Updated 5 September, 2008

Higher Education Organisations

• AACRAO, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers AACRAO is a nonprofit, voluntary, professional association of more than 9,000 higher education administrators who represent more than 2,300 institutions and agencies in the United States and in thirty-nine other countries. Its goal is to advance higher education and promote the professional development of its members. (US)
• American Association for Higher Education
• American Association of University Professors
• American Council on Education
• APEC EduNet The mission of the APEC Education Network (EduNet) is to design and implement the first APEC chartered interactive network linking scholars, students, scientists, business leaders and policy makers to facilitate research collaboration and educational exchange regarding the critical economic, political, and scientific policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Asia-Pacific Higher Education Network (APHEN) UNESCO UNITWIN (AU)
• The Association of American Universities (AAU)
• Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) (UK)
• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) (CA) | Links to AUCC Member Universities
• Association of Universities in the Netherlands. (Netherlands)
• Association of University Teachers (UK)
• The California Higher Education Policy Center (US)
• C H E M S Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service (management consultancy service of the Commonwealth universities, dedicated wholly to helping institutions of higher education and other related bodies.) (UK)
• Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) (UK)
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago) | CIC Center for Library Initiatives (US)
• European Commission. Directorate-General XXII : Education, Training, Youth (LU)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• IBH - Institute for Comparative Education Research (AT)
• International Association of Universities (IAU) (FR)
• Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium (MHEC) - provides contract management for 57 state colleges, universities, and consortia in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (US)
• NACUBO (National Association of College and University Business Officers) (US)
• National Commission on Higher Education (South Africa)
• Working Group on Libraries and Information Technology.
• National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (Dearing Committee Home Page) (Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service) (UK)
• The Open University (UK)
• ORTELIUS: The database on higher education in Europe
• Scottish Office Education and Industry Department
• Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) (USA)
• Society for Research into Higher Education - SRHE (UK)
• South African National Commission on Higher Education
• Final Report (TOC)

Higher Education Library & I.T. Organisations

• Association of American University Presses (AAUP) (US)
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (includes links to members' servers) | ARL Statistics (US)
• Directory Of North American Research Libraries - A Staff Directory (Central Technical Services at the University at Buffalo) (US)
• (BIDS) Bath Information & Data Services (UK)
• BUBL Information Service - A national information service for the higher education community, funded by JISC (UK) - updated web address!
• CALICO (Cape Library Co-Operative). The CALICO project is a co-operative effort amongst the five tertiary institution libraries of the Western Cape. (SA)
• CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
• CAUSE, the association for managing and using information resources in higher education (USA)
• Australian Mirror Site (Curtin University)
• Center for Research Libraries : a not-for-profit cooperative library working to extend the availability of research library materials. (US)
• CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries
• CHELSA (Committee for Higher Education Librarians of South Africa). (ZA)
• CHEST (Combined Higher Education Software Team) (UK)
• Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL)  (NZ)
• Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) (CA)
• CURL - The Consortium of Research Libraries (UK)
• EDUCOM (USA)
• EUNIS (European University Information Systems) Members are responsible for the management and development of information systems in higher education in Europe.
• Europa @ Internet (c) Centre de Documentació Europea - Universitat de València (ES)
• IATUL - International Association of Technological University Libraries (SE)
• IBM Kiosk for Education (IKE) (US)
• The Institute for Academic Technology (IAT) (US)
• International Institute for Electronic Library Research (Division of Learning Development, De Montfort University)
• JISC Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) (See also RLSP)
• Update to the JISC Five Year Strategy
• Analysis of contents of the NCIHE Report with relevance to JISC activities
• JUGL (The Janet User Group for Libraries) (UK)
• Joint University Libraries Advisory Committee (JULAC) (HK)
• Ontario Council of University Libraries (CA)
• The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) (USA)
• Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP).  Funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils in the UK, The Programme is intended to meet, in a library context,  the need for collaboration and sharing in the use of the research infrastructure envisaged more generally by  the Dearing and Garrick reports. (UK) (See also JISC)
• SCANUL-ECS (The Standing Conference of National and University Libraries of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa) (ZA)
• SCONUL: Society of College, National and University Libraries (formerly The Standing Conference of National and University Libraries) (UK)
• TexShare sponsored by the Texas Council of State University Librarians (USA)
• Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources BV) (NL)
• UCISA Universities & Colleges Information Systems Association UCISA exists to promote high standards of education particularly in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems throughout the UK Higher Education Sector. (UK)
• UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
• United Kingdom Education & Research Networking Association (UKERNA) - manages the operation and development of the JANET networks under a Service Level Agreement from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. (UK)
• The University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) is a non-profit consortium, led by university members working in partnership with corporate and affiliate members, to provide leadership and direction for advanced networking development within the university community  (US)

