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Publication Open Access 15 ways LLMs could ruin scholarly communication - and what we can do about it(2023) Fitchett, DeborahDespite the dreams of science-fiction fans worldwide, the thing being marketed as "artificial intelligence" is no more than high-powered predictive text. What it gets right is thanks to its input data created by billions of humans, and to an invisible and underpaid workforce of content moderators. What it gets wrong threatens privacy, exacerbates sexism, racism and other inequities, and may even be environmentally damaging. There are situations that are well enough defined that machine models can be useful, but scholarly communication by its nature is full of new and unique information, relying on precisely reported data, that algorithms based on probabilities can't deal with. So as a community we need to come with ways to prevent machine-generated fake papers from poisoning the well of science - and we need to be healthily sceptical of vendors selling us machine-based solutions to problems that can still only be addressed by human intelligence.Publication Open Access The New Zealand Thesis Project: A nation's dissertations(2023) Braisher, T; Fitchett, DeborahThe New Zealand Thesis Project showcases the power of collaboration between academic librarians and Wikimedians. Beginning in 2022, the project brought together metadata for more than 66,000 theses from 13 tertiary institutions, cleaned it in OpenRefine, and added records to Wikidata. This allows them to be easily accessed in multiple languages and cited on Wikipedia. In addition, we have disambiguated 12,000 individuals and more than 1800 ANZSRC and Ngā Upoko Tukutuku subject headings connected to the thesis collection, allowing us to visualise our data in new ways and find unexpected connections. Through leveraging the vast amount of data already available on Wikidata, the New Zealand Thesis Project is making it easier than ever before to find and connect relevant research from all over the world. We will describe what we’ve done, the next steps for our project, and how our process could be relevant to other institutional repositories.Publication Open Access Indigenous Knowledge and Mātauraka Māori repository collections - Research@Lincoln(2022-09-08) Riley, KarynThis presentation looks at the background and process to create a repository collection for indigenous research outputs and other content that has a Mātauraka Māori focus.Publication Open Access Repository Tools 2 (RT2) migration and impacts to library publications workflow.(2022-09-08) Zhao, Yanan; Riley, KarynThis presentation covers the Repository Tools 2 (RT2) migration steps and lessons learnt. It also addresses changes to the deposit processing workflows and challenges the library publications processing team faced as a result.Publication Open Access Journals@Lincoln (OJS) – Migrating to the cloud(2022-09-09) Zhao, YananThis presentation explains why Lincoln University Library migrated Journals@Lincoln (OJS) https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/ from self hosting to cloud hosting.Publication Open Access Only two out of five articles by New Zealand researchers are free-to-access: A multiple API study of access, citations, cost of Article Processing Charges (APC), and the potential to increase the proportion of open access(PeerJ, 2021-05-26) White, Richard KA; Angelo, Anton; Fitchett, Deborah; Fraser, Moira; Hayes, Luqman; Howie, Jessica; Richardson, Emma; White, BruceWe studied journal articles published by researchers at all eight New Zealand universities in 2017 to determine how many were freely accessible on the web. We wrote software code to harvest data from multiple sources, code that we now share to enable others to reproduce our work on their own sample set. In May 2019, we ran our code to determine which of the 2017 articles were open at that time and by what method; where those articles would have incurred an Article Processing Charge (APC) we calculated the cost if those charges had been paid. Where articles were not freely available we determined whether the policies of publishers in each case would have allowed deposit in a non-commercial repository (Green open access). We also examined citation rates for different types of access. We found that, of our 2017 sample set, about two out of every five articles were freely accessible without payment or subscription (41%). Where research was explicitly said to be funded by New Zealand’s major research funding agencies, the proportion was slightly higher at 45%. Where open articles would have incurred an APC we estimated an average cost per article of USD1,682 (for publications where all articles require an APC, that is, Gold open access) and USD2,558 (where APC payment is optional, Hybrid open access) at a total estimated cost of USD1.45m. Of the paid options, Gold is by far more common for New Zealand researchers (82% Gold, 18% Hybrid). In terms of citations, our analysis aligned with previous studies that suggest a correlation between publications being freely accessible and, on balance, slightly higher rates of citation. This is not seen across all types of open access, however, with Diamond OA achieving the lowest rates. Where articles were not freely accessible we found that a very large majority of them (88% or 3089 publications) could have been legally deposited in an institutional repository. Similarly, only in a very small number of cases had a version deposited in the repository of a New Zealand university made the difference between the publication being freely accessible or not (125 publications). Given that most New Zealand researchers support research being open, there is clearly a large gap between belief and practice in New Zealand’s research ecosystem.Publication Open Access rss2oai: Harvesting Wordpress into PrimoFitchett, DeborahStudents often search Primo for topics covered on our website. We wrote a PHP script to convert the website’s RSS feed into a basic OAI feed that Primo could harvest. Our next plan is to create a similar script based on the Panopto API for our video content.Publication Open Access Data@Lincoln: Implementation and integrationsFitchett, DeborahLincoln launched Data@Lincoln mid-2019, as a repository for data only. This presentation briefly outlines the integrations we included in our implementation and some of the challenges we faced with them.Publication Open Access Emerging researchers and ORCID: Connecting research and researchers(Lincoln University. Library, Teaching and Learning) Tritt, Sarah; Dawson, RogerInvest in your future by developing your career and research identity using the internationally recognised ORCID ID.Publication Open Access What is a Data Management Plan and why do you need a DMP?