Updated 22 February, 2010

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• '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)

•  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)

• "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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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."

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)

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

• '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)

• 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.

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

• 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

• [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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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.

• 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• AusLIST online directory. Australian Education International (AU)

* Australian education and training providers;
* the Australian courses they deliver around the world; and the
* locations outside of Australia where those courses are delivered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Carrick Communiqué April 2008. Carrick Institute (AU)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Statement Concerning the Decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to Discontinue its Relationship with JSTOR (October 30, 2007) International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) (US)
• National Library of Australia.  Annual Report 2006–2007 (AU)

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World.  The report is based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S. The research provides insights into the values and social-networking habits of library users. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (US)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository. Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald

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

• Australian Government. Budget 2007-08.
• Portfolio budget statements.
• Education, Science and Training.
• Minister for Education, Science and Training Media Releases.
• Budget at a glance - Higher Education.
• Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
• National Library of Australia.
• CAUL Report 2005-2006.  Council of Australian University Librarians.  (AU)
• M-learning standards report: Background, discussion and recommendations for usable and accessible m-learning. 8 January 2007

Version 1.0 By Leonard Low.  Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• A guide to working with m-learning standards:  A manual for teachers, trainers and developers. 11 April 2007 Version 1.0 By Margaret O’Connell and John Smith.  Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Mobile Technologies. "Summary of recommended m-learning standards on the E-standards for Training website." Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Association of Research LibrariesInstitute on Scholarly Communication. FAIR (Freely Accessible Institute Resources).  (US)

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

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

• Stewardship of digital research data: a framework of principles and guidelines. Responsibilities of research institutions and funders, data managers, learned societies and publishers. Draft for consultation. Research Information Network (UK)
• HarvestRoad Receives a Gold Award at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact Awards 2007 in Vancouver

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Disaster Planning and Recovery Portal.  Special Libraries Association. (US)
• AlouetteCanada Open Digitization Initiative.  (CA)
• IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section. Newsletter.  Issue 21 (February 2007) (EU)
• Service-Oriented Frameworks: Modelling the infrastructure for the next generation of e-Learning Systems. A Paper prepared on behalf of

DEST (Australia), JISC-CETIS (UK), and Industry Canada.  Principal Contributors: Scott Wilson, Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards, Kerry Blinco, Department of Education, Science and Training (Australia), Daniel Rehak, Carnegie Mellon Learning Systems Architecture Lab. July 2004 (UK)
• JISC ITT: Synthesis and Evaluation of Reference Models. This invitation to tender invites proposals to undertake, on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a summary, review and evaluation of six Reference Model projects funded through the Distributed e-Learning Programme. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon on Monday 19th March 2007. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Research Quality Framework. [Outline, FAQ, further information] NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) (AU)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations.Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe, London / Amsterdam: Consortium of European Libraries and European Commission on Preservation and Access, 2006. ISBN 90-6984-508-3. (EU)

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

• MOIMS-Repository Audit and Certification BOF [discussion list] - This list is for exchange of messages by the group which aims to produce the ISO standard for Audit and Certification of repositories of digital information. This work follows on from the OAIS standard (ISO 14721). (UK)
• Media Release. Review of University Reforms. 19 December 2006.  The Minister for Education, Science and Training (AU)

• Collaborating across the sectors: The relationships between the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) and science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) sectors. Jenni Metcalfe, Michelle Riedlinger, Anne Pisarski and John Gardner. November 2006 Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (AU)

• CAUL Statistics 2005. Final version published 15 December 2006. Council of Australian University Librarians (AU)

• Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Final report.  In December 2005, the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked Andrew Gowers to conduct an independent review into the UK Intellectual Property Framework. The Review was published on 6th December 2006.  (UK)

Discovery Projects:  Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2008.  Australian Research Council (AU)

• Media Release. $500 million boost for Australian science infrastructure. 27 November 2006 The Minister for Education, Science and Training, The Hon Julie Bishop MP announced on 27 November 2006 funding for nine major NCRIS capability areas of investment. (AU)

• Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group (ANZDEG): a group of organisations and individuals who are building, or fostering, on-line encyclopedias. (AU)
• Balsa - an OpenURL Resolver - freely available for use in the JISC Information Environment.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• Do I Have to Negotiate a License for Every E-Resource I Buy? Developing a Best Practice Option  by Karla Hahn. ARL Bimonthly Report 248, October 2006 Association of Research Libraries (US)

• The Australian Picture and Copyright Association (APACA) (AU)

• Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us? The Example of Research Online, the Open Access Institutional Repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia [by] Michael Organ. D-Lib Magazine, November 2006, Volume 12 Number 11 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)

• Benchmarks for the use of Technology in the Learning and Teaching in Universities. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning (ACODE) (AU)

• Research Quality Framework: Assessing the quality and impact of research in Australia:  The Recommended RQF. October 2006

Endorsed by the Development Advisory Group for the RQF.  © Commonwealth of Australia 2006 ISBN 0 642 77640 7 ISBN 0 642 77641 5 (Electronic Version) (AU)
• Australian Government endorses Research Quality Framework.  Media Release, Minister for Education, Science and Training.  14 November 2006 (AU)
• Australian National Licensing Proposal (NLP).  Proposed Governance Framework.  National Library of Australia (AU)
• The CAMEL project - Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning.  Published September 2006 © Northumbria University 2006 ISBN 10: 1-86135-338-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-86135-338-2 - a one-year pilot project led by JISC infoNet in partnership with ALT (Association for Learning Technology) and the Higher Education Academy. (UK)
• Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee.  Provisions of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006. (AU)
• Submissions received from:
• CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) (PDF 35KB)
• Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) (PDF 167KB)
• Australian Libraries' Copyright Committee (PDF 88KB)
• Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)  (PDF 1912KB)
• Report.  Provisions of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006.  13 November 2006 ISBN 0 642 71723 0 © Commonwealth of Australia 2006
• Memo to the Next Google: Don't Set Up Shop in Australia.  Media Release. Australian Digital Alliance (14 November 2006) (AU)

• Public Support for Science and Innovation.  Draft Research Report.  2 November 2006 Productivity Commission (AU)
• To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering.  The final report of the ARL Workshop on digital data stewardship.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Library Related Conferences, compiled by Marian Dworaczek, University of Saskatchewan (CA)
• National Vulnerability Database.  NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - an Agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. (US)
• NVD is a comprehensive cyber security vulnerability database that integrates all publicly available U.S. Government vulnerability resources and provides references to industry resources.

