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This month we have added:
16 May, 2008
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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)
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Staff
Discussion Paper: Blueprint for Success: The National Agricultural Library
2008-2012. [PDF 34MB] Principal Authors: Eleanor Frierson, Mary Ann
Leonard.
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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)
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D-Lib
Magazine. Volume 14 Number 5/6 May/June
2008 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)
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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)
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Exploring
Tangible Benefits of e-Learning: Does investment yield interest?, Project
funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee. Published April 2008.
© Northumbria University 2008, ISBN: 978-1-86135-349-8. (UK)
15 May, 2008****
14 May, 2008
13 May, 2008
12 May, 2008
9 May, 2008
8 May, 2008
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JISC
& SCONUL LMS Study Project: evaluation & horizon scan of HE
library management systems & the related systems landscape. Joint Information
Systems Committee (UK)
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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)
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The
State of America's Libraries Report. April, 2008 American Library Association
(US)
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2008 November 12-14 Sofia,
Bulgaria Sofia 2008: Globalization and the Management of Information
Resources.
Hosted by The School of Library & Information Management, Emporia State
University, Emporia, Kansas et al http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2008/index.htm
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2008 May 19-22 Sydney,
NSW 11th Annual Open Forum for Metadata Registries. Metadata DownUnder
- Metadata, Semantics and Interoperability in Practice.
Metadata OpenForum http://www.metadataopenforum.org/
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2008 August 8 Quebec City,
Quebec, Canada IFLA Satellite Conference on RDA: A New Standard
for a Digital World.
Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdaiflasatellite.html
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2008 June 17 Brussels,
Belgium IDF Open Meeting: Resource Access for a Digital World.
International DOI Federation. Hosted by the Office of Publications of the
European Union (OPOCE) http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2008/
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2008 June 4 Phoenix, Arizona
Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use.
NISO Pre-conference at NASIG 2008. National Information Standards Organization
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/metadata08
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2008 September 19 Aarhus,
Denmark First Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries. Sponsored
by the DELOS Association. In conjunction with the 12th European Conference
on Research and Advanced Technologies on Digital Libraries. (ECDL 2008)
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=618&Itemid=
6 May, 2008
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2008 September 29-30 St
Pancras, London iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation
of Digital Objects: Joined Up and Working: tools and methods for digital
preservation. Hosted
by The British Library. http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/
3 May, 2008
2 May, 2008
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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)
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National and State Libraries
Australasia (NSLA). Re-imagining
Library Services Strategic Plan (Exposure Draft, April-May 2008) Comments
requested by May 16 2008 (AU)
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Towards
Information Literacy Indicators. Conceptual framework paper prepared
by Catts, Ralph; Lau, Jesus. Paris, UNESCO Information for All Programme
(IFAP), 2008 (FR)
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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)
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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/ )
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2008 July 7 Cambridge,
UK Emerging publishing models: exploring new ventures for science publishing.
