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With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective

The new members to HathiTrust include the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Arizona State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Madrid, HathiTrust's first international partner.

The coalition includes Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

University of Washington Provost Ana Mari Cauce has allocated permanent funding to the eScience Institute to stimulate the hiring of faculty members who conduct cutting-edge research on methodologies for data-driven discovery, and whose teaching and outreach will put advanced tools and techniques into the hands of UW's broad base of outstanding researchers.

The University of Michigan Press has started an e-book rental program for over 250 e-books.

University of Haifa and New Jearsey Institute of Technology collaborate on astudy which shows that "prediction of an online community's survival chances cannot be based on quantitative data relating to the size of the group or even to its growth rate alone. A social predictor, on the other hand, can much better predict its chances,"

UNIVERSITY AND CYBERSPACE: RESHAPING KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE NETWORKED AGE Torino, Italy, 28-30 June 2010

How Digital curation and DAM is one and the same thing

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 collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will identify and examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process. The project's goal is to discover researchers' needs and desires in a small sample of UK and US universities and to identify the significant patterns, intersections, gaps and issues from researchers' points of view, whatever the source of such services. This study will document the nature and scope of research support services, providing examples of good practice, recommending areas where new practice might emerge, and identifying possible areas and scope for collaboration within and between institutions

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

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science has released Research Data Stewardship at UNC: Recommendations for Scholarly Practice and Leadership.

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

an incubator initiative of Harvard University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The fascination with completeness is as timeless as it is ingrained. In the last decade, the Internet has made the ambition of universality appear closer to realization than ever before:

another example from Columbia (Brown has several positions)

Microsoft Research Connections and UKOLN, University of Bath, are working in partnership on an exciting and challenging new project to develop a Community Model for Data-Intensive Science.