May 2022
Spotlight on….
Lara’s professional placement
Lara Vanderstaay, our most recent professional placement, enjoyed meeting staff from all areas of QUT Library and a wide range of activities. Pictured here on the left, Lara is with Stephanie Jacobs waiting for the fun of the Night against Procrastination to begin and pictured on the right, Lara is trying out the HaptX DK2 glove technology at the QLD AI Hub in Fortitude Valley, courtesy of Ellen Thompson and her AI mates (on the right). You can read more about that visit in the KG May Report. Lara gave us a beautiful card to thank QUT Library for the support and guidance she received over her 10 days with us.
Authorship, Peer Review and Publication
Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI), Graduate Research Education and Development (GRE+D) and Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) staff joined forces to once again present the two part seminar series, Authorship, Peer Review and Publication. This iteration was presented online and f2f in GP-P419. Special thanks and congratulations to Catherine Radbourne for delivering refreshing exercises and Philippa for managing a challenging hybrid Q&A session. Pictured from left to right: Philippa Frame, Tracy Creagh, Mark Hooper, Stephanie Bradbury, Paula Callan, Sarah Van-Eyk, Ginny Barbour, Katya Henry, Keri Freeman, Catherine Radbourne, and Marvin van Prooijen and Lyndelle Gunton were on the other side of zoom.
Bravo Catherine!
A row and a half of Library staff were thrilled and elated to see Catherine Radbourne’s performance on stage in John Grey’s Much Ado about Nuthink in early May at Brisbane Arts Theatre.
William Shakespeare’s comedy was transported to a modern Queensland country pub, and with lots of keen wit and dark humour and Catherine shone as Antonia. It was a fabulous night and we can’t wait for Catherine’s next performance!
Hello Willla
Meeka and Willa paid us a visit in early June (while the May report was being written). They are both doing well and look very relaxed and chilled.
And how time flies; Willa is now 3 and a half months. She is beautiful!
Bouquets 
Publication Metrics
- Thanks Tanya; Very helpful! (Professor Rik Thompson)
- It’s been wonderful to work with you too. You are amazing at your work… and I feel I may need to apologise for all the work I sent your way. I talk you up whenever anyone is complaining they can’t access good data. 😊 (Dr Sarah Constanzo)
Authorship, Peer Review and Publication and other Research Skills sessions
- “I love the resource that goes with this. It means I don’t have to take notes superfast, and I can go back and explore afterwards. I can also access and use it at different stages of the publication process. It’s fantastic. Thank you! I also really liked so many different presenters – it keeps it engaging and fast paced.”
- “Excellent and diverse speakers. Overall a great session. Having the dual-delivery was great (thanks for the tea!).”
- “Learning about the nuances of authorship and publication – e.g. potential pitfalls and benefits beyond my current knowledge.”
- “All presenters and Q&A were fantastic. Such helpful sessions. Very valuable to be able to attend these sessions via zoom.”
- “The opportunity to ask questions and to get to know the speakers was greatly appreciated.”
- “Having the materials beforehand and to refer to in the future. It was a fantastic presentation, I would certainly recommend this presentation to HDR students.”
- “Comprehensive and well delivered (Research Data Management Storage, Analysis and Visualisation)”
- “Facilitator was clear with instructions. This will greatly improve my research” (EndNote Essentials)”
QUT ePrints
- You are a legend, Debbie. Thank you very much (Assoc Prof. Terri Bourke, CIESJ)
- That’s all fabulous and much appreciated. Thanks very much for your kind assistance (T.J. Thomas, CIESJ)
- Thanks Debbie. You have been an incredible help.(Rebecca Spooner-Lane, CIESJ)
- This is very useful, Debbie – thanks very much for enabling the sharing of this chapter (Anne Hickling-Hudson, CIESJ)
- Thanks so much Paula, I will work through this process and get back to you if any hiccups. Really appreciate these detailed instructions. (Alice Payne, CIESJ)
- Many thanks for your prompt support! (Wenbiao Hu, Health)
- Dear Debbie. Thanks for your help. Deeply appreciated! (Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, Science)
On Copyright 101 Video sneak peak:
- “I already love it”
- “Great presentation and video – images are superb ☑️”
- “Excellent” , “Wonderful!!” , “🔥”, “great stuff!”, “👍”, “great job”
- “Video looks great”
- “That was simple, clear and powerful. Well done!”
