Updated 22 February, 2000

Research Reports and Projects

• ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project - This project intends to provide an effective method for librarians to display and share instructional materials that they have designed for teaching about seeking and evaluating information in a networked environment. Sponsoring Institutions: American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Section, Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee; Coalition for Networked Information; Case Western Reserve University Library (US)
• ADAM , the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a project to develop a WWW information gateway to quality-assured resources on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media, as part of the wider Electronic Libraries Programme. (UK)
• Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project in collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries. Reports of the AAU Task Forces on Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials. A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information. Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment. Association of Research Libraries Washington, DC May 1994 ISBN: 0-918006-24-4
• Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project, 1840-45 (University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, Monash University Library )
• The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme (UK)
• Building Digital Libraries - Digital Library Projects (from TexShare, the State university libraries of Texas) (US)
• CaseLibrary: Managing access to the digital library: a project in the TELEMATICS FOR LIBRARIES programme of the European Commission Directorate-General XIII. | Z39.50 Client (ZNavigator) is currently designed to run on Windows 3.11 and Win 95 PCs.
• Community Architecture for Network Information Systems (CANIS) - an industrial R&D lab. Its mission is to invent the future of the Net, by building large-scale prototypes with real users of fundamentally new technology for global information infrastructure. The focus is on architectures to support analysis of information by communities of users. (University of Illinois) (US)
• Coordinated InterLibary Loan Administration Project (CILLA) The Cilla Feasibility Study is funded by a grant from the National Priority (Reserve) Fund, through the AVCC's Improved Information Infrastructure Program 2(a), with additional funds from ACLIS, and with administrative support provided by CAVAL Ltd (AU)
• Final Report & Recommendations of the Feasibility Study, Judith Greenaway, CILLA Project Manager. (March 1997)
• The Cilla Request For Tender is funded by a grant from the AVCC's National Priority (Reserve) Fund, Improved Information Infrastructure Program 2(a), and The National Library of Australia. (Coordinated InterLibrary Loan Administration Project)
• CURL Exemplars for Digital ARchiveS (CEDARS) - aims to address the strategic, methodological and practical issues and will provide guidance for libraries in best practice for digital preservation - Under the overall direction of CURL (the Consortium of University Research Libraries), and with funding from JISC/CEI through the eLib programme (UK)
• Decomate: a new digital library project on delivery of copyright materials in electronic form (Tilburg University (Co-ordinating partner), London School of Economic and Political Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona )
• DESIRE Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education (funded in the Telematics for Research Sector of the Fourth Framework Programme by the European Union.)
• Digital Libraries Resources, Research and Projects (from IFLA)
• The Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is developing the information infrastructure to effectively search technical documents on the Internet. (US)
• Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996: Final Report to the National Endowment for the Humanities PS-20781-94 [by] Anne R. Kenney, Principal Investigator, Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation (US)
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) Evaluation of the EEVL Pilot Service, by Iain King & Malcolm Moffat, Heriot-Watt University, September 1996. The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) is a project funded by the eLib Programme in the area of Access to Network Resources. (UK)
• Electronic Copyright Management Systems: Final report of a scoping study for eLib, July 1996. Author: Bill Tuck. c. 1996 LITC, South Bank University.
• eLib Programme. Working Papers, Reports and FIGIT Circulars (UK)
• Evaluation of the Electronic Libraries Programme: Report of a Brief Consultancy for FIGIT/JISC Prepared by Elliot Stern and John Kelleher. Copyright (c)1995 The Tavistock Institute .
• Evaluation of the Electronic Libraries Programme: [Final] Guidelines for eLib Project Evaluation. Prepared by John Kelleher, Elizabeth Sommerlad and Elliot Stern. The Tavistock Institute Evaluation Development And Review Unit.
• Policy Mapping Study - The set-up, operation and content of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Final 2. Prepared by the Tavistock Institute. August 1996. Revised October 1996 The Tavistock Institute Evaluation Development and Review Unit.
• Project Details
• Europagate: Multifunctional Gateway for Information Retrieval Protocols ( a project in the EU Libraries Programme)
• European projects involving Z39.50 (maintained by Rosemary Russell at UKOLN)
• FIDDO (Focussed Investigation of Document Delivery Options) (eLib) (UK)
• The Future of Libraries: Design Brief (Apple Design Project - Apple Research Laboratories)
• Historic Universities Multimedia Network for Innovation in Education System. | Implementation Plan. (HUMANITIES is a project aimed at the introduction of telematic-based Open and Distance Learning in traditional European universities.) (FI)
• ILL Protocol Implementors Group (IPIG) - formed as a subset of the Standard Working Group of the Developers/Implementors Group (DIG) to facilitate the use of the international ILL standard (ISO 10160 & 10161) by U.S. vendors and service providers. ARL NAILDD Project (US)
• Imaging Projects - the Clearinghouse of Image Databases and IMAGELIB listserv archives (University of Arizona Library) (US)
• IMPRIMATUR - Intellectual Multimedia Property RIghts Model And Terminolgy for Universal Reference (ESPRIT Project 20676 funded by The European Commission DG III)
• Improving Graduate Education with a National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (pdf,309kb). Proposal Submitted to the United States Department of Education. Principle Investigators. Edward A. Fox, John L. Eaton, Gail McMillan. Computer Science Graduate School Library. For Three Years Starting September 1, 1996 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (US)
• Educom's Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Project - developing a set of specifications and prototype software for facilitating the growth and viability of distributed learning on the Internet. (US)
• The Integrated Document Access Project (IDA) | Final report (10 January 1996) (Prepared by IDA Project Team, Techsearch Business Services, University of South Australia, for the Council of Australian University Librarians and the National Library of Australia).
• Interlibrary Lending Costs Study 1997 - ACLIS (Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services) (AU)
