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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