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AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies):
An Indigenous-led, national institute that celebrates, educates and inspires people from all walks of life to connect with the knowledge, heritage and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples. More at About AIATSIS.
Affiliated authors:
Authors who have provided acknowledgement that an organisation has supported them to conduct their research.
Aggregated databases:
Set of searchable electronic publications and information which is aggregated and organised for rapid search and retrieval.
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CARM:
CAVAL's Archival and Research Materials storage centre.
CAVAL:
Cooperative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries. For full description, see About CAVAL.
Collection:
A range of curated resources in physical and digital formats acquired and managed by the Library to support learning, teaching and research at the University.
Collection management:
Strategies and processes for acquisition, retention, management, preservation, and provision of access to information sources to support the needs of the University community.
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources):
Enables resource suppliers to produce consistent, comparable and credible usage data for their online content allowing librarians and other interested parties to compare the usage data they receive, and to understand and demonstrate the value of the electronic resources to which they subscribe.
Curriculum Architecture:
Curriculum Architecture is the structural design of programs and pathways between qualifications, allowing academics to refresh courses using RMIT design principles and standards. For the Library, it includes assisting with a digital spine covering reading lists, resource curation, and integration of study support resources and services within Canvas.
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Deselection:
The identification, removal and deactivation or disposal of items from the collection that are no longer required. .
Digital accessibility:
Taking into consideration how digital assets will be used by anyone with visual, auditory, motor, cognitive, or other disability (Vision Australia)
Digital Learning Objects - DLOs:
DLOs may include short-form educational videos, learning modules, infographics, multimedia presentations, simulations and other interactive or instructional content.
Digital Rights Management:
A method of protecting copyright for digital media. This includes the use of technologies that limit the copying and use of copyrighted works and proprietary software.
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Ephemeral materials:
Includes publications that are transitory, grey literature and street literature. Examples include items produced in the form of advertising, pamphlets, handbills, broadsides, minutes of meetings, posters, information sheets, announcements, bulletins, newsletters, moving images and photographic documentation. These materials may be published outside of official or normal channels.
Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA):
An acquisition model which allows access to a large publisher collection over a period (typically one year) with a contractual obligation to a minimum level of spend at the end of that period. The usage of resources over the period is then often used to determine which resources are then purchased in perpetuity up to the contracted value.
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General Collection:
The General Collection refers to the scholarly information resources of the Library, in all formats and in all modes of access, except those items located in the Special Collection, University Archives, Research Repository, Digital Object Repository, Digital Preservation Repository System, CAVAL Collective Shelf and CARM Shared Collection.
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Learning resources:
Learning materials identified by academics to help students complete the requirements of courses. They can include textbooks, essential and recommended readings, streaming video, and further resources in print or electronic form.
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI):
A technical standard that allows different educational technology tools and platforms to seamlessly integrate with each other, such as a learning management system and a third-party application for videos, quizzes or content.
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Open access:
A set of principles and a range of practices aimed at making all scholarly outputs freely available, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, or use them for any lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers.
Open Education Resources (OERs):
Teaching, learning and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
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Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) / Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA):
Acquisition models that allow resources to be made discoverable by the library to users, but the resources are only selected and purchased by the library after a defined trigger action, such as a number of views or uses by library users. PDA and DDA models are available for e-books and streaming video resources. Typically, e-books will be owned in perpetuity after acquisition in a PDA/DDA model but video PDA/DDA is often subscription based, providing time limited access.
Paywalled content:
Resources/information content that has restricted access, requiring a purchase or a paid subscription.
Perpetual access:
The ability to retain access to electronic materials after the contractual agreement for these materials has passed.
Prescribed/required resources:
An essential resource in the course that is intended as a primary source of study material to help students to complete assessment tasks.
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Read & Publish/Transformative Agreements:
Refers to contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on subscription to read access to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access to publishing services.
Recommended resources:
Any additional resources that complement the subject study materials as a secondary or supplementary resource, which are optional.
Research outputs:
University research materials created by University authors. This includes records for books, book chapters, commissioned reports, conference papers, creative works, journal articles, datasets, open educational resources, Masters by Research theses, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) theses and Professional Doctorate theses.
Research Repository:
RMIT University’s institutional repository.
Resource sharing:
The borrowing, lending or supplying copies of books, book chapters and journals articles and other scholarly resources between libraries. This is often referred to as document delivery and interlibrary loan.
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Special Collection:
These are the materials housed under conditions of restricted access which may include old, rare, vulnerable or valuable items.
Streaming media:
Subscription services that license on-demand access to streaming video and audio content.
Scholarly resources:
Information resources used in the process of teaching, learning and research. They include books, e-books, textbooks, eTexts, journals, articles, reports, standards, scores, video, audio, visual resources and digital archives. Learning technologies are not scholarly resources. However, the boundaries can be unclear, such as in the case of the digital anatomy resources.
Skills Immersion:
Is the strategic alignment of curriculum-aligned study support within courses and programs to support students' skill development and academic success. Skills Immersion utilises a data-driven approach to identify the courses and programs where in-curriculum study support is likely to have the greatest impact on student learning and success.
Student works:
Works created by students during their studies, including non-traditional or creative research outputs.
Subscription:
Resources that are time limited and require an annual subscription payment to continue access to the resource.
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG):
Is a standard to define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Although these guidelines cover a wide range of issues, they cannot address the needs of people with all types, degrees, and combinations of disability. These guidelines also make web content more usable for individuals with changing abilities due to aging and can improve usability for users in general. To find out more, go to What is the WCAG standard.
