January 2022

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Congratulations to Ginny on her publication: Frontiers | Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces? | Research Metrics and Analytics (frontiersin.org)

Farewell Jenny Hall

Jenny Hall was farewelled on Monday 31 January after eight years leading IFN001: AIRS at QUT Library. The surprise online event was a sea of Jenny Hall’s as most of the 53 attendees displayed a Jenny Hall pic as their background. Sarah Howard hosted a magnificent “How well do you really know Jen Hall?” Kahoot, and Nicole and Janet gave heartfelt speeches (ask Janet about the plastic sisters).

Enormous thanks to everyone who played a part: Katya Henry, Rani McLennan, Catherine Radbourne, Meeka Moessner, Philippa Frame, Marvin Van Prooijen, Deborah Smith, Zach Dominello and Ginny Barbour.

Jen sent the message below to be shared with her QUT Library friends.

Dear All,
What a wonderful surprise farewell party.  You know, I really didn’t want a Zoom farewell but I think everyone who attended would agree that it was a fabulous party – so much thought, care and secrecy  went into the event –  thank you to those who trawled in search of photos, developed the Kahoot, (big thanks to our wonderful host – Sarah) and the Kudoboard, and those who had a hand in the purchase of the beautiful Oncidium and necklace.   Oh my goodness, I was speechless seeing multiple me plastered on your backgrounds!! (a bit scary really (-;)  The speeches and the beautiful sentiment expressed by Nicole, Stephanie and Janet will live on in my memory for evermore, as will the well wishes by so many of you on the  Kudoboard.  It was lovely to see so many friends and colleagues from the Library, LTU, GRE+D, GRC, OREI, Yoga and other areas – you all have a special place in my heart and I will cherish the times that we shared.  I will especially remember how we worked so well together, always with students central to our endeavours, how we connected and shared our stories which were so often layered with ample dollops of laughter and fun.
Thank you all for helping to make my time at QUT an amazing experience, one that has led me to this place – the next adventure.
With much love and gratitude,
Jen

Love Data Week 

  • From 14-18 February, QUT Library is celebrating the role research data plays in improving the lives of people around the world by adopting the international theme of ‘Data is for everyone’.  Love Data Week raises awareness and builds a community to engage on topics related to research data management, analysis, sharing, preservation and re-use and library-based research data services.
  • There is a bunch of international events and activities that are free for anyone to attend online, available from here, and you can follow along on Twitter using #LoveData22.
  • Keep an eye out for tweets from @qutlibrary.  Tweets will have a focus on spotlighting several datasets published in Research Data Finder and highlighting the repository’s capabilities.
  • The QUT Library blog post details the six workshops scheduled to run between 14-18 February. Two new sessions are:

23 Scholarly Communication Things

23SCT is going through a final edit before being released in the wild. It has been hidden from public view while this review progresses. Some changes that have already been made include:

  • A change to the chapter order  to reflect the research and publishing life-cycle more accurately.
  • Ensuring there is consistency of content and style within chapters.

Prior to the book being hidden, some people viewed chapters. During January, Pressbooks Analytics recorded a total of 153 visitors with 227 pageviews. The most popular chapters were Research Integrity, Author profiles and Open Educational Resources (OERs). The most common gateway for access was Google, followed by the Pressbooks directory and DuckDuckgo.com.

Future plans for 23 Scholarly Communication Things:

  • Launch date is planned for 23 February using Twitter and a QUT library blog post for promotion.
  • CAUL will be invited to promote it as a finished product in their blog/newsletter.
  • Appropriate conferences will be identified and papers will be submitted for presentations.
  • Ongoing Twitter and blog posts will be made as appropriate to coincide with special campaigns and days/weeks e.g. Love Data Week, OA Week, etc
  • When there are no special dates, Twitter posts will be made on a monthly basis to promote.
  • There will be promotion to specialist groups, including the Research Support Librarians Group, QULOC Research Support Working Party and Ascilite.

