What was New 2011 Tuesday, 17 April 2012

30 December, 2011

• Reconfiguring Service Delivery, SPEC Kit 327, Kay Vyhnanek and Christy Zlatos • December 2011 • ISBN 1-59407-871-8 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

24 December, 2011

• Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services and the Ontario Council of University Libraries' Scholars Portal: Final Report 2011. Martha Kyrillidou, et al (Washington, D.C. Association of Research Libraries, 2011)

22 December, 2011

• The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. .... The Portal aims at being the first destination of information seekers on OA. © UNESCO

20 December, 2011

• Defining Quality for Research Training in Australia Consultation paper.  The deadline for submissions is close of business on 28 November 2011. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)
  • Response from CAUL, prepared by Cathrine Harboe-Ree.  24 November 2011. 
  • Research Training Quality Paper - Information Sessions Presentation.  "As part of the consultations for the Defining Quality for Research Training in Australia paper, the Department held information sessions in all major capital cities."  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)
• "Mapping Research Excellence: exploring the links between research excellence and research funding policy". A research report by Professor Paul Wellings and Rachel Winzer.  1994 Group in partnership with Elsevier.  Research Report September 2011 (UK)
• The NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCUASE Program. The full report is scheduled for release in February, 2012. The New Media Consortium (NMC) (US)
  • Submit Projects for the Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition.  The New Media Consortium (NMC) (US)
• "The first issue of the Journal of Learning Spaces has been published.  This new journal is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access venue for works related to all aspects of learning space design, operation, pedagogy, and assessment. ....The journal is hosted by the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro."  (US)
• OECD/EIB Database of Best Practices in Educational Facilities Investments.  European Investment Bank (EIB), OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE).  (EU)

15 December, 2011

• Advancing Quality in Higher Education. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. (AU) 
  "Over the period December 2011 to February 2012 the Department will consult ....on the development of measures for student experience and quality of learning outcomes for use in the MyUniversity website and to inform continuous improvement by universities. To facilitate discussions the Department has released three Discussion Papers on the proposed performance measurement instruments. The Department is seeking submissions in response to the Discussion Papers [by 17 February 2012].  Roundtable forums ...will also be held in February 2012 to enable further discussions and gathering of feedback by the Department."
  • Development of Performance Measurement Instruments in Higher Education - exploring the balance of performance measurement instruments, potential uses, deployment methods and participation and selection of students ( PDF 137KB | DOCX 85KB)
  • Review of the Australian Graduate Survey (AGS) – examines the strategic position of the AGS in its relationship with other survey instruments, administration methods, timeliness and capacity to measure the diversity in student experience ( PDF 632KB | DOCX 586KB)
  • Assessment of Generic Skills – will focus on the development of an instrument appropriate for Australian universities in the context of the OECD’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project ( PDF 583KB | DOCX 399KB)

14 December, 2011

• Embedding Repositories | Self-Assessment Tool.  © 2011 Repositories Support Project (UK)

3 December, 2011

• Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries [by] Rose Holley.  D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2011 Volume 17, Number 11/12  doi:10.1045/november2011-holley

17 November, 2011

• Does Library Use Affect Student Attainment? A Preliminary Report on the Library Impact Data Project [by] Graham Stone et al.  Liber Quarterly 21 (1), November 2011 — ISSN: 1435-5205. P5–22

16 November, 2011

• Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT).  The Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
  • Media Release  Minister for Tertiary Education. Wednesday 16 November 2011
• Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the twenty-first century.  A research project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Project Partners: Queensland University of Technology et al  (AU)
  • Final report now available.

15 November, 2011

• Understanding the Value of Public Sector Information in Australia. Information Policy Issues Paper 2. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.  The OAIC welcomes submissions by 31 January 2012 (AU)

14 November, 2011

• Open resource to support PhD scholars with research data management.  An online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management developed at the University of Edinburgh is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities. University of Edinburgh (UK)
• Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research: A Research Report to JISC from HOST Policy Research [by] Dr David Parsons, Dick Willis and Dr Jane Holland. October 2011. UK Open Access Implementation Group (UK)
• Open Access Fees Project: final report.  JISC Collections. Submitted to OAIG Sep 2011.  UK Open Access Implementation Group (UK)

12 November, 2011

• Role of metadata in the discovery selection and acquisition of ebooks:  Interim Report: November 2011.  Report commissioned by JISC.  Ken Chad Consulting et al  (UK)

10 November, 2011

• Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)  (NL)

9 November, 2011

• British Library International Non-Commercial Document Supply Service (INCD) Licensing Framework.  INCD is a new service which will commence on 1 January 2012. The service will offer overseas non-commercial users the ability to order articles via the not-for-profit library they are affiliated to. (UK)
  • Libraries Toolkit - provides information for libraries about the INCD Service and how to register for the service.
• Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) Final Report.  The BISG delivered its final report to Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research in September 2011. Launched 9 November 2011.  (AU)

8 November, 2011

• ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On (NISO RP-11-2011) - NISO Recommended Practice Approved October 25, 2011 - identifies practical solutions for improving the use of single sign-on authentication technologies to ensure a seamless experience for the user. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) ISBN (13): 978-1-880124-98-7 (US)
• Building arXiv’s Self-Sustaining Future: Grant Will Help Create Governance Model for Scientific E-Repository. Press Release.  Cornell University Library  Oct. 25, 2011  (US)
• The Keepers Registry.  The Keepers Registry Beta service provides easily accessible information about the archiving arrangements for electronic journals.  The Keepers Registry is an output of the JISC funded project, Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS).  (UK)

5 November, 2011

• Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Research Report. Version 1.0, November 1, 2011. Authors:  Raym Crow et al.  Report on a Research Project Conducted by the Libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Utah.  Published by SPARC (US)
  • Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report.  SPARC Media Release 1 November, 2011.