(Lincoln University. Library, Teaching and Learning) Skinner, Erin-Talia; Tritt, SarahLibrary, Teaching and Learning offers two postgraduate workshops in Research Data Management.Publication Open Access Enhance your research visibility and profile with Data@Lincoln(Lincoln University. Library, Teaching and Learning) Skinner, Erin-Talia; Balaine, Nimlesh; Tritt, SarahLibrary, Teaching and Learning has launched Data@Lincoln, a new platform where researchers can publish data to meet funder and publisher requirements, and to increase the citations, visibility and impact of their research.Publication Open Access Harvesting OJS into Primo with OAIZhao, Yanan; Fitchett, DeborahThis presentation showcased how to harvest OJS online journals into Primo (Lincoln University's LibrarySearch) with OAI.Publication Open Access Transform your future: Use technology to grow your profile and advance your career(Lincoln University. Library, Teaching and Learning) Tritt, Sarah; Balaine, Nimlesh; Dawson, RogerAs you transition from undergraduate to postgraduate level, your ideas will form and your plans will advance, helping shape a career which allows you to grow and nurture your goals. Some undergraduates might move into professional roles while others will undertake research. Maybe you will be an entrepreneur, design a product, or invent a new app. The possibilities are endless. Whatever career path you choose, to be successful these days, one established requirement is to work towards developing your digital identity. Digital platforms have changed the careers and employment game altogether. Having your digital identity or online profile is crucial to promoting your skills and ideas and has become a necessity to reach and sustain a wider audience. As part of research career development, Library, Teaching and Learning offers education and support to help you develop your researcher identity using authentic digital platforms. You are encouraged to be a part of Research@Lincoln and showcase your skills and talents by becoming digitally savvy and keeping an online record of your research.Publication Open Access FitzGerald's town: Lincoln in the 19th century(Lincoln and District Historical Society in collaboration with the Lincoln University Museum and Documentary Heritage Committee, 2018) Moar, N; Dawson, Roger; Moar, J; Tipples, RupertFitzGerald’s town tells the story of Lincoln and its first forty years from foundation in 1862 to about 1900. It discusses early business activity, the efforts of the farming community to improve their lot, the development of infrastructure, and its impact upon the village and district. This is the story of those who lived there, of the churches they built, the organisations they supported, the games they played and the tragedies they shared.Publication Open Access Fighting the good fight: Metadata in Research Data ManagementSkinner, Erin-TaliaProper metadata is key in understanding, interpreting and publishing research data. In this presentation we will look at what we have discovered about metadata use as part of an ongoing Research Data Management pilot project and some problem areas. We will also briefly discuss discipline-specific metadata standards.Publication Open Access I'm a stranger here myself: Applying information management principles to Research Data ManagementSkinner, Erin-TaliaIt’s easy to look at the scope of the research data management problem faced by NZ universities and put it in the too-hard box. Researchers are producing ever-larger amounts of data and desperately need the storage and management tools to deal with it. New Zealand is also behind other nations like the UK and Australia that have established research data management programmes. We have found it is possible to begin addressing these problems by choosing an appropriately-sized test bed and using information management principles. In the presentation I will show how the LIANZA Body of Knowledge clusters can be used as a framework for approaching research data management projects. I will also include examples from our own pilot project.Publication Open Access Lincoln's use of the Alma APIs(Lincoln University. Library, Teaching and Learning.) Fitchett, DeborahAn overview of the Alma APIs used by Lincoln University to -- display library hours on our website; display key statistics on a public dashboard; integrate with our student portal; and authenticate community users to select databases.Publication Open Access When all you've got is a hammer: Solving all a librarian's problems with 8 simple javascript bookmarkletsFitchett, DeborahEver wished you could click a single button to search for a definition, a MARC code, or a bib ID; get off-campus access or even open access to a journal article; or mock-up some tweaks to a web page? You don't need complex infrastructure, high-level coding expertise, or even permission – anyone can create a bookmarklet in their own web browser containing simple javascript code that quickly visits webpages or manipulates information on them. This presentation will show how users can create their own bookmarklets. I’ll look at some common library tasks I’ve faced and show the simple javascript I’ve used to carry them out with the click of a button. The code discussed will be available for download and I’ll talk through how it works so users can easily tweak it to fit their own day-to-day needs.Publication Open Access Open access to conference proceedings: The great hunt for proceedings referenced in the 2012 PBRF roundFitchett, DeborahConferences are where a huge amount of research gets its first public airing, yet conference papers are notoriously hard to track down after the fact. Large amounts of scholarly information are lost to the world due to conference proceedings being closed access, being deleted from websites, or never even being collated. But just how much is lost and how much is still available? In 2015-16 I sourced a dataset of all conference outputs listed as Nominated Research Outputs in the 2012 PBRF round. I cleaned and normalised it using OpenRefine then crowdsourced help to search for proceedings from each conference. I classified proceedings as free online; non-free online; available in physical form; or not apparently available.Publication Open Access Non-expert on the virtual reference desk: Online chat at Lincoln UniversityDames, RebeccaAcademic libraries around New Zealand are embracing online live text chat services as a powerful medium to reach their users. Since launching AskLive on our website in July 2014, the Library, Teaching & Learning team at Lincoln University have answered hundreds of queries spanning topics from referencing lecture notes, to the best local pub on a Wednesday night. Our staffing model of everyone being available to answer questions whenever they're at their desk means that a lot of queries don't go directly to the expert - and that is absolutely fine. This presentation will look into many aspects of the AskLive service at Lincoln University, including statistics about pages it’s accessed from and their influence on usage and topics asked, the effectiveness of an all-for-one staffing model, and how we manage having non-librarians answering reference queries.
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