Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

Acknowledging we are on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country is very important for our Division.

The next Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol (ICIP) training session is on Tuesday 6 February at 9:30am – 1:00pm. Terri Janke and Company have some great resources online.

Please let Dinah (ea.universitylibrarian@anu.edu.au) know if you’d like to book in and haven’t done so already.

This year we’ll have a series of talks and discussions around Indigenous knowledge and research and education. Our first speaker is Peter Swanton who will talk about Indigenous astronomy on Monday 12 February. Peter is an astrophysics graduate from ANU and Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay man from Mackay, Queensland. He has been working closely with Dr Brad Tucker and Professor Brian Schmidt looking into Dark Sky Parks for their cultural and scientific significance.

Details will be circulated when the time is confirmed.

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 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 ANU On Campus email newsletter. You can find previous staff On Campus and student On Campus editions online.

Welcome to 2024

I hope that the end of year break enabled you all to relax and spend time to refresh yourselves.

2024 will be a time of great opportunities and changes.  We welcome Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell as our new Vice Chancellor. I am sure she will provide exceptional leadership and inspiration.

2024 commences with a great range of projects affecting the Division including building works, the move of the off-site collection to Symonston, the Indigenous project well underway together with work on the breadth of services to support education and research at the University.

A welcome as well to Mr Luke Sheehy who commences as University Australia’s new Chief Executive on 7 February.

Menzies recarpeting

And the great news is that the carpet replacement was completed – thanks to everyone for their patience through the process and taking options for working elsewhere when that was required.

WHS

We will be meeting with Sheren shortly to establish the process for the Health and Safety Representative (HSR position election. Sheren has provided assistance to us on the Work Health and Safety (WHS) hazard management: WHS hazard and risk assessments draft local guideline which will be circulated to all SIS staff for comment in the coming week. There are a number of additional guidance/training materials that will be prepared to work with this guideline.

Please do provide feedback on the draft guideline if possible by 31 January.

Symonston

Facilities & Services (F&S) are continue to work on many issues relating to the collection move. Particular thanks to Georgia and Rob Carruthers.

CAUL & CONZUL

Frances O'Neil Director, Library Education & Research Services, Victoria University (VU) has made a great contribution and is moving on. VU Library will have a new structure and new leadership in the new year.

Copyright

·       Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author – truly amazing – fanfiction author Demetrious Polychron was ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed copyright.

·       Hachette Book Group et al vs Internet Archive aka Controlled Digital Lending – more briefs and commentary are appearing. This page links to documents including that of HathiTrust and ALA & ARL.

·       Is a cease-and-desist letter enforceable? Frédéric Blanc’s blogpost argues “A patent or trademark owner cannot simply begin proceedings for infringement and expect to come out triumphant without meeting the relevant evidentiary standard”.

ANU organisation chart/staff directory

The internal staff directory is available on HORUS.

The purpose of the internal staff directory is to support data integrity efforts and the operational function of our teams. The directory includes full-time and part-time staff at ANU.  

Please navigate to the Employee Self Service section and select the University Staff Directory tile.

Thank you to Vanessa and other donors from St John’s care

Thank you to all donors, and in particular to Vanessa – who is wonderful for her support and coordination, as well as donations to this excellent cause.

A message from Vanessa:

Please pass on - a huge thank you for all your generous donations, they were gifted on behalf of ANU Library and staff at St John’s were very appreciative. All up I had 3 large tubs of food and 2 large tubs of gifts for the present room.

ANU Archives to feature in Adam Matthew collections for 2024

The ANU Archives is an important part of the forthcoming Adam Matthew (AM) product The Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism 1830-1994.

You can hear about it as a session planned for February.

What is AM publishing in 2024? (Part II)

Tuesday February 6, 2024

7:00 PST | 10:00 EST | 15:00 GMT

Click here to register.

Graduations 2023

The December graduations were the last under Professor Brian Schmidt. Megan Easton made an important contribution to ceremonies in her role as marshal.

Brindabella choir

The ABC has a lovely news item on the international success of the Brindabella Choir which includes our own Erin Le Nevez:

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Feedback

Fun fact from Morgan:

… the School of Medicine and Psychology had a staff retreat day at Mt Stromlo. The day included a trivia competition. One of the questions was, "what's the name of the new library system?"
Answer: Leganto

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

From HR

Call for mentors and mentees

The ANU Professional Staff Mentoring Program has been running since 2020. The response and engagement from professional staff during that time has showed a high demand for this kind of development opportunity, with 432 mentor and mentee pairs participating in the program over the last five programs.

Participants have given very positive feedback about their experience and valuable suggestions for improvement which have been incorporated into subsequent programs.

Expressions of interest are now open for the next program commencing in February 2024 and we have places available for both mentors and mentees.

Please promote this opportunity to the professional staff in your teams, and particularly encourage more experienced staff to consider being involved as mentors.

Mentors can be professional staff from ANU classification level 6/7 or higher and can be in ongoing, fixed-term or continuing contingent funded positions for at least the duration of the mentoring program, in this case until the end of November 2024.

More information about the program and how to apply as a mentor or mentee can be found on the Professional Staff Mentoring Program web page.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Emily Lawton in our Talent and Capability team via hrd.development@anu.edu.au

ARDC

ARDC Research Data Australia

Research Data Australia (RDA) is an online portal for finding research data and associated projects, researchers and data services. You can find, access, reuse, and attribute data from more than one hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies and cultural institutions).

