"Librarians’ expertise in information ethics and citation practices directly supports the accuracy, transparency, and attribution standards on which scholarly publishing depends." What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Teens discover books on social media. What will the under-16s ban do to their reading? theconversation.com/teens-discov...

Interesting, unexpected workload increase due to this is visible in the rise of requests our Document Delivery team is receiving for publications that don't exist or are hallucinated 🤔

Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) Reaches In-Principle Agreement With Elsevier caul.edu.au/wp-content/u... #scholcomm #libraries #publishers #CAUL @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Gunton, L., Kleine, S., & McLennan, R. (Eds). (2025). Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS). Queensland University of Technology. doi.org/10.5204/OGWN...

Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do" aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-… #AI #academic #DeepResearch

I'm thrilled to share that Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library's Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) has been published as an Open Educational Resource on QUT Pressbooks. doi.org/10.5204/OGWN... #AIRS #QUT #QUTLibrary #QUTHDR #QUTResearch

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating “incorrect or fabricated archival references,” according to ICRC, which runs some of the world’s most used research archives. #AI #libraries

Restrictions on social media use for Australian children under 16 provide an opportunity to reengage children and teens with #reading in their leisure time. So how can we support them to bring books back into their daily lives?

QUT Library has celebrated another fantastic Sage HDR Student Publication Prize in 2025. A huge thank you to all who entered. Thank you to our judges and a special thanks to our sponsor, @sagepub.com for supporting this activity each year. 🙌 View our list of winners and recipients of commendations.

Prompting GenAI as a Cognitive Workout. 🏋️ “Prompting GenAI is not simply what we know but what we ask and how we do this…Rather than seeing prompting as a shortcut, we see it as a deliberate cognitive process.”

The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up. By @debmsu.bsky.social "shift of the tool people reach for first for finding information is at the heart of how ChatGPT has changed everyday technology use." theconversation.com/the-chatgpt-...

Librarians versus the world. Blogpost from @researchwhisperer.bsky.social about the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) decision to pause negotiations with Elsevier. researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...

Are there greater ethical challenges in scholarly publishing since COPE’s founding? Hear from COPE’s early leaders: Ginny Barbour Richard Smith, Charlotte J Haug, and Michael Farthing. 🔗 https://publicationethics.org/events/publication-integrity-week-2025 #PublicationIntegrityWeek

How do ‘AI detection’ tools actually work? And are they effective? theconversation.com/how-do-ai-de...

Uh, fellow historians, has anyone conducted research and published about paradata of archives and libraries in Australia previously? #history #archives #library #academia

Exploring the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Higher Education Students' Utilization of Library Resources: A Critical Examination. By Meakin, Lynsey. In Information Technology and Libraries. 2024. doi.org/10.5860/ital... #HigherEd #GenAI #AcademicLibraries #InformationLiteracy

"Love Your Bookshop Day is an annual celebration of everything that makes local bookshops special—from knowledgeable staff and handpicked book selections to fun events that bring authors, readers, and stories together." www.bookpeople.org.au/love-your-bo... #LYBD2025

In other news sadly the work on OpenAlex analytics think Scival/incites equalvant is paused. Part of the reason is cost related. Seems work on this will start in 2026 while they focus now on the openalex rewrite

Vote in Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639374.2025.2539787 #AI #librarians

[Read] Which AI Tools Work Best for Research? Using Librarian and Student Perspectives to Inform a Rating Rubric tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... used a "rubric-based approach to assessing AI tools across three key areas" Undermind.ai & the paid Elicit emerged as top performers. " (1)

Research Paper: Navigating the Research Landscape: A Study of #AI Search Tools With Literature Mapping Capabilities (abstract only; via Annals of Emergency Management) www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...

For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

Last week @austlii.edu.au celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special event bringing together distinguished guests from the judiciary, government, legal profession, academia, and the wider community. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/even...

How costume #libraries are helping make things easier for Bookweek

The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!

