Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

SIS acknowledges 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.

On Thursday we presented to the Learning and Teaching Committee on the SIS Indigenous project. Thanks to Alison Kevan for writing the paper. And thank you to Tom and the wonderful team who produced the Indigenous hub and everyone who is supporting academics on their journey to address the graduate attribute.

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

Risk Assessment guides now online

• Guide A.1 SIS staff - writing Risk Assessments (PDF, 1.9MB)
• Guide A.2 SIS staff - reading Risk Assessments (PDF, 77KB)
• Guide A.3 SIS staff - editing Risk Assessments (PDF, 2MB)
• Guide A.4 SIS staff - consultation on Risk Assessments (PDF, 77KB)
• Guide A.5 SIS staff - signing off on Risk Assessments (PDF, 70KB)

Menzies tearoom

The refurbished tearoom is amazing. All the drawers close, it’s clean and Belinda is making sure it stays that way. Thanks to F&S and everyone who helped make this happen.

Archives in the news

Rachel Armstrong was fabulous on ABC radio last Saturday talking about ANU archives and the tunnel.

The story in Canberra daily is in last week’s print edition and online.

Exhibitions

Staff are encouraged to submit proposals for exhibitions noting that due to cuts there may be no exhibitions next year.

Art & Music Library

Tom and I attended the School of Art & Design staff meeting to give a report on the progress on the library. Hoping shelving is on the way and we can open as the revised planning predicts in time for semester 1 2025.

Next SIS Staff meeting

#4 Tuesday 3 December, China in the World Auditorium

9.30-11 am

2024 Dates to Support End of Year Planning

F&BS have released the 2024 Dates to Support End of Year Planning are out from F&BS. A few of the key dates:

·       Last day to submit invoices for existing Suppliers, if the payment is due in 2024 is Wednesday 11 December.

·       Last day for Financial Delegates to approve invoices and reimbursements in ES Financials to ensure payment in 2024 is Monday 16 December.

·       Last AP payment run for 2024 is 9am Friday 20 December.

·       ES Financials CLOSES Tuesday 24 December at 5pm.

·       ES Financials REOPENS Thursday 02 Jan 2025.

CAUL & CONZUL

Iftikhar Hayat (Associate Director, Library & Study Skills) will be interim University Librarian at the University of Canberra, Professor Tania Broadley, Pro Vice-Chancellor Education & University Librarian completes her period at UC on Friday 1 November.

Copyright

·       Murdoch's Dow Jones, New York Post sue Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content

·       German Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg paves the way to treat the reproduction of works as AI training data under the EU text and data mining exceptions

·       Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online

·       Librarian of Congress Expands DMCA Exemption for Text and Data Mining

·       Data Please! Can disclaimers or terms & conditions really stop generative AI from scraping copyright protected works? A useful article from Sophie Ciufo and Emma Johnsen - “In October 2024, Penguin Random House announced a significant policy change regarding the use of its literary works in the training of AI models. This move marks a notable shift in the publishing industry’s approach to the intersection of copyright law and AI development, reflecting growing concerns over the potential misuse of copyrighted materials and the ethical implications of AI-generated content. Can disclaimers help protect works from being used for unauthorised AI training?”

Feedback

Dear Wan,

This is fantastic (ANU theses on Philippines) – thank you so very much. I cannot overstate what a valuable resource material this is and will be. I can say for myself that I will be referring to this for a very long time!

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

Coming events

ALIACT: End of Year Social Catchup + Tour of the Mint

When?  Wednesday, 06 November 2024, 1-2 pm AEDT

Where?  Online

More details. A range of presenters with case studies. More information is here.

Dodging Digitisation Disasters

When?  Wednesday, 06 November 2024, 1-2 pm AEDT

Where?  Online

More details. A range of presenters with case studies. More information is here.

