Researcher@Library offers a range of resources to help graduate researchers and academics develop their advanced library research skills and digital capabilities.
Registrations are now open for upcoming Researcher@Library webinars.
Each webinar will be led by Scholarly Services staff with expertise in the area who will provide a detailed overview and introduce relevant resources with time for questions and answers on the topics covered.
Sessions include:
- Getting Started with Advanced Library Research
- DIY Digitisation
- Automating image processing (Windows)
- File Management
- Open Research 101
- Open Access and Your Thesis
- Open Access in 2023
- Choosing Where to Publish: Tips and Tools HASS
- Choosing Where to Publish: Tips and Tools STEMM
- Introduction to Research Metrics: an overview and update for librarians, professional staff and researchers
- Metrics and Evidence of Research Impact for ARC Applications: STEMM
- Metrics and Evidence of Research Impact for ARC Applications: HASS
- Advanced Benchmarking for Research Managers
- Beyond Traditional Metrics: Finding Alternative Evidence of Impact and Engagement
More information and registration: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/services/workshops-and-tours/research-training
Enquiries: libraryresearch-tickets@unimelb.edu.au
Throughout 2023 at the end of each month the Scholarly Development (Research) team will provide a snapshot of relevant scholarly research support news and events for the coming month.
2023 Open Access Publishing Agreements
Join us for 2023 open access publishing agreements, This one-off webinar will explore the open access publishing agreements available to University of Melbourne staff and students in 2023. It will be delivered by Zachary Kendal, the Scholarly Communications Consultant, and is open for all academic staff, graduate researchers, and professional staff.
More information: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/m6qe
Register: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/x6ze
Researcher@Library Webinars
Researcher@Library webinars are back for 2023.
Check out and register for Researcher@Library offerings as new sessions which will be added throughout the month of February.
More information: https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/#courses
Research impact and engagement: a newbies guide to finding evidence for grants, reporting, promotions
Missed the session, you can watch the recording here: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/791026394
Virtual Reading Room
Archives and Special Collections, Student and Scholarly Services, are excited to launch the Virtual Reading Room (VRR), a pilot service designed to extend access to items from the University of Melbourne’s Archives and Special Collections to those who cannot attend campus in person. Using high-resolution cameras and video conferencing technology, we can bring our collections directly to you in a one-on-one online VRR session. Our Wolfvision Visualiser provides a high level of magnification, allow you to see incredible details in our collections material.
If this service may be useful to you, we encourage you to get in touch with us by emailing reading-room@unimelb.edu.au and beginning a conversation about your research needs, the item(s) you are interested in consulting, and your availability.
Find out more: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/reading-room/virtual-reading-room
Post by Dr Zachary Kendal (Scholarly Communications Consultant).
Register now for an upcoming Researcher@Library webinar exploring the 2023 open access publishing agreements. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 12:00pm. A 30-minute presentation will be followed by 30 minutes of question time. The session is open to all University of Melbourne academic staff, graduate researchers, and professional staff.
With the adoption of six new Read and Publish (R&P) agreements that commenced this year, the University of Melbourne now has 20 open access publishing agreements with journal publishers. Most of these were negotiated on behalf of Australian institutions by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).
Under these agreements, corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Melbourne can avoid Article Processing Charges (APCs) when publishing eligible journal articles open access. Most agreements cover selected hybrid journals – that is, subscription journals that will publish open access for a fee – although some also include fee-charging open access journals. For each agreement, limitations and exclusions apply, so read agreement details carefully when deciding where to submit your research.
All of our 2023 agreements are detailed on the Open Access Publishing page of our Open Scholarship website. The page also contains advice on other open access publishing options, including APC-free open access journals and the discounts available to researchers facing APCs.
New and continuing agreements
This year we have new R&P agreements with Elsevier, SAGE Publishing, and Taylor & Francis, which can be used for eligible journal articles accepted from 1 January 2023. The Elsevier and T&F agreements cover selected hybrid/subscription journals only, so please be mindful of the included titles lists on our website. The SAGE agreement includes all SAGE Choice hybrid journals.
All 2022 agreements have also been renewed for 2023, including those with Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, De Gruyter, and CSIRO Publishing. The renewal of the Wiley R&P agreement also brings expanded coverage, with Wiley’s Gold Open Access journals and Hindawi journals now being eligible under the agreement. Again, limitations and exclusions will apply, so be sure to check journal coverage and eligibility criteria prior to submission.