4 November, 2011

• Standards for Libraries in Higher Education, Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 2011.  American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries (US)

3 November, 2011

• Research Workforce Strategy Implementation.  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) (AU)
  • Research Training Quality Consultation Paper.  October 2011.  Submissions due 28 November.  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) (AU)
• Focusing Australia’s Publicly Funded Research. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) (AU)
  • Focusing Australia’s Publicly Funded Research Review:  Maximising the Innovation Dividend: review key findings and future directions.  October 2011.  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) (AU)

2 November, 2011

• Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative. "A central activity to the Bibliographic Framework Initiative is the development of a new means for capturing and sharing bibliographic data. Included in this activity is pursuing a replacement of the MARC format as the common exchange currency for bibliographic data." Library of Congress (US)
  • A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) Announcement.

1 November, 2011

• Digital Agenda: encouraging digitisation of EU culture to help boost growth.  Press release.  European Commission.  (EU)
• Preliminary version of the European Commission recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation.  28 October 2011 (EU)

30 October, 2011

• OAPEN-UK:  a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).  Funded by JISC and the AHRC.  JISC Collections (UK)
• The role of research supervisors in information literacy: A Research Information Network report. October 2011 (UK)

26 October, 2011

• SPEC Kit 325, Digital Preservation [by] Gail McMillan, Matt Schultz, and Katherine Skinner • October 2011 • ISBN 1-59407-869-6.  Association of Research Libraries (US) 

24 October, 2011

• Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration: [report from the ARL forum held the previous week.] October 16, 2011, 8:28 am  By Jennifer Howard.  The Wired Campus blog, Chronicle of Higher Education  (US)
• 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action, October 2011:  Proceedings of the ARL-CNI Fall Forum, October 13–14, 2011, Washington, DC (US)
  • Shaking Up the Norm: Journal Pricing and Valuation.  By Ivy Anderson, CDL.
• Revising the Scope of the Copyright Safe Harbour Scheme.  On 14 October 2011, the Attorney-General launched a public consultation paper outlining a proposal to amend the Copyright Act 1968 to broaden the scope of the ‘Safe Harbour Scheme’.  Submissions are being accepted until 22 November 2011 on the issues raised in the consultation paper.  (AU)

21 October, 2011

• Expanding access to published research findings.  A new independent working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible.  It is chaired by Dame Janet Finch DBE, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and independent co-Chair of the Council for Science and Technology.  14 September 2011.  Research Information Network (UK)
• Peace talks on a pressing matter.  Publishers, scholars, funders must seek consensus, says the head of a new taskforce.  By John Gill.  29 September 2011.  Times Higher Education (UK)
• Universities Australia releases Corporate Plan. 20 October, 2011 Media releases (AU) 
• E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography [by] Charles W. Bailey, Jr.  Houston: Digital Scholarship (US)

19 October, 2011

• Costs and Benefits of Data Provision: Report to the Australian National Data Service by Professor John Houghton, ANDS, 2011..  In 2011 ANDS commissioned the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University of Technology to examine the costs and benefits of public sector organisations making their data (Public Sector Information or PSI) freely available. (AU)

17 October, 2011

• The potential for cloud computing services in Australia: A Lateral Economics report to Macquarie Telecom.  October 2011  (AU)
  • CLOUD COMPUTING – AN AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITY. Senator the Hon Kim Carr Media releases 12 Oct 2011. "Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr launched The potential for cloud computing services in Australia, prepared by Lateral Economics for Macquarie Telecom."  (AU)

14 October, 2011

• Development of the ERA 2012 Journal List.  Australian Research Council (AU)
  • ERA 2012 Journal List.
• Information Advisory Committee.  The role of the IAC is to assist and advise the Australian Information Commissioner in matters relating to the performance of the Information Commissioner functions. (AU)
• The Digital Culture Public Sphere.  Endorse your digital culture ideas for the National Cultural Policy.  Digital Culture Public Sphere Coordinator, Office of Senator Kate Lundy (AU)
• Government welcomes new Regional Universities Network.  Joint media release.  14 October, 2011.  Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations; Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research; Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government (AU)
• New Council to advise on future of international education.  Media release.  14 October, 2011.  Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations (AU)
• Publisher and Institutional Repository usage Statistics: The PIRUS2 Project.  Final Report.  Authors: Peter Shepherd and Paul Needham.  Date: October 2011.  JISC (UK)

13 October, 2011

• STM Association signs Out of Commerce Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).  The European Bureau of Library Information, Documentation Association (EBLIDA), the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) and the Conference of European National Libraries are co-signatories of the MoU, with the International Federation of Libraries and Archives (IFLA) supporting the MoU for their European members.  Out of Commerce is a separate category from Orphan Works.  (EU)