• Quality Frameworks:  Reflections from Australian Universities. Edited by Jeanette Baird. ISBN: 1 877090 47 6 Occasional Publications Series No: 9. Australian Universities Quality Agency October 2006. AU)
• UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline report: An evidence-based analysis of data concerning scholarly journal publishing:  Final report. Prepared on behalf of the Research Information Network, Research Councils UK and the Department of Trade & Industry By Electronic Publishing Services Ltd In association with Professor Charles Oppenheim and LISU at Loughborough University Department of Information Science (LUDIS)
• Space Need Indicator Framework. prepared by Kilner Planning and London Economics. UK HE Space Management Group.  (UK)

• CONSERVATION SURVEY 2006: A survey of human and financial resources inAustralian conservation and preservation. [by] VM Bullock, MM Birtley, CJ Jenkins. Collections Council of Australia Research: Report No.1.  (AU)

• Review of the structure and operation of the .au Internet domain. Department for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Industry and members are invited to make submissions to the .au Internet Domain review by close of business on Tuesday 28 November 2006. (AU)

• The Economic Impact Study of the CRC Programme (October 2006) Prepared for the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training [by] Insight Economics Pty Ltd (AU)

• Sustainability Issues for Australian Research Data: the Report of the Australian e-Research Sustainability Survey Project [by] Dr. Marcus Buchhorn [and] Paul McNamara.  Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, October 2006 (AU)
• Sustaining Repositories: newsletter of the APSR Project. October 2006 ISSN 1834-1098 Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (AU)
• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape, by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley September, 2006. 120 pp. $30 ISBN 1-932326-26-X ISBN 978-1-932326-26-0  CLIR pub 138: Council on Library and Information Resources (US)

• censorship war looms, by stephen blanks, secretary, nswccl NSW Council for Civil Liberties (AU)
• The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia agains the Classification Review Board and the Attorney General (Commonwealth) seeking judicial review of the decisions of the Board to refuse classification of two books.
• Copyright Reform Agenda - CAL's concerns on proposed changes. Copyright Agency Limited (AU)

• OAK Law Report Number 1:  Creating a legal framework for copyright management of open access within the Australian academic and research sector. [Full report pdf 1.32mb] Report for the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST). August 2006 (AU)

• Information Environment Service Registry (IESR).  A machine readable registry of electronic resources.   The IESR is a JISC-funded project. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Successful Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Projects proposals by State/Organisation for funding commencing in 2007.  Australian Research Council (AU)
• Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) toolkit.  This toolkit was designed as part of the EThOS project which aimed to deliver a fully operational prototype UK e-Theses online service, and supporting infrastructure, by September 2006. The EThOS project at Robert Gordon University and the University of Edinburgh (UK)
• AEI Report to Industry 2005-06.  Australian Education International (AEI) (AU)

• The forced removal of two books – Join the Caravan and Defence of the Muslim Lands -  from the University of Melbourne Library.  Statement from: Council of Australian University Librarians; Australian Library and Information Association; Australian Society of Authors; International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.  Media Release 25 September, 2006
• Collaborative Storage Project.  CURL, The British Library, RIN (The Research Information Network).  (UK)
• Procurement in higher education - a time of change. August 2006/33a.  The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)

• Proceedings of the Australian Universities Quality Forum 2006: Quality Outcomes & Diversity.  ISBN: 1 877090 59 X  Occasional Publications Series No: 7.  Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)

• AEI Releases August 2006 International Student Enrolment Data.  Australian Education International (AEI) (AU)

JISC Capital Programme. "The capital programme is additional funding of £81 million over three years to enhance the network infrastructure (SuperJANET 5), to digitise key resources for the academic community, and to support the development of e-learning; e-infrastructure; virtual research environments; users and innovation; and repositories and preservation."  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• Research Communication Costs in Australia:  Emerging Opportunities and Benefits:  A report to the Department of Education, Science and Training [by] John Houghton, Colin Steele & Peter Sheehan.  September 2006  (AU)

• RELU Data Support Service.  Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. ".... to help oversee and implement the Data management policy and Data management plan. The DSS is a co-ordinated service between the UK Data Archive, a service provider for ESDS, based at the University of Essex and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Lancaster." (UK)

• Education at a Glance 2006.  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (EU)
• AVCC Response on Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC) Conference Report. September 2006 Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AU)

• National agreement to share e-learning resources 06/09/2006 A national repository network to share digital learning resources has been endorsed by the heads of the Australian vocational and technical education (VTE) system. Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AU)
• Media Release. AARNet3 has potential to revolutionise education & research 14 September 2006 The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP (AU)

• Higher Education Statistics Collections - Students 2005 (Full Year): Selected Higher Education Statistics publication AVAILABLE NOW.  Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) (AU)
• A Service Framework for Libraries [by] Brian Lavoie, Geneva Henry, Lorcan Dempsey. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2006 Volume 12 Number 7/8 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)

• e-Framework Briefing Paper. The e-Framework is an initiative by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). This guide explains the background, aims and benefitsof the e-Framework and will be of interest to institutional decision makers. Published 5 Sep 2006 (UK)
• Joint Media Release.  Thirteenth Ministerial meeting of the Online Council   08 Sep 2006. Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and the Special Minister of State, the Hon. Gary Nairn MP (AU)
• Participants discussed the draft Broadband Blueprint, progress of Connect Australia initiatives, broadband policy, Australia's ICT capability, e?security, e?government, and digital television spectrum.  They were also updated on collaboration relating to regional communications, Indigenous communications, domain names and the forthcoming Korea/Australia/New Zealand Broadband Summit.
• Media Release. More than $50 million to make universities more efficient and productive. 6 September 2006 The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP (AU)
• DVDs, CDs and Computer Games:  Good News for Consumers, Bad News for Pirates. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock MP News Release - 167/2006 4 September 2006 (AU)
• Mr Ruddock was announcing the release of an exposure draft of the Copyright Amendment (Technological Protection Measures) Bill 2006.