How to use the agreements
Corresponding authors must affiliate with the University of Melbourne and use their unimelb.edu.au email address upon article submission to be recognised as eligible under the agreements.
As noted above, most agreements cover a specified list of eligible journals only, and many exclude open access journals. Also, while all agreements cover original research articles, some exclude other article types, such as letters, editorials, and commentary.
Annual publishing caps are in place on six of the agreements. CAUL anticipates that the caps on the AIP Publishing, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley agreements are likely to last throughout 2023. The Springer Nature cap, however, will likely be reached later in the year. The Open Access Publishing page will be updated throughout the year to reflect the status of each capped agreement and when caps are predicted to be exceeded.
Diverse pathways to open access
We estimate that in 2023, over 40% of the University’s journal articles will be eligible for having open access APCs waived under our agreements. It’s important to remember, however, that there are other open access pathways that do not involve author-facing fees.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a quality-controlled index of over 18,000 fully open access journals, almost 70% of which do not levy APCs. Such journals – sometimes called “Diamond” open access journals – are free for readers and authors alike, being financially supported by institutions, organisations, societies, or grants.
Another model for APC-free open access publishing is Subscribe to Open (S2O). Under the S2O model, a journal commits to making their coming year’s content open access at no cost to authors if their annual subscription target is reached. The University of Melbourne supports several publishers in their S2O initiatives, as noted on our Open Access Publishing page.
When publishing behind a paywall in a subscription journal, authors should remember to pursue free repository open access pathways. This can be done by depositing the article’s Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in Minerva Access, the University’s institutional repository.
Open access book publishing
Unfortunately, open access publishing is not yet the norm for academic books and book chapters. To date, R&P agreements have focused on hybrid journal publishers, and few open access publishing agreements have been made between universities and academic book publishers, as different publishing models are at play.
Some publishers, however, are trying new models of book publishing that enable open access versions to be freely and immediately available online upon publication. For example, the University is supporting MIT Press’s Direct to Open program, an S2O model that facilitates the open access publishing of new MIT Press monographs and edited volumes.
There are also numerous high quality open access academic book publishers that have emerged over the years, including ANU Press. And it’s worth noting that some of these publishers do not levy Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for open access book publishing, including Open Book Publishers and Open Humanities Press.
Find out more about open access and open research by exploring our Open Scholarship website.
Looking to keep up to date and accelerate your research over the summer?
Before you visit a physical library please check the Library Opening Hours and current services pages for the most up to date information.
Looking for online resources, check out:
- Researcher Support – The content on this website provides you with information and resources across a variety of researcher support topics supported by the University of Melbourne Library.
- Researcher@Library – Browse, watch, or re-watch our video recordings on topics including Open Research, File Management and Choosing Where to Publish.
- Getting Started with Library Research – A series of short videos for University of Melbourne researchers showcasing a range of resources to support research activity.
- Managing Data @Melbourne – The University’s online research data management training program. Six short modules which outline the fundamental practices of good data management.
- Researcher Connect – Browse, watch, or re-watch our video recordings to learn about research digital tools, skills and University of Melbourne support services
Upcoming Events this summer:
Webinar: Research Impact & Engagement: a newbies guide to finding metrics for grants, etc.
Tuesday January 17th from 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Are you working on a grant or a promotion application over January and feel uncertain with providing “evidence of research impact and engagement”? This 60 minute webinar will provide an introduction and overview of commonly used metrics for traditional (journal articles) and non-traditional research outputs. Topics to be covered will include:
- What metrics are commonly used and what do they demonstrate?
- Tools available to UoM researchers
- Tips and tricks to save time
This webinar is presented by RILAS. For more information visit: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/gj9i
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Researcher@Library 2023
Planning for the 2023 library research training program Researcher@Library is underway, so watch this space for new and refreshed offerings released in the new year. Keep your eye on our training and events page.
2022 proved to be an eventful year for the Scholarly Communications and Research Outputs teams in Scholarly Services (the University Library). These teams provide support around scholarly publishing, open access, researcher profiles, and the management of research outputs. Dr Zachary Kendal (Scholarly Communications Consultant) and Amin Khaliqi (Research Outputs Coordinator) take us through some of the highlights.
