February 2022

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Best wishes Meeka

Meeka is officially on parental leave. The OSC wished her well while sharing a farewell lunch with her and presenting her with a bundle of pressies from everyone who contributed across the library. 

Dear Everyone

It was just lovely to come into campus on Friday and enjoy my farewell lunch with many of you xx

What a wonderful surprise also to receive the cutest present bundle and gift voucher that you included, wow!!

I just loved reading my birth well-wishes card when I got home, with all your individual messages – my heart was singing and still is when I think about it. Thanks so much to each of you for your kindness and contribution xx

Miss you already! I have enjoyed working with you all very much and appreciate all the ways you have helped me to learn and grow personally and professionally. I have very deep respect for all that you show and bring to a workplace that has made it a happy and fulfilling place for me to be. Hope I’ll have the chance to build on my library work life, and work with you again, in the future.

Take care all, wishing you well for a fantastic year ahead, full of good things and best health and the freedom to explore what your heart desires.

Until next time,
Love Meeka

Ps. Please see pictures of lovely presents and the new (whizz bang) running stroller that has just arrived (your gift voucher went towards this, amazing!!) ❤💕🌺❤💕🌺

     

Welcome Sally 

Sally Kleine commenced on 2nd March with the AIRS team in the role of AIRS Library Adviser.  Last year, Sally had contracts as Library Adviser in the ePrints team, the Law Library and Gardens Point Library. So welcome (back) Sally.  Zach has provided Sally with outstanding training and support and is commended for his stellar  efforts. 

 Law, Technology and Humans indexed in Scopus

The Law, Technology and Humans journal has been accepted for indexation by Scopus after only two years of publication.

For inclusion, publications must adhere to specific publishing requirements that include a demonstrated academic contribution to the field, quality of content, and diversity in the geographical location of editors and authors.

All five of QUT’s open access academic journals are now indexed by Scopus – a result indicative of the dedicated work of the journal editorial teams and the ongoing collective support from the QUT Library. The QUT social media team tweeted this on our request to their 30.3K followers!

Research Support Community Day

The Research Support Community (RSC) Day was held online from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 February, 2022. The event was aimed at anyone involved in providing research support and related services.  If you missed it live, look out for the videos which will be released shortly. Keynotes by Dr Siouxsie Wiles, Dr Cathy Foley, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Ms Sarah Howard, ARC (another Sarah Howard) didn’t disappoint.

Other highlights included:

  • hearing about University of Melbourne’s implementation of DORA and their Publication Metrics Service
  • watching Mia Strasek-Barker’s and Liz Alvey’s lightning talk on UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Research Theses Audit
  • being part of Anton Angelo’s (University of Canterbury) Birds of a Feather session on “What to do when you have no resources to support research?
  • hearing about Open Access Australasia’s new OA101 course.

Launching 23 Scholarly Communication Things

We can’t keep this till the March report, 23 Scholarly Communication Things launched on Monday 7th March.

Designed as a self-paced resource, you can  start at the beginning and work your way through or dive in to just the parts that interest you. Each chapter is broken into three parts – Getting Started, Learn More and Challenge Me – with activities, exercises, and things to consider dispersed throughout. There are multiple interactive elements created using H5P, ranging from quizzes to mini slide sets. 

Congratulations to Catherine Radbourne, Stephanie Jacobs and Alice Steiner who led this amazing team of expert contributors:- Ginny Barbour, Paula Callan, David Cohen, Philippa Frame, Sandra Fry, Jenny Hall, Kate Harbison, Tanya Harden, Katya Henry, Sarah Howard, Stephanie Jacobs, Rani McLennan, Kate Nixon, Catherine Radbourne, Eileen Salisbury, Brendan Sinnamon and Alice Steiner.