• Internet 2 Project - a cooperative effort of 106 member universities working together with private member companies and non-profit organizations .... will provide the tools for scientific research and higher education in the 21st century. (US)
• JEDDS Project FAQ (Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software)
• JEDDS software FAQ (Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software)
• JSTOR Journal Storage Project (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) (US)
• The Learnscape Project: Integrative Technology for Learning Communities (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University) (US)
• The Intrinsic Value of Archive and Library Material. List of criteria for imaging and textual conversion for preservation. Results of a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project, by Angelika Menne-Haritz, Nils Brübach (Digitale Texte der Archivschule Marburg Nr. 5 ) (DE)
• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services (an eLib project) (UK)
• NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access presented here have been developed solely for internal NARA use in [their] pilot Electronic Access Project.  (National Archives and Records Administration)  (US)
• The Netskills Network Education and Training Electronic Gateway (NETEG) (Netskills is a project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as part of its Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). ) (UK)
• The New Zealand Digital Library: comprises several demonstration collections -- computer science technical reports, literary works, internet FAQs, the Computists' Communique magazine -- and makes them available over the Web through full-text interfaces. (University of Waikato)
• NLII Instructional Management System (IMS) Project What is needed is a specific set of higher-order standards ...., and a set of tools to enable software developers, teachers and learners to create, manage and access the use of Web-based instructional software. The Instructional Management System (IMS) is this set of standards and tools. (EDUCOM National Learning Infrastructure Initiative) (US)
• The Nordic Metadata Project (FI)
• Northern Territory University Library Benchmarking Project (AU)
• Onion Patch(sm): New Age Public Access Systems: Projects, Research, Products and Services (compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, A.B., M.S., Curator, CyberStacks(sm), Iowa State University, and Coordinator, Science and Technology Section, Reference and Instructional Services Department, Iowa State University Library, Ames, Iowa, and Peter J. Wasilko, Esq., J.D., LL.M., founder of The Invisible College of the Future)
• The Open Journal project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme. The aim is to provide a framework for publishing journals in a network environment, on the World Wide Web in particular.  (UK)
• Overview of EDD (electronic document delivery) research & services: FIDDO report to eLib (March 1996)
• PANDORA Project. Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia: Review of Progress to June 1997 (The National Library of Australia (NLA) is developing an electronic archive called PANDORA to provide long term access to significant Australian online publications.) (AU)
• Preserving & Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia (PANDORA) Project. National Library of Australia ( funded in part through the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) Working Group on Electronic Publishing)
• Project ACORN Access to Course Readings via Networks: an eLib project. (Loughborough University) Project ACORN aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles. (UK)
• Project Aristotle (sm) Automated Categorization of Web Resources: a clearinghouse of projects and research devoted to the automated categorization of Web resources. Compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State University)
• Project PATRON: a new Electronic Library Research initiative in the George Edwards Library funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and part of the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) (UK)
• Projekt "Vorbereitung des Aufbaus einer Verteilten Digitalen Forschungsbibliothek" Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB) [State and University Library of Lower Saxony at Goettingen] - report of a technical working group constituted to analyse the state-of-the-art in the field of digitisation and to define requirements for the establishing of a Distributed Digital Library in Germany. (DE)
• Regional Document Delivery Project (REDD) The electronic document delivery system developed by the Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland Libraries. (AU)
• Report to WAGUL on the feasibility of a collaborative approach to providing cataloguing services for the WA Academic Library Community by Rona Wade and Glenda Henderson, UNILINC Limited, Sydney, 21 April 1997 (AU)
• The British Library Research and Innovation Centre (RIC). Research Plan April 1997 to March 1998 (This Plan is intended to be a working document, giving initial guidance to those interested in submitting research proposals for and in the financial year 1997-98.)
• Scholarly Communications Project University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (US)
• SCOPE Scottish Collaborative On-demand Publishing Enterprise. SCOPE is administered by the Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology (FIGIT) and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). SCOPE is an on-demand publishing project in the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
• SCRAN The Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network is a Millennium Project to build a networked multimedia resource base for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in Scotland.
• See You See a Librarian. A short-term, informal research project called See You See a Librarian,an experiment of the use of the CU-SeeMe technology as applied to librarianship and information seeking. (US)
• 15 Minute Series: "Tools for the Internet Trainer" (InterNIC and Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
• TULIP The University Licensing Program | Final report ( Elsevier Science )
• Value and Impact of Library and Information Services: Call for Proposals.  The British Library Research and Innovation Centre (RIC)  (UK)
• VET EdNA Directory Project (A national VET EdNA Working Party has been established to ensure the development of a relevant directory structure for Vocational Education an Training (VET) information within EdNA and appropriate policy and business rules to guide the operation of the evolving VET component of EdNA.) (AU)
• Metadata - EdNA VET Discussion Paper
• Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue project. (CA)
• VT ETDs: unlocking access to graduate research (Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations) - Scholarly Communications Project, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. (US)
• The ZedWeb Project - Web to Z39.50 Gateway Service project is to provide a service that integrates Australian Z39.50 servers and provides a single web-interface to access the underlying data sources. -partially funded from the National Priority (Reserve) Fund allocation for Improved Library Infrastructure administered by the AVCC Standing Committee on Information Resources. (University of Queensland Library, DSTC, National Library of Australia) (AU)