• Thinking Ahead:  SURF Strategic Plan 2007/10:  A vision of the role of ICT in education and research in the future Thinking Ahead.  May 2006.  SURF Foundation (NL)
• Scientific Library Services and Information Systems:  Funding Priorities through 2015:  DFG Position Paper. Deutscheforschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) June 2006 (DE)

• Learning Spaces:  A New EDUCAUSE e-Book.  Diana G Oblinger, Editor.  ©2006 EDUCAUSE ISBN 0-9672853-7-2 (US)
• Access for Members of the Public to Digital Content held in University and College Libraries: A Report on Current Practice and Recommendations for the Future. Report by Members of the Expert Group on Public Access to Digital Content in Academic Libraries. Research Information Network August 2006 (UK) - hosted with permission of RIN (7/9/06)
• Evaluating Digital Libraries: A User- Friendly Guide. Prepared by Thomas C. Reeves, Xornam Apedoe, Young Hee Woo Updated July 2005 National Science Digital Library (US)

• i2010 Digital Libraries Initiative. The European Commission adopted on 24 August 2006 a Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (EN text; PDF file). The Recommendation aims at bringing out the full economic and cultural potential of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage through the Internet. It is part of the Commission’s strategy for the digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage as set out in the Commission Communication ‘i2010: digital libraries’. (EU)
• Mind the Gap: Digital Preservation Needs in the UK. Maggie Jones and Najla Semple outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report. Ariadne, Issue 48 July 2006  (UK)
• Sustaining Repositories: newsletter of the APSR Project. August 2006 Towards an Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) (AU)
• AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative. The AHRC, JISC and EPSRC are now inviting applications for research project grants under the e-Science Research Grants scheme. The call will support a portfolio of research projects up to a maximum of 48 months in duration, and for between £20,000 and £400,000 (fEC). (UK)

• Principles for Acquiring and Licensing Information in Digital Formats. University of California Libraries Collection Development Committee July, 2006 (US)

• Information literacy skills - the link between secondary and tertiary education. An innovative national pilot to develop an information literacy framework with secondary and tertiary partners which, at the end of the project, can be rolled out to other participants. It will aim to produce secondary school leavers with a skill set which further and higher education can recognise and develop or which can be applied to the world of work directly. Glasgow Caledonian University Learning Services (UK)

• Quality Assurance within ATN Libraries: A LATN Benchmarking Project. ATN group of libraries (LATN) (AU)
• A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Academic Support. The Research Project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation January 2005 - December 2005. .... the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Libraries will collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts, to develop a multi-dimensional model for assessing support for scholarship and research in the context of a large research campus. (US)
• Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software. Released August 8, 2006. OOSS (Organization for Open Source Software). Ithaka Harbors, Inc. (US)
• Sakai Foundation engages Software Freedom Law Center to advise on elearning paternts threat. August 17, 2006 (US)

• Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models – King, Harley, et. al., Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley, July 2006 (US)
• The Power of Personal Persuasion:  Advancing the Academic Library Agenda from the Front Lines. Advocacy toolkit from ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2006. (US)
• E-News for ARL Directors, June-July Issue.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• JISC ITT: JISC Collections: Market Analysis and Marketing Strategy. Deadline for Proposals: 11 Sep 2006, 12:00 PM This Invitation to Tender invites bidders to submit proposals to analyse the potential market opportunities (including market segments) open to JISC Collections for its services and to aid the JISC Collections Chief Executive in preparing a marketing strategy for the company. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

• Report of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project. Published jointly by the East of England Regional Archive Council (EERAC) and MLA East of England. June, 2006 (UK)
• Report of the East of England digital preservation project is published. 1 August 2006
• Higher Education Access to e-Resources in Visited Institutions (HAERVI).  SCONUL and UCISA in partnership 27/7/06 (UK)

• The Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research Findings, John Houghton and Peter Sheehan, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, July 2006 (AU)

• OECD. Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Open Educational Resources. The project will analyse and map the scale and scope of initiatives regarding “open educational resources” (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding. It will look into different sustainable cost/benefits models and intellectual property right issues linked to OER initiatives. Furthermore we address questions regarding incentives and barriers for universities and faculty staff to deliver their material to OER initiatives and how to improve access and usefulness for users of OER initiatives. (EU)

• AVCC Submission to the Productivity Commission Research Study on Public Support for Science and Innovation (August 2006) Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AU)
• AVCC makes strong case for increased support in science and innovation. Media Releases 2006 4 August 2006
• Final Report: A Workshop on Effective Approaches to Campus Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure. April 25-27, 2006 Arlington, VA Sponsored by the National Science Foundation - Grant No. OCI-0627970, Pennsylvania State University, and Internet2. Authors: Ken Klingenstein, Internet2; Kevin Morooney, Penn State University; Steve Olshansky, Internet2  (US)
• Augmenting interoperability across scholary repositories.  A meeting sponsored and supported by Microsoft, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, and the Joint Information Systems Committee. April 20 – 21, 2006, New York, NY [report] prepared by Jeroen Bekaert & Herbert Van de Sompel. (US)
• Overview of Inaugural Portico Participants' Meeting ALA Annual Conference, June 24, 2006, New Orleans. (US)

• Final Draft Report. Our Cultural Commonwealth:  The report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences. July 18, 2006 (US)
• Access to e-resources in UK higher education libraries. 27 July, 2006 SCONUL Project to commence October, 2006. Society of College, National and University Libraries (UK)

• Private training providers in Australia: Their characteristics and training activities.  Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Carmel McCarthy. ISBN: 1 921169 23 0 print; 1 921169 29 X web A National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program Report. 27 July 2006 (AU)
• Internet Industry Association. 2010 National Broadband Targets: Maintaining Australia’s Competitiveness. 31 July 2006 (AU)

• AEI Releases June 2006 International Student Enrolment Data. 1 August 2006.  Australian Education International (AU)
• Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science. Nisa Bakkalbasi , Kathleen Bauer , Janis Glover  and Lei Wang. Biomedical Digital Libraries 2006, 3:7. doi:10.1186/1742-5581-3-7 BioMed Central (UK)
• Program: electronic library and information systems. Volume 40 Issue 3 2006 Special Issue on Institutional Repositories. Emerald Group Publishing Limited (UK)

• EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service).  The aim of the EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) project is to deliver a fully operational, easily scaleable and financially viable prototype UK online electronic theses service, and supporting infrastructure. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) (UK)
• Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs) (TSW0603) by Chris Barlas. TechWatch: Reports 2005/6 July 2006. Universities and colleges within the F&HE sector are both rights holders and rights users and often need to both grant and use their rights in ways that are not catered for by the 'blanket' approach of most commercial DRM systems e.g. fair dealing for non-commercial research, library privilege and exceptions for examinations.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

