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The University of Melbourne has topped Australian universities in a major international ranking of scientific papers.

September 4, 2009 – 2:49 pm

nbsp;http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/musse/?p=255…
The rigorous 2009 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities puts Melbourne at No. 51 in the world (up from 58 in 2008 and 64 in 2007) and No. 4 in the Asia–Pacific region (No. 5 in 2008).
This ranking, by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), evaluates and ranks the [...]

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David Rosenthal’s Spring CNI meeting plenary talk

April 16, 2009 – 7:56 am

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At the Spring CNI meeting a few days ago in Minneapolis, David Rosenthal gave an absolutely extraordinary plenary talk on digital preservation. For everybody at the talk who wanted additional details, and for all those who couldn’t be at the talk, David has provided an extended version of his argument (as well as pointers to [...]

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Decentralized IT Governance and Policy in Higher Education

March 12, 2009 – 11:19 am

nbsp;http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/e…
Abstract: This ECAR research bulletin focuses on the challenges and strategies related to integrating IT governance and policy across multiple university entities (schools, colleges, departments, and campuses). The topic of IT governance and IT policy is addressed from the perspective of the relationship between policies that serve specific distributed or decentralized units of the institution [...]

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Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks

February 10, 2009 – 7:06 am

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Primary Research Group has published Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks, ISBN # 1-57440-112-2. The 200-page study presents data on interlibrary loan operations from more than 80 colleges in the United States and Canada; the data focuses particularly on productivity and staff measurement and the impact of new technologies. Just a few of [...]

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