ANU Press and open access

Hanging in the balance: Generative AI versus scholarly publishing

Gwen Weerts blogpost expresses concerns in this blogpost over the anxiety and the excitement over the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing. He concludes “Six centuries after the invention of the printing press, we can say confidently that history ruled in its favor. How will history rule on the introduction of generative AI? As the balance tips back and forth, it’s not yet clear whether AI will be a boon to scholarly publishing or a thorn in its side. What is certain is that this conversation has just begun.”

Generative AI in scholarly communications: ethical and practical guidelines for the use of Generative AI in the publication process

TM has released a new white paper, a follow-up to AI Ethics in Scholarly Communication which STM released in April 2021. This new publication is a resource for stakeholders in scholarly publishing and addresses the increasingly significant role of Generative AI technologies.

BioOne

BioOne has joined the many organisations looking to pilot Subscribe to Open (S2O) models for open access.

New titles from ANU Press

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal: Number 29

Open repository

Researcher identity ORCiD

Pure will be implemented in 2024, replacing ANU researcher web pages and much of the ARIES functionality. Managing the ORCiD data is one of the aspects of the project that Erin is involved with.

New research resources

·       New development: Whither the strategic direction of public audit in an era of the ‘new normal’?

·       A gamification platform to foster energy efficiency in office buildings

·       Hukou Status and Individual-Level Labor Market Discrimination: An Experiment in China

·       Plasma-activated water: generation, origin of reactive species and biological applications

·       Protecting Education Exports: Minimising The Damage Of China’s Future Economic Coercion

Keeping up to date

Ideas to outcomes: wonders from the Whyte Fund

The 2023 Whyte Lecture  spotlighted exciting projects supported by the Whyte Fund – showcasing their societal impact and creative applications of archives, records and information systems.

Wiley to stop using Hindawi

Wiley acquired Hindawi last year and revelations regarding the quality of the publishing operation were public through the latter part of the year. Retraction Watch’s post on the issue is worth reading.

ChatGPT

·       How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot.

·       Google joins AI – Gemini. This new AI product was launched – it tracks which papers are open access and where various OA versions of papers are.

IFLA newsletter

The last issue for 2023 is now online. Vol. 3, No. 12: Values, Ethics and Rights Issue.

Taylor & Francis grows

Taylor & Fracis have acquired the Future Science Group. The press statement notes “Taylor & Francis now becomes the fourth largest publisher of pharma-funded research, with the addition of 32 peer-reviewed FSG journals and five digital hubs. These complement the existing range of over 340 Taylor & Francis medical and healthcare journals”.

From CNI

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) videos now online include:

·       From Exascale to AI: Developments & Implications for the Information Landscape
Clifford Lynch, CNI (footnotes)

·       Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A Panel and Community Conversation
Rachael Samberg, University of California
Heather Sardis, MIT

Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

·       Blue Core: A Community-Operated, Shared BIBFRAME Data Store
Tom Cramer, Stanford University
Simeon Warner, Cornell University

·       The Data Core at Weill Cornell Medicine: A Secure Computational Enclave for Sensitive Data Analysis
Sarah Ben Maamar, Weill Cornell Medicine

·       Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research Integrity
Chris Bourg, Heather Sardis, and Erin Stalberg, MIT

·       Navigating the Artificial Intelligence-Driven Academic Frontier: Tools and Initiatives
Elias Tzoc, Clemson University
Joelen Pastva, Carnegie Mellon University
Benjamin Shaw, University of Maryland
Leo Lo, The University of New Mexico

College & Research Libraries

The January 2024 issue is online here. Articles include:

·       Black, Indigenous, and Faculty of Color Awareness of Open Access, Tatiana Bryant and Camille Thomas

·       How Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Are Open Educational Resources and Other Affordable Course Materials?, Ashley D.R. Sergiadis, Philip Smith, and Mohammad Moin Uddin

·       Organizational Structures and Relationships in Canadian, Noncommercial Journals: Supporting Scholar-Led Publishing, Jessica Lange and Sarah Severson

·       Financial and Other Perceived Barriers to Transitioning to an Equitable No-Publishing Fee Open Access Model: A Survey of LIS Journal Editors, Rachel Borchardt, Teresa Schultz, and DeDe Dawson

·       Toward a New Precedent in Open Grants: An Exploration of Shared Challenges and Benefits of Making Grant Proposals Open Access in the Academic and Public Spheres, Hannah Toombs, Hao Ye, and Perry Collins

Coming events

ALIA Library Technicians Symposium

When? 20 March 2024
Where? Online
More details. The theme is ‘Embracing the Library Revolution'. The aim of the symposium is to explore how these issues and events are impacting the roles of library technicians, library officers, librarians and allied information professionals to Revitalise our professional practice and services; Review our commitment and impact to the Sustainable Development Goals; and Reposition and promote our value in the broader contextual environment. Visit the website for more information.

ALIA National Conference

When? 6-9 May 2024
Where?  Adelaide
More details. The theme is ‘Truth and Dare’. With this theme, we extend an invitation for First Nations Truth Telling, we showcase the battle against disinformation, and we dare ourselves to push our work forward to continue to bring vibrant, relevant services to library users and communities. Visit the website for more information.

IFLA Presidents meeting

When? 9 September and 2 October 2024
Where?  Brisbane
More details. The theme is ‘Stronger Together’. Early information is available on the IFLA website.

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