• Research Capability to be Boosted by Improved Collaboration. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, announced six new initiatives that will support greater collaboration between researchers, both domestically and internationally. 31 July 2006 (AU)
• Australian Research Enabling Environment (ARCHER) [will build on the Dataset Acquisition Accessibility & Annotation e-Research Technologies (DART) project]
• Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities (RAMP)
• Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) – Stage 2
• Legal Frameworks for e-Research [will extend Legal Protocols for Copyright Management for Open Access project]
• Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) – Stage 2
• Integrated Content Environment for Research and Scholarship (ICE-RS) [will build on the RUBRIC: Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively project]
• Draft JISC Strategy 2007-2009. 26 July 2006. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• Institutions as Ideas: Change at the University of Melbourne.  Redmond Barry Lecture 2006.  Professor Glyn Davis AC, the University of Melbourne's Vice-Chancellor, delivered the 2006 Redmond Barry Lecture on Monday 17 July.
• Lost in a Sea of Science Data By SCOTT CARLSON.  Librarians are called in to archive huge amounts of information, but cultural and financial barriers stand in the way. The Chronicle of Higher Education  From the issue dated June 23, 2006 (US)

• DRAFT Principles of Good Practice for Higher Education Institutions Providing Voluntary Distance Education Programs to Members of the U.S. Armed Forces & their Families.  Department of Defense (DOD) (US)

• Information Skills Survey.  Technical manual.  First Edition July 2005 [by] Ralph Catts PhD.  Published by Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) ISBN 1-876008-04-0  (AU)
• Information Skills Survey for Assessment of Information Literacy in Higher Education ADMINISTRATION MANUAL Revised Edition 2005 Ralph Catts.  Published by Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) (AU)
• The Future of Librarians in the Workforce.  This is a two-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade; assess the number and types of library and information science jobs that will become available in the U.S. either through retirement or new job creation; determine the skills that will be required to fill such vacancies; and recommend effective approaches to recruiting and retaining workers to fill them.  (US)
• JISC ITT: JISC Information Environment Portal activity - supporting the needs of e-Research. The JISC wishes to commission a study to investigate and make recommendations on how JISC Portal activity could be enhanced to support the needs of e-Research. The focus for this area of work is resource discovery.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

• Speech [about diversity in higher education] from the Hon Julie Bishop, MP, Minister for Education, Science and Training. Curtin Institute Public Policy Forum  24 July 2006 (AU)
• Speech [about Science and Innovation - Big Science. Big Picture] from the Hon Julie Bishop, MP, Minister for Education, Science and Training. Address to the Sydney Institute. 19 JULY 2006 (AU)
• Science, Engineering and Technology Skills Audit.  The audit will focus on the current and future supply of and demand for graduates from the higher education and vocational, education and training (VET) sectors and determine the extent to which Australia’s industry research needs are being met. Written submissions to the audit will close on 31 May 2005.  Department of Education, Science and Training
• Summary Report [Released 19 July 2006] ISBN: 0 642 77625 3, 0 642 77627 X (online) © Commonwealth of Australia 2006
• Supporting Documents.
• A Message from the Minister.

• Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain - invites tender proposals to undertake a study to identify the new relationships and information exchange requrements between publishers, resolver software and knowledge base suppliers, subscription agents and librarians to maximise the benefit of OpenURL linking. United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) The deadline for the proposal is 7th August 2006. (UK)

• Australia’s Universities: Building our future in the World – A White Paper on Higher Education, Research and Innovation, by the Shadow Minister for Education Jenny Macklin. July, 2006 Australian Labor Party. (AU)
• World Class Universities For A World Class Economy - Kim Beazley and Jenny Macklin. Media Statement - 21st July 2006 Australian Labor Party. (AU)
• Higher education on the agenda (26/06) (21 July 2006) Media Release. Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AU)
• Unis to benefit from ALP Higher Ed reforms - room for improvement.  Media Release 21 July 2006 Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (AU)

• E-standards for Training Reference Site.  This site is maintained by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework to support the developing national infrastructure for managing electronic learning resources in the training system. (AU)

• Improving Indigenous Outcomes and Enhancing Indigenous Culture and Knowledge in Australian Higher Education, by Professor Richard James and Ms Marcia Devlin, March 2006.  Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC) Report to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. ISBN - 0 642 77628 8, 0 642 77629 6 (online) (AU)
• Media Release SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION 18 July 2006 The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon. Julie Bishop MP (AU)
• AVCC welcomes focus on Indigenous higher education. AVCC Media Release  25/06  Tuesday 18 July 2006  Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.  (AU)
• Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age: Issues Paper. May 2005. Attorney-General's Department (AU)
• Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age.  SUBMISSION OF THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ALLIANCE. July 2005 (AU)

• Copyright law caught in its own time warp [by] Graeme Philipson July 18, 2006.  Copyright © 2006. The Age Company Ltd (AU)

• Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program (RLLF).  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Functional Checklist for Digital Repositories in the Research Quality Framework (RQF) [by] Adrian Burton. 6 July, 2006.  Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. (AU)
• Readiness for the Research Quality Framework - A Report from the APSR eScholarshipUQ Testbed at The University Queensland.  [presentation by] Belinda Weaver. 11 July, 2006.  Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. (AU)
• MAJOR COPYRIGHT REFORMS STRIKE BALANCE Media Release 088/2006 Attorney-General Philip Ruddock  14 May 2006 (AU)

• Beazley's Innovation Blueprint - Turning Aussie Brilliance Into Dollars. Kim Beazley - Leader of the Opposition. Kim Beazley. Media Statement - 10th July 2006.  Australian Labor Party (AU)
• WHAT IS QUALITY? Perceptions of Quality from Around the Globe. Speech from the Hon Gary Hardgrave, MP.  Address at the International Education Forum Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Centre 5 April 2006 Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. (AU)
• The Google Print Library Project: a copyright analysis, by attorney Jonathan Band. October ARL Bimonthly Report, pp.6-9.  Association of Research Libraries (US)

• Creative destruction in the library.  Jun 29th 2006 From The Economist print edition. Free access to research is proving more expensive than hoped. But it is spreading, nevertheless. Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2006. (UK)

• Sherpa / Juliet.  Research funders' open access policies. .... a summary of policies given by various research funders as part of their research grant awards. University of Nottingham (UK)

• Backing Australia's Ability: The Australian Government's Innovation Report 2005-06. Released 18 May 2006 by The Minister for Education, Science and Training (AU)
• A National Grid Infrastructure for Australian Researchers. John O’Callaghan. CTWatch Quarterly Volume 2 Number 1 February 2006 (US)

• Australian Universities Quality Agency. Audit Manual. Version 3.0 June 2006 ISBN 1 877090 53 0 (AU)
• The Australian software industry and vertical applications markets: Globally competitive, domestically undervalued.  Centre for Innovative Industry Economic Research Consortium. (AU)
• Workshop on Access to Public Sector Information and Content On 31 May 2006, the OECD held a workshop on increasing the access to public sector information (PSI, e.g., geographical and meteorological data, libraries, archives, museums). (EU)
• The Global Information Commons for Science Initiative  CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU). At the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) meeting in Geneva, December 2003, 175 countries adopted a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action (EU)

