December

SAGE HDR Publication Prize Awards

Congratulations to the 13 prize winners of the 2023 Sage Higher Degree Research Awards (HDR) Publication Prize Awards.  Sage Publishing have generously sponsored this initiative since 2014 and this year, the level of participation and the quality of all 114 submissions was astounding. All research publications reflected the high-quality, diverse and impactful research taking place at QUT.

Dr Keri Freeman (GRE+D) announced the winners and commendations at the (hybrid) awards ceremony early December in a small but impactful ceremony in the Curriculum Collection in the Kelvin Grove Library on 6th December.

Thank you to Catherine Radbourne who not only did a lot of the behind the scenes work in organising the awards ceremony but also checks each application after submission to ensure it meets the criteria precisely (in particular the word count of the lay summary).  Also thank you to Marvin van Prooijen who administers the zoom registration and helps with preparation of the afternoon tea.  Finally, thanks to Mimy Andree and Teresa Butland and her fabulous Collection Access team who set up the room most perfectly.

Congratulations to:

Madeleine Bennett, 🏅 Biripi & Koori woman, won the Indigenous HDR student prize with her recently accepted paper:
Bennett, M. (2023) “Any male victim?” The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.

Faculty of Business and Law
Winner: Kristina Chelberg 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gTFswdxq
Commendation: Ashesha Weerasinghe 🎖 https://lnkd.in/gfY2UXki

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
Winner: Jo Kingsman 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gG-yg9gQ
Commendation: Carly Lubicz 🎖 https://lnkd.in/gZkbUayv

Faculty of Engineering
There were two winners:
Meghdad Ghaseminia 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gPFCbsN7
Krishan Rana 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gaXAnX-M
Commendation: Vishal Bellie Subramani 🎖 https://lnkd.in/gSnfUAvp

Faculty of Health
Winner: Sally Griffin 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gCr8BjKR
Commendation: Hanif Bhuiyan, PhD 🎖 https://lnkd.in/gPCrFkPd

Faculty of Science
Winner: Cailan Jaynes-Smith 🏅 https://lnkd.in/gmhRAF7X
Commendations:
1. Jack Powers 🎖 https://lnkd.in/gD72nVsx
2. Chihcheng Hsieh 🎖 https://lnkd.in/ghQpwHqM

Pictured below is a collection of photos taken by our wonderful Mimy Andree.  And this Library blog by Catherine Radbourne provides a fabulous summary And the winners are… SAGE Higher Degree Research Student Publication Prize 2023 – Library (qut.edu.au)

November

OSC Staffing update

• If you are looking for Stephanie Paddick’s contact details on DW or beyond, Stephanie has changed her family name to Villis. Her new email address is stephanie.villis@qut.edu.au and you can find her on DW and the Library site under her new family name.
• Rani has embarked on her 12 month contract with CAUL. We will see her back officially in her copyright role at QUT Library in 2024, however she and Katya are planning to work a Wednesday every now and then on site at KG campus, which will be great.
• Mitch Messenger continues his three days per week with QUT ePrints. he has changed his days to Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
• Sadly, Gayle Crooks’ contract ends on 24 January 2024. Philippa Frame will return on Wednesday 7 February and will work Wednesday – Friday.

ResBaz

ResBaz was a resounding success. Held at The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus (in the Michie building), it brought together and connected over 230 attendees. A special thanks to Gayle Crooks who wrangled the many volunteers who helped make it happen and run smoothly.  QUT contributed in many ways with sessions by

• Michael Milford: Hopefully good and some definitively bad advice for researcher sin the digital AI age
• Rosie Glynn and Emma Nelms: Evaluating AI apps for your literature reviews
• Cameron Rutter and Rani McLennan: Copyright Considerations for Human Researchers
• Robert Fleet (Digital Observatory): Demystifying AI for research
• Panel facilitated by Eliza Howard: How bazaar, how bazaar: Let’s think about ChatGPT et. al

Tapping into some of the comments, the top two themes that hit the mark and had attendees wanting more were AI and  wellbeing. It appears there is a lot of FOMO with AI. Here are some photos from the three days (21-23 November).

