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From the
University
Librarian
2015 no.7. April 10th
Design the new Library. Ideation workshops
are being run for education and library functions for
the Union Court project – hopefully we’ll see the
ideas soon.
In the meantime thanks to all posting on the
Library’s Facebook page.
Thanks to Judy Apps for this snap of a great
April 1 message at ANU last week.
Visitors
Dr. Zhang Yongfa and Dr. Wang Xiaoshan with other
guests from the Library of Beijing Institute of
Technology visited us last week. They were very
interested to talk about the challenges of online books
and serials, purchasing issues (China does not have
the equivalent of our CAUL fantastic approach to
purchasing) and to see our libraries and collections.
They were very impressed with our rare Chinese
materials.
HR News/Staffing
Marianna Pikler. Congratulations to Marianna on
her appointment as Branch Manager Menzies Library.
Professional Staff – Career Development
Scholarship Scheme and the Professional
Staff Endowment Fund. I am pleased to advise
Scholarly Information Services 2014
Achievements. Thanks to everyone who
contributed and particular for Nic and Sally for
stellar work – the document is now online and is a
great account of the achievements of everyone in
the Division last year.
Jason is a star. The wonderful assistance
given by Jason to help those dealing with
complexities was highlighted when he provided
exceptional assistance on end note and referencing
– and was rewarded with gratitude and champagne
by a student.
The Charles Morris Woodford Papers
and Photographs at the Pacific
Manuscripts Bureau and the Pacific
Research Archives, Australian National
University. David Lawrence, Kylie Moloney and
Christine Bryan have written a terrific and very
applications for the first round of the 2015 Professional
Staff – Career Development Scholarship Scheme and
the Professional Staff Endowment Fund are now open.
The University recognises that the contributions of
highly skilled and dedicated professional staff are
critical to the success and future of the
University. These scholarships will support a range of
career development programs and initiatives to
advance the skills and knowledge of professional staff.
The Professional Staff – Career Development
Scholarship Scheme will support a range of career
development programs and initiatives. Priority will be
provided to applications supporting formal
qualifications. All details, including application forms,
eligibility, criteria, and process may be found on the
following link: http://hr.anu.edu.au/career/staffdevelopment-portal/professional-staff-careerdevelopment-scholarhsip-scheme
The Professional Staff Endowment Fund is used to
support short courses, conferences and comparable
professional development proposals. All details,
including application forms, eligibility, criteria, and
process may be found on the following link:
http://hr.anu.edu.au/career/professional-staffendowment-fund
Nominations close at 5.00pm on Friday 24 April
2015.
If you have any questions relating to the application
process, please contact the Human Resources
Division, Career Development: [email protected]
Warm regards
Nadine White
Dr Nadine White
Director - Human Resources
E Press and Open Access
New blogs from Danny Kingsley
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A review of the RCUK review of
implementation of its OA policy
Cambridge University expenditure on APCs
from RCUK block grant in 2014 (spoiler alert
– it is a lot)
Research Councils UK (RCUK) review of open
access. Research Councils UK (RCUK) on 26th March,
released the first independent review of the
implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access
» read more
The OA Interviews: Alison Mudditt,
Director, University of California Press.
Richard Poynder interviews Alison – particularly
informative report that has been published in The
Journal of Pacific History. I highly recommend it!
Electronic Records Management
System. Our Power Users will commence
training next week – they system will go live in late
May and should make records management much
more effective.
ISPs ordered to hand over details of
customers. This week the Federal Court
ordered several ISPs, including iiNet, to hand over
details of customers who had downloaded the film
to the Dallas Buyers Club LLC. The Dallas Buyers
Club used a German software system known as
Maverick to track down Australian IP addresses for
those illegally sharing (bit torrenting) the film. Jo
Lauder from triplejhack reports “The ruling sets a
huge precedent for piracy laws in Australia, and it's
likely that other copyright holders will be watching
closely. iiNet still has 28 days to appeal the
decision.” Expect much analysis about the case.