Open Scholarship Website
We rolled out new content and major updates to the Open Scholarship website in 2022, including:
Why not head on over and take a look around?
Open Access Publishing Agreements
In January 2022, a range of new open access publishing agreements between the University of Melbourne and journal publishers became active. Most of these were Read and Publish (R&P) agreements negotiated by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).
These R&P agreements can enable University of Melbourne corresponding authors to publish articles open access in selected journals without facing article processing charges (APCs). Each agreement has its own eligibility criteria and limitations, and you can read these on our “Open Access Publishing Agreements” page (our most-viewed webpage of the year!).
Notable 2022 R&P agreements included: Springer Nature, Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, CSIRO Publishing, Brill, and De Gruyter. Our 2022 agreements have all been renewed for 2023. We will also have several new R&P agreements commencing in 2023, including: Elsevier, SAGE Publishing, and Taylor & Francis.
As these agreements continue to expand, we’re keen to ensure researchers are aware of other cost-free pathways to open access:
- Repository open access. Authors can deposit their peer-reviewed and revised Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) for free open access in a repository, such as our institutional repository, Minerva Access.
- Open access journals without APCs. Many open access journals do not levy APCs for open access publishing, instead being supported by institutions, organisations, societies, or grants. You can find thousands of examples in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
We are also exploring ways to support other open access initiatives and publishers, for both journal and book publishing. We currently have an open access publishing agreement with the open access publisher Cogitatio Press, which will continue in 2023. We also financially supported several journal publishers in their adoption of Subscribe to Open publishing models in 2022, including Annual Reviews, Berghahn, and Practical Action Publishing. In terms of open access book publishing, we supported several excellent initiatives, including Knowledge Unlatched, Open Book Publishers, and MIT Press’s ‘Direct to Open’ program.
ORCID read-and-write integration with Elements
The integration of ORCID with Elements is now complete and will ensure continuous, accurate, and automatic updates to and from ORCID profiles. To make use of this new read-and-write functionality, researchers should:
- Register for an ORCID, if they do not already have one.
- Connect their ORCID to their Elements account. By default, the ORCID connection will start as a read-only connection. To change this to a read-and-write connection, follow the steps described under Upgrading your ORCID integration.
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers. It also offers a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Benefits of ORCID profiles include:
- Increasing automation and the visibility of published works.
- Distinguishing researchers and their work from those with the same (or similar) names.
- Creating an accurate record of research outputs and grants that can be reused by funders, research organisations, and publishers.
- Creating a public profile and research record that is portable across institutions.
- Providing a unique, persistent identifier that can be linked to other IDs, including Scopus Author Identifier and ResearcherID.
Use of ORCID identifiers is increasing among journals and publishers, funding bodies, and university repositories. ORCID has been endorsed by the University of Melbourne since 2016 and their use is mandated by the NHMRC and ARC. University of Melbourne graduate researchers are also required to include their ORCID on the title page of their thesis. You can find out more about ORCID identifiers on the ORCID website and on our Researcher Profiles Guide.
Awards received by the Research Outputs team
In recognition of the Research Outputs team’s efforts throughout the year, they were thrilled to receive two awards:
- The Australasian Research Management Society’s 2022 RMIT Paul Taylor Award for Excellence in Research Management Practice. This award recognises the significant achievements of the Research Outputs team since their establishment in Scholarly Services in March 2021. The team won in the category of “working smarter,” having demonstrated creativity and innovative problem solving that enabled their work to be carried out more easily, efficiently, and productively, without compromising on quality.
- 2022 University of Melbourne Excellence Awards. An award for professional excellence and innovation.
Open Access Week 2022
As noted in an earlier blog post, the final week of October was International Open Access Week 2022, which was themed around Open for Climate Justice. The Scholarly Communications team ran a series of Researcher@Library webinars on open access for University of Melbourne students and staff. Open Access 101 and Open Access and Your Thesis were recorded and are now available for viewing.
The team also participated in delivering a series of webinars for Open Access Australasia, recordings of which are now on the Open Access Australasia website. A particular highlight was the panel webinar Look at the Evidence: Climate Journalism and Open Science, which was chaired by Dimity Flanagan (Manager, Scholarly Communications) and featured a great line-up of speakers, including Melbourne’s own Dr Jeff Sparrow. You can watch the full recording on YouTube.
