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4 July, 2009

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

• 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)
• 2009 August 6 Canberra Reimagining copyright for the 21st century. Australian Copyright Council  http://www.copyright.org.au/training/conferences/copyright-conference-6-august-2009/t09n10

• 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)
• 2009 August 17-18 Sydney CAUL Industry Think Tank 2009: Global Economic Crisis: Library Consortia, Publishers and Content Providers Working Together. Council of Australian University Librarians. Invitation Only. http://www.caul.edu.au/meetings/thinktank2009.html

• 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)

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

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

• 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)
• 2009 September 9-11 The Oxford Belfry, UK ALPSP International Conference 2009. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?aID=36999

• 2009 June 23-26 Santiago de Compostela, Spain EUNIS 2009: IT: Key of the European Space for Knowledge. EUNIS (European University Information Systems. Hosted by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) http://www.eunis2009.es/

• 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)
• 2009 September 14-16 Lund, Sweden 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/index.php
• 2009 June 22-24 London ePortfolio 2009 — Learning Forum London. EIfEL(European Institute for E-Learning) http://www.epforum.eu/lfl2009/conference

• 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.
• 2009 December 9-11 Oxford, UK IEEE eScience 2009: Conference Track on Digital Repositories and Data Management. http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee

• 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)
• 2009 May 22 Canberra Peak Bodies Forum, 2009. National Library of Australia [Presentations now available] http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/peakbod/PeakBodiesForum2009.html

• 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."
• 2009 September 17-18 Bathurst AuSakai 09: Sakai as a Scholarly Environment: Pedagogy, Systems, Processes and Outcomes. Charles Sturt University http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/ausakai09/ausakai09.htm

• 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)
• 2009 October 19-21 The Hague, Netherlands 2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on the digitization of library material in Europe. http://www.libereurope.eu/node/391

• National Research Infrastructure Committee (NRIC) Membership is announced. Media Release. Senator The Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation; Industry; Science and Research. (AU)
• 2009 September 30 Logan, Utah Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship. Sponsored by Utah State University, Berkeley Electronic Press, and the Utah Academic Library Consortium. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/irday/

• 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)
• 2009 June 30 - July 1 South Cerney, Gloucestershire JISC Digital Content Conference 2009. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/06/digitalcontent

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

• 2009 May 27 Canberra Metadata Seminar: Sharing Data, Sharing Ideas.  Supported by National Archives of Australia and Australian Bureau of Statistics. http://www.naa.gov.au/whats-on/outreach-and-advocacy/forums/metadata/

• '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)
• 2010 April 28-30 Geneva 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving. The Swiss Federal Archives, International Council on Archives' (ICA) European Regional Branch (EURBICA) and the Section on Professional Associations (SPA). http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/index.html?lang=en
• 2009 July 11 Chicago The 19th biennial SPARC-ACRL Forum: Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace. http://www.arl.org/sparc/forum

• 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)
• 2009 October 14-18 Frankfurt, Germany Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 http://www.book-fair.com/en/fbf/
• 2009 November 4-7 Charleston, South Carolina XXIX Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisition. Charleston Information Group, LLC http://www.katina.info/conference/
• 2009 April 28-30 Cambridge, Massachusetts STM Spring Conference: What keeps Scholarly Publishers up at Night? Political Environments: Threats & Opportunities, Copyright Challenges & Web 3.0. STM http://www.stmassoc.org/event.php?event_id=13

• 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)

• 2009 November 23-24 Wellington, NZ 2009 National Digital Forum: Being online now: Culture, creativity and community. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm

• 2009 June 28-30 Copenhagen Higher Education at a Time of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities, organized by OECD's Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE). https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/oecd/oecd/index.php
• 2009 August 17-20 Florence Libraries Plus: Adding Value in the Cultural Community: 8th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services. Information Management Innovation Research Group in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences. http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/conf/pm8/

• 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)
• 2010 August 10-11 Adelaide Australia Connection And Convergence: Second International Conference On Joint Use Libraries. http://www.auslib.com.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)

• 2010 November 8-9 Baltimore, MD SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010. http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml
• 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)
• 2009 December 2-4 London 5th International Digital Curation Conference:  Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity.The Digital Curation Centre in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/

• 2009 June 7-10 Maastricht, NL M-2009: Flexible Education for All: Open – Global – Innovative: the 23rd ICDE World Conference on Open and Distance Education, including the EADTU Annual Conference 2009.  The conference is hosted by Open Universiteit Nederland. http://www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/80/137.html
• 2010 April 12-14 Edinburgh 2010 UKSG 33rd Annual Conference and Exhibition.http://www.uksg.org/event/conference10

