From the University Librarian

23 October 2020

Opening of the Hancock basement study area

SIS News ANU Press and Open Access Publishing

COVID 19

OA week. • Building Open With Purpose And Going Beyond Statements blog post from SPARC .

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Recordings from the OASPA 2020 annual conference are now available on YouTube. Slides can be found on the conference program page. Sessions included: • Outdoor spaces can now support a • Funding and business mechanisms for density of one person per two equitable open access - square metres (indoor spaces • Keynote: Integrating Discovery & Access remain at one per four square for Scholarly Articles (Anurag Acharya) metres). • The future of open research • All gatherings can increase to 200 communication people, where one person per four • Researchers, open science & OA behaviours–what changed in 2020? square metres of usable space can .>> read more be maintained in indoor spaces, and one person per two square metres of usable space in outdoor spaces Update on Elsevier and Open Access Publishing. The University of California has has resumed negotiations with the publisher in COVID-19 inspections – report from hopes of finally achieving a deal that provides for Heather Jenks. A COVID19 inspection of more open access publishing of UC research in the Chifley Library was carried out on Elsevier journals and restores UC’s access to the Wednesday 19th October. A very thorough latest Elsevier journal articles on ScienceDirect. inspection was worked through, the basic 10 .>> read more questions which are filled in each week for each area of SIS are used for this inspection Creative Commons in Court. Melody Herr making the inspection take around an hour examined about two dozen cases, with initial filing to complete, the questions are expanded dates running from December 2014 through out to cover facilities for staff, students, October 2018, retrieved from the database Westlaw. Concludes “treat CC licenses as valid academics, researchers and visitors using legal agreements; US federal courts do.” the building. The Inspector noted that he .>> read more could see that Library staff were trying their best to ensure that the 1.5 metres for each OA Books Supply Chain Mapping. The individual was adhered to, noting that he Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published found notices on windowsills and on the a draft analysis of the supply chain for open- floor when Library users had decided to access books. The research, conducted by ignore the instructions. The Inspector raised Michael Clarke and Laura Ricci of industry only one issue of concern, which will consultancy Clarke & Esposito, was commissioned become an action in FigTree, he has asked as part of the global Exploring Open Access that signs be created for the cleaning eBook Usage (OAeBU) data trust pilot project stations, with additional signs dotted about supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Some excellent insights “Journal-based standards telling library users that there are cleaning and models are a poor fit for OA books” and “The products available for library users to utilise large and growing number of platforms that deliver in order to clean the study space or OA books to end users creates challenges for computer that they claim as their own work usage reporting” – are very true! area for a few hours. I was also asked about >> read more the cleaning, the fogging and the additional cleaners (the Pink Team) who are all Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) providing a very vital service. My thanks go data trust seeks your views. The Project to the Chifley team for the work that they do has been working on a Use case document that every day to ensure that their own outlines activities including OA eBook usage date workspace is safe and that it is safe for – they would love your comments. See the library users within this building. draft OAEBU UP use case document online.

Next Wednesday (28th) afternoon two OpenTexts.World. This experimental service further COVID19 inspections will take place provides free access to digitised text collections in the Menzies Library and the Law Library. from around the world. Think of it as a search engine for books. Includes works from:

• HathiTrust (4,425,106 items) Recent research. • Internet Archive American Libraries • From CSIRO scientists: Virus that causes Collection (2,956,349 items) COVID-19 survives up to 28 days on • DigitalNZ (244,376 items) surfaces, Australian scientists find • Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford From OCLC – • (231,088 items) • REALM project Test 5 results available • The Wellcome Collection (182,576 items) • REALM webinar recording now • National Library of Scotland (26,971 available including slides, chat and items) recordings • National Library of Wales (2,801 items) • Phase 2 literature review findings • Queen's University Belfast (186 items).” published And here is the report of the project which let to • REALM Test 6 is underway OpenTexts - Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts: Final Report of the Global