Library & I.T. Organisations

• American Library Association (USA)
• Association of College & Research Libraries
• Aslib, The Association for Information Management (UK)
• ATHENS Authentication Service The ATHENS system enables controlled access to subscription services provided by third party suppliers and made available via the NISS and BIDS services. Many of these services are offered to the education community on the basis of CHEST agreements. (UK)
• BIBSAM The Royal Library's Department for National Co-ordination and Development (SE)
• The British Library (UK)
• Research and Innovation Centre (RIC) (UK)
• Canadian Library Association (CLA) | Canadian Library Association (CA)
• CERLIM The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (Department of Information and Communications and the Manchester Metropolitan University) (UK)
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) (USA)
• CNI Program 1997-1998
• Commission on Preservation and Access (US) see The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• CNRI (Corporation for National Research Initiatives) (US)
• CONARLS Circle of Officers of National and Regional Library Systems (UK)
• CONSAL Congress of South-East Asian Librarians
• Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester (CALIM) (UK)
• Consortium of Consortia (US) - See International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)
• Council of Federal Libraries (CFL) (CA) | CFL Consortium
• The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - 1997 merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources. (US)
• Council on Library Resources. (US) see The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• EPIC (European Preservation Information Centre) European Commission on Preservation and Access.
• ERPANET.  Electronic Resource Preservantion and Access Network.  (EU)
• France. Ministere de l'Enseignement superieur et de la Recherche Sous-direction des bibliothèques (Fra)
• Gabriel - gateway to Europe's National Libraries (UK)
• IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology)
• IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) (SE)
• The Institute of Information Scientists
• Interactive Multimedia Association (US)
• International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) (formerly Consortium of Consortia)
• International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) | Fédération Internationale d'Information et de Documentation (FID)
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
• 61st IFLA General Conference - August 20-25, 1995 Conference Programme and Proceedings
• International Forum of Educational Technology & Society  (A subgroup of IEEE Learning Technology Task Force) (DE)
• Internet Library Association (US)
• LIBER. The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe.
• Libraries for the Future (Mission. To preserve and revitalize the free public library as an essential institution for a democratic society.) (US)
• The Library Association (UK)
• Library of Congress | The Library of Congress Catalog (USA)
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) (US)
• National Digital Library Federation (Fifteen of the nation's largest research libraries and archives have agreed to cooperate on defining what must be done to bring together digitized materials that will be made accessible to students, scholars, and citizens verywhere, and that document the building and dynamics of United States heritage and cultures.) (US)
• National Library of Canada Bibliothèque nationale du Canada (Canada)
• National Library of New Zealand
• New Zealand Library and Information Association/ Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa (NZ)
• The Nordic Centre of Excellence for Electronic Publishing. Nordiskt Kompetenscentrum för Elektronisk Publicering: a project carried out by VTT Information Service and is financed partly by NORDINFO (the Nordic Council for Scientific Information) and partly by VTT Information Service. (FI)
• NORDINFO (The Nordic Council for Scientific Information ) is a Nordic institution within the Nordic Council of Ministers. (FI)
• North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. (most information accessible to members only)  (US)
• Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) (US)
• Novanet - a consortium of Nova Scotia Libraries (Canada)
• OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network (US)
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) (USA)
• Pica The Dutch Centre for Library Automation (NL)
• SOLINET: The Southeastern Library Network (US)
• Special Libraries Association (US)
• Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) (NL)
• WG-ISUS Working Group on Information Services and User Support
• United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG)
• Virtual Institute of Information The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information's search and link network for telecommunications, cybercommunications, and mass media research. (US)
• Visual Resources Association
• VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia, is a consortium of academic libraries, sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV)
• VTT Information Service (VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland)

Scholarly & Cultural Organisations

• American Council of Learned Societies
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (US)
• Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO): Collections of over Twenty Art Museums to be Digitally Available for Educational Use. (The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD))
• Art Museums Network (US)
• Benton Foundation promotes public interest values and noncommercial services for the National Information Infrastructure through research and policy analysis, outreach to nonprofits and foundations, and print, video, and online publishing. (US)
• The British Council (Australia) (AU)
• Centre for Social & Organisational Learning And Re-animation (SOLAR) Nene College of Higher Education (UK)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media. (US)
• National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCC) (a national advocacy office for historical and archival professions.) (US)
• The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) (US)
• The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a broad coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations formed to assure the fullest possible participation of the cultural sector in the new digitally networked environment (a collaborative project of The American Council of Learned Societies, The Coalition for Networked Information and The Getty Information Institute). | News Center
• National Science Foundation (US)
• National Writers Union (NWU) | Publication Rights Clearinghouse. (US)

Copyright & Intellectual Property Organisations

• The Association of American Publishers (AAP) (US)
• Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (UK)
• CANCOPY (Canadian equivalent of the Copyright Agency Ltd) (CA)
• Copyright & Fair Use Site (Stanford University Libraries) (US)
• Copyright Clearance Center (US)
• Copyright Licensing Agency (UK)
• Digital Future Coalition (DFC) (formed in the fall of 1995 to work towards a thorough, broad and balanced Congressional debate of U.S. copyright law and policy) (US)
• European Copyright User Platform (ECUP) Copyright Focal Point: the 'one-stop shop' for information on European copyright developments! (FI)
• Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Read daily reports on the progress of the [WIPO] Diplomatic Conference from Geneva. (US)
• International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC)
• International Publishers Association (IPA) - the professional organisation of national publishers associations which are recognized as representative of publishers in each country. (SU)
• National Writers Union (NWU) | Publication Rights Clearinghouse. (US)

Government Organisations

• The British Council (UK)
• Canada Foundation for Innovation (CA)
• The Commonwealth Online (UK)
• Commonwealth Education, Training and Research Organisations (UK)
• I'M Europe (Information Market - EUROPE) - European Commission (LU)
• Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC) (CA)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• ISO/TC 46 /SC 9 Information and documentation - Presentation, identification and description of documents
• ISPO (EC Information Society Project Office) (EU)
• Library of Congress.  U.S. Copyright Office  (US)
• UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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