Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

Welcome from Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.

The ANU First Nations Plan is in draft and the consultation has commenced. Later this month it will be released and promoted via On campus and other means for community consultation.

ANU COVID-19

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

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 here.

Library Staff Consultative Committee

The committee met on Tuesday and discussed a wide range of issues including training and the wonderful range of activities occurring across the division.

Record breaking requests!

One year ago we went live with the ExLibris suite of products. The Resource Sharing team reached 10,000 completed requests before the Alma 1-year anniversary.

SIS Staff meeting

The next staff meeting is scheduled for Thursday 21 September – speakers and topic are:

·       How does ANU make decisions and govern itself?

·       ANU Secretary Belinda Farrelly on Governance

·       Megan Easton policy guru on ANU policies

Please note the meeting will commence at 1.30pm.

WHS

Christian is working on the nominations for the OSLO position.

Library Advisory Committee

The Committee will meet in September. The postgraduate representative is now Edan Habel, the new ANUSA HDR Officer.

Statistics for the first half of 2023

We are back in business!

Privacy

A great Privacy newsletter is now out – thank you Alex.

CAUL & CONZUL

·       CAUL is discussing its financial model.

Copyright

·       US Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on intellectual property – a very useful record including videos of hearings and written witness statements are online. Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property – Part II: Copyright.

·       Google has said Australia needs relaxed copyright laws in order to train AI systems and greater flexibility for transferring sensitive data offshore. The comments are part of its submission to the Federal Government's consultation on Supporting responsible AI, which closes this Friday.

·       Copyright Legislation Amendment (Fair Pay for Radio Play) Bill 2023 has been introduced to Parliament. The bill proposes to amend the Copyright Act 1968 to overturn laws that limit radio station payments to artists, remove royalty caps and enable better negotiation measures for fair remuneration.

Prof. Myint Zan visit

Thank you to Wan and the team, Prof. Zan donated four items and enjoyed meeting staff.

Feedback

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

Coming events

Australian Society of Archivists' 2023 National Conference

When? 5 & 6 September 2023

Where?  Melbourne

More details. Rising to our challenges: archives at the ‘G is the theme, drawing inspiration from the ‘G (MCG) as an iconic Melbourne sporting venue and landmark on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Click here for more information.

From HR

Dear colleagues,

The Professional Staff Scholarship Scheme (PSSS) and Professional Staff Development Endowment Fund (PSDEF) Round 2, 2023 is currently open, with a closing date of Friday 1 September 2023, at 5:00 pm.

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

The Professional Staff Scholarship Scheme supports a range of career development programs and initiatives to advance the skills and knowledge of professional staff. Priority is given to development initiatives that provide staff with a formal qualification.

The Professional Staff Development Endowment Fund seeks to assist the development of professional staff of the University to enable them to contribute to the University beyond the expectations of their current role. It is used to support short courses, conferences and comparable professional development initiatives.

Further information for PSSS and how to apply via the website.

Further information for PSDEF and how to apply via the website.

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

Kind regards,

Kate

Kate Witenden

Chief People Officer

ANU Press and open access

Shaping the Future of Scholarly Communication: The Role of Preprint Peer Review

The recording of last week's OASPA webinar is now available along with the panellists’ slides and responses to the many questions asked. The webinar provided an overview of the preprint peer review landscape and different preprint peer review services and looked at how the preprint landscape has evolved and why this is important to researchers, the advancement of science and to the adoption of preprints.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance and University Press Partners Announce the Big Ten Open Books First Collection

In partnership with six member university presses, the University Librarians of the Big Ten Academic Alliance announce the launch of the Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

The first collection on the topic of gender and sexuality studies has been curated from the backlist collections of these university presses:

• Indiana University Press
• Michigan State University Press
• Northwestern University Press
• Purdue University Press
• University of Michigan Press
• University of Wisconsin Press

With or Without: Measuring Impacts of Books Metadata

Lettie Y. Conrad and Michelle Urberg have analysed impact. This project was inspired by Crossref’s call to take up independent research that explores how new methods or metrics could assess metadata performance and its value to information users. With an interest in academic books and a passion for the information experiences of today’s learners, scholars, and authors, the authors designed this project to illuminate the discoverability of books with and without DOIs in Google Scholar.

New titles

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election

Edited by: Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer, Jill Sheppard

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 9, Issue 1, 2023

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.

New research resources

·       Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

·       Inverse-system method for identification of damping-rate functions in non-Markovian quantum systems

·       Capacity Theorems for Distributed Index Coding

·       Coflow-Like Online Data Acquisition from Low-Earth-Orbit Datacenters

·       The development, progress, and current status of cognitive behaviour therapy in Japan

Keeping up to date

CLOCKSS

From the Annual Update 2022-23.

·       556 participating publishers

·       300 participating libraries

CLOCKSS Numbers 2022-23 (Since July 2022)

2,180 eJournals added – 36,702 total
6.3% increase

3,372,031 eJournal articles added – 53,053,579 total
6.8% increase

26,898 eBooks added - 466,748 total
6.1% increase

64 total triggered journals, accessed 228,055 times in the last 12 months.

UC and ALIA Media Literacy reports

The team at the University of Canberra have in partnership with ALIA, released the report Libraries and Media Literacy Education. The report sets out the findings of a national study of LIS practitioners’ perceptions of media literacy education and an evaluation of the 7-week Media Literacy for LIS professionals course. A snapshot report is also available.

Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023

The Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2023 is a longstanding study commissioned by the OAIC to evaluate the awareness, understanding, behaviour and concerns about privacy among Australians. The survey was conducted in March 2023 with a nationally representative sample of 1,916 unique respondents aged 18 and older.

Key findings on government use of data

·     67% of Australians trust federal government agencies when it comes to how they protect and use personal information.

·     The majority trust federal government agencies to:

−     store their information securely (67%)

−     use and share their information only for the purposes stated (61%)

−     collect only the information needed (57%)

−     give them access to all their information they store (55%).

−     However, only 41% trust agencies to delete their information when it’s no longer needed.

·     There continues to be an upward trend in the percentage of Australians who are comfortable with the government using their personal information for research and service and policy development (44% in 2023, compared to 40% in 2020 and 38% in 2017).

You can find the full report, media release, infographic and supporting videos online.

ARDC

Collections as Data in Australia

Australian participants at an international summit on Collections as Data share their reflections on computational accessibility of collections held in GLAM institutions, and invite contributions.

Read more here

Health Data Australia Set to Accelerate Research Through Data Sharing

On 18 July 2023, Health Data Australia was launched to over 250 attendees online and at SAHMRI in Adelaide on Kaurna Country. 

Health Data Australia is a new platform that makes clinical trial data easier to find and share. It’s the culmination of over 2 years of work by 72 health organisations from across Australia, coordinated by the ARDC. 

Read more here

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