12 October, 2011

• JISC Grant Funding 16/11: JISC Digital Infrastructure Programme. This call has 6 strands:  Resource Discovery;  Enhancing the Sustainability of Digital Collections;  Research Information Management;  Research Tools;  Applications of the Linking You Toolkit;  Access and Identity Management . The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon on Monday 21 November 2011.   JISC (UK)

11 October, 2011

• Society publishing: Problems Resulting from Journals Transferring Between Publishers.  JISC Collections (UK)
  • Society Journal Publishing: Transfer Guidelines to Help Achieve a Successful Transition. JISC Collections (UK)

7 October, 2011

• Book Publishers and Patron-Driven Acquisition: Announcing a Research Project.  The project's Principal Investigator is Kathleen Keane, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press. The research team includes .... Joe Esposito and Terry Ehling, associate director of Project Muse at Johns Hopkins UP; and Kizer Walker, Cornell University Library (US)
• Learning Space Toolkit.   North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and its Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) are partnering with strategic consultants brightspot strategy and DEGW to design, share, and promote an updated model for institutions to plan and support technology-rich informal learning spaces. (US)
• PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories:  Final Report  [by] Jenny Fry, Steve Probets et al, Loughborough University. PEER:  Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (UK)

5 October, 2011

• Turning the Page The Future of eBooks. Technology, Media & Telecommunications © 2010 PricewaterhouseCoopers (DE)
• Cover to cover A market analysis of the Australian book industry.  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, PwC May 2011 (AU)
• ARROW (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana) infrastructure allows streamlining the process of identification of authors, publishers and other rightholders of a work, including whether it is orphan, in or out of copyright or if it is still commercially available.  A project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, also representing writers – working through their main European associations and a number of national organisations.  (EU)

4 October, 2011

• Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family, by Dan Tonkery.  Posted On September 29, 2011 Information Today, Inc. (US)
  • "The State of Kansas has hit a legal problem moving its OverDrive ebook collection to a new distributor. OverDrive claims the State of Kansas has only leased the ebook titles and its ebook investment cannot be transferred to another company. There are a number of libraries that have major ebook collections with OverDrive and may be surprised to find that they actually don’t own anything."
• Review of recent studies on PSI re-use and related market developments.  Graham Vickery.  The report on the work undertaken by the Commission's PSI Group and sub-working groups on Economic Indicators and Economic Case Study on Charging Models has been finalised. European Commission.  (EU)
• CORE.  The COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project aims to facilitate the access and navigation across relevant scientific papers stored in Open Access repositories.  Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi).  Funded by JISC.  (UK)
• Go8 Backgrounder 23 - Measuring the impact of research - the context for metric development.  Group of Eight (AU)

3 October, 2011

• TRLN: Beyond Print.  Beyond Print is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project to develop new business models and licensing terms for the cooperative acquisition of e-books. The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) (US)

1 October, 2011

• Brinley Franlin, Colleen Cook, Martha Kyrillidou and Bruce Thompson. Library Investment Index - Why Is It Important? Proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable and Practical Assessment, August 4-7, 2008, Seattle, Washington (Washington DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2009): 147-154 (US)
• Trends in Academic Libraries, 1998 to 2008.  Prepared by Denise M. Davis for the American Library Association 2011 (US)
  • Media Release Tue, 08/23/2011.  Ten-year study shows increased need for academic libraries. 
• The Coalition for Networked information (CNI).  New website!  CNI is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of digital information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. (US)

30 September, 2011

• The 2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure [PDF 3.7MB] (2011 Roadmap) was released by Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  The 2011 Roadmap articulates the priority research infrastructure areas of a national scale (capability areas) to further develop Australia's research capacity and improve innovation and research outcomes over the next five to ten years.  Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)

29 September, 2011

• NCSU Libraries Value Statement for the Scholarly Ebook Marketplace.  Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center (CDSC), North Carolina State University Libraries (US)

22 September, 2011

• Case Studies in Sustainability 2011.  In 2009 Ithaka S+R investigated the sustainability strategies of twelve digital content projects in the higher education and cultural heritage sectors in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Egypt. Two years and one economic crisis later, Ithaka S+R, with the generous support of the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, decided to revisit the original twelve case studies to see how their models had held up, where weaknesses might be starting to show, and what new strategies project leaders were adopting in response. (US)
• Education at a Glance 2011.  OECD Indicators.  OECD Publishing. ISBN: 9789264114203 OECD Code: 962011041P1  (FR)

21 September, 2011

• SPEC Kit 324 Collecting Global Resources, [by] Wookjin Cheun, et al • September 2011 • ISBN 1-59407-868-2, September 2011.  Association of Research Libraries (US)

20 September, 2011

• NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) has issued a Request For Proposal from the Australian research sector for the creation and development of research infrastructure.  Proposals must be submitted before 4pm AEST on November 2, 2011 (AU)

