Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

Welcome to Ngunnawal country.

This week the phrase to start our days is

Gaadhalimanyin djara.

It means hunt for the future stars. There are stars in our collections, in our publications, in the advice we provide to the ANU community and our buildings.

Djan yimba (thank you) for all you do to create and bring these stars to our community.

ANU COVID-19

COVID inspections are no longer required!! If you see supplies are running low of hand sanitiser or masks do let the relevant people in your building know.

Please read all the messages from the University about COVID 19.

All COVID updates will be communicated to staff and students via the weekly On Campus email newsletter. You can find previous staff On Campus and student On Campus editions online.

Commonwealth budget

Highlights:

•                 $950 million in additional spending over four years to safeguard our national institutions, train and support creators, and deliver on the vision of our new national cultural policy, Revive. Read more

•                 The Australian Government will commit $33 million in funding over four years in the coming Budget, preserving Australia’s most significant cultural and historical resource. Read more.

•                 Universities Australia comments.

•                 Good funding for privacy and the OAIC - OAIC comments.

Library Staff Consultative Committee

Reminder there is a vacancy in the membership for a staff member in the levels ANU1-4.

Heritage week: Women sharing stories panel

The panel, chaired by Margy Burn, presented stories on fascinating women whose lives and experiences are recorded in Canberra’s collecting institutions. The presenters were:

•                 Nicki Mackay-Sim, Curatorial & Collection Research at the National Library

•                 Kathryn Dan from the ANU Archives

•                 Jennifer Coombes from the Territory Records Office

•                 Antoinette Buchanan from the ACT Heritage Library

Kathryn spoke about Mavis Robertson, pioneer of the superannuation movement, labour activist, feminist, peace campaigner and more. You can see more about her papers here. 

Libguides

The new Libguide on Chat GPT and Generative AI has been well received and significantly used. Thanks so much to Tom and Christian for their work on the guide. Use in the first 3 days was high:

Friday 71 views

Saturday 115 views

Sunday 14 Views

Law & AGLC were the most used guides in this period:

•           AGLC Referencing Style: 1393

•           Law: 609

•           Generative AI: 200

•           Read and Publish (RAP) Agreements: 148.

WHS

The new WHS pages for SIS staff are live. Please go to  https://library-admin.anu.edu.au/intranet/work-health-safety/ to view the website.

Thanks to Margaret, Christian, Michelle and the HSR representatives Peter and Jo for their contribution.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for changes.

Academic Board

The Board considered many substantial matters including:

·       Reports from the Vice-Chancellor and Chair

·       Report from the DVC (International and Corporate)

·       Academic Risk Monitoring Report

·       Scholarly Information Services Annual Report and Library Advisory Committee

·       CRS and CRN Grades Analysis Report Semester 1 & 2 2021

·       Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) AND GoS Longitudinal Report

·       Exams Working Group Update and Recommendations

·       Student First Update

·       ANU Employability Framework

·       Hot Topic - Future of Grand Challenges

·       Amendments to the Policy: English Language Admission Requirements and Post-Admission Support

Student Critical Incidents

Last year, the University Experience division embarked on reviewing and refreshing the Student Critical Incident policy and procedure, following consultation with the Colleges and Service Divisions. A framework has been developed for managing student incidents. A new resource: Supporting Students in Distress has been developed. The flipbooks will be distributing them across the University in the coming weeks. The guidance provided in this resource will hopefully assist staff in providing the first response to support students, and for staff to know when to escalate or refer to additional help.

2023 ANU Service Effectiveness Assessment

Thanks to those who have completed the survey. If you have not yet done that please try to complete it.

Thank you.

CAUL & CONZUL

·       CAUL awarded $38,000 in grant funding this month to nine CAUL Member institutions across Australia and New Zealand in its second year of the Open Educational Resources Collective Pilot DIY Open Textbook Grant Program.

Copyright

·       EU legislation to disclose AI training data could trigger copyright lawsuits - A late provision reportedly added to the EU’s forthcoming AI Act would force companies like OpenAI to disclose their use of copyrighted training data. Already, a number of high-profile AI firms have been hit by copyright lawsuits.

·       Rights retention: a primer from UKRN -  a new UKRN primer is focused on why and how authors can retain their rights.

·       IT copies right? Generative AI & Copyright law.

National Reconciliation Week

National Reconciliation Week is the 27 May – 3 June. The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2023, Be a Voice for Generations, encourages all Australians to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – where we live, work and socialise. Do take some time to talk to your colleagues and think about how we can support all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.