ANU Archives annual lecture for 2024 – ‘Islands, Archives and Ancestors’ with Professor Katerina Teaiwa

When? Thursday 14 November, 5.30pm AEDT

Where?  McDonald Room, Menzies Library

More details. Professor Katerina Teaiwa will reflect on her process of exploring several archives and collections connected to Australia’s long history of phosphate mining in the central Pacific. Over two decades she used creative methods to transform her research into textual, choreographic, visual and material forms that challenged colonial and extractive histories and narratives. Her interdisciplinary methods and activism are focused on repairing and safeguarding her ancestral island of Banaba in what is now Kiribati. 22 million tonnes of Banaban phosphate was extracted over 80 years for Australian and New Zealand fertiliser production and farming transforming the island into an industrial wasteland. More information is available here.

Reserve your seat now!!!!!!

First Nations roundtable

When? Tuesday 19 November, 11am AEDT

Where?  Online

More details. A focus on international rights sales for First Nations titles, with participants from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Free for members, and staff of APA member companies. More information is here.

ANU Press and open access

How Generative AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders

A very interesting blogpost on the Scholarly Kitchen. What is not yet clear is how transformative this impact will be, and which areas of scholarly communication may see more rapid and revolutionary change than others. In a report published today, A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing, Ithaka S+R explores these issues. Thoughts include the nature of consolidation in the industry, the role of “machines”, the importance of guardrails and research integrity. The important issue of the risk to small publishing organisations is raised.

New titles

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024

Open repository

Recent additions

Anthology of Music on Disc: CSM: 16 Piano Music of Miriam Hyde (Canberra School of Music, Australian National University) Crisp, Deborah – many items from the anthology have been uploaded – this is a fantastic project with the School of Music.

Does Medicare matter? ([Canberra]: Australian National University, Graduate Program in Public Policy, 1988) Maskell, Charles A.; Australian National University. Graduate Program in Public Policy.

Archaeological investigations at the Kiandra Chinese camp, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW: a report on the ANU (PREH 3004) fieldschool, February 2001 (Canberra: School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, 2001) Smith, Lindsay M.; Australian National University. School of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Board meeting Australian Mutual Provident Society (1849-).

Conference Australian Mutual Provident Society (1849-)

And much more for AMP!

ARDC

Latest Updates from the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons – Oct 2024

Keeping up to date

AI – new Ithaka S+R report

Ithaka S+R have published findings from an international survey of academic researchers on their adoption and usage of generative AI, focusing on those in the biomedical sciences. The survey, conducted with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), provides a snapshot of researchers' opinions about generative AI, how often they use it, which research tasks they use it for, and the barriers to further use.

AI Meets Archives: The Future of Machine Learning in Cultural Heritage

So much is happening in archives! This blogpost from CLIR is from an interview with Professor Jane Winters, a digital humanities scholar at the University of London. It includes discussion of handwritten Text Recognition and Natural Language Processing and ethics.

Journals with high rates of suspicious papers flagged by science-integrity start-up

Scitility’s tool ‘Argos’ identifies work whose authors have a record of misconduct. This article by Richard van Noorden analyses the results which are truly concerning.

UWM AI Tools Comparison Chart

This very useful tool includes information about access, discovery and reading assistance. The research assistants analysed are:

·       Web of Science Research Assistant (Beta)

·       JSTOR Interactive Research Tool (Beta)

·       Semantic Scholar (Free Version)

·       Dimensions AI (Free Version)

US National Archives new Strategic plan

NARA’s strategic plan 2026-2030 is worth reading. The strategic goals are very clear:

·       Build our Digital Future

·       Transform Access and Engagement

·       Elevate Service

·       Grow our Capacity

Rebecca Lawrence Appointed as New Chief Executive of the British Library

Rebecca Lawrence has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the British Library and will take up the role from 2 January 2025. She succeeds Sir Roly Keating, who has led the Library since 2012. Rebecca has had a long and successful career in leadership roles across the public service and university sector.

IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) 

The FAIFE October 2024 newsletter is out now. Access a PDF version of the newsletter here.

Australian Government trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot 

The report is out. Key findings:

·       Copilot use was moderate and focused on a few use cases

·       Perceived improvements to efficiency and quality

·       Adoption requires a concerted effort to address barriers

·       Broader concerns on AI that require active monitoring

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