Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

SIS begins by acknowledging that our services are delivered from Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.

We acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay our respect to the elders past and present.

The first nations portfolio has many significant resources including First Nations Portfolio - Vision & Mission.

Peter Swanton gave a fabulous talk to staff on Indigenous astronomy to kick off our series of talks this year on Indigenous research and education at ANU. You can read his book chapter and other great chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space (2023).

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

WHS was an important matter discussed at the Library Staff Consultative Committee meeting.

HSR election – nominations closed on 22 February 2024. The Returning Officer is Sheren Al-Obaidi from Safety and Wellbeing.

SIS Staff meeting

Our first meeting is on Wednesday 6^th March, 9.15 am in the China in the World Auditorium.

Guest Speakers:

·       Prof Geoff Hinchcliffe, PVC Digital & Education

·       Prof Katherine Daniell, School of Cybernetics

Please note the earlier than usual start time.

Prof Hinchcliffe will be speaking from 9.30 am.

Symonston

Every fortnight brings a new complex issue. Thank you very much to Tom, Brian, Rob, the F&S staff, and all the contractors that are working so hard on this major activity.

Buildings

Law Library roof – everything worked according to plan last weekend.

ANU Library receives significant donation from the Lal family

The ANU Library is appreciative to have received a generous donation from the family of Professor Brij Vilash Lal, AM, OF, FAHA (1952-2021), an ANU PhD graduate and former Deputy Director, School of Culture, History and Language at ANU. Read more here.

Generous donation from Prof Kathryn Robinson

Prof. Kathryn Robinson visited Menzies Library to donate 77 books from her private collection. She has made a significant contribution that current and future scholars will benefit from. A big thank you to Fonny for all her work on this collection and to Wan for her coordination and support for the donation, including organising the morning tea.

The donation includes 77 books focussing on women’s cultural, religious and gender identity in Indonesia. The ANU Library is extremely grateful for this generous contribution as well as Kathryn’s ongoing support for South East Asian studies at ANU.

Works included in the donation can be found and accessed in the Menzies branch of the ANU Library. For more information, please email asiapacific.library@anu.edu.au

Major donation from Prof Peter Jackson

The ANU Library has received a generous donation from Professor Peter Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Thai History in the College of Asia and the Pacific's School of Culture, History and Language. 

The donation includes 318 books focussing on Thai religion, modern Thai history and culture in both Thai and English language. These items considerably complement and expand the Library's collections on Thailand in particular and mainland Southeast Asia more broadly.

Works included in the donation can be found and accessed in the Menzies branch of the ANU Library. For more information, please email asiapacific.library@anu.edu.au

Market Day

From Michelle:

It was a big and busy day for all of us – but everyone showed up excited and ready to talk to students.

We gave out around 700 bags, but this year a lot of students wanted to ask questions and get materials without getting a bag – so I estimate we interacted with well over 1,000 students (+ staff and other members of the ANU community).

New students were very keen to hear about Kibrary tours, and the new ‘on the hour’ system worked really well for communicating the tours. A lot of students had already been on tours this week, which indicates our in-branch and online promotion has been working!

Following the trend from last year, we also spoke to a lot of returning students – many of whom had never been to Market Day before given lockdowns and COVID. Those students were very interested to learn about the ability to book consultations with library staff.

Thank you again for your involvement. It is really great to spend time with staff from across the division, and to see how enthusiastic you all are about supporting our community and promoting our amazing services!

Research Infrastructure Committee

Prof Ute Roessner is leading this committee which is doing great work on a decadal plan for research infrastructure. I am delighted to be a member of this committee.

CAUL & CONZUL

Library User Experience CoP 2024/1 will be held on Thursday, 29 February 2024.

Copyright

·       We are still the People: Ownership of IP in the developing world of AI.

·       ARL/CARL Marrakesh Treaty Task Force Issues Final Report, Recommendations to Increase Global Lending of Accessible Materials

·       The First Attorney General Department’s Copyright and AI Reference Group Meeting is on this Thursday. I am attending the meeting.

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

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 on the website.

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

The MIT Press Launches Second Year of shift+OPEN to Publish More Open Access Journals

The MIT Press proudly announces that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model. Launched with generous funding from Arcadia and expanded with funding from the National Science Foundation, shift+OPEN seeks to catalyse needed change in journal publishing, introduce authors to new readerships, and increase the reach of vital scholarship that has previously been locked behind paywalls.

