This blog has been superseded

since I am still receiving comments on this blog, I am sending another notice about it being superseded by

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/

regards

Shirley

New blog address

from today, my blog will be at http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/

Unfortunately, the new blog location cannot import the data from this old blog, but this blog will remain, in case you still need the old info

ALIA Aurora Scholarship

http://www.alia.org.au/awards/aurora.scholarship/

Funds of up to $4 000 are available each year to support attendance by an ALIA member at the Aurora Leadership Institute. The Aurora Foundation conducts the institute which aims to assist future leaders in the library and associated cultural and information industry to maximise leadership skills and potential.

The purpose of the scholarship is to enable an ALIA member to attend the Institute where this would otherwise be difficult due to the financial commitment required.

The scholarship is open to personal financial members of ALIA who meet the following criteria:

1. meet the Aurora criteria;
2. are members of ALIA;
3. provide evidence of personal commitment and contribution to ALIA [1]; and
4. include a statement (one page maximum) outlining how they would expect to contribute effectively to the profession and to ALIA as a result of attending Aurora.

ALIA members who wish to be considered for the scholarship must follow the procedures below:

1. apply to Aurora as set out in the Aurora Foundation’s call for nominations;
2. indicate in their application to the Aurora Foundation that they wish to be considered for the ALIA Aurora Scholarship.

The Aurora selection committee will make a recommendation to the last meeting of the calendar year of the ALIA Board of Directors concerning the winner of the ALIA Scholarship.

Information about how to apply for the Aurora Institute will be accessible when it becomes available later in the year.

The successful recipient(s) of the scholarship will be required to:

1. prepare a report on the Aurora experience for the benefit of the broader ALIA community. The report will be presented to the next meeting of the Board of Directors (usually May) and may be published in an appropriate ALIA publication and/or posted to ALIA e-prints. Such a report will make due acknowledgment of support received from ALIA to enable attendance at Aurora;
2. if appropriate, make a presentation on the Aurora experience at an ALIA event and be prepared to assume all costs associated with attending such an event.

Scholarship applicants should note carefully that applications for the Aurora Institute are not held over from one year to the next.

[1] Personal commitment and contribution to ALIA includes but is not necessarily limited to service to the Association as:

• member of committee or policy advisory group;
• convenor, treasurer, secretary or active committee member of an ALIA group;
• member of organising committee of a major conference, seminar or symposium.

New SHERPA/RoMEO Features

SHERPA runs RoMEO as a service to academic authors and repository managers around the world to summarise publishers’ policies and copyright transfer agreements relating to open access archiving.

SHERPA is pleased to announce that it has added three new features to its RoMEO service.  The RoMEO homepage now includes a ‘News’ section, which has been added to help users stay up-to-date.

The ‘Recently Added Publishers’ section allows users to benefit from being able to see the latest RoMEO additions at a glance.

RSS feeds are now available with the 12 latest additions to the RoMEO site.

In addition, this information is now available in the form of an email alerting service.  If you would like to sign up for this service please contact Jane H. Smith at jane.h.smith@nottingham.ac.uk.

IDEA 2008: Enabling Technology: Forging a Digital Future

http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/idea2008/

12 & 13 November 2008
Melbourne Convention Centre

Purpose

IDEA 2008 events will:

• provide a national, cross-sectoral forum for discussing innovation and technology in education
• provide a showcase for Australian projects focused on technology in education
• share intelligence on emerging technologies within education and supporting sectors that will impact education
• foster alliances and communities of practice around technologies used by the Australian education community.

Events

IDEA 2008 is a series of events catering to a variety of audiences across two days:

IDEA Lab – Interoperability Workshop
Morning of 12 November 2008
IDEA Lab is a series of workshops aimed at education infrastructure implementers, providing updates on technical developments in interoperability. This year’s event will provide an update on recent developments relevant to the Australian Education community.

Technology in Education Open Forum
Afternoon of 12 November 2008 and all day 13 November 2008
This one and a half day open forum will focus on enabling technologies and infrastructure to forge a digital future and act as agents for positive change. It is aimed at policy makers and implementers responsible for education technology and vendors wishing to integrate their services into education infrastructure.