Digitised Dataset Network: Gooding, P. and SIS news: Fulkerson, N. (2020) Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts: Final Report of the Global Digitised Dataset Network. Project Report. GDD A big thank you to Kel Glover for Buildings. Network, Glasgow and Ann Arbor, MI. It was the work he is doing on the hailstorm funded by the Arts and Humanities rectification. Current planning Research Council. • Law roof to be completed before the .>> read more Christmas/end of year close down • Chifley roof - 2021 In addition, work commenced today on the Central European University Press Kambri DAFF – this should be the final piece in launches OA monographs the smell issue. subscription service. The Central European University Press (CEUP) hes announced that it is Feedback. Terra Starbird delivered her transitioning to an open access (OA) monograph presentation on Digital footprint to Deakin programme through its new library subscription University Library staff – feedback “Everyone membership initiative, Opening the Future. The was really engaged and we’ve had some great Press will provide access to portions of their feedback already , e.g. “truly hit the mark and highly-regarded backlist and use the revenue from genuinely engaging”, “These are really great members’ subscriptions to allow the frontlist to be sessions! Terra was a fabulous presenter - can OA from the date of publication. The Press is we have more of her??” and “Terra Starbird was working with the Community-led Open Publication an EXCELLENT presenter”.” Well done Terra. Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.

And from Professor Bruce Scates, School of Read the Press Release: Press Release History: Visit the project website: Opening the Future “It is wonderful the library has provided such a high level of support to students in these incredibly difficult times. As a teacher I know how much it is appreciated... Well done!

Very best

Bruce

Copyright • the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA), Te Mana Raraunga - The Maori Data Sovereignty Network, the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN), and ORCID are running an Indigenous Data Sovereignty Webinar on 27 October • Sovereign Immunity Boondoggle at the US Copyright Office. From ARL: State sovereign immunity—the immunity of states from being used in federal courts—is a doctrine with a long history and lots of recent controversies. .>> read more

CAUL • Newsletter – latest issue: Open Access Week, Copyright law reform, 400 year- oil book, Building a sustainable new reality Wednesday 21 October 2020. • next event in the 2020 CAUL Virtual Event Series is coming up on Thursday 22 October at 2-3:30pm AEDT. Gwenda Thomas, Director of CAUL’s Inspiring Sustainability program will facilitate a workshop-style event on the topic of “Building a Sustainable New Reality” with presentations by two expert speakers, Sue Roberts and Sue McKerracher.

HathiTrust. This morning the HathiTrust member meeting was virtual from 4am-7.30 am – the recording and papers presentations should be out next week. Two more Australian universities have joined and the work that is being done to engage with researchers is terrific.

2021. We are starting to get ready for 2021 – even though the main focus is on the coming exams. Next years bag will be green!