• 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)
• 2009 April 16-17 Sydney Unlocking IP 2009 Conference: National and Global Dimensions of the Public Domain.  University of New South Wales Faculty of Law http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip/2009/
• 2009 June 10-12 Bournemouth, Dorset SCONUL conference and AGM 2009. Society of College, National and University Libraries  http://www.sconul.ac.uk/events/agm2009/
• 2009 June 25-26 London Third Bloomsbury Conference On E-Publishing And E-Publications: Beyond Books And Journals:  An independent conference organised from the Centre for Publishing/Department of Information Studies at University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/
• 2009 November 9-13 Sydney eResearch Australasia 2009: No boundaries.  The University of Queensland http://www.eresearch.edu.au/participation
• 2009 April 16-17 Brisbane National and Institutional Perspectives on Metrics-Based Research Evaluation.  Thomson Reuters and the University of Queensland http://www.library.uq.edu.au/metrics/

• 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)
• 2009 October 14-16 Gothenburg, Sweden DSpace User Group Meeting.  University of Gothenburg http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/index.php/dsug/dsug09

• 2009 May 13-14 Dublin, OH Rethinking Resource Sharing... Inspiring Librarians... Empowering People: Forum IV 2009.  BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/forum09/index.html

• 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)
• 2009 August 30-September 3 Coolangatta, Queensland ACODE Institute 2009: A Learning Technologies Leadership Institute. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning http://hub.acode.edu.au/course/view.php?id=6
• 2009 May 21 London Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution or revolution: The future of identity and access management for research. http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09

• 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)
• 2009 August 23-27 Coolangatta, Queensland CAUDIT-Educause Institute 2009 http://www.caudit.edu.au/institute2009/

• 2009 May 19-22 Houston, Texas 154th ARL Membership Meeting. Association of Research Libraries http://www.arl.org/events/currentmm/index.shtml

• 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)
• 2009 December 6-9 Auckland, New Zealand ASCILITE 2009, the 29th conference: Same places, different spaces. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/
• 2009 November 19-20 Sunshine Coast QLD Learning Technologies Conference.http://www.learningtechnologies.com.au/index.cfm
• 2009 May 11-14 Barcelona Spain Learning Impact Conference.  IMS Global Learning Consortium Annual Conference.  http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2009/index.html

• 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)
• 2009 July 28 - August 5 Tilburg University, the Netherlands Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009. Modular course to prepare librarians for the future. Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/
• 2009 April 30-May 1 Manchester Research Data Management Forum: Values and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management.Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-forum-2009-april/

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

• 2009 March 9-10 Sydney Financial Review Higher Education Conference 2009. http://www.afr.com/home/events/higher-education/
• Speech [by] The Hon Julia Gillard MP
• Speech [by] Senator the Hon Kim Carr
• 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)
• 2009 March 4-6 Canberra Universities Australia Higher Education Conference. http://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/content.asp?page=/policies_programs/conference/index.htm
• Speech [by] Senator the Hon Kim Carr
• Speech [by] The Hon Julia Gillard MP 4 March, 2009
• 2009 February 11-13 College Station, Texas Texas A&M Symposium on Scholarly Communication: "The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age" Videostream of presentations now available! http://futureofpublishing.tamu.edu/program/symposium-program.html
• 2009 November 11-14 Portland, Oregon MCN 37th Annual Conference: "Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!". The Museum Computer Network (MCN) http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2266

• OCLC and Libraries Australia achieve breakthrough in timeliness. National Library of Australia. Press Release. (AU)
• 2009 December 1-3 London, UK London Online. http://www.online-information.co.uk/
• 2009 October 12-14 Christchurch, New Zealand LIANZA Conference 2009. The New Zealand Library Association http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/index.html

• 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)
• 2009 May 12 London E-books and E-content 2009. University College London http://www.econtent2009.com/

• 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)
• 2009 March 25-26 Edinburgh Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse. Intrallect http://www.intrallect.com/index.php/intrallect/news_events/events

• 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)
• 2009 March 13 New York The Google Books Settlement: What Will It Mean for the Long Term? Columbia Law School http://www.law.columbia.edu/
• 2009 March 25 London Peer Review Workshop: Case Studies in Sustainability conducted. Ithaka, with the support of the Strategic Content Alliance http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/ithaka_sca-bmsw

