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Two-Part Webinar: Measuring Use, Assessing Success
September 8 - Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat: Using Library Performance Metrics
September 15 - Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage

NISO Open Teleconference
September 13: IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics) Working Group Update

E-Resource Managment Forum
October 7 - E-Resource Management: From Start to Finish (and Back Again)

2010 Presentations Now Available

It’s in the Mail: Improving the Physical Delivery of Library Resources (Webinar)

RFID in Libraries: Standards and Expanding Use (Webinar)

Discovery to Delivery: Creating a First-Class User Experience (Forum)

Identifiers Part 2: Content Identification: What’s New (Webinar)

Identifier Part 1: What’s in a Name? Latest Developments in Identifiers (Webinar)

KBART & the OpenURL (Webinar)

What It Takes To Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation (Webinar)

From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability (Webinar)

September 8 - WEBINAR: Measuring Use, Assessing Success, Part I *** September 13 – TELECONFERENCE: IOTA Working Group Update *** October 7 - FORUM: E-Resource Management (Chicago, IL)

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NISO, IU Receive Mellon Grant to Advance Tools for Quantifying Scholarly Impact from Large-scale Usage Data

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., and BALTIMORE, Md. -- A $349,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University Bloomington will fund research to develop a sustainable initiative to create metrics for assessing scholarly impact from large-scale usage data.

IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing associate professor Johan Bollen and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will share the Mellon Foundation grant designed to build upon the MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) project that Bollen began in 2006 with earlier support from the foundation. Bollen is also a member of the IU School of Informatics and Computing's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) and the IU Cognitive Science Program faculty.

The new funding for "Developing a Generalized and Sustainable Framework for a Public, Open, Scholarly Assessment Service Based on Aggregated Large-scale Usage Data," will support the evolution of the MESUR project to a community-supported, sustainable scholarly assessment framework. MESUR has already created a database of more than 1 billion usage events with related bibliographic, citation and usage data for scholarly content. More>>>

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Featured Event

E-Resource Management: From Start to Finish (and Back Again)
October 7, 2010
Chicago, IL

About the Forum

ERMs support many pieces -- what strategies do we have to work with these pieces, and what pieces are still missing? The “start to finish and back again” of this event will take attendees through the various stages of working with an active ERM in your library. More>>>

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Media Coverage

CNI Podcast: Karen Wetzel on Creating Standards for Supplemental Journal Article Materials

Karen A. Wetzel is the Standards Program Manager for NISO, the National Information Standards Organization. She manages the process of standards development, oversee activities of the technical committees creating NISO standards, and organizes outreach and education programs related to those standards. Wetzel spoke with EDUCAUSE at the Coalition for Networked Information 2010 Spring Member Meeting, where she presented the session, "Standards and Best Practices for Datasets and Other Supplemental Journal Article Materials." More>>>

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