Indigenous and Māori culture maths teaching and learning resources

43 Indigenous and Maori culture/maths posters were added to QUT ePrints by Professor Bronwyn Ewing  and Professor Grace Sarra,  The posters were designed, created and produced from funding awarded by the Australian Research Council – Indigenous Discovery Grant IN150100045 (2016-2023) “Unlocking the Learning Potential of Incarcerated Indigenous and low SES young people in Queensland, Australia”.

Read more about this fabulous collection in the QUT Library blog by Adjunct Associate Professor Bronwyn Ewing.

AIRS

• It is getting close to launch date of the new IFN006. All curriculum content is being updated now in readiness for launch on 5th Feb in the new year.
• Comms on the new unit have been sent.  See Do you supervise QUT Higher Degree Researchers? Mandatory coursework unit Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) is changing – Research
• The new unit outline is at QUT – Unit – IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills
• 15th Dec last enrolments for IFN001. After then, students will be enrolled in IFN006.  
• Lyndelle will be teaching all workshops in Teaching Period (TP)1 and TP2. This will give Lyndelle a good feel for how the new content is received, and measure any workload impact.  LLs will facilitate the workshops in TP3 and TP4.  All LLs will share marking across all TPs as per the original plan. 

Publication Metrics

• Tanya’s publication metric support for grant applicants earned her the title “Super Scival Ninja”.
• Tanya presented to researchers via the Office of Research Services information session for ARC Discovery Projects.
• The final DVC(R) publication pick data for the year has been delivered and you may have seen the selection made in Distinguished Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik’s last Research Update for 2023.

Copyright

• Cameron has been in fruitful discussions with the Brand Centre and regarding the need for attribution for Getty (stock) images.
• Cameron and Nicole Clark are in the early stages of working on the Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Protocol for QUT

Read and Publish Update

In 2024, QUT will add 5 new Read and Publish Agreements to our suite.  This will bring the total number of agreements to 18. New agreements are with:

1. American Psychological Association (APA),
2. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
3. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
4. International Water Association (IWA)
5. John Benjamins

Additional facts on Read and Publish Agreements

• From 1 July 2023, Elsevier OA Read and Publish agreement expanded the number of titles from 235 titles to include all 1,649 titles in the Core-Hybrid Freedom Collection. This was welcomed by all, and it has meant that the national cap for this agreement won’t be reached in 2023.
• The national cap for Springer Nature R&P Agreements (3359 articles) was reached on 7th November.
• It is predicted that the national cap for Wiley will be reached on 21/12/2023.
• Caps for Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, AIP and Elsevier won’t be reached  this year.
• The overview of QUT’s Read and Publish activity from CAUL is below. However, we are mindful that data coming from publishers is frequently delayed. This table was updated on 12/10/2023.

October – celebrates 20 years of QUT ePrints

We marked 20 years of QUT ePrints with the launch of a new feature that highlights the amazing research outputs of QUT’s Indigenous researchers.  In collaboration with the Carumba Institute, QUT ePrints will each day shine spotlight on the excellent research conducted by QUT’s Indigenous Australian researchers. The details of a publication or resource which includes at least one Indigenous Australia researcher as an author/creator, will be randomly selected and featured on the QUT ePrint home page. Read more about the Indigenous Australian Research Excellence at QUT in the Library blog.

The celebration included a fabulous morning tea with academics, librarians and friends from all corners of QUT.

Library staff and academics enjoying the morning tea

AIRS 

As content for the IFN006 continues to be developed, during October IFN001 had:

• Completions: 33
• Enrolments: 17
• Workshops: 2
• Attendances: 17

Some poignant pieces of feedback included:

September

In collaboration with the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI), Graduate Research Education and Development (GRE+D) and Ginny Barbour (Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia), the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) presented “Emerging Issues and Challenges in Publishing” to over 80 people on September 28.

The session explored issues of AI that intersect with authorship and publication ethics, provided advice and guidelines on the use of AI in academic writing, elaborated on what to consider when choosing where to publish (e.g., deceptive publishing, misleading metrics, salami slicing, paper mills) and gave a journal editor’s perspective on how academic journals are responding to AI related to writing and publishing.

QUT ePrints 

QUT ePrints experienced some serious technical issues during September.  The service was unavailable intermittently, and when it was accessible, the service was very slow.   After a reboot in early October, it seems to be back with gusto.  Although, the downtime prevented the processing of new records, 41 new theses were added to the repository.

