The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provided support for this feasibility study, which outlines one possible approach to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments...

Comparing the labour market returns to numeracy and cognitive ability in Indonesia and the United States, this paper argues that different economic characteristics between developing and developed countries may require workers with different skills. Different economic characteristics between developing and developed countries may require workers with different skills, resulting in different returns to the same...

The two critical needs that underlie this study are "the need to recognize the risk to a literal and metaphorical recording of our society, culture, and heritage, and the need to fashion a coordinated response to save and preserve sound recordings," according to this US report. The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 sets up...

Special collections and archives are increasingly seen as element s of distinction that serve to differentiate a n academic or research library from its peers. In recognition of this, the Association of Research Libraries conducted a survey in 1998 (reported in Panitch 2001) that was transformative and led directly to many high - profile initiatives...

This paper explores the strategic challenges confronting Australia as shifting power balances in Asia produce new calculations among the region's major powers. Building on Power and Choice, the Lowy Institute's major report on Asian Security Futures, Raoul Heinrichs argues that while US primacy or a 'concert of Asia' are the most preferable futures for Australia...