CLOCKSS and CHORUS join. Access to
government funded research is being achieved in a
new way through CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the
Open Research of the United States. The service
will provide alerting, storage and curation services
for access to federally funded research. CHORUS
Publisher Members will now be able to take
advantage of a special arrangement with CLOCKSS
to establish permanent, perpetual public access to
content and ensure the integrity and sustainability of
the scholarly record. CHORUS works with US
federal agencies, publishers, service providers, and
researchers to enable, monitor, and preserve public
access to published articles.
Screenrights survey. ANU has been selected
for a Screenrights survey this year. We will be
working with the Wattle team and Legal Office on
this project.
Future of teaching & learning. The UEC
has created a working group on this topic which has
held its first workshop – look out for stimulating and
exciting proposals!
Library funding highlighted on ABC
Nightlife. ALIA Chief Executive, Sue
McKerracher, and Acting Director Engagement and
Partnerships State Library of Queensland, Jane
Cowell, were interviewed on ABC Radio's Nightlife
with Tony Delroy on 18 March.
Copyright:
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TPP concerns. The TPP chapter on
investment was published on Wikileaks
this week. It contains clauses that Prof.
Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program
on Information Justice and Intellectual
Property (PIJIP), American University
interesting given the launch of Collabra, an open
access megajournal, and Luminos, an open access
monograph publishing program. Collabra has an APC
well below others at $875, with $250 of the fee for a
Research Community Fund that will pay editors and
reviewers, who are encouraged to donate their fees to
funds that pay or waive authors' APCs.
» read more
Washington College of Law suggest are of
serious concern.
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Trish Hepworth from ADA notes that
UNHCR special Reporteur releases a
report on copyright, concludes that overenforcement can infringe on human rights,
promotes flexible exceptions
CAUL news.
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CAUL and ALIA have worked together on
the Information Resources Guidance Note
for Tertiary Education Quality and
Standards Agency (TEQSA). It covers the
provision of library and information
services to higher education students. It is
available for consultation until 27 April
CAUL meeting 1/2015
Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian
Events
Digital Humanities 2015
WHEN: 29 June–3 July 2015
WHERE: University of Western Sydney
DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here
Marion Halligan will read from her new novel,
Goodbye Sweetheart, and will talk about her
writing with Colin Steele
WHERE: Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Bldg
WHEN: Wednesday 1 April 2015, 6 –
7pm. Registration: Please register to
[email protected] or 6125 2895.
Digital collection
Beyond Beall’s List: Better understanding
predatory publishers. Monica Berger and Jill
Cirasella in this article in College & Research Libraries
news report on the contribution made by Jeffrey Beall
and the work we as librarians and information
specialists need to continue to do to “help researchers
avoid becoming prey and help readers recognize lowquality journals“.
» read more
New in the repository:
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The Female Eunuch in the suburbs:
reflections on adolesence, autobiography, and
history-writing
The Australia – India framework for security
cooperation: another step towards an IndoPacific security partnership
Readings
Read of the week. Leeds 2015 presentations –
thanks to Colin Steele for the pointer. Slides
include:
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Evolution of Library Ethnography
Studies by Susan Gibbons, Yale
University
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From Global to Local – User Centred
Design at Cambridge by Sue Mehrer,
University of Cambridge
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Of Libraries and Labs: Effecting UserDriven Innovation by Alex Humphreys,
JSTOR Lab
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Powering scholarship: reflections on
the challenges for RLUK in shaping the
research library landscape by Stella
Butler, University of Leeds
» read more
Meeting Researchers Where They
Start: Streamlining Access to Scholarly
Resources. Roger Schonfeld describes how
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The Australia – India security declaration: the
quadrilateral redux?
The India-Australia security and defence
relationship: developments, constraints and
prospects
An Indian sphere of influence in the Indian
Ocean?
"instead of the rich and seamless digital library for
scholarship that they need, researchers today
encounter archipelagos of content bridged by
infrastructure that is insufficient and often outdated."