Earlier in September, a new feature, the “CORE eprint recommender” was implemented in QUT ePrints. Scroll down to the bottom of each record and you will see a couple of “related eprints” recommended. They can be from the larger CORE collection, or our own QUT ePrints collection; there is a tab for each of these.  

Go to the eprint record above and scroll to the bottom to view the “recommended related” eprints from the CORE collection and from QUT ePrints.

And here is some fabulous feedback received during September on the ePrints service:

• Hi Debbie, Amazing, thank you so much for this. This is fantastic news. Was just googling about DOIs as well! Dr Brendan Keogh, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice.
• Brilliant, Debbie – much appreciated. I can now start disseminating and promoting it, and getting those downloads happening!  😊 Dr Alexandra Williamson, Faculty of Business and Law
• Many thanks to all the team for this and all the other work that you do, Emeritus Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes, QUT Business School.

Research Skills

During September, 16 sessions were held with 235 attendances and 3 consultations.

August

HDR Meet, Greet and Eat

The third Higher Degree Research (HDR) student Meet Greet & Eat (MGE) was held on 3rd August. 44 HDR students enjoyed the opportunity to meet their peers as well as Liaison Librarians, the AIRS Team and other OSC staff over morning tea. Garry Cannon, represented our sponsor Wiley, and, along with Paula Callan, Scholarly Communications Librarian, gave insights into his thoughts on open access publishing now and in the future. The lucky door prizes, give aways and badges were a hit. And it was wonderful to see some students who had attended previous MGEs.

Fabulous feedback:
Most Useful? “Getting to know the Liaison Librarians and team, Publisher from Wiley and other HDRs! It was great to know the service and support provided. Getting to meet everyone in person. And getting to know Garry Cannon from Wiley. And the food was great! The entire event was organised very thoughtfully.”   

Digital Observatory sessions series

The Digital Literacy series on collecting, managing, processing and visualising data started running again this semester. Members of the Australian Digital Observatory ran sessions on the 23rd and the 30th, with another one in September, which were again very well attended. 

July

Staff updates

Farewell to Huyen Do who made a valuable contribution to the team in developing some of our surveys and the related ethics applications. At all times, Huyen was an exceptional colleague and team member who at all times showed consideration, grace and kindness in the workplace.

Following an extremely competitive external recruitment exercise, Cameron Rutter was appointed as University Copyright Officer from 31 July 2023 – 2 August 2024.

Paula Callan returned from long service leave on 17 July.  As a result of an EOI process, Sandra Fry backfilled in Paula’s role and did an amazing job, including presenting on researcher profiles at the Research Boot Camp!

Following the appointment of Sally Kleine to the role of Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Business and Law, Zach Dominello commenced in the full-time role of Library Adviser (AIRS) on Monday 17 July in a fixed-term contract till 27 October.  Welcome Zach!

That’s a wrap on another Research Support Community Day

QUT hosted the online Research Support Community Day for three days from 27-29 June. The conference opened with a warm welcome by Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik, who shared his provocative insights into the post ERA world of research and the metricising of research.  Three fascinating and thoughtful keynotes were presented. Speakers included Prof Jason De Sontalo, University of Technology Sydney, Prof Cameron Neylon, Curtin University and Claire Rye, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) and Ai-Lin Soo, Operations Manager, AiLECS Lab, Monash University and RDCC Coordination, UNSW.

If you missed any sessions, you can catch them now on https://www.youtube.com/@rscday

Above is a screenshot of the organising committee, led by Jayshree Mamtora, James Cook University. Special thanks go to Lyndelle Gunton who coordinated the team in piloting Zoom Events as the technology.  It was a great experience.

AIRS Review update

IFN006 is now official!  University Academic Board approved the new 6 credit point IFN006 to replace the 4 credit point IFN001 from 1/1/2024.  Congratulations Lyndelle and the AIRS Review Working Group with special shout-outs to Rosie (in her Learning Designer role) and Sal (in her Library Adviser (AIRS) role)!

SAGE HDR Publication Prize is open!

