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.

The University of Auckland Library launched a dedicated space to practise te reo Māori  in July this year. It offers a fantastic space that engages with students and community in a new way. It is well worth a look.

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

SIS – WHS Induction Tier 2 (Course code: WHSI13)

The module can be found by searching the course code or name as listed above in the Pulse search bar. This will appear in the search bar simply by typing ‘SIS. You can also access it by clicking here.

CartoGIS

Ta da – the website is live. You will find an amazing array of resources online linked from the CartoGIS website. I encourage you to look at Maps online to see the fantastic maps produced by the team.

Many thanks to Gareth, Karina, Jenny, Erin, SIS Comms team and everyone who has both contributed to a great website and displayed great patience and resilience. Thank you to our ITS colleagues.

Congratulations to Tom Foley SFHEA

Tom has been awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) through the ANU Educational Fellowship Scheme (EFS). Very well deserved!

Chifley

Water came in through Chifley Library roof from the rain on Sunday 17 November. The cause was a blocked drain and a leak near an air relief system. It was confirmed that this is a maintenance issue, removal of the blocked leaves, clean and replacement of the ceiling tiles was logged as an ANU job.

Thanks to Wayne and Andreas from CC for being on scene and identifying the problems so quickly. Thanks to F&S for their work fixing the problems. Thanks to all SIS staff for their work to save the collection and ensure fixes to the faults.

Chifley Library Roof

Upgrade of Group Study Rooms

ITS has begun work on the group study room AV upgrades as planned. The old cable systems will be decommissioned and replaced with a new AirMedia screencast system. This has been paid for with SSAF funding to improve the student study experience.

The Upgrades are happening in Hancock, Chifley, Law and Menzies Libraries.

Thanks to SSAF for funding this.

Write Offs

Thanks to all those working so well on collection review, particularly Paola.

Write offs for August and September were:

661 titles Art & Music & Chifley Libraries

53 titles Law

Privacy newsletter

Thanks to Alex for a great Privacy newsletter.

Academic Board

The November meeting, AB6/2024 agenda included:

·       Reports

·       Academic Risk Monitoring Report October 2024 16

·       Dean of Students Annual Report 2021

·       SIS annual report 2024

·       ANU International Rankings Report 2024

·       Institutional Approach to AI - ANUSA GenAI Survey Presentation

·       Academic Board - Extenuating Circumstances Application Outcomes Report

·       Review of awards

Academic Board have asked me to forward their thanks to all in the Division for their great work in 2024.

Next SIS Staff meeting

#4 Tuesday 3 December, China in the World Auditorium

9.30-11 am

Guest Speakers:

Miquel Baumgarten, Human Resources Business Partner

Megan Easton and Alex Caughey Hutt will report on the work of the SIS Working Group on AI.

ANU theses on the Philippines

Amazing work by Wan! Now published - this report lists research relating to the Philippines that has been made accessible through the University’s Library.

Budget codes

A bit of cleaning up:

R.20850.00 - Hancock After Hours – this is now Hancock Library (hangover from 20 years ago)

R.20370.00 - SIS Facilities Team – is now Collection Infrastructure to accurately represent the work of the team.

Library Advisory Committee

The committee met on 27 November. Thanks to those assisting by preparing papers. The agenda includes:

2.1. Major division issues (budget)

2.2. SIS Annual report 2024

2.3. SIS Business Planning

2.4. SIS Client engagement plan

2.5. SIS Artificial Intelligence activities and report

2.6. Library report

2.7. Digitisation report

2.8 Archives and Records report

The Committee is deeply appreciative of the work of all staff in the Division this year. Outstanding success in supporting research and education!

CAUL & CONZUL

·       Sarah Howard has been appointed University Librarian at Griffith University and will commence in the new role in January 2025.

·       CAUL conference and meeting attended (self-funded)
Presentations included:

·       design (University of Auckland) to Indigenise library space

·       Dan Te Whenau Walker, Co-Chair Indigenous Lead, Microsoft

·       Equity Whanaungatanga – Auckland University

·       Copyright Working Group catch up

·       Gave presentation on Copyright incl. legislative reform to the ALIA Board

·       congratulations to award winners

o   Emerging leader: Raelee Lancaster UQ Library

o   Indigenous Leader
Australia -Tui Raven Senior Manager, Indigenous Programs, Deakin University
New Zealand - Abigail McClutchie Kaiārahi Te Tumu Herenga, The University of Auckland

o   Outstanding Library Team – Collections on Country Project Working Group University of Queensland

o   Distinguished Service Award - Margie Jantti Director, Library Services University of Wollongong

Copyright

·       World Intellectual Property Organisation has published its Indicators Report, which reveals global patenting activity reached record highs with over 3.5 million applications in 2023.