Roxanne Missingham University Librarian Open Research

Events UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science has now been ALIA Chats 'after work drinks', published. virtually .>> read more Time: every Friday 5pm AEST for at least 40 minutes - sometimes we add several extra New in the repository sessions to account for people's availability, and a 7pm AEST session for our WA friends. • Intersectional Criminologies for LINK: A Zoom link is emailed each Thursday to the Contemporary Moment: ALIA Members. Let me know it you’d like the link Crucial Questions of Power, – we are corporate members. Praxis and Technologies of Control RLUK – Pandemic effects and • Positronium emission from MgO collection directions smoke nanocrystals When? 28 October 2020 11:00PM – • Mapping tuberculosis treatment 12:30AM AEDT outcomes in Ethiopia Where? : Online via Zoom • A Tale of Two Tantalum Borides More details here. Beyond the scramble of as Potential Saturable Absorbers the current situation, universities will be looking at long term pandemic effects. This clearly has for Q-Switched Fiber Lasers implications for libraries, as they cleave more • Positron scattering from helium closely to university strategies. This presentation briefly looks at some pandemic effects and considers how it will likely accelerate some collection directions already evident. It will also Keeping up to date emphasise two important collection imperatives – for optimisation and for pluralisation. Lorcan Reinventing research. A two part program Dempsey will also make some brief remarks from the ABC: about how different national systemic – Part One: future scenarios and moving away characteristics play into developments, sketching from the publish or perish mantra differences between UK and the US The research community is facing a “crisis of reproducibility”, according to the head of the Transitioning to the Next Center for Open Science, Professor Brian Nosek. He says many of the traditional practices designed Generation of Metadata to make research robust, actually distort and When? 6 November (11:00 – noon AEDT diminish its effectiveness. In this episode, he Where? : Online details his ideas for reform. We also explore three More details. OCLC Research Library Partners plausible scenarios for how the academic sector Metadata Management Interest Group is holding could look in 2030. two discussant panels on the report at different Guests times to accommodate the global RLP network Professor Brian Nosek – Department of with members of the OCLC Research Metadata Philosophy, university of Virginia and Director of Managers Planning Group who initiated some of the Center for Open Science the topics covered in the report. The webinar will Adrian Mulligan – Research Director for Customer an overview of the Focus Group and the report, Insights, Elsevier and reflections from the Planning Group-Focus Group members on the topics covered and the – Part Two: Impact, outputs, and the US National value of the group. We welcome participants to Research Cloud bring their own observations and questions for There’s bipartisan support in the United States for discussion. Join us for a discussion of the establishment of a national AI research cloud. challenges, shared possible approaches to So, how would academics benefit and what role addressing them, and our mutual future! would big tech play in its operations? Also, problems with academic inclusivity in the Speakers: developing world, and could alternative channels • Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota of distribution soon rival the primacy of peer- • Roxanne Missingham, Australian reviewed journals? National University Guests • Suzanne Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Professor Anne Toomey – • Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Environmental Studies and Science, Pace Research University Register here. Dr Catriona Manville – Research Leader, RAND Europe Digital Directions Virtual Professor John Etchemendy – Co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Conference Intelligence, Stanford University When? November 26 & 27 Where? : Online Living Our Values and Principles: More details here. Since 2015 the National Exploring Assessment Strategies for Film and Sound Archive of Australia has hosted the Scholarly Communication Field. symposia exploring issues and opportunities Starts with a bang “today’s institutional reward facing digital cultural collections. In 2020 this structures, coupled with dominant publishing event is going online: Digital Directions Virtual industry practices, more often serve to undermine Conference is a boutique offering of 6 sessions the wide circulation and usage of scholarly output”. over 2 days, bringing practical case studies of The approach – “English-language, web-circulated digital transformation and adaptation in the values and principles documentation in the area of cultural economy. academic publishing” were analysed. 12 values are proposed but that does raise the question so DCDC21: Catalysts for change: what? I may be jaded but it was not clear to me what was intended and what the change would be transforming our practices, – we haye many great ethical scholarly publishers collections, and communities and communication mechanisms such as libraries through times of crisis – is this intended to be a call to arms to defeat predatory publishers (not mentioned), or to change When? 28 June – 2 July 2021 the behaviour of authors? Not clear. Where? Online .>> read more More details DCDC21 will explore how crisis can act as a catalyst for change within libraries, archives, museums, and cultural organisations. It LIANZA Panel: Libraries Looking will explore the impact that crisis can have on Forward. The discussion featured Christine working practices, collections, and audience Mackenzie, IFLA, President; Marie-Louise Ayres, engagement, and how periods of turbulence can Director-General, National Library of Australia; and lead to new opportunities for research and Jane Cowell, CEO, Yarra Plenty Regional Library, collaboration. It will seek to examine how cultural among many other speakers. heritage organisations can look beyond times of .>> read more crisis and foster innovation and collaboration in their institutions and communities. here ALIA submissions. ALIA has submitted responses to discussion papers the Australia Council for the Arts re-imagine and the Digital Transformation paper. You can read these and HR other ALIA submissions on the website. .>> read more As previously advised by the Vice-Chancellor, nominations are now open for the annual Vice- Chancellor’s and Chancellor’s Awards, with a SLNSW redesign of catalogue. A great closing date of Friday 30 October 2020. blog describing the feedback and rebuilding of the search page for Digital collections – genuinely These awards are a celebration of the depth and good insights. Thanks for this Kathryn. diversity of talent within the ANU community and .>> read more they will provide an opportunity to recognise the achievements of individuals and teams who go Sustainability in Libraries. Presentations above and beyond. from the Library 2.0 Mini-Conference, This aligns with our core values to celebrate, "Sustainability in Libraries" are now online. Strong value and reward our community. focus on buildings and sustainability. Small amount on UN SDGs. In what has been a hugely disruptive year, it is .>> read more even more important to pause and reflect on the many ways our community has pulled together to respond to the crises we have faced. Furthering Learning and Student There has also been much great work done Success. The sixth instalment of Mapping the which has not been related to crises. Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in A quick flick back through the VC’s blogs and Research and Learning explores the role that news items on the ANU website reminds us that libraries can play in furthering learning and student the thread of innovation and collaboration was success, by helping students build digital fluency strong before COVID-19 as it continues to be and critically engage with technologies. The now. section released this week highlights some of the From Grand Graduations and the launch of the most influential technologies related to the learning Kambri Scholarships to Virtual Open Week and enterprise, through the lens of the library’s the Satellite Selfie – our community always finds involvement in promoting digital fluency, ways to connect to our values, make meaning participating in next generation digital learning from our work and showcase the very best of our environments (NGDLEs) and learning analytics University. initiatives, and supporting a range of new study and productivity tools. I encourage you to nominate a colleague or team .>> read more for their outstanding accomplishments as we continue to build a collegiate campus. Nominees Guidelines for the use of gendered can be from any area or level of the University. terms in Library-created content.