Find out more
You can find out more about the work of the Scholarly Communications and Research Outputs teams on the following sites:
The University Digitisation Centre (UDC) is part of Research & Collections (University Library) and provides expert advice, training and a range of digitisation services to the University community. It has been an eventful year for the UDC, with the completion of several long term projects and some interesting digitisation challenges.
Major Achievements
Our top two major achievements have been the completion of the Farrago and Australian Education Curriculum digitisation projects. Both projects are the culmination of many years hard work across multiple teams at the Library. Please note that for copyright reasons you will need to be logged in to Digitised Collections to view some of the collection.
Farrago – What’s available: 1665 issues from Volume 1, no.1 1925 until Volume 94 no.4, 2018 are online and ready to be perused for teaching classes, research projects or general interest. A big thanks to the Rowden White Library Archive which provided issues missing from the SPC collections to scan and the current Farrago editorial team for their assistance and championing of this project.
Australian Education Curriculum and Teacher Education collection – What’s available: 4,406 items across 8 collections of prominent curriculum and teacher resources published in Victoria and South Australia, Australia from 1848 to the 1970s.
3D scanning
We love a challenge at the UDC and an interesting one this year was 3D scanning the World War 1 uniform buttons of University of Melbourne alumna and medical doctor Vera Scantlebury Brown, held in the University of Melbourne Archives. The scanned buttons will be 3D printed and cast in bronze for a statue of Vera by the artist Lucy McEachum (https://lucymceachern.com/)
More about the very accomplished Vera can be found here: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scantlebury-brown-vera-8350
The 3D scans of the buttons can be found online.
Projects highlights from the team
Across the team, favourite projects have included:
- Digitising photographs from the University of Melbourne Archives’ Malcolm Fraser Collection – Stacey
- Assisting a Geography graduate student with 3D scanning of seashells for their research project – Ben
- Completing the collection of Goold’s first Paris edition of Piranesi’s works – Silvia
- Finding fun bootleg Batman comics in the Valery Garrett collection (not yet online) – Adrian
- Discovering the French fashion journal Tres Parisien 1921 (not yet online) – Anna
Find out more
More information: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation
Enquiries: digitisation-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
Author: Anna Clatworthy, Manager University Digitisation Centre and Digitised Collections.
Images:
1. Xiaoju Liu, Senior Librarian, Chinese & Asian Studies and Lucy Willet, then Coordinator, Collections Management, arranging stone rubbings from the Harry Simon Collection for photogrammetry capture at the UDC. Photo by Ben Kreunen.
2. Silvia digitising a bound volume of Piranesi. Photo by Anna Clatworthy.
3. Farrago header
4. page 174 of Tres Parisien 1921
Throughout 2022 at the end of each month the Scholarly Development (Research) team will provide a snapshot of relevant scholarly research support news and events for the coming month.
Statistical Consulting Centre Courses
The Statistical and Consulting Centre runs fee-paying courses that anyone can enroll in subject to satisfying prerequisites.
Check out their offerings and get ready for 2023.
More information: https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/#courses
Virtual Reading Room
Archives and Special Collections, Student and Scholarly Services, are excited to launch the Virtual Reading Room (VRR), a pilot service designed to extend access to items from the University of Melbourne’s Archives and Special Collections to those who cannot attend campus in person. Using high-resolution cameras and video conferencing technology, we can bring our collections directly to you in a one-on-one online VRR session. Our Wolfvision Visualiser provides a high level of magnification, allow you to see incredible details in our collections material.
If this service may be useful to you, we encourage you to get in touch with us by emailing reading-room@unimelb.edu.au and beginning a conversation about your research needs, the item(s) you are interested in consulting, and your availability.
Find out more: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/reading-room/virtual-reading-room
Video and Media – Updated website
Video and Media (or VM for short) has an updated website. Check out the team’s new offerings including:
Coaching and Training: want to expand your media skill set through targeted sessions? Check out the options here.
DIY Guide: wondering how to get started creating your own media, or looking to level up your next project? The DIY Guide will walk through you this process, one step at at time.
Library Hours 2022-2023 Semester Break
Library opening hours are now available for the mid Semester Break: (28 Nov – 24 Dec, 2022, 3 Jan – 19 Feb, 2023).
