From Overwhelm to Orientation: Why Advanced Information Skills Matter in PhD Research Queensland University of Technology PhD student, Belinda Howard, discusses the value of developing advanced information research skills early in candidature and the important part QUT Library’s AIRS program plays.

Misconceptions about open access models persist even after two decades - interview with Tracy Creagh, Open Journals Manager at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library openinterview.org/2026/03/30/t... #OA #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #QUTLibrary #OpenJournals

Now launched: QUT Library's Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) – an open educational resource for researcher training 🎉 🎥 Watch the launch recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZy... 💻 Explore the AIRS OER: qut.pressbooks.pub/airs/

🌊The rising tide of scientific slop @aidybarnett.bsky.social and Matt Spick @lseimpactblog.bsky.social “Agentic AI has no regard to the quality, ethicality or suitability of the data it exploits” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

New article! Co-authored with one of my fave library people, Adrian Stagg. We share an OPEN framework for asking evidence based questions in libraries, using open education as a case study. doi.org/10.18438/ebl... #EBLIP #LIS #OEP #OER

What a Librarian is Reading in Times of Moral Nausea and Psychological Despair "Instead of accumulating more information, what I need are practices for holding unbearable knowledge without being destroyed by it." open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

"Look It Up" Doesn't Mean What It Used to Mean. "We can choose to use AI while maintaining practices that previous eras taught us." open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

"I borrowed my first books in Mumbai. Now, Sydney’s libraries are home" by @roannagonsalves.bsky.social for @theconvo-bot.bsky.social theconversation.com/i-borrowed-m...

Bibliotherapy is the use of books as a form of psychoeducation and emotional reflection to help solve a problem. #reading

More companies should follow #Covidence in AI integration! "In a high-stakes workflow like evidence synthesis “usually works” is not good enough. We chose not to release the model." www.covidence.org/blog/ai-scre...

Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen

Great reminder of what Google search can do for you when you know how... Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

DORA has launched an introductory course on responsible research assessment! 🤩 🤓 What is it? A free online self-paced course ❓ Who is it for? Anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of research assessment, regardless of career level or discipline 🌐 Explore the course 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Intro-C...

Why every scientist needs a librarian www.nature.com/articles/d41... #libraries

‘Last year I read 137 books’: could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?

JCU Library's 'Bring Out Your Dead' campaign shows the value of green open access as "one of the most scalable and cost-effective ways to improve access to research." Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix #OA #GreenOA #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #JCULibrary

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it. Via @theconvo-bot.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-peer-rev... #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicJournals

📣Call for Papers 2026 Committed to the wide and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge, this journal encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct #OpenAccess #LawTech 🔗 lthj.qut.edu.au/announcement...

ADVICE: If universities want their journals to be sustainable, and to serve scholarship well, three practical implications follow. First, treat journals as infrastructure. Second, invest in metadata as a public good. Third, recognise diversity as a feature, not a failure.

Other things in my life have needed full attention, so I totally forgot that book number 10 was due to make its way into the world! A great collab! This book shows you how to work with the research mess without getting into a mess. I hope people enjoy ❤️ www.routledge.com/Managing-You...

Exciting news. #meanjin #QUT #AustralianLiterature #QUTjournals theconversation.com/meanjin-has-...

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland

Tracy Creagh (QUT) from the Australasian Diamond Community of Practice assesses OA initiatives across ANZ at the #DiamondOA Summit. Stressing the importance of OASPA, DOAJ, ALMASI, and DIAMAS amongst many others @oaspa.bsky.social @creaght.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social @almasiproject.bsky.social

Following success of the 1st volume, #QUTLibrary & JCU Library have published Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers, Vol 2. This openly accessible resource deepens conversation around higher degree research supervision. qut.pressbooks.pub/confidentsup... #ResearchSupervision

"Zero-click search amplifies and camouflages misinformation — by reformatting content, it removes the contextual cues that would otherwise help users make both conscious and subconscious choices about which content to trust."

This week QUT Library published Research Right! through QUT Open Press. qut.pressbooks.pub/researchright/ Research Right is an online, interactive resource focused on teaching the foundational information literacy skills required in higher education. #OER #QUTOpenPress #InformationLiteracy

#Reading has been named as a key priority of the new Federal arts body, Writing Australia, in the first round of funding, announced today. australiareads.org.au/news/writing...

The next era of reference management via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Why reading feels harder than it used to. By Hana Lee Goldin.

FUTURE: Keywords Are Not Dead — But Discovery Is No Longer Just Search scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/06/k... Rather than disappearing, keywords are increasingly becoming infrastructure — working “under the hood” even when users interact through natural language interfaces.

theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #academicpublishing #enshittification @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social and Martina Linnenluecke, Jan 6 2026

Awesome episode of The Imperfects podcast with guest, Australian soccer player and Matildas team member, Mary Fowler www.theimperfects.com.au/episode/mary... #WorkCommute #TheImperfects

This is a thought provoking read to start the new year. It has prompted me to consider what AI has and will mean for library and information professionals and what I need to DROP, DEFEND, ELEVATE and REINVENT, particularly in the academic libraries space. #libraries #AIinLibraries #LIS

"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