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4 February, 2010

• Keeping Research Data Safe 2 - a JISC-funded Project: The identification of long-lived digital datasets for the purposes of cost analysis.  University of Cambridge, Charles Beagrie Ltd, OCLC Research, and University of Southampton, et al (UK)
• Towards Sustainability Indicators for Museums in Australia. Eleanor Adams.  The University of Adelaide, Collections Council of Australia (AU)

• Higher Education Revolution: joint ministerial statement Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr (AU)
• Higher Education Revolution on track. Joint Media Release with Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. 2 February, 2010 (AU)
• PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories: Baseline report [by] Jenny Fry, et al. September 2009 LISU, Loughborough University. PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (UK)

• Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines [by] Diane Harley, Sophia Krzys Acord, Sarah Earl-Novell, Shannon Lawrence, C. Judson King. January 2010 Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley (US)

• ANDS Needs Analysis Survey. December 2009. Australian National Data Service (ANDS) (AU)

• The Horizon Report: 2010 edition: collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative An EDUCAUSE Program. Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. ISBN 978-0-9825334-3-7 (US)
• 2010 May 12-14 Sydney Digital Preservation: Ensuring the longevity of born-digital records. Ark Group http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-D021DigitalPreservation.htm
• 2010 March 30-31 Melbourne Libraries 2.0: Using Web 2.0 and digital technologies to revolutionise your library or information centre. Ark Group http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-D018-Library.htm
• 2009 December 3-4 Tokyo DRF International Conference 2009 : Open Access Repositories now and in the future - from the global and Asia-Pacific points of view. Organized by: Digital Repository Federation, SPARC Japan [Presentations now available!] http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?DRFIC2009#p73ef174

• Libraries of the ATN Research Support Statement. LATN (Libraries of the Australian Technology Network) (AU)

• 2010 December 6-8 Chicago 6th International Digital Curation Conference: "Participation & Practice: growing the Curation Community through the data decade" The conference is being presented jointly with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2010/

• 2010 September 6-10 Glasgow, UK 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries. Organised by the University of Glasgow http://www.ecdl2010.org/

• ACRL 2009 Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy. Prepared by: Kathryn Deiss [and] Mary Jane Petrowski. March 2009. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (US)

• Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. January 2010 The Association of American Universities (US)
• 2010 November 28- December 1 Dunedin, New Zealand. LIANZA Conference 2010: “At the Edge - Te Matak?heru”. Annual conference of the New Zealand Library Association. http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2010/index.html

• 2010 April 9-10 Phoenix, AZ Research Data Access and Preservation An ASIS&T Summit In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA10/ResearchDataAccessSummit2010.html
• 2010 November 8-12 tbc, Queensland eResearch Australasia 2010. http://www.eresearch.edu.au/

• Research Data : Unseen Opportunities: An Awareness Toolkit commissioned by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) (CA)

• Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already? Posted by Michael Clarke Jan 4, 2010 The Scholarly Kitchen - a moderated and independent blog. Society for Scholarly Publishing. (US)
• 2010 October 20-22 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DC2010: Making Metadata Work Harder: Celebrating 15 Year of Dublin Core: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Co-located with the Annual Meeting of ASIS&T (24-27 October 2010) http://www.asis.org/Conferences/DC2010/

• Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education: A Report for the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC): Final Report. Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson. January 2009. (UK)
• 2010 September 13-15 Paris IMHE 2010 General Conference. Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly: Doing More with Less.  Institutional Management in Higher Education, OECD http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_43541789_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
• 2010 February 4 Sydney Sustainable Scholarship. Forum organised by Ithaka and the University of Sydney Library. Contact: Inna Stolyarova

• JISC ITT: Strategic Content Alliance: Digipedia from Prototype to Pilot Service. [The prototype aimed to link authoritative information resources on the management of the digital content life-cycle and produce a plain English narrative which can be text mined and provide an innovative browse mechanism to enable resource discovery for a broad audience.] The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on 5 February 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• Joint submission of the ADA and ALCC to the Government 2.0 Taskforce regarding the Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 Draft Report. Australian Digital Alliance, Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (AU)
• Review of Regional Provision of Higher Education. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Submissions should be lodged by close of business 26 February 2010.
• The Review of Regional Loading - Issues for Regional Provision.
• Media Release.  23 December, 2009
• Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). December 18, 2009 Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 655 Available at SSRN (US)
• Designing Better Libraries is a blog about design thinking and how it applies to library settings. Steven Bell, Temple University et al (US)

