The Assocation for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM Inc) is the pre-eminent professional body in Australasia for tertiary education administrators and managers. Established in 1976 as the Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators (AITEA), members are now found across the breadth of the academic environment, including Universities, TAFE's, Polytechnics and Wanangas, private providers, government departments and other related organisations.  ATEM works to advance the profession of tertiary education administration and management in order to support and develop excellence in professional practice and institutional management.  Please contact Jo Miller as the LTERC / CQU contact person and Nerine Williams as the Institutional Co-ordinator for any general enquiries regarding ATEM/CQU.

Australian Research Council - The ARC has released the full ERA 2010 Ranked Journal List.

Australian Research Online provides access to the contents of Australian university and government research repositories in addition to several other collections of Australian research.  Via this website, you can access some 319,158 Australian research outputs including theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, music recordings and pictures.  The website also provides alerts as to when new records that meet your search criteria are harvested.  (Please note that it may be more helpful to use the advanced search option rather than the basic search option on the home page when searching for material).

Conferences (this list will build up over time):

• Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 4-7, 2011 (submission deadline:  August 14th, 2010)

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Federal Government)

Department of Education and Training (Queensland Government)

Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Federal Government - Minister the Hon Kim Carr)

edna - Education Network Australia - Australia's free online network for educators. Use edna to look up:

• Early Childhood Education
• School Education
• Vocational Education and Training
• Adult and Community Education
• Higher education

eNewsletters: 

• The networker - Subscribe to the monthly newsletter
• SixtySeconds Newsletter - This service aims to keep you informed of Education.au activities, stakeholder news and highlights education related reports with a focus on technology. 

Emerald - A fulltext database to which the Library subscribes (linking oncampus enables the CQUni Profile).  The Emerald Education Newsletter is very good (latest product news, free access to selected journals, calls for papers, news of editorial board appointments, announcements of special issues, etc).  To access, one needs to register and then choose to receive the bi-monthly newsletters via your individual profile.

ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) Journal Title List - as part of the process to finalise the Ranked Journal List for the 2010 implementation of ERA, the ARC has released a Journal Title List.

Researchdoc Registration - Staff/Students

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)

WikiEducator (www.wikieducator.org) - virtual learning space.  The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

• planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
• development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
• work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
• networking on funding proposals developed as free content.