ERA

  • Consultation on the draft ERA 2023 journal list and submission documents is underway.  The Draft ERA 2023 Submission documents are available on the ARC website
  • ERA EI Review outcomes: The implementation of recommendations will be phased over time as described in the ARC ERA and EI Action Plan available on the ARC website
  • ERA 2023 – Preprints consultation: The ARC is also consulting on the possibility of including pre-prints as a new research output type in ERA. A consultation paper is available on the ARC website.

Bouquets 

Publication Metrics

Hi Rosie and Tanya,
You are both Magicians! Thank you so much – this is exactly what I was after 🙂 
Please let me know if you ever need HDR student endorsement for anything – I’m always telling my peers about how great QUT’s librarians are.
Kind regards,
Josh
Joshua Reilly FHEA, MRACI, JP (Qual)
MEd | GradCertTerAdEd | GradCertFL&S | BBiomedSci (Hons I)
STEM Educator – Chemistry | Learning & Teaching Unit | QUT
PhD Candidate | Addiction Neuroscience | Translational Research Institute
Ally | QUT Ally Network | QUT

Research Data Management

  1. That’s very nice of you, thanks Philippa! Couldn’t have done it without an awesome Research Data Librarian to catalogue the data for people to access 😉 
    (Email from Reuben Young, SAGE Publication Prize Winner 2021, upon receiving congratulations on his win. His dataset is in QUT – Research Data Finder)
  2. Hi Philippa, Thanks so much!  Fortuitous timing as I am just submitting it to another journal.  Rejection is a 😞, but back on that horse!  I really appreciate your help.
    Kind regards,
    Kelly
    (Feedback from Kelly Wilson-Stewart (international 3 Minute Thesis winner) re: dataset publishing)

QUT ePrints

  1. Thanks Mitch for your timely and detailed response. Much appreciated.  Best regards, Muhammad Zaheer Abbas 

  2. This is incredible, thank you so very much Debbie and Alice! Kindest Regards, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, School of Design, Research Training Coordinator 
  3. Excellent thank you Debbie. I appreciate your prompt response. Alberto Bellocchi, Associate Professor, QUT Education | Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Justice
  4. Hi Debbie, That is all clear, thank you. Great to see QUT’s excellent system for making sure information resources are made available. Yay! Cheers, Bernadette Hyland-Wood
  5. Thank you very much, Debbie. The information you provided has allowed me to complete my PURE entry and it is now awaiting approval. Kind regards,  AJ Glazebrook (PhD student)
  6. Well done team 😊 Myles, Emeritus Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes | The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies
Copyright

Hi Katya 

I attended an online workshop last year that included a really great presentation by yourself and Rani McLennan. I loved the way you presented the topic, I loved your energy and enthusiasm, it was infectious. I would really like the opportunity to have a look at it again, is it at all possible to have a copy of this please. Plus, it would be fantastic if you could add my email to your copyright newsletter distribution list. I’m in a new role in our library and am reviewing how we can add value to our current services, perhaps online resources/training about copyright. I recall you had some great marketing tips, e.g. using real life scenarios. […] Your work is very inspirational.

Ngā mihi

Lyn [Lynette Wood, Reference & Liaison Librarian Waikato District Health Board, NZ, attended an ALIA workshop that Rani and Katya presented at on our approach to copyright literacy]

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

  • “Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.  Your reply is super helpful – very much appreciated.” (Research Data Storage session)
  • “Thanks for the course and online workshops. They were great and very helpful for my research” (Miro Moss, AIRS student)
  • “The presenters were unfailingly generous with their expertise and support, and very encouraging even for novices.” (AIRS student, workshop evaluation)
  • “Thank you for providing this support” (AIRS student, workshop evaluation)
  • What was the most enjoyable or useful for your learning in the session? “That we had a chance to prepare before attending the session” (AIRS student, workshop evaluation)
  • “As a student that had to start the journey online due to Covid, I appreciated how easily I could navigate through all the united modules and watch the tutorial and explanations provided.”
  • “The zoom lectures were great. Very informative. Feedback from my liaison librarian was amazing, Michael (Hawks) is very friendly and helpful and really took the time to fill in some gaps.”
  • “The information was very very helpful.  I also liked that you could choose between ‘online on your own’ or ‘with people, and in person classes as well'”
  • “All the teachers are great!”
  • “I found that the contents delivered via recorded videos were great, very helpful!”
  • “I find it very difficult to learn through reading content, so I thought that the workshop videos and youtube links were great at providing an alternative way of learning and interacting with the unit content.”
  • “The opportunity to complete the course through different methods was incredible useful. The content was highly relevant to a new researcher.”