There are great resources available on the website.

Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke

Historian and archaeologist Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FAHA chaired the ANU Library Advisory Committee with success. His distinguished career included Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU from 1982-1990 and many appointments and awards.

We extend our sincere condolences to Graeme’s family, his many friends and colleagues.

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

Coming events

ALIA Information Online 2023

When? 17-18 May 2023

Where?  Online

More details. More details here.

Open Repositories 2023

When? 12-15 June 2023

Where?  Stellenbosch, South Africa

More details. The theme for the conference will be Repositories unlocked for machine and humankind. Click here for more information.

From HR

Dear all,

The Carers' Career Development Assistance Fund (CCDAF) Round 2, 2023 is currently open, with a closing date of Friday 9 June 2023.

Please let your areas and colleagues know that applications are currently open.

The CCDAF is for individual academic and professional staff with caring responsibilities who require support to participate in significant national or international conferences, workshops or symposia that contribute to their careers.

Grants of up to $2,000 are available for reasonable costs relating to care of dependants where existing care arrangements are not available.

Types of costs covered may include:

• child care costs
• care costs for dependants other than children
• airfares for the dependant to accompany the staff member

Further information and how to apply via https://services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/supporting-development/carers-career-development-assistance-fund-ccdaf

Direct any queries about this grant opportunity to HRD.Development@anu.edu.au

Kind regards,

Kate Witenden

Chief People Officer

Human Resources Division | Chancelry Building 10A

The Australian National University | Canberra ACT 2601

ARDC

White Bandicoot - standards for data repository quality assessment, metadata and data cataloguing

As part of the Australian and New Zealand Data Quality Interest Group, this session discusses standards for automated data repository quality assessment, metadata annotation and data cataloguing. Prof Douglas Boyle, University of Melbourne, discusses issues and provides new insights. Watch the video here.

Protecting Australia from Invasive Species with the Biosecurity Commons

Biosecurity Commons is a ground-breaking platform that will change how we analyse and respond to biosecurity threats such as plant pests, weeds or diseases arriving with air and sea cargo, passengers or mailed parcels.

The platform can provide information about where to look for a disease or pest, where it might spread, what impacts it might cause, how long it will take to eradicate, and when a region is free from it. Read more here.

Interview with Chief Investigators: Australian Text Analytics Platform and the Language Data Commons of Australia

The Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) and the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) are collaborative projects led by the University of Queensland and supported by the Australian Research Data Commons to develop infrastructure for researchers who work with language data. In this blog series, interviews with the Chief Investigators of the two projects are featured. In each post, they present their answers to three questions:

• What is your role in these projects? (What do you/your team do as part of your participation?)
• What excites you most about the projects? (What motivates you to participate?)
• What advice would you give someone who wants to get started with text analytics, corpus linguistics, or language data collection?

This blog post features Louisa Willoughby (LW), Martin Schweinberger (MS) and Nick Thieberger (NT). The interview was undertaken via email, and ARDC is grateful to Kelvin Lee from the Sydney Corpus Lab for his assistance in undertaking the interviews and creating these blog posts. Read more here.

Telling Human Stories with Time-Layered Cultural Map

Patterns in HASS and Indigenous research data are being revealed and visualised using the Time-Layered Cultural Map and the Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places.

Read more here.

ANU Press and open access

MIT Press receives $10 million endowment gift for open access to knowledge

The gift establishes the Arcadia Open Access Fund to support open access books and journals in science and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Read more.

Bloomsbury Open Collections

A “collective-action approach to funding open access books which is currently in its pilot phase”. Read more.

Missing a golden opportunity? An analysis of publication trends by income level in the Directory of Open Access Journals 1987–2020

The article by David Druelinger and Lai Ma found that in 2020, the number of articles published in DOAJ journals by authors affiliated with high-income countries exceeds the sum of the other income categories. Read more.

Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All

This new book by Peter Baldwin published by MIT finds that there are many players and many initiatives that have only been partially successful in delivering OA. He concludes recommending that “The monies needed to make all past and future scholarly work available to anyone anywhere are already present in the library system”. I argue that it is not about money but incentives and the publishing system will need to be influenced to make a major change. Read more.

New titles

More Than Fiscal: The Intergenerational Report, Sustainability and Public Policy in Australia

The Australian Constitution and National Identity

Open repository

Open Access Week 2023

“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29): The website is up now.