19 September, 2011

• The Big Deal: Not Price But Cost, by Richard Poynder.  Information Today, September 2011 (UK)
• Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code.  October 2011. The Australlian ILRS Code,October 2011, replaces the code adopted by the library sector in 2006. (AU)
• Consultation Paper on Options for the Inclusion of ERA in SRE Funding Allocation Model - August 2011  Paper prepared by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research in consultation with the Australian Research Council. Written submissions are due to the department by 28 September 2011.  (AU)
• Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.  The Review provides the opportunity to consider new strategies to look at higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and redress the current inequality, based upon the best available evidence.   The Review will report its findings to the Australian Government within 12 months.
  • Have your say on Indigenous higher education.  19 September 2011.  Joint Media Release.  Minister for Tertiary Education Senator Chris Evans and Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr.  Submissions close on Friday 18 November 2011.
  • Context Paper: ( PDF 4.2MB | DOC 649KB)
  • Consultation paper on Indigenous Australian Higher Education: Trends, Initiatives and Policy Implications, by Ekaterina Pechenkina and Ian Anderson and ( PDF 1.8MB | RTF 598KB)
• 2011-12 Regional Telecommunications Review.  The Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC) will review telecommunications services in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia with particular regard to initiatives that will enable regional communities to participate in, and realise the opportunities of, the digital economy.  Please provide submissions by email to secretariat@rtirc.gov.au. The closing date for submissions is 1 December 2011.
  • 2011–12 Regional Telecommunications Review issues paper (PDF, 2.06 MB)
  • Public consultations begin for 2011-12 Regional Telecommunications Review.  Press Release. Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.  16 September, 2011

8 September, 2011

• PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory.  Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant # 1059603 (US)

1 September, 2011

• ‘Cloud computing and the law’ toolkit.  JISC Legal.  (UK)

27 August, 2011

• New reference group to advise Government on university performance measurement.  Media release. 26 August, 2011.  Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations (AU)
• Library User Experience, SPEC Kit 322 [by] Robert Fox and Ameet Doshi • July 2011 • ISBN 1-59407-864-5  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)  (US)

25 August, 2011

• "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics, by Alison Babeu. August 2011.  CLIR pub 150.  Council on Library and Information Resources (US)

24 August, 2011

• Single Search:  The Quest for the Holy Grail:  An OCLC Research Report by Leah Prescott, Getty Research Institute and  Ricky Erway, OCLC Research.  17 August, 2011 (US)
• The journal usage factor: exploratory data analysis.  STAGE 2 FINAL REPORT.  27 May 2011 CIBER Research Limited (UK)
• DRAFT How to develop a data management and sharing plan.  Sarah Jones, A Digital Curation Centre 'working level' guide.  (UK)

15 August, 2011

• The University Experience Survey (UES) is part of a suite of performance measurement instruments that will improve transparency in university performance.  The Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) has contracted a consortium, led by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and including the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and the Griffith Institute for Higher Education (GIHE), to develop the UES.  A pilot of the UES will be conducted in August 2011.  (AU)

11 August, 2011

• National Cultural Policy discussion paper.  Responses are due Friday 21 October 2011.  The Office for the Arts (OFTA).  Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. (AU)

10 August, 2011

• Australian Government's OpenAccess and Licensing Framework (AusGOAL).  AusGOAL is funded and developed by the Australian Governments, through the Cross Jurisdictional Chief Information Officers Committee (CJCIOC). AusGOAL builds upon the Queensland Governments Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF).

2 July, 2011

• Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the UK and Ireland.  OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (UK)
  • News release.  OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK to survey special collections and archives in research libraries within the UK and Ireland. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 30 June 2011
• Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the US and Canada.  OCLC Research 2009 (US)

1 July, 2011

• Seeking Evidence of Impact.  EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)  (US)

28 June, 2011

• 2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure.  The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)
  • Exposure draft released 27 June 2011. Responses due July 22.
• Measuring Impact under CERIF (Common European Research Information Framework) (MICE).  JISC infrastructure for education and research programme (UK) 
• The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books.  This is a JISC funded project that runs from June to September 2011.  Ken Chad Consulting Ltd (UK)
  • JISC ITT: The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books.  JISC (UK)

27 June, 2011

• World Reputation Rankings 2011.  The World Reputation Rankings, a subsidiary of the overall World University Rankings, are based on the largest global survey of academic opinion ever undertaken: more than 13,000 experienced academics from 131 countries give their expert insight.  Times Higher Education  (UK)
• Patron Profiles, a new online quarterly that keeps you in step with the ever-changing needs and preferences of [US public] library users.  The Digital Shift, Media Source, Inc. (US)
• Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC). Hosted by The Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (AU)
• Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and Libraries. An OCLC Research Report [By] John MacColl [and] Michael Jubb.  OCLC Research. (US)
• Discussion Paper: Developing a framework for teaching and learning standards in Australian higher education and the role of TEQSA.  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, DEEWR (AU)

26 June, 2011

• Scan and Deliver: Managing User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives: An OCLC Research Report. [By' Jennifer Schaffner, Francine Snyder [and] Shannon Supple.  OCLC Research, 2011 (US)

25 June, 2011

• Cloud services for education and research – projects and partners announced.  HEFCE and JISC are moving forward in delivering cloud-based services for UK education and research.  (UK)
• Academic libraries of the future.  The Academic Libraries of the Future project has developed three scenarios which describe possible futures for teaching and research libraries in the UK. The scenarios were developed by ... Curtis+Cartwright Consulting Ltd supported by SAMI Consulting Ltd. The project was sponsored by the British Library, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Research Information Network (RIN), Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL). (UK)
  • Scenarios for 2050.
• Creative Commons Licence Compatibility Wizards. OER IPR Support. Open Educational Resources. Web2Rights Ltd  (UK)