Public statement – Resignations from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Surveys

From Retraction Watch:

In what has become a familiar refrain, more than 30 editors and advisors of an economics journal have resigned because they felt the publisher’s need for growth would increase the “risks of proliferation of poor-quality science.”

In a letter uploaded to Dropbox on February 7, the editors and advisors of the Journal of Economic Surveys said: “We no longer believed that the corporate policies and practices of the Journal’s publisher, Wiley, as we perceived them through several statements made by Wiley and the draft of a new editor agreement submitted to the attention of Editors-in-Chief and Managing Editors by Wiley, were coherent with ours.”

Open access books tool

JISC has launched a new open access books tool which allows users to check whether a publisher supports compliance with UKRI’s open access policy requirements for long-form outputs.

New titles

Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 8, 2024

Open repository

How Identifiers Can Help Publishers Do a Better Job of Curating the Scholarly Record

This blogpost suggests that as scholarly journal editorial practices are the subject of growing scrutiny, publishers should explore “quality signals” systemically derived from researcher identity and metadata associated with identity.

Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative Releases Reports on Expenses of Making Data Publicly Accessible, Project Methodology

Public access to research data is vital to advancing science and solving real-world problems. Recently a number of US funding agencies have required the management and broad sharing of research data to accelerate the impacts of their investments. Read more.

New research resources

·       Liver Environment-Imposed Constraints Diversify Movement Strategies of Liver-Localized CD8 T Cells

·       HOSO: Histogram of Surface Orientation for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

·       F-GANs in an information geometric Nutshell

·       Roadkill islands: Carnivore extinction shifts seasonal use of roadside carrion by generalist avian scavenger

·       Double-Guided Filtering: Image Smoothing with Structure and Texture Guidance

Keeping up to date

How common is academic plagiarism?

Drawing on insights from a recent international survey on research integrity and a recent high-profile case, Nick Allum and Robin Brooker find previous work on scientific plagiarism may have underestimated its prevalence.

Research Data Framework

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released version 2.0 of its Research Data Framework (RDaF). The RDaF is available as both a publication and interactive web application. The framework is a tool that brings together information and resources on research data to support organisations and individuals in the management and dissemination of data. Version 2.0 expanded subtopics and added more profiles based on community feedback and serves as a comprehensive map of the research data ecosystem. Organisations, including universities, have already begun using earlier versions of the RDaF in their research data management activities.

IFLA Academic & Research Libraries

The latest issue of the IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section Newsletter, is on their website.

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility

This blogpost by Merrilee Proffitt covers 3 topics. The first is about defining Indigenous literacy, noting “In their recent article Information as a relation: Defining Indigenous information literacy Sandra Littletree, Nicola Andrews, and Jessie Loyer help to fill a gap in the field of Indigenous librarianship by exploring the practice area of Indigenous information literacy”. The second is a book review of Ethics in Linked Data. The third is about resources to mark and celebrate Black History Month.

Unveiling Perspectives on Peer Review and Research Integrity: Survey Insights

This blogpost outlines a surprisingly large percentage of potential breaches of research integrity through a survey and proposes possible solutions and considerations.

Making the most of the AI opportunity: productivity, regulation and data access

The Productivity Commission has produced some excellent papers on this topic.

Managing excess Personal information data and regulatory compliance

A white paper from Nuix on this topic delves into the complexities of data breach management as well as seamless data handling during mergers and acquisitions or divestitures. It examines how four different organisations have approached and addressed these challenges to reduce risk.

International Journal of Librarianship

IJoL has just published a special issue on Scholarly Communication in the library and information field. It includes:

·       Michele Gibney Co-designing an Institutional Repository in Kosovo: Soliciting Student Feedback in a Repository Launch

·       Jia Mi Making Open Resources Discoverable: Collaborative Approaches for Enhanced Access

·       Jennifer Chan, Erica Zhang, Hermine Vermeij, John Riemer Metadata Librarians for Open Access: A Path Towards Sustainable Discovery and Impact for Open Access Resources

ARDC

Announcing the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software

The 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software, sponsored by the ARDC, recognises software as a critical part of research and innovation. Enter now. Read more here.

Summer School Shares Computational Skills for HASS and Indigenous Research

Over 100 early-career researchers and managers of Indigenous data from across Australia attended the ARDC's second annual HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Summer School in February 2024. Read more here.

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