• Serials Review Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 55-150 (June 2006) Special Focus: Archiving Journals: Projects and Challenges, Management and Solutions. Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. (NL)
• Remote Access:  Distant Libraries of the World.  Documentary produced by Paul Francescutti.  (CA)
• External Review of AUQA - Report released.  Australian Universities Quality Agency.  9 June 2006 (AU)
• Institutional Strategies and Policies for Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Joan Lippincott. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Bulletin vol. 2006, issue 13.  (US)
• Career opportunities in libraries.  WESS Committee on Recruitment to the Profession. Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).  (US)
• The E-Resources Management Handbook.  UK Serials Group (UK)
• New UKSG Working Group Established to Improve Procedures for Journals Transferring Between Publishers.  Media Release Oxford, UK - April 18th 2006 The purpose of this Working Group, provisionally called TRANSFER ... is to create a Code of Practice for the transfer of journal titles between publishers. UK Serials Group (UK)

• Inquiry into pathways to technological innovation:  Report. Monday 19 June 2006.  The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation.  (AU)

• Knowledge Transfer and Australian Universities and Publicly Funded Research Agencies.  A report to the Department of Education, Science and Training. PhillipsKPA March 2006 (AU)

• IreL: the Irish Research eLibrary brings research knowledge to the desktop.  Science Foundation Ireland press release 6/6/06.  (IE)
• HEA and SFI invest €20 million in Universities Research Facilities. Science Foundation Ireland press release 16/8/04.  (IE)
• IRel:  the Irish Research e-Library (consortium).  John FitzGerald, UCC.  Presentation, November, 2005.  (IE)

• MAPS.  Middleware Action Plan and Strategy is a project to develop a strategic roadmap for middleware activities that will support research and higher education in Australia.  The MAPS project is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). (AU)

• UK Higher Education's Space Management Group. (set up to assist higher education institutions to identify and implement best practice in the management of space.) (UK)
• Impact on Space of Future Changes in Higher Education.  2006/10 March, 2006

Promoting Space Efficiency in Building Design.  2006/9 March, 2006

• Advertisement.  The University of Melbourne.  Director, Legal Information Resources,  Faculty of Law and Information Services. For position description and application details visit www.unimelb.edu.au/jobs  Application by 17 May 2006 quoting position no. Y0008125
• OpenSearch.  OpenSearch is a set of simple formats for the sharing of search results. Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch™ format. Other tools can then read those search results. A9.com, Inc. (US)
• Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005. The Sloan Consortium (US)
• Science body [Council for Technology and Science] urges data sharing. BBC NEWS 20 November 2005. (UK)
• Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL).  An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations that recognizes the growing importance of digital information, and wishes to collaborate to ensure better use of digital information and better service to its users. (CA)
• ALPSP Survey of Librarians on Factors in Journal Cancellation, by Mark Ware of Mark Ware Consulting Ltd,  ALPSP, 30 March 2006. ISBN 978-0-907341-31-4. (UK)
• JISC ITT: Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery. ...a study to outline the issues surrounding metadata creation and to look at other possible strategies, tools and mechanisms for automatic metadata generation and exposure.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)

• AVCC Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of Sedition Laws. Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.  April, 2006 (AU)
• Writings on e-Book Publishing IAL (Information Automation Limited) Resource Centre (UK)
• Sustaining Repositories:  newsletter of the APSR Project.  Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. Australian National Univerity (ANU)
• Survey of Data Collections: a research project underaken for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories by Kevin Bradley of the National Library of Australia and Margaret Henty of the Australian National University. This survey was undertaken in mid-2005 and covers data sets held at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. The survey examines issues associated with the collection and retention of data from a wide range of disciplines. Australian National University (AU)
• New Frameworks for Resource Discovery and Delivery. A paper written by Judith Pearce (with Janifer Gatenby) and presented in an earlier form at the Standards New Zealand / Standards Australia IT-19 Seminar, Technical Standards for Libraries and Education: Solutions and Emerging Frameworks, held at the National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, Wednesday 26 October 2005. Natiional Library of Australia (AU)

• Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill. By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com. Published: April 23, 2006, 6:00 AM PDT. For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers. (US)
• Okerson, A.S. & O'Donnell, J.J. (1995) (Eds.) Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing.  Association of Research Libraries. (US)
• Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press (US)
• Synergy 07: Saltire Centre Special.  Glasgow Caledonian University’s Learning Services magazine.  It includes articles by the architect and designer of the Saltire Centre.  (UK)
• Australian Institutions Admit More To Be Done To Maximise E-learning.  WebCT survey reveals that combination of open source and open system platforms are most effective to meet educational demands today. WebCT 17 November 2005 (US)
• Information literacy: Challenges of Implementation. Special issue of e-journal  ITALICS (Innovation in teaching and learning computer science) ISSN:1473-7507 Copyright © The Higher Education Academy 2004. (UK)
• ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2005:  Convenience, Connection, Control and Learning.      Robert B. Kvavik, Judith B Caruso, Volume 6 2005, Research Study from EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. (US)
• Libraries and E-Learning - Final Report of the CARL E-Learning Working Group. November, 2005.  Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CA)

• Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, et al  April 5, 2006; Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley (US)

• Innovative Practice with e-Learning - a good practice guide to embedding mobile and wireless technologies into everyday practice which is aimed at practitioners and managers in further and higher education and adult and community learning. This publication builds on the case study approach adopted in ‘Effective Practice with e-Learning’ to explore ways in which mobile and wireless technologies have become established in post-16 and higher education institutions. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Digital Preservation: A Campus-Wide Perspective. Author:  Richard Fyffe, Deborah Ludwig, and Beth Forrest Warner (ID: ERB0518) EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) 2005 (US)
• Identity Management in Higher Education: A Baseline Study - Corporate Edition  Author:  Ronald Yanosky, with Gail Salaway  (ID: ERS0602C) EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) 2006 (US)
• Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future: A Vision and Research Agenda.  Copyright 2005 by the Computing Research Association. (US)
• Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness. The Committee for Economic Development,  Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development  ISBN: 0-87186-182-8 April 2006 (US)
• UNESCO, OECD guidelines for quality provision in cross-border higher education.  05/12/2005 - With more and more people taking university degrees from foreign providers, there is a growing need for safeguards against low-quality services. New Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education jointly developed by UNESCO and OECD aim to meet this need. (EU)

• Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA. April, 2006 This document is version 4. Previous versions are still available: version 3, version 2, version 1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (US)

• JISC Capital Programme: Digitisation - Request for Proposals. Deadline for Proposals: 26 May 2006  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Digitised Content in the UK Research Library and Archives Sector: A report to the Consortium of Research Libraries and the Joint Information Systems Committee [by] Barbara Bültmann, Rachel Hardy, Adrienne Muir & Clara Wictor April 2005.  JISC (UK)
• Digitisation in the UK: The case for a UK framework: A report based on the Loughborough University study on Digitised Content in the UK Research Libraries and Archives Sector commissioned by JISC and the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) (UK)

• Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publications in Europe.  Final Report - January 2006.  Commissioned by DG-Research, European Commission, Undertaken by Mathias Dewatripont et al  ISBN 92-79-01029-8 © European Communities, 2006 (EU)
• Call for Comments Regarding the Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Draft Document.  ACRL Instruction Section - a division of the American Library Association (US)
• The Condition of Education. This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000–2005. Some indicators may have been updated since they appeared in print. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (US)
• Future of International Education. Media Release  4 April 2006 Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP (AU)

• ALPSP survey of librarians on factors in journal cancellation.  Mark Ware, ALPSP, March 30, 2006.  A 64 pp. report on the effect of OA archiving on library decisions to cancel journal subscriptions. The report (in print and PDF) costs £45/$80/€100 for ALPSP members and £90/$160/€200 for non-members.  The ALPSP's free summary of the report.  "The ALPSP finds that journal prices are far more threatening than OA archiving" Peter Suber. (UK)

• The final version of Release 1 of the new COUNTER Code of Practice for online books and reference works has now been published. COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) (UK)
• The Role of Fair Use in Libraries and Education.  ARL Bimonthly Report 244, February 2006. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Research Quality Framework: Assessing the quality and impact of research in Australia – Final Advice on the Preferred RQF Model.  Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Minister's Media Release. (28 March 2006)
• JISC ITT: A Study Evaluating Bibliographic and Citation Databases in use by the UK Higher Education Community.  The JISC invites proposals to undertake a number of evaluations of bibliographic, abstract and indexing and full text databases to assist and inform the licensing decision-making process of the higher education community. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1.00 pm on 4 May 2006.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Postsecondary Students, Perceptual Disabilities and Copyright Reform: A Discussion Paper. Prepared by Davina M. DesRoches.  March 2006.  Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CA)
• Annual Report 2003 - 04. Australian Government. Department of Education, Science and Training ISBN 1877032972 (AU)
• Higher Education Report 2004-05 - the first of a series of annual reports which replace the Higher Education Triennium Report series produced by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) since 1988. Australian Government. Department of Education, Science and Training  (AU)

Budget 2005-06.  Australian Government. Department of Education, Science and Training  (AU)

• Research exercise to be scrapped [by] Donald MacLeod, Guardian Wednesday March 22, 2006 (UK)
• Backing Australia's Future Newsletter 21, 14 March 2006 Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Designing Spaces for Effective Learning:  A guide to 21st century learning space design. JISC e-Learning and Innovation team. © Copyright, 2006. HEFCE (UK)
• Rethinking Resouce Sharing.  Blog is intended to encourage an on-going discussion on the future of resource sharing. Colorado State Library (US)
• Surveying the E-Journal Preservation Landscape [by] Anne R. Kenney. (US)
• Creative Commons license upheld by court By Ingrid Marson  Special to CNET News.com Published: March 21, 2006, 3:22 PM PST (US)

• Robbery under arms: Copyright law and the Australia–United States Free Trade Ageeement by Matthew Rimmer. First Monday, volume 11, number 3 (March 2006),  (US)
• Towards 2020 Science, sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences. It seeks to identify the requirements necessary to accelerate scientific advances –particularly those driven by computational sciences and the 'new kinds' of science the synthesis of computing and the sciences is creating. © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. (US)

• JISC ITT: Evaluation of Options for a UK Electronic Thesis Service.  Deadline for Proposals: 18 Apr 2006. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Portico.  The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. Initial support for Portico is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, The Library of Congress, and JSTOR. (US)
• SPARC Futures : an evolving agenda. Joseph, Heather (2006) Delivered at UBC Library / SLAIS Colloquium, University of British Columbia Library (Canada). Presentation. (CA)

• Unlocking the potential:  Digital Content Industry Action Agenda. Strategic Industry Leaders Group report to the Australian Government. [Digital Content Industry Action Agenda Report] November 2005  Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.  (AU)

• Imagine Australia: the role of creativity in the innovation economy.   A paper prepared by an independent Working Group for the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC). 2 December 2005. (AU)

• The ADA Monthly Intellectual Property Wrap-Up. January/February 2006  Australian Digital Alliance. (AU)
• Online Music Services and Academic Libraries. by Amanda Maple. ARL Bimonthly Report 244 February 2006. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt November 6-9, 2005. Report of a Meeting Sponsored by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Reported and Edited by Sarah Devotion Garner. IFLA, March 2006  (EU)

• JISC ITT: A Project to Investigate the Procurement of Electronic Content Across the UK NHS and HE Sectors. Deadline for Proposals: 5 Apr 2006.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Access Copyright and Creative Commons Canada Announce Public Domain Registry.  March 3, 2006. Toronto, ON – Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and Creative Commons Canada, in partnership with Creative Commons Corporation in the US, today announced the development of a Canadian public domain registry. (CA)

• SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #95 March 2, 2006 (ISSN 1546-7821), written by Peter Suber and published by SPARC (US)

• Review of technological protection measures exceptions.  House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. February 2006 (AU)
• Economic Consequences of DVD Regional Restrictions, by Emily Dunt, Joshua S. Gans, Stephen P. King.  University of Melbourne 19th September, 2001 (AU)

• JISC Digital Repositories Programme (DRP) Wiki (DigiRep). Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Study of Environments to Support e-Learning in UK Further and Higher Education:  A Supporting Study for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Prepared by Education for Change Ltd The Research Partnership Social Informatics Research Unit, University of Brighton July 2005.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• TOCRoSS: Table of Contents by Really Simple Syndication.  TOCRoSS will use the RSS 2.0 standard to place journal tables of content (TOC) data into a library catalogue without human intervention.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Mind the gap: Assessing digital preservation needs in the UK. Prepared for Digital Preservation Coalition by Martin Waller, Robert Sharpe Digital Preservation Coalition, 2006.
• Report reveals major gaps in preservation of valuable digital assets. 16 Feb 2006  JISC Notice (UK)
• The Hon Julie Bishop MP.  Address to members of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) for “Science meets Parliament” National Press Club, Canberra 28 February 2006 (AU)
• Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively (RUBRIC). The RUBRIC project is sponsored by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA). (AU)
• Dataset Acquisition Accessibility & Annotation E-Research Technologies (DART). The DART project has been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training through to the end of 2006. The funding has been provided through the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA). (AU)

• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.  Strategic Roadmap.  February 2006.  Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• National Library of Australia.  Directions 2006-2008.  (AU)
• Libraries Australia - lets you discover what's in Australian libraries. You can find it, borrow it, copy it or buy it. National Library of Australia (AU)
• The State of the Large Publisher Bundle:  Findings from an ARL Member Survey by Karla Hahn. ARL Bimonthly Report 245, April 2006. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Managing Digital Assets in Higher Education:  An Overview of Strategic Issues, by Donald J. Waters ARL Bimonthly Report 244 February 2006 Association of Research Libraries (US)
• ARL Preservation Statistics.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• JISC announces the development of a new access-management system for the UK. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)

• JISC ITT: A Feasibility Study on the Acquisition of e-Books by Higher Education Libraries in the role of the JISC. Deadline for Proposals: 31 Mar 2006.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section. Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions.  March 2004. © International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (EU)
• Open Source Software Briefing Paper.  17 Jan 2006 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• A strategy and vision for the future for electronic textbooks in UK Further and Higher Education: a study prepared for the Joint Information Systems Committee e-Books Working Group by Education for Change Ltd  August 2003.
• An e-book mapping exercise: Joint Information Systems Committee e-Books Working Group. (UK)
• Promoting the uptake of e-books in Higher and Further Education: Joint Information Systems Committee e-Books Working Group. (UK)
• An investigation into free e-books: Joint Information Systems Committee e-Books Working Group. (UK)

• JISC ITT: Information Governance Gateway. Deadline for Proposals: 6 Apr 2006, 1:00 PM  The JISC invites tenders to design, implement, host and maintain an online gateway containing resources of relevance to both the public and practitioners regarding the HE sector’s compliance with information governance legislation. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Education Finance and Policy (EFP)  "In cooperation with the American Education Finance Association (AEFA), The MIT Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new quarterly journal. EFP will be devoted to examining the policy implications, scholarly basis, and operational practices on which the financing of education institutions and systems is based." (US)
• Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). National Information Standards Organisation. (US)
• NISO Initiative to Standardize Online Usage Statistics Harvesting. November 15, 2005

• Repositories have 'key role to play in managing an institution's assets'. 16 Feb 2006.  Neil Jacobs, programme manager of JISC’s £3.5m digital repositories programme, in a feature article published today in the e-zine Free Pint.  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• "Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges" By Neil Jacobs.  © Free Pint Limited 1997-2006
• The bottom line on open access by John Lorinc. March 2006 University Affairs:  Canada's magazine on higher education.  (CA)

• SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Public Draft  "SCORM is a collection of standards and specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content - available for comment starting February 16, 2006 and ending May 1, 2006." Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) (US)
• .edu.au Internet Domain - Review of Major Policies 2006. Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC). The closing date for submissions is 28 February 2006. (AU)
• OECD. Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Open Educational Resources.  The project will analyse and map the scale and scope of initiatives regarding “open educational resources” (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding. It will look into different sustainable cost/benefits models and intellectual property right issues linked to OER initiatives. (EU)

• Draft revised Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code, November 2005.  Austalian Library and Information Association (AU)

• Australian Web Accessibility Policies and Guidelines.  Vision Australia.  (AU)
• "What Is Open Access?" By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. A preprint is now available.  It will appear in: Jacobs, Neil, ed. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006.
• Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google.  Tuesday, February 14, 2006 posted by Cory Doctorow. BoingBoing (US)

• JISC ITT: Strategic Review of JISC Resource Discovery Services. Deadline for Proposals: 9 Mar 2006, 1:00 PM Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)

• Ariadne. Issue 46, February 2006.  ISSN 1361-3200 UKOLN (UK)
• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries. John MacColl
• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects. Clifford Lynch
• Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) (EU)
• CENL / FEP Statement on the Development and Establishment of Voluntary Deposit Schemes for Electronic Publications.

• NSF’S CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE VISION FOR 21ST CENTURY DISCOVERY. NSF Cyberinfrastructure Council.  National Science Foundation. January 20, 2006 Version 5.0 (US)
• Report on Orphan Works:  A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office (US)

• IRRA - Institutional Repositories for Research Assessment.  A JISC Project. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Institutional Repository Add-on Software for RAE Use Now Available - software to allow EPrints and DSpace institutional repositories to be used for RAE 2008.  Register at http://wiki.eprints.org/w/IRRA/TheRegister. IRRA Project (UK)
• AARNews, Issue 2, January 2006.  AARNet.  (AU)

• Scoping Study on Repository Version Identification Project overview (River: Repositories -  Identification of  VERsions).  The JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group has commissioned a team comprising Rightscom Ltd, the Library of the 'London School of Economics and Political Science and Oxford University Computing Services to investigate methods for identifying individual items in the varied collections of academic content held in institutional repositories. For further information, contact the project manager, Hugh Look at Rightscom: hugh.look@rightscom.com  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• International Information Literacy Resources Directory.  The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO. (EU)

• ARL Library Trends, by Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• JISC Circular 08/05: JISC Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards and Specifications Service. Deadline for Proposals: 27 Jan 2006, 1:00 PM Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Press release: JISC issues call to preserve online journals. 1 Nov 2005 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)
• Circular 01/06: Design for Learning Programme. Deadline for Proposals: 24 Feb 2006, 1:00 PM This circular invites proposals from institutions for up to six projects implementing and evaluating tools and systems that support design for learning in a range of contexts; a project to develop a range of models of practice; a project to develop a prototype online planning tool to guide practitioners in designing effective and pedagogically sound learning activities; and a project to provide pedagogic and technical support to the other projects within this programme. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)

• Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, Future Directions.  December, 2005.  Submissions due 24 February, 2006.  The discussion paper has been developed to provide information to the sector on the 2006 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund and to initiate discussion for the development of the processes for 2007 and beyond. Department of Science, Education and Training (AU)
• JISC ITT: Study on Use of Research Content in e-Learning. Deadline for Proposals: 27 Jan 2006, 1:00 PM This Invitation To Tender invites proposals to undertake a study on the use of research content in e-learning on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). (UK)