23 June, 2011

• ICOLC Response to the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) on document delivery.  Issued 22 June 2011.  International Coalition of Library Consortia (US)
• 2011 September 12-13 Helsinki, Finland  IRISC2011 Workshop: Idenitity in Research Infrastructure and Scientific Communication (IRISC).  Hosted by IT Centre for Science Ltd. (CSC), and Genotype to Phenotype Databases: a Holistic Approach (GEN2PHEN)  http://irisc-workshop.org/
• 2011 December 12-13 Arlington,  Virginia  CNI Fall Membership Meeting.  Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)  http://www.cni.org/tfms/tf.meetings.html
• Papers submitted to the ICSTI2011 Conference: ’Upgrading Information to Knowledge’.  Hosted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTC), 2011 June 7-8 2011, Beijing (EU)

21 June, 2011

• Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations: A report for the NEH and IMLS resulting from a grant from the “Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership” given to Portico and Cornell University Library. March 2011 (US)
• UC Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey Report.  Springer e-Book Pilot Project.  June 17, 2011  Author: Felicia Poe University of California Libraries (US)

19 June, 2011

• Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access. The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine (US)

18 June, 2011

• DataCite:  initated via a collaboration between the British Library, BioMed Central and the Digital Curation Centre, that aims to capture the growing number of repositories for research data. (UK)

16 June, 2011

• Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources [by] Nancy L. Maron and Matthew Loy.  Produced and funded by JISC through the Strategic Content Alliance.  JISC Content, June 2011 (UK)

15 June, 2011

• The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009 [by] Mikael Laakso et al.  PLoS ONE 6(6): e20961. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961 (US)
• Online Access and the Scientific Journal Market: An Economist’s Perspective.  Draft Report for the National Academy of Sciences by Mark J McCabe June 2011 (US)

11 June, 2011

• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.  Strategic Plan 2011–2014.  (AU)

9 June, 2011

• STM Association sets out guiding principles for Document Delivery.  International Association of STM Publishers (UK)

2 June, 2011

• Leading Rich Media (Video Communication in Higher Education) is a collaborative project led by the University of New England and funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).  (AU)
• Project RAPTOR.  ....building a software toolkit for reporting e-resource usage statistics in a user-friendly manner suitable for non-technical staff. Cardiff University.  Funded by JISC (UK)

1 June, 2011

• What Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) Does and Doesn’t Mean: An FAQ.  Posted by Rick Anderson May 31, 2011 at 5:30 am The Scholarly Kitchen (US) 

31 May, 2011

• ARL Affirms International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices.  Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
  • Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 275 (June 2011). This issue features the Report of the ARL Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Practices.
• aaDH: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities.  (AU)

30 May, 2011

• Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters Might Not Save Students Money. By Ben Wieder. The Chronicle of Higher Education May 22, 2011 (US)

28 May, 2011

• Campus-based Publishing Resource Center.  SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) (US)
  • May 26, 2011  SPARC introduces Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index.  SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today released a free online Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index with information and documents to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal. 

26 May, 2011

• Principles on open public sector information.  Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.  (AU)

23 May, 2011

• School libraries and teacher librarians in 21st century Australia.  Australia. Parliament.  House Standing Committee on Education and Employment. 23 May 2011 (AU)

21 May, 2011

• Splashes and Ripples:  Synthesizing the Evidence on the Impacts of Digital Resources.  Eric T. Meyer  This report was funded by JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, from February to May 2011. The report is an output of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and Oxford University Consulting. (UK)
• Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR).  This toolkit was originally developed by the Oxford Internet Institute in 2008 as part of a JISC-funded, Usage and impact study.  Oxford Internet Institute.  (UK)
• UMF Shared Services and the Cloud Programme.  The HEFCE-funded University Modernisation Fund (UMF), Shared Services and the Cloud Programme is managed by the JISC.  (UK)

19 May, 2011

• Open Access Repositories Resource Pack (OARRPack).  The University of Glasgow has been commissioned by JISC to create an Open Access Repositories Resource Pack (OARRPack) for the UK’s Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG). This is aimed at encouraging UK universities to adopt Open Access and the open agenda.  (UK)

18 May, 2011

• Evaluation of Learning Spaces Project.  This is a partnership project between Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University and University of Queensland. Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.  (AU)
• A comprehensive learning space evaluation model: Final Report 2011.  Author/s: Nicolette Lee, Stella Tan. Lead Institution: Swinburne University of Technology. Published: 2011.  Australian Learning and Teaching Council (AU)
• Author Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing.  27th April 2011.  TBI Communications on behalf of InTech Open Access Publisher (UK)

17 May, 2011

• Periodicals Price Survey 2011 | Under Pressure, Times Are Changing.  By Stephen Bosch, Kittie Henderson, & Heather Klusendorf.   Library Journal,  Apr 14, 2011 (US)
• Proceedings of the 158th ARL Membership Meeting.  Jointly held with Canadian Association of Research Libraries, May 4–6, 2011, Montréal, Québec.  Association of Research Libraries (US)

13 May, 2011

• IFLA Statement on Open Access.  Endorsed by IFLA Governing Board, 18 April 2011. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (NL)

6 May, 2011

• The value of libraries for research and researchers.  A RIN and RLUK report. Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Research Information Network (RIN).  March 2011 (UK)
• College Librarians Look at Better Ways to Measure the Value of Their Services. By Jennifer Howard. The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 1, 2011  (US)
• Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success [by] James G. Neal.  Paper presented at ACRL 2011, Philadephia, PA (US)