Read more about it at 23 Scholarly Communication Things – Official Launch – Library (qut.edu.au)

Research Quality

  • Ginny, Paula and Stephanie met with Natalie Jones-Jayasinghe and Adam Bozetto, Research Information Systems Support, and provided input into QUT’s response to the ERA 2023 Preprints – Public Consultation.
  • Ginny Barbour and Tina Cockburn, Chair of the Reimagining Research Assessment Working Group submitted a draft issues paper to University Research Committee.  The issues paper examines new, innovative ways in which QUT can reimagine research assessment to recognise the deep, rich research knowledge and experience the university encompasses.  It is timely to consider how research assessment occurs at QUT as it aligns with the recently developed QUT Research Quality Agenda (2022–2026) and other strategic research initiatives.
  • Read and Publish (R&P) Agreements: CAUL have released a new Reports page on their R&P Libguide.
    • Currently the page is showing the total number of articles approved and rejected for capped agreements (Springer Nature, Wiley and Oxford University Press), and the expected cap expiry date based on current rates of approval, if the cap is expected to expire this year.
    • CAUL expects to release article level publishing reports by the beginning of April this year, and further updates on that will be sent in coming weeks.
    • Useful data on the reports includes the date that CAUL predict the cap will be reached. Currently, that date is sitting at the end of October for Springer Nature.  As awareness of the agreements increases, the pace at which we approach the limit may pick up.
    • Both the Digital Workplace and HiQ pages for R&P Agreements have been updated to include the link.

Bouquets 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

Publication Metrics

  1. From Kate Williams (via Gillian and Denise) who is applying for a NHRMC Investigator grant – “Thanks so much to your colleague who did the amazing work on attached – it has been a huge help.”
  2. From Jenny Zhengye Hou to whom Tanya and Alice provided a metrics report.  Received via Alice –  

“This is super comprehensive and helpful!! How should I thank you?  All these analytics really give me a good sense of where my work is up to in the field, and how I should strengthen the scholarly visibility and impact. Please also pass my great thanks to Tanya for her help. You both are amazing!! I’ll reach out again if I have any questions regarding making a stronger application based on these metrics.”

  1. From Jane Phillips (Nursing HoS), who is applying for a NHRMC Investigator grant and who has received assistance from Sally and Tanya – “Appreciate your help – thanks for collating these figures for me.”
  2. From Vanessa Brunelli, who was applying for a NHRMC Investigator grant – “Thanks so much, again, for your help with all of this. I do really appreciate it.”

Research Data Management

  1. “I think this series of workshops are very helpful. Thank you for organizing this event.”
  2. “Thank you for emailing this information about this workshop. All the workshops have been very informative. Thank you!”
  3. “Thank you for your very informative workshops this week.”
  4. “Thank you for today’s workshop, it was extremely helpful.”
  5. “Great initiative Philippa. Thanks for organising the ABS event – it was fabulous!”
  6. “Thanks for facilitating today’s workshop, it was really useful.  And thank you for the t-shirt! What a great incentive to get people talking. 😊”
  7. “Thank you for today and yesterdays’ workshop 😊”
  8. “Thank you for the great session this morning as well. I learnt a lot from the session and truly enjoyed the workshop. I will surely see you at the Hacky Hour next week.”
  9. “Thank you so much for 2 really helpful workshops – I attended one yesterday as well. They have aligned perfectly with where I am at with my study.”
  10. “Thank you for your informative presentation. I found it very helpful.”
  11. “It was a great presentation – enjoyed the whole session”
  12. “I found the ABS representative to be very encouraging and understanding of what PhD students require. She was also able to answer questions very well.”

QUT ePrints

  1. “This is amazing, Paula and Stephanie – thank you so much for all your help and support with this!  Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen”
    (feedback related to more general support request from Professor Kerrie Mengersen but QUT ePrints was used to provide some of the data she required) 

  2. “That’s amazing, thank you Debbie! Very much appreciated.  Lynda Ross (Faculty of Health)”

Copyright

Increasing confidence in copyright:

  • “Thank you for your advice, Katya…I will proceed with confidence 😊” (Senior Lecturer, 08/02/2022)

IFN001 / AIRS / Research Skills / Referencing Applications (e.g. EndNote)

IFN001/AIRS

  • “All perfect! I love research support team at QUT! Great thanks!”
  • “Everything is excellent. hoping to attend the face to face ones too” 
  • “Thank you for the course and online workshops. They were great and very helpful for my research”
  • “Thank you for this helpful course.”

