(23 Apr 2025) STM has released a new draft report, Recommendations for a Classification of AI Use in Academic Manuscript Preparation, developed by the STM Association’s Task & Finish Group on AI Labelling Terminology. This draft is now open for community consultation. While publishers have long offered guidance on disclosing human assistance—such as language editing—recent advances…
(30 Apr 2025) About the job: As an integral member of the team, you will provide reference and access services to the varied users of the Regional Archives. You will utilise your well developed communication skills, being the first point of contact for both internal and external enquiries. As well as undertaking professional archival…
(30 Apr 2025) The Senior Librarian (Research Engagement) works collaboratively with the Research Engagement team and Colleges to develop and maintain a sustainable suite of Library support services, this position provides a service essential to the success of the University’s mission and vison: MISSION: Changing lives and changing the world. VISION: To be internationally recognized…
(25 Mar 2025) The National Film & Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is a little over 40 years old (in its current form) and is located in Canberra, Australia’s capital. However, the need for such an institution was identified 90 years ago and today’s NFSA is the continuation of collecting, conservation, and preservation activities since…
(9 Apr 2025) Open educational resources (OERs)—that is, free-to-use monographs, textbooks, and other educational materials—are having something of a moment in Australia and New Zealand. Through a very high membership (42 participating institutions in 2024), the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL)’s OER Collective has been a significant driver of interest and participation in institutional publishing of OERs through libraries.…
(30 Apr 2025) New Librarians’ Symposium XI will be a fully virtual conference held on Saturday 6 September 2025. Library staff are connected, linked, intertwined, engaged, and united by our profession. We are the connectors within our communities, forging relationships, networks, partnerships, collaborations, and alliances. Being connected is essential for new library staff as they navigate the evolving landscape of the library and information sector,…
(25 Apr 2025) A crowdsourced database is helping researchers at the University of Kansas and other institutions in the U.S. make sense of contradictory information put out by news agencies and the National Science Foundation after the federal government began canceling N.S.F. research grants last week. The public database, compiled by Noam Ross, executive director of…
(22 Apr 2025) Open Science has evolved from a grassroots movement into a central policy agenda, guided by frameworks like the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and national mandates across Europe and North America. While these frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world…
(29 Apr 2025) With their ability to regulate the way in which information is accessed, used, shared and created, copyright laws potentially have a major role in deciding not just how new AI models are trained, but also how they can be used. Bearing in mind libraries’ wider ambitions for – and reservations about –…