5 May, 2011

• Research Information Management.  JISC InfoKit.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

3 May, 2011

• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2012.  Australian Research Council (AU)

2 May, 2011

• Internet Intermediaries and Copyright: an Australian Agenda for Reform. A Policy Paper prepared by Kimberlee Weatherall for discussion by the Australian Digital Alliance  (AU)
• 21st Century Facilities Opened at UTas.  Media Release.  Wednesday, 6 April 2011 The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed the opening of the upgraded Morris Miller Library at the Hobart Campus by Tasmanian Senator Carol Brown.  (AU)

29 April, 2011

• PEPRS (Piloting an E-Journals Preservation Registry Service) is a registry service providing easily accessible information about the inclusion of electronic journals in preservation services and highlighting those e-journals for which no arrangements exist.  EDINA (UK)

27 April, 2011

• Podcast: Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Resource.  Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.  Blog Created by Gerry Bayne (EDUCAUSE) on April 11, 2011  (US)

20 April, 2011

• News release.  ChewLeng Beh elected Vice President/President-Elect of OCLC Global Council.  DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 15 April 2011 (US)
  • Elected to serve on the APRC Executive Committee (OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council (APRC)), inter alia, Andrew Wells, University Librarian, University of New South Wales, Australia—Two-year term, July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2013.
• Research skills for an innovative future: A research workforce strategy to cover the decade to 2020 and beyond. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  © Commonwealth of Australia 2011.  ISBN 978 0 642 72563 9  DIISR 11/016  (AU)
  • Media Release: Researchers - One of Australia's most important resources. Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  19 April, 2011

18 April, 2011

• 7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons (ID: ELI7071).  Contributions by: Joan K. Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information) and Stacey Greenwell (University of Kentucky)  EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (04/11/2011) (US)
• Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.  It is expected that the Review Panel will call for formal submissions in June 2011 and will report their findings to the Australian Government within 12 months.  Minister for Tertiary Education and the Minister for Innovation.  (AU)
  • Joint Media Release.  14 April, 2011

12 April, 2011

• Selection and Participation in Higher Education:  University selection in support of student success and diversity of participation.  Prepared for the Group of Eight [by] Nigel Palmer, Emmaline Bexley and Richard James, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne (AU)
• Open Access Policies Kit.  Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) (PT)

10 April, 2011

• Why IT Matters to Higher Education: Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives.  EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 46, Number 2, March/April 2011  (US)

8 April, 2011

• Advice for universities on student plagiarism.  Academic Integrity Service (AIS) managed by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with JISC (UK)
• Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications.  This work was jointly commissioned by the RIN, Research Libraries UK, the Wellcome Trust, the Publishing Research Consortium and the Joint Information Systems Committee. The study was undertaken and the report prepared by CEPA
  LLP (Joel Cook, Daniel Hulls and David Jones) and Mark Ware Consulting Ltd (Mark Ware) (UK)
• Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities.  A Research Information Network report. Authors: Monica Bulger, et al.  April 2011  (UK)
• IPR and Licensing module - developed by the Strategic Content Alliance for staff working in public sector bodies to introduce to them the concepts of copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights and how they might deal with the rights and licensing issues associated with the curation and creation of digital content. Strategic Content Alliance, JISC Legal (UK)

5 April, 2011

• Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010: Insights From U.S. Academic Library Directors.  Matthew P. Long [and] Roger C. Schonfeld.  Ithaka 2010 (US)

4 April, 2011

• Libraries Australia Newsletter Issue 11 (3 March 2011) | (PDF, 298 KB) - "a special issue of the Libraries Australia newsletter where we celebrate a significant legacy of the work of Marian Bate, University Librarian at the University of New South Wales from 1995 to 2001 - the Australasian Digital Theses program. February 2011 was an important time for ADT as it transitioned from tailored target to Trove."

3 April, 2011

• The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models [by] John W. Houghton. Information Research: an international electronic journal, vol. 16 no. 1, March, 2011 (SE)

2 April, 2011

• The Academic Library Impact on Student Persistence [by] Mark Emmons [and] Frances C. Wilkinson.  Coll. res. libr. March 2011 72:128-149 (US)
• David Shulenburger. “The Future of the US Research University.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 274 (February 2011): 1–10 (US)
• Survey of Library E-Book Acquisitions.  Duke University Press (US)
• A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement.  Jonathan Band.  Washington DC—The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) (US)

1 April, 2011

• Discovery services sift through expert resources.  Siân Harris talked to three providers of these tools to find out why they are becoming so popular with libraries and their users.  Research Information APR/may 2011 pp.18-20 (UK)
• Funding and Priorities: The Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study on 2011 Library Spending Plans. [Free after login] By Joseph McKendrick, Research Analyst. Produced by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc January 2011 (US)
  • Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints. By Theresa Cramer - Posted Feb 15, 2011.  EContent Online: a Division of Information Today Inc. (US)

31 March, 2011

• Excellence in Research - where is it? by Prof Alan Pettigrew 31 March 2011 Insights - a regular feature of the LH Martin Institute e-Newsletter.  (AU)

30 March, 2011

• 2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure. Discussion Paper has been released for comment.  Responses due 4 May 2011.  The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)

