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A review of digital humanities resources, including associations, funding bodies, tutorials, protocols and conferences.

From a survey of ACRL member libraries, this report examines the scope of library participation in data research services while identifying future opportunities for collaboration, especially in research intensive institutions.

Abstrat: "Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

"This new SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process."

"The term "altmetrics" is short for "alternative metrics." These are a range of nontraditional metrics that can be used to assess the impact that scholars have on research in their areas of study. They can include the number of article downloads, citation of research in online news/social media sources, Mendeley bookmarks (a web-based system for sharing and extracting information from PDFs and other electronic documents), and nontraditional forms of scholarship. "

Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics: libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives new publics, movements going global and communities of the future manifestos for the next generation new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need visualization and data-driven futures mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures crowdsourcing (and/in) the future teleologies and their discontents new and imagined creative practices

A review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, with emphasis on UK initiatives

A review of new scholarly publishing metrics and how they compare to traditional impact measures.

"A report by the Athabasca University Graduate Students' Association (AUGSA)"

Conference taking place at Rice University, February 27-28, 2012. Speaker bios and abstracts available at the conference page.

Complete multimedia ebook from the December 2011 conference featuring video and audio of keynotes and presentations, posters, tweets and blog content

Announcement for NEBHE's program to be held October 15, 2012 in Boston, focusing on disruptive online education initiatives and open education models and the implications for traditional university education. Preliminary program available at: http://www.nebhe.org/info/pdf/events/conference/october2012/UniversityUnbound_PreliminaryAgenda.pdf

The Fourth International m-libraries Conference 24-26 September 2012 The Open University, UK, The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"

A 15-chapter open access book published by de Gruyter focusing on knowledge access efforts by libraries worldwide, with considerations given to libraries furthering lifelong learning and library spaces.

Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"

Symposium scheduled for December 6, 2011, from a partnership of BLC ,NERCOMP, NITLE,, featured speaker Kathryn Tomasek of Wheaton College

Report from the 2012 Summit of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE,) which focused particularly on digital scholarship, open educational resources and academic collaboration.