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26 September, 2008
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22 September, 2008
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eBooks
White Paper: eBooks - The End User Experience. Springer (US)
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Australia
ups the ante on global access to research. 18 September 2008 By Zoë
Corbyn Times Higher Education (UK)
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CALL
TO ACTION: Tell Congress you oppose the Fair Copyright in Research Works
Act. Alliance for Taxpayer Access (US)
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Alliance
for Taxpayer Access. A diverse and growing alliance of organizations
representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions
that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research. (US)
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2008 August 8 Melbourne
Data
Management Planning: Putting Policy into Practice. Australian
Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. http://www.apsr.edu.au/data_management_plan/index.htm
Overheads and podcasts are now available.
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2008 December 4-5 Sydney
Open
Access Publishing: A two-day Public Knowledge Project Workshop.
Australian
Partnership for Sustainable Repositories http://www.apsr.edu.au/open_access_publishing/
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2008 October/November various
cities AAF Shibboleth Rollout Workshop. MAMS,
Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence http://federation.org.au/rollout
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October 13 - 14 Sydney,
Macquarie University
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October 16 - 17 Canberra,
Australian National University
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October 20 - 21 Brisbane,
University of Queensland
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October 27 - 28 Perth, Curtin
University
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November 3 - 4 Adelaide,
University of South Australia
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November 13 - 14 Melbourne,
Monash University
18 September, 2008
12 September, 2008
11 September, 2008
9 September, 2008
8 September, 2008
5 September, 2008
4 September, 2008
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The
Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure, Senator the
Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research,
on 4 September 2008. (AU)
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The
Art of Innovation, address by Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, to the National Press Club.
3 September 2008 (AU)
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Thematic
Analysis: Internationalisation A new publication, 'Internationalisation
of Australian Universities: Learning from Cycle 1 Audits', by Antony
Stella and Colleen Liston. ISBN: 978 1 877090 89 9 AUQA Occasional Publications
Series No: 14 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
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No
Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century.
CLIR pub 142: August, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932326-30-7 Council on Library and
Information Resources (US)
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2008 October 17 Canberra
Cultural
Acquisitions - Where from and what for?: annual one day Seminar.ALIA
Acquisitions Committee. http://www.alia.org.au/groups/acqnat/activities/index.html?2008-10&acqnat
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2008 October 6-7 Atlanta,
GA Collaborative Library Resource Sharing: Standards, Developments,
and New Models for Cooperating: A NISO Educational Forum. http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/resshar08/
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2008 October 29-30 Sydney
Innovative Financing for Universities: exploring the latest and most innovative
financing options.
Informa www.informa.com.au/uni-financing
3 September, 2008
28 August, 2008
27 August, 2008
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AusLIST
online directory. Australian Education International (AU)
* Australian education and
training providers;
* the Australian courses
they deliver around the world; and the
* locations outside of Australia
where those courses are delivered.
25 August, 2008
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2008 September 3-5 Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania "Constant Content and Autonomous Authors - The New Role
of Publishers in the Era of Empowered Authors."
The Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable https://www.sspnet.org/Events/spage.aspx
23 August, 2008
21 August, 2008
20 August, 2008
19 August, 2008
18 August, 2008
15 August, 2008
14 August, 2008
13 August, 2008
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The
Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance.
Editors: Howard I. Browman, Konstantinos I. Stergiou. Ethics In Science
And Enviromental Politics ESEP - Vol. 8, No. 1 Copyright © 2008 Inter-Research.
Published June 03 (DE)
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Fostering
Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge:
a 21st century agenda for the National Science Foundation. Report of
the NSF Taskforce on Cyberlearning. June 24, 2008. The National Science
Foundation (US)
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Project
Bamboo. Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational
effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer
scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information
technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities
research through the development of shared technology services? Project
Bamboo is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (US)
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2008 November 1-3 Chicago
2008
Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) colloquium. Sponsored
by Northwestern University, IIT and the University of Chicago. http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/
11 August, 2008
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O’Brien, L., Brodsky, M., &
Ruwoldt, M. L. (2008). Information
Futures Commission: final report of the Steering Committee, July 2008.
Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne (AU)
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O’Brien, L., Brodsky, M., &
Ruwoldt, M. L. (2008). Melbourne’s
scholarly information future: a ten-year strategy July 2008. Melbourne,
Australia: The University of Melbourne (AU)
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2008 September 2 Parramatta
NSW Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future: A one-day symposium
presented
by the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney.
Contact: Dr Elaine Lally, e.lally@uws.edu.au
8 August, 2008
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2008 December 12 Ourimbah
NSW The 2008 Enhancing Student Success Conference - 'Working Collaboratively
with Students in a Diverse University Environment'
Student Support Services at The University of Newcastle, in association
with ANZSSA (Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association) and
National Disability Co-ordination Officer (NDCO) Program http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/enhancing-student-success/
7 August, 2008
5 August, 2008
2 August, 2008
30 July, 2008
29 July, 2008
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Principles
for [Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)] negotiations. In alliance
with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), CHOICE
and the Internet Industry Association (IIA), the ADA filed a submission
with DFAT, urging Australia to take the lead in ensuring that six vital
principles are not compromised. Australian Digital Alliance (AU)
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The
future of Higher Education. DIUS is working on developing a framework
for Higher Education in the UK for the next ten to fifteen years. We would
like to engage with a wider audience on this and would be interested in
hearing from anyone who might have an interest in one, some or all of the
identified issues using this blog hosted on JISC Involve. Department for
Innovation, Universities and Skills (UK)
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Using
bibliometrics: A new white paper focuses on evaluating research performance
with citation data. Thomson Reuters. Scientific. July 2008 (US)
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Web
of Science®Journal Expansion - Asia Pacific. Thomson Reuters. Scientific.
(US)
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Investigating
Data Management Practices in Australian Universities by Margaret Henty,
Belinda Weaver, Stephanie Bradbury and Simon Porter. Australian Partnership
for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) (AU)
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Scoping
digital repository services for research data management - findings.
UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) feasibility study. A Project of the Office
of the Director of IT Oxford University. Author: Luis Martinez-Uribe (UK)
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Closed
Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering. Australian
Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). (AU)
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Library
3.0: where art our skills? [by] Grace Saw and Heather Todd. WORLD LIBRARY
AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 73RD IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL 19-23
August 2007, Durban, South Africa. Section 151 Reference and Information
Services (EU)
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2008 August 26-27 Sydney
Streamlining
Government Policy Implementation Conference: Drive Change, Innovation and
Communication.
Institute for International Research (IIR) http://www.iir.com.au/streamlininggovt
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2008 October 14 Brisbane
ARROW
Repository Day: Repositories : into the future.
Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) http://arrow.edu.au/news/event2008program.php
22 July, 2008
21 July, 2008
18 July, 2008
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Exposure
Draft of the 2008 NCRIS Roadmap Responses from stakeholders and
the wider community on this Exposure Draft are encouraged and welcomed.
The closing date for responses is Friday 18 July 2008. National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy (AU)
16 July, 2008
11 July, 2008
2 July, 2008
1 July, 2008
30 June, 2008
27 June, 2008
26 June, 2008
25 June, 2008
16 May, 2008
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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)
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Staff
Discussion Paper: Blueprint for Success: The National Agricultural Library
2008-2012. [PDF 34MB] Principal Authors: Eleanor Frierson, Mary Ann
Leonard.
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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)
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D-Lib
Magazine. Volume 14 Number 5/6 May/June
2008 ISSN 1082-9873 (US)
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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)
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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)
15 May, 2008
14 May, 2008
13 May, 2008
12 May, 2008
9 May, 2008
8 May, 2008
3 May, 2008
2 May, 2008
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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)
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National and State Libraries
Australasia (NSLA). Re-imagining
Library Services Strategic Plan (Exposure Draft, April-May 2008) Comments
requested by May 16 2008 (AU)
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Towards
Information Literacy Indicators. Conceptual framework paper prepared
by Catts, Ralph; Lau, Jesus. Paris, UNESCO Information for All Programme
(IFAP), 2008 (FR)
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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)
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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/ )
23 April, 2008
22 April, 2008
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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)
21 April, 2008
19 April, 2008
11 April, 2008
10 April, 2008
8 April, 2008
5 April, 2008
2 April, 2008
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