Research Skills Workshops

  • “Loved the examples and how we got to participate to ensure we understood what we were taught which embeds the learning even more. “
  • “The session was very engaging and covers important information regarding systematic reviews.”
  • “The most important topics were covered. Workshop content was relevant to HDR research and covered some of the things that research staff members may not even have known.”
  • “Practical demonstration and orientation with most of the facilities that I can have during my HDR journey”.
  • “It was a great presentation – enjoyed the whole session.”
  • “I found the ABS representative to be very encouraging and understanding of what PhD students require. She was also able to answer questions very well. “

February in Numbers

QUT ePrints

New records added Existing records edited Email interactions with academics Full-text downloads Cumulative repository records Cumulative full-text downloads
828 302 76 183,718 116,488
(69,342 with full-text)		 34,817,727

Copyright

Total Consultations 
19
Top 3 Topics: 1. Thesis publishing; 2. Copyright in BB content; 3. Image reuse.

The following is derived from queries directed to the managed inbox qut.copyright@qut.edu.au. Each query (composed of several emails and correspondents) is counted once. 

IFN001: AIRS

Enrolments Completions Workshops Attendances
26 90 5 71

Research Skills

Number of sessions Number of Attendances Consultations
13 249 68

Research Data Management

Hacky Hour attendees New records added to RDF RDF Cumulative open datasets RDF Cumulative views
5 (only one session in January) 3 374 494,157

QUT Theses

Number of theses processed (with DOIs minted and published)
35

Publication Metrics

Number of Enquiries Number of Consultations Reports/Spreadsheets/Data
7 (5 via LLs) 2 6

 

Service Highlights

Service Visions for 9 services were completed: AIRS, Research Skills, QUT ePrints, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, Publication Metrics, Research Data Management, Journal Management and QUT Theses

Scholarly Publishing

IFN001: Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) 

  • The new flipped versions of the workshop recordings are now live on the AIRS website and the QUT Library YouTube channel. 
  • An update of the QUT | Library | IFN001 AIRS | About pages has produced more accurate and up to date information that is presented in a cleaner structure. Many thanks to Rosie and Craig for this swift work with a great outcome.
  • The second 6 weekly teaching team meeting is scheduled for Friday 11 March.
  • Students have provided feedback about the lack of face-to-face training which in the current circumstances is very difficult.  In addition, the Student Voice survey results showed a need to create more engagement and feedback with the students across the subject. This will be addressed by the new coordinator.
  • AIRS 1-4  (night) workshops that were scheduled between March 21st – March 30th have been cancelled. An extra clinic has been created for Wednesday March 23rd at 5pm. The teachers of the cancelled workshops have been notified and asked to pick up a free teaching slot. Students who had booked into the cancelled workshops have been notified and offered alternatives (clinics, future workshops).

Research Skills

  • Marvin has provided excellent support to the whole team over the last few weeks with Meeka leaving, big thank you to Marvin
  • The semester one schedule is complete with all spots filled.
  • Marvin, Catherine Haden and Rosie are redesigning the Advanced EndNote lesson plan to be more engaging and include some new video resources, stay tuned for updates. They met to review and improve the lesson plan and resources for Advanced EndNote. While the session delivers key training objectives, attendances have been high and feedback is excellent, the demands of preparation for facilitators are high and involve some risk for technological hurdles in a session. Video snippets will be created for interspersing in-between discussion, demonstration and exercises. Those videos can be reused as part of the Online Instruction guide as well.
  • The Training section for Higher Degree Research (HDR) students on HiQ has had some changes.
    • The overall section name the general section has changed, from ‘Develop research and career skills’ to ‘Training and workshops’. That is an improvement we had long advocated for.
    • The left hand menu categories have been reduced from 24 to 12. GRED has led this change with our input. In terms of the training delivered by the library, this means that:
      • Any session that was in ‘Digital literacy’ is now under ‘Digital literacy and data management’.
      • Any session that was in ‘Research methodologies’ or ‘Research practices’ is now under ‘Methodologies and practices’
    • Redirects are also in place for pages in the Ethics and integrity section and Endnote Essentials, and all links to pages in the section within the intranet, plus short URLs, have been updated in bulk.
    • The AIRS and Research Skills Admin teams will be updating the training resources with updated links in files. Craig has looked at the Library web pages.
    • If Librarians notice any further broken links they should report them to Marvin. If they have any powerpoint presentations or handouts with links to these pages they should update them.

