Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

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

Terri Janke and Company have now run two very successful ICIP training programs.

Our 2024 series of talks and discussions around Indigenous knowledge, research and education commences on Monday 12 February with our first speaker Peter Swanton, who will talk about Indigenous astronomy. Peter is an astrophysics graduate from ANU and Gamilaraay/ Yuwaalaraay man from Mackay, Queensland. He has been working closely with Dr. Brad Tucker (ANU) and Prof. Brian Schmidt (ANU) looking into Dark Sky Parks for their cultural and scientific significance.

Last week we had the second meeting of the sharing circle to discuss supporting academics on the journey to embedding “Insight into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Knowledges and Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives” into the curriculum. Over the coming months we will develop information on our collections relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and relevant international resources which will be shared with SIS staff and the academic community. We will also be working with stakeholders on ideas for communication and engagement.

The AIATSIS Indigenous Australian Languages Collection includes published and unpublished material across a range of formats such as print, manuscript, audio and audio visual, posters, maps, serials and born digital. You can read about their Languages project here.

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.

WHS

Work has commenced on the SIS Local plan – it should be out in March for consultation.

The consultation log for the documents released last month is almost complete – please pass on any final feedback to Dinah.

HSR election planning has progressed.

SIS Staff meeting

Our first meeting is:

Wednesday 6 March, 9am

China in the World Auditorium

Guest Speaker: Prof Geoff Hinchliffe, PVC Digital & Education

Symonston

Nearly all the collection from Hume has been packed up. I’d like to recognise the enormous amount for work that is being undertaken for this project.

Symonston – high level timeframe

Buildings

Law Library roof – still expecting a March completion. Thanks to Law library staff and COL staff for their patience and ability to sort out locations for teaching spaces at this time.

Menzies – great work – almost complete.

Hancock – continues with everything on track.

A&M - continues with everything on track.

Chifley – met with F&S about the conversion of 1.07 and 1.09 into study rooms.

CAUL & CONZUL

·       CAUL is hiring – Content Procurement Specialist

·       Australian Open Science Network Meeting 2024/1.

Copyright

·       The Attorney General’s Department is calling for nominations for the Copyright and AI committee.

Open access rankings

The CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition – Open Access 2018-21 was released last week. Future campus published the Australian results. For OA the top 8 are by numbers:

Suggested actions that could improve our results are being considered.

CLT/SIS exchange of ideas

The Centre for Learning and Teaching and SIS had a terrific session exchanging information and ideas. Thanks to everyone who attended and the organisers – I think it has opened up many conversations and collaborative ideas.

GIS training

CartoGIS Services, the University’s team of cartographic and geographic information system specialists provide services including the production of static maps; GIS training and advice; and Asia-Pacific Map Collection curation.

CartoGIS offers a range of training sessions on the creation, analysis, management and promotion of maps and spatial data! The below sessions are running in Semester 1 of 2024.

• Introduction to ArcGIS Pro
• Learn core concepts and skills for map creation, including how to produce maps in Esri's ArcGIS Pro software.
• Introduction to Story Maps
• Learn to create a quick and simple online map, assemble your story and learn how to promote your Story Map once it is created. This will give you an effective and visually appealing way to communicate your research impact to governments, funding agencies, and the general public.
• Web Mapping in ArcGIS
• Learn how to generate well-designed web-maps to effectively reveal patterns, convey your research, and engage with an online audience.
• Introduction to GIS Analysis for Research
• Learn core analytic and spatial skills for humanities research including how to assess proximity; count the number of features in an area; summarise and map census data; and use network analysis to calculate distances along roads.

All training is free for ANU staff, HDR, and Postgraduate students.

For more information, visit the CartoGIS training webpage, email sis.cartogis@anu.edu.au or phone +61 2612 52230.

Coming events

ALIA national conference

When? 6-9 May 2024

Where?  Adelaide

More details. Conference Theme: 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.

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.

IFLA Presidents meeting

When? 9 September and 2 October 2024.

Where?  Brisbane

More details. Early notice is here

From HR

Indigenous Professional Staff Grants Program (IPSGP)

Applications are now open. See more here.

This year the People and Culture Division are running a series of information sessions about staff grants and funding offered by the University i.e. PSSS/PSDEF, CCDAF, IPSGP and the Staff and Family Tuition Fee Discount. These sessions aim to assist you in your application process and provide the opportunity for you to ask us questions. 