• SPEC Kit 315, Leave and Professional Development Benefits [by] Cathleen Martyniak and Brian Keith • December 2009 • ISBN 1-59407-827-0 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Coping Strategies of Public Universities During The Economic Recession of 2009: Results of a Survey on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on University Campuses November 2009 [by] Christine M. Keller, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) (US)
• 2011 February 1-3 Sydney 15th ALIA Information Online Conference & Exhibition. The Australian Library and Information Association [ALIA] http://www.information-online.com.au/

• Horizon Report Wiki - the workspace for the main report of the Horizon Project. The New Media Consortium (US)
• NMC Horizon Project: 2010 Preview.
• 2010 March 10-11 Manchester Research Data Management Forum: Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust. Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-forum-2010-march/

• 2010 June 16-18 Leeds ‘Organisational Leadership in a Time of Change’: SCONUL summer conference. Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) http://www.sconul.ac.uk/news/conf_2010
• 2010 June 29-July 2 Aarhus, Denmark "Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in the new Information Environment" : The 39th LIBER Annual General conference. Organised by the State and University Library, Aarhus (Denmark). http://togather.eu/handle/123456789/409
• 2010 July 6-9 Madrid, Spain Open Repositories 2010 -- "The Grand Integration Challenge" FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología) http://or2010.fecyt.es/publico/Home/index.aspx
• 2010 April 14-16 Madrid, Spain Fit for what purpose? Planning libraries for the users of the future: 15th Seminar of The LIBER Architecture Group. http://www.zhbluzern.ch/LIBER-LAG/lagensb.htm

• A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process: A Pilot Study Commissioned by OCLC Research. Key Perspectives Ltd, for OCLC Research. December, 2009 (US)

• JISC Grant Funding 14/09: Managing Research Data Programme. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on Friday, 12 February 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Bibliography ”Impact and Outcome of Libraries” Compiled by Roswitha Poll, Münster. IFLA Statistics and Evaluation (EU)
• 2010 September 1-3 Brisbane ALIA Access 2010. The Australian Library and Information Association [ALIA] http://conferences.alia.org.au/access2010/
• 2010 June 21-25 Gold Coast, Queensland ICADL 2010: The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change: 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) In conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Hosted by the University of Queensland http://www.icadl2010.org/
• 2010 June 21-25 Gold Coast, Australia JCDL 2010 - Digital Libraries - 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 Vision: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). In conjunction with he annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL). Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, ASIS&T, and IEEE-CS TCDL. Hosted by the University of Queensland http://www.jcdl2010.org/

• 2010 March 10-12 Sydney Australian Higher Education Congress 2010. Association and Communications Events http://www.acevents.com.au/education2010
• 2009 December 1 Sunshine Coast, Qld CAIRSS Community Day 2009. CAUL Institutional Repository Support Service. http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_program.htm[presentations now available]

• 2010 April 9-10 Phoenix, AZ Research Data Access and Preservation - an ASIST Summit. American Society for Information Science and Technology in cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information http://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA10/ResearchDataAccessSummit2010.html

• Measuring the Socio-economic Status of Higher Education Students. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Interested parties are invited to comment on the SES discussion paper.. Submissions are due by 5 pm (AEST) on 5 February 2010. (AU)
• The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. 15 December, 2009 Media release Funding boost helps low-SES higher education student places.
• Higher Education Equity Support Program. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
• Higher Education Participation and Partnership Program (HEPPP) Guidelines. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (AU)
• JISC Grant 12/09: Enhancing library management systems. Submission Deadline 05 February 2010 12:00 Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age: A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections. Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI) no. 267 (December 2009) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)

• Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation. Posted by Diane DiEuliis and Robynn Sturm on December 10, 2009 Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (US)
• EQT V and GIC agree to acquire Springer Science+Business Media from  Candover and Cinven - 11 Dec 2009 (SE)
• ARROW, Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, also representing writers through their main European associations and national organisations. European Commissions eContentplus Programme (EU)

• An Indicator Framework for Higher Education Performance Funding: Discussion Paper. December, 2009  Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)
• The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for Education. 11 December, 2009 Media release Discussion paper on higher education performance funding released.
• The Economic Downturn and Libraries: [the Charleston] Survey findings. Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), University College London, December 2009 (UK)
• Mobile Libraries - Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Services Provided By Libraries To Patrons Within Mobile Environments. Library Mobile Services Are Defined As Any And All Library Services That Are Provided Via Mobile Technologies. Gerry McKiernan (US)

• Overcoming barriers: access to research information: a Research Information Network report. December 2009. Research Information Network (RIN) (UK)
• Acrobatics in the citation circus. Mark Dodgson. The Australian December 09, 2009 12:00AM (AU)

