NATIONAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS FORUM (NSCF)
A 2007 Forum – ‘Improving Access to Australian Publicly Funded Research – Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy’ was held at The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science in Canberra on Monday July 16. (See www.humanities.org.au/Events/NSCF/NSCF2007/NSCF2007.htm.)
The National Scholarly Communications Forum is a body sponsored by the four Australian learned academies, with a membership from a wide range of bodies representing academics, independent researchers, writers, librarians, publishers, together with specialists in copyright and in the new digital technologies.
The aim of the Forum is to disseminate information changes to the context and structures of scholarly communication in Australia and to make recommendations on what a broad spectrum of participants see as the best developmental policies. To this end, it organises a series of events and conferences where relevant issues are debated, future strategies are proposed and outcomes are recorded through a variety of forms of publications.
Membership of NSCF
The current membership of the National Scholarly Communications Forum is as follows:
- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- Academies Library Committee
- National Academies' Forum
- National Archives of Australia
- Australian Society of Archivists
- National Library of Australia
- Council of Australian University Librarians
- Council of Australian State Libraries
- Australian Council of Library and Information Services
- Australian Library and Information Association
- Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology
- Copyright Agency Limited
- Australian Publishers Association
- Australian Society of Authors
- Internet Society of Australia
- Independent Scholars Association of Australia
- CSIRO