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16 May, 2008

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

• The Australian Legal Scholarship Library:  An AustLII research and infrastructure project. The main aim of the project is to expand the existing Australasian Law Journals Library (AU)
• Australasian Legal Scholarship Library.  AustLII (AU)
• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch: Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training. Ariadne, ISSN: 1361-3200 Issue 55 | April 2008 (UK)
• Digital Lives Research Project - designed to provide a major pathfinding study of personal digital collections. The British Library in partnership with The Centre for IT and Law (CITL), University of Bristol and The School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies at University College London (UK)
• Brown-Bag Discussion Guide Series: Issues in Scholarly Communication. Revised & Updated May 2008. Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection - Beta Release. Sabinet Online Ltd (ZA)
• 2008 September 26 Brisbane Preparing for RDA: Resource Description and Access. CAVAL training program.  http://www.caval.edu.au/course-description.html?CID=330
• Also October 13, Sydney and October 15, Melbourne

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

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 2: 5/12/2008 (13/5/08)
• 2008 October 1-2 St Lucia, Qld 2nd Next Generation Learning Spaces Colloquium. Invitation only. Contact your Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). Hosted by the University of Queensland. http://www.uq.edu.au/nextgenerationlearningspace/forum-2008
• 2008 October 20-26 Limassol, Cyprus VSMM 2008: Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future: Technologies to Document, Preserve, Communicate, and Prevent the Destruction of our Fragile Cultural Heritage. International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM) http://www.vsmm2008.org/

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

• Licensing beyond borders: international initiative licenses resources across four European countries. Press Release 7 May 2008. Knowledge Exchanged (EU)
• Copyright in higher education. SURFfoundation (NL)
• 2008 September 8-11 Edinburgh, UK UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting: Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures. http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/

• JISC & SCONUL LMS Study Project: evaluation & horizon scan of HE library management systems & the related systems landscape. Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Draft Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases (Published March 2008) available for comment on the COUNTER website until 31 May 2008. (UK)
• The State of America's Libraries Report. April, 2008 American Library Association (US)
• 2008 November 12-14 Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia 2008: Globalization and the Management of Information Resources. Hosted by The School of Library & Information Management, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas et al http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2008/index.htm
• 2008 May 19-22 Sydney, NSW 11th Annual Open Forum for Metadata Registries. Metadata DownUnder - Metadata, Semantics and Interoperability in Practice. Metadata OpenForum http://www.metadataopenforum.org/
• 2008 August 8 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada  IFLA Satellite Conference on RDA: A New Standard for a Digital World. Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdaiflasatellite.html
• 2008 June 17 Brussels, Belgium IDF Open Meeting: Resource Access for a Digital World. International DOI Federation. Hosted by the Office of Publications of the European Union (OPOCE) http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2008/
• 2008 June 4 Phoenix, Arizona Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use. NISO Pre-conference at NASIG 2008. National Information Standards Organization http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/metadata08
• 2008 September 19 Aarhus, Denmark First Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries. Sponsored by the DELOS Association. In conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies on Digital Libraries. (ECDL 2008) http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=618&Itemid=

• 2008 September 29-30 St Pancras, London iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects: Joined Up and Working: tools and methods for digital preservation. Hosted by The British Library. http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/

• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles: Invitation to worldwide review. Comments due by June 30, 2008. IFLA Cataloguing and Bibliography Sections of Division IV (EU)
• ARROW Discovery Service - where you can search 143,582 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. The service is provided by the National Library of Australia. (AU)
• Exploring tangible benefits of e-learning: does investment yield interest? JISC e-Learning Team. Publication Date: 29 April 2008 (UK)
• 2008 June 11-14 Seoul, Korea ICSTI Public Conference & General Assembly: New Frontiers for Scientific and Technical Information'. International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) Hosted by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), http://icsti2008.kisti.re.kr/
• 2008 November 26-28 New Delhi International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2008) On Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries, organized by SLA - Asian Chapter in association with Society for Library Professionals (SLP) & Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres. http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html

• Australian Government. House Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation. Inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. Written submissions are due 30 May 2008. (AU)
• National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). Re-imagining Library Services Strategic Plan (Exposure Draft, April-May 2008) Comments requested by May 16 2008 (AU)
• Towards Information Literacy Indicators. Conceptual framework paper prepared by Catts, Ralph; Lau, Jesus. Paris, UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP), 2008 (FR)
• AusLIST is an online directory of Australian education and training providers; the Australian courses they deliver offshore; locations where those courses are delivered. Australian Education International (AU)
• Making Sense of E-Book Usage Data - pre-print [by] John Cox (to be published in The Acquisitions Librarian, 19 (3/4), July 2008; © Haworth Press, Philadelphia, PA, http://www.haworthpress.com/ )
• 2008 July 7 Cambridge, UK Emerging publishing models: exploring new ventures for science publishing. Organised by the RIOJA (Repository

Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives) project. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/meeting/

• 2009 March 11-13 Canberra 13th International Association for Sport Information World Congress: Building and Sustaining Sport Information Communities - through connectivity, collaboration and sharing. Hosted by National Sport Information Centre, a program of the Australian Sports Commission.  https://secure.ausport.gov.au/conferences/iasi

• 2008 May 21 Brisbane Directions in Research Systems and Repositories - a Forum for Research Information Managers Collaborative Research Administrators Group (CRAG) http://www.hes.edu.au/page/collaborative-group-management/collaborative-research-administrators-group/forum---research-systems-and-repositories/
• 2008 June 23-25 Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK 3rd International Plagiarism Conference: "Transforming practice for an authentic future" Northumbria Learning http://www.plagiarismconference.com/