- “Congratulations Katya and Rani. Fantastic”
- “Ripper CC team”
- “Fantastic video and presentation Katya and Rani. Well done copyright stars.”
- “Award winning”
In response to advice provided to an academic looking to submit an article for publishing:
- “I appreciate your valuable suggestions”
IFN001 / AIRS
- Email feedback: ‘I think that course is very well-constructed and informative. The section that I find most useful is the part about ‘Keeping useful notes’ in Module 7 (Organizing the literature), particularly the LATCH technique to curate the literature review. I have been struggling with synthesizing the relevant discussion on my research topic, and that section enlightens me in how to write the literature review after reading all the articles.’
- Qualtrics:
- ‘…it was perfect.’
- ‘…it was a great experience. If I had more time, I would have attended all of the sessions.’
- ‘Excellent.’
May in Numbers
QUT ePrints
| New records added | Existing records edited | Email interactions with academics | Full-text downloads | Cumulative repository records | Cumulative full-text downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,560 | 420 | 95 | 205,527 | 119,760 (60% will full-text) | 35,450,535 |
Copyright
| Total Consultations |
| 9 |
Top 3 Topics:
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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.
Other = combined queries from Digital Observatory, Document delivery eMedia Production Services, Faculty – Health, Faculty – Science, QUT Bookshop, External, and NA.
IFN001: AIRS
| Enrolments | Completions | Workshops | Attendances |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 47 | 5 | 60 |
Research Skills
| Number of sessions | Number of Attendances | Consultations |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 359 | 56 |
Research Data Management
| Hacky Hour attendees | New records added to RDF | RDF Cumulative open datasets | RDF Cumulative views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 4 new datasets | 404 | 525,983 |
QUT Theses
| Number of theses processed (with DOIs minted and published) |
|---|
| 19 |
Publication Metrics
| Number of Enquiries | Number of Consultations | Reports/Spreadsheets/Data | Presentations |
|---|---|---|---|
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1 (x via LLs) |
1 |
0 |
2 |
Service Highlights
Scholarly Publishing (Journal Publishing)
Scimago has released the 2021 edition of Scimago Journal & Country Rank. Two QUT journals improved their position in the rankings:
- Student Success (SSJ)– went from a Q3 (2020) to a Q2 (2021) in Education. In Australia – it is ranked 5th overall – 3rd as an open access journal after AJET and Journal of Learning Analytics. Internationally SSJ is ranked 94th in open access education journals.
- International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (crimejusticejournal.com) went from Q2(2020) to Q1 (2021). In Australia IJCJSD is 1st in Law and 1st in Law open access. Internationally IJCJSD is ranked 20th in open access journals.
Law, Technology and Humans
The first issue for 2022 is out. Volume 4(1) contains an eclectic mix of topics as always: cyber security and hacking; DNA and digital sequencing; retail analytics and data surveillance; DV and coercive control in relation to use of technology; technological interventions in climate change (an example from India and the water crisis); healthcare and the nature of trust … and lots more.
QUT ePrints
- The number of new records added to QUT ePrints this month (1,560) was more than double the monthly average over the previous 12 months (720 p.m.). This increase in workload was partly due to a flurry of deposits ahead of the latest promotions round. However, more than 500 of the new records were actually created by the ePrints Team on behalf of academics with an adjunct appointment (as they may not have access to Pure). This is part of a body work that the OSC has agreed to undertake in preparation for the forthcoming round of ERA. Managing this significant increase in workload required an ‘all hands on deck’ approach with Paula Callan and Sandra Fry assisting with the processing.
QUT Theses
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Stakeholders involved along the theses processing workflow met with the Kylie Perry, Technical lead of the Pure module project. We agreed on decisions previously discussed. Kylie continues to investigate options for some outstanding issues.
Scholarly Publishing
- 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 predicated 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)
Issues
- Marking: Due to an unexpected number of early submissions (originally due Q3 and Q4), combined with additional enrolments and the submission of very overdue assessments, it is almost certain that the expected marking quotas for Q2 will exceed allocations. As such, it has been requested that the Teaching and Marking Team each pick up one additional assessment for Q2. While this is expected to assist, the reduced availability of markers across the AIRS team may mean delays in marking and responses to students above and beyond the preferred 2 week waiting time. The Coordinator, Information Research Skills, and Library Adviser (AIRS) exploring options for working through this.
