Consultation Paper

In February 2008 the Information Futures Commission released a consultation paper: “Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: choices for the University of Melbourne.”

We invite you to read and respond to this paper.

On this web site, you will find a ‘commentable’ version of the paper. To see a complete table of contents, go to the shaded box at the end of a page and click the “filed under consultation paper” link.

The Consultation Paper is organised in four sections:

  1. Introduction, outlining the scope of the Commission’s deliberations and the purpose of this Consultation Paper
  2. The Changing Environment considers how changes in society and technology, changes in scholarly practice, and the public mission of universities impact on the place and use of scholarly information.
  3. Melbourne’s Place Today outlines the history and current state of scholarly information at the University, and examines how other institutions compare and changes they are undertaking.
  4. Summary Outlook and Strategic Choices examines our aspirations and the questions they raise for the future of our scholarly information, infrastructures and spaces.

To add a comment, click the “comment” link at the end of the relevant web page.

To return to this summary page, click the Consultation Paper link in the right-hand menu.

We have also provided downloadable versions of the paper, via the Melbourne University ePrints repository.