The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023

Jamie Carmichael, Jessica Thibodeau, and Chef Roy Kaufman’s blog post has many gems including 82% of accepted manuscripts included institutional affiliation and/or funder data. They interviewed representatives from institutions, publishers, funders, researchers, service providers, PID providers, and industry associations to capture a broad view of the current state of metadata and PIDs across the ecosystem:

·       Researchers: There was overwhelming consensus among stakeholders that researchers shoulder a significant administrative burden to assert or re-assert data (e.g., institution affiliation, funder ID), ultimately disrupting and delaying scientific discovery.

·       Institutions: Because of metadata inconsistencies throughout the research lifecycle, institutions deploy labour-intensive workarounds to manually reconcile funding eligibility and APC billing, as well as normalise unstructured data across disparate systems for comprehensive analysis.

·       Funders: Missing metadata (e.g., registered grant DOIs, institution affiliation) makes it difficult and costly to link funding to research outputs, presenting potential barriers to open access uptake, problematic impact tracking, and incomplete analysis to inform future investments.

·       Publishers: Metadata breakages interfere with business transformation initiatives, contributing to high operational and opportunity costs and complicating fulfillment of open access agreement terms and analysis of deal performance to inform future decisions.

New research resources

·       BCSH guideline for the use of anti-D immunoglobulin for the prevention of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn

·       Effect of a behavioural intervention in obese pregnant women (the UPBEAT study): A multicentre, randomised controlled trial

·       Inflammatory signalling in fetal membranes: Increased expression levels of TLR 1 in the presence of preterm histological chorioamnionitis

·       E-cigarettes and pregnancy. Is a closer look appropriate?

·       Considerations on anthropogenic modifications of a corpse: the case of the Lapita burials at Teouma (Vanuatu) [Reflexions sur la transformation anthropique du cadavre: le cas des sepultures Lapita de Teouma (Vanuatu)]

Keeping up to date

UK universities open access publishing deal with Springer Nature

UK universities agree open access publishing deal with Springer Nature. Following a year-long negotiation led by Jisc, UK universities have agreed to a new, three-year read and publish open access (OA) deal with Springer Nature. The deal meets the sector’s requirements to reduce costs and to expedite full and immediate open access in more than 2,500 Springer Nature titles, including Nature, the Nature research journals, and the Palgrave portfolio. Read more here.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning

The report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuse and overreach of technology. Understanding and meeting the diverse needs of students and finding ways of cultivating institutional communities that support student well-being and belonging is also identified as significant. The key Technologies and Practices are:

·       AI-Enabled Applications for Predictive, Personal Learning

·       Generative AI

·       Blurring the Boundaries between Learning Modalities

·       HyFlex (i.e., students enrolled in a course can participate on site, synchronously online, or asynchronously online as preferred)

·       Microcredentials

·       Supporting Students’ Sense of Belonging and Connectedness.

College & Research Libraries

The May 2023 issue is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and individual articles. Articles include:

·       Dan DeSanto. “Carrots and Sticks: A Qualitative Study of Library Responses to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 Open Access Policy.”

·       Sarah R. Jones, Emily Lapworth, and Tammi Kim. “Assessing Diversity in Special Collections and Archives.”

ChatGPT advice on Archival Research

Jane Stevenson’s blogpost starts “I imagine many of you have tried asking ChatGPT questions like these, but we thought it was worth providing this blog, for those who haven’t tried it out. For anyone who has managed to avoid the headlines around this technology, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022.”

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) State of the Profession Report

The complimentary Executive Summary highlights the roles of Academic law libraries managing technology services essential for research, general operations, and communication.

Information Awareness Month

This year’s theme is The Next Wave: Empowering Information Professionals for the Future.

·       InfoGovANZ released the Information Governance (IG) Industry Report 2023 - read about the latest trends and access here.

·       The launch of IAM 2023 took place with the Director-General of the National Archives, followed by a discussion on the IG Industry Report 2023. If you missed the event, you can view a recording here.

·       Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) panel – InfoGovANZ recording of this event is on Vimeo. Speakers Sven Bluemmel, Victorian Information Commissioner; Angelene Falk, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner; Samantha Gavel, NSW Privacy Commissioner; Paxton Booth, Queensland Privacy Commissioner, along with event moderator Susan Bennett, Executive Director of InfoGovANZ shared valuable insights.

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