Research Grant Bodies

• Appointment Procedures for ARC Program Committees and Discipline Panels - Australian Research Council

• Technology Diffusion Program.  Department of Industry, Science & Resources.  (AU)

Research Grants Available

• Higher Education Research in Australia. This site can help you to: apply for a research grant , access statistics and funded research , read analyses of research activity , find out how the benefits of research are, promoted (Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs) (AU)
• DETYA Higher Education Division Research Branch - 1999 Timetable.  (AU)
• Higher Education Innovation Program
• Other Sources of University Funding
•  Evaluations and Investigations Program (EIP)
•  National Teaching Development Grants - Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development (CUTSD)
• National Teaching Development Grants (Organisational) and Staff Development Grants (for 1998, applications close 30 March 1988)
• 1998 Guidelines -National Teaching Development Grants - Individual ; The closing date for applications is 28 April 1997.
• 1997 Guidelines - National Teaching Development Grants - Organisational. The closing date for applications is 5 May 1997.
• 1997 Guidelines - Staff Development Grants. The closing date for applications is 5 May 1997.
• Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Programme (RIEFP)
• 1999 Guidelines (guidelines99.doc) 553K (guidelines99.rtf) 1.08MB
• Download report on 1997 Selection Round for RIEF (1997RIEFSRW2.doc) 36K (1997RIEFSR.rtf) 79K
• National Infrastructure Guidelines: Libraries and Information Technology - Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program (RIEFP) (Australian Research Council)
• Networking the Nation: Regional Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund. $50 million is available each year until 2001/02. All proposals must be registered with the secretariat at an early stage. (Department of Communications and the Arts) (AU)
• SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) - database of research opportunities - InfoEd International, Inc., Guilderland, NY (US)
• Visions of Australia - Visions of Australia aims to make exhibitions of cultural material accessible to more Australians. It provides grants to cultural and community organisations to develop and tour exhibitions of historical and scientific material, visual arts and craft, multimedia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture throughout Australia. (Department of Communications and the Arts) (AU)

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