24 March, 2011

• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies Joe Karaganis (Editor) Published: Social Science Research Council, March 2011 (US)
  • The truth about copyright pirates and profits.  By MICHAEL GEIST, The Ottawa Citizen March 22, 2011 (CA)
• Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement. By AMIR EFRATI And JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG. The Wall Street Journal, MARCH 23, 2011 (US)

18 March, 2011

• CAUL 2010 - the year in review.  Council of Australian University Librarians (AU)

17 March, 2011

• Layers of Influence: The Interrelationship of Key Impact Variables. [By] Molly Fujimoto, M.S., Director of Market Research;   Emnet Tesfaye, Director of Account Management ©TDF Consulting, Inc. 2011 (US)
  • TDF Consulting's white paper examines new approach to boost journal success - 10 Mar 2011.  © www.knowledgespeak.com  (IN)
• Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI). The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research is continuing to conduct sector consultations in relation to the $50 million Super Science Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project. National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) (AU)
• Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive [by] Graeme Turner.  © 2008 Graeme Turner and the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AU)

15 March, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal. Las Vegas News, Sports, Business, Entertainment and Classifieds. © Stephens Media LLC 1997 - 2011 (US)
• Righthaven LLC.  Wikipedia®
• Righthaven defendant wins first lawsuit dismissal motion. By Steve Green (contact) Published Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 | 12:54 p.m. Updated Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 | 1:54 p.m. © Las Vegas Sun, 2011 (US)
• Legal attack dog sicked on websites accused of violating R-J copyrights. [Righthaven, Review-Journal, 04 August 2010] © Las Vegas Sun, 2011 (US)

13 March, 2011

• Strategy infoKit  © 2009 Northumbria University, on behalf of JISC Advance (UK)
• Library Connect Newsletter.  9:1, March 2011. Theme: Leaving the buildings behind.  Elsevier (NL)

11 March, 2011

• ERA Consultation – March 2011. In preparation for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2012 round, the ARC invites comment from the sector about any issues related to ERA.  Australian Research Council (ARC) (AU)
• Times Higher Education’s 2010-2011 World University Rankings (UK)

10 March, 2011

• Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries.  February 2011.  Report Prepared for the Association of Research Libraries by October Ivins & Judy Luther, Informed Strategies.  (US)

9 March, 2011

• Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses. A report of the AAUP Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing. March 2011.  Association of American University Presses (US)
• What researchers want: A review of literature describing what researchers want with regard to storage of and access to research data.  Author: Martin Feijen. Commissioned by SURFfoundation (NL)

7 March, 2011

• E-journals: their use, value and impact: final report: A Research Information Network report.  This research was conducted by the CIBER group at UCL: David Nicholas, et al  January 2011 (UK)

6 March, 2011

• The ‘big deal’ approach to acquiring eBooks: a usage-based study by Terry Bucknell. This paper presents the results of an analysis of COUNTER eBook usage reports for SpringerLink eBook collections purchased since July 2008 at the University of Liverpool.  (UK)
• hita-hita -- Institutional OA Advocacy in Japan.  Digital Repository Federation, JAPAN (JP)
• The British Library's Strategy 2011 - 2015. (UK)
  • Growing Knowledge - The British Library launches its strategy for 2011-2015 - Press release

5 March, 2011

• Review of Intellectual Property and Growth.  The Review will develop proposals on how the UK's intellectual property framework can further promote entrepreneurialism, economic growth and social and commercial innovation. It will examine the available evidence as to how far the IP framework currently promotes these objectives, drawing on US and European as well as UK experience ....  Intellectual Property Office (UK)

2 March, 2011

• ARDC Party Infrastructure [researcher IDs].  ANDS (Australian National Data Service) (AU)
• 2011 February 25 Sydney Blue Sky Conference on future directions in Copyright law.  Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Law. http://www.scribd.com/doc/49498246/Blue-Sky-Future-Directions-in-Copyright-Law  [Some presentations now available]
  • Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
  • The Hon Robert McClelland, MP Attorney-General of Australia

26 February, 2011

• The Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) .  OPAL is initiated through international organisations like UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL in order to establish a forum which works to build greater trust in using and promoting open educational resources. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme. (EU)
• Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices.  OPAL Report 2011. The Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) Paris, 22-02-11 (EU)
• UK Access Management Federation operator change from August 1st 2011.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• User Perceptions of the Library.  This guest post is the first in a new six-part series from Jane Burke, Discovery and the User Experience, which focuses on the latest developments in discovery and their potential to impact academic library user communities.  InfoViews: insights about libraries, research and learning. MHDiaz (US)

12 February, 2011

• Unified Resource Discovery Comparison -  information and comparison of Unified Resource Discovery Tools. Andy Ekins (Christ Church University, UK) and Lukas Koster (Library of the University of Amsterdam, NL) (UK)
• Discovery Layer Interfaces.  Library Technology Guides. Maintained by Marshall Breeding. (US)
• SCONUL Higher Education Library Technology Wiki.  Site managed by Ken Chad Consulting Ltd on behalf of SCONUL. (UK)
• JISC ITT: Study of Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research Outputs to Private Sector Business.  The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on Monday 14 March 2011. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