• 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)
• 2009 March 11 Sydney ERA Under the Bonnet: Preparing your ERA Submission. This event is supported by Higher Ed Services, CRAG (Collaborative Research Administrators Group) and ARMS (The Australasian Research Management Society). http://www.hes.edu.au/page/collaborative-group-management/collaborative-research-administrators-group/era-under-the-bonnet/

• 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)
• 2009 April 4 New Haven, Connecticut Library 2.0 Symposium. Yale Law School Information Society Project http://www.law.yale.edu/news/9059.htm
• 2009 March 23-27 Edinburgh The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users. This event is sponsored by National e-Science Centre http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/968/

• 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)
• 2009 April 17 The Hague e-Merging New Roles and Responsibilities in the European Landscape: A workshop on long-term digital preservation.  Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands http://www.kb.nl/hrd/congressen/curatingresearch2009/index-en.xml

• 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)
• 2009 July 6-8 Melbourne 9th National University Finance and Procurement Conference: Weathering the Financial Storm. Higher Ed Services http://www.hes.edu.au/page/conferences/2009-finance---procurement-conference/
• 2009 November 16-21 Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) 2009 PIALA Annual Conference: Pacific Visions: Finding, Selecting, And Using Resources For Your Libraries, Archives And Museums. PIALA (Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives and Museums) http://piala.org.googlepages.com/

• JISC ITT: User Behaviour Observational Study. JISC Content Services committee. Submission Deadline: 13 March 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• 2009 November 26-27 Lille (France) International Symposium "Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage. GERIICO laboratory – SID team. http://epef.anr.free.fr/index-eng.html

• 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)
• 2009 June 1-4 Leuven, Belgium IATUL 30th Annual Conference: Just for you, Quality through Innovation. International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) http://wbib.kuleuven.be/iatul2009/index.php
• 2009 March 12-15 Seattle, WA ACRL 2009: Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend. Association of College & Research Libraries http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/seattle/seattle.cfm
• 2009 February 26 London ALPSP Seminar: The Changing Face of Consortia. http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?aid=37685
• 2009 February 26 London A National Research Data Service for the UK? An International Conference on the UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study. UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ukrds-2009/

• JISC Invitation to Tender: Assessing the Role of Digital Information Management Practice in Reducing the Environmental Impact of ICT Use in Higher Education. Submission Deadline: 16 March 2009 12:00 Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee (UK)
• 2009 June 10-13 Pittsburgh, PA ETD 2009 Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). http://www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009
• 2009 March 11 Seattle, WA Data Movement and Management Forum: Pre-ACRL Program. Organised by NISO http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datamovement09
• 2009 October 15-16 London, UK Internet Librarian International 2009. Pre-conference workshops 14 October. Organised by Information Today Inc

http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.php

• 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)
• 2009 April 17 The Hague, the Netherlands Curating Research 2009: e-Merging New Roles and Responsibilities in the European Landscape: A workshop on long-term digital preservation. Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands http://www.kb.nl/hrd/congressen/curatingresearch2009/index-en.html
• 2009 April 15-16 Sydney Workshop: Pragmatic Mapping for the Humanities. This workshop is organised by the Digital Innovation Unit for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. Contact Ingrid Mason http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation/
• 2009 March 26-27 Indianapolis, Indiana Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability. Indiana University is hosting an NSF-sponsored workshop [and] inviting the submission of position papers from the software and scientific community, to be used as input to the workshop and as a way of identifying additional diverse participants. http://cisoftwaresustainability.iu-pti.org/
• 2009 October 15–17 Sydney The Practice of Indexing: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference. http://www.anzsi.org/site/2009_conference.asp

• 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)
• 2009 February 25-26 Sydney Higher Education Recruitment & Retention. Informa/IIR Conferences   http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/higher-education-recruitment-retention

• 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)
• 2009 January 14 Sydney Research data management seminar featuring Robin Rice, DISC-UK DataShare. University of NSW and University of Sydney Libraries. Presentations now available! http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/dpa/robin_rice.shtml

• 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)
• 2009 October 12-14 Christchurch, New Zealand LIANZA Conference 2009 The Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/index.html

• 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)
• 2009 April 6-8 Sydney Adopting Robust Strategies for Digital Preservation:  Harnessing measures to ensure longevity of electronic resources within the public sector. Ark Group Australia Pty Ltd  http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-c064-Digipreservation.htm

• 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)
• 2009 March 27 Canberra Innovative Ideas Forum 2009: 'The value and significance of social networking for cultural institutions'. National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/innovative-ideas-forum/2009/

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

• 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)

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