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We want to hear from researchers on what skills they need training in to help us plan for 2024. The Researcher Skills Survey is running from October 3rd to 14th. It is being promoted via the Library Research Skills Newsletter for Liaison Librarians to disseminate to research staff, QUT News, a Digital Workplace carousel banner, emails to ADRs and Research Centre Managers, the Office of Research Services team under Katie York, and the Research Portfolio Newsletter.

Enabling a Modern Curriculum Conference

Wow, how fabulous was CAUL’s Enabling a Modern Curriculum Conference?  The conference had two parts – an online element that went for two days (7 and 8 September), and a face-to-face element on 13 September, and how lucky were we that QUT Gardens Point campus was the Brisbane location?

QUT Library presenters did us proud in sharing their innovative and ground-breaking work. Congratulations to Rosie Glynn and Cameron Rutter, Lyndelle Gunton and Sally Kleine, Catherine Radbourne and Stephanie Jacobs and Ginny Barbour, who presented in the first two days.

Pictured above are Kathleen Smeaton, University of Queensland (left) with Katya Henry and Kate Nixon who presented on QUT’s experience with Pressbooks and took part in a panel session at the Brisbane (QUT) based part of the CAUL Conference. Katya also helped to organise this part of the event. 

We couldn’t talk about this conference without acknowledging the amazing work that Sarah Howard did.  She did so much behind the scenes – and in front, that made sure it ran smoothly and successfully.  Bring on the next conference!

eResearch Showcase

The Office of eResearch hosted a showcase event in mid-September at The Cube, Gardens Point campus.  It was a great event that highlighted the diverse range of support they provide and the fabulous research done at QUT.

Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik opened by talking about the importance of eResearch in academia.

Pictured above are Philippa Frame, Research Data Librarian, Cameron Rutter, Health Liaison Librarian, Lyndelle Gunton, Coordinator, Information Research Skills, Tori Waqanaceva-Simpson, Professional Placement Student, Helen Davis, A/Business Liaison Librarian, Emma Nelms, A/Manager, Library Services (GP) and Catherine Haden, Health Liaison Librarian. There were refreshments 😊

Join us for Wednesday coffee

It is no secret that the Office for Scholarly Communication folk enjoy a good coffee. Most Wednesdays we can be found at The Boys House of Coffee in the Kelvin Grove Urban Village at 10:15 enjoying a weekly coffee. If you are in the vicinity, please pop in and join us.

We don’t always talk open access, research data management, ePrints, Pure, APCs, Read and Publish Agreements, copyright, Creative Commons licences or publication metrics, but we are happy to strike up those conversations at any time!

More than exciting news for Ginny

Ginny announced recently that commencing late January, she will be the new Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), the nation’s leading peer-reviewed general medical journal. Ginny has been an inspiration to us in the OSC.  We have been so lucky and feel truly honoured to have had her as our Academic Lead for almost three years.  Her open access knowledge and foresight and her vast publishing experiences have helped us enormously. So stay tuned in 2023 to see spectacular things coming out of MJA.

And evidence of her great work is an editorial by Ginny, Kim Tairi (University Librarian, Auckland University of Technology) and Dimity Flanagan (Manager, Scholarly Communication Services, University of Melbourne) recently published in British Medical Journal:  No turning back on global open access.

Tori’s professional placement

In September, we welcomed Tori Waqanaceva-Simpson as our professional placement student from Charles Sturt University.  Tori’s two weeks were filled with a diverse range of small projects including link checking on the AIRS website, checking the open access status of QUT affiliated documents published under QUT’s Read and Publish agreements and UX projects on the Library website and user observation techniques on physical library space usage. Tori is pictured here at the Cube at Gardens Point campus where she attended the eResearch Showcase.

Congratulations to Catherine Radbourne who put together a fabulous program for Tori, and Catherine joins Ellen Thompson and Michael Hawks as a Professional Placement Champion.

Join us: Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

On the fourth Wednesday of each month, the Scholarly Communications Community of Practice (CoP) runs online for 30 minutes. The CoP is open to all and is facilitated by Dr Sameera Jayan Senanayake, School of Public Health and Social Work, who is also a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) and Centre for Healthcare Transformation (CHT). Sameera is the Early Career Researcher representative on the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) Advisory Group.

The CoP is online, and the format is usually a brief presentation (10 minutes) by one of our experts, followed by discussion.  You can register here  for future CoPs.  The next is on October 26 and will focus on Publication Metrics and Altmetrics.  Tanya Harden will briefly present before an open discussion.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Bouquets 

Usage in August

• 208 total visitors
• 492 pageviews
• Top 3 viewed chapters (based on views):
  1. Databases for metrics
  2. Research Integrity
  3. Preprints, preprint servers and overlay journals
• Top sites/referrers:

1. 1. Google.com;
   2. Bing.com
   3. Linkedin.com

Publication Metrics

Congratulations and thank you for reading this report (right down to the end). If you would like any further information or have burning questions on the above, please contact Stephanie or the relevant Service Manager:  Katya (Copyright), Paula (Scholarly Communications), Tanya (Publication Metrics), Lyndelle (Information Research Skills) and Philippa (Research Data Management).