• ARL Bimonthly Report 243 (Dec. 2005): Special Issue on the Role of the Library in a Digital Landscape, featuring remarks presented by William G. Bowen at the October 2005 ARL Membership Meeting.  Association of Research Libraries (US)

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #93 January 2, 2006 (ISSN 1546-7821), written by Peter Suber and published by SPARC (US)

• Planning a future workforce: An australian perspective [by] Jenny McCarthy. New Review of Academic Librarianship Volume 11, Number 1 / April 2005 Pages: 41 - 56 DOI: 10.1080/13614530500417669

• ARL Publishes ARL Statistics 2003–04.  Association of Research Libraries (US)

• Measures of Quality and Impact of Publicly Funded Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.  CHASS Occasional Paper 2.  November 2005.  ISBN 0-9757701-2-8  This project was carried out with the financial assistance of the Australian Government, through the Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• The Role of Creativity in the Innovation Economy. A paper prepared by an independent Working Group for the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. 2 December 2005 (AU)

• SPEC Kit 291, Spatial Data Collections and Services, [by] Joseph A. Salem, Jr. • December 2005 • ISBN 1-59407-695-2  Association of Research Libraries (US)

• ALIA Board welcomes new executive director appointment.  13 December 2005 Australian Library and Information Association (AU)
• The Economic Impact of Cooperative Research Centres in Australia: Delivering benefits for Australia: A report for the Cooperative Research Centres Association Inc, By The Allen Consulting Group © The Allen Consulting Group 2005 (AU)

• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources:  A Report to the OCLC Membership. Principal contributors: Cathy De Rosa, et al.  OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (US)
• Report on the Crawl and Harvest of the Whole Australian Web Domain Undertaken during June and July 2005.  Paul Koerbin 10 October 2005.  National Library of Australia (AU)

• Academic Integrity Audit Project.  ACODE (Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning) (AU)
• SPEC Kit 290, Access Services [by] Trevor A. Dawes, Kimberly Burke Sweetman, and Catherine Von Elm • November 2005 • ISBN 1-59407-698-7  Association of Research Libraries (US)

• CDNLAO Newsletter - published every four months to carry information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO). (JP)

• ICOLC Press Release 16 November 2005:  Support for Urgent Action to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals.  International Coalition of Library Consortia (US)

• QULOC Annual Report 2004.  Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation.  (AU)
• Quality of Offshore Education and Training:  A National Quality Strategy for Australian Transnational Education and Training.  Australian Education International.  Department of Education, Science and Training. (AU)
• Grants for Good Practice in Offshore Quality.
• Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS).  Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• National Code of Practice.

• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitisation, by Emily Hudson and Andrew T Kenyon.  CMCL, Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne.  Order Form.  (AU)
• CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Copyright law and digitisation practices in museums, galleries and libraries, by Emily Hudson and  Andrew T Kenyon.  This paper reports on initial results from an empirical study conducted by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) and Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) into the digitisation practices of cultural institutions and how those practices are affected by copyright law. (AU)
• Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.  Inquiry into technological protection measures (TPM) exceptions. (AU)
• Terms of reference
• Background paper
• Submissions - now available
• Where Learners Go: How to strengthen the library role in online learning, By Joan K. Lippincott — October 1, 2005.  LibraryJournal.com (US)

• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.  The NCRIS Committee has released an exposure draft of the Strategic Roadmap for public comment in the form of written submissions.  The final draft of the Roadmap will be provided to the Minister by late 2005 and the finalised Roadmap will be released by end February 2006.  The completed Roadmap will provide the framework for the initial first round of NCRIS funding allocations.  (AU)

• Measures of Quality and Impact in publicly-funded HASS Research.  CHASS project 2.  Final Report (DRAFT) The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) (AU)

• AuseAccess is a wiki devoted to open access repositories in the Australasian region.  Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania (AU)

• A Guide to the JISC Model Licences.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• espida is an exciting project that will offer tangible results to questions that must be addressed in order to take digital preservation on to the next phase – sustainable institutional implementation. The espida project (An Effective Strategic model for the Preservation and disposal of Institutional Assets) is funded by the JISC and based at the University of Glasgow. (UK)
• TechDis aims to be the leading educational advisory service .... in the fields of accessibility and inclusion. TechDis aims to enhance provision for disabled students and staff in higher, further and specialist education and adult and community learning, through the use of technology. TechDis is a JISC-funded service (Joint Information Systems Committee). (UK)
• TechDis Staff Packs.  To assist staff development programmes and to facilitate the changes required by the recent disability legislation. (UK)

• Electronic Resources & Libraries.  Following the recent explosion of electronic resources in libraries, a group of librarians discussed our need for a place to come together to explore the unique challenges that come with managing such collections, learn from each other, and create a closer community. This site has been created out of that need. (US)

• Advertisement. University of Waikato.  University Librarian.  Applications close November 14.  (NZ)
• IFLA Express - a daily newsletter which published during the Conference by the National Organising Committee in collaboration with the IFLA Secretariat.  "Libraries - A voyage of discovery" August 14th - 18th 2005, Oslo, Norway.  © International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (EU)

• e-Learning benchmarking consultants. Invitation to Tender: Consultants to support the initial phases of the Higher Education Academy / JISC higher education e-learning benchmarking exercise.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• 2004 Statistics for CAUL and CONZUL libraries - now available.  Council of Australian University Librarians (AU)
• Trusted digital repositories: attributes and responsibilities: an RLG-OCLC report.  May 2002.  Research Libraries Group (US)
• SPARC Open Data Email Discussion List.  The SPARC Open Data Email Discussion List will provide a forum for participants to explore issues of access to digital data associated with peer-reviewed STM research.  SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)  (US)

• American Distance Education Consortium.  Designed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences, by the land grant community of colleges and universities, through the most appropriate information technologies available. (US)
• Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (2005) Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) - a joint unit of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.  (US)

• Sustaining Repositories: newsletter of the APSR Project. October 2005. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.  (AU)
• The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons: Final Report to the Common Information Environment Members of a study on the applicability of Creative Commons Licences. 10 October 2005. Intrallect Ltd and AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, The University of Edinburgh.  (UK)
• New report looks at suitability of Creative Commons for UK public sector. 14 Oct 2005 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• JISC ITT: Scoping Study on Repository Version Identification. Deadline for Proposals: 18 Nov 2005, 3:00 PM. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals.  Edited by Donald J. Waters.  Council on Library and Information Resources (US)
• Library and Information Research Volume 29, Number 91, Spring 2005. Special issue on the LIRG/SCONUL Impact Initiative. Library and Information Research Group. (UK)