Sage Publishing is once again offering cash prizes (11) for the top research outputs authored by a Higher Degree Reseach student. There will be six prizes of $400 awarded; one each to the top published paper in each of the five faculties and $400 will be awarded for the top published paper by an Indigenous HDR student.   There are also five prizes of $100 for commended papers, one in each of the faculties. Find out more on this Library blog and encourage your HDRs to enter by closing date 1 November, 2023.

SciVal User Group Meeting 

Tanya Harden and Catherine Radbourne attended the SciVal User Group Meeting on Wednesday 19 July at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University. A highlight was a session by Michelle Duryea, Senior Research Manager, Edith Cowan University on “The evolving Australian higher education and research evaluation policy landscape”, as well as tips and tricks to maximise the subscription to SciVal.

June

UQ/QUT/Griffith Knowledge Sharing Day

On 19 June, OSC met at The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus for the inaugural UQ/QUT/Griffith Research Support Knowledge Sharing Day. It was a refreshing day of discussion with not a powerpoint slide to be seen. The “unmeeting” format was conducive to a relaxed environment and open sharing.

We were impressed with UQ Library’s Elevating and Respecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in UQ Special and Research Collections: Phase 1 Report. They’re very proud of this important work and acknowledge that there’s still so much to do in this space.

We didn’t solve the problems of the world, but we made some great connections with folk over the river and up the river as we we explored:

• research impact,
• research data management and progress towards Dataplace accreditation.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives – metadata, cultural sensitivity warnings, research data and the many other things in this space.
• Open Educational Resources, Pressbooks and more.
• NHMRC OA policy and rights retention and role of repositories (NTRO’s, DOI minting).
• emerging AI tools and challenges in scholarly communication.

CAUL OER Collective funded Open Textbook launched 

The team completed copyright checks on the 2022 OER Collective grant-funded books, Anatomical Variation, authored by Associate Professor Laura Gregory. It was officially launched on 8 June 2023 and is now available on the OERC Catalogue.

Take a Hike into Copyright 

The June Copyright Matters Newsletter was released.  In this edition, Cameron and Rani present some current issues surrounding AI and its intersection with creators and disability inclusion and some recent copyright news from the arts and music space.  Be part of the Copyright Interest Group by subscribing here.

And more good stuff ….

• AIRS Review Survey data for HDRs and Supervisor has been analysed. A summary of the results is provided in the AIRS Review Survey Results Overview video. Overall,
  • Constructive and useful feedback received.
  • Students are predominantly satisfied with the programs, supervisors slightly less so.
  • Results indicate that the review is progressing well and has anticipated the needs and requirements of HDRs and supervisors.
• Currently awaiting results of CAUL Survey results and analysis.

May

Congratulations to Deb Smith

This award recognises the professionalism, exceptional commitment and high quality, consistent client service Debbie Smith provides to the QUT ePrints service.  On a daily basis, in her email communications, Debbie makes strong, valuable and genuine connections with QUT academics and HDR students.  Her expertise in QUT ePrints coupled with her impeccable attention to detail and passion to upskill academics in Pure and QUT ePrints has earnt her the utmost respect and admiration from both clients and Library colleagues alike. Debbie’s dedication to providing quality service has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in the continued success of QUT ePrints. Evidence of the lasting positive impression she has left are these two recent quotes:

• WOW, Debbie!  You are amazing! I just wanted to give you a quick huge thank you for your efforts! Thank you!!!!!!!  Jessie Oliver, School of Computer Science.
• Hello Debbie, Thank you for your wonderful assistance again. Your speedy support is much appreciated. Prof Sandra Gattenhoff, School of Creative Practice

More Success for Student Success

The release of the Scimago Journal Rankings (SJR) on May 1 presented fabulous news for all the QUT supported open journals included in these annual rankings of Scopus –indexed publications.  Student Success is now a Q1 in Education: Internationally it is ranked in education 351 out of 1421 publications and nationally it is ranked 4th in Education.  In terms of open access publications, it is in the top 50 education journals internationally.   