A new #Nature story investigates a preprint by #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social, which has found that peer reviewers are more likely to approve articles that cite their own work. When the reasons for citing are hard to justify, this can make the peer-review process transactional. #peerreview

Our first blog in a new series on AI Tools for Academic Libraries is live! This #LTIblog partnership with @choicereviews.bsky.social offers a practical look at AI tools so library professionals can make informed, confident decisions about AI tech. Check it out: www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

🆕The release of the full special issue on diverse experiences and expectations in the #OpenAccess landscape over the last decade - Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/issue/1...

Care about #reproducibility in research & publishing? Join this webinar on Aug 27th, jointly organised by @aimosinc.bsky.social & @ausrepro.bsky.social on statistical reproducibility with @michelenuijten.bsky.social & @tomhardwicke.bsky.social Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌏Open Access Australasia now on @bsky.app ✔️A Membership supported and driven organisation ✔️Committed to advocating for and raising awareness of #OpenScholarship #OpenAccess in Australia & Aotearoa NZ ✔️Building capacity and expertise ✔️Collaborating nationally and internationally 🔗 oaaustralasia.org

Expert librarians and researchers take note: you are ideally positioned to take advantage of GenAI by learning and using it to complement your existing expertise where appropriate. It is not a substitute! theconversation.com/are-you-in-a... #ResearchSkills #GenAI #Libraries #Librarians

Pleased to see QUT Library mentioned in this article about the importance of sensory spaces in libraries. Making room for everyone: A practical guide to creating sensory spaces in libraries creativelibrarypractice.org/2025/06/24/m... #QUTLibrary #libraries #QUT #SensorySpaces

Registration for Open Access Australasia’s new online course is now open! oaaustralasia.org/registration...

This looks amazing! Bravo #OAA for taking the lead to discuss the future of Institutional Repositories. 9.00am – 4pm Friday 17 October 2025, QUT In-person, no registration fee, travel and accommodation at own cost. #scholcomms #openaccess #skybrarians #academicsky oaaustralasia.org/examining-op...

This post about the exhaustion associated with the speed with which the AI landscape is moving resonates with me today... kraftylibrarian.com/can-i-fast-f...

Fortunate and timely to hear from @joannaball.bsky.social today - speaking to the #library community in Australasia 👉insights into DOAJ’s current work and the role libraries can play in advancing equitable scholarly publishing @doaj.bsky.social

Join us at #QUT Gardens Theatre on 16 July to hear @mja.com.au Editor-in-Chief, Professor @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, give an insider's view on a new Information Age in #academicpublishing where knowing what and who to trust has never been harder. ⚡Get in quick, spaces are limited! 🎫 bit.ly/42QEGT2

"A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students."

New Open Research Event 🎓📆 - ResBaz QLD in Brisbane, Australia from 01/07/2025 to 03/07/2025. For more info, view the event in our calendar.

I'm listening to... AI and IL in HE with @evetagg.bsky.social and @joshmrodda.bsky.social Episode 10 of Chatting Info Lit from @infolitgroup.bsky.social soundcloud.com/chatting-inf... #GenAI #AcademicLibraries #DigitalLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #HigherEducation

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Find out who has canceled Big Deals w/ publishers in our free, searchable database. Look up institutions & consortium for strategic considerations, outcomes & estimated annual savings. Let us know if you have info to share from your experience. sparcopen.org/our-work/big...

1 week until Research Bazaar Queensland 2025. ResBaz QLD is a 3-day festival of digital research training, where researchers come together to learn new skills. Date: 1-3 July Venue: UniSC, Moreton Bay campus Check out the program & register resbaz.github.io/resbaz2025qld/ #ResBaz

Research assistants and postdocs offer specialised skills and an agile approach to new methodologies, so #libraries have much to gain from recognising them as strategic partners

One of our weaknesses as librarians is that sometimes we make the mistake of assuming that we are partnering with others who share our values and have common overarching goals. Recent publishing changes demonstrate this isn't always the case. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...