January in Numbers

QUT ePrints

New records added Existing records edited Email interactions with academics Full-text downloads Cumulative repository records Cumulative full-text downloads
494 587 87 202,079 115,660
(69,007 with full-text)		 34,636,704

Copyright

There were 19 queries received in the qut.copyright@qut.edu.au managed inbox in January 2022.  Each query (composed of several emails and correspondents) is counted once.  The top three topics were:  1) Image use/reuse; 2) Thesis; 3) QUT Readings guidance.

 

IFN001: AIRS

Enrolments Completions Workshops Attendances
73 22 5 132

Research Skills

Number of sessions Number of Attendances Consultations
3 35 0

Research Data Management

Hacky Hour attendees  Cumulative open datasets Cumulative views
5 (only one session in January) 374 494,157

QUT Theses

Number of theses processed (with DOIs Minted and published)
11

Publication Metrics

Number of Enquiries Number of Consultations
4 (3 via LLs) 2

 

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 Doctor of Education (EdD) was re-accredited for 2022-2028 in August 2021.  One of the changes is that the students enrolled in this course from 2022 will now be mandated to complete IFN001: AIRS.  There are 16 students enrolled in the EdD for 2022.  The AIRS workshops in January were scheduled to take place after the EdD intensive and before the students returned to their often full time jobs as principals of schools.  The impact of the EdD students in AIRS can be seen through the high numbers of students attending the set of workshops in January (132).
  • There are now two versions of the resource log (v.3.2 and v.4).  For students enrolled in 2022 and onwards, version 4 of the log will be the log they complete.  However, where students have access version 3.2 of the log because they were enrolled in 2021 but went on Leave of Absence (LOA) and were then submitting to the 2022 BB site – is where the problem arose.  A work around was created by our LTU partners where 10 students affected by this situation will submit to new assessment area.
  • University of Adelaide colleagues, Rachel Clements and Deanne Holmes, discussed how they might utilise AIRS for their students (Jenny and Stephanie).
  • Final 6 weekly teaching team meeting was held.
  • Guideline doc for the position Coordinator Information Research Skills completed

Research Skills

  • The call for facilitators in the research skills Semester 1 program has gone to Liaison Librarians.
  • Planning is underway to develop new workshops and resources in metrics, copyright and promoting and raising the profile of publications. These are scheduled to be delivered in semester 1, 2022.
  • Planning is underway to develop and deliver seven new short, sharp workshops on areas identified in the Research Skills survey.

Copyright

  • Katya and Rani are finalising a new resource on Copyright Compliance, Blackboard, and QUT Readings with the Curriculum Design Studio. It will be in a similar style to the Images resource. The DRAFT is on the right.
  • Katya was nominated as the key institutional contact for the CAUL OER Collective, together with Catherine Haden who will be the library representative for the Academic Authors Community of Practice.
  • Rani presented the Blackboard Review report to Nicole Clark and Liaison Librarians. After consultation with Sarah Howard and Emma Nelms,  a Blackboard Exemplar site will be developed as the next stage in the review service.
  • Rani and Katya completed planning activities for the Copyright service 2022.
  • Copyright for the Aboriginal Flag was transferred from artist Harold Thomas to the Commonwealth Govt. in a $20 million deal. This means that the Aboriginal flag is now free for public use. Aboriginal flag copyright transferred to Commonwealth, as artist agrees to make flag freely available to all – ABC News
  • Still no outcome from the Copyright Tribunal ☹
  • The Copyright Amendment (Access Reforms) Bill 2021 draft is now open for submissions. Universities Australia will be putting in a full submission on behalf of universities and have requested that we submit a letter in support of the UA submission, due 25 February.
  • Katya has been working with Associate Professor Bronwyn Ewing, School of Teacher Education and Leadership, to release the maths resources of the YuMi Deadly Centre with a Creative Commons licence. Originally designed for Indigenous students