Featuring: Research Data Management

Data Management Planning Tool

The DMP Tool has been identified by DBS as not being stable.  External access has been shut off and communications are currently being sent to update all users.  Gayle has been liaising with the Office of eResearch to swiftly further develop eResearch’s Checklist to build in DMP capabilities 

Gayle presented to University of Newcastle Library on QUT Library’s RDM services and support (June 6) and received the following feedback: “Thank you once again for spending the time with us this morning talking through QUT’s support and services for research data. I am always impressed by QUT Library – and it was invaluable for the team to hear from someone actually working in this area!“ 

AIRS Review update

Approvals process for the new IFN006 are moving ahead with proposals going to University Research Committee (URC) in July. Testing of the two assessment tasks continues to be undertaken. Survey data has been collected from former AIRS students and supervisors and is being analysed. The CAUL survey on information research skills remains open to hopefully see further feedback responses. Existing AIRS content is currently being reviewed to establish what we can use going forward and what will need to be developed. Discussions are happening with Graduate Research Centre (GRC) to prepare for a smooth transition for students and provide appropriate communications to staff and students. Investigation is underway with Marketing and Comms about website branding etc. A Pressbooks shell will be set up in which to build the new content modules for embedding into the IFN006 Canvas unit site while providing openly available content to wider audiences.

Feedback requesting more F2F sessions

It is great to see students are asking for more face to face sessions.  This feedback on Hacky Hour is generating enthusiastic response from our Hacky Hour collaborators in eResearch and Digital Observatory.

“I am looking forward to in-person sessions (hacky hour?) to analyse my data with someone (who has expertise in particular software). Sometimes, I am unable to follow verbal instructions via Zoom. It will be helpful if an appointment can be made to receive the in-person session.” – Hacky Hour 

April

Congratulations to Gayle Crooks

Gayle Crooks commenced as Research Data Librarian in late January and, while it was at first a steep learning curve, she has has built on her existing knowledge and skills, met challenges with resilience and calm analysis and mastered the delivery of the research data management service.  Gayle has demonstrated herself to be efficient while achieving impressive productivity.  She coordinated externally provided (ABS) sessions for Love Data Week, provided significant feedback on the CAUL FAIR and Open NTRO framework, has engaged with various research groups in the University negotiating challenging new issues and liaised heavily with ARDC. Impressively, Gayle has moved beyond the operational element and taken a strategic and overarching view, prioritising and approaching issues sensibly, always mindful of QUT and QUT Library goals and positions.

Authorship, Peer Review and Publication (A,PR&P)

In addition to the Library, Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI), and Graduate Research Education and Development (GRE+D) joining forces to deliver Authorship, Peer Review and Publication, the two day seminar series for HDRs and researchers, this year, we introduced Rod Chester, Media Relations Team Leader, Media and Communications into the fold, and Prof Ginny Barbour joined us in her role as Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia. The first session in the series ran through the major elements of everything pre-submission and the second session dealt with what authors can do post-submission. Lyndelle Gunton updated the Authorship and Publication subway map using thinglink and it looks fabulous. The video of the 2023 version will be available soon.  There is a host of other resources available to all staff and HDR students.

Welcome Huyen and Bryn

Bryn and Huyen have been with the Research Skills Team since 10 April. Bryn works Monday to Wednesday and Huyen works Thursday – Friday.  They are backfilling for Marvin, who is backfilling for Cameron Rutter who is backfilling for Tanya Harden while she is on long service leave.  Tanya returns on Monday 2 June, and everything will fall back in place then. Bryn joins us from Library Resource Services; he has been keeping the scheduled skills sessions ticking over and planning the semester 2 schedule. He is showcasing some of his vegie garden produce here. Huyen joins us from Collection Access and she has helped get our upcoming surveys through the ethics process.  This means we will be set to publish our findings. Thanks Bryn and Huyen. It has been a joy having you.

Welcome Cameron

And welcome to Cameron who has done a sterling job providing publication metrics support and guidance on using our citation tools. Most recently, Cameron presented at A,PR&P with Rod Chester on promoting research outputs (post-publication). He also developed videos demonstrating how to locate D1 journals in SJR/JCR, updated the DW with text to further scope the service and the support provided for academic promotion and he provided timely information to Prof Michael Milford regarding international collaboration. Bravo Cameron!

23 Scholarly Communication Things

From January to April this year, 23 Scholarly Communication Things has attracted 491 visitors with 1,012 page views. The top 4 most viewed chapters (excluding the cover – which is gorgeous) are Databases for metrics; Open Access Models; Managing Research Data; Metrics for non-traditional research outputs

Two feedback snippets; there’s more on the FEEDBACK PADLET

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