·       Statutory licences for education and government and AI-related activities - Copyright Agency Limited

·       Jisc to take responsibility for HE sector copyright negotiations

·       The Copyright (Parody and Satire) Amendment Bill, recently introduced to the NZ Parliament by a Green Party MP, aims to address this issue with a new exception.

Legislation update

Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Senate Committee report, tabled 14 Nov 2024; Introduced Senate 18 Nov 2024

Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 - Introduced Senate 18 Nov 2024 – now not to go forward.

This week the Cyber Security Act 2024, the Intelligence Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Cyber Security) Act 2024 and the Security of Critical Infrastructure and Other Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Response and Prevention) Act 2024 were passed by both houses of Parliament.

Feedback

PNG Project

Good afternoon, Stephanie. This is Matt from APEP (PNG). I want to express my heartfelt appreciation and thanks to you for a wonderful work you did with digitising the Ag journals and other publications. I got into the link you sent and it is user friendly and very helpful. Again many many thanks to you and your team.

Kindest regards,

Matt

Just want to add on my thanks to you and Stephanie. Thank you for making it easy for us and possible for the electronic copies to be available and accessible in PNG.

With best regards,

Irene

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

Coming events

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

When?  Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 3 pm AEDT

Where?  Royal Australian Mint & ALIA House

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

ANU Press and open access

Access to Science & Scholarship 2024: Building an Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy

The MIT Press released a report on the future of open access publishing and policy. It is the outcome of a National Science Foundation-funded workshop held on September 20, 2024, identifying critical issues in open access publishing and how to address them. The workshop examined how open access and other open science policies may affect research and researchers in the future, how to measure their impact, and how to address emerging challenges. Critical issues include:

• The impact of open access policies on the research ecosystem
• The enduring role of peer review in ensuring research quality
• The challenges and opportunities of data sharing and curation
• The evolving landscape of scholarly communications infrastructure

MIT Direct to Open report

In the program’s first three years, D2O has funded 240 books: 159 in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), and 81 in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art/Design, and Mathematics (STEAM).

On average, our open access Humanities and Social Sciences books are used 3.75 times more and receive 21% more citations than their non-open counterparts.

Our open access STEAM books are used 2.67 times more and receive 15% more citations than their non-open counterparts, on average.

Preprints at a crossroads – Are we compromising openness for credibility?

Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, accessibility and low barriers to entry that preprints offer to scholarly communication risk being undermined by attempts to make them more aligned to traditional academic publications.

OASPA Conference

Recordings, slides and interactive mentimeter outputs from this year's OASPA Conference are online. You can find links on the programme.

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe proposes “The most significant hidden cost of Green open access lies primarily in the reader’s time. Accessing Green versions often involves extra steps in search and discovery, navigating complex and unfamiliar interfaces, enduring workflow disruptions, and managing files and metadata”.

Open access to scholarly publications under the 2022 Nelson Memo

The Authors Alliance and SPARC have released the first of four planned white papers on legal issues surrounding open access to scholarly publications under the 2022 Nelson Memo. The first paper focuses on the “Federal Purpose License” (FPL), which is central to current discussions of federal public access policies. The FPL, found in 2 C.F.R. § 200.315(b), is a voluntary agreement between authors and funding agencies. As a condition of federal funding, it reserves a nonexclusive license for the agency to "reproduce, publish, or otherwise use the work for Federal purposes and to authorize others to do so."  It was updated in October to clarify that the license includes the right to deposit copyrighted works in agency-designated public access repositories. The full text of the white paper can be found here. For additional information and supporting materials on the Federal Purpose License, please see the Authors Alliance website here. 

New titles

Ritual Voices of Revelation: The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia

Authored by: James J. Fox 

Open repository

Institutionally based research data services: Current developments and future direction

“The Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) was a multi-phased project that brought together a diverse group of representatives from academic institutions across the United States who support research data sharing efforts. Building off preliminary assessment work and a virtual learning series, this was a unique chance to discuss the opportunities and challenges in supporting researchers’ data sharing needs within and across institutions. This report captures the details of the project, including the preliminary assessment work as well as the summit. Following a description of the broad themes and overarching takeaways from this multi-phased effort, we conclude with next steps and future directions for the academic data services community.”

