(27 Jan 2023) Authors, illustrators, and editors will be compensated for e-book and audiobook library borrowings for the first time, in a move by the federal government to bring lenders’ rights into the 21st century. A $12.9 million expansion of the annual lending rights scheme over four years will be announced at Monday’s launch of…
(21 Dec 2022) Federal funding for the National Library of Australia’s digital resource, Trove, runs out in six months and without additional government support the popular archive could cease operations from next July. The beloved platform receives more than 22 million visits each year and has been caught in the same financial crunch impacting the National…
(14 Dec 2022) The University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne libraries are working together to increase the use of their unique special collections and archives by extending access to people who cannot attend campus by using practices established in recent years. This project is linked to an international initiative to increase access to…
(5 Dec 2022) Recently CAUL has announced several read and publish agreements with major publishers, including SAGE, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis, among a few. It seems that Australia is achieving progressively preparing its research environment to be aligned with open access policy by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). However, concerns…
(7 Nov 2022) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Taylor & Francis have signed a new transformative agreement which combines read access to journals with open access (OA) publication of research from participating institutions. Under the three-year partnership, beginning January 2023, researchers from participating institutions in Australia and New Zealand can choose…
(20 Sep 2022) The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the first Australian funding agency to introduce the requirement that scholarly publications arising from the research it funds be made freely available and accessible. Under NHMRC’s revised Open Access Policy, all peer-reviewed publications arising from NHMRC-funded research must be made available immediately upon…
(4 Jul 2022) The newly opened Xin Jin Shan Library, which started from a garage, has now become not only one of the largest Chinese libraries south of the equator but also an invaluable bastion of Chinese culture and history in Australia. Located in the heart of Ballarat, the library covers an area of…
(10 Jun 2022) When Nathan Sentance first visited Australia’s oldest library, a grand sandstone structure next to Parliament House in Sydney, he loved it. But he felt out of place. “You have to go past the security guard,” the indigenous librarian said. “The first thing you see when you enter some of these spaces…
(9 Jun 2022) The results of the first national survey to investigate research integrity in Australia, a collaboration between the Australian Academy of Science and publisher Springer Nature, indicate broad support for mandatory research integrity training. The survey found that while 68% of respondents stated that their institution offered research integrity-related training and 50% stated it was mandatory,…
(8 Jun 2022) Archivists and librarians at the ABC are in shock after management unveiled plans to abolish 58 positions and make journalists research and archive their own stories. Reporters and producers working on breaking news, news programs and daily programs like 7.30 will have to search for archival material themselves and will be expected…