Describes six ways in which libraries and publishers
are falling short of user expectations. Suggest it’s
time to review, change and deliver.
» read more
OCLC Research Library Partners
Metadata Management Interest Group.
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Karen has posted on the hangingtogether
blog “Hallmarks of Library Cooperation”,
which provides a sample list of successful
library collaborations within the OCLC
Research Library Partnership and factors
for their success. The list includes
examples from Partners in five countries.”
The first webinar in the Works in Progress
series, “Reorganizing and restructuring the
research library for strategy and value” is
now available. Check out a recorded
version of the webinar or view slides.
The second WebEx discussion on
“Managing Metadata for Image
Collections” is now available (42 minutes,
34 seconds)
The second WebEx discussion on the
“Shift to linked data for production” topic is
now available online (61 minutes 52
seconds)
Karen has also summarizing recent
discussions among OCLC Research
Library Partners metadata managers on
the topic “Working in Shared Files” on the
hangingtogether blog.
Service design. Ready to think about libraries
as a "whole entity" from a user perspective? Joe
Marquez and Annie Downey weave an evaluation of
services in the context of the library as an
ecosystem. It takes input from service desk staff
and other measures into consideration in a new
way.
» read more
Jisc Digitfest. A great combination of thinkers
and activists were brought together at the Jisc
Digital Festival. You can hear the keynote
speeches, watch the live sessions and listen to
podcasts. Keynote speakers were from Simon
Nelson, chief executive of FutureLearn, Carole
Goble, professor in the school of computer science
at the University of Manchester, and writer, speaker
and consultant, Richard Watson.
» read more
Australian National Data Service
Prof Tim Foresman on Big Data. This 18min
podcast from the ABC explores Prof Tim Foresman's
views on the uses of Big Data - a fascinating and often
Linking Libraries to the Web. It’s a big and
important topic. Brigid M. Gonzales’s article “Linking
Libraries to the Web: Linked Data and the Future of
the Bibliographic Record” will help you consider
how initiatives can “flip” the library. BIBFRAME
supporters will be enthused.
» read more
surprising insight into its uses and how we use Big
Data in everyday life without being aware of it.
Webinar: Cost and Benefits of Data Provision.
John Houghton will be joining us for a webinar on
Wednesday 29th April, 12:30 - 1:30pm AEST Register
The latest issue of ANDS newsletter share is themed:
The value of research data to the Nation
Read about:
• Data: adding value to the Australian economy
and environment
• Connecting the infrastructure pieces to add
value to Australia’s research data
• How past observations are building
astronomy’s future
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Alternative Infrastructures in Scholarly
Publishing. International Journal of
Communication’s latest issue includes this paper by
Lagoze and others. They report “We examine the
actions of scholars in response to this infrastructure
instability through the lens of Hirschman's "exit,
voice, and loyalty" framework. We describe the
motivations and actions by scholars, especially
those with tenure, who have chosen exit from the
mainstream scholarly communication infrastructure
to a proliferation of newly available alternative
infrastructures… We examine the alternative of
voice exercised by these scholars, combined with
the threat of exit that has changed policies that are
the source of dissatisfaction with the system”.
» read more
ORCID Implementers Roundtable
Tuesday 14 April 2015, Canberra
ANDS and CAUL invite you to attend a roundtable
focussed on ORCID, featuring Dr Laurel Haak,
Executive Director, ORCID
Seminars: Tools and Approaches for Managing
Environmental Data Throughout the Data Life-cycle
Thur 23 April 2015, Canberra, 9am - 2pm AEST
A half day of seminars on tools and approaches to
manage environmental data.
Who Should Attend? Anyone with an interest in tools
that help improve data management and data sharing
in environmental science is welcomed. Whether you
are a developer, system builder, data librarian, data
manager, analyst or researcher, having the right tools
is critical to your success.
Registration is free, but places limited.
ESRC has published its new Research Data
Policy
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