• HEFCE Online Learning Task Force. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• Managing Research Data Programme. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Meeting the Research Data Challenge: Managing Research Data programme 2009-11: Briefing paper. November 2009 Written by Simon Hodson, JISC Programme Manager for the Managing Research Data Programme. (UK)
• 2010 August 24~26 Shanghai City Life and Library Service: The 5th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF). Organizer: Shanghai Library http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2010/english/index.htm

• ARL Statistics 2007-08. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• Elsevier Announces the “Article of the Future”  Media Release 20 July 2009 (NL)
• 2011 March 23-24 Hong Kong Online Information Asia-Pacific 2011. Incisive Media http://www.online-information.co.uk/online09/onlineasia.html

• The Tertiary Student Experience: A Review of Approaches based on the First Cycle of AUQA Audits 2002–2007 [by] Carole Alcock, Joan Cooper, Joyce Kirk with Kaitlin Oyler. ISBN: 978 1 921561 22 1 Occasional Publications Series No: 20  Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• National Union of Students. University Ratings: 2009 Re-Establishing Representation. (AU)
• 2010 March 30-31 Melbourne Learning Commons Development and Design: the New Pedagogy. Informa http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/learning-commons-development-and-design
• 2010 June 30-July 2 Gold Coast AuQF 2010: Quality in Uncertain Times. Australian Universities Quality Agency http://www.auqa.edu.au/auqf/

• Institutional Data Management in Higher Education [by] Ronald Yanosky. (Research Study, Vol. 8). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2009 (US)

• 2010 October 25–27 Baltimore, Maryland  Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. The Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries http://www.libraryassessment.org/

• ESOS Review Interim Report. Review of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 The Hon Bruce Baird for Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (AU)
• 3/12/2009 - Media Release - International student review interim report released.

• Strategy 2010-2012. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Advertisement. University Librarian And Director (Information Management) (Ref 2965) The University of Western Australia. Applications close 22 January 2010 (AU)

• Open Access: Who pays? How much? posted by Richard Poynder at 16:17 Thursday, November 26, 2009 (US)
• JISC ITT: Strategic Content Alliance: Business Modelling and Sustainability for Digital Content. The deadline for receipt of proposals .... 11th January 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

• 2010 March 16-17 Sydney, NSW Tertiary and Higher Education Conference. Hallmark Conferences + Events http://www.highered.com.au/

• A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended [Google Book] Settlement Agreement. Jonathan Band. The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (US)
• JISC Grant Funding 11/09: Research Information Management. The deadline for receipt of proposals .... 11th January 2010. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• 2010 February 8 Paris Interactive Publications and the Record of Science: One-day Workshop open to ICSTI Members and Non-Members. ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information http://www.icsti.org/form2010.php
• 2009 December 14-15 Washington, DC Fall 2009 Task Force Meeting. Coalition for Networked Information http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/project.html

• Citation supplier. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative. Australian Research Council (AU)
• Scopus announced as citation provider for ERA. 23 November 2009
• ERA Indicator Benchmark Methodology.
• Frequently Asked Questions for 2009 Trial.
• Research Workforce Issues. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AU)
• ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• 2010 April 29-30 Adelaide The 8th Annual Higher Education Summit. With the return of the Regional Tertiary Education Forum on Wednesday 28th April 2010. Informa http://www.highereducationsummit.com.au/

• Announcing the 2010 Executive Education Program. LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, The University of Melbourne. (AU)

• 2010 July 6-9 Melbourne HERDSA 2010 International Conference, Reshaping Higher Education. The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Hosted by Deakin University. http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2010/

• Learning to share, By Zoë Corbyn, Matthew Reisz. Times Higher Education, 12 November 2009 "Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree." (UK)
• 2009 December 7-9 Brighton, UK Collection Development in the Digital Age. University of Brighton Information Studies http://informationmatters.net/our-courses/collection-development-in-the-digital-age/

• Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential: Consultative Report. Author: Dr Liz Lyon. 6th November 2009 This work was funded by the JISC as part of the Information Environment programme. (UK)
• 2010 February 28 - March 2 Philadelphia, PA Redefining the Value of Information: Exploring the New Equation: The 2010 NFAIS Annual Conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services ( NFAIS™) http://www.nfais.org/page/23-2010-annual-conference

• Web 2.0 use in libraries. A list for anyone interested in Web 2.0 and its uses in libraries. Specifically for those interested in developing Web 2.0 content for their library service, including social networking tools, mashups and other media. LIS-WEB2@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (UK)
• ARL Survey on E-science and Data Support: Initial Findings. Sponsored by the Library Roles in Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee. Presenter: Wendy Lougee. Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting (US)
• 2010 May 24-28 Zadar, Croatia Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2010. University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia http://web.ffos.hr/lida/

• 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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