QUT ePrints

  • When QUT ePrints was integrated with Pure in 2019, thousands of links to ARC and NHMRC grants were deleted from ePrint records. In January 2022, 4,493 of the links were restored by RISS. Linking repository records to the ARC and NHMRC grants which funded the underlying research is mentioned in the funding rules so it is good news that we have been able to restore those links.  The links that were able to be restored related to grants where QUT was the managing organisation – as these grants have been added to the ‘Awards’ module in Pure. Example of record with a funding link: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227099/
    • Approximately 850 records contain ‘non-working’ links.  Most of these links are associated with ARC/NHMRC grants not managed by QUT but were added because they were acknowledged on the publication.  Unfortunately, these links cannot be restored because the grant IDs, which form part of the links, are not stored in Pure. Fortunately, this is not a compliance issue as only the managing institutions are required to ensure that the repository contains the grant info.
  • When the list of researchers intending to submit a grant application in the NHMRC round was released, the ePrints team checked to see if any of these researchers had  Scopus import candidates sitting on their Pure dashboards. As a result, over 120 publication records were imported on behalf of these researchers and processed within the week to facilitate the application process.

Research Data Management

  • Philippa provided advice to a CIESJ academic who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science Communication, around instructions to authors on how to make their research data available.  Alice referred the query on to Philippa.

    Major Future Activities 

    • 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.
    • Philippa, Ginny, Nicole and Stephanie are attending the first consultation workshop for the Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist.  This workshop is run by Office of eResearch staff for Library and DBS staff to provide specific feedback on the Checklist.

Journal Management

The Australian Research Council (ARC) have commenced consultation with universities on the draft ERA 2023 journal list. This is an important consultation process for all those engaged in research and to-date four of QUT’s five open access journals are on the list. The newest journal, Law, Technology and Humans already has a number of published eligible articles and OSC has been in contact with the Office of Research Services to help ensure the journal is recommended for inclusion.

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

Production work continues 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
  • Guest Editors: Mark Wood, Alyce McGovern, Chrissy Thompson, and Faith Gordon
  • Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Asia.
  • Guest Editors: David Rodríguez Goyes, Tanya Wyatt, Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz.

Law, Technology and Humans (LTH):      

It was with great sadness that we were informed of the sudden passing of Professor Art Cockfield in mid-January.  Art, one of the first to agree to be part of the International Editorial Board, was a strong supporter of LTH. His most recent contribution was the challenging and thought provoking GPT-3 ‘authored’ feature with Benjamin Alarie in Volume 3(2) Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship 

Art was a generous scholar, highly supportive of graduate students and junior colleagues at Queens University (Canada) and globally. His work in international tax law and his contributions to broader thinking about law and technology will leave a lasting legacy. His support, creativity and kindness will be greatly missed.  Published in December: Opinion: Santa’s Christmas secret? Maybe it’s artificial intelligence – The Globe and Mail

Student Success: 

The first issue for 2022 (General Issue) is set for publication late February/early March.  So far three articles and one practice report have been published ahead of the upcoming issue:

Publication Metrics

  • Library support for upcoming NHRMC Investigator grants is underway.  Strategies and resources have been developed and shared, via the NHMRC Grant Support folder on the OSC SharePoint.
  • Tanya met with Natalie Jones to discuss her analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and as a result and with help from LRS, a trial of the Trends modules of SciVal has been arranged.
  • Metrics content in 23 Scholarly Communication Things is being updated.
  • No movement on the Altmetric API.  Tanya is arranging a meeting with Altmetric Explorer to discuss Altmetric at QUT and will get more information about how other institutions are working with Pure and Altmetric Explorer.
  • A series of Publication Metrics workshops will be included in the upcoming Research Skills series.
  • Update of publication metrics content on the Digital Workplace is planned.


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