ANU Press and open access

MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal

Now in its third year of operation, Direct to Open (D2O) is proud to announce that it has reached its full funding goal in 2024 and will provide open access to 79 new monographs and edited book collections this year. What makes this year noteworthy is that this is the first year in which D2O has been fully funded by its November 30 deadline and will not require an extension through the end of the fiscal year. It brings the total for Direct to Open titles to almost 425,000.

Exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable OA book publishing

The recording of this Copim and SCONUL webinar is now online.

OASPA webinar

The recording of January’s inaugural OASPA webinar in the new "Wayfinders" series - showcasing those publishers increasing equity in OA in different ways, is now available. The recording, as well panellists' slides and responses to unanswered questions from the webinar are in the blog post. 

APA launches Diversity and Inclusion Plan

The Australian Publishers Association has launched a Diversity and Inclusion Plan to guide and support industry progress over the next two years.

New titles

The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory

Edited by: Jérôme Doyon , Chloé Froissart 

Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018 Authored by: Anna Kent 

Open repository

Do disappearing data repositories pose a threat to open science and the scholarly record?

This study is based the sampling on the registry re3data. re3data is currently the most comprehensive source of information on research data repositories, with more than 3,000 records. They reviewed each repository the registry considered closed, and after applying our inclusion criteria, they identified 191 repositories that were shut down.

New research resources

·       The barriers to linkage and retention in care for women living with HIV in an high income setting where they comprise a minority group

·       Interphotoreceptor Retinoid-Binding Protein (IRBP) in Retinal Health and Disease

·       Identification of the first erm(B)-positive Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli associated with novel multidrug resistance genomic islands in Australia

·       Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the ‘Taking the Pulse of the Nation’ (TTPN) Survey

·       Describing the role of Drosophila melanogaster ABC transporters in insecticide biology using CRISPR-Cas9 knockouts

Keeping up to date

The Second Digital Transformation

Ithaka S+R has reviewed the strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication. They find that the scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Many of the structures, workflows, incentives, and outputs are being revamped in favour of new approaches that bring tremendous opportunities, as well as non-trivial risks, to scholarly communication.

They have identified a variety of categories where new forms of shared infrastructure should be developed, including:

• to address the growing atomisation of the scholarly article,
• to ensure the trustworthiness of the scholarly record,
• to enable deeper meaning to be drawn from research outputs,
• to address new business models, and
• to provide an alternative system for scholarly communication.

Applying Innovative Technologies to Digitised and Born-Digital Archives

The Special Issue “Applying Innovative Technologies to Digitised and Born-Digital Archives” has been published in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. It contains papers from the AEOLIAN workshops.

A Right to Read without being Read: Data Collection and the Scholarly Record

The recording of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library’s virtual session “A Right to Read without being Read: Data Collection and the Scholarly Record” is now available on our conferences page: Dag Hammarskjöld Library Conferences.

Crossref DOIs, persistent discovery, and the digital preservation of 7.5 million items

Martin Eve’s blogpost notes that “The point of the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) that we issue is that the link to the content is persistent”. His concern that “if there's no preservation service protecting the content to which a DOI is assigned, then when the publisher goes out of business, the DOI will stop working” is a very important one.

If journals are to be purged of racist and sexist work, who decides where to draw the line

Following the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay over allegations of plagiarism, questions around research integrity and the integrity of the scholarly record have come to the fore. Till Bruckner argues that loose definitions of research integrity shouldn’t be used in attempt to ideologically purge the scholarly record, and that it is necessary to re-open debates on academic standards before existing conventions are weaponised for political ends. A very stimulating LSE blogpost.

ARDC

Data Sharing Platform to Transform Ag Industry

AgReFed helps researchers and industry professionals find and analyse trusted, reusable agricultural data from across Australia. Read more here

Researcher Survey: Access to Public Sector Data

The ARDC has launched an online survey to measure researcher access to Australian public sector data so they can assess the gap between demand and supply. Read more here

Enhancing Environmental Decision Making with Trusted Data

A new strategic partnership will provide leadership in achieving better public-good outcomes for Australia’s environment. Read more here

Versatile Modelling Tool to Help Tackle Grand Challenges for Earth

The ARDC-supported G-ADOPT platform was originally developed to improve and speed up modelling in geodynamics, the study of the flow of matter in Earth’s interior and its impact at the surface. Now it’s branching out into other areas of geoscience, set to also help answer other big questions facing our planet – including sea level rise under climate change and renewable energy. Read more here

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