Organised
by the RIOJA (Repository
Interface for Overlaid Journal
Archives) project. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/meeting/
1 May, 2008
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2009 March 11-13 Canberra
13th International Association for Sport Information World Congress: Building
and Sustaining Sport Information Communities - through connectivity, collaboration
and sharing. Hosted
by National Sport Information Centre, a program of the Australian Sports
Commission. https://secure.ausport.gov.au/conferences/iasi
24 April, 2008
23 April, 2008
22 April, 2008
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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)
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2008 May 6 Bolton, UK
CETIS
MDR SIG Meeting. JISC
Centre For Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards. Metadata
and Digital Repositories SIG http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/6th_May_2008%2C_Bolton
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2008 September 23-24 Philadelphia,
PAA Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections,
presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. CCAHA’s
Collections Storage Program http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php
21 April, 2008
19 April, 2008
11 April, 2008
10 April, 2008
8 April, 2008
7 April, 2008
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2008 June 25-26 Melbourne
University Planning and Design Forum 2008. Informa
Australia www.informa.com.au/UniDesign
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2008 September 18-20 Odense,
Denmark Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique
: The second international DREAM conference. University
of Southern Denmark. http://www.dreamconference.dk/
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2008 August 25-29 Tilburg,
The Netherlands Digital Libraries à la Carte. Ticer,
Tilburg University http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/
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2008 June 5-7 Maribor,
Slovenia Get the Good CRIS Going: Ensuring Quality of Service for the
User in the ERA: 9th international Conference on Current Research Information
Systems. Organized
by IZUM, Slovenia and euroCRIS. http://www.cris2008.org/
5 April, 2008
2 April, 2008
31 March, 2008
28 March, 2008
27 March, 2008
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2008 June 8-10 Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Canada Build on Success in the Learning Commons! The
Canadian Learning Commons' 3rd annual conference. Hosted
by the University of New Brunswick. http://www.lib.unb.ca/CLCC3/
21 March, 2008
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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)
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Evaluation
of the JISC Digitisation Programme Phase 1 and International Contextualisation.
April 2007 Evidence Base (UK)
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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)
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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)
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Scholarly
Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version
71: 3/3/2008 (US)
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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)
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2009 June 17-19 Geneva,
Switzerland OAI6 (CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication).Contact:
Neil
Jacobs. See also previous
workshops.
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2008 April 10 London
The Shape of the Future? Business Models and Sustainability in the Digital
Age: A Peer-reviewing Workshop.
Wellcome Trust with Ithaka and the Strategic Content Alliance http://www.wellcomecollectionconference.org/Location/index.htm
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2008 April 14-15 Vienna,
Austria Programme for Planning the Future with Planets: a two-day tutorial
on preservation planning. Planets,
Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services http://www.planets-project.eu/events/pp-vienna-2008/programme/
20 March, 2008
14 March, 2008
13 March, 2008
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Review
of Australian Higher Education. On 13 March 2008, the Deputy Prime
Minister and the Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, announced
a major review of Australia’s higher education system. Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
10 March, 2008
9 March, 2008
7 March, 2008
4 March, 2008
3 March, 2008
27 February, 2008
26 February, 2008
22 February, 2008
13 February, 2008
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OAKList
Database - a web-enabled database containing information about publishing
agreements and publishers' open access policies. This database is accessible
to authors, copyright administrators and repository managers, both in Australia
and overseas. The OAK List has been developed to be interoperable with
the RoMEO/SHERPA database. Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project,
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
11 February, 2008
8 February, 2008
1 February, 2008
31 January, 2008
30 January, 2008
29 January, 2008
28 January, 2008
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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)
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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)
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$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)
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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)
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The
"Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER)
project. (EU)
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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
25 January, 2008
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PAC-LIST.
IFLA Preservation and Conservation core activity mailing list. IFLA (The
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) (EU)
24 January, 2008
22 January, 2008
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Information
behaviour of the researcher of the future: a CIBER briefing paper.
The University College London (UCL) CIBER group. 11 January 2008. This
study was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to identify how
the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or
pre-school years, are likely to access and interact with digital resources
in five to ten years’ time. (UK)
11 January, 2008
10 January, 2008
9 January, 2008
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JISC
ITT Digital Preservation Policy Study. Submission Deadline: 11 February
2008. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
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This invitation to tender invites
bidders to submit proposals for a study that will assist UK higher and
further education institutions to formulate policies relating to the preservation
of their digital assets.
7 January, 2008
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The
Code4Lib Journal. ISSN 1940-5758 (US)
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The Code4Lib Journal exists
to foster community and share information among those interested in the
intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.
4 January, 2008
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Environmental
Scan 2007, by the ACRL Research Committee. January 2008. Association
of College & Research Libraries (US)
3 January, 2008
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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)
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2007 December 5 London
Research Information and Management Workshop. Universities
UK [Presentations now available] http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/
2 January, 2008
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