Please visit the library website prior to your visit and to keep up to date with any changes.
More information: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/library-opening-hours
The Scholarly Develop Research team coordinate Researcher Support training in Scholarly Development at the University of Melbourne. Below are some of the team highlights from 2022.
In 2022 the team coordinated the delivered the Researcher@Library program, designed to develop researchers library research skills and digital capabilities – from database searching, managing references to publishing strategically. For the first time webinar recordings were made available online after sessions and with closed captions / transcripts. We would like to say a special thank you to our expert colleagues across the Library who presented sessions as part of Researcher@Library 2022.
Working closely with colleagues across Student and Scholarly Services the Researcher Support page was reviewed and uplifted to provide information and resources across a variety of researcher support topics supported by the University of Melbourne Library. These include Advanced Data Skills, Bibliometrics, Publishing and Profiles, Research Outputs, Copyright, and Reference Management.
The SDR team is please to have coordinated another exciting edition of the Visualise Your Thesis Competition. Helping graduate researchers to develop essential digital communication skills to effectively convey their complex research to a general audience. Congratulations to all participants for their amazing work, which is available for you to enjoy. All videos will remain on the Melbourne Visualise Your Thesis figshare. The winners of this year’s University of Melbourne competition were:
- 1st place: Samuel Widodo
- 2nd place: Justeen Wheatley
- 3rd place: Carl Jonsson
- Viewers’ Choice award: Samuel Widodo
A special shout out to Samuel Widodo for his video Switching cancer-promoting macrophages to fight brain cancer which placed Third in the Visualise Your Thesis International Competition for 2022!
Researcher Connect is a program of workshops, training, and events for researchers that has continued to grow over the past few years. The SDR team works closely with our Researcher Development Unit and Melbourne Data Analytics Platform colleagues to deliver an annual program of for University of Melbourne researchers to develop digital research and data skills to expand research capability, and explore the facilities and platforms available. It was a jam packed year with two major events: Digital Capabilities in July and Digital Communities in October. In addition, a series of Digital Skills Meet-Ups across multiple campuses provided a space to learn more about the support on offer at the university, find answers to coding questions, meet people conducting similar- or different!- research, and contribute to the growing conversations around all things digital support.
The SDR team look forward to launching the 2023 Scholarly Development program early next year.
Feel free to contact us with any questions at libraryresearch-tickets@unimelb.edu.au
The University of Melbourne Authorship Policy working group, with support from the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, has reviewed the current University Authorship Policy (last reviewed 2015).
The working group invites you to visit the University Policy Consultation Hub to view the latest draft of the Authorship Policy and information sheet detailing notable changes to the policy.
Authorship is a crucial part of the research lifecycle and communicating your research with the broader community. The policy aims to provide clarity as to the University’s expectations around authorship. Further guidelines and documents will be developed post publication to support the implementation and provide guidance around the policy.
The working group has sought specialist input from key stakeholder groups prior to University wide consultation and is now seeking feedback from the broader University community prior to finalisation and publication in the Melbourne Policy Library. Check out the Policy Framework, which describes the review process in detail.
This review seeks to better align the Authorship Policy with the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018) (‘the Code’) and accompanying Authorship Guide in addition to adherence to the University policy format which supports the incorporation of the Authorship Procedure (MPF1041) and Authorship Dispute Resolution Procedure (MPF1039) within the Authorship Policy. The updated Authorship Policy will also support the Research Integrity and Misconduct Policy (MPF 1318)
Please provide any feedback on the proposed draft by COB Friday 25 November 2022 for consideration by the working group via email research-integrity@unimelb.edu.au.
Researcher Connect, in collaboration with Digital Science, is running a series of in-person digital skills meet ups (DSMU) throughout 2022.
Join us this Friday, November 11th at 10:30-11:30am at the Manhari Room, Level 7, Melbourne Connect.
Come along to learn more about the support on offer at the university, find answers to your coding questions, meet people conducting similar- or widely different!- research to you, and contribute to the growing conversations around all things digital support.
Bonus: Digital Science has put a tab on the local café, so be sure to arrive early if caffeine is of a high priority.
More information and registration: https://rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/587-digital-skills-meet-up
Enquiries: researcher-connect@unimelb.edu.au
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