Education for Change, in collaboration with The Research Partnership, has been engaged by the British Library and the JISC to undertake a groundbreaking 3-year study on the research behaviour of the ‘Generation Y’ scholar.

The study is tracking young doctoral students’ (those born between 1982 – 1994) information-seeking behaviour, analysing their habits in online and physical research environments and assessing their usage of library and information sources on and off line.

Note: a summary report of 25pp is available already from the website

“I wanted to let you know about the new issue of Marketing Library Services newsletter. Tho it’s a print-based subscription, for every issue, we choose one article to post online, full-text, for free. This time it’s a great academic case study called “Working with Campus Marketing Classes to Improve Reference Service Visibility.”

After surviving a scenario that could have led to its closure, the Utah State University Press will merge into the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University (USU). Though its output may be somewhat reduced, press staff will aim at more digital and open access publications. The transition is already in process; the new configuration becomes official in July 2010.
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source: LJ

Publisher: vzw Mark and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) of the University College Ghent

A Prior Magazine is a series of publications on contemporary art.

A Prior is a monographic and visionary journal, assembling and commissioning critical text and artists’ work. For each issue the work of three artists is chosen as a starting point for in-depth analysis and artists’ projects. After the monographic and artistic contributions, the last section of A Prior Magazine, VISIONS, consists of a series of textual as well as visual columns comments on contemporary developments and discussions in the fields of art and visual culture.

Content in English.

Editor-in-Chief:

Els Roelandt
A Prior Magazine
p.a. KASK
Campus Bijloke
J. Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Ghent
Belgium

Publisher: University of Wollongong

The Australasian Journal of Peer Learning aims to develop a forum wherein high quality research, practices or innovations in peer learning programs, such as Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) and Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) schemes can be shared.

The Australasian Journal of Peer Learning promotes peer learning as a valuable and versatile teaching and learning strategy with a focus on the higher education environment. The Journal seeks to publish scholarly research that investigates innovations in peer learning including the implementation of programs in varied organisational and cultural contexts and evaluations of such programs that provide an evidential basis for the peer learning activities.

ISSN 1835-856X

Manuscript submission via online system.

Editor:

Phillip Dawson
Lecturer in Education Studies
Office of the PVC (Rural & Regional)
Deakin University

Australasian Journal of Peer Learning is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

The UK Government has long recognised the importance of creativity and knowledge to the UK. It lies behind our investment in research, education and skills and our support for creative industries. Much of this value relies on our ability to access and share information as never before through the Internet.

We are, however, at a crossroads in our relationship with our new digital world.

Digital technology means access to information on a vast scale. It has changed the way people publish and consume works. It allows anyone and everyone to make and distribute quick, cheap and totally accurate copies. Consumers have reached out to grab the potential of this new technology. The copyright debate, once in the hands of the professionals of the creative industries, is now a debate for everyone. Businesses and governments have seen the challenges but have been slow to respond.

Although creative industries and governments are trying to catch up with the digital world, there is more to be done. We must push harder. Policy makers need to get ahead of the game. They need to recognise the need to work with an awareness of what consumers are doing and want to do. And they need to recognise that no single national government has control of the agenda.

We must now work within the international and European framework to ensure copyright keeps up with technology and consumer behaviour. We have to make it simpler, and make it address the concerns of all those who have an interest in the copyright system: business, consumers, creators and copyright owners.