IMS GLC Learning Impact Award Australian Regional Finals
Showcase and judging: Afternoon of 12 November 2008
Awards ceremony: Afternoon of 13 November 2008
The Technology in Education Open Forum will include a showcase and judging of the Australian Regional Finals of the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact awards. The Learning Impact Awards and Recognition Program recognizes outstanding applications of technology that address the most significant challenges facing the education community. The awards are unique for their recognition of the use of technology in context. The top Australian finalists will receive support to attend the international IMS GLC Learning Impact Awards in Barcelona in 2009.

registrations now open

How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content

http://www.sic.ox14.com/howreadersnavigatetoscholarlycontent.pdf

Abstract
There have been many studies using web logs that calculate where users of
scholarly resources were referred from, but this approach doesn’t indicate
where those users started their research, merely the details of the last “hop”
before hitting a content website. This research repeats an earlier study
performed in 20051 by Scholarly Information Strategies (for whom the authors
were consultants) that actually asks researchers about their preferred start
points. The subtle shifts in user preferences provide a valuable insight into
user navigation, the features that they find useful in publisher web sites, and
the role and effectiveness of library technologies. Readers are more likely to
arrive within a journal web site at the article or abstract level than ever before
and this has significant implications for publisher web site design. As a
consequence some of the features of publisher web sites may become
harder to find and, as more functionality transitions to the reader’s preferred
starting point, some of the features may also become less relevant to the
researcher. The most highly sought-after features of journal web sites are
content alerting services, but not personalisation and not search functions.
These findings shed light on how publishers should engineer their web sites
to meet reader navigational behaviour.

Books in a virtual world: The evolution of the e-book and its lexicon

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014626/01/Armstrong_BooksinaVirtualWorld_JOLIS.pdf

Chris Armstrong, Information Automation Limited
Abstract
Over recent years there has been considerable confusion over the use of the term ‘e-book’, and this article examines the variety of definitions used to date while proposing a definitive construct. Beginning by examining the definitions of ‘book’, the paper moves on to consider the essential element of a book – the content, and to examine publishing and structural aspects of e-books, as well as their place in libraries, before arriving at a final definition. The definition and its derivation embrace all of the issues that affect the way in which e-books are understood and used today. In conclusion, the article looks at both the genesis of e-books, and the stage of acceptance and adoption that they have reached, with brief reference to 3rd-generation e-book readers available at the time of writing.

Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Policy, andAcademic Culture; Clifford Lynch

http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/PDFs/CIP_Hndbk_Copyright_Law_ch9.pdf

This chapter discusses the following topics:
􀂾 Creation of the scholarly record
􀂾 The central role of fair use in academic production
􀂾 Public domain and orphan works
􀂾 University missions as determining policy choices
􀂾 The role of university presses and scholarly societies

source: Open access news

Registration Grant to attend ALIA Information Online 2009

The Invitation is for full registration to ALIA Information Online 2009, for an Australian-based attendee.
Please provide the following information:

• • Name and qualifications
  • Full contact details
  • Details of present position
  • Membership of professional association (must be an ALIA member, individual or institutional)
  • No more than a 300 word statement
    • • of your reasons for wanting to attend this conference
      • the expected benefits
      • and how you intend to disseminate those benefits.

2008 Deadline
Applications must be received by 17 October 2008. The recipient will be notified by 31 October 2008
Selection Guidelines
Preference will be given to:

• • first-timers to the ALIA Information Online Conference
  • applicants who have otherwise been unable to attend a previous ALIA Information Online Conference

Report
The recipient will undertake to write a brief report for publication in inCite by the end of May of the year of the conference.

Submit application
The application should be sent to the Secretary of Information Online 2009
gerard.egan@information-online.com.au

Journal of Epithelial Biology & Pharmacology

http://www.bentham.org/open/jebp/

Publisher: Bentham open

Journal of Epithelial Biology & Pharmacology is an international journal devoted to publishing outstanding reviews and original research work on the interaction of drugs and molecules with epithelial systems.

The scope of the journal includes epithelium-associated cellular function, development, differentiation, pharmacology, biochemistry, genomics and proteomics. Coverage in the journal also includes epithelium-associated general pharmacology, molecular and cellular pharmacology, and neurological, cardiovascular, genitourinary, pulmonary, renal, behavioral, gastrointestinal, immunological, cancer and endocrine pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug metabolism, and toxicology.

Journal of Epithelial Biology & Pharmacology combines epithelium-associated molecular and cellular biochemistry and pharmacology with pharmaceutical science to understand the pathogenesis and potential therapy of the disease.

The journal is peer – reviewed and is published online for open access.

ISSN: 1875-0443

Editor-in-Chief:

Xiangdong Wang, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Fudan University
Visiting Professor of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biosciences, NCSU USA