It is expected that the increase in submissions in Q2 will correspond with a lower number of submissions across the rest of 2022; likely resulting in lower marking quotas for the teaching team in Q3 and Q4.
- Messaging around HDR extensions: Previous messaging for HDR students requesting the automatic online 48 hour extension led to AIRS receiving extension requests for non-IFN001 units. Liaison with the Student and Stakeholder Engagement Team indicates this issue has been addressed. AIRS will monitor incoming extension requests to determine if the matter is fully resolved.
Future activities
- Student Voice Survey Summary Report for 6TP1 and 6TP2, 2022 is being prepared and will be shared with interested stakeholders in due course.
- Coordinator, Information Research Skills, is presenting to the Research Degree Committee about IFN001 on Monday 6 June 2022.
- Coordinator, Information Research Skills, is talking with Carumba Institute HDR students about IFN001 and library support at their inaugural Capacity Developing Workshop, along with Liaison Librarians and Manager, OSC, on Wednesday 8 June 2022.
- The month of June will be focusing on getting through the backlog of marking and marking of anticipated submissions.
Research Skills
Core and collaborative Research Skills Program sessions
|
Session |
Attendance |
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Copyright Clinic |
8 |
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Endnote Essentials |
13 |
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Advanced Endnote |
9 |
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Finding metrics: InCites |
10 |
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Research Data Management: Planning |
9 |
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Research Data Management: Storage, Analysis and Visualisation |
10 |
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Secondary datasets for research: Meteorological data |
11 |
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RDM Drop-in |
2 |
|
Scholarly Communications Community of Practice |
48 |
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Finding metrics: Alternative metrics and other measures |
9 |
|
Hacky Hour (x4) |
18 |
|
Authorship, Peer Review and Publication: Presubmission |
121 |
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Authorship, Peer Review and Publication: Postsubmission |
86 |
Future activities
- Transcript generating software being used in video editing requires a lot of correction and time. We will be investigating and testing functionality in Mediahub and the Amazon Transcribe service offered by the Office of eResearch to evaluate the potential for efficiencies.
- We’re aiming to release the yearly HDR Research Skills survey at the start of July. To that end we’re making small amendments to the survey, reviewing the 2021 Survey report, liaising for feedback and suggestions with GRED, and investigating options for promotion.
- Planning is underway for a HDR students social gathering. The purpose is to provide a face to face event that adds networking and wellness value to the predominantly online interaction. The proposal is for an even in the Curriculum Collection annex on 12 July from 10am.
- Planning is also underway with OSC service managers to schedule training offerings for the second half of 2022.
Copyright
- The Copyright Tribunal announced their decision on the matter regarding the Statutory Education Licence on 31 May. The ruling was unfavourable to universities, and UA is discussing further steps with Vice Chancellor’s.
- Katya and Rani held the second Copyright Clinic on 3 May. The Clinic is an informal drop-in session for researchers to ask any questions about copyright. 8 HDRs attended.
- Katya and Rani presented the Copyright Service Vision at the Library Staff Update on 5 May with Robina Xavier in attendance. The sneak preview of the Copyright 101 Video was presented.
- Katya and Rani held their first Copyright Residency of the year at Gardens Point on 18 May.
- Katya consulted with QUT Legal and CI staff on a filming agreement template for QUT’s Film Studio and Vermillion Records.
- Katya and Rani attended the Informit update hosted by CAUL. Informit staff answered questions from CAUL members re: changes to the platform and updates to several modules including analytics for Screenrights data capture.
- The Open Access Australasia course OA101 launched on 23 May. Katya is an online course tutor for the four-week program.
- QUT submitted two EOIs, to the CAUL OER Collective DIY Open Textbooks Grant scheme, both in the Faculty of Health. A shout out to Peter Sondergeld for his assistance and support.
- Rani completed the ALIA Copyright 101 Training course.
- The animated Copyright 101 Video completed in partnership with Curriculum Design Studio was officially launched and featured in LTU and Research Portfolio newsletters. The Copyright 101 video was uploaded to MediaHub.