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

• Review of NCRIS Roadmap 2008. The NCRIS Committee has agreed to undertake a review of the NCRIS Roadmap during the first half of 2008. Closing date for responses 14 May 2008. National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (AU)
• 2008 May 6 Bolton, UK CETIS MDR SIG Meeting. JISC Centre For Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards. Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/6th_May_2008%2C_Bolton
• 2008 September 23-24 Philadelphia, PAA Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections, presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. CCAHA’s Collections Storage Program http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php

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

• Library Management Systems Study: An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher education - report commissioned by JISC and SCONUL March 2008 [by] Sero Consulting Ltd [and] with Glenaffric Ltd and Ken Chad Consulting Ltd (UK)
• Places and spaces for learning seminars, September 2007. Draft report. 7 April 2008. The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (AU)
• A European Model for the Digital Publishing of Scientific Information? [by] Chris Armbruster, Max Planck Society. (DE)
• 2008 November 19-21 Canberra 18th Annual AAIR Forum: Enhancing Quality Research: a Global Perspective. Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) Forum. http://www.leishman-associates.com.au/aair2008/
• 2008 October 20~22 Shanghai, China The 4th Shanghai International Library Forum: Intelligence, Innovation and Library Services. Organizer: Shanghai Library/ Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2008/english/english.htm
• 2009 January 16-18 Mumbai, India World Universities Forum, 2009. http://UniversitiesForum.com

• Carrick Communiqué April 2008. Carrick Institute (AU)

• Quality Assurance within ATN Libraries: A LATN Benchmarking Project: Final Evaluative Report. Coordinated by Karen Tang and Leanne Levinge. July, 2006. ATN group of libraries (LATN)
• 2008 June 3 Hong Kong Emerging Paradigms for Academic Library E-Book Acquisition and Use: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. This conference is an initiative of the Electronic Resources Academic Library Link (ERALL) project, and is organized by the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/ebook_conf/program.htm

• The TRANSFER Code of Practice Version 1.0 is now available for public comment through 31 May 2008. Project Transfer (UK)
• 2008 April 30 London "Beyond the RAE 2008: Bibliometrics, League Tables and the REF". Jointly sponsored by King's College London and Thomson Scientific http://scientific.thomson.com/kcl/ This timely event focuses on the increasing importance of bibliometric data in the controversial university ranking systems and the proposed use of citation data for the research output aspect of the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

• 2008 June 25-26 Melbourne University Planning and Design Forum 2008. Informa Australia www.informa.com.au/UniDesign
• 2008 September 18-20 Odense, Denmark Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique : The second international DREAM conference. University of Southern Denmark. http://www.dreamconference.dk/
• 2008 August 25-29 Tilburg, The Netherlands Digital Libraries à la Carte. Ticer, Tilburg University http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/
• 2008 June 5-7 Maribor, Slovenia Get the Good CRIS Going: Ensuring Quality of Service for the User in the ERA: 9th international Conference on Current Research Information Systems. Organized by IZUM, Slovenia and euroCRIS. http://www.cris2008.org/

• Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing, by Karla Hahn. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (US)
• 2008 May 5-6 San Francisco, CA Digital Resources: Working with Formats Beyond Serials. National Information Standards Organization http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/digresources08/

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

• MARC Record Services: A Comparative Study of Library Practices and Perceptions. By Rebecca Kemp. This is a preprint of an article that has been accepted for publication in The Serials Librarian © 2008 Taylor & Francis. The article will appear in The Serials Librarian v.55, no.3 (2008) with different textual formatting. (US)
• 2008 August 4-5 Denver, Colorado A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends. Organised by BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/

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

• 2008 June 8-10 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Build on Success in the Learning Commons! The Canadian Learning Commons' 3rd annual conference. Hosted by the University of New Brunswick. http://www.lib.unb.ca/CLCC3/

• E-LIS: The open archive for Library and Information Science. E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas.  (IT)
• Evaluation of the JISC Digitisation Programme Phase 1 and International Contextualisation. April 2007 Evidence Base (UK)
• ETDs, scholarly communication, and campus collaboration: Opportunities for libraries. C&RL News, March 2008 Vol. 69, No. 3 by Richard Fyffe and William C. Welburn (US)
• Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets. (EU)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 71: 3/3/2008 (US)
• JISC ITT: Usage and Impact Study of Digitised Resources Funded under the JISC Phase One Digitisation Programme. Submission Deadline: 28 April 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
• 2009 June 17-19 Geneva, Switzerland OAI6 (CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication).Contact: Neil Jacobs. See also previous workshops.
• 2008 April 10 London The Shape of the Future? Business Models and Sustainability in the Digital Age: A Peer-reviewing Workshop. Wellcome Trust with Ithaka and the Strategic Content Alliance http://www.wellcomecollectionconference.org/Location/index.htm
• 2008 April 14-15 Vienna, Austria Programme for Planning the Future with Planets: a two-day tutorial on preservation planning. Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services http://www.planets-project.eu/events/pp-vienna-2008/programme/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Middleton, Michael R. and Lee, Julie M. (2007) Cultural institutions and Web 2.0. In Proceedings Fourth Seminar on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS 4), RMIT University, Melbourne. (AU)
• 2007 December 5 London Research Information and Management Workshop. Universities UK [Presentations now available] http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/

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

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