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6 November, 2009

• Researchers of Tomorrow: A three year (BL/JISC) study tracking the research behaviour of 'Generation Y' doctoral students. Education for Change, in collaboration with The Research Partnership, has been engaged by the British Library and the JISC to undertake a groundbreaking 3-year study on the research behaviour of the 'Generation Y' scholar. (UK)
• CIBER Study Shows E-books Least Likely to be Cut from Library Budgets in Tough Economy, Other Key Findings (PDF) CIBER research group at University College London. Survey cosponsors: Baker & Taylor’s YBP Library Services and ebrary®.  (US)
• 2010 February 12 Melbourne Gumboots for the Data Deluge: Defining and describing collections for the Australian Research Data Commons. This half day workshop will be held in association with VALA 2010 http://ands.org.au/events/gumboots/

• 2010 May 20-21 Lakewood, CO CALC Summit 2010: Collaborate Like You Mean It! Colorado Academic Library Consortium http://www.calcweb.org/

• Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in Life Sciences. Report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)
• © The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age. October 09  Intellectual Property Office. Department for Business Innovation & Skills (UK)
• D2.2 Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers. PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (EU)
• Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives, SPEC Kit 314. Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba • November 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-826-2 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• The Data Audit Framework (DAF) - developed with JISC funding in a project led by HATII at the University of Glasgow in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre. The Data Audit Framework (DAF) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. (UK)
• 2009 December 16 Washington DC NSF Workshop on “Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges” Following the CNI Task Force Meeting held on December 14th and 15th at the same location http://informatics.indiana.edu/scholmet09/announcement.html

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

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

• 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)

• 2010 June 20-24 West Lafayette, IN The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries: The 31st Annual IATUL Conference - Purdue University Libraries  http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/

• 2010 June 16-18 Helsinki, Finland ELPUB 2010 - Publishing in the Networked World: Transforming the Nature of Communication: 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Conference Host: Hanken School of Economics, Department of Management and organization / Information Systems Science http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2010/

• 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)

• 2009 November 18 Melbourne Education driving economic growth. CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) http://www.ceda.com.au/public/events/24753.html
• 2009 November 30-December 1 London Research Data Management Forum: Dealing with Sensitive Data: managing ethics, security and trust. Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/#

• 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)
• 2009 June 9 Oakland, CA Trust, Value & Partnership. ITHAKA | California Digital Library Forum  [Presentations now available] http://www.ithaka.org/about-ithaka/announcements/ithaka-cdl-forum-june-9-2009
• 2009 July 11 Chicago, IL Preservation: Library Strategies and Portico’s Role. Portico Meeting at ALA [Presentations now available] http://portico.org/news/072809.html
• 2009 April 16 New York Digital Dilemmas Symposium: Challenges + Opportunities + Solutions. Ithaka event. [Presentations now available] http://ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/events/digital-dilemmas-symposium-challenges-opportunities-solutions/
• 2009 September 23 New York Sustainable Scholarship 2009. Ithaka event. [Presentations now available] http://ithaka.org/about-ithaka/events/sustainable-scholarship-2009-1/

• 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)
• 2011 November 2-5 Charleston, South Carolina Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisition. Charleston Information Group, LLC http://www.katina.info/conference/
• 2010 November 3-6 Charleston, South Carolina Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisition. Charleston Information Group, LLC http://www.katina.info/conference/
• 2010 October 6-10 Frankfurt, Germany Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 http://www.book-fair.com/en/fbf/
• 2010 March 9-10 Canberra Relics, ethics and addicts: A workshop addressing market influences on a rare book today. National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/events/showevent.html?q=49122
• 2010 March 11-12 Hong Kong ALSR2010: Academic Librarian 2: Singing in the Rain: Conference towards Future Possibilities. Organised by Pao Yue-Kong Library of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in conjunction with University Library System of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) http://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/ALSR2010/index.html

• 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)
• 2010 February 1-5 Sydney Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery. The Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with Lyrasis, USA. http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/

• 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)

• 2010 May 25-28 Chania, Crete, Greece  2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2010). Organized under the umbrella of ASMDA International Society http://www.isast.org
• 2009 December 6-8 Riga, Latvia Higher Education Places and Spaces: for learning innovation and knowledge exchange. OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) and the University of Latvia http://www.oecd.lu.lv/

• 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)
• 2009 September 22-23 Washington, DC Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections. The Library of Congress http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/other_meetings/storage09/index.htmlPresentations now available!

• 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)
• 2010 March 29-31 Limerick, Republic of Ireland LILAC 2010: the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference. Organised by CILIP’s Information Literacy Group http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/
• 2009 November 29 Sydney ERA Forum - WashUp & Lessons Learnt. This event is supported by Higher Ed Services and the Collaborative Research Administrators Group (CRAG). http://www.hes.edu.au/page/conferences---events/era-washup-forum/

• 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)

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