23 Scholarly Communication Things
- The copyright video was added to the corresponding chapter. Promoted through Twitter (896 impressions (people who saw the tweet) and 73 engagements (people who clicked on the tweet)). Copyright and Creative Commons – 23 Scholarly Communication Things (pressbooks.pub)
- Upcoming: Catherine Radbourne and Stephanie Jacobs are working on their abstract submission for CAUL Enabling a Modern Curriculum conference to be held at QUT in September.
Usage in May
- 86 total visitors
- 191 pageviews
- Top 3 chapters (based on views): Copyright and Creative Commons; Managing research data; Databases for metrics.
- Top sites/referers: Google.com; University of SA; Twitter
Publication Metrics
- The first iteration of the last two workshops in the Finding Metrics series – InCites and Altmetric Explorer was presented by Tanya and moderated by Catherine.
- Tanya met with Rachael Ballamy the new Centre Manager for the Centre for Biomedical Technologies to discuss the tools available and library support for reporting.
- The monthly Publication Metrics catch up was held and a variety of issues and ideas were discussed. Paula attended to discuss the drive to get more academics entering their ORCID into Pure for ERA. Tanya demonstrated how to push publications across from Pure to SciVal for analysis.
- Prof Rik Thompson worked with Tanya to get a list of publications for the Translational Research Institute and to produce a report on collaboration and benchmarking.
- Elsevier ran an Elsevier APIs webinar and Tanya attended to get a better understanding what we can do with their APIs.
- The Research Impact Summit is a free online 2 day event being held 26-27 October. Tanya and Sandra have registered to attend. This registration comes with a discounted membership to the Research Impact Academic, which we will use to assess how useful this product would be as a professional development tool for librarians in the research impact space.
- Stephanie, Catherine and Tanya met with Rene Logan from Pivot/RP to discuss training and get an overview of the product.
- The scheduling and content for the upcoming vendor workshops (Altmetric Explorer and InCites)was finalised.
Issues (from last month and emerging)
- SciVal’s ‘interim’ implementation of the 2020 FoR codes has caused issues with the number of publications included in an analysis if the that classification is selected. It is recommended that the subject classification in SciVal is left on ASJC. Liaison Librarians have been notified, and asked to contact their Schools. A notice has also been added to the database record and the ‘Known issues and outages’ page of the Library website. The ‘full’ implementation of the FoR codes is scheduled to take place in July.
Future activities
- Altmetrics webinar 2nd of June
- InCites webinar 22nd of June
- Updating Altmetric Explorer data with latest spreadsheets from RISS.
- Updating Digital Workplace content and LibGuide
Research Data Management
- Philippa, Graham and Dr Aaron Liu from the School of Architecture & Built Environment co-presented a ‘Secondary datasets for research’ workshop, which focused on Meteorological data. There were 11 attendees at this workshop.
- The inaugural Data Repositories Community of Practice meeting was held in early May. Philippa’s thoughts on the CoP is that it should prove to be a great networking opportunity to meet other data repository managers, especially as the environmental scan of Research Data Finder replacements progresses.
- Philippa and Stephanie provided feedback from the OSC on the Australian Research Data Commons’ (ARDC) draft Research Data Management Framework to Professor Matthew Bellgard, Director, Office of eResearch. 16 elements of research data management were identified in 2021 and working groups formed to develop sections of the Framework. The final, combined QUT feedback was submitted on Tuesday, 31 May to the ARDC. All feedback will help inform the next/final iteration of the Framework. Philippa and Stephanie also attended a project webinar open to the RDM community prior to submission.
- As per the April report, an environmental scan of research data repositories has commenced and is in the early stages of planning. Lara Vanderstaay, fieldwork student, will assist Philippa in writing the report in early June.
- Members of the OSC participated in a second joint workshop with Office of eResearch staff working towards the transformation of the soft-launched Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist into a tool for researchers to use to plan how to manage their research data. At this workshop, desirable features were discussed and the importance of them prioritised by the two departments.
- The inaugural Research Data Residency was held on 17 May at the Gardens Point and Law libraries. Philippa will be doing a residency every 6 weeks and will be available to chat about what she does, her service, the RDM systems managed by the OSC and anything else. Philippa found it a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues not seen in-person for a long time 🙂
Issues (from last month and emerging)
- Technical issues with RDF continue
Major Future Activities
- Next Research Data Residency: Tuesday, 21 June!
- 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.
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).