From the University Librarian

15 February 2019

And the water flows in…and our wonderful staff again show resilience and good humour in dealing with challenges

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Welcoming our students to the libraries. This year’s innovations include a refining and ANU Press and Open Access expansion of the Passport program and videos to introduce our libraries – which is your favourite? Publishing

• Chifley Library Plan S. Endless commentaries and responses – • Hancock Library Keep up to date with the submissions, news articles and more through a great page Danny • Law Library Kingsley has put together. They are also now on Youtube. More on the University of Melbourne Water. Thank you so much to everyone who changes. Prof Frank Bongiorno has written very helped with the water events in Menzies Library, thoughtfully in The monthly. Archives and Chifley Library. Everyone was .>> read more fantastic acting speedily and professionally. This time we were grateful to Facilities and Services Realising the potential: final report of the and DISACT members NFSA and National Open Research Data Task Force. New from Archives. Thank you to all – an amazing positive the UK - The Open Research Data Task Force spirit and response. No collection was damaged was established by the then Minister of State for in Chifley or Archives and those in Menzies that Universities and Science, Jo Johnson MP, in were damaged were old low priority donations Autumn 2016. It has sought to build on the which we should be able to work with differently, principles set out in the Concordat on Open maybe electronically. Research Data, and to take account of wider moves towards ORD within the international Copyright. landscape. • The US signed the Marrakesh Treaty .>> read more (also known as the Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities) on 8 February 2019. The US joins 48 other nations that have signed including Australia • The ACCC has released a preliminary report for its Digital Platforms inquiry. , which examines the impact of online platforms on Australian news media. It makes some pretty major copyright recommendations. The key is a recommendation that the Australian Communications and Media Authority should create a mandatory code for takedown of infringing material on digital platforms

CAUL. • CAUL Digital Dexterity framework was launched this week – the new Digital Dexterity framework offers a approach Open Research based on through inquiry based learning. For more information see the website. • CAUL and AOASG’s response to Plan New in the repository S is now online. • ASCT2 (SLC1A5)-Deficient Mice Have Law Library creates new Wattle site. Normal B-Cell Development, Brilliant development - staff have created a new Proliferation, and Antibody Production site after a request from the College of Law – it • A three-stage intrathymic development has a wealth of information, is very easy to use pathway for the mucosal-associated and contains terrific videos and other materials. invariant T cell lineage Click here to see it online. • Most viral peptides displayed by class I MHC on infected cells are immunogenic ALIA election preparation. ALIA is seeking • Report on the use of genetic and feedback from members - To secure the future of simulated annealing algorithms and an the library and information science industry we iterated function for the production of want to focus our asks in policy, legislation and electonic art funding, for more information on the agenda • Environmental governance in Northern items please see the website. Thailand : the role of the district-level Please send any feedback to forest ranger [email protected] by close of business 5:00pm AEDT Tuesday 19 February. The proposed asks are: Policy asks: Keeping up to date 1. Further investment in digital access to cultural collections. Mind the gap: Bridging the divide between 2. Improved access to data and scholarly discovery and delivery. Lynn Connaway information through the development and trial of reports on her research that finds that discovery open access models for government-funded and delivery and very different and that the role of research. library staff remains critically important. 3. Halt to government library closures and .>> read more greater recognition of the role of library and information professionals in evidence-based

decision-making. 4. Greater recognition of the important part Transcribus. Archives New Zealand is now libraries play in literacy and learning. using this software to transcribe writing/words in 5. Continued recognition of the important part their digitised records. libraries play in digital inclusion. .>> read more 6. A national early literacy strategy. 7. Support for the long-term success of the University of California toolkit on open Australian book industry. access. The University has released two new 8. Quality library services for tertiary students guides to assist with the transition: enrolled in universities, TAFEs and private • Guide to Transitioning Journals to Open Registered Training Organisations. Access Publishing. This guide is 9. Qualified library staff employed in every school designed to help stakeholders library. understand basics about journal 10. United Nations Sustainable Development ownership, operations, and funding Goals. models, and to begin gathering important Legislative asks: information necessary for OA publishing 11. Further copyright law reform. decision-making. 12. Accreditation of higher education and VET • courses by professional bodies. • Checklist for Consultations About Funding ask: Transitioning Journals to OA. This 13. Funding for library buildings as a vital checklist is for libraries and institutions to element of Australia’s knowledge infrastructure. help facilitate consultations & conversations about journal operations, Declaration of directorships/ finances, and strategies—so that journal secretaryships, partnerships. As part of the boards and editors can come away from University’s policy on managing conflicts of the conversation with a clearer interest, the Corporate Governance and Risk understanding of how to proceed with an Office requests all academic and professional OA transition. staff with a financial delegation profile of D1 to .>> read more D4 (ie. above $100,000) who held directorship, secretaryship or partnership positions in an entity Scholarly communication: report of Expert (other than family trust, family partnerships, self- Group to the European Commission. An managed super funds and/or not for profit extract: “The conclusion is actually simple: the organisations) during 2018 to declare such evaluation of research is the keystone, and it has positions to the University. If you have not already been identified by scholars around the notified the University or obtained approval to world, and by various expert groups within the take up such a position already, this is an European Commission, as structuring a global opportunity to complete the “Request for research architecture characterised by an Approval to Take up a Company Directorship/ unlimited quest for rankings. The ranking Secretaryship” and/or the ”Request for Approval imperative affects all levels of the research to Take up a Partnership” form (each attached) in structure, and it tends to constrain change for accordance with ANU policy on company nearly all actor…The best way to make the directorships, secretaryships and partnerships scholarly communication and publishing system The form should be endorsed by the College evolve in a way satisfying the research-centred Dean, Research School Director or Service perspective favoured in the report is to maximise Division Director and emailed to the Secretary of cooperation and collaboration among the actors the Audit & Risk Management Committee willing to act in such a direction. Funding agencies, (ARMC) by Friday 22 February 2019. . therefore, will see their influence grow in proportion to their ability to rally most or even all of EZproxy. Fantastic news – in the first five days the actors involved in the scholarly communication of single signon there were 3556 successful and publishing ecosystem” logons – thanks to all who assisted. .>> read more