Copyright

  • The Copyright Service received a report of an internal copyright infringement from IT Security, the first in several years. This was addressed by the Registrar’s Office, and is now resolved.
  • QUT’s Letter of Support for Universities Australia’s Submission on the Copyright Amendment (Access Reforms) Bill 2021 was sent on 25 February. Creative Commons Australia also put in a submission, authored by Elliott Bledsoe with assistance from Robin Wright and Katya.
  • Katya submitted the Annual Compliance Return for 2021.
  • Article on ‘How to be copyright compliant on Blackboard‘ was published on LTU Hub 15/02.  The article was also included in CIESJ eNews 18 February and the DVC&VP(Education)’s newsletter to all staff!
  • Rani delivered a Copyright Content Review consultation for an academic and Learning Designer, and commenced work on the Blackboard Exemplar site.
  • Katya participated in the Open Access Virtual Escape Room at the Research Support Community Day.

Issues

  • Still no outcome from the Copyright Tribunal ☹
  • Universities Australia is in discussions regarding the Screenrights Agreement, which is due to expire on 31 December 2022
  • Access to course materials for non-award students is increasingly becoming an issue. Input on copyright issues has been provided to Majella Pugh and Sarah Howard.

Future activities

QUT ePrints

QUT Theses

  • Marvin is to shortly meet with Jill Blacker, Graduate Research Centre, to further clarify expectations around embargo applications.
  • Marvin and Paula met to go over the Retrospective Thesis Digitisation project.

Research Data Management

  • The Love Data Week 2022 campaign ran from 14-18 February.  A series of six workshops were held throughout the week, with excellent registration numbers and good attendance at all:
    • Research Data Management: Planning (Philippa) – 26 of 33 registered
    • Research Data Management: Storage, Analysis & Visualisation (Philippa) – 29 of 48 registered
    • Research Data Management: Preservation and Publication (Philippa) – 12 of 24 registered
    • Secondary datasets for research: Financial data (Philippa, with Janet and Mathew) – 12 of 34 registered
    • Code and data sharing platform for engineering researchers, computer and data scientists (Graham and an engineering PhD student, Guilherme Froes Silva) – 7 of 23 registered
    • Australian Bureau of Statistics for researchers: Accessing Microdata and using DataLab (Talei Parker, ABS) – 34 of 51 registered
  • As part of the campaign, free t-shirts were offered to participants who asked a question during the workshops, and for the person/people with the most attendance across all 6 workshops. 18 t-shirts will be sent out to 14 HDR students and 4 staff, with two of those allocated to people who attended four of the six workshops.  Most of these participants live locally, but interestingly, one person attended from South Australia, one from NSW and one from China.
  • Nicole, Ginny, Stephanie and Philippa attended a workshop with the Office of eResearch, including Prof Matthew Bellgard (Director, eResearch) and Yvette Wyborn (Business Analyst) to begin looking at an integration of the Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist and the Data Management Planning Tool (DMPT).  It was a very positive workshop, where feature and pain points of the DMPT were discussed, and a number of user personas were developed for future use in planning.
  • The first Research Data Management Drop-in for 2022 was held on 23 February with four people attending.  All required data management planning advice or assistance, with one attendee participating in an ARC-funded project and the other three at various stages of their PhD.  Philippa has received one request for further assistance from an attendee.
  • Philippa has been investigating indexation of Research Data Finder in Digital Science’s Altmetrics Explorer to enable mentions of research datasets to be tracked by alternative metrics sources.  This will assist with the publications metrics service the OSC provides as well as will hopefully provide evidence of the impact of QUT researchers’ data.  There will be some development work required to add five new meta tags in the source code for each dataset and Philippa has been liaising with Joe Stewart, DBS about this.
  • Attendance at Hacky Hour in 2022 has been excellent, with an average of five attendees at each session.  Eleven people attended Hacky Hour on Thursday, 24 February, which might be the highest number of attendees since it moved to online mode.

