 March 2009.  The deadline for receipt of the final proposal in response to this call will be Wednesday 15 July 2009. (UK)

16 January, 2009

• Google Book Settlement Link Dump Awesomeness.  Published by timothy vollmer on November 25, 2008 pureinformation.org (US)

12 January, 2009

• FREE OUR LIBRARIES! Why We Need A New Approach to Putting Library Collections Online By Richard K. Johnson. This paper was commissioned by the Boston Library Consortium with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for distribution at the Universal Access Digital Library Summit on September 25, 2008 in Boston. © 2008 Boston Library Consortium (US)
• Global Education Digest 2008: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World. Institute for Statistics, UNESCO (CA)

9 January, 2009

• Borders of Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and Their Economic Impacts. Paul Weiss. U.S. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Weather Service. February 2002. (US)
• Open access to public sector information. Digital Economy blog. December 11, 2008. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (AU)
• The Value of Spatial Information: The impact of modern spatial information technologies on the Australian economy. Executive Summary. Prepared for the CRC for Spatial Information & ANZLIC – the Spatial Information Council [by] ACIL Tasman. March 2008(US)
• ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 261 (December 2008) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
  • Mobile Technologies, Mobile Users: Implications for Academic Libraries, by Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
  • Virtual Resources and Instructional Initiatives: Snapshots of Library Experiments, by Crit Stuart, Director of Research, Teaching & Learning, ARL
  • Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
  • E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors
  • Planning a Learning Space in a Research Library

8 January, 2009

• Advertisement. Murdoch University Director of Library Services. Applications close 11 February 2009 (AU)
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the Library of Congress, the Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the National Archives and Records Administration (US)
  • Sustaining the Digital Investment: Interim Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. December 2008.

6 January, 2009

• Occasional Paper 23: After Midnight: Late Night Library Services [by] Lori Driscoll and Angela Mott • 2008 • ISBN 1-59407-813-0 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• SPEC Kit 309, Library Support for Study Abroad [by] Ann Lindell December 2008 • ISBN 1-59407-808-4 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

5 January, 2009

• Copyright Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books. The Productivity Commission (AU)
  Issues paper - released 26 November 2008