Recent additions

• Description of program SKJ.FOR for the analysis of population data by age and sex / by S.K. Jain. (Canberra, ACT: Dept of Demography, ANU, 1985) Jain, Shailendra Kumar, 1943-
• Papua New Guinea language recording: Ipili Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, September 1958, recorded at Wabag. Ipili tape 2
• Papua New Guinea language recordings: Huli grammar, Wabag (Mei) Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Hagen. Huli tape 3 -- 2. Wabag (Mei) tape 1.
• Papua New Guinea language recording: Huli Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Hagen, Huli tape 2.
• Papua New Guinea Language Recording on reel-to-reel tape: Gouno (K-dialect), Gouno (?-dialect), Wena Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Lufa. -- 1. Gouno (K-dialect) tape 5 -- 2. Gouno (glottal stop-dialect) -- 3. Wena tape 1.
• Papua New Guinea language recording: Gouno (K-dialect) Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Lufa. -- 1. Gouno (K-dialect) tape 4.
• Papua New Guinea language recording: Gouno (K-dialect) Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Lufa. -- 1. Gouno (K-dialect) tape 3.
• Papua New Guinea language recording: Gouno (K-dialect) Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1958, recorded at Lufa. -- 1. Gouno (K-dialect) tape 2.
• Papua New Guinea language recordings: Gizra, Gidra village names Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, 1966, recorded at Daru. -- Side 1. 1. Gizra tape 11 -- Side 2. 1. Gizra tape 12 -- 2. List of Gidra-speaking village names -- 3. Gizra tape 12 (continued).

Keeping up to date

Assumption: Students Are Using GenAI in the Same Way

Jack Walton & Christine Slade report on a survey of over 8,000 students across four Australian universities, 83% reported using GenAI in their studies with 44% using it weekly. The students’ reported uses included editing, generating ideas, summarising notes, teaching them how to do something, finding information, generating code or formulae or written answers, transcribing class interactions, translating text or audio into another language, creating images, generating artwork, images, diagrams, completing part or all of an assignment and more.

More on AI

·       Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) report is out

·       HarperCollins becomes first major US trade publisher to reach AI licensing deal. 

·       How to evaluate generative AI tools

IFLA Academic and Research Libraries

The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section focuses on cooperation, exchange of information, and promotion and support of the role of libraries as core institutions for research and education worldwide. The latest IFLA ARL Newsletter issue, # 12, published on 5 November 2024, is here.

How the SDGs Are Shaping the Research Agenda, and What Publishers Need to Know and Do

Charlie Rapple’s blogpost shares results from her recent survey. Key findings:

·       Respondents think the SDGs should be shaping how funding is allocated

·       Researchers find it harder to get this kind of research funded and published

·       Respondents in Business and Management and Environmental Research were most likely to say that journals are effective at addressing and promoting SDG-related research. Respondents in Education and in Medical and Health Sciences were most likely to say that journals are ineffective.

Arts Workforce Scoping Study

Prepared by Creative Australia and Services and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA), the study includes writing and publishing. Top findings about writing: and publishing:

·       fewer acute workforce shortages were indicated among publishing organisations than in other sectors.

·       workforce demand and shortages were reported in a range of roles, particularly acute shortages of skilled workers were indicated in the following roles:35 In production/editorial roles: editors (recruited for in both metro and regional areas), publishers (in metro areas), and less commonly recruited roles such as book and script editors and production assistants (in metro areas).

·       In management roles: publishing directors (metro areas only)

·       Publishing organisations reported predominantly recruiting for mid-career/mid-level roles.

IFLA Information literacy newsletter

Now online – go to the IFLA Repository to access and read. 

ARL Statistics 2023 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2023, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2023, and ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2023.

In summary (as the reports are not freely available), “the total expenditures (in US dollars) of all 126 member libraries in 2023 was $4.4 billion. In the same year, 32,179 full-time equivalent staff in ARL libraries made approximately 4.8 million contacts with their user communities through group presentations and reference transactions.”

From People & Culture

ANU Changes – new PDR system

The Focus system, which will be housed in HORUS, will be replacing the Professional Development Review (PDR) eForm process. The Focus system will be launched on 1 December 2024, for the 2025 calendar year.

As part of the launch and system rollout from late November 2024 through to March 2025, HRD will have information sessions, skill builder development sessions for ‘Goal setting’ and ‘Giving feedback’, as well other information and resources on the ANU Focus website and Focus SharePoint.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to HRD.Development@anu.edu.au    

Australian Research Data Commons

EcoCommons to Support Ecological Data Service for State of Environment Reporting

ARDC-supported research platform EcoCommons will help enhance ecological data for State of the Environment reporting. Read more here.

EcoCommons Australia: A Powerful New Tool for Ecological Modelling

The newly published article in Environmental Modelling and Software highlights the groundbreaking work of EcoCommons Australia, an ecological modelling platform that is transforming biodiversity protection. Read more here.

2024 – that’s a wrap!

Do read the Australian Research Data Commons’ Year in Review for 2024 – fantastic work!

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