June in Numbers

Total Consultations
17
Top 3 Topics: Image reuse Permission to publish QUT content Thesis Publishing and Copyright status investigation

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

Research Skills

Research Data Management

• The review of QUT’s Open Access policy (F/1.3 Open access for QUT research outputs (including theses)) continues and it is anticipated that development and consultation of the revised version will be complete for a University Research Committee (URC) later in the year.
• CAUL released dynamic information on the national caps of relevant Reports: Read & Publish Agreements (Negotiated by CAUL).  It appears unlikely that the caps will be exceeded in 2022 for two of the three agreements (Oxford University Press and Wiley) that QUT has that have national caps. It is predicted that the national cap for Springer Nature Read and Publish Agreement will be reached by 30/10/2022. This may change.

IFN001: Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) 

• Universities Australia has submitted an Application for Judicial Review of the Copyright Tribunal Ruling of 31 May 2022 regarding the Statutory Education Licence fee. UA provided updates to Copyright Officers regarding the  decision and future expectations (2 June & 4 July). Further details regarding payment arrangements and next steps will be provided in late July. In the meantime, it is business as usual in regards to the application of the Licence and the use of QUT Readings.
• Rani has been appointed the CAUL OER Collective Project Officer, working Mondays through to the end of the year. Congratulations, Rani!

• Expressions of Interest for the CAUL OER Collective DIY Open Textbooks Grant scheme closed on 13 May after a deadline extension. Grants of $1000-$3000 are available for assistance in publishing an open textbooks on Pressbooks. QUT submitted two EOIs, both in the Faculty of Health. Grants to be announced early July!
• Katya and Rani held the third Copyright Clinic on 8 June. Although there were registered students, none attended on the day. A follow up email with relevant information was sent to registered students. The Clinic is being promoted through various channels.
• Katya met with the Canvas Project Team to conduct testing on user access rights.
• Katya and Rani submitted an EOI for QUTYou.
• Rani gave Lara (Student Placement) the Copyright Service overview.
• Katya took part in a recorded interview with Dr Murray Lane for HDR students re: copyright and images.
• Katya and Rani attended Untapped: ALIA Research Review Session, a project which brings out-of-print books back into circulation.
• Katya participated in the CAUL Transformative Agreements Implementation Community of Practice
• Katya and Rani attended the OER Collective Library Staff Community of Practice 2022/2 session on Copyright and Licensing.
• The Open Access Australasia course OA101 launched on 23 May concluded this month. Katya was an online course tutor for the four-week program.
• Katya and Rani published the June 2022 edition of Copyright Matters Copyright Interest Group Newsletter.

 Issues (from last month and emerging)  

• Tanya attended the LLs Monthly Informal catch up to outline the service vision for the Publication Metrics service and to give LLs an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback on the service in general.
• Liz Smee from Altmetric Explorer presented a webinar to Library staff, which was recorded, and provided additional resources to support Library staff in using Altmetric Explorer and contextualising the data and metrics.
• Tanya and Lara (fieldwork student) attended the Research Showcase, where the focus was on female researchers.  It was a great session and it was really inspiring to hear about the type of research that is being conducted at QUT.  It was interesting to hear feedback from the researchers that it is difficult to connect with services and other researchers at QUT because they aren’t aware of what else is happening at the institution.
• Alice, Sandra and Tanya presented at the CIESJ promotion session, showcasing how the different tools the Library subscribes to can be used to find evidence for promotion applications.
• Dju-Lyn Chng from Clarivate presented a webinar providing an overview on how to use InCites and also provided advice on specific use cases.  The session was recorded.
• Tanya provided the publication data used for the DCVR publication pick.
• Stephanie and Tanya presented at the Education Research Capacity Building: Grant Writing Retreat.  This attended by people intending to apply for upcoming ARC grants.  Stephanie and Tanya demonstrated how to link Pure to ORCID, how to populate the RMS using ORCID and how to use Altmetric Explorer and SciVal to find evidence.  It was a great opportunity to connect with researchers, do some troubleshooting and also remind them to contact their Liaison Librarians early in the process.

Issues (from last month and emerging) 

• There are significant delays in updating Altmetric Explorer each quarter, due to the length of time it takes RISS to generate and provide the required spreadsheets.

Future activities  

• Lara Vanderstaay, fieldwork student, spent some time with Philippa during her two-week placement.  Lara was a great help in compiling a list of research data repositories in use at Australian universities.
• Philippa wrote a briefing paper on the new Data Availability and Transparency Act (DATA) Scheme for Library management.  The new legislation will enable Commonwealth service providers around the country to share their data with individuals and organisations upon request.  Most data, if it can be made accessible, is available through data.gov.au, however there is still some data that must be requested from individual service providers e.g. Centrelink that cannot be made available through the repository.  Universities will be able to apply for accreditation to request data from 1 August, 2022.  Before an application may be submitted, the University will need to determine who will undertake defined roles.  There are a number of information sessions scheduled in the latter half of 2022 around the implementation.
• Philippa met with Thomas Shafee, Research Data Specialist from Swinburne University of Technology to discuss their implementation of a new research data repository.  Thomas has previous experience implementing Figshare at La Trobe University.  This meeting was very insightful and will be useful when considering possible replacements for Research Data Finder.
• A paper on the Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist was submitted to the OSC Advisory Group.  Philippa and Yvette Wyborn, Office of eResearch attended as guests, with Yvette talking to the paper.  The Checklist was well-received by attendees and changes to the current Data Management Planning Tool were noted.
• As part of International Data Week 2022, Philippa virtually attended the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 19th Plenary held in Seoul, South Korea.  This event was also combined with SciDataCon 2022.  There were many engaging presentations, which will be made available 8 weeks after the conference.  Philippa will send around a link once they are available.

• DBS have advised the Library that the servers that currently house Research Data Finder, our CKAN instance and the Data Management Planning Tool have reached end-of-life and will be shutdown.  This means that the three listed applications will need to be moved to another server (most likely AWS cloud server/s).  DBS is applying for an exemption to shutting down these applications to allow for migration work to occur.  It is expected this work should finish by Q4, 2022.  There may be some disruptions to the service between now and end Q4.

Major Future Activities 

• Next Research Data Residency at the GP and Law Libraries: Tuesday, 19 July!
• Philippa, in her role as Australian Bureau of Statistics Contact Officer, has been invited to UQ to participate in training being provided by Talei Parker, Universities Partnership Manager and Deputy Director, Data Services, ABS.  Other QLD Contact Officers will be in attendance which makes this a great networking opportunity.
• Progress environmental scan of research data repositories in use at Australian universities and commence scan of identified open source and commercial solutions.
• 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.
• Attend: Data Management Planning Interest Group (ARDC), Research Data – Why it matters and how to manage it, CLOCKSS Update Meeting, and Getting onto Dataplace (Australian unis).