Major Future Activities 

  • Collaboration with Cameron Rutter to develop ‘Secondary datasets for research: Health data’ workshop to run on 7 April.
  • Meet with Vladimir Bubalo, Manager, Research and Scholarly Information Services at Macquarie University to discuss their implementation of Pure for publishing research datasets.
  • Commence a Research Data Residency at Gardens Point campus some time in March (flood repairs permitting).
  • ARDC Data Retention Project – work with QUT and representatives from the Centre for the Environment to create DOIs for acoustic datasets collected by researchers all over Australia.
  • Deletion of 2015-2019 blank/empty plans in the Data Management Planning Tool.
  • Update Guidance in the Data Management Planning Tool, including the FAQ and Help pages.  Ensure that new URLs for ‘Managing research data and primary materials’ webpages are updated and include the new Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist.

Journal Management

The first Student Success issue for 2022 (General Issue) was published on February 28.

The journal also released a Call for Paper for the 2022 Special Issue Fostering Connections in Higher Education – three recent National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) Fellows are guest editors: Katelyn Barney, Janine Delahunty and Nicole Crawford.

The 2021 Student Success Editorial Report includes details about the Journal’s involvement in a pilot project to index relevant journal articles in the Australian Learning and Teaching Repository (LTR). The LTR is a curated space that indexes the work of Australian learning and teaching researchers and provides a set of quality resources on key L&T topics for practitioners.  In late 2021, the Repository undertook a pilot project with the Student Success journal and the associated STARS Conference to determine the value of indexing and linking to current open access (OA) teaching and learning research. This work involved a range of activities to match published articles, practice reports and conference presentations with Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) and predecessor bodies project outcomes and dissemination.

The pilot came about as a direct result of two articles published in early 2021 in the Campus Morning Mail’s What’s Needed Now in Teaching and Learning Series: No limits on learning: The great Australian open access L&T resource by Pru Mitchell and More to Open Access than research, by our very own Tracy Creagh.

Law, Technology and Humans (LTH)

As mentioned previously, the Law, Technology and Humans journal has been accepted for indexation by Scopus after only two years of publication. This is great news.

A special call for papers was released this month on Jurisprudence of the Future 2022

 

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (IJCJSD)

Production work continued for the first issue for 2022 – March 1.  The special double issue includes two disparate focuses on criminology: Beyond Cybercrime: New Perspectives on Crime, Harm and Digital Technologies with Guest Editors: Faith Gordon, Alyce McGovern, Chrissy Thompson and Mark Wood and Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Asia, with Guest Editors: Orika Komatsubara, David Rodríguez Goyes, Tanya Wyatt and Laÿna Droz.

 

Publication Metrics

  • QUT commenced a Trial of the Trends module of SciVal, at the request of Natalie Jones, Research Portfolio.  Maryann Loneragan was very helpful in liaising with the vendor to get the trial organised.  The trial was initially for two weeks, but the vendor offered a two week extension to enable us to try and get broader engagement.
  • Tanya with assistance from Stephanie provided the publication data for the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Publication Pick section of the March Research Update.
  • Tanya provided the QUT Translational Research Institute (TRI) publication data that will be combined with UQ researchers publications by UQ librarians and used to create a report to demonstrate TRI’s impact.
  • Tanya assisted Cameron Rutter by providing publication data and metrics requested at short notice by Kate Yerbury, Industry Engagement Officer, Faculty of Health.  This information will be used in the information pack when the Head of School positions are advertised.
  • Stephanie, Majella, Jingyue and Tanya met with Mark Garlinghouse and Aaron Ballagh from The Lens to get a better understanding of what our subscription entitles QUT to access, and a general overview of The Lens.  Tanya will liaise with them to organise a similar session for QUT staff, to maximise the value QUT gets from its subscription.  Jingyue has been very helpful liaising with The Lens to get the subscription up and running.
  • Tanya arranged a meeting between Stephanie Guichard and Liz Smee from Digital Science and Stephanie, Paula and herself to discuss Altmetric Explorer.  Following that meeting, Stephanie has followed up with DBS about the stalled API, with extra information having been provided by Altmetric Explorer.  We were also given guidance on how to get records from Research Data Finder (RDF) tracked in Altmetric Explorer, and other records in QUT ePrints.  Tanya will liaise with Liz Smee to organise a training session for QUT staff.

News

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