Presentations from the Library 2.0 Mini- The Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Awards Conference, "Sustainability in Libraries" are now categories are: online. Strong focus on buildings and • Vice-Chancellor's Award for sustainability. Small amount on UN SDGs. Reconciliation .>> read more • Vice-Chancellor's Award for Innovation and Excellence in Service • Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Academic Health Sciences Libraries: Career Academics Structural Models and Perspectives. A • Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research new report from Ithaka S+R – key findings – • Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Impact and • Health sciences libraries in the United Engagement States have been evolving in response to • Vice-Chancellor's Award for Educational the changes in health sciences Excellence education, research, policy, and practice. • Andrew Hopkins Award for Excellence Their roles are expanding, particularly in in Health and Safety the areas of research support, data management, bioinformatics, systematic • Clare Burton Award for Excellence in reviews, assessment of research impact, Equity and Diversity and public outreach. • • The Chancellor’s Awards categories • Regardless of the organizational model are: (independent or merged), the AHSL works closely with the main library and • Chancellor's Award for Distinguished leverages the main library’s services and Contribution to the University expertise.. • Chancellor's Award for Outstanding • When the AHSL is a part of the main Service to the Campus Community library system, key advantages include • Peter Baume Award the ability to support interdisciplinary and cross-organizational work and to engage Please click on the links below for more in large-scale collaborations within the information on each of the awards, including the library system. Potential disadvantages criteria and nomination forms. include losing administrative connection ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Awards with the health sciences schools, facing ANU Chancellor’s Awards challenges in providing specialized services such as biomedical data The Vice-Chancellor Awards and the Chancellor curation, and becoming a branch library Awards will be presented at the annual with reduced prominence. celebratory event on Tuesday 17 November, via • When it comes to organizational Zoom. structures, one size does not fit all.

ANU Service Awards (25 years and 40 years) will • Regardless of organizational also be presented at this event, to recognise the configuration, there is tremendous contributions of staff who have served the pressure to do more with less, save University during the greater part of their career. money, be efficient, and keep up with emerging or expanding service areas If you would like to seek more information about such as research data and bioinformatics the awards process please contact support... [email protected] .>> read more

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Nadine

Dr Nadine White Director - Human Resources

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