Information Online. Congratulations to Erin Linked archives – SLNSW development. who gave a great paper on digitisation. Janet 'Linked Archives' is a digital curation tool which is Fletcher and I have a paper on creating the outcome of the ARCHIVER project based at opportunities from disasters. We were inspired Western Sydney University. Using the State by a great range of speakers – challenges in Library's signature Angus & Robertson manuscript visioning the digital future based on ideas and collection as proof of concept, 'Linked Archives' technologies yet to be fully developed were captures and stores information derived from identified. Understanding how we can open up archival documents, enabling connections to be collections, interact with a work that will be made within and across collections, as well the machine to machine, creating exciting new creation of custom datasets for large-scale opportunities to translate knowledge and dealing analysis and visualisations pertaining to networks with ethical issues will provide the opportunity for and international systems. The tool is designed for exciting developments in the future. The researchers to use for their own projects, as well presentations and recordings will be made as providing opportunities to link to a larger pool of available shortly. related archive sets. .>> read more

• College & Research Libraries News. The February 2019 issue is now out. It includes: • Jenny Hoops and Sarah Hare. "Library Roxanne Missingham publisher resources: Making University Librarian publishing approachable, sustainable, and values-driven." • Irene M.H. Herold. "Responsible FROM HR collaborations: Scholarship and cultural heritage assets." Carers' Career Development Assistance

Fund (CCDAF) – Round 1 2019. Lessons from the Chifley Flood. A new blog Applications are now invited for the first 2019 post talks about the lessons we have learnt and round of grants under the Carers’ Career the wonderful work being done by staff rebuilding Development Assistance Fund (CCDAF). the collection. You have all been fantastic!

.>> read more Applications will be open for 6 weeks and will close on Friday 22 March 2019 at 5pm. OCLC. New resources: The CCDAF is for individual academic and • Webinar recording of discussion on the professional staff with caring responsibilities who recently published report, Practices and require support to participate in significant Patterns in Research Information national or international conferences, workshops Management: Findings form a Global or symposia that contribute to their careers. Survey. Now online. View the recording and download the slides. Grants of up to $2,000 are available to contribute • Thomas Padilla, Visiting Digital to reasonable costs relating to care of Research Services Librarian, University dependants where existing care arrangements of Nevada Las Vegas has written are not available. Types of costs covered may Collections as Data: Part to Whole the include child care costs, care costs for second in a series of grant funded dependants other than children, and airfares for projects exploring computational access the dependant to accompany the staff member. to library and archive collections. Building on the work of Always Already All eligibility requirements are detailed in the Computational: Collections as Data, the CCDAF procedure and applications should be project aims to foster the development of completed on the CCDAF application form. broadly viable models that support implementation and use of collections as For your awareness, the next opportunity to data. apply for a CCDAF grant will be in Round 2 2019 (open from Monday 22 July – Friday 30 August 2019 at 5pm). Second Big Deals survey: Preview of the results. EUA has published a preview of the results of the latest edition of its Big Deals survey. Events The large-scale initiative covers 31 consortia in Europe, representing universities and other ADA Copyright Forum organisations, responsible for the negotiation of DATE: 22 March 2019 Big Deal contracts with publishers. The preliminary VENUE: National Library of Australia, results show that more than one billion euros are Canberra. spent every year across Europe in electronic See more online resources, of which more than 700 million go to periodicals alone. These numbers are subject to Humanities, Arts and Culture Data an average annual increase of 3.6%. Notably, Summit and third international DARIAH universities support about 72% of these costs. Beyond Europe workshop .>> read more DATE: 27-29 March 2019 VENUE: National Library of Australia, Key strategic issues. Perspectives of librarians Canberra. on three of the top ten IT issues identified by See more online EDUCAUSE – #4. Student-Centered Institution: Understanding Designing the Archive: International and advancing technology's role in optimizing the Council on Archives (ICA), Pacific student experience (from applicants to alumni) Regional Branch of ICA, the Australian Society of Archivists and the Archives #8. Data Management and Governance: Implementing effective institutional data- and Records Association of New Zealand governance practices and organizational conference structures DATE: 21-25 October 2019 VENUE: Adelaide. #3. Privacy: Safeguarding institutional constituents' See more online privacy rights and maintaining accountability for protecting all types of restricted data .>> read more Australian Research Data Commons

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