11 February, 2011

• Strategic Framework for Research Infrastructure Investment: Discussion Paper. December 2010.  National Research Infrastructure Council (NRIC), Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  Submissions due 11 February 2011 (AU)
  • CAUL response, prepared by Cathrine Harboe-Ree, 11 February 2011. 
• Did Online Access to Journals Change the Economics Literature? Mark J. McCabe [and] Christopher M. Snyder.  January 23, 2011  Available at SSRN © 2011 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc (US)
  • Online Access and Citations — A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say. Posted by Phil Davis. Feb. 8 2011.  The Scholarly Kitchen - a moderated and independent blog. (US)
  • Questioning the 'Citation Advantage'  Inside Higher Ed  February 10, 2011 (US)
• Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data.  In the 11 February 2011 issue, Science joins with colleagues from Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers to provide a broad look at the issues surrounding the increasingly huge influx of research data. This collection of articles highlights both the challenges posed by the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)  (US)

10 February, 2011

• The Horizon Report: 2011 edition - a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, An EDUCAUSE Program © 2011, The New Media Consortium (US)

9 February, 2011

• HEFCE’s review of JISC.  In September 2010, HEFCE, the Higher Education Funding Council of England, commissioned an independent review of JISC. 
  • HEFCE Review of JISC [pdf].  December, 2010.  Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• JISC Value for Money reports (2009).  In 2009 JISC Collections and JISC Advance provided updates to the original JISC Value for Money report2 published in 2006, to show the value of key areas of JISC’s activities to the education and research community using a variety of measures involving benchmarking, cost comparisons, calculation of time and effort, and other mechanisms. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

8 February, 2011

• Funding for universities and colleges for 2010-11 and 2011-12.  Circular letter to HEFCE-funded institutions.  Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• JISC infoNet Impact Calculator to help higher education institutions improve effectiveness - 07 Feb 2011. The .... Impact Calculator is designed to provide a robust, transparent and consistent means of predicting and measuring the impact of a new process or system on an organisation. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• LIS-OSS: a new email list for open source software in libraries.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

5 February, 2011

• Future of Academic Collections: leveraging shared capacity.  Constance Malpas, Program Officer, OCLC Research. CAVAL Discussion Session 25 October 2010 (AU)

2 February, 2011

• ALTC responds to closure announcement.  Australian Learning and Teaching Council (AU)

1 February, 2011

• ERA 2010 National Report. In 2010, the Australian Research Council conducted the first full evaluation of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. The report provides the outcomes of the ERA 2010 evaluations, which applies to research undertaken between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2008.  Australian Research Council (AU)

29 January, 2011

• Matt Dawes, ‘Setting the Orphans Free’, Australian Law Librarian, Vol 18 No 4 2010, 289  (AU)
• Metadata Stores Solutions.  ANDS Guides – Working level.  Australian National Data Service (AU)
• Creating a Data Management Framework.  ANDS Guides – Awareness level.  Australian National Data Service (AU)
• Developing Sustainability Strategies for arXiv [by] Oya Y. Rieger and Simeon Warner.  ISQ:  Information Standards Quarterly.  Special Issue:  Resource Sharing.  Fall 2010 vol 22 issue 4 ISSN 1041-0031  pp:17-18 (US)
• SCONUL ERM.  JISC is supporting a SCONUL project to understand in depth how ‘above campus’ (consortium or national) electronic resource management might benefit university libraries and what functions in might encompass. This builds on the Shared Services Feasibility Study undertaken by SCONUL for HEFCE in 2009. (UK)
• SCONUL work on Shared Services.  SCONUL Higher Education Library Technology.  (UK)

27 January, 2011

• The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a draft ISO Standard (ISO 27729) whose scope is the identification of Public Identities of parties: that is, the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management, and content distribution chains.  The ISNI International Agency, which will be responsible for ISNI's administration and governance, was officially incorporated by its six founding members CISAC, IFRRO, IPDA, ProQuest, OCLC and the Conference of European National Librarians (Represented by Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the British Library) as a London-based not-for-profit organisation on December 22nd, 2010. © ISNI International Agency.  (UK)
• Risk Management Calculator [for Creators of Open Educational Resources]. OER IPR Support Project. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Higher Education Academy (UK)
• Author Identifier Overview. Martin Fenner, Gobbledygook, PLoS Blogs. This is the pre-print of a manuscript submitted to the Libreas journal. (US)

26 January, 2011

• ARL unveils interactive statistics service for vendors and non-member libraries.  Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community.  The report is based on U.S. data from an online survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC. OCLC analyzed and summarized the results in order to produce this report. (US)

12 January, 2011

• Sharing research data to improve public health: full joint statement by funders of health research.  The statement was launched on 10 January 2011, with a comment piece in 'The Lancet' by Wellcome Trust director Mark Walport and Hewlett Foundation president Paul Brest.  Signatories include the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia).  (UK) 

10 January, 2011

• Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Contributions to Economic Development, Competitiveness, and Innovation [by] Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC.  Research Library Issues, no. 273 (Dec. 2010) Association of Research Libraries (US)

7 January, 2011

• Research Impact Measurement Service (RIMS) [by] Janet Fletcher, UNSW Library. p.3 IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section Newsletter Number 45, December 2010 (NL)

6 January, 2011

• Author Rights Model License Language blog.  Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

5 January, 2011

• Communicating knowledge: how and why researchers publish and disseminate their findings.  This report